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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 2d

Really excited that after several years of working on it, revising, and getting lots of rejections, our paper (w/ Rune Stubager & Mads Thau) on citizens’ responses to group appeals is *finally* out @ejprjournal.bsky.social

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A 🧵 on our findings...

How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions

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Emma Hoes @emmahoes.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 New paper 🚨

Sexually explicit deepfakes 🤖 hurt politicians on almost all fronts...

This is the case ***even*** when people realized the image wasn't real 🤯, and effects are stronger for male 👨 than female 👩 candidates

Link to preprint: tinyurl.com/pnnkhfks

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Eréndira León @erendiraleonsa.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you so much for the space @uniluzern.bsky.social & @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social for the invite ✨
I’ll be presenting the work I’ve been developing at the nccr-on the move at the University of Neuchâtel on refugees political mobilization, if you’re around, let’s get a coffee ☕️ 💫

Álvaro Canalejo-Molero @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social · 5d

🎓 Excited to share this term’s PoliSci Brown Bag seminar @uniluzern.bsky.social !

✨ Small dept = lively discussions

🙌 Thanks to this great line-up (80% women!): @erendiraleonsa.bsky.social @denisetraber.bsky.social @elivolpi.bsky.social @silviaporciuleanu.bsky.social

📍 Around Lucerne? Join us!

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 5d

You can fool some of the people some of the time, but as campaigns unfold, you can fool fewer of the people.

New paper w/ Derek Beach and Jannik Fenger on framing effects out in @ejprjournal.bsky.social

Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/S147...

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Álvaro Canalejo-Molero @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social · 5d

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Álvaro Canalejo-Molero @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social · 5d

🎓 Excited to share this term’s PoliSci Brown Bag seminar @uniluzern.bsky.social !

✨ Small dept = lively discussions

🙌 Thanks to this great line-up (80% women!): @erendiraleonsa.bsky.social @denisetraber.bsky.social @elivolpi.bsky.social @silviaporciuleanu.bsky.social

📍 Around Lucerne? Join us!

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Álvaro Canalejo-Molero @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social · 6d

Fantástico! Enhorabuena Quique!!

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Carol Galais @galais.bsky.social · 6d

📢 Call open!
We are hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher for the EU-funded project TaCT-FoRSED, which studies how conspiracy theories affect democratic attitudes.

ℹ️ Info: tauler.seu-e.cat/detall?idEns...

🔗 Application: seleccio.uab.cat/seleccio/log...

e-TAULER - Consorci Administració Oberta de Catalunya

tauler.seu-e.cat

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Nicolai Berk @nicolaiberk.bsky.social · 9d

I had the pleasure to teach a 3-day crash course on #LLMs for PhD students.

We covered:

1️⃣ Text Representation and Embeddings
2️⃣ Machine Learning & Transformer Architecture
3️⃣ Generative Models for Social Sciences

The 6 slide sets and 10 notebooks are available on github: github.com/nicolaiberk/...

GitHub - nicolaiberk/llm_ws: Materials for my Workshop on LLMs

Materials for my Workshop on LLMs. Contribute to nicolaiberk/llm_ws development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Vincenzo Emanuele @vincenzoemanuele.bsky.social · 19d

🎯New publication out in @wepsocial.bsky.social
'Lipset and Rokkan meet data': a 🧵on our study (with Bruno Marino) on the electoral structuring of traditional cleavages (1870–1967) across 17 Western European countries 👇

Read the full article (open access):
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 26d

I wrote a longer essay on how social status matters for far-right support. Many still wrongly associate the far right with the economically left behind. Taking social status seriously also cautions against the idea that deliverism will win back far-right voters.

equitablegrowth.org/threats-to-s...

Threats to social status and support for far-right political parties

How economic threats to social status in the form of unemployment risk and rental market risk affects support for the far right in Europe.

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 26d

Our article “Unsuccessful Candidates Are More Concerned About Electoral Fairness than Election Winners” is now online @thejop.bsky.social

Using RDD and elite survey data from Denmark, we show that losing candidates express greater concern about electoral fairness.

🔗 doi.org/10.1086/734240

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Eelco Harteveld @eelcoharteveld.bsky.social · 28d

What do citizens imagine their political opponents to be like? Polarization is real, but it also lives in our heads, fueled by stereotypes. We asked people in 🇧🇷, 🇬🇧, 🇩🇪 & 🇵🇱 to describe opponents in their own words.

With @jnareal.bsky.social, @markuswagner.bsky.social & @piotrmarczynski.bsky.social 👇

OSF

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · Sep 5

Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Mohamed Nasr @monasr.bsky.social · Sep 2

🎯 New Paper Alert! 🎯

I’m thrilled to announce that my latest article, “How do voters seek political information during real-world election campaigns?”, has been published in Party Politics.

Access the full paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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How do voters seek political information during real-world election campaigns? - Mohamed Nasr, 2025

This paper examines the dynamics of voter information seeking during real-world election campaigns, a crucial yet relatively underexplored area of political beh...

journals.sagepub.com

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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · Sep 1

Ever asked yourself how to detect and extract social groups from texts with computational social science? @haukelicht.bsky.social and me have a solution for you out at @bjpols.bsky.social. You can also find the pre-trained models on huggingface!

British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · Sep 1

NEW -

Detecting Group Mentions in Political Rhetoric A Supervised Learning Approach - cup.org/45WZppQ

- @haukelicht.bsky.social & @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

BJPolS Abstract discussing a social science research method that uses text analysis for understanding group language patterns and political leanings, mentioning the use of British articles and generating new empirical insights.

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Mads Andreas Elkjær @madselk.bsky.social · Aug 26

Did you ever wonder why governments don’t do more to counteract wealth inequality? In our new @worldpolitics.bsky.social article, we seek to answer this question, studying the electoral politics of inheritance taxation muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... 1/n

Project MUSE - Why is it so Hard to Counteract Wealth Inequality? Evidence from the United Kingdom

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EUI Political Behaviour Colloquium @behaviour-eui.bsky.social · Aug 6

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS!

We’re looking for presenters for the upcoming term (early October to mid-December 2025).

If you’d like to present, please fill out the form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🗓 Deadline for proposals: August 31

EUI Political Behaviour Colloquium

Please fill in the details below to submit your proposal. Kindly provide the title and abstract of your paper, as well as your availability to present. The Colloquium is held every Tuesday from 17:00 ...

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Dr Simona Guerra @drspguerra.bsky.social · Aug 22

‘Why do some citizens develop a cognitive and affective engagement with politics, while others remain apatethic? … a large share of young citizens has its political future decided already at age 17 - or in many cases even at age 11’
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Pathways to politics: a sequence analysis of political apathy and involvement

Understanding inequality in political involvement is a core goal of political science. Previous research has examined specific life-course influences, but there is limited knowledge about the diver...

www.tandfonline.com

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Álvaro Canalejo-Molero @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social · Aug 13

A few days ago, a fire at the Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba (UNESCO World Heritage site) threatened to destroy it.

The monument is owned exclusively by the Catholic Church. Some Cordobesians (like me) believe this ownership should change.

The article below (in Spanish) discusses this debate.

El incendio de la Mezquita de Córdoba aviva la polémica sobre la titularidad de la Iglesia católica

Expertos y sociedad civil reclaman una mayor intervención de las administraciones públicas en el control de la gestión que el Cabildo hace del monumento, y las formaciones políticas reclaman que se re...

elpais.com

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Armin Schaefer @arminschaefer.bsky.social · Aug 4

I'm delighted to see this article out in @govandopp.bsky.social! Jonas Wenker and I show that losing an election has a far stronger negative effect on populist voters than on non-populist ones. For populists, losing signals that the system is broken. 1/5 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Losers’ Dissent: How Election Results Shape Populists’ Satisfaction with Democracy | Government and Opposition | Cambridge Core

Losers’ Dissent: How Election Results Shape Populists’ Satisfaction with Democracy

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Peter Luca Versteegen @versteegenluca.bsky.social · Aug 4

🚨Pre-print alert🚨

Research shows citizens in many Western democracies are increasingly affectively polarized––they feel warm toward their own party but quite cold toward opposing parties.

But how does it feel to “feel warmly”?
@katharinalawall.bsky.social, @mtsakiris.bsky.social & I asked.
🧵1/8

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Álvaro Canalejo-Molero @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social · Aug 4

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · Aug 4

Looking for the explanation of who votes for Spain’s new (really new) far-right party, SALF, which made it into the EP for the 1st last year?

@javierpadilla.bsky.social @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social & @bertous.bsky.social have you covered with this great data-rich paper!

doi.org/10.1177/2053...

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Álvaro Canalejo-Molero @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social · Aug 4

Here is a summary of our latest article on the new Spanish far-right SALF by the greatest co-author @bertous.bsky.social :)

Alberto López Ortega @bertous.bsky.social · Aug 4

📝Why has a Bukele-style far-right party emerged in Spain—even though VOX already exists?

In our new paper, @javierpadilla.bsky.social, @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social and I explain the unexpected rise of SALF ("Let the Party Be Over") in the 2024 EP elections:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

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