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Sven-Oliver Proksch @sopro.bsky.social · 7h

This is a fantastic public good for scholars working on parliaments and representation!

Jens Wäckerle @jwaeckerle.bsky.social · 9h

New data for legislative scholars! Committee Membership Dataset with @bcastanho.bsky.social, @dmpullan.bsky.social and Firuze Taner:

Committee assignments for all MPs (Wikidata IDs!) in 14 countries
Harmonized roles/policy areas

Data: doi.org/10.7802/2940
Working paper: tinyurl.com/vf54r78p

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GESIS-Suche

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 9h

It's finally out! All parliamentary committee assignments for 14 countries, 30+ years, harmonized with other MP and parties datasets

Jens Wäckerle @jwaeckerle.bsky.social · 9h

New data for legislative scholars! Committee Membership Dataset with @bcastanho.bsky.social, @dmpullan.bsky.social and Firuze Taner:

Committee assignments for all MPs (Wikidata IDs!) in 14 countries
Harmonized roles/policy areas

Data: doi.org/10.7802/2940
Working paper: tinyurl.com/vf54r78p

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GESIS-Suche

doi.org

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 1d

Top papers in any social science discipline generally require huge amounts of work which are equivalent to books. People think their own discipline is the special hardworking snowflake only because that’s the only one they’ve seen up close

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 1d

Very cool (and depressing)

Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 1d

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me you work in Germany without telling me you work in Germany

Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 2d

Buying a USB-C to VGA adapter because the future is now but my employer hasn't quite arrived yet.

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 2d

You know how there’s that one mate of yours who lurches from personal crisis to personal crisis, keeps losing his job, goes through a string of emotionally devastating relationships and yet somehow comes out of it with an enviable lifestyle?

France.

Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 2d

Bloody hell. Lecornu out.

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 6d

Very happy to host @francescafeo.bsky.social this term!

Francesca Feo @francescafeo.bsky.social · 6d

🚨Excited to begin my research stay at the Institute of Sociology, @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, hosted by Prof. @bcastanho.bsky.social.
Grateful for the opportunity and looking forward to advancing my work in this inspiring environment!

Happy to catch up on research & (academic) life, just DM!

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Carol Galais @galais.bsky.social · 9d

Proud to be part of such a productive research group!

🔎Looking for a panel survey? Feel free to use ours!

Roberto Pannico @robpannico.bsky.social · 9d

From the research group @dec-gr.bsky.social, we are glad to share our new Scientific Data article presenting the release of the first 12 waves of the Spanish Political Attitudes Panel (POLAT).

rdcu.be/eIkms

The Spanish Political Attitudes Panel (12 waves)

Scientific Data - The Spanish Political Attitudes Panel (12 waves)

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 11d

Wait wait wait. A paper that explains radical right support with a sensible theoretical mechanism and a causal explanation that can actually be influenced by policy? Didn't know these still existed

Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 13d

Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 13d

this is a depressingly good point (about how the EU / Aus / China / Asia-Pac etc did not step up nearly enough to fill the gap left by USAID)

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 13d

if literally any country on earth had responded to the imminent death of millions by saying "i think that shouldn't happen," then -- fine. the era of american hegemony is over.

but no one did that. that's still a need unserved. and if we abdicate in 2029 (or whenever), it will continue to be.

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 16d

Congratulations! They're lucky to have you!

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 18d

That looks cool, thanks for sharing!

Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 19d

Curioso pra ler!

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 20d

The current consensus in political science is that Nazis hating me and me hating Nazis are both equal parts of the ~polarization problem

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 20d

💯 yes to this

Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 20d

Political science has obsessed over polarization while largely neglecting extremism, and with few exceptions has been inattentive to the roots of it all—power, structures, and identities. Too many elites are just as unprepared. Thus, their takes are empty, trite, and naive.

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 20d

But since people on the other side of the political spectrum are not speaking out well there's nothing else to do, move on everyone

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 21d

Periodic reminder.

I will come to your office and set your computer on fire 🔥

$Screenshot of a tweet that contains two slides from a presentation: the first reads "If the first line of your R script is setwd("C:\Users\jenny\path\that\only\I\have") I will come into your office and SET YOUR COMPUTER ON FIRE", the second reads "If the first line of your R script is rm(list = ls()) I will come into your office and SET YOUR COMPUTER ON FIRE$

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 21d

Oh the amount of colleagues for whom Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer waltzed off their tongues but still cannot pronounce a friend's 5-letter foreign name even once...

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Eva Anduiza @evaanduiza.bsky.social · 21d

🧲 We are hiring!
✨ PhD position to join @dec-gr.bsky.social
🏁 4-year FPI contract
🎓 Pol Sci / Social Sci background + Master’s + English
📧 Send expression of interest with CV and motivation letter to [email protected]
🔗 tinyurl.com/yc3epmv2

Call for expressions of interest for a PhD scholarship within the project GPOL – Democracy, Elections and Citizenship

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 21d

I feel I should clarify I have no idea of anything cycling and have no clue who this person is but sure go for it! As long as there's no wolves on the way

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 21d

Tour de France 2027 lasting 5 months and going through every village and voilà we avoided President Le Pen

a cartoon of spongebob giving the thumbs up with the words too easy below him

ALT: a cartoon of spongebob giving the thumbs up with the words too easy below him

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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.
Petition (de/en) ⤵️

Petition unterschreiben

Keine WiSo ohne PoWi! Für eine starke Politikwissenschaft im Bachelor & Master

https://www.change.org/p/keine-wiso-ohne-powi-für-eine-starke-politikwissenschaft-im-bachelor-master

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · Sep 8

Current conversion rate is 10 days on vacation = 136 new emails

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · Sep 7

how it feels to contribute to an edited volume

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · Aug 22

Oh, John Bolton is being attacked with made up accusations for shady political reasons?

Isn't that something...

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