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Hunt continues for thieves after priceless jewels stolen in heist at Louvre museum in Paris - live updates France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati says the incident happened as the museum opened this morning.

Reading the BBC live updates on the Louvre jewel heist in reverse chronological order is a wonderful time you can have right now www.bbc.com/news/live/c6...

There are people in public life clearly and accurately stating the danger to America at this bizarre moment. Those people need support from every Conservative and Liberal American who find our Constitution worth preserving.

Russia Suspected of Jamming GPS for E.U. Leader’s Plane, Officials Say The Bulgarian authorities believe that Russia disrupted navigation signals that would have been used by a plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen, European officials said.

A plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the EU's executive arm, suffered from jamming of GPS navigation while flying over Bulgaria. The authorities believe that Russia was behind the operation, European officials said on Monday.

We are really excited to welcome so many excellent scholars to Oslo for our WhoGov workshop/mini conference on political elites on September 1-2.

If you are in or around Oslo and want to join for a session or a day, please reach out. You can find the program here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wp9m6...

🧵IR scholars, let's start a thread of what we know that's relevant for a US attack on Iran. Won't change any minds, but might help us teach this crisis and learn new angles. Please add (incl. your own work!), forgive/correct omissions. Nobody can cover everything and it's great to find new work. 1/?

If your loans go into debt collection, remember the onus is on the collector to prove that the loans are legally yours. Often collectors rely on intimidation. No paperwork, no signature, no payment.

US researchers, help me out:

More and more of my European colleagues are in the proces of cancelling visits to your institutions. For reasons of both politics and safety.

What is your sense?

How do Europe best support you?

Massive, horrifying news.

Really pleased that my @annualreviews.bsky.social on "Gender and Leadership in Executive Branch Politics" w/ @tiffanydbarnes.bsky.social is now out!

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Same. Every day is some new horror but yesterday felt like a breaking point for me.

If you could only assign undergrads one think-piece on the European Union today, what would you choose? I need some inspiration!

Ever wondered why Flanders and Wallonia vote so differently? 🇧🇪🗳️

In my second PhD chapter – out now in EPSR – we look at cleavage structures in both regions

Very (!) happy to see this published: cambridge.org/core/journal...

The parenting equivalent of the walk of shame is having to text the parents of the kid who came over for a play date to tell them that your kid started vomiting just a few hours later and you are SO SORRY if their kid gets it too 😫

As the far right grows stronger, use of the wishy-washy term 'hard right' to describe it has risen. Using Nexis (limiting searches to Newspapers/Europe/English lang), you see an increase of 91% in stories mentioning 'far right' in 2024 compared to 2022. For 'hard right' the increase is 184%. 🧵1/n

This news day has been absolutely crap for my anxiety.

🧐Do you teach comparative politics?
❓Do your students sometimes struggle to find the right data for their projects?

If so, my chapter might be what you need! It offers a collaboratively curated collection of data sets specifically tailored for the study of political institutions polisky

Donald Trump Jr. arrives in Greenland after his father said the U.S. should own the Arctic territory The eldest son of President-elect Donald Trump arrived in Greenland on Tuesday for a private visit that heightened speculation that the incoming U.S. administration could seek to take control of th…

Trump Jr. is visiting Greenland "in a private capacity" as we speak. This Greenland issue is more real than many of us are considering it to be. It may end with more U.S. bases with special rights (read: protectorate of the U.S.), if not full annexation.

www.counton2.com/news/nationa...

Can’t wait to read this!

New Working Paper: Teenage boys and girls in Norway are more ideologically polarized than ever. Using data for 130,000 high-schoolers over 34 years, I find that a surge in anti-feminism among boys is driving much of the recent trend.📈

Read: osf.io/preprints/os...
Findings 🧵👇

Wonderful. Thanks!

Is there any good work out there on how the Zoom era has changed the work of field interviews for better/worse?

This semester I teach a graduate course on "The Transformation of European Politics". The course is very book-heavy. The main focus is on party politics, which we analyze through a broad range of issues, such as democracy, ethnicity, gender, populism, and sexuality.

Below the books we'll discuss.

The office of the Prime Minister is largely a creature of convention and royal prerogative.

Formally speaking, one can be Prime Minister without being a party leader or even a parliamentarian.

Not EU per se but my students and I have loved Border by Kapka Kassabova Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe a.co/d/8ifpzwD

Teaching idea request: Good novels or narrative non-fiction about the European Union?

#polisky #TeachLearnSky

There's no such thing as an Interim or Temporary Prime Minister.

The correct term is Pub Quiz Prime Minister.

Cover of a book titled “Medieval Women”. Book has images of six medieval women on a blue background

So excited to finally dive into this Christmas gift! #medievalwomen #britishlibrary

This is my not-surprised surprise face 😐

Siri “unintentionally” recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95M Apple users may get $20 each for up to five Siri-enabled devices.

"The only clue that users seemingly had of Siri's alleged spying was eerily accurate targeted ads that appeared after they had just been talking about specific items like Air Jordans or brands like Olive Garden"