Is it only me or does it really smell like potential Orbanization? #bulgaria

strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news

Oh fuck my head

Yet again, lefties have hled their nose and voted for a right-winger to save democracy from the far right.

Contrast that to the large number of right-wingers who consistently chose far-right candidates over even centrists.

What a glorious day! ♥️🤍💚

A three-panel comic with Peter Parker (Spiderman in his civilian outfit) as the protagonist. The left hand side panel has Peter with a book open with the title "How to finish a paper". The right hand side panel has two images: on the top Peter reads in the book the phrase "Write It". In the bottom right panel, the third one, Peter sheds tears.

Fellow academics/writers, I come bearing bad news:

#AcademicSky #WritingSky #AcWri #AmWriting #GetYourManuscriptOut

🚀Welcome to the first #VORTEX Newsletter of 2026! Back from our consortium meeting in Cluj-Napoca, we share new blog posts, updates, and insights into our doctoral workspaces. At the same time, we move into our final year, entering a period of reflection. Read more vortex.uni.mau.se/2026/03/vort...

From March 23–26, 2026, the #VORTEX consortium met in Cluj-Napoca to discuss career paths, academic freedom, and ongoing projects. Workshops, ethics reflections, and collaboration sparked discussions and advanced the student and practitioner handbook.
#VORTEXresearch #RadicalizationStudies

J.D. Vance’s visit to Hungary is more about Vance 2028 than about Orbán 2026.

Zoek de verschillen. 🇳🇱 🐣 🇵🇹

Management consultants are ruining UK universities Relentless off-the-peg commercial rewiring has undermined British higher education

This critique is accurate but misses the main point - as so many accounts of politics do: the ideological context. These consultants are a symptom of the problem, not the cause. They are only so powerful because neoliberal ideology has captured our universities. 1/2

New Yorkers, join us in the first ever Mayor’s Municipal Madness: a competition of city fixes where everyone wins.

Pick your fix and vote here:
nyc.gov/madness

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96 Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died.

Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was 96.

So to review: Oil > $100 a barrel, ~30% increase at pump. Mortgages >6%. We replaced one Supreme Leader with his more hardline son, whose whole family we killed. We murdered ~160 girls. Everybody in world but Bibi is pissed at us. Spent more in 1 week on war than USAID costed for 6 months.

Sabine Volk wins the 2025 Rising Star Award European Consortium for Political Research

⭐ Exemplary, Profound, Innovative ⭐

🎉Congratulations to @sabinedvolk.bsky.social on winning the 2025 Rising Star Award, praised by the jury for her exceptional academic achievements in #PolSci

👏 Read more buff.ly/JuN5qVr

#ECPRPrizes @ameliahadfield1.bsky.social

🎉 New publication 😍 The 4th wave of the #farright is marked by #mainstreaming & #normalisation - but how can we distinguish between them? In our new article, @gefjonoff.bsky.social and I map the existing literature, introduce a conceptual framework & outline research avenues. doi.org/10.1017/S147...

lol

Today I had a meeting about funding I received for a November 2025 (!) presentation. Part of the agreement requires me to present the talk at a university-wide event in March 2026. I was told today I could either censor/change my talk’s title and receive the funding, or withdraw.

I withdrew.

When you're in social science. #AcademicChatter

Not too shocking from an extremist like Fuentes.
What worries me is how seemingly harmless debates about collapsing birthrates from your favourite podcast bro (Williams, Bartlett et al.) increasingly appear to be pipelines to more anti-feminist, misogynist, even far-right great replacement ideas. 1/

A Europe-led NATO would be very French.

Bad bunny holding a football that says “together, we are America.”

Together, we are America.

Well done, Bad Bunny.

Home - C-REX – Center for Research on Extremism Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.

Yesterday marked 10 years since C‑REX was founded. This thread highlight what the center has done — research, PhDs, datasets, events, policy engagement and international partnerships. THREAD 🧵 www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/english/

Great discussions are happening here at @hhu.de with the annual Graduate Conference on Party Research. Always great to present some work and connect with peers who geek out over party politics. #PolSci #Parties

The ultimate establishment post. Criticizing everyone else for using "fascism" for years and when you finally use it yourself, calling everyone who doesn't "perverse".

Fuck you, The Atlantic! You normalized their message with your endless paranoid scare campaign against so-called "wokeness".

Yes, I am single-issue posting. Because, here in the U.S., the regime's ICE attack on the country is the main story. No one is safe here as long as heavily armed gangs of thugs are roaming the streets and the regime is covering their crimes with lies.