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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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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
this is essentially my view, and it's already feasible today with the Code(x)-like environments. It's a question of tuning the harness so that it is more inquisitive (makes fewer choices autonomously). Errors and omissions will be inevitable in expectation (but perhaps they always were)
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
neat!
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
this guy just doesn't miss
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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 · 23/09/2026
Firin nearby there is not too shabby either (and Azerbaijani adjacent? *ducks*)
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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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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
drawing lines on your plots to figure out significance because you didn't include the contrast between levels explicitly
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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...
ucl.ac.uk
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
I'm still awaiting my invite to Dublin!
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I think this used to be very common in Slovakia in the 2000s. Somewhat less so today
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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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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I think the corporate atmosphere would drain any joy out of all proceedings there. Maybe controversially I also think that if you end up at Waterloo tap sufficiently late and after sufficiently enough drinks it could just work?
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
might not have existed at the time but brewdog waterloo would also have been a good shout
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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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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
yes, just a regular desktop computer in a massive exam hall
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
it's a source of considerable dismay for me personally that as an undergraduate in the Netherlands in the 2010s this was deployed at scale, while requesting it now as faculty in the UK feels like I'm asking for the students to be flown to the moon and back
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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

Abstract
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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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
apparently it "feels like" 18 in archway
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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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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
it's almost eerie how this is every academic's favourite podcast (btw I'm Best Listener but dream on I guess)
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
moved away in 2024 so more at peace now knowing I didn't miss out
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
where was this tip when I used to live around there!
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
totally agree. To say nothing about opening a Pandora's box full of renegotiation requests by other countries
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
thanks for making the rest of us look bad
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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...
trustincourts.netlify.app
Comparative Public Trust in Courts
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
a sense of relief came over me after reading this
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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!
international.au.dk
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 · 22/06/2026
OP's hilarious ragebait aside, Starmer has produced some good data re the accommodation hypothesis
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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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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
FIFA World Cup® in Trump US powered by Aramco is just lazy writing. Try again, reality
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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 · 02/06/2026
a version of this I encounter increasingly regularly is the player who has been around seemingly forever, 100s of league starts, is still somehow younger than me
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
wait but your takes are usually Good
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
the much more important reason is money, not immigration rules
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