‼️ US now advocates for 🇺🇦 EU accession by 2027 as part of „peace plan“. I know many pro EU & pro 🇺🇦 people may support this. But I think it is a terrible idea. A few thoughts 💭 👇 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Ukraine war briefing: Reports Ukraine would join EU in 2027 met with scepticism

Officials in Brussels dismiss ‘nonsense’ idea Ukraine could join EU by 1 January 2027 in latest US-led peace plan. What we know on day 1,389

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From October 2025 - The Electoral Implications of Legislative Candidate Selection Democratization - cup.org/42DKhwW - @jmfernandes86.bsky.social, @ayakter.bsky.social, Yael Shomer & Gert-Jan Put #OpenAccess

🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna! ⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025 wratil.eu/files/MULTIR... 1/4 🧵

The Madrid community of social sciences coming together for its annual meeting. Great papers, discussions, and friends! See you all tomorrow!

Amuitz Garmendia Madariaga@amuitz.bsky.social · 10mo ago

So proud and happy of our #MESS2025 — growing in size, diversity, quality, and good vibes every year! See you all tomorrow! 😎 #SocialScience #Conference #Madrid @amaliaab.bsky.social @emmylindstam.bsky.social @sergio-galazgarcia.bsky.social

NEW - The Electoral Implications of Legislative Candidate Selection Democratization - cup.org/42DKhwW - @jmfernandes86.bsky.social, @ayakter.bsky.social, Yael Shomer & Gert-Jan Put #OpenAccess

Congrats @jmfernandes86.bsky.social !! 🥳🥳

I’m very excited to share that my paper “Cleavage theory meets civil society: A framework and research agenda” with @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter has now been published online in ‪@wepsocial.bsky.social‬ (w/ open access funding thanks to @wzb.bsky.social‬!) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If you want to know why the capital of Central Europe became the city of ideas that created the modern world & what the house of Austria has to do with this I can recommend reading first Martyn Rady's "The Habsburgs" & then Richard Cockett's "Vienna" - 2 excellent & witty books.

I think the headline should be "US votes with Russia against UN resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine"

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last yr.

Breaking news: The UN General Assembly has passed a resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The resolution was co-sponsored by Kyiv and EU nations, despite the US voting against it and urging other states to do so. www.ft.com/content/d0f3...

How does the “mental load” of taking care of family and household influence decisions about participating in public life? In a new @bjpols.bsky.social paper w @annanhelgoy.bsky.social we use a survey experiment priming domestic mental load to find out. doi.org/10.1017/S000... 🧵 1/9

European Parliament member 👇🏽

I am one of over 900 political scientists who signed this statement to express our "urgent concern about threats to the basic design of American government and democracy." drive.google.com/file/d/1lGk2... Political scientists, you can sign here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Political scientists' statement on recent events

Please use this form to add your signature to the following statement. Note that we are only soliciting signatures from individuals with PhDs in political science. We, the undersigned, are political ...

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‼️ Hiring‼️ -- 10 days to deadline! Two postdoctoral positions in my ERC Consolidator in Madrid. Application deadline: February 28 Job ad & details: tinyurl.com/3dwm96kb Come and join me and my team in sunny Madrid for 5 years of intensive research and lots of publications, traveling, and fun!

When push comes to shove….

Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine@chriswratil.bsky.social · last yr.

With Macron calling an intergovernmental summit in Paris tomorrow, many wonder what is best institutional venue to discuss Europe's response to biggest security crisis since 1945. Here are 8 reasons why intergovernmental route is crucial now instead of relying on 🇪🇺 & Brussels institutions. 🧵👇 1/10

Last week, CDU and AfD coalesced in a historic moment for post-WWII German political history. @chriswratil.bsky.social, @mafaldapratas.bsky.social and I ran a survey immediately after the event to measure voters' reactions.

Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine@chriswratil.bsky.social · last yr.

You wonder how the CDU/CSU playing with the "Brandmauer" to AfD last week has influenced German voters? @mafaldapratas.bsky.social @jmfernandes86.bsky.social & I have you covered. We surveyed sample of 2,000 German voters. 🧵with first results 👇. Spoiler: It did not go down as well as CDU/CSU hoped.

You wonder how the CDU/CSU playing with the "Brandmauer" to AfD last week has influenced German voters? @mafaldapratas.bsky.social @jmfernandes86.bsky.social & I have you covered. We surveyed sample of 2,000 German voters. 🧵with first results 👇. Spoiler: It did not go down as well as CDU/CSU hoped.

Deutscher Bundestag - Unionsgesetz zur Zustrom­begrenzung mit knapper Mehr­heit abgelehnt

Der Bundestag hat das sogenannte Zustrombegrenzungsgesetz der CDU/CSU-Fraktion (20/12804) mit knapper Mehrheit abgelehnt. Gegen die Initiative votierten am Freitag, 31. Januar 2025,...

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Rejecting a scholar like @chriswratil.bsky.social from any conference just has one word == ridiculous.

Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine@chriswratil.bsky.social · last yr.

EPSA rejection: to all early career people who face this today, I want to say that I had two of them in the past, one of them was published in AJPS in the end, the other has not been submitted yet. Today, my third EPSA rejection. If you have it, too: hear me it means nothing! Enjoy your weekend 😇

Apply to a postdoc position in my ERC project! I opened 1 position, but I will actually be offering two (thanks, ERC!). Come and join us in Madrid!

Jorge M. Fernandes@jmfernandes86.bsky.social · 2y ago

‼️ Hiring‼️ One postdoctoral position in my ERC Consolidator in Madrid. Application deadline: end of February. Job ad & details: tinyurl.com/3dwm96kb Come and join me and my team in sunny Madrid for 5 years of intensive research and lots of publications, traveling, and fun! Please share widely.

‼️ Hiring‼️ One postdoctoral position in my ERC Consolidator in Madrid. Application deadline: end of February. Job ad & details: tinyurl.com/3dwm96kb Come and join me and my team in sunny Madrid for 5 years of intensive research and lots of publications, traveling, and fun! Please share widely.

🎉 I'm very happy to share this new publication with @jmfernandes86.bsky.social in @jeppjournal.bsky.social! In the paper, we look into the implementation of #decentralization agreements in multilevel systems using the Spanish case. 1/3

Must read!

Rahel Freiburghaus@rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 2y ago

ELECTORAL SYSTEMS Personalization is a cornerstone of representation & most ESs have a personal vote dimension. @jmfernandes86.bsky.social/Shomer/@laderafrutal.bsky.social review the politics of the personal vote, incl measurement & impact on legislative behavior www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...

🚨🇪🇺⚖️ The ERC @curiafides.bsky.social project on trust and judicial cooperation is offering a postdoc position (3+1 years). Join our vibrant interdisciplinary research community at @ic3jm.bsky.social, @macies.bsky.social & @uc3m.es • Expressions of interest: anytime • Submissions deadline: 31/01/2025

The Institute for Public Goods and policies (@ipp-csic.bsky.social ) is launching its visitors program with both long and short stays. Get in touch with me if you want to know more about the institute. ipp.csic.es/en/visitors-...

I am over the moon and humbled to have been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to study how we think about representation in proportional electoral systems. Soon, I will make a thread with most relevant questions for the 2M project for the 2025-2030 period. 1/n

I am looking for references on nativism in mainstream right-wing parties. Reading suggestions?

🚨 Early-career researchers: One day left to apply for our fully funded workshop on „Citizens‘ Views on Representation“ 👇

Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine@chriswratil.bsky.social · 2y ago

You are a PhD/postdoc & have a paper on how citizens view or understand representation, or what they expect from representatives? If yes, please send us your paper proposal for a fully-funded place in a workshop on "Citizens' Views on Representation" 👇. t.co/aJ0SOwyCge

Teaching Linz's "The Perils of Presidentialism" in U.S. presidential election years is the "eat your vegetables" part of being a comparativist

A few days left to apply for our postdoc in computational social science 👇. Please get in touch if you have any questions. Please apply if you do quantitative text analysis & want to expand this during the next years.

Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine@chriswratil.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 Job alert: Postdoc in Computational Social Science, especially text analysis in the MULTIREP @ERC_Research project at Uni Vienna @Dept_Government . If you do quantitative text analysis & are interested in pol representation, this 👇 is for you 🧵 (1/4) wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...