Here's a short blog post summarizing research I've been conducting with @pieterdewilde.bsky.social, @andreavik.bsky.social, and @leneaaroe.bsky.social over the past couple of years. Political activists can make people feel politically represented, which also boosts their satisfaction with democracy!

The Loop@ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 3w ago

🎈 #RepresentativeDisconnect No.13 🪧 @pieterdewilde.bsky.social @andreavik.bsky.social @leneaaroe.bsky.social + @olivertreib.bsky.social show how activists like #GretaThunberg + Patrisse Cullors can make citizens feel politically represented, boosting people's democratic satisfaction. buff.ly/fVnrCCL

My university's coverage of the collaboration I did to shed light "on how political emotions (anger, anxiety, hope) create distinct bodily maps" 🧠🗳️ With @andreavik.bsky.social @parkbmb.bsky.social @mtsakiris.bsky.social (thanks team!)

Universitat de les Illes Balears - UIB@uib.cat · last mo.

#RecercaUIB | 💭 Un estudi amb la participació de la #UIB mostra que les emocions polítiques no només es pensen o s’expressen, sinó que també es viuen físicament en el cos. #emBODY #PsicologiaUIB #FonsFEDER 🔗 Llegeix la notícia! diari.uib.cat/w/un-estudi-...

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We all feel emotions like anger and disgust from time to time, but they seem to cause stronger bodily sensations when they're politically induced

Political anger affects the body differently to other forms of anger

We all feel emotions like anger and disgust from time to time, but they seem to cause stronger bodily sensations when they're politically induced

newscientist.com

You don’t just think about politics, you physically feel it in your body

You don’t just think about politics, you physically feel it in your body

A new study reveals that people physically feel political emotions differently than everyday feelings. These unique bodily sensations, like a tense chest, reliably predict whether someone will actually vote, protest, or engage in democracy.

psypost.org

Political emotions are experienced differently in the body compared to everyday feelings, and the intensity of these embodied emotions predicts higher political participation. doi.org/hb3qbz

How we feel political emotions in our bodies—and why this matters for democracy

Researchers have found our emotions toward politics not only play on our minds, but shape how our bodies respond to political experiences, even driving political participation higher.

phys.org

Not a sentence I expected to write: Our research has been picked up by the @dailymail.co.uk @mtsakiris.bsky.social @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social @parkbmb.bsky.social www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/...

Charts reveal where your feelings about politics are felt in the body

Most Brits are probably feeling more than their usual share of political anxiety at the moment. Now, charts reveal exactly where your feelings about the current state of affairs are felt in the body.

dailymail.com

🦋 I've got butterflies in my whole body today: our paper is out in @pnas.org! I'd say thats on theme.. Together with @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social, Sohee Park, and @mtsakiris.bsky.social we mapped how people feel political emotions in their bodies. Turns out politics doesn’t just play on our minds…

🦋 I've got butterflies in my whole body today: our paper is out in @pnas.org! I'd say thats on theme.. Together with @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social, Sohee Park, and @mtsakiris.bsky.social we mapped how people feel political emotions in their bodies. Turns out politics doesn’t just play on our minds…

Strong endorse, for so many reasons. Two of the reasons are that thinking takes time and creativity takes time. The productivity machine turning everything into a numbers race is bad for the work and bad for the people doing the work.

Hakeem Jefferson@hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

New publication! Unelected representation may influence how satisfied people are with democracy, opening up important discussions on the role activists play in shaping the legitimacy of liberal representative democracies. You can find out more below 👇

European Journal of Political Research@ejprjournal.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🆕 Unelected and untrusted? 🦹‍♂️ These authors 🧵 use a preregistered vignette experiment in Sweden, Germany, Italy, and Romania to assess whether citizens satisfaction with democracy is impacted by unelected representatives voicing political demands on behalf of constituencies buff.ly/YHgLyKN

If the articles from my PhD were my children this article now published in @bjpols.bsky.social is my favorite. Written together with truly amazing supervisors and mentors, Pieter de Wilde, Oliver Treib, and Lene Aarøe, I had the support I needed in bringing this baby into the world. Summary below 👇

British Journal of Political Science@bjpols.bsky.social · 12mo ago

NEW - Venturing Beyond the Vote: Routes to Feeling Represented through Unelected Representation - cup.org/4lkNXKt - @andreavik.bsky.social, ‪@pieterdewilde.bsky.social, Oliver Treib & @leneaaroe.bsky.social #OpenAccess

🎬 Excited to co-direct a #ecprjs26 Workshop w/ J. Dedeigne on hostile communication styles 🤬 Working on uncivil 🙄, intolerant 🙅🏻‍♀️, or violent 🤜 political rhetoric and its effects across countries, contexts, or media? Join us! 📅 Submit by 10 Dec: tinyurl.com/yjcaa3ay

The Rise of Hostile Communication Styles and their Consequences for the Functioning of Modern Democracies

European Consortium for Political Research

ecpr.eu

New preprint with @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social, Sohee Park & @mtsakiris.bsky.social : 🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps... Key takeaways: 🎨 Political emotions create distinct embodied signatures ⚖️ These bodily patterns shift with ideology. 🗳️ The embodied impact of political emotions predicts participation

🚨📣Very excited to announce our Online INCONEX Kick-Off Workshop on December 12 from 13:45 to 17:45 (CET)! We have a great line-up of paper presentations and a fantastic roundtable. Everyone is welcome! 👉 Sign up here: bit.ly/inconex_workshop @erc.europa.eu #PoliticalScience #Representation

Election Day in Norway today 🇳🇴 safe to say I’m a little anxious about the outcome…

Peter Egge Langsæther@peterla.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Interview in the Guardian about today's elections in Norway (PS! I disagree with the title. We are luckily far from MAGA in Norway) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵

If the articles from my PhD were my children this article now published in @bjpols.bsky.social is my favorite. Written together with truly amazing supervisors and mentors, Pieter de Wilde, Oliver Treib, and Lene Aarøe, I had the support I needed in bringing this baby into the world. Summary below 👇

British Journal of Political Science@bjpols.bsky.social · 12mo ago

NEW - Venturing Beyond the Vote: Routes to Feeling Represented through Unelected Representation - cup.org/4lkNXKt - @andreavik.bsky.social, ‪@pieterdewilde.bsky.social, Oliver Treib & @leneaaroe.bsky.social #OpenAccess

It’s a wrap! Had the best time at #ISPP2025 in gorgeous Prague 💖

🚨🚨job opportunity! Come join us at the Centre for the Politics of Feelings in London.

Manos Tsakiris@mtsakiris.bsky.social · last yr.

Job alert! We are recruiting at the Centre for the Politics of Feelings (www.politics-of-feelings.com) for a post-doc interested in emotions & politics. Focus on health & politics is highly desirable. Info: Deadline 11th July. Please share! www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Female academics are much more affected by the birth of a child than are male academics. Academic mothers are much more likely to... ◾temporarily leave the labor force ◾and, if they return, shift away from tenure-track positions. scholar.harvard.edu/files/sdchen...

As promised: I’ve just uploaded all course materials of the Open Science in Social Sciences summer school on @cos.io: osf.io/s8mxd/? 🚀 Feel free to explore, reuse, and share (under CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 license). #OpenScience @forrt.bsky.social

Teaching Resources

A collection of slide shows, syllabi, and other teaching materials used in my courses, seminars, and workshops. Hosted on the Open Science Framework

osf.io

Amélie Godefroidt@ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · last yr.

Btw: after a well-deserved long weekend, I’ll be sharing all course materials from the Open Science in the Social Sciences summer school @cos.io !

I'm recruiting 2 PhD researchers to work with me on a project studying how social groups influence vote choices! Info on the position and how to apply 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Please share with interested students who would like to move to beautiful Leuven!

2 PhD positions in Electoral behavior

2 PhD positions to research how social group memberships become connected to vote choices

kuleuven.be

Come join us in Amsterdam for a fully funded 4-year PhD position on the topic of "Visual Politics and the Emergence of Angry Publics", with @alessandronai.bsky.social and @lindabos.bsky.social! All info here, deadline is June 4 👇👇👇 (Please share!) #polcom #commsky werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

We talk a lot about social media radicalizing the population but it's been far more efficient at radicalizing public figures.

Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social · last yr.

Online radicalisation of elites is a significant and yet poorly understood aspect of contemporary politics.

⭐I am looking for 2 PhD candidates w/ focus on qualitative representation research in my ERC project INCONEX at University of Salzburg! On the project: sites.google.com/view/inconex... Applications due: 2 May 2025 Full ad: sites.google.com/view/inconex... #EUsky #poliscijobs #qualitativemethods

Approaching majority opposition to basic 20th century second wave feminism among Republican men

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has mandated that all scientific manuscripts produced by its researchers that are under review at a journal be withdrawn so that certain language relating to gender can be stripped from them. https://go.nature.com/40YJGp4

US health agency seeks to cut gender-related terms from scientific papers

The mandate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention follows an executive order from president Donald Trump, and applies to research not yet published.

go.nature.com

If you think that now is the time to take unelected representation seriously, as we are seeing an unelected billionaire gain unprecedented political influence, you may want to read this: osf.io/preprints/os...