As @mcopelov.bsky.social reminds me, I'm going to have to update my voting rights timeline...

The only good cybertruck. (Spotted in Irvine).

🚀 Very much looking forward to our new @dfg.de/ @agencerecherche.bsky.social project RECOGNITION with @mfilsinger.bsky.social 🙏 Big thanks to @nilssteiner.bsky.social and @clandwehr.bsky.social for very helpful feedback on the proposal 🎓 Apply now for one of the PhD positions in the project team ⬇️

Maximilian Filsinger@mfilsinger.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In December 2025, @ackermannk.bsky.social and I got the exciting news that our project RECOGNITION: How Social Status and Recognition Shape Attachment to Democracy in France and Germany will be funded by the @agencerecherche.bsky.social & @dfg.de consortium for three years with around 450.000 €! 🎉

Looking forward to the inaugural EPSS conference!!

EPSS@epssnet.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 EPSS 2026 Conference updates 🚨 The programme is now live. You can access the programme here: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/75765/... 🧵

New Topics in European Politics: 2026 APSA Virtual Dissertation Workshops | Deadline: April 26, 2026 New Topics in European Politics 2026 APSA Dissertation Workshops Virtual: June 9 & June 11, 2026 Join us for a virtual APSA Dissertation Workshop on "New  Topics in European Politics." We invite…

New Topics in European Politics: 2026 APSA Virtual Dissertation Workshops | Deadline: April 26, 2026

New Topics in European Politics 2026 APSA Dissertation Workshops Virtual: June 9 & June 11, 2026 Join us for a virtual APSA Dissertation Workshop on "New  Topics in European Politics." We invite graduate students working on European politics to submit proposals for our PhD workshop. Deadline: Sunday, April 26, 2026.  Click here to apply →  Workshop Description The workshop provides a unique opportunity to receive in-depth feedback on ongoing research from peers and senior scholars, engage in discussions on methodological and substantive challenges, and gain insights into academic job markets.

politicalsciencenow.com

I'm a few years late, but @saragoodman.bsky.social and @tompepinsky.com's 2021 piece on exclusionary liberalism is outstanding. If you're at all interested in illiberal xenophobia and the future of the liberal international order, this is required reading.

After you post about the NSF here, email to your member of Congress, professional association, and university. SBE program officers are not being fired but moved to other directorates where “SBE” proposals will compete in broad RFPs, but there is still a window to prevent this catastrophic change.

Pam Davis-Kean, PhD@umpamdk.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

Hey Gen X, how’s your internalized trauma from watching the challenger treating you right now ?? G-dspeed Artemis II.

Glad to see good use of our @globalcit.bsky.social data on the regulation of birthright citizenship around the world 🌎 Better title: US-style automatic birthright citizenship is very common throughout the Americas, but uncommon elsewhere.

Pew Research Center@pewresearch.org · 4mo ago

U.S.-style birthright citizenship is uncommon around the world

Excited to offer this (hopefully helpful) intervention to citizenship studies, illustrating conceptual differences in democratic and authoritarian citizenship. The goal is to provide a framework for clearer comparative analysis and understanding changes such as democratic erosion

Ellie Knott@ellieknott.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Finally, @saragoodman.bsky.social zooms out to lay out a framework for greater conceptual precision when working on "Citizenship with adjectives" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Synagogues pay for their own security. Building bollards and gates, installing cameras, etc., require capital campaigns or added membership dues. A police presence is not free. Plus synagogues train their members to volunteer as security guards. We do this because safety is not a choice.

Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A guy rammed his car through a door at Detroit’s largest synagogue and got out with a gun and was shot by security before he could massacre everyone inside. And yes all synagogues that can afford it have security. And yes it’s exactly because of situations like this that they do.

Excited to offer this (hopefully helpful) intervention to citizenship studies, illustrating conceptual differences in democratic and authoritarian citizenship. The goal is to provide a framework for clearer comparative analysis and understanding changes such as democratic erosion

Ellie Knott@ellieknott.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Finally, @saragoodman.bsky.social zooms out to lay out a framework for greater conceptual precision when working on "Citizenship with adjectives" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I’ve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.

🚨 Please share widely! 🚨 I'm hiring a postdoc (from Aug 1) to help build a new research program on politically sustainable immigration policies at Notre Dame. Looking for a social scientist with strong quant skills, familiarity with new computational tools, and interest in public-facing research.

I just registered for European Political Science Society's (@epssnet.bsky.social) first conference! I'm excited to connect with old friends, meet new ones, and hear the latest work at this excellent event. Let this be your reminder to sign up today! cc @sarahobolt.bsky.social @simonhix.bsky.social

Wow.

Out of the 2159 Jews who lived in my Zayde's village before the war, 20 survived. The Germans, with assistance from Lithuanian police, shot 2000 people in two days. The rest were sent to ghettos, or hid in the forest. My Zayde hid, and I get to be here today. I can't forget, I hope you won't either.

There are partisan differences in conceptions of good citizenship, with Republicans more likely to view naturalized (and non-Christian) citizens falling short of the ideal. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Some Kentucky Republicans want to ban naturalized Americans from holding public office, as the GOP drives ever-further into xenophobia. www.lpm.org/news/2026-01...

Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis. Say bad things are bad.

Read my latest piece on what is happening with citizenship under Trump. Potential changes to denaturalization practices could put more naturalized Americans at risk to losing their citizenship... theconversation.com/denaturaliza...

Denaturalization in the Trump era: When the State questions the citizenship of millions of Americans

Under Trump, US citizenship is again a political battleground, as expanded denaturalisation grounds threaten decades of legal protections for millions of naturalised Americans.

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🚨 3-Year Postdoc in Political Science at Aarhus University 🚨 I’m seeking to recruit a postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu research project 𝑬𝑸𝑼𝑰𝑳𝑰𝑩𝑹𝑰𝑼𝑴 on state-citizen interactions. Link and more information in second post. Position Start: Fall 2026 Application Deadline: ‼️ February 5, 2026, 23:59 CET ‼️

Well said!

Kye@kyebarker.bsky.social · 7mo ago

As faculty, I think we get things backwards if we see LLMs as our enemy. They are our students' enemy. We just happen to care about our students. Insofar as we see the goal of liberal education as cultivating habits of thought that support a free life, we are our students' allies against these tools

In 2019, I ran a conjoint experiment asking Brits about attributes of a good citizen. We see supporters *of all parties* valuing nativity as an important characteristic of good citizenship. I suspect these views have only calcified in time. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"More than a third (37%) of Reform UK voters said they would be prouder of Britain if there were fewer people from minority ethnic backgrounds in a decade’s time, and 10% [compared to 3% overall] said it was important to have white skin to be a good British citizen."

I think I need to say that I — a Princeton Univ. Press author that also co-wrote a Covid-19 book on how politics failed us— didn’t review this manuscript. Anyway, if you want to know why over a million people died in a tragedy of choice, see Pandemic Politics: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Pandemic Politics

How the politicization of the pandemic endangers our lives—and our democracy

press.princeton.edu

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

Oh my goodness — public libraries remain undefeated. Back home in Ohio and found myself in need of a sewing machine. Two hours later, I left my local library having completed 5 repair jobs. Just a gratitude post.

Antisemitism was always there, we just had guardrails in place that made it impolite to be publicly antisemitic. See: David Duke. But when the president declares “good people on both sides,” people feel emboldened and unashamed

Seva@seva.bsky.social · 8mo ago

the return of anti-semitism is probably permanent due to a confluence of several structural reasons: - fading of the living memory of the holocaust - the end of liberal hegemony - Israel's behavior (esp when it equates zionism w judaism) - tech-driven conspiratorial epistemic fragmentation