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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 3d

Great opportunity if you’re interested in pursuing a PhD in political science at @lsegovernment.bsky.social - with a particular interest in elections and campaigning ⬇️

Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 3d

🚨 We have a cool new ESRC PhD studentship opportunity on the topic of political persuasion for someone interested in campaigning, field experiments and/or computational methods @lsegovernment.bsky.social, in collaboration with
@campaign-lab.bsky.social. All info 👇
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Campaign Lab

www.lse.ac.uk

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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 3d

Der er ikke en snebolds chance i helvede for det

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 5d

🗃️ From May: Google Scholar launched in November 2004 with the goal of making it easier to access scientific knowledge. But did it live up to this aim or simply create new problems?

#GoogleScholar #AcademicChatter

How Google Scholar transformed research - Impact of Social Sciences

Google Scholar launched in November 2004 with the goal of making it easier to access scientific knowledge. But did it live up to this aim or simply create new problems? Kyriakos Drivas shows that…

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 4d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 4d

Yep! There is even great research that shows that these are precisely the kind of people, who would want to join the secret police -- because they are not good for anything else: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 6d

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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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 7d

Come work with us 🚨

We are looking for a #postdoc in our @aimediademlab.bsky.social lab.

Profile: Comm sci / poli sci/ computational social science.

Great team, timely topocs, fabulous city, good conditions.

DL 🗓️ November 1

werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — Postdoctoral researcher Communication Science at AI, Media & Democracy Lab

Do you want to be part of the AI, Media & Democracy Lab? We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with a profile in communication science.

werkenbij.uva.nl

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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · 13d

You have work on politics in Europe, European integration or the EU?

Submit it to next year's @epssnet.bsky.social conference section on "European and EU Politics“ 👇

@bjornhoyland.bsky.social & I are open to diverse proposals with a European dimension.

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 7d

▶️ Judicial Politics

👉🏽 Section chairs: Michal Ovádek (UCL) & Joan-Josep Vallbé (Barcelona)

📢 Our section welcomes work applying both qualitative and quantitative social science approaches to any aspect of judicial politics, incl. >>>

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 10d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 9d

Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 9d

Tough new conditions to be imposed on migrants who want to settle in the UK will not apply to more than a million people who arrived in the UK under the post-Brexit immigration surge

Labour’s tough new rules will not apply to migrants already in UK

www.thetimes.com

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tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social · 11d

So many echoes from this article for US politics....

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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 13d

For many reasons, the traditional way judges convince people their decisions are grounded in the law is to write opinions explaining them, not to issue unreasoned, controversial decisions and then give interviews claiming the decisions were apolitical.

Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 13d

Barrett spurns Supreme Court bias claims after string of Trump shadow docket wins

“I want people to understand, agree or disagree with the decisions that the court reaches, that we are engaged in a legal enterprise."
@courthousenews.bsky.social
www.courthousenews.com/barrett-spur...

Barrett spurns Supreme Court bias claims after string of Trump shadow docket wins

Justice Amy Coney Barrett sat for an extended discussion where she defended the high court’s rulings and her jurisprudence.

www.courthousenews.com

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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 16d

I'm teaching my judicial politics module at UCL again this term which means that I'm keen on new resources for students. In particular, let me know if you published a dataset on courts/judicial politics/legal mobilization and it is not yet listed here: michalovadek.github.io/judicial-pol...

Data resources – POLS0113: Judicial Politics

michalovadek.github.io

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Karina Kosiara-Pedersen @karinakosped.bsky.social · 13d

How well are young people represented along the recruitment ladder? The pipeline problem for the Danish youth is within parties, since they are eager to stand for election and well represented at the parliamentary level. New article out in @ecpr.bsky.social's EPS. Open access: rdcu.be/eIiM1.

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Lena Stephan @lenastephan.bsky.social · 24d

📢 Call for Papers and Panels: join our section on Gender, Sexuality and Political Careers at the #ECPG2026!

We invite contributions on the gendered architecture of political careers across elected, appointed & informal roles - whether theoretical, empirical, critical, or methodological.

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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · 14d

🌸 #ECPG26 @ecprgender.bsky.social Section seeking Panels & Papers ⤵️
🌈 Gender, Sexuality, and Political Careers
🪑 @lenastephan.bsky.social @robindevroe.bsky.social, Andrea Aldrich, William Daniel (@uniofnottingham.bsky.social) Ragnhild Louise Muriaas (@unibergen.bsky.social)
⌛👇 7 Nov

Gender, Sexuality, and Political Careers

European Conference on Politics and Gender, Newcastle University, 15 – 17 June 2026

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Thomas Nilsen @thomasnilsen.bsky.social · 18d

The Pentagon demands journalists to sign a pledge not to obtain or report any information - even if unclassified - unless it has been expressly authorized by the government.

To be clear, as a reporter who is also covering different aspects of 🇺🇸 military, I will never sign such restrictions.

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Adam Scharpf @ascharpf.bsky.social · 18d

We know that Putin and other dictators try to build a new world order. Soft power plays a crucial role in this.

Today, Russia hosts the Intervision 2025 – a competitor event to the Eurovision Song Contest.

Which regimes participate in this contest?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intervi...

Intervision 2025 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Tommaso Pavone @tommasopavone.bsky.social · 20d

Time to re-up my @verfassungsblog.de post from 2023 about the "EU's Faustian Bargain" w/ Orbán: "if the EU continues to treat the rule of law as a bargaining chip and to make promises it won’t keep, for how much longer will our Union remain a club worth joining?": verfassungsblog.de/the-eus-faus...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20d

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

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Silje Synnøve Lyder Hermansen @silje-hermansen.bsky.social · 24d

Velkommen :-)

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Simon Otjes @simonotjes.bsky.social · 24d

Superhappy to see this paper out in Politics & Governance. Together with Gijs Jan Brandsma (Radboud University) I show that size of PPG staffs increases parliamentary activity but decreases social media activity www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 27d

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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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · Sep 9

Oh wow, a HUGE majority of Europeans (and not just the French) say it has negative consequences for Europe to buy US military equipment.

Source: legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/09/0...

«Cet accord prévoit que les pays européens devront augmenter fortement leurs achats d’équipements militaires et de défense aux États-Unis. Selon vous, cette décision a plutôt ___»
Des conséquences positives pour l’Europe
Des conséquences négatives pour l’Europe
Pas vraiment de conséquences
Ne sais pas

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