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🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 Universitair Docent in de Politieke Wetenschap (2x) Vragen? 👉 Ik beantwoord ze graag, of vraag het @mdigiuseppe.bsky.social www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

'Een kiesdrempel of districtenstelsel lijken aantrekkelijk maar centraliseren de macht en drukken kleinere partijen weg. Politieke representatie verschraalt, terwijl persoonsdemocratie verder wordt opgedrongen in een systeem dat daar helemaal niet voor bedoeld is.' vng.nl/nieuws/de-le...

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Canceling research on misinformation is not only an attack on science and academic freedom. It is also a democracy, safety, and security threat. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/b...

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

🚨 What is the "Great Replacement Theory" & who believes it? 🚨 In our forthcoming IMR paper, @jamesrdennison.bsky.social and I treat GRT as layered narratives, from demographic change to the elite plot. A representative German survey shows broad public agreement with several of these layers.

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

What a delight to receive proofs of our book! In the book, Rachid Azrout and I describe 51 cases of hate speech prosecution of 42 politicians in 9 countries since 1965. We argue, and show empirically, that such legal proceedings backfire in 3 ways. Published soon with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Terminating the grants to study misinformation is “an overt act of censoring and preventing accountability,” says Stephen Lewandowsky, a misinformation researcher at the University of Bristol. “Who other than a liar would cancel misinformation research?” 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

Job alert! We are looking for two postdoctoral researchers at the intersection of political psychology, science communication, and survey methodology: -One for my Vidi project on factual belief polarization. -One for my starting grant on the politicization of science. www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

'It was...Habermas’ mentor...Adorno, who wrote that the first step in that nation’s descent into hell was, and I quote, ‘the conversion of all questions of truth into questions of power,”’ Gore said. “The Trump administration is insisting on trying to create their own preferred version of reality.'

submitted 38 days ago • 10 comments

Harvard's Steve Levitsky, coauthor of How Democracies Die: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime." Must-listen interview - remarkably clear about the severity of the situation we now face www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

submitted 39 days ago • 37 comments

Vorig jaar verscheen dit rapport over democratische erosie, en de implicaties voor Nederland. @cvalebeek.bsky.social en ik schreven een bijdrage over gedrag. Na het afgelopen jaar (zie VS maar helaas ook NL) heeft het rapport niet aan relevantie ingeboet. www.kennisopenbaarbestuur.nl/documenten/2...

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

submitted 43 days ago • 146 comments

Mis/disinformation research officially cancelled. Understanding the creation, content, distribution, and susceptibility is one of today’s key scientific and societal challenges. Researching this is not free speech infringement. Such a claim is intentionally misleading. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

submitted 43 days ago • 7 comments

Another installment in my oft repeated observation: the Trump administration does not offer policy proposals in the traditional sense, nor does he engage in good faith negotiation. He demands concessions that give him wealth, status, submission, or subservience.

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."

submitted 46 days ago • 1100 comments

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

submitted 46 days ago • 7 comments

Everything ICE has been doing in recent weeks has been awful. But there's something about "Take him anyway" that should chill you even further to your bones.

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

submitted 48 days ago • 689 comments

Happy to see this paper out!

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Opdat wij niet vergeten: Vandaag 80 jaar geleden werd theoloog, predikant en verzetsstrijder Dietrich Bonhoeffer in concentratiekamp Flossenbürg op persoonlijk bevel van Hitler opgehangen.Zijn scherpe geest en de gedachten die hij naliet, zijn van blijvende actualiteit: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ww47...

submitted 53 days ago • 9 comments

The federal state of Saxony has just published first register data results from the German elections in 2025: These numbers show that young women overwhelmingly supported the LINKE (37%). Young men voted more strongly for the AfD (42%), but this is lower than among middle-aged men (50%).

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“The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for this administration” My NEH grant has been terminated Incredible when the funding for your book about the educational culture wars is cut as a result of the educational culture wars You can’t say history isn’t relevant

submitted 58 days ago • 135 comments

Levitsky on the most likely medium-term future for the US. I've expressed similar thoughts - lots of binary thinking out there about the likelihood of a return to the pre-2016 status quo vs. a descent into consolidated authoritarianism, but reality is likely to be messier and harder to classify

submitted 62 days ago • 15 comments

Great new piece form @philiprocco.bsky.social on what's at stake as the Trump administration works to undermine our official data: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb....

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Historical parallel here: In 2006, the political rights of Daniel Feret, then leader of the Belgian party called Front National (really!), were suspended for ten years. This was related to a conviction for, in brief, hate speech. In 2007, Feret was kicked out of his party - which never recovered.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

Altijd een goede krant gevonden, de Tubantia. www.tubantia.nl/andre-vis/ou...

submitted 63 days ago • 24 comments

"Dit is bijna hybride oorlogsvoering. De VS probeert de Groenlanders op te zetten tegen de Denen, in de hoop dat ze hen de rug toe keren. Je kan het vergelijken met wat Rusland heeft gedaan in Oost-Oekraïne." Bert De Vroey #terzaketv

submitted 64 days ago • 2 comments

Dit móet een één-aprilgrap zijn. www.rtl.nl/nieuws/polit...

submitted 66 days ago • 22 comments

New paper with Tilko Swalve, Merle Huber, Christoph Hönnige & @donyhu.bsky.social now out in @democratization.bsky.social 🥳 We argue that we need to look more closely at the threats to liberal democracy posed by authoritarian “populists before power” 🚨 doi.org/10.1080/1351...

submitted 67 days ago • 4 comments

Witkoff and Carlson talk about Europe exactly as Russian television propagandists do. Must dismiss the rich functional democracies where people lead long happy lives so that our own citizens settle for tawdry and impoverishing fascist oligarchy.

submitted 68 days ago • 63 comments

🚨Why do masses support democratic backsliding?🚨 A new @AJPS_Editor paper with Yotam Margalit, @liorsheffer.bsky.social and Itamar Yakir explores this question in the Israeli context. Our findings emphasize the role of leader attachment and affective polarization. doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

submitted 69 days ago • 9 comments

Universities are strong and fragile institutions. At the same time. We need them to be strong now. Don’t cave.

submitted 71 days ago • 3 comments

Bijzonder trots op de promotie van Laura Mulder gisteren. Met maar liefst drie (!) orginele dataverzamelingsprojecten. Lees hier over haar onderzoek naar jongeren en de ongelijke ontwikkeling van democratische houdingen en waarden. www.folia.nl/wetenschap/1...

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

We are sending people for indefinite detention without trial at a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer teams and about loving their mothers.

submitted 71 days ago • 423 comments

Remember when people used to say the warnings about Trump were alarmist? He’s now explicitly saying US citizens who damage private property that’s linked to one of his oligarch cronies will be sent to prisons in El Salvador.

submitted 72 days ago • 150 comments

Current situation w/NIH cuts & state-level efforts targeting mRNA vaccines might land us in dangerous feedback loop, where distrust fomented by health agencies breeds anti-vaccine laws reinforcing that distrust. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (thanks to @mattmotta.bsky.social for insights!) 🎁 link

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment