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Michal Ovádek

@movadek.bsky.social
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Lecturer in European Institutions, Politics and Policy at University College London michalovadek.github.io

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Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our School of Politics and International Relations at @ucddublin.bsky.social is hiring two permanent (!) Assistant Professors in any field of political science, international relations, political theory, or development. Deadline: 9 November Start date: 30 August 2027 my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations (x2), UCD School of Politics and International Relations, Permanent
Applications are invited for a permanent post of a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations (x2) within UCD School of Politics and International Relations.
 
The UCD School of Politics & International Relations (SPIRe) is a globally ranked, research-active school with teaching and research expertise across the fields of political science, international relations, normative political theory, international development, and other areas. It is committed to the highest standards in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research supervision. The school is home to a number of research centres, and further information can be found at: https://www.ucd.ie/spire/about/
 
95 Lecturer/Asst Professor Above The Bar (7943) Salary Scale: €66,055  - €104,600 per annum

Appointment will be made on scale and in accordance with the Department of Finance guidelines.
 
Closing date: 12:00 noon (local Irish time) on 9th November 2026.
 
Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time of 12:00 noon (Local Irish Time) on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system. UCD are unable to accept late applications.
 
UCD do not require assistance from Recruitment Agencies. Any CV's submitted by Recruitment Agencies will be returned.
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
(and much of Central and Eastern Europe, certainly from Innsbruck to Prešov)
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Kristoffer Magnusson @rpsychologist.com · 25/06/2026
New interactive blog! "Why Adjusted Regression Coefficients Are Less Descriptive Than They Look" rpsychologist.com/descriptive-...
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
shortly pulling up into Liverpool for the Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (EPOP) conference! First time and excited to be presenting joint work with Umut Yüksel on comparative estimates of trust in courts from over 160 countries. Meanwhile, Stuart Perrett is presenting our experimental paper
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@epssnet.bsky.social 2027 is going to be great for judicial politics scholars
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Uta Staiger @ukstaiger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Already looking forward to sharing a panel with @anandmenon.bsky.social AND @jillongovt.bsky.social AND @alexhh.bsky.social AND @movadek.bsky.social to discuss all things EU-UK, where we're now & where we're headed. 8 Oct @uclspp.bsky.social & @uclei.bsky.social. www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
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Policy & Practice Seminar: Europe at a Crossroads
The EU in a Changing World Order - what comes next for the bloc in terms of security, cooperation, and defence? And what’s next for UK-EU relations ten years after the Brexit vote?
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Looking forward to talking about my book at @lselaw.bsky.social next month with @vvelyvyte.bsky.social and @janzglinski.bsky.social. I think this will be a really fun conversation about European integration, both nuts and bolts and big constitutional questions. Join us!
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GOLEM Seminar Series – Book Launch: Contested Competences in the European Union
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
as per Eurostat data, bond yields in Hungary dropped by almost 2 pct points (~25%) since Viktor Orban lost power in the April election, even as yields are slightly up over the same period in the rest of the EU
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I like it when the notation is purposeful and easy to follow
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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We’re hiring! Poli Sci & IR department at IE University in Madrid is hiring three tenure-track Assistant Professors, starting 1st of September 2027, in: Comparative Politics: lnkd.in/ePDfwjJB International Relations: lnkd.in/eDu5vGTf Political Economy: lnkd.in/eciDukTA 1/3
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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
a new job market paper! using surveys from 10.4 million college students over 40 years, I study the role of ideology in career aspirations. I show that ideology structures what careers people want, a pattern much stronger among high-income students. see here: tkeskinturk.github.io/aspirations.pdf
Ideology as a Luxury Good in Occupational Choice
Turgut Keskintürk
Duke University

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Career aspirations are formed long before people enter the labor market, but whether and how political ideology is part of that formative process remains poorly understood. Using yearly surveys of 10.4 million college freshmen entering U.S. institutions between 1976 and 2015, I show that ideology systematically structures occupational aspirations. This pattern is two to three times larger among students from the highest socioeconomic backgrounds than among those from the lowest. To explain this difference, I propose a luxury-good interpretation: political congruence, the match between one's politics and an occupation's perceived ideological orientation, constitutes an occupational amenity whose importance increases with material security. This, I theorize, makes ideology an expressive resource for life choices, though one that is unequally distributed.
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Alex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Northwestern is hiring in quant methods (assistant level, tenure track) Please repost and share with those you think would be good candidates, thank you! polisci.northwestern.edu/about/facult... #psjobs #psjminfo #poliscijobs
Assistant Professor of Quantitative Political Methodology (Tenure-Track)
The Department of Political Science at Northwestern University invites applications for a full-time position in Quantitative Political Methodology at the rank of Assistant Professor, tenure-track, to begin Fall 2027. We emphasize methodology with a strongly applied perspective: successful candidates will maintain an active, independent research program that includes methodological contributions in their own right, while also teaching quantitative research methods courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels and applying those methods to substantive questions in their area of expertise. We are especially interested in candidates whose work bridges data-driven/computational approaches with design-based inference, though we welcome applicants making cutting-edge contributions in either of these traditions or in other areas of political methodology. Successful candidates' substantive research agendas may be in any area of political science or may cross boundaries; as with all Northwestern faculty, successful candidates will be expected to provide service to the department, the university, and the profession.Aerial photo of Northwestern's beautiful lakeside campus with political science's new building circled
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Stunned by this @siennarodgers.bsky.social scoop:
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Lord Glasman Wrote A Song For The Exiled Crown Prince Of Iran And Played It To Him
Exclusive: Labour peer Maurice Glasman wrote and recorded a song dedicated to Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last Shah of Iran, in support of his exi...
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Umut Yüksel @umuttolo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Happy to share this preprint w/ @movadek.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/so... In it we present estimates of trust in courts across countries and over time, based on thousands of surveys and millions of individual responses. You can explore our estimates here: trustincourts.netlify.app?vs=MEX%2CDEU
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
New working paper! in which Umut Yüksel and I investigate trust in courts across the world, drawing on millions of individual responses. We also created an app to make it easier to browse our trust estimates: trustincourts.netlify.app Link to paper: osf.io/preprints/so...
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Comparative Public Trust in Courts
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
hilarious
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
every type of faculty are going to find themselves in this thread and they are not going to like it
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
not the worst way to close the season
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 08/07/2026
The appalling reality of the cheating machine is that students will cheat if they can use it, and then fail any exam where they cannot. Nobody benefits from this except for the people who negotiate enterprise AI accounts for universities.
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
to put the sadness of the fantastic inaugural #EPSS2026 ending behind us, next week colleagues and I are organizing our annual law and courts workshop at @uclspp.bsky.social. Fourth year running and it's another stellar line up of young scholars working across methods and disciplines.
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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The Department of Political Science at Aarhus University is hiring both Assistant Professors and Associate Professors. Assistant Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Associate Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Please share these opportunities with your networks!
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Assistant Professor in Political Science - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
this was a blast. Exactly the kind of home political science needs at this moment. Thanks to everyone who made it happen and long may it continue
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
great to be back in beautiful Belfast for the week
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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Our department has three calls for tenure track positions. IE is a fast growing group of scholars doing top-notch work, which offers very attractive conditions in a great European city. If you are looking for an academic job in Europe, definitely do consider applying.
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
not that there is a major political science conference in Belfast next week
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Yiqing Xu @yiqingxu.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
1/ Happy to share that "Factorial Difference-in-Differences" (FDID), with Anqi Zhao and @pengding00 , is out in JASA - ACS. doi.org/10.1080/0162... It has been a truly thrilling experience working with Anqi and Peng.
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Factorial Difference-in-Differences
We formulate factorial difference-in-differences (FDID), a research design that extends canonical difference-in-differences (DID) to settings in which an event affects all units. In many panel data...
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
reposting for no particular reason
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
once again shocked to discover that a complex phenomenon dozens of scientists around the world spend a lot of time and effort studying does not, in fact, neatly reduce to a bivariate plot in the Financial Times. But maybe the next one will
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
My hunch is there is still some low-hanging fruit, the kind of stuff where you burn half a million tokens on a bug that would take 3 seconds of brain time to fix. But the long term economic viability of large-scale AI deployment probably depends on wider, hitherto unrealized efficiency gains.
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Tommaso Pavone @tommasopavone.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘁 “𝗶𝗻𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲” 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘀 𝘃𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀? A few months back @movadek.bsky.social & I promised we would try to find out. 𝗪𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗦𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗮: tinyurl.com/2add6c2a (1/7)
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Bloomberg Law @bloomberglaw.com · 03/05/2026
Former clerks to the late Justice Antonin Scalia argued in nearly three dozen cases—or 52% of the docket— before the US Supreme Court this term, far more than clerks from any other chambers.
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Scalia Clerks Argued in Half the Supreme Court Cases This Term
Former clerks to the late Justice Antonin Scalia argued in nearly three dozen cases—or 52% of the docket— before the US Supreme Court this term, far more than clerks from any other chambers.
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
do sign up if you want to take your work with LLMs beyond chat.com
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 27/04/2026
Absolutely incredible
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
what is 58 hours even
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I recently published my book on institutional contestation in the EU. Not only is the finished product free to access and read (academic.oup.com/book/61769), I am now also releasing all the data and code behind the book on Github: github.com/michalovadek...
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Contested Competences in the European Union: The Law and Politics of Institutional Choice
Abstract. What role do rules really play in shaping the behaviour of legislative actors? In theory, competences and procedures provide a framework within w
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
the programme for the inaugural conference of @epssnet.bsky.social is out now, including the Judicial Politics section I co-chair with Joan-Josep Vallbé. Many exciting papers to look forward to! Full programme at: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/75765/...
programme leaflet showing panel venues and date/times
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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈⚖️🇭🇺 A legal earthquake - CJEU finds Hungary to have violated EU law on multiple counts with its anti-LGBT+ legislation (as expected) but also for the first time in history, in an EU law-reshaping precedent, finds Hungary to violate Art 2 TEU in a self-standing manner.
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Juraj Medzihorsky @medzihorsky.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Mr Orbán's Fidesz built itself an electoral system that boosted it until it didn't. In 2014, the first year under the system, Fidesz-KDNP won a ⅔ majority with 27% of the registered voters. Now, with 30% of registered voters, it is on track to 29% of the seats. __ Made in base R with extrafont
A chart showing the share that Fidesz-led electoral lists won in % of votes (multi-member constituency or party list), of registered voters, and of seats.
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
the first competitive authoritarian regime whose rise and fall I have closely followed as an adult. (Although the fall part is definitely premature to call yet)
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
3 weeks left to apply!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Slightly pursing my lips as I applaud President Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner so everyone knows I'm not really supporting him
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
just an absolute banger this one, not much else to add. Time for a rewatch
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
we are all here to bear witness to the dying days of human-generated, text-based social media
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
not at all related to the OP but it just struck me how this is yet another facet of the varying salience of judicial politics in the US vs anywhere else. Court watchers are so sparse this side of the globe that we can't afford a single one of them to quit lest we be condemned to eternal darkness
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Kyle Marquardt @kailmarkvart.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
A 🧵on how the @vdeminstitute.bsky.social accountability indices help us understand how democratic backsliding is occurring in the United States. tl;dr: in principle, vertical constraints on the president remain strong; in practice, horizontal and diagonal constraints have been greatly weakened.
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
every time you think the bigot spigot is already turned up to max
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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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LinkedIn
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
FPTP giveth, FPTP taketh
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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Matt Goodwin tweet
Statement:
@GoodwinMJ • 39m
"We are losing our country. A dangerous Muslim sectarianism has emerged.
We have only one general election left to save Britain. Vote Reform every chance you get. I will continue the fight. I will always fight for you. I will stand at the next general election. Matt."

Picture below of Matt Goodwin typing something on his phone.Victor Anichebe @VictorAnichebe
Can you tweet something like
Unbelievable support yesterday and great effort by the lads! Hard result to take! But we go again!
23/10/2016, 14:24
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