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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

📢 The Call for Papers for EPSS 2027 is open! After a fantastic first conference in Belfast, we’re heading to Copenhagen 🇩🇰, 24–26 June 2027. ⏰ Deadline: 13 Nov 2026 👉 Call for papers: epssnet.org/2027-copenha... 1/2

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Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference

Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.

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MJ (Maryana) Balezina @mjbalezina.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Today I have joined the #PhDone ranks 🙂‍↕️ Thanks to the best committee, @turnbulldugarte.com & @twidmann.bsky.social & Jami Taylor; I’ve had a blast!!

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MJ (Maryana) Balezina @mjbalezina.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

My first dissertation paper is out in Sexuality Research and Social Policy — open access! 🎉 It's about trans inclusion in sports and what fairness concerns actually do to public support. link.springer.com/article/10.1... Short thread below 👇

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MJ (Maryana) Balezina @mjbalezina.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

👀 anybody interested in co-chairing smth on trans rights with me? promise i have experience in chairing for the ecpg 💅🏻

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Sumedh Rao @sumedhrao.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Thus ends another #ISPP2025. As usual, a great conference - really interesting work and wonderful people. Thanks to the organisers and thanks to my fellow session panel @mjbalezina.bsky.social, Melissa Vega and Anna Wlodarczyk. See you next year in Newcastle!

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

For queer people this needs to be a lesson about how incredibly fragile the state of seeming mainstream approval and assimilation is. "Just wanting to be normal" will never create power, will never deliver security. The answer is community care, support, empowerment. This is what Pride is about.

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European Journal of Politics and Gender @ejpgjournal.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

🚨NEW ARTICLE ALERT🚨 @zeinmurib.bsky.social has analysed US state-level legislative debates over trans healthcare in 2023 to show that pseudoscience fuels anti-trans mobilization 🏳️‍⚧️✊ It's ✨FREE ACCESS✨ 📖 doi.org/10.1332/2515...

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MJ (Maryana) Balezina @mjbalezina.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Speaking on trans exclusion in sports (Title IX & Trump’s EO in particular) feels especially urgent right now, given recent developments at UPenn regarding Lia Thomas. I’ll be presenting my pre-registration tomorrow at #ISPP2025, 8:30 AM, Thursday in RB209. Slides/snippets below.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

BREAKING The University of Pennsylvania has come to an agreement with the Trump administration on what the Department of Education said was its Title IX violations. This will include stripping trans athlete Lia Thomas of her records, titles, and recognitions.

• UPenn will restore to female athletes all individual UPenn Division I swimming records, titles, or similar recognitions which were misappropriated by male athletes allowed to compete in female categories;
• UPenn will issue a public statement to the University community stating that it will comply with Title IX, specifying that UPenn will not allow males to compete in female athletic programs or occupy
Penn Athletics female intimate facilities;
• The statement will specify that UPenn will adopt biology-based definitions for the words 'male' and 'female' pursuant to Title IX and consistent with President Trump's Executive Orders "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism" and "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports";
• UPenn will post the statement in a prominent location on its main website and on each of its websites for women's athletics;
• UPenn will rescind any guidance which violated Title IX, remove or revise any internal and public-facing statements or documents that are inconsistent with Title IX, and notify all staff and women's athletics of all such rescissions; and
• UPenn will send a personalized letter of apology to each impacted female swimmer.

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MJ (Maryana) Balezina @mjbalezina.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

⭐️ That’s a wrap on EPSA in Madrid 😌 Had an absolute blast (and not just because of the good cerveza and coldbrews)! To old and new connections alike: hope to see y’all in Belfast for EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social 🇪🇸➡️🇬🇧 (And if I’m not there… blame the UK visa regs 🫠)

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MJ (Maryana) Balezina @mjbalezina.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Mentally bracing for the Madrid heat ☀️ but also hyped to be part of a 🔥banging🔥 panel organized by @fraraffaelli.bsky.social, with @bertous.bsky.social as a discussant. Come see me talk about trans inclusion on Saturday or catch me downing iced coffee around #EPSA2025 in the days before 👀

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/06/2025

BREAKING: In a 6-3 Roberts decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that Tennessee's ban on gender affirming care is not subject to heightened scrutiny. This decision will strip millions of trans people off their constitutional rights. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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Pablo Jost @pjost.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

This is great!! @polcomm.bsky.social is launching a database for polcom teaching resources! #ica25

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Tobias Widmann @twidmann.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

For everyone interested in working with computational tools, this is an amazing Postdoc position at the Political Science Department in Aarhus If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me.

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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky

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MJ (Maryana) Balezina @mjbalezina.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

As much as I love AU and Aarhus, I look forward to my three-month research stay with the CEU Pol Sci department (DSPS) starting today! Feels good to be back 😌

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Mariia Tepliakova @mtplk.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

hey gendersky polisky, @maryanab.bsky.social and I want to put together a QTA/text-as-data panel for #ecpg2024 methods section 🤓 if you apply methods like these to gender-related topics, or know someone who does, please reach out to us! the deadline is Dec 7 ✅

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