Francesca Vantaggiato

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship: 2026 scheme at King's College London Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

Call for expressions of interest from applicants who wish to apply for a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship with King’s College London as their host organisation.

Areas include social sciences, law, and business.

Switching my website from Hugo to Quarto – Nicola Rennie Having recently converted my personal website from Hugo to Quarto, this blog post explains the motivation behind it, the things that were tricky to switch, and some tips if you’re thinking about doing...

I've written a short blog post about the process of switching my personal website from Hugo to Quarto, some of the tricky things, and advice for those thinking about doing the same!

Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/hugo-qu...

#RStats #QuartoPub

In his post today Matt Goodwin is worrying that Reform may be taken over by careerists whose only interest in personal advancement and financial benefit. Surely not.

🚨 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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Yesterday's #NoKings protests seem to have matched, if not beaten, the record numbers of the 2017 Women's March. Let's hope it can be repeated and will have electoral impact.

AEP Lecturer in Politics and Research Methods

We’re hiring 3 permanent (tenured) lecturers in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. These are ‘education pathway’ posts (in Economics, Research Methods, & Comparative Politics) 1/4

www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117268-...

www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117209-...

www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117245-...

Happy Bicycle Day!
Switching urban mobility to cycling means healthier people, huge savings for the health budget, and fewer road deaths and injuries, but we need good cycling infrastructure. We need uninterrupted cycle paths separate from traffic.

Italians abroad voting on June 8-9:

reminder that you’ve got to send your ballots to your relevant consular office no later than *today* as they need to arrive by the p.m. of June 5 to be counted.

Sent mine last week. Join us ❤️

The majority of Italians thinks that citizenship accelerates the integration process as well. Eurobarometer data show that 87% of Italians believe that acquiring Italian citizenship is an important factor for the successful integration of immigrants in Italy.

europa.eu/eurobaromete...

Elon Musk Says He'll Step Back From the Government. DOGE Isn't Going Anywhere It may seem as though the worst excesses of DOGE have passed. The reality is, the whole government is DOGE now.

Musk’s official position I that he has stepped down as leader of DOGE, a position that he also denies ever holding. But DOGE is a network and Musk is still the central node www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Petition An Open Letter to Keir Starmer We, the undersigned, strongly advise against the proposed changes to the UK immigration system of May 12, 2025, and your associated rhetoric. We are UK-based academics.....

My colleague @mgerver.bsky.social has created this open letter to Keir Starmer opposing the measures announced in last week's Immigration White Paper, on economic, political and moral grounds.

Open to all academics/researchers to sign.

molliegerver.weebly.com/petition.html

Zack Elkins (@zachelkins.bsky.social) compiled a wonderful collection of perspectives on academic writing (esp. as a political scientists).

I use it often.

His page: sites.google.com/site/zachelk...

I made a backup here as well, so nothing is lost: github.com/carlislerain...

The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"

We need more of this sort of thing.

"Change is good, say local residents as absence of anxiety grips local area."

New (first! 🥳) Publication 🚨

High-street retail vacancies, capturing economic decline, are linked to increased support of UK's populist party, UKIP (now Reform).

I see America has entered the ‘Therese Coffey extolling the joys of the humble turnip’ era of Brexit.

Editing, the Work Beneath the Words How To Reveal What the Marble Hides

The written piece gets the glory, but really editing does the heavy lifting.

Today I talk about the invisible craft behind strong (academic) writing.

Spoiler: It’s not the idea or insight, but it’s the revision.

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open.substack.com/pub/catherin...

“Climate change is already affecting every inhabited region across the globe, with human influence contributing to many observed changes in weather and climate extremes”.

Fruth: “I’m still puzzled why, of all animals, bonobos were the ones to form female alliances. We might never know, but it gives me a glimmer of hope that females of our closest living relatives, in our evolutionary line, teamed up to take the reins of power alongside males.”

My book Democracy Under Strain is finally out, and I couldn’t be happier. 🥳 It’s been a long, challenging journey—but one that’s shaped me deeply as an academic. Here’s what it’s about 🧵 #DemocracyUnderStrain (1/11)

The US has the power to switch off the UK's nuclear subs, posing a security issue Prime Minister Keir Starmer recently boarded one of the UK's four nuclear-armed submarines for a photo call as part of his attempts to demonstrate the UK's defense capabilities as tensions with Russia...

Oh oh ...
The US has the power to switch off the UK's nuclear subs, posing a security issue phys.org/news/2025-03... via @physorg_com

Lecturer in Environmental Politics at The University of Manchester Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer in Environmental Politics. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

The University of Manchester seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Environmental Politics. More info: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMM071/. Closing date: 8/5/2025. I am not involved in the search but would love to see more colleagues in environmental policy and governance. #PublicPolicy #Polisky #PolicyProcess

Italy one of five ‘dismantlers’ causing ‘democratic recession’ in Europe, report says Civil liberties report warns that Italy along with Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Slovakia intentionally undermining rule of law ‘in nearly all aspects’

Europe's democratic recession and why the EU's rule of law monitoring exercise isn't stopping it.

Report on annual @liberties.eu survey.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Screenshot of text from a Nature Ecology & Evolution Editorial entitled "Deep cuts"

In our latest Editorial we discuss the continuing damage being done to US science, and its impact on researchers and the environment 👇

Deep cuts: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share that my paper on citizen-to-citizen persuasion, co-authored with Carlos Rueda-Cañòn and @tjryan02.bsky.social, was just accepted at the Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social . Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 🧵

The top 20% of political science departments produced 75% of all tenure track research university faculty & the bottom 50% accounted for less than 5%
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Delighted to be soon presenting this joint work with @envpolicycenter.bsky.social, @mnowlin.bsky.social, Wie Yusuf and Majid Shafiee-Jood at @uclamericas.bsky.social :)

🎤IN-PERSON SEMINAR: www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/eve... by @fpvantaggiato.bsky.social hosted by @malugatto.bsky.social