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Whether you're an early-career researcher or established scholar, #EPSS2026 is a premier space for cutting-edge political science.

From comparative politics & public policy, from political behavior & methods to international relations, #EPSS2026 is the place to be.

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The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference!

📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast

🗓️ June 18–20, 2026

📍 ICC Belfast

📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025

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I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage!
I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

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🧪How did COVID-19 affect citizens’ democratic preferences?

➡️ @cescamat.bsky.social A.Arenas A.Falcó & @jordimunoz.bsky.social find a lasting rise in technocratic preferences and a temporary bump in the willingness to sacrifice civil rights and freedoms www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Congratulations to the MIPE Third Cohort Graduates! 🎉

We’re very proud of each of you and excited to watch your next chapters unfold. The future is bright, and it’s yours for the taking! 🌟

@economiaempresaub.bsky.social @ubeconomics.bsky.social

Read the full article here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

And find the replication materials here: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

Overall, we show that the outbreak of the pandemic caused a large initial change in technocratic preferences. Moreover — and this is the main contribution — this initial shift appears to have largely persisted over time, even after the pandemic ceased to be a relevant issue.

Additionally, using a set of repeated survey experiments, we document a widespread willingness to sacrifice rights and freedoms to address the pandemic — more so than in response to other global threats — at the onset of the crisis. However, this effect quickly faded over time.

We also identify a significant increase in the preference for competent politicians following the COVID-19 outbreak. This preference increases by 7 percentage points and also persists up to January 2024, and comes at the expense of preferences for honest politicians.

In this article, drawing on eight survey waves conducted between January 2020 and January 2024 and employing panel models with individual fixed effects, we identify a sharp increase in technocratic preferences following the COVID shock, which then persists over time.

Very happy to see this one published at @psrm.bsky.social! This is joint work with @jordimunoz.bsky.social, Andreu Arenas, and Albert Falcó-Gimeno.

Congratulations to our MIPE students on successfully presenting your Master Theses last week! 🎉 Your research tackled highly relevant topics, and the quality of your work was truly impressive!!! @ubeconomics.bsky.social @economiaempresaub.bsky.social

📣 Call for Applications 📣

3-year Postdoc position in Berlin 🚀

Join our Comparative Political Behavior Group at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & the @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social

Great people, great projects, great city – come work with us!

🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025

🚨🚨 New paper alert: Culture vs. Institutions

@ainagallego.bsky.social‬, Ana Tur-Prats and I have a new paper out in the JOP that examines the impact of historical family types on modern-day female political representation.

Submit your research to PSRM!

And if you were wondering: @epssnet.bsky.social is fully committed to supporting PSRM as a product of the collective efforts of the European political science community. We encourage you to continue submitting your work, reviewing for it & supporting the editorial team

Are you:

✅ A young scholar in econ, poli sci, or law
✅ Working on institutions, broadly defined
✅ Interested in spending a week in Italy with amazing faculty

If so, please apply to this year’s Coase Institute Workshop! It’s a transformative experience for many, and always fun. I’ll be there.

It’s been a pleasure to host Dídac Queralt from Yale University in our master’s program. His course on the Political Economy of Public Policies has just wrapped up, leaving our students with a truly enriching learning experience!

Some key questions about @epssnet.bsky.social answered here.

Really great initiative! We have managed to preserve the scientific community and at the same time become a non-profit association. Very good news!

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.

🔗 epssnet.org

Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.

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Excited about this new direction and looking forward to Belfast 2026!

Thanks to the new/old EPSS Council and President for making this happen! This is very good news for Political Science in Europe. See you all in Belfast next year and let’s make the EPSS a success! 👇

DPIR’s 25th anniversary: Read our 25 in 25 Collection - celebrating staff, students, alumni, and the impact of our world-leading research.

Meet @ktertytchnaya.bsky.social‬ - Associate Professor in Comparative Politics: www.politics.ox.ac.u...

‼️ Last chance to apply for the UB School of Economics Summer School on The Political Economy of Immigration – Economics, Attitudes, and Votes: Unpacking Immigration Dynamics, taking place from June 30 to July 4, 2025!

📅 Applications will close on June 26, don't miss the chance!

Very happy to share the program for the 3rd edition of the Yale-UB Historical Political Economy Workshop.

Taking place at the University of Barcelona on June 30th and July 1st.

Really looking forward to it!

Cc: @didacqueralt.bsky.social

Thrilled to share the program for the III Yale-UB HPE Workshop — a joint initiative bringing together HPE researchers across continents and disciplines. Huge thanks to our sponsors, presenters, and discussants. Can’t wait for a great conference!
cc @cescamat.bsky.social (UB co-host)

Very happy with this initiative! This is already the third edition of the joint Graduate Workshop in Social Sciences, which promotes cooperation and interactions between master's students from @ubmipe.bsky.social and @ic3jm.bsky.social.

See you next year in Barcelona!

Starting day 2 of the III Graduate Workshop in Social Sciences (IC3JM–UB ‪@ubmipe.bsky.social‬)!
Looking forward to four more great Master’s thesis presentations and rich discussions ahead.

Palmira Llorens-Giralt, jove investigadora i genetista: "Ara tinc 27 anys i fins als 45 no podria estabilitzar-me? Tens la sensació de córrer empalmant contractes tota l’estona" Diversos investigadors de la Universitat de Barcelona (UB) han identificat les regions de l’ADN i els gens clau que activen la regeneració del fetge. L’autora

Les condicions precàries de tants doctorands.

Beques que no s'han actualitzat des de fa temps, amb ingressos que estan per sota del salari de referència per viure a Barcelona.

És urgent actualitzar i millor les beques dels nostres doctorands.

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