Big shoes to fill! Excited to be taking over as Social Media Editor for @psrm.bsky.social. Thanks, @tonirodon.bsky.social, for all your great work, and thanks to John Griffin and the editorial board for their trust. Looking forward to sharing more outstanding political science research! ✨📚

Toni Rodon@tonirodon.bsky.social · last mo.

🫡My watch as @psrm.bsky.social Social Media Editor has ended. It’s been a pleasure reading great papers and a challenge squeezing them into social media! Thanks to the editorial board, especially to John Griffin. The baton now passes to @irenerodriguez.bsky.social. Wishing her all the best! 👏

🎓 Un nou doctor a la UPF amb una excel·lent tesi doctoral i una gran defensa! 🎉 Enhorabona per aquesta gran fita, Emanuele @emanuelemurgolo.bsky.social! @politiquesupf.bsky.social

🗺️ Electoral Atlas of the Spanish Second Republic (1931-1936) Today we are publishing, in beta version and as a first phase (1936 only), the database so everyone can explore it 👇 tonirodon.cat/second-repub... (1/n)

🗺️Atles electoral de la Segona República. Quin va ser el comportament electoral en les legislatives celebrades entre el 1931 i el 1936? Publiquem, en versió beta i en primera fase, els resultats de les legislatives del 1936 👇 tonirodon.cat/second-repub... @politiquesupf.bsky.social (1/n)

18/05/2026 Emanuele Murgolo's PhD Thesis Defence www.upf.edu/web/phd-poli...

18/05/2026 Emanuele Murgolo's PhD Thesis Defence - PhD Programme in Political and Social Sciences - UPF

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📣My first solo paper is now published Open Access in @electoralstudies.bsky.social ! 🎉 Through a DiD, it studies what happens to expressed immigration concern after a radical right party achieves its first major institutional breakthrough 🧵 Read it here 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Legitimising prejudice? The impact of radical right party presence on anti-immigration attitude expression

Are citizens hiding their true preferences? The entry of nativist and nationalist radical right parties can help normalise certain attitudes considere…

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🏁 Kicking off for the 17th European Graduate Network Conference (26-27, March) with the UPF Delegation. 5 junior researchers from the Department will present their original research in front of top leader universities. 📄 www.sns.it/it/evento/17...

🎓 Una nova doctora amb una excel·lent tesi doctoral i una gran defensa! 🎉 L'enhorabona per aquesta gran fita, @irenerodriguez.bsky.social!

Irene Rodríguez@irenerodriguez.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Thesis defended!🎓🎉 Very grateful for the excellent committee I had with me today, @kgattermann.bsky.social, @sofiavasilopoulou.bsky.social and Albert Falcó-Gimeno, and their thoughtful and generous feedback. And as always, forever grateful to @tonirodon.bsky.social for being the best supervisor.

Thesis defended!🎓🎉 Very grateful for the excellent committee I had with me today, @kgattermann.bsky.social, @sofiavasilopoulou.bsky.social and Albert Falcó-Gimeno, and their thoughtful and generous feedback. And as always, forever grateful to @tonirodon.bsky.social for being the best supervisor.

🎓 PhD Thesis Defence | Feb 27, 11:00 🎤 Irene Rodríguez @irenerodriguez.bsky.social (UPF) defends her thesis 📜 Crisis, Competition, and Campaigning: Citizens and Parties in 21st Century Politics 📍Campus Ciutadella, UPF, Sala Paco Fernández Buey @politiquesupf.bsky.social tuit.cat/w2egV

27/02/2026 Irene Rodríguez's PhD Thesis Defence - PhD Programme in Political and Social Sciences - UPF

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Well... Apparently this is happening in three days. If you're in Barcelona and feel like hearing a bit about political behaviour, see you Friday at 11.00 am at UPF 🎉

Good morning from Berlin. Starting the final workshop of the COVIDEU project, a wonderful close to an inspiring journey. Grateful to have collaborated with such brilliant colleagues @heikekluever.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @theresakuhn.bsky.social (1/2)

Our article with @tonirodon.bsky.social about the 2023 Spanish general election is currently free access, check it out here ⬇️

Bonnie Field@bonniefield.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Two additional election articles are currently free access. @tonirodon.bsky.social & @irenerodriguez.bsky.social examine the outcome of the July 2023 national parliamentary election in Spain. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

1/6 📢 Just as Germany announces it will begin turning back asylum seekers at its borders (starting May 6), our new article in European Journal of Political Research is out: 🧵👇 “Closed borders, closed minds?” doi.org/10.1111/1475... #BorderPolitics #EUPolitics #Schengen #COVID19 #EJPR

🗳️Did serving as polling officers impact women's future political engagement? 📹Following our recent @bjpols.bsky.social, we present a new way of disseminating findings: a storytelling! htmlpreview.github.io?https://gith... @pauvallprat.bsky.social @politiquesupf.bsky.social A teaser👇

Very happy to see this out! Together with Abel Escribà-Folch @politiquesupf.bsky.social @ibei.org we explore whether foreign aid and FDI have opposing effects on dictators' personalism levels 🧵👇

Political Science Research and Methods@psrm.bsky.social · last yr.

💰 Does foreign income fuel power consolidation in dictatorships? ➡ @bernatpuertas.bsky.social & A. Escribà-Folch show there is no robust link between the two—only a limited effect on certain aspects of personalism www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

🚨 New paper out at @jeppjournal.bsky.social. We show a growing youth gender gap in far-right support, driven by young men. 3 key findings in 🧵⬇️ w/ @zachdickson.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @heikekluever.bsky.social @theresakuhn.bsky.social @tonirodon.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1350...

NEW - Benchmarking pandemic response: How the UK’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout impacted diffuse and specific support for the EU - cup.org/425D2O7 - @irenerodriguez.bsky.social, @tonirodon.bsky.social, @aslunn.bsky.social, @lisaherbig.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social & @theresakuhn.bsky.social

🇪🇺Does performance benchmarking impact EU support? W/ @tonirodon.bsky.social @aslunn.bsky.social @lisaherbig.bsky.social @heikekluever.bsky.social @theresakuhn.bsky.social we explore how people compare EU performance to non-EU countries & adjust their attitudes accordingly🧵⬇️ 📄 doi.org/10.1017/S000...

🚨Vols unir-te a un projecte de recerca sobre actituds envers les polítiques climàtiques? ➡️Des d'ATTCLIMATE busquem un tècnic de recerca. Interessats/des selection.uoc.edu/web/offersjo... 🌐 Web del projecte attclimate.net @mguinjoan.bsky.social @upf.edu @uocuniversitat.bsky.social 🗓9 de febrer.

📢NEW ARTICLE!📢 ‘A bitter victory and a sweet defeat’. @tonirodon.bsky.social and @irenerodriguez.bsky.social analyse the July 2023 election in Spain www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Figure: Vote transfers in a) Madrid b) Barcelona c) Almería d) Soria 👇

🚨New article, with the brilliant @irenerodriguez.bsky.social , at @sespjournal.bsky.social on the 2023 Spanish general election 🗳️ ▶️ If you want to know more about strategic coordination, electoral system, and differential mobilisation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....