If you want to read an analysis about the 2026 elections in Sweden and the intricate dynamics between radical right populism and mainstream, you may find my interview at the link herein.

European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS)@populismstudies.bsky.social · last mo.

📢 ECPS Interview 🇸🇪 Associate Professor Ov Cristian Norocel: Swedish Mainstream Parties Have Radicalized Rather Than SD Moderating on Immigration ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 📕 Read here: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/assoc-prof-n... #ECPS #Sweden #SwedishPolitics #SD #Populism #FarRight

🇸🇪 Kopf-an-Kopf-Rennen in #Schweden: Die rot-grüne Opposition liegt nach vorläufigem Stand knapp vorn. Die Schwedendemokraten verlieren erstmals seit 2010. @norocel.bsky.social analysiert die Wahl im #WahlmonitorIEP Hier die ganze Analyse👇 tinyurl.com/wahlanalyse-schweden-2026

#val2026 #val26 #Svpol #Sweden little has changed as vote counting progresses. The red-greens have a slight advantage w/h 176 mandates vs. Tidö w/h 173.

#val2026 #val26 #Svpol #Swedenelects w/h votes from 2325/6626 polling stations counted it looks more like a nail biting evening. The difference between the red-greens vs Tidö is just 1 (one) mandate for the former.

#val2026 #val26 #Svpol the voting station have closed and the #valu prognosis is out. 1/x

I started my #ECPR GC 2026 w/h a presentation & discussion already at the first conference panel at 09.00. Today I plan to take it more easily & try to meet old friends & make new ones. Krakow is lovely & weather is still summerly.

End of summer & the first signs of autumn. Delighted with what the allotment garden has to offer.

A postdoc position at Maynooth, working closely w/h Raul Cârstocea w/hin his ERC Consolidator Grant project entitled Insurgent Temporalities: Fascism as a Global Anti-Universalist Project (INTEMPO)

Jayne Persian@drjpersian.bsky.social · 2mo ago

dream postdoc! www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

This picture conveys in its own way (though I find it uncomfortably over-focused on women) what we actually witnessed to in these past weeks. Not my picture, seen it in my feed across several accounts, happy to credit correctly.

Job opportunity at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social. Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, especially Global Development, at @humangeosthlm.bsky.social. (Applicants must have a documented ability to use a Scandinavian language.) Please circulate – and please apply!! Application deadline: 7 September.

Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, especially Global Development

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For (yet another) careful documenting of these awful things going on ”over there”. Mind you over there are people, hopes and dreams of a normal life just like in the comfort of ”over here”.

Kristian Kiehling@kristiankiehling.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For those in Germany and elsewhere in Europe who are unaware that the russians are at war with Europe, Moldova's independent TV station,TV8, has updated its map showing where missiles and drones have fallen in the country since russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. www.instagram.com/p/DWBk2RkjMQG/

Important to remember the bigger picture in present context. It would be worth keeping in mind both who instigated it (& who gains from it) as well as who tries to spin it (& to what end).

Alice Stollmeyer@stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 3mo ago

Ukraine Foreign Affairs Minister: "We have detected intensive Russian propaganda campaign across Europe using pictures from Ceuta to sow destabilisation." Far-right from EU (& US!) falls with open eyes for hybrid threats from the weaponisation of migration, even fan the flames. #unity #solidarity

@countbinface.bsky.social - the bin to clean the mess.

About 10000 people participated in Budapest Pride this year, the first after Orbán’s ousting www.reuters.com/business/med...

Thousands of Hungarians join first Budapest Pride march since Orban's defeat

More than 10,000 Hungarians on Saturday joined Budapest's first annual Pride march since right-wing leader Viktor Orban's ​election defeat in April, braving record heat in the city to walk ‌with huge ...

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After a tortuous itinerary I made it to Newcastle. I’m looking forward to several days of vigorous & generous discussions on issues of gender & politics together w/h 750 other scholars at ECPG 2026.

Truly enjoyed @rossellaciccia.bsky.social talk at GSS series on Conflicts over Care, but appalled by the state of train infrastructure in Copenhagen-Malmö (fire in tunnel, chaotic evacuation on her way in; suddenly cancelled trains & stops, broken doors homebound). Thought we are better, usually.

As typical academic, I show to people I admire them by inviting to brainstorm together a funding application. We didn’t talk abt. low acceptance rate; rather allowed ourselves to think theoretical interactions btw. inter-imperiality, knowledge regimes & resistances. Hopefully Södertörn is a charm🤞🏼

The inaugural symposium for KAW-project Conjunctures of struggles brought together researchers interested in gender & sexuality in contemporary context of democracy contestation. Two intense days filled w/h critical analysis & minute observation on these pressing issues.

The sausage party of all sausage parties. It’s so infuriatingly disappointing to see that we are reverting back to this. All I can remember is that old adage: if you are not at the table, then you are on the menu.

So-called Social Democrats in 🇷🇴 PSD have allied w/h far-right AUR to topple the government they were part of together w/h conservative-right PNL and centre-right USR. EU level PES calls to forming of a ”stable pro-European government”. Bitter irony, as all Overton windows slammed open.

Europe’s far-right firewall melts as Socialists topple Romania’s PM

Also in this newsletter: How to reuse and recycle more critical raw materials

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The quintessential spring picture in Lund.

The picture best illustrating my own ”one thing led to another” 1/

W/h almost all votes counted (98,9%) the results of 2026 elections in Hungary 🇭🇺 confirm a legislative w/h a limited number of parties (3!), & a seriously rightward over-representstion. Tisza gets lion’s share 138 MPs (of 199 in total), Fidesz + Kdnp 55 MPs while Mi Hazánk hangs onto 6 MPs.

The official numbers w/h not yet half of the votes counted show only 3 parties in future parliament (Tisza, Fidesz + Kdnp & Mi Hazánk), all on the right of centre & further to the far right in 🇭🇺 #Hungary #elections

So it seems these elections have really mobilized 🇭🇺 electorate. The numbers are much higher than in previous elections w/h urban centers leading.

Szabolcs Panyi@szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 6mo ago

😮🇭🇺🗳️ THIS IS MASSIVE. Hungary’s parliamentary election turnout hit 74.23% by 5pm (62.92% at this point in 2022; final: 70.21%). Opposition stronghold Budapest is at 77.18%, big cities 75.55%. Final turnout is set to exceed 80% – unprecedented. Polls close at 7pm CET.

Citizens in 🇭🇺 are mobilizing to vote in higher numbers than ever before. These elections are momentous to say the least.

Szabolcs Panyi@szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 6mo ago

💥🇭🇺🗳️ WOW! 54.14% turnout by 1pm in Hungary’s historic election (vs 40.01% in 2022), where voters could end Viktor Orbán’s 16-year rule. Massive participation, in line with independent pollsters’ predictions – who also predicted a massive opposition win. Polls close at 7pm.

A 📖: 3 counties (🇫🇷, 🇫🇮 & 🇷🇴) - 3 platforms (Instagram, Tiktok & X/Twitter) focusing on political content to which 18-24 yr olds are exposed. Ring-wing tilted messaging dominates across all platforms in all countries w/h an average 56%, centre barely visible with 17% and the left w/h 36%. Article in 🇸🇪

På Instagram, Tiktok och X dominerar högerinnehåll för unga vuxna

En stor finländsk undersökning av algoritmerna på sociala medier gav blandade resultat. Kristo Lehtonen från Sitra säger att ”Instagram flippade helt”.

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Idag fick jag äran att vara en av keynotetalarna inför ca. 200 personer samlade på Jämställdhetskonferensen som anordnas av Länsstyrelsen Skåne varje år. Mitt anförande handlade om Antidemokrati som/och antifeminism. Jag tror att det gick bra mitt invandrarfinlandssvenska till trots.

📢 [Conference] How to facilitate recovery and reconstruction in Ukraine? The role of European development banks 📅 24 Feb, 14:45-16:45 (Paris time) 📍 Sciences Po & Zoom In partnership with @ceudeminst.bsky.social, @eui-eu.bsky.social @civica.bsky.social Learn more & Register ⤵️

[Conference] How to facilitate recovery and reconstruction in Ukraine? The role of European development banks

Co-organised by CEE, Sciences Po, CEU, EUI & CIVICA

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This is a lucid analysis of the present context, though I for one disagree with the concept of “toxic masculinity” since it’s focusing individuals rather than the system. “The suppression of gender studies is not only an attempt to suppress a critical analytical tool, but also knowledge itself.“

Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott

Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

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