EU Ministers discuss Schengen this week over a crisis that never threatened Europe's free-movement area: no one leaves Ceuta without a border check. Instead, the EPP & far-right allies use this manufactured crisis whose price was paid by real lives to attack Spain's different stance to migration.

The Department of Political Science at Aarhus University is hiring both Assistant Professors and Associate Professors. Assistant Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Associate Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Please share these opportunities with your networks!

Assistant Professor in Political Science - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

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The systematic dismantling of the scientific ecosystem in the US is mind blowing

Nature@nature.com · 3mo ago

All 22 members of the board that advises and oversees the US National Science Foundation (NSF), a leading funder of basic science, were fired on 24 April without explanation. go.nature.com/42tkCGv

You should watch this video: it's funny, really well done, and sadly true: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

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The Guardian@theguardian.com · 5mo ago

‘Another internet is possible’: Norway rails against ‘enshittification’

Very happy that this article with Samir Negash and Lorenzo Piccoli has just been accepted at the European Political Science Review. In it we show that "welfare chauvinism" is much more nuanced than many assume.

This is a great book by Levitsky & Way which Trump, Hegseth & Rubio should have read before attacking Iran. It argues that dictatorships born of social revolution - such as Iran - are exceptionally durable. It is wishful thinking that the Iranian regime evaporates after a short bombing campaign 1/4

Revolution and Dictatorship

Why the world’s most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolution

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This is a unique opportunity for junior scholars of extremism and democracy. You do NOT want to miss it. Apply!

European Consortium for Political Research@ecpr.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📣 @ecpr-ead.bsky.social invites applications for it's Summer School on Extremism and Democracy! 🗓️ 6 – 10 July, University of Bologna 🎓️ Present your research and receive feedback from leading scholars in the field ✅️ Open to all students enrolled in a PhD programme ⌛ Deadline: 25 February

Last year, Donald Trump claimed that taking control of #Greenland is vital for US national security. In a post from the @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social archives, @ulrikpg.bsky.social unpacks the complicated security dynamics in the Arctic, and the dangers of misunderstanding them.

Don’t get Greenland’s role in Arctic security wrong - EUROPP

Donald Trump's claims about Greenland risk an escalation that no one wants and that will leave us all less secure.

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Today I published a replication outlining concerns with "Instrumentally Inclusive" by Turnbull-Dugarte and López Ortega (2024, APSR). I document seemingly idiosyncratic and ad hoc choices made by the authors that create a pattern of statistically significant results consistent with their theory.

🆕 Campaigns do matter Research on Denmark’s 🇩🇰 2022 EU defence opt-out vote by @rsenninger.bsky.social, Derek Beach & Jannik Fenger shows campaigns can reduce framing effects. Loss-based arguments swayed voters early but faded as they became informed.

Campaigns do matter: The impact of campaigns in reducing framing effects | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Campaigns do matter: The impact of campaigns in reducing framing effects

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Thanks to @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social for giving us the possibility to guest edit a special issue on "Political violence in democracies". Ursula Daxecker, @neerajprsd.bsky.social and I wrote an open access introduction: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Thanks to all authors of 14 articles!

Political violence in democracies: An Introduction - Andrea Ruggeri, Ursula Daxecker, Neeraj Prasad, 2025

It is well established that democracies experience less political violence than autocracies. Paradoxically, however, this widely accepted fact has led scholars ...

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If you're at @ecpr.bsky.social in Thessaloniki this week, come to our panel on connecting deliberative and direct democracy (Friday 15:45 - 17:30 EEST). Exciting presentations on how we can "innovate" our democracies #ecprgc25.

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 🧵

Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters

The world’s richest Jeff had his wedding plans interfered with by Italian busybodies! Oh no! | First Dog on the Moon

The world’s richest Jeff had his wedding plans interfered with by Italian busybodies! Oh no! | First Dog on the Moon

Why do people hate vulgar displays of extreme wealth by people whose business interests are burning the planet to the ground?

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Legislators speak with reduced simplicity while serving in government. When serving in government, they dedicate more speaking time to intrinsically complex, technical issues and less to clearly ideologically laden issues journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Losing Touch: The Rhetorical Cost of Governing - Frederik Hjorth, 2025

The electoral ‘cost of governing’ is widely considered a law-like phenomenon. However, costs of governing are not limited to the electoral dimension. This paper...

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If you're planning to do a master's programme in social and political science, this is an amazing opportunity. Fully funded, great city and amazing faculty: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X047...

Discover the Allievi Program in Social and Political Sciences at Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin

YouTube video by Collegio Carlo Alberto

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Really glad to share our new paper out on @thejop.bsky.social. We find that school debating reduces vulnerability to #misinformation and #conspiracy theories kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...

We are extremely pleased to announce the preliminary release of the combined pre-election and post-election dataset for the ANES 2024 Time Series Study! The data and documentation can be downloaded from the ANES website at: electionstudies.org/data-center/... Best, The ANES Team

Who is susceptible to misinformation? We looked at >60,000 people from 24 countries who took our MIST test. Key results: Gen Z are more susceptible & those on the extreme right (but they don't know it). Led by the brill @yarakyrychenko.bsky.social & Fritz Götz authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

💥🇭🇺 Police have given up guarding Budapest’s Liberty Bridge as anti-government protesters shut down traffic on four major bridges, rallying against Viktor Orbán’s new law curbing freedom of assembly and banning the Pride march. They vow to escalate with a 24-hour shutdown next week.

In a time when some EU countries are doing everything they can to attract scientists fleeing the U.S, the UK government appears comfortable seeing some the top research intensive universities collapse www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

University of Sheffield staff to strike over 'drastic' cuts

The University and College Union says up to 1,000 jobs will be put at risk by planned cutbacks.

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As EU-US relations change Europe must stand firm for the DSA The DSA is imperfect, it cannot fix everything. But the DSA is a shield to defend European democracy. @dscheykopp.bsky.social @lkseiling.bsky.social and I argue this in @techpolicypress.bsky.social ⬇️ www.techpolicy.press/will-europe-...

Will Europe Sacrifice the Digital Services Act in Negotiations with Trump? | TechPolicy.Press

Jakob Ohme, LK Seiling, and Claes H. de Vreese write that European leaders must protect the DSA to ensure a democratic future.

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Greenland has voted 🗳️ Turnout up: >70% Centre right party 29,9% Independence party 24,5% Current left govt / PM Egede party 21,4% Government with and without independence party possible. Source: DR

"The first lesson should be acknowledgment of what has been obvious since Trump’s inauguration: the US cannot be relied on as a security, intelligence or trading partner" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Observer view on the Trump-Zelenskyy clash: a moment of dark reckoning | Observer editorial

With or without the US, Europe must learn to defend itself, and Ukraine, against Russian aggression

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🚨🚨🚨 Publication alert! Out now at @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social: "Political Representation as Communicative Practice" together with Fabio Wolkenstein. We ask: What is political representation & how should we study it? ⬇️ Download for free for 13 days! 🧵On what you can expect👇 cup.org/3ERYIUR

The Trump-Musk adminstration is trying to dismantle the US bureaucracy. The short-term consequence may be to impede economic growth: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... The long-term consequence is to destabilize democracy: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

State capacity and political regime stability | 6 | The State-Democrac

Two recent strands of research have proposed that state capacity facilitates autocratic and democratic survival, respectively. While convincing arguments

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"Every single article published is first reviewed by young reviewers aged 8-15, to ensure they are both accessible and fun to read for others their own age." I wonder if they are kinder or nastier than the reviewers I normally get :) www.frontiersin.org/news/2024/12...

Frontiers for Young Minds Nobel Collection: Three new Nobel Prize-winning breakthroughs shared by Laureates with young readers

Frontiers for Young Minds, an award-winning science engagement journal for kids, is proud to share three new articles written by Nobel Prize-winners. These thre

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“We’ll bring hygge to Hollywood, bike lanes to Beverly Hills and organic smørrebrød to every street corner. Rule of law, universal healthcare and fact-based politics might apply” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Danes offer to buy California to spite Trump’s Greenland aims: ‘We’ll bring hygge to Hollywood’

Satirical petition from Denmark, which owns Greenland, racks up 200,000 signatures as Trump eyes Arctic island

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The falsehood came from the right. How (radical/ extreme) right shares mis/ disinformation more online. Good to see @uva.nl colleagues @pettertornberg.bsky.social and @julianachueri.bsky.social’s research featured in @theguardian.com #polisky www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study

Amplifying misinformation is now part of radical right strategy, says Dutch study of tweets by MPs in 26 countries

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