William Egendal

🚨 New book alert!

Policy Preparation Inside the European Commission is out with OUP @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

It’s about the behind-the-scenes stage of EU policymaking that shapes everything—yet rarely gets the spotlight: how the Commission prepares its proposals.

Link: doi.org/10.1093/9780...

Really looking forward to reading this. I'm sure it's an absolute banger! 🤩

I know it's probably not the best day of the year to share big professional news, but I am very excited to share that I have just received confirmation that my PhD dissertation (see picture below) is deemed suitable for public defence! 🥳

💥Postdoc call 💥

Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University

🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension)

❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth

🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data)

Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD

Priorities During the first half of 2025, Poland will hold the Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Find out more about the priorities of the Polish presidency!

🚨🚨The website of the PL presidency of the @eucouncil.bsky.social is now up and running. Here you can find key priorities of Polish presidency which can be summarized in one word: #security. Ominous opening to the programme. 🧵
polish-presidency.consilium.europa.eu/en/programme...

Turns out, using simple language in politics helps people understand issues better and even shapes how they see politicians - but it doesn't directly sway votes.

Excited to share that our study (w/ @danbischof.bsky.social) is conditionally accepted at JOP!

Link: doi.org/10.31219/osf...

Came here to tag the exact same two people

Looking very much forward to this book by excellent colleagues!

Looking forward to reading it because 1) what a timely and important topic, and 2) what a dream team! 🙌

Interesting to see whether this will translate into more conflicts and unstable majorities in EU (legislative) decision-making once the new Commission gets going.

We have a new EU Commission!

370 votes in favour, 282 votes against the VdL 2.0 Commission

Just reached 100k words on the first draft of my dissertation. Still a long way to go, but I guess it's an OK milestone to celebrate 🥂

(particularly given that I think at least a few of the words are pretty decent)

A Starter Pack to connect with political scientists at Aarhus University 🥳

go.bsky.app/CbDyBb1

Seems like the standoff between the EP political groups means that all commissioners-designate get approved. No bloodbath or last-minute changes this time around

Et shoutout i ATS er vel nærmest den største hæder, man kan få? 🙌

Exciting findings from my good colleagues. Looking forward to reading more 🇪🇺

And another great EU starter pack 😊

For all newcomers interested in EU politics, here is a great starter pack of people to follow!

Would also happily self-nominate. Great list 🙏

Happy to see the BlueSky community growing. For anyone who has stumbled on my profile, I am currently writing my PhD dissertation on trilogues and won't be posting much until it is done (end of January, knock on wood). Happy to interact, though! 🙌

Great list, would be happy to be on it!