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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 1d

Are you interested in Teaching & Learning? This is the event for you.

Heidi Maurer @heidimaurer.bsky.social · 1d

Call for Papers for @ecpr.bsky.social @ecprsgeu.bsky.social section “Teaching in EU Studies in the Digital Age”

to explore how AI, digitalisation & new pedagogies are reshaping #EU Studies

more info: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
deadline: 10 December 2025

Teaching in EU studies in the digital age

European Consortium for Political Research

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Jan Rovny @jrovny.bsky.social · 2d

Many are concerned about the return of Babiš to the top of Czech politics. While the results of this weekend's Czech legislative election poses its concerns, I am an optimist. I think Babiš's victory is rather Pyrrhic. Here are some thoughts: blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

The 2025 Czech election – Andrej Babiš’s Pyrrhic victory

Andrej Babiš’s ANO won the 2025 Czech election on 3–4 October. Yet as Jan Rovny explains, Babiš will find it challenging to form a stable government.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 27d

Let us know what you think!

And check our acknowledgments (missing in the article) in this Linkedin post.
www.linkedin.com/posts/tom%C3...

Foreign Policy Specialisation in EU Small States: Conceptualising and Analysing an Underexplored Practice - Journal of International Relations and Development | Tomáš Weiss

‼️ Publication alert ‼️ Foreign Policy Specialisation in EU Small States: Conceptualising and Analysing an Underexplored Practice In our new article, Sandra Fernandes and I propose a definition of s...

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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 27d

We also identify new research questions that our definition may help address, be it on the specialisation itself, its origins and changes, the domestic politics of specialisation, and the international impacts of specialisation.

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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 27d

We propose a definition of small state foreign policy specialisation. We trace the concept of specialisation across academic literature and policy practice of EU small states.

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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 27d

Read our newest open-access publication in JIRD on small states' foreign policy specialisation:
doi.org/10.1057/s412...

#smallstates #research #EUstudies #academics

Foreign Policy Specialisation in EU Small States: Conceptualising and Analysing an Underexplored Practice - Journal of International Relations and Development

This paper defines and categorises the concept of ‘foreign policy specialisation,’ emphasizing its significance in small EU member states’ practices and its role as a source of power in international ...

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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · Aug 29

#UACES2025 starts on Monday in Liverpool. Once again, a range of brilliant panels. Many of them in our themed track on European security. I hope to see many of you there to discuss foreign interference, small state specialisation, and many other topics.
@uaces.bsky.social @seceur-uaces.bsky.social

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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · Aug 27

Interesting read, even if worrying. Much more reliance on paid WoS in Czechia. But some promotion models started going the Scholar way. Maybe a mistake…

Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome) @hannahshelley.bsky.social · Aug 13

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Google Scholar Is Doomed

Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

hannahshelley.neocities.org

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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · Aug 26

Jednou IMS, vždycky IMS.
@ims.fsv.cuni.cz

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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · Aug 25

This is great reading. It offers a very limited hope that European defence may ever work, but it does not rule it out entirely, so that's a relief. It's also slightly depressing research-wise. The complexity of it all almost prevents any meaningful understanding. In any case, go and read it!

Jocelyn Mawdsley @jocelynmawdsley.bsky.social · Aug 19

New article today in @jei-publication.bsky.social for @brunoomartins.bsky.social , @nicholasmarsh.bsky.social and I - "The European Iron Network: the remaking of the political economy of European defence production following the Ukraine War" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The European Iron Network: the remaking of the political economy of European defence production following the Ukraine War

In this article, we develop a conceptualisation of the relationship between European institutions, governments and defence industries as a European Iron Network. This network is characterized by a ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · Aug 19

I really look forward to reading this! Congrats!

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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · Aug 15

My almost 30 minutes on Trump, Russia, Transatlantic relations and all that jazz on the Czech public radio (in Czech).
plus.rozhlas.cz/trump-naslou...

Trump naslouchá tomu, kdo s ním mluví poslední. Na Aljašce to bude Putin, upozorňuje politolog Weiss

Prezidenti Donald Trump a Vladimir Putin se v pátek setkají na Aljašce. Ukrajina ani Evropa zastoupeni nebudou, evropští státníci se ale shodli, že jejich bezpečnostní zájmy musí být na jednání zohled...

plus.rozhlas.cz

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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · Jul 25

And this, dear readers, is why people go to social media. Not for disinformation and venting their rage, but for exciting analyses of issues they actually never cared about until reading the threads.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Jul 25

You should never follow any of these color charts. They are all stupid.

I'll show you why. 🧵

Someone on Twitter posted a color chart for how to combine different shirts and pants.

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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · Jun 19

A very thought provoking essay. What is the reason we ask students to write?

Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · Jun 19

After the latest round of grading papers, I wrote about AI, ChatGPT, the death of the student essay, and what it means for the future of human cognition.

The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition

One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.

www.forkingpaths.co

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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · Jun 6

This is a great post. Students often do not understand the importance of the research question. This post explains it so well!

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · Jun 4

You don’t need more ideas.

You need a better question.

A thread on clarity, chaos, & what a Nobel Prize winner, a mosquito net & a PhD meltdown taught me about writing (+ thinking) better.

🪨 Here’s my new Respect the Marble post: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/you-dont-n...

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You Don’t Need More Ideas. You Need a Better Question

What Michelangelo, a Nobel Laureate, and a PhD Meltdown Taught Me about Research Questions

catherineeunicedevries.substack.com

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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · Jun 6

I am going to save this and go back to it every single time I need to write an abstract. My future me will love me for doing it.

Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · Jun 5

📄 @fgilardi.bsky.social created this template for writing abstracts several years ago, and I’ve tried to follow Fabrizio‘s suggestions ever since.

PDF: fabriziogilardi.org/resources/pa...

Everyone agrees that this issue is really important. But we do not know much about this specific question, although it matters a great deal, for these reasons. We approach the problem from this perspective. Our research design focuses on these cases and relies on these data, which we analyze using this method. Results show what we have learned about the question. They have these broader implications.

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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · Jun 6

Evidence that humanities help us better understand the world around us.

Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · Jun 6

Wikipedia definition of "idiot plot": In literary criticism, an idiot plot is one which is "kept in motion solely by virtue of the fact that everybody involved is an idiot",[1]: 26 and where the story would quickly end, or possibly not even happen, if this were not the case.

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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · May 21

If you are interested in small states, you mustn't miss the current issue of Small States & Territories, which offers 25 articles on how small states offer answers to big questions. Edited by Hillary Briffa and Anna-Lena Högenauer, it's all open access.
www.um.edu.mt/sst/currenti...

Current issue - L-Università ta' Malta

Current issue

www.um.edu.mt

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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · May 20

This is such a good story!

Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · May 20

This reminds me of my favourite Chatham House rule story 🧵

Way back in the pre-crash boom period, Gordon Brown as Chancellor hosted one of his big global investment conferences at the QEII in London.

Muggins here, a junior Treasury official, had a cheap seat as one of the organisers…1/

Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · May 20

THAT ISN'T THE CHATHAM HOUSE RULE

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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · May 13

Yep. As she says. But Sauna!!!

Louise Hawley @louiseah.bsky.social · May 13

So far would say 5 go thro and 10 say goodbye - not a good year so far #Eurovision

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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · Apr 23

I think it's a mixed design leaning toward the "classroom" setting. And my guess would be the need to fit all 200 MPs plus the government into a relatively small hall, which was listed. I don't think there is seating organised depending on whether the parties are in government or in opposition.

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · Apr 9

Donald Trump has dedicated his life in politics with single-minded ferocity to one luminous goal: the utter and final destruction of the weekly magazine