Marina Costa Lobo
@marinacostalobo.bsky.social
I am a Political Scientist working on voting behaviour at www.ics.ulisboa.pt, current editor of European Political Science Review.
Researchers find that influencers influence. New experimental evidence for old theories around opinion leaders, parasocial relationships, and persuasion, with implications for political messaging in our digitally connected era. www.wired.com/story/the-mo...
The Most Powerful Politics Influencers Barely Post About Politics
New research shows that social media creators have enormous influence over their audiences' politics—especially those who don't normally share political content.
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No país da Giorgia Meloni há uma nova lei do femicídio depois do assassinato de 2 jovens mulheres. Em Portugal, até Novembro, tinham sido assassinadas 24 mulheres, mas está tudo bem. www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...
BBC Audio | The Global Story | The murders that moved a nation: Italy’s new femicide law
How two shocking murders of young women fueled outrage in Italy and led to femicide law
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🌳 Thrilled to launch The PopulisTree — a new website covering decades of populism in Europe (both national and European elections) using a new taxonomy and dataset. 🔗 populistree.org 📄 More in my brand new article in European Union Politics: 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Os dez anos da classificação de Óbidos como Cidade Criativa da Literatura da UNESCO vão ser comemorados, no próximo dia 11, com a inauguração de um monumento e um programa com a participação de escritores e leitores. Sabe mais: comunidadeculturaearte.com/obidos-celeb...
Do #training subsidies improve worker outcomes? Using the German case, Christine Dauth @iabnews.bsky.social shows that training #subsidies significantly increase cumulative #employment duration and #earnings in the short run and middle run for workers, especially #women. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
💡NEW STUDY FINDS…💡 There are two patterns of defection from the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS): towards the radical left and the radical right. READ the article by A. Espírito-Santo, sofiaserrasilva.bsky.social, and N. Santos 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
A Constança Cunha Sá vai fazer muita falta. Depois de uma carreira no jornalismo que passou por vários jornais e revistas, conheci-a como uma voz independente, divertida, e destemida. Nunca tinha medo de ir à guerra, fosse com quem fosse. Ficamos mais pobres sem ela. Descanse em paz.
Breaking news: Tom Stoppard, the Czech-born British playwright whose intellectually daring and verbally dazzling works became some of the most acclaimed and frequently staged of the past half-century, has died at 88.
Tom Stoppard, playwright of electric verve, dies at 88
His intellectually challenging and verbally dazzling works, including “Arcadia” and “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” were among the most acclaimed and oft-performed plays of the last half-cen...
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Um dia bom para os direitos humanos na União Europeia.
Jacob Öberg@profjacob.bsky.social · 9mo ago🚨🚨 It is rare that the rulings of @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social make headlines but the judgment yesterday on the recognition of #samesex marriage is a rare exception to this. Very welcome ruling from the CJEU: 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...
Mais de metade do debate a falar de corrupção…
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
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💥 Online first: "The irresistible populist force: the Portuguese 2025 snap elections" by Luís Russo 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...
Portugal, Pitagórica poll: Presidential election M. Mendes (*-EPP): 23% (+3) Gouveia e Melo (*): 21% (-6) Seguro (PS-S&D): 17% (-1) Ventura (CH-PfE): 15% (+1) Cotrim (IL-RE): 13% (+4) ... +/- vs. 06-10 October 2025 Fieldwork: 05-14 November 2025 Sample size: 1,000 ➤ europeelects.eu/portugal
Como poderão já ter notado, foi publicada a carta hoje, no Público on-line, em defesa de uma reforma da Ciência, com autonomia, ambição e responsabilidade: www.publico.pt/2025/11/15/c... Se concordarem, era mesmo importante recolher assinaturas neste link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Por uma ciência autónoma, ambiciosa e responsável
Reformas desta escala, quando feitas sem um claro desenho institucional, modelo de governança e plano de transição rigoroso, correm o risco de gerar incerteza, inércia e paralisia administrativa.
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De forma algo inesperada, a presidência da Assembleia Municipal de Lisboa fica para o ex-ministro socialista do PS André Moz Caldas, que promete ser “isento”.
Socialista Moz Caldas eleito presidente da Assembleia Municipal de Lisboa
De forma algo inesperada, a presidência da Assembleia Municipal de Lisboa fica para o ex-ministro socialista do PS André Moz Caldas, que promete ser “isento”.
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Latest issue from @epsrjournal.bsky.social - European Political Science Review - Volume 17 - Issue 4 - November 2025 - https://cup.org/4oDPDka #OpenAccess
Útil, num momento em que cada vez mais se fala de outros partidos europeus em Portugal.
Dimiter Toshkov@dtoshkov.bsky.social · 9mo agoFor my course on Conflict and Representation in the EU, I made an interactive Shiny app that plots CHES party positions, for all countries, years (1999-2024) and (most) dimensions in the dataset. Enjoy! dimiter.shinyapps.io/ches/ #polsci #Polisky #EUsky #Comparativesky #polbehaviorsky
Really interesting thread on how social media has become the main channel for communicating science around the world.
Niels G. Mede@nielsmede.bsky.social · 10mo agoPublished today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess
[Out] "Legitimating Austerity. The Politics of Crisis in Southern Europe". A new book by Tiago Moreira Ramalho, Professor at SciencePo ULB (Centre d'étude de la vie politique de l'ULB - Cevipol), by Bloomsbury. www.bloomsbury.com/in/legitimat...
Legitimating Austerity
This book reexamines the politics of austerity during the euro crisis, challenging conventional narratives of austerity as either an inevitable economic remedy…
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Sondagem. Pela primeira vez, Gouveia e Melo não lidera. Marques Mendes à frente, Ventura logo atrás.
Sondagem. Pela primeira vez, Gouveia e Melo não lidera. Marques Mendes à frente, Ventura logo atrás.
O ex-almirante passa para terceiro, atrás de Ventura e de Marques Mendes mas dentro da margem de erro de 4%. Ventura perderia contra todos os três da frente numa segunda volta.
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Happy to share my our publication in @sespjournal.bsky.social by Tiago Silva and me on the 2024 EP Elections in Portugal. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10...., part of a Special Issue on the 2024 EP Elections in Southern Europe, edited by Aldo Paparo, @vincenzoemanuele.bsky.social and myself. 1/5
The 2024 European Parliament elections in Portugal: media, results, and vote determinants in national and European elections
This study examines the 2024 European Parliament election in Portugal by testing the second-order national election (SONE) model across three key dimensions: media coverage, electoral outcomes, and...
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Indecente, desumano: imperativo travar. www.publico.pt/2025/10/26/p...
Estado ameaça expulsar estudantes imigrantes legais que fugiram da guerra na Ucrânia
AIMA ameaça retirar protecção temporária e expulsar do país estudantes de medicina africanos que viviam na Ucrânia quando a guerra começou. “Não reúne os requisitos”, alega AIMA.
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Rest in power, Francisco Pinto Balsemão.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 10mo agoFrancisco Pinto Balsemão, who as prime minister helped guide Portugal’s new democracy after years of dictatorship — and who was later head of the country’s largest private media group, Impresa — died on Tuesday. He was 88.
A Mariana Mortágua faz uma leitura lúcida dos resultados e suas consequências ao contrário de outros q insistem em agarrar-se aos lugares mesmo dp de mais de uma dezena de mortos. Mas n é ela a principal responsável pela trajectória do BE. Há o contexto, e há a irresponsabilidade do BE desde 2022.
