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Giuliano Formisano

@giulianoformisano.bsky.social
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PostDoc in Politics, University of Zurich | Oxford PhD | Interests: Digital Politics, Communication, & Computational Social Science. giulianoformisano.github.io

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For my new research unit Politics of Democracy at the Berlin Social Science Center @wzb.bsky.social, we have 3 open research positions. 2 postdocs: 4 + 2 years (100%) 1 doc: 2 years (75%) Starting date: 1 March 2027 (negotiable) Application deadline: 1 November
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Luis Sattelmayer @luissattelmayer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today, @malojan.bsky.social and I are launching the PartySOME website at partysome.org, an open, interactive platform for exploring how much political parties communicate online and what they talk about 🎤💻📊
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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Computational Communication Science at the University of Vienna! 🔎 Text/image analysis, platform data & political communication 📍 Vienna ⏳ 6 years, full-time ⏰ Apply by 3 Oct jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi... Find out more about our team here: compcommlab.univie.ac.at
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Emma Hoes @emmahoes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Thrilled to share that I have received an ERC Starting Grant for my project HIDDENPOL: The Hidden Politics of Everyday Media. 🎈 @erc.europa.eu
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Fabrizio Gilardi @fgilardi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I'm hiring! Three-year postdoc (80%) in my research group at @ipz.bsky.social, starting January 2027. Digital technology and politics, some teaching. Deadline: 30 September 2026. Questions welcome, and please share! www.ipz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:bbee... (pdf)
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Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
New project and dashboard on football and politics: footballinparliament.com Stefan Couperus, Martijn Schoonvelde, and I (supporters of FC Groningen, AZ Alkmaar, and Borussia Mönchengladbach, guess who’s who) were wondering how and why politicians talk about football clubs. 1/5
Dashboard: https://footballinparliament.com
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Elena Pro @elenapro.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
New (and personal first!) paper out in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social w/ Chris Anderson. 🤖🗳️ Citizens increasingly use and interact with AI tools to make sense of political information and express views. We ask: what does this mean for citizens' autonomy in politics?
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Giorgio Malet @giorgiomalet.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
We did it again! A year after our first workshop, @jellekoedam.bsky.social, @tinepaulsen.bsky.social, @nicolaiberk.bsky.social, and I welcomed another fantastic group of researchers to Zurich. Two days of thoughtful discussions, new connections, and lots of fun... 🏊 Thanks to everyone who joined!
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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
🙏 Come work with me 🙏 We're hiring a postdoc. to work on a v cool project using AI to better understand local-level social cohesion...
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Heike Klüver @heikekluever.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
📣 We're hiring! Looking for a PostDoc? Join our team in Berlin! Work with @heikekluever.bsky.social, @macartan.bsky.social and Johannes Giesecke at Humboldt University, @scripts-berlin.eu and @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social Great people, great project, great city! 🗓️ Deadline: 15 August 2026
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Alex Yeandle @alexyeandle.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Delighted to see my paper "Mobile money and the social contract: Experimental evidence from Ghana" (coauthored with David Doyle) out at World Development! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Mobile money and the social contract: Experimental evidence from Ghana
Mobile money platforms are ubiquitous in many emerging economies. Hailed for raising financial inclusion and economic wellbeing, governments have now …
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Caterina Froio @caterinafr.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
#Populism? The PopuList 4.0 and its shiny website are out today! Always a pleasure to work with captain @mrooduijn.bsky.social and the rocking crew @dafnoukos.bsky.social @sldelange.bsky.social @casmudde.bsky.social @stijntvankessel.bsky.social @paultaggart.bsky.social @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social
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Tobias Widmann @twidmann.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
📢 I’m hiring 2 three-year postdocs at Dept of Political Science, @au.dk! Come work with me on The Politics of Shaming and Shamelessness — a new project on elite rhetoric, emotions, norms, hostility and political violence. Deadline: 31 August 2026 Start: Dec 2026–Feb 2027 Please share widely! 🙏
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2 three-year postdocs in political communication and political psychology at Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
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Tore Wig @torewig.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
We're hiring 2 postdocs at @uio.no on my ERC-Cog project on how authoritarian regimes shape scientific knowledge. 3–4 years, U. of Oslo. Deadline: 10 Sept 2026. Great dept., terms, well funded, bustling & green Scandi capital. Apply! 👉 jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/303060/postdoctoral-fello
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Postdoctoral Fellow  (303060) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow  (303060), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Thursday, September 10, 2026
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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
📢 Open positions! I’m recruiting 2 postdocs + 3 PhD positions at C³S, @goetheuni.bsky.social in #ClimateJustice, environmental inequality, #Demography & #ComputationalSocialScience 🌍📊💻 3–4 years + strong support for training🎒 Deadline: 23 June 2026 More: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen...
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Alona O. Dolinsky @alonadolinsky.com · 15/05/2026
🎉🚨New Publication 🚨🎉 Beyond thrilled this is finally out! First large-scale, cross-national database of parties' social group appeals — who they speak to, the stance they take towards the groups, and whether a policy is mentioned. 55 years, 8 European countries, fully public and available here:
dataverse.harvard.edu
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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
This is foundational paper for everyone working to scale up conversational / qualitative interviewing using LLMs. Gives us a benchmark to distinguish better / worse interviews. Also, careful and thoughtful design and execution.
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
65.2 🫐 Fear, anger, and populism on Twitter/X 😡 By analysing 1M UK tweets, @giulianoformisano.bsky.social, Jörg Friedrichs, Florian S. Schaffner & Niklas Stoehr seperate #Populist from #Governmentalist rhetoric and track how emotions drive #PoliticalCommunication
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Populism and governmentalism as thin-centered ideologies: Emotions and frames on social media | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Populism and governmentalism as thin-centered ideologies: Emotions and frames on social media - Volume 65 Issue 2
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Sandra González-Bailón @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
It takes a village to produce research with impact. This is the idea that motivated us to write this paper, published today.  Kudos to the team: @lluisdanus.bsky.social @william-dinneen.bsky.social @carotorreblanca.bsky.social @guygrossman.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Ellie Bourgikos @ebourgikos.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Incredibly excited to see our work on Jamestown Canyon virus published in Current Biology!! I have grown with and loved this project for 3 years and couldn’t be prouder of the final paper 🩵🧬 Read it here to see how phylodynamics reveals JCV's complex life cycle! www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 22/04/2026
Is social media dying? How much did Twitter change as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has changed Here are the key take-aways 🧵 Full paper out now in in JQD:DM!
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Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, and Enduring Polarization | Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media
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Karsten Donnay @karstendonnay.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
📢 Call for Papers: first Annual Digital Publics Conference 📅 21–23 October 2026 | Digital Society Initiative, University of Zurich 👉 To submit: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/BxVnAMyxNh ❗Deadline for abstract submissions is 31 May 2026❗Acceptance notifications will be sent by early july.
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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Popular attitudes are often seen as a safeguard against democratic backsliding: if citizens don’t oppose lib democracy, politicians have little incentive to erode it. In @cpsjournal.bsky.social I argue that, while intuitive, this reasoning conflates two states of the world: doi.org/10.1177/0010...
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Luis Sattelmayer @luissattelmayer.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
🎓 I am very happy to share that I have successfully defended my PhD dissertation, "Competition Between Equals: Mainstream Party Decline, Far-Right Evolution, and the Transformation of Party Competition in Western Europe", on Monday!
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Seulki Lee-Geiller @leegeiller.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
🎉 New @policy-politics.bsky.social! Why do governments pursue #OpenGovernment amid #DemocraticBacksliding? 💡Our human-AI iterative analysis of @opengovpartnership.org member policies finds layered motivations spanning values, strategy, external pressure, and policy emulation.
This image shows the Iterative Human-AI Natural Language Processing methodology as a four-step workflow with seventeen sub-steps. The process moves from document collection, translation, parsing, and preprocessing to computational extraction and filtering, then to classification, human validation, qualitative coding, and visualization. The figure shows that motive identification relied on repeated interaction between automated methods and structured human review.This image shows how motive types vary across countries and world regions. The country-level panel indicates substantial cross-national variation, while the regional panel highlights broader commonalities. Attraction-based motives, especially governance- and value-driven forms, appear widely across regions. Coercion linked to funding and competition linked to economic concerns also appear in many regions. Some motives are more regionally concentrated, showing that open government policies combine globally shared and region-specific motivational patterns.
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Sophie Greenwood @sjgreenwood.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Excited to present a new preprint with @nkgarg.bsky.social: presenting usage statistics and observational findings from Paper Skygest in the first six months of deployment! 🎉📜 arxiv.org/abs/2601.04253
Title + abstract of the preprint
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Francesco Raffaelli @fraraffaelli.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
⁉️ Are anti-immigration people really "sexually modern"? No ⁉️ Are people more supportive of anti-immigration platforms when these also include progressive positions on gender and sexuality? Also no I explore these questions w/ 🇬🇧🇩🇪 original survey data (+ a conjoint in 🇩🇪) 👉 osf.io/preprints/so...
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Lisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I'm hiring a postdoc! @goetheuni.bsky.social Focus: CSS, political behavior, political communication & transforming information environments. 📍 Frankfurt | ⏳ 3 years | 📅 Deadline: 14 April 2026 Full job ad here: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen... (search for “political behavior” to find it)
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Goethe-Universität — Zentrale Einrichtungen
Die Goethe-Universität ist eine forschungsstarke Hochschule in der europäischen Finanzmetropole Frankfurt. Lebendig, urban und weltoffen besitzt sie als Stiftungsuniversität ein einzigartiges Maß an E...
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Theodore Tallent @theodoretallent.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Very happy to see our recent APSR article on "symbolic policies" selected by Nature Climate Change as part of their research highlights of the last months 🙏 ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natclimate.nature.com @apsrjournal.bsky.social
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
EPSS Travel Grants for 2026 Belfast conference: PhD students & junior scholars @ institutions in European countries that are often underrepresented, can apply for full fee waiver & £500 stipend Apply: lnkd.in/ehXjhCgf Deadline: March 8, 11:59pm GMT. More details: lnkd.in/eZTP5sWR
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Giuliano Formisano @giulianoformisano.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
📣📣 New paper with #JoergFriedrichs, @florianschaffner.bsky.social, @niklasstoehr.bsky.social , “Populism and governmentalism as thin-centered ideologies: Emotions and frames on social media” is out at @ejprjournal.bsky.social Read more: doi.org/10.1017/S147...
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Francesco Raffaelli @fraraffaelli.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
🚨 New WP w/ @leonardocarella.bsky.social on OSF doi.org/10.31235/osf... We usually think that social identities precede preferences We show the reverse is also true: people update their social identities to match their immigration preferences Focus: class identity in 🇬🇧 + Christian identity in 🇮🇹
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Nicolai Berk @nicolaiberk.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Now in print (and open access): What happens when voters learn their party disagrees with them? I ran a pre-registered experiment with a representative sample of ~3,000 German voters to find out. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧵
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Attitude Manipulation and Voting Intentions - Political Behavior
A large body of research documents the substantial effects of persuasive communication on political attitudes. However, opinion manipulation often represents merely an intermediate goal in a greater e...
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Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
🚨📄 New paper (conditional accepted at @thejop.bsky.social): We test whether social desirability bias actually distorts answers in online surveys. Short version: It mostly doesn’t. w. @timallinger.bsky.social @kristianvsf.bsky.social @morganlcj.bsky.social URL: osf.io/preprints/os...
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Tim Allinger @timallinger.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Very glad that our first DEMNORM paper found such a great home at @thejop.bsky.social. If you’re interested in the role of social desirability in online surveys, check out the thread and paper below ⬇️
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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
🚨New WP "@Grok is this true?" We analyze 1.6M factcheck requests on X (grok & Perplexity) 📌Usage is polarized, Grok users more likely to be Reps 📌BUT Rep posts rated as false more often—even by Grok 📌Bot agreement with factchecks is OK but not great; APIs match fact-checkers osf.io/preprints/ps...
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CIS ETH @ciseth.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
New CIS Position Openings including a Senior Research Coordinator, Postdoc Position with Karsten Donnay in Digital Democracy, and a Postdoc Position in the Political Economy of Low-Carbon Technologies: cis.ethz.ch/news-and-eve...
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Karsten Donnay @karstendonnay.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
🚨Job alert 🚨 I have an opening for a postdoc in my team at @ipz.bsky.social in the area of digital democracy starting Sep 1, 2026. If you are working on the impact of the digital transformation on politics, please apply by 🗓️ Mar 1, 2026. 📤 Please share widely! www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns...
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Offene Stellen / Open Positions
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Manuel Tonneau @manueltonneau.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Demographic cues (eg, names, dialect) are widely used to study how LLM behavior may change depending on user demographics. Such cues are often assumed interchangeable. 🚨 We show they are not: different cues yield different model behavior for the same group and different conclusions on LLM bias. 🧵👇
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Francesco Raffaelli @fraraffaelli.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
🚨Happy to finally see this out in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social (with @leonardocarella.bsky.social) ⁉️ Does growing up when immigration is salient make people vote for parties they agree with on immigration *for the rest of their lives*? doi.org/10.1017/S147...
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From context to congruence: Immigration salience and voter socialization | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
From context to congruence: Immigration salience and voter socialization
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Miriam Sorace @miriamsorace.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
📢 JOB ALERT! Postdoc opportunity in Political Behaviour & Political Economy (UKRI‑funded) - Please do share with anyone who might be a great fit. If you’re interested or would like to know more, please feel free to get in touch!! jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Quantitative Political Behaviour and Political Economy:Whiteknights Reading UK
The closing date for applications is 23.59 on 22nd February 2026
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Luis Sattelmayer @luissattelmayer.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Publication Alert 🚨 Our paper on the effect of Symbolic Policies on Climate Policy Support has been published in the APSR! @apsrjournal.bsky.social Below is a summary of the results Extremely grateful to have written this with the wonderful @malojan.bsky.social and @theodoretallent.bsky.social 🥳
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Malo Jan @malojan.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
New publication 🥳 Really happy to see our work on symbolic climate policies with @theodoretallent.bsky.social and @luissattelmayer.bsky.social published today in the APSR @apsrjournal.bsky.social ! We learned so much while writing this paper. Thanks to everyone who helped make this possible!
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Theodore Tallent @theodoretallent.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
🎉 NEW PUBLICATION🎉 Our paper on "the effect of symbolic policies on climate policy support" has just been published in the APSR ! @apsrjournal.bsky.social (open access) The end of a long and rewarding journey with the best co-authors @malojan.bsky.social @luissattelmayer.bsky.social (1/6)
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Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
My updated syllabus for Quantitative Text Analysis is available online. As I previous years, I made quite a few changes and added recent literature. Part 1 (still) covers classic text-as-data approaches; Part 2 focuses on transformers and LLMs. 📄 muellerstefan.net/teaching/202... (PDF)
Title page of syllabus: https://muellerstefan.net/teaching/2026-spring-qta.pdf
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Ellie Bourgikos @ebourgikos.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
🦟📄 New preprint! Our first large-scale phylodynamic study of Jamestown Canyon virus (JCV) reveals how mosquito ecology shapes the evolution, persistence, and spread of this understudied arbovirus in North America. Read it here! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Evolutionary history of Jamestown Canyon virus disentangles complex multi-vector ecology
Jamestown Canyon virus (JCV) is a re-emerging mosquito-borne virus of increasing concern in North America. It has been historically understudied, leading to significant gaps in our understanding of it...
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Francesco Raffaelli @fraraffaelli.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
On my way to Florence, where I will be presenting at the EUI's PBC @behaviour-eui.bsky.social a project co-authored w/ @leonardocarella.bsky.social We show that (anti-immigration) 🇬🇧🇮🇹 people 'update' their social identity when primed with narratives pitting immigrants against other social groups
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Tine Paulsen @tinepaulsen.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
🚨 Virtual Workshop in HPE this Thursday 🚨 Clair Yang (UW-Seattle) tackles a BIG question: "Why do some societies succeed in breaking away from historical traditions while others remain trapped?". @stasavage.bsky.social will discuss! A formal model paper for those who have missed them!
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AUTHLIB @authlibeu.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
@giulianoformisano.bsky.social introduced his work with @spyroskosmidis.bsky.social and Stephen Whitefield at @ox.ac.uk studying the role of emotional rhetoric in party communication.
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