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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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Patrick Bayer @patrickbayer.bsky.social · Jul 23

Also more stuff in the works on backlash against different types of renewables with evidence from 🇬🇧, 🇩🇪, 🇫🇷, and 🇳🇴, so stay tuned...

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Patrick Bayer @patrickbayer.bsky.social · Jul 23

😂😂😂

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Patrick Bayer @patrickbayer.bsky.social · Jun 27

Good news for European political science! Thanks for everyone involved who made this happen.

Became an EPSS member today, and so can you!

Very competitive fees that will go a long way to fund next year's conference and not just a reception ticket (some may say).

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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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · Jun 17

🚨Global public action (climate!) is most effective when countries do it together yet we're in a period of IO backlash rooted in left-behind places

Does it mean all left-behind regions hate IOs the same?

@patrickbayer.bsky.social & I have a paper accepted @bjpols.bsky.social abt this🧵

osf.io/rtymv

Climate Policy Costs, Regional Politics and Backlashagainst International Cooperation by Patrick Bayer and Federica Genovese.

This paper investigates the conditions under which subnational concerns shape public assessments of international climate governance. In line with existing literature, we maintain that costly policy adjustments fuel negative views of international cooperation in policy exposed regions. At the same time, we argue that the more resentful relations are with the national center of politics, the more sympathetic these regions areto international institutions and global governance. Based on geographically targeted survey data from theUnited Kingdom, we find that fossil fuel-intensive regions with strong, institutionalized regional politics have more positive assessments of international climate cooperation than structurally similar regions where regional political institutions are less pronounced. The findings show that regional politics characteristics are key for understanding climate policy beliefs among citizens that bear the brunt of adjustments to international climate agreements

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Patrick Bayer @patrickbayer.bsky.social · Jun 16

Getting a paper accepted is always nice, getting it accepted after almost two years in peer review feels super special! 🎉🎉🎉

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Christian Flachsland @chflachsland.bsky.social · Jun 5

🚨Climate politics job alert🚨

Interested in the opportunity to focus on your own climate politics research project for 1 year in a stimulating and supportive environment at a leading university in Berlin?

Open to postdocs & graduates.

hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs...

Postdoctoral Researcher / Research Associate - Climate Politics (gn) full-time (40 hours/week)

hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com

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Patrick Bayer @patrickbayer.bsky.social · May 14

Looking forward to an exciting trip with colleagues to our long-standing partner, Nankai University, for a joint workshop on "New Trends of International Political Economy in Turbulent Times."

@uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social

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UofG School of Social & Political Sciences @uofgsps.bsky.social · May 12

"A new voting system and sausage sizzles" - excellent advice from @ariadnevromen.bsky.social in @scotsman.com on what the UK and Scotland can learn from Australia's recent election - and how to turn around the low voting turn outs that have benefitted Reform UK.

www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

Four big lessons for Scotland and UK from Australian Labor party's surprise landslide

With Reform UK benefiting from low election turnouts, more needs to be done to make it easier for people to vote – like elections on Saturdays, a new voting system and sausage sizzles

www.scotsman.com

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Patrick Bayer @patrickbayer.bsky.social · Apr 4

I hate academic FOMO! Enough said...

Patrick Bayer @patrickbayer.bsky.social · Mar 25

May I present the social science "double helix" of country engagement across topics...

Not all plots are useful...🙃

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Patrick Bayer @patrickbayer.bsky.social · Mar 17

Happy St Patrick's Day, I guess.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · Feb 21

‼️The US-based @ipcc.bsky.social technical support unit (TSU) for Working Group 3 Co-Chairs has been terminated, and the US won’t be attending next week’s IPCC meeting where the AR7 chapter outlines will be approved.

More by @afreedma.bsky.social here:

Scoop: U.S. delegation pulled from key U.N. climate science meeting

The IPCC meeting in China is slated to determine the content in the group's next series of reports.

www.axios.com

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Patrick Bayer @patrickbayer.bsky.social · Feb 13

Good conversation tonight with the President of the Bundesbank, Dr Nagel, about transition finance @uofgasbs.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social

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intlcollaboration.bsky.social @intlcollaboration.bsky.social · Feb 6

Please nominate for awards for the Int'l Collaboration section of APSA! Best article, dissertation, book, and mentor awards!

Deadline is March 3, 2025. Submissions should be sent by email to [email protected]. You can find the award criteria and info here: apsanet.org/membership/o...

Section48 - American Political Science Association (APSA)

International Collaboration (Section 48) The International Collaboration (IC) Section of the American Political Science Association works to promote and

apsanet.org

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Patrick Bayer @patrickbayer.bsky.social · Feb 3

Also, come and join our Section 48! 😀

It's a great community and THE section for anyone working on international collaboration, IOs, IPE, global governance!

Patrick Bayer @patrickbayer.bsky.social · Feb 3

Serving on this year's "Best Dissertation Award" committee for @apsa.bsky.social @intlcollaboration.bsky.social Section.

Send your students' best dissertation work to our section chair @danieladonno.bsky.social by 3 March! Self-nominations welcome!

Details here: apsanet.org/membership/o...

Section48 - American Political Science Association (APSA)

International Collaboration (Section 48) The International Collaboration (IC) Section of the American Political Science Association works to promote and

apsanet.org

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Patrick Bayer @patrickbayer.bsky.social · Jan 21

PS: I'm fully aware that I'm very privileged here in that my career does not depend on the immediate publication of this paper which we're very proud of.

Patrick Bayer @patrickbayer.bsky.social · Jan 21

Proud to have pulled a basically accepted paper (with full consent of co-authors) from peer review today in response to questionable editorial practice to "force" us to add citations to five substantively unrelated papers that the editor was a co-author of. 🤯

#researchintegrity

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Patrick Bayer @patrickbayer.bsky.social · Jan 17

More evidence that everyone who believes we still have time is a fool.

www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Rise in carbon dioxide off track for limiting global warming to 1.5°C

The increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) is now incompatible with IPCC pathways which remain below 1.5°C, a Met Office study finds.

www.metoffice.gov.uk

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Patrick Bayer @patrickbayer.bsky.social · Jan 3

Thanks Lisa, can I please be added. Much appreciated.

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Patrick Bayer @patrickbayer.bsky.social · Dec 31

Second that. It's a great game! Just finished the second round this afternoon. Very good translation of the 'real world' into the mechanics of the game.

Patrick Bayer @patrickbayer.bsky.social · Dec 8

Thanks for reference here, Hannah. Very excited about CSSN work on obstruction. Looking forward to the initial meeting in January. Will share our newest paper once accepted. Shouldn't be too long...#famouslastwords

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · Dec 8

At the IPCC scoping meeting—to draft the outline for the Seventh Assessment Report (AR7), w/200 other scientists and social scientists from around the world.

To understand 30 years of inadequate climate action, & to do better, we need to understand intentional obstruction
@climatessn.bsky.social

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Patrick Bayer @patrickbayer.bsky.social · Dec 4

My earlier post in pictures. So true! 👌

Chess.com @chess.com · Dec 4

Loving this duo 🎙️