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Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · Sep 8

The University of Cologne plans drastic cuts to its Political Science department, potentially abolishing the MSc in Political Science and eliminating the professorships in IR and Comparative Politics. This would severely weaken the social sciences at @unicologne.bsky.social.
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Keine WiSo ohne PoWi! Für eine starke Politikwissenschaft im Bachelor & Master

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Constantin Wurthmann @wurthmann.bsky.social · Sep 4

I feel overwhelmed and incredibly honoured to announce that I have been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant for my project “VisibleQueers”, fully titled as “Making the Queers Visible: Partisanship and Support among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Eastern and Western Europe”.
#ERCStG

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Lukas Hetzer @lukashetzer.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congrats again, Constantin! 🥳 So well deserved!

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · Aug 1

🚨 Very excited to share that the call for papers for the EPSS annual conference in Belfast 2026 is live.

🔝 Lots of innovation to enrich the way we exchange ideas in political science in Europe.

🙏🏼 Sharing is caring!

EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · Aug 1

The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference!

📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast 
🗓️ June 18–20, 2026 
📍 ICC Belfast 
📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025

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Sven-Oliver Proksch @sopro.bsky.social · Aug 1

The Call for Papers for the 2026 EPSS annual conference in Belfast is now live!

Looking forward to your submissions!! Check out all details in this thread 👇

EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · Aug 1

The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference!

📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast 
🗓️ June 18–20, 2026 
📍 ICC Belfast 
📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025

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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · Aug 1

So, European and EU politics folks, this 👇 is where we need your newest work to be submitted and discussed next year @epssnet.bsky.social first conference in Belfast!

I am happy to co-chair the section with Bjorn Hoyland, and looking 👀 forward to your submissions.

EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · Aug 1

The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference!

📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast 
🗓️ June 18–20, 2026 
📍 ICC Belfast 
📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · Aug 1

The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference!

📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast 
🗓️ June 18–20, 2026 
📍 ICC Belfast 
📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025

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Jens Wäckerle @jwaeckerle.bsky.social · Jul 13

Seoul novelty hats as political science concepts. A thread.

1. Quantitative methods

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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · Jul 16

🤔 The #EU 🇪🇺 aspires to be a global actor 🌍 — but do other states recognize it as such?

My new study in @intlinteractions.bsky.social develops targeted #NLP / #TextAsData tools to analyze 50 years of foreign policy discourse in the annual #UN General Debate (1970–2020).

A thread (1/n)

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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · Jul 14

This sounds promising (👋🇪🇺...)
www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-ai...

Swiss universities to release multilingual AI programme

This summer researchers at Swiss universities will make available a large language model (LLM), an AI programme trained on vast amounts of data, developed on public infrastructure.

www.swissinfo.ch

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Heike Klüver @heikekluever.bsky.social · Jul 9

📣 Call for Applications 📣

3-year Postdoc position in Berlin 🚀

Join our Comparative Political Behavior Group at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & the @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social

Great people, great projects, great city – come work with us!

🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Jul 7

So Schengen. Much Freedom. Very Movement.

Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · Jul 7

So I crossed the border from Germany to France today and the journey took around 30 minutes longer than I was used to cause we had to go through border checks. This is now a daily routine for commuters living in the German border regions.

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · Jun 27

Signing up for @epssnet.bsky.social and it's time to learn who the truly nasty reviewers are

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · Jun 27

Yesterday EPSS was founded, today we answer members’ questions.

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1. Who formed EPSS?

EPSS was founded by a supermajority vote of the EPSA Council, made up of 3 EPSAL shareholders & 9 elected, appointed, or ex officio members.

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · Jun 26

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.

🔗 epssnet.org

Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.

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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · Jun 19

Delighted to see the 2nd edition of Foundations of European Politics 🇪🇺 in print! @catherinedevries.bsky.social @sopro.bsky.social @jbslapin.bsky.social

If you teach EU or European politics, you can order an inspection copy here: global.oup.com/ushe/product...

Foundations of European Politics - OUP textbook

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Lisa Zehnter @tiondelisa.bsky.social · Jun 16

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION! Who belongs to “the people” – and who does not?

What a great way to start the week. I’m really happy that my article on populist in- and outgroup references is now out in @polstudies.bsky.social #openaccess 🔓

doi.org/10.1177/0032...

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Screenshot of the abstract of the article.

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Lukas Hetzer @lukashetzer.bsky.social · Jun 16

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Lala Muradova @lalamur.bsky.social · Jun 8

Wow!

"The average female researcher in departments with more women publishes more and receives more citations than the average female researcher in universities with a lower share of female faculty"

‪@egenpolisci.bsky.social‬
@sotonpolitics.bsky.social

dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Closing the publishing gender gap in economics and political science: Does a critical mass matter?

Using novel data on publications and citations by researchers in economics and political science in top 50 universities globally, we analyze the relationship between female representation and the gend...

dx.plos.org

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Maria Thürk @mariathurk.bsky.social · Jun 7

Super happy to see this paper now in print! We show that parties which do not enter coalitions, but have formal (written) support agreements with minority cabinets- such as Tidö Agreement in Sweden - are likely to be punished at the next elections, similarly to junior coalition partners.

Comparative Political Studies @cpsjournal.bsky.social · Jun 6

New article from our latest issue (Issue 8, 2025): "Hitting the Sweet Spot? The Electoral Consequences of Supporting Minority Governments" by Maria Thürk @mariathurk.bsky.social and Heike Klüver @heikekluever.bsky.social

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

#polisky #socialscience #academicsky

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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · May 28

Always have a healthy dose of scepticism on Eurobarometer polls. But they are very good comparable between themselves, and it is remarkable to see the EU back to levels of trust from before the many crises of the 2010s and 2020s hit Europe.

Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · May 28

Trust is a precious currency in today’s world.

So it matters that trust in the EU among EU citizens has grown for 4 consecutive years.

Now reaching its highest level in 18 years, according to an EU-wide survey.

Read more: europa.eu/!Tp94N4

Eurobarometer shows record high trust in the EU, and strong support for the euro and a common defence and security policy

The latest Eurobarometer survey released today reveals the highest level of trust in the European Union in 18 years and the highest-ever support for the euro.

europa.eu

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Joris Frese @fresejoris.bsky.social · May 21

🇪🇺🇦🇫 Published Today in CPS 🇪🇺🇦🇫

“Stand by those who share our values” – how refugees fleeing the Taliban improved European attitudes toward immigration

Article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/os...

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · May 21

From Bluesky to the Guardian!

In my new op-Ed, I argue that the “male glaze” of media and politics is empirically, normative, and politically wrong and that progressives should focus more on the left turn of young women.

The real story isn’t young men supposedly voting far right. It’s what young women are up to | Cas Mudde

There is an opportunity staring centre-left parties in the face – if they reject the male gaze distorting our politics, says political scientist Cas Mudde

www.theguardian.com

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Larissa Böckmann @larboe.bsky.social · May 16

Very excited to share this publication in Politics & Governance together with @sldelange.bsky.social @nathaliebrack.bsky.social @mrooduijn.bsky.social
We study the embrace of illiberalism in far-right discourse in the European Parliament between 1999 and 2019
www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

Far‐Right Illiberalism in the European Parliament | Article | Politics and Governance

Larissa Böckmann, Sarah L. de Lange, Nathalie Brack, Matthijs Rooduijn

www.cogitatiopress.com

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · May 14

This obsession is with “young men turning to the right” is everything that is wrong with the discussion about the far right.

It is not just an inadequate read of what is happening, and a bias towards the male norm, but it also normalizes the far right and obscures support for inclusive politics. 🧵

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