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ICYMI: Court validates victory of Bucharest mayor Nicusur Dan, who defeated nationalist AUR leader George Simion. Bne IntelliNews

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#Authorship plays a central role in academics' credibility and career progression. Yet restrictive authorship practices risk perpetuating inequalities and sidelining key knowledge contributions – Joseph Mellors and Stroma Cole for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social‬

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#ecprjs25

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🧵1/ Just listened (online) to Petr Kopecký’s ECPR Joint sessions lecture on patronage and autocratisation. Sharp, clear, and useful framework for thinking about how democracies erode. Though wish he’d engaged with critique of Magyar & Madlovics in their writing on Post-Communist Regimes.

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The exit poll from today's presidential election in Poland shows government-aligned candidate Rafał Trzaskowski (30.8%) narrowly ahead of opposition-backed Karol Nawrocki (29.1%). The top two will meet in a run-off vote on 1 June. Stay with us for further updates in the coming hours.

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Romania, Avandarge exit-poll: Presidential election, second round today Dan (*-RE): 55% Simion (AUR-ECR): 45% ➤ europeelects.eu/romania

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New post just out: "On the Brink" Why so many universities are in serious financial trouble. Why it's about to get worse. What the government could do about it. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...

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Just learned something new. You can buy spurious citations that will show up on Google Scholar -- and people do.

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Very true - though Farage does have a strange personal and political resilience and adaptability.

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Who will win Poland’s crucial presidential election ? Liberal-centrist Rafał Trzaskowski by the look of it - at least in first round. Both liberal and conservative camps trying to build up momentum negatively by mobilising against other, it seems. polishpoliticsblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/15/w...

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Late Tuesday, Hungary's ruling Fidesz party introduced a bill titled "On transparency in the public sphere," aiming to restrict NGOs and media outlets receiving foreign funding. telex.hu/english/2025...

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Oh great listen. Prof Martyn Rady ex @uclssees on Siege of Vienna in popular history pod. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

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“… so many institutions are dumping written exams in favour of dissertations or online assessments”. Er, no @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social true-ish once - tho not just for cost reasons - but now trend is really the reverse as unis scramble to AI-proof assessments. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Sign of the times - though tbh perhaps it isn’t too sci-fi to imagine a world where manuscripts and reviews are all done by AI…

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Reform can say it is no longer unthinkable that Nigel Farage could be the next Prime Minister. But that very "thinkability" may prove Farage's biggest barrier once voters need to choose a government - given his polarising reputation + Brexit’s fading appeal. www.easterneye.biz/uk-local-ele...

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In Birmingham for a workshop. Looked from my hotel window that Elon Musk was extending his influence, but turns out it was an office development branded with a Roman number 10 not big tech oligarchy taking over.

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Europe’s socialists are coming under fire for not backing Romania’s centrist candidate in the presidential election — even with the far right on track to take power in Bucharest.

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President Zelensky takes a moment out of an official visit to to talk to Ukrainian cleaning staff working in the Czech parliament. www.novinky.cz/clanek/domac...

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The only thing it’s fair to conclude from this chart is that even soft drinks have better logos than universities.

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Discuss (Source: Private Eye letters page)

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Populist “contagion” (in the political science sense of imitation) from Reform reaching some unexpected places. pocket.co/share/a2ba40...

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In my view (1) the mass university system we have built since the 1970s is now likely coming to an end, if not in this Parliament than in the next; (2) university bankruptcies (perhaps disguised as mergers) are inevitable. Sorry, but there it is.

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Watch our webinar on Monday aabs-balticstudies.org/2025/04/18/w...

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Romania, 90.21% of votes counted: Presidential election, first round today Simion (AUR-ECR): 40% Antonescu (PSD/PNL/UDMR-S&D|EPP): 20.8% (-0.1) Dan (-RE): 20.4% (+0.5) Ponta (-S&D): 13.7% (-0.4) Lasconi (USR-RE): 2.6% +/- vs. 85.02% of votes counted ➤ europeelects.eu/romania

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R.E.M. podporují Rádio Svobodná Evropa svou dávnou písní Radio Free Europe. 👍🏻 @michaelstipe.bsky.social

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2025 is the third time Nigel Farage has the leading party nationally in a mid-cycle election UKIP won 2014 Euros Elections on 27% - the first modern national contest not won by Cons/Labour Brexit won 2019 Euros on 30.5% Reform 2025 equiv national share of 30% now emulates this in local elections

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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today we explore the explosive fight over tariffs in Britain in the early 20th century. David talks to historian @robertsaunders.bsky.social about how Joseph Chamberlain made tariff reform a great popular cause & how it nearly destroyed his party. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

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Was C19th Birmingham reformer, liberal-turned-imperialist and tariff fan Jospeph Chamberlain a Victorian proto-Trump? (And would he have got the bins emptied by now?) Interesting listen podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

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This feels like a ‘rope a dope’ strategy that could very easily backfire.

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Very good analysis by @robfordmancs.bsky.social. We need PR in the UK, starting with local elections in England and Wales (it’s already used for these elections in Scotland and NI): www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Hungarian Two-tailed Dog Party stages largest protest to date against amendment of Assembly Act

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📊 Chart of the week: defence expenditure in 2024 and capital city distance to Moscow, European NATO countries 🪖 🖊️ By @guntramwolff.bsky.social @steinbacharmin.bsky.social and @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social 🔗 Policy Brief here: buff.ly/4TTXiYf

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The EU is facing an “Orbán problem”. That much is clear. LUKE DIMITRIOS SPIEKER argues that the Commission should submit a new proposal under Article 7(2) TEU focusing on breaches of solidarity and threats to the Union’s security: verfassungsblog.de/tackling-orb...

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Feels almost cruel to point out that all the bollocks about our 10% tariffs being a 'Brexit benefit' lasted for about four days. But here we are...

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An #Ukrainian soldier gets a hero's welcome home from his #cat

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From the current maelstrom, some kind of new political economic orthodoxy and reconfigured global order seems certain to emerge. I would really like that not to involve 3 expansionist, authoritarian superpowers battling for control of shipping and drilling in the Arctic as the ice melts.

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