Simon Chauchard

HAPPENING NOW: a group of New York rabbis are being arrested at a protest outside the Israeli consulate calling for bringing food into Gaza, an end to the war, and return of all hostages

@newjewishnarrative.bsky.social

You can watch this Green Beret describe this experience in his own words to @vanhollen.senate.gov, and for us, and I cried. I’m not sure how you could watch this veteran tell this child’s story and not feel all of the emotions at once.

BREAKING: At least 62 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza despite a “tactical pause” to allow aid into the besieged enclave, medical sources told Al Jazeera.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/pag0eh

Opinion | What Iranians Lost When Israel Bombed Its Most Notorious Prison

Had no idea Israel had bombed Evin last month. What incredible evil shit, in addition to all the rest

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/o...

Gaza has reached IPC Phase 5, which is the worst level of food insecurity & is associated with high amounts of death & permanent disability. For people experiencing this level of malnutrition, even if it ended today, many of the consequences (eg personal outcomes like disabilities) are irreversible.

Interrogating content moderation systems in indigenous and low-resource languages of the Global South Date: Thursday, August 7th, 2025 Time: 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM (EST) How do content moderation systems operate in non-English contexts, particularly low-resource languages of the Majority World? While the...

Most content moderation systems weren’t built with the Global South in mind.

Our partner organisation @cdt.org’s new research shows how they fail in Tamil, Kiswahili, Quechua & more.

👇🏻 Join their August 7 webinar for findings, recommendations, and global voices on language equity in tech.

New paper with @yannistheocharis.bsky.social

When it comes to health choices that seem to run counter to people's own self-interest, politics is overwhelmingly more important than individuals' cognitive styles or media diet:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

On Data and Democracy (Mid-Year Roundup): Charting the Assault on American Democracy and A Path Forward A narrative of a democracy in the balance, told through 29 data visualizations.

Been a busy year in the data mines.📊 Just published my mid-year roundup: 29 data visualizations on the state of US democracy, tracking everything from judicial resistance to billionaire influence to why Dems have a mobilization crisis, not a moderation problem.

All charts free to use:

🚨 Happy to share that our paper has now won the Best Paper Award from APSA´s experiments section !
@sumitra.bsky.social @priyadarshi-amar.bsky.social Florian Sichart

Website is down!

Inspiring! great initiative, Heike.

Don’t forget to apply to present your work at MESS! The first edition was absolutely amazing and I can’t recommend it enough.

My book, Misguided, officially launches today!
If you’ve ever wondered why people believe false things — or how to build resilience against misinformation — this book is for you. I wrote it to help us navigate our overwhelming information environment, and I’m thrilled to finally share it with you.

I hope you all had a great #EPSA2025 in Madrid @uc3m_es — we certainly did! @simonchauchard.bsky.social

Outstanding academic exchanges in an equally exceptional social and collegial atmosphere.

See you all in Belfast next year for #EPSS2026!

Come join us for our immigration and persuasion panel at 3pm later today if you're around in Madrid #epsa2025

🚨 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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Join us at the #EPSA Pre-Conference on Political Connections!

📅 June 25, 2025
📍 UC3M (Puerta de Toledo Campus) — Rooms 0.A.05 and 0.A.06
🕘 9 AM — 6 PM

10 panels, 2 parallel tracks — a full day of sharp insights and debate on bureaucracy, revolving doors, money in politics, and more!

#EPSA2025

🚨EPSA alert 🚨 @priera.bsky.social and I are organizing a pre-EPSA conference on political institutions on Wed 25 June. Same location as EPSA - Room 0.A.04. We've an amazing line-up of fantastic junior colleagues matched with more senior discussants. All EPSA attendees can attend and are welcome

Without DISCUSSANTS, that is 😅

Consider joining us in Madrid :)
A few more days to express your interest for this!

Thanks everyone who signed up to discuss @ EPSA25 next week!!!

Still a few panels without respondents (see column F here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...)

🚨🚨🚨🚨 EOI / talent attraction program in Madrid!

The Dept. of Social Sciences @ UC3M is looking to sponsor candidates for the César Nombela Program. Successful candidates get a job with us & great work conditions for 5 y (more below).

To express interest, complete form (by 06/24)
👉 n9.cl/qdjvz
1/n

Full Conference Overview_EPSA.2025.xlsx

🚨EPSA 2025 friends, Program Committee co-chair here....

We still have a few great panels missing discussants!!

**Details below: 1/n**

PLEASE RETWEET AND CONSIDER DISCUSSING :)

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

if you are able to assist with any of these roles please email: info@epsanet.org ASAP

- Panel 399 " PUBOPI - Housing Politics"
SEE LINK ABOVE / PANEL COMPOSITION 😍 Discuss 🙌

- Panel 170 "CPHI - Origins and consequences of public policy" (Saturday @1PM)

- Panel 175 "EUPOL - Understanding public opinion in the EU."(Saturday @1PM)

- Panel 176 " POLECO - POLINF Politics of Inflation and Central Banks"(Saturday @1PM)

SEE LINK ABOVE / PANEL COMPOSITION 😍 Discuss 🙌

- Panel 245 "CPHI - Immigration, persuasion, and knowledge" (Friday @3PM)

- Panel 157 "FTP - Policymaking and accountability"
(Saturday @9.30)

- Panel 160 "CPHI - Nationalism and identities" (Saturday @ 11.20)

SEE LINK ABOVE / PANEL COMPOSITION 😍 Discuss 🙌

- Panel 201 "EUPOL - Legislative behaviour in the EP"
(Friday @ 9.30AM)

- Panel 204 "POLMET - Methodological synthesis and substantive evaluation" (Friday @ 9.30AM)

- Panel 65 "EXPRES - Interventions Updating Attitudes" (Friday at 1PM)

SEE LINK ABOVE / PANEL COMPOSITION 😍 Discuss 🙌

- Panel 14 "CPLM - Democracy in India" (Friday @ 9.30AM)

- Panel 156 "CPLM - The Political Economy of South Asia" (Friday @ 9.30AM)

SEE LINK ABOVE / PANEL COMPOSITION 😍 Discuss 🙌

- Panel 125 "PUBPOL - Fairness in Public Service Provision" (Thursday @ 13.10)

- Panel 29 "CPHI - Democratic Backsliding" (Thursday @ 3PM)

- Panel 128 "EXPRES - Democracy, Population, and Rights" (Thursday @ 3PM)

SEE LINK ABOVE / PANEL COMPOSITION 😍 Discuss 🙌