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Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Postdoc position within my group 3 years (100% TVl-13): stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/2... ⏱️ 06.11.2026 If you have questions: get in touch!

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Postdoctoral Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in, salary level E 13 TV-L)

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Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki @mierkezat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Best (and coolest) librarian in the world, as far as I'm concerned! Congrats on your retirement @susiebuch.bsky.social 💐

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wonder what it would be like to write the same column, over and over again, endlessly. Seems like it’d be boring. But maybe it brings one comfort, like having your parents read you the same story every night before you go to bed.

Opinion
Opinion by Megan McArdle
The Great Awokening is over.
This lesbian bar shows why.
A meltdown over masking shows where cancel culture is now.
Today at 07:00 ET

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Cameron Clark @cameronclark.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A key point: you do need a theory of communication, alongside a theory of politics, to be an effective operator I think the centre and left struggle, generally, with "playing the game" - it's not enough to just have policy prescriptions you think will work

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Vincenzo Emanuele @vincenzoemanuele.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

📢 New data update! I have just updated my two datasets with the elections held in 2026: 📊 Dataset of Electoral Volatility and its Internal Components in Western Europe (1945–2026) lnkd.in/d43Kz9Wt 📊 Dataset of New Parties and Party System Innovation in Western Europe since 1945 lnkd.in/d6PXmK_w

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?

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Brawlcats @brawlcats.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

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Marios Richards @mariosrichards.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

open.substack.com/pub/mariosri... Tldr; I don't think the 1930s/2010-2020s are exceptional, I think it's 1945-1985 that's weird - that's the period where Authoritarian voters *aren't* voting for Authoritarian parties - which I'd describe as the Surprisingly Long Suppression of the Radical Right.

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My Theory of the (Re)Growth of the Radical Right

The Radical Right - aka Extreme Right/Hard Right/Far Right - is a party family that has been studied pretty continuously since 1945[1].

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Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki @mierkezat.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Myself and the other Transatlantic Fellow were interviewed by the Uni Bremen magazine; I talked about how much of a lifeline this post has been & shared some of my thoughts on the current state of American and German politics. Available here (auch auf Deutsch): up2date.uni-bremen.de/en/article/r...

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Research Freedom Rediscovered

Why Two Postdocs from Elite U.S. Universities Are Continuing Their Careers in Bremen

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Unbelievably, there are *two* academic jobs at Cardiff University. One in British politics (seemingly broadly defined) cardiffuniweb.eploy.net/vacancies/53... One in political behaviour/opinion 🙌 cardiffuniweb.eploy.net/vacancies/52...

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Lecturer in Politics - Teaching and Research in Law Building | Internal & External Website

View details and apply for this Lecturer in Politics - Teaching and Research vacancy in Law Building. Lecturer in Politics - Teaching & Research School of Law and Politics The School of Law a...

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

WHOA DHS does not say that the agent feared for his life… just the vague concern for “public safety.” So he killed him just because he did not want him in America, not because of any specific threat to agents?

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Deeply saddened to learn of the loss of my dear friend Satan, the Prince of Lies. Though we often disagreed about matters such as the appropriate role of torture in the afterlife, I will most remember how his quick wit and affable nature made our weekly golf outings a ritual. He will be missed.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

🚨 HUGE ongoing surge of ICE arrests, with ICE directing 80% of all officers to go out into the field and round people up, aiming to hit 2,000 arrests a day; which would be more than during the Minneapolis surge. This may be why the nun in Texas got briefly picked up. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

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Immigrant Arrests Surge to 10,000 in 5 Days as ICE Clamps Down

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mean things I say to myself @meantomyself.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Old enough to recognize this as a data center

Lockable floppy disk holder from the late 20th century

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Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The American mind couldn’t comprehend!!!

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IE Political Science Department @iepolisci.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

We are hiring! We have 3 tenure track positions open: - Comparative Politics: apply.interfolio.com/188149 - International Relations: apply.interfolio.com/188150 - Political Economy: apply.interfolio.com/188151 All jobs have deadlines Oct 5th. Please help spread the word to potential candidates.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

"A group of literally hundreds of people has sprung into action, coordinating, donating, providing lifts for families to get somewhere safe for the night, bringing food to those who don’t want to leave the house, offering shelter, car seats, toys..." www.opendemocracy.net/far-right-vi...

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Far-right chaos won’t define Northern Ireland – solidarity will

While extremists grabbed headlines, hundreds of ordinary people mobilised to protect our neighbours

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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

if you asked a representative sample of n=1000 American adults to rate the color of the water in this photo on a 0-10 scale anchored by ‘green’ at 0 and ‘blue’ at 10, my guess is that responses would be substantially correlated with the 7-point American National Election Study party ID scale

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Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I cannot emphasize enough how this runs completely counter to the core principles of the historical profession

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Some of the efforts being made in Belfast right now to protect people, because the government can't or won't, will be familiar to Minnesotans.

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Alexander Horn @alexanderhorn.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

@ces-europe.bsky.social, we have a Mini Symposium on parties' use of group appeals with these two great panels 👇 join us wednesday at 2pm and/or 4pm if you are in Dublin 📆

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Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki @mierkezat.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Big fan of this paper and glad to see it out!!

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I WOULD LIKE TO ANNOUNCE THAT MY WEDDING TO NATALIE PORTMAN, SCHEDULED FOR TONIGHT, HAS BEEN POSTPONED. INVITATIONS TO FOLLOW SOON WHEN SHE AGREES/LEARNS OF MY PROPOSAL. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

👇🎯💯 Total 🦗 every day. University presidents, with ~3-5 exceptions, have been totally absent from the public square. An almost unparalleled failure of institutional leadership in the face of an existential assault on the entire funding structure & model of 🇺🇸 higher ed. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Political Theory / American / Comparative / Methods

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Thomas Lux @thomaslux.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Very happy to see our book "Trigger Points" finally out in English, and fully open access! Hopefully a useful resource for anyone working on polarization, class, inequality, migration, diversity, and climate change.

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Context for Belfast riots

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 11/06/2026

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Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki @mierkezat.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Next week: three papers presented across two conferences, all from separate projects. Topics spanning cleavages, civil society, group appeals, interwar elections, & the challenges of text analysis. It's been a helluva month getting all these drafts together, but I'm looking forward to #CES & #EPSS.

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

3) We are in the middle of an AI investment bubble, under which (even under recently increased prices) the costs to end users is still being highly subsidized by investment capital, and that bubble will, at some point, burst

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waldokanto.bsky.social @waldokanto.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Thesis: America is a beacon of freedom and opportunity for the world. Antithesis: America is a white supremacist settler colonial state that cannot be redeemed, only dismantled. Synthesis: "America" is an empty signifier whose political meaning is being fought over each and every day.

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Christin Jänicke @chjncke.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Mein Beitrag zur Aktionswoche #WissenschaftGegenFaschismus @wigefa.bsky.social Gestern habe ich meine Dissertation „Resisting Normalization: Civil Society Responses to Far-Right Contention" eingereicht. Die Ergebnisse machen tatsächlich ein wenig Mut.

Ausgedruckte Dissertation mit dem Titel:

Resisting Normalization: Civil Society Responses to Far-Right Contention in Germany.

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submitted to the Freie Universität Berlin/
an der Freien Universität Berlin eingereichte Dissertation

to the Department of Political and Social Sciences/
Fachbereich Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften

By Christin Jänicke.
Berlin 2026

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Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki @mierkezat.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

If it becomes such a place, I have a burning personal vendetta against UPS DE I would like to express

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Greg Lester @lstr.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I think we're well beyond "red alert" at this point and falling into a multigenerational setback. The scientific enterprise is not a switch we can turn on/off. People will retire, young scientists will find other careers, grad students will quit, and undegrads will choose other paths.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Holden Thorp is an institutionalist. He's been a university chancellor, provost, now EiC of Science. When institutionalists pull the fire alarm, we listen, because the call to action he issued this week exposes the dire nature of the threat we are facing. 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Another red alert for American science

Although research has bipartisan support in the US Congress, and trust in science is above 75% across the country, the Trump administration seems as determined as ever to mortally wound the nation’s s...

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Christopher W. Jones @cwjones.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

"The students who cannot read a 20-pg article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow." The most important argument against AI in education is that it's incompatible with a free society. www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...

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Opinion | My Students Can’t Read

The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This news gutted me. I don’t won’t go into details, but Raul was publicly, bravely KIND to me at a very low point in my professional life when so others were cowardly, weak, and mean. He owed me nothing. He gave because he wanted to. A rare occurrence in my life. jovanevery.co.uk/in-memoriam-...

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In memoriam: Raul Pacheco-Vega - Jo VanEvery

Raul had been conscious of his mortality for a long time. Many years ago he came to terms with his workaholism and took serious steps to change his behaviour for the sake of his health. I know he stil...

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Pau Grau-Vilalta @paugrau.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

...and more maps to come!

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Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki @mierkezat.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I'm soooo excited about this data. Coverage here excludes the many candidates for which we have partial speeches. Come see @paugrau.bsky.social and I present some preliminary analyses at EPSS! #polisky #EPSS

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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Post-doc position at @scripts-berlin.eu! If you are a survey researcher interested in cross-national research on how people perceive liberalism, democracy etc, take a look! You’ll get to work with 🥳 @swenhutter.bsky.social: www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/post...

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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (f/m/x) (ID 402)

For the research project “Public Attitudes towards the Liberal Script” (PALS) at the Center for Civil Society Research, in collaboration with other research units and the Cluster of Excellence...

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Interesting new study on changes in ideological constraint by Anna-Luise Schönheit: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Even amidst raging culture wars, political attitudes largely remain as incoherent as ever (outside smaller groups of ideologues). Converse confirmed! @nathankalmoe.bsky.social

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Tracing Cultural Constraint in Europe: Whether and How Attitudes Converge - Political Behavior

Have people in Western societies become more aligned in their views on cultural issues? Although the idea of a growing cultural divide is widely discussed, we know surprisingly little about whether ma...

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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I'm working on a project on cross-national young gender gap that shows dif patterns. The below w ESS & CSES data show 1. Dif in ideology (id=standardized by country) btwn young men & women, where x is year & y is standard deviations 2. Young men & women ideology relative to other age-gender groups

This shows the difference in young men's and young women's (<30) ideology, standardized by country, over the last two decades. The trend lines include confidence intervals. A point above the dotted line indicates that young men are to the right of young women.

This shows the average ideology of age-gender groups between 2002 and 2023. Ideology is standardized within country. Above the dotted line means the group is that many standard deviations more right than their country mean, while below the line means the group is that many standard deviations left of their country mean.

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