Narrative seeding is a thing, which means it's going to be a incredibly stupid winter here in DE when gas gets scarce and this stinkflower blooms.

Anton Gerashchenko@antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 2w ago

US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent: "We are going through an energy shock right now due to both the war in Ukraine, because Ukraine has decided that they want to blow up Russian energy assets and refine products, so that is creating upward price pressure

Spent an hour wondering whether the email was real or an unusually elaborate scam. Turns out it was real: Daniela and I won the 2025 Fritz Thyssen Prize for Social Science Articles 1st prize 🏆 campus.uni-saarland.de/preis-der-fr... The article: shorturl.at/2jowF #shamelessselfpromotion

📢 New publication out! Mapping party competition on gender-related issues in Europe There has been growing discussion about the politicization of gender in European politics. We wanted to take a broad, systematic look at it. 👇🧵

📢 The Euromanifesto Study 2024 Documents are now available! We collected, checked and systematised electoral programmes and campaign materials from across Europe for the 2024 European Parliament elections. A new resource for studying the 2024 EP campaign 🧵

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

Agree with every word of this excellent post but especially this www.speakandregret.michaelinzlicht.com/p/my-p-hacki...

Desperate ayatollahs in your area want to meet

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

TRUMP: IRAN WANTS TO DESPERATELY MEET

"It’s little wonder voters think net migration is going up when the only debate we have is about how to bring it down” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Voters across parties believe UK net migration is rising despite sharp drop

Study, published as latest migration figures are released, shows incorrect perceptions driving immigration debate

theguardian.com

I’m hiring 2 doctoral researchers in Politics of Climate Change at Heidelberg University 🌍 📊 Survey Research & Political Participation 🗣️ Qualitative Research & Group Formation Part of “The New Climate Divide” Deadline: 21 June 2026 Calls: www.ipw.uni-heidelberg.de/en/about-us/... Please share!

A party that is resolutely anti-bourgeois while being staffed and supported by the bourgeoisie is an intriguing and inevitably impossible strategy. Anyway good luck attracting those Reform voters who hate you.

Another story from Gorton & Denton...

Matt Goodwin’s academic project was debunked as ‘total garbage’

Reform’s Gorton & Denton by-election candidate left a right-wing think tank ‘with his tail between his legs’ when work was exposed, sources tell The Times

thetimes.com

2025 open acces {#tbp|#ThrowBackPaper): The Radical Right Research Robot: a model for political science comms on splintered social media #radicalright @rrresrobot.bsky.social 🤖

Automating awareness, digitizing dissemination: the radical right research robot as a template for (political) science communication in a fragmented social media landscape

Over the last 15 years, social media have become an integral part of the science infrastructure. The emergence of ‘Science Twitter’, the collective of scholars active on the platform now known as ‘...

tandfonline.com

New economic research: "We estimate that by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time."

The Economic Costs of Brexit on the UK | Econofact

Brexit has had a substantial economic impact on the United Kingdom, with adverse effects on investment, productivity, employment, and growth.

econofact.org

Killing the CIA World Factbook might seem like small potatoes, but it was a touchstone of curated facts in a sea of disinformation.

Drug laws have never stopped people from using drugs. They've stopped people from using drugs safely. It's time to legalise *and* regulate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Drugs policy approach needs to change, Zack Polanski says

The Green Party leader of England and Wales says there needs to be a

bbc.co.uk

Coming out in June. (when @casmudde.bsky.social & I will be presenting it at the @ces-europe.bsky.social conference in Dublin)

Life is stranger than fiction

RRResRobot@rrresrobot.bsky.social · 10mo ago

M. J. Goodwin. New British Fascism: Rise of the British National Party. London: Routledge, 2012.

New Publication out! 🔥 Italy’s right-wing politics has changed dramatically over the past two decades. With @gippone.bsky.social and @leonardo-puleo.bsky.social we started from a basic question: Why has the radical right surged inside Italy’s right coalition? Radicalisation or something different?

If only there was a catchy name for an international coalition of #farright actors 👇

Sanseito moves to forge relations with right-wing forces overseas | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

Sanseito, which advocates a “Japanese First” policy, continues to look beyond the nation’s borders to expand its influence and ride the wave of “anti-globalism” sentiment with other right-wing forces.

asahi.com

Brahmani is presenting "Is there anything Left?: A Global Analysis on Changes in Engagement with Political Content on Twitter in the Musk Era" (journalqd.org/article/view...). Joint work with @rosanavarrete.bsky.social and @giucarny.bsky.social

Last day at @ic2s2.bsky.social #IC2S2 and time for an @i2sc.net group photo with @brahmaninutakki.bsky.social, @ethel-mensah.bsky.social and @jianlongzhu.bsky.social. Find Brahmani and Ethel at posters #21 and #93 today. Jianlong presented yesterday.

Thank you for everything, Ozzy. 🖤

Right-wing electorates across Europe are becoming more... Italian? doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Realignment within the right field: competition between the mainstream right and the far right

Advanced democracies have seen the emergence of a new cleavage between universalism and particularism. While alignments to the new left and the far right – at the extremes of the cleavage – are hig...

doi.org

“The middle”

Our Element is out! 🎉 Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms? www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies

Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies

cambridge.org

Induction for the new postdoc #AcademicChatter #PoorlyDrawnLines

@alexhartland.bsky.social Daniela Braun @giucarny.bsky.social @rosanavarrete.bsky.social & @annreinl.bsky.social observe a gap between the concerns of citizens & the issues political parties emphasise. doi.org/10.1080/0140... Part of the Symposium "European Parliament Elections 2024"