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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 8h

This whole thread is incredibly important for young scholars. We all get rejected. The very first line of the first review of the first ever paper I submitted to a journal read:

"I strongly oppose publication of this manuscript in [Journal name] and any other journal"

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 10h

During my PhD, I got a rejection that stung:
 “This paper is looking for a needle in a haystack, and this should give the author pause to question if this entire exercise is worth it.”
 My PhD wasn’t Animal Farm, but still this stung.

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 5d

Happy to host you at our Institute!

María Ruiz @ruizhdezmaria.bsky.social · 5d

✨ Delighted to begin my visiting research stay at the @socfub.bsky.social, @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social.

Deeply grateful to Prof. @bcastanho.bsky.social for hosting me.

Looking forward to advancing,and hopefully completing my thesis here. Also for discussions and collaborations.

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Lanabi @lanabi.bsky.social · 5d

New paper 🚨 “Vicarious denial: war crimes & online deliberation in Serbia” 🇷🇸 with @denisakost.bsky.social

We scrape 4 news sites + reader comments and blend text-as-data (keywords; neg. binomial/logistic; BERTopic/SBERT) with critical discourse analysis to track on-topic debate & denial.

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 5d

I hear deportation is a great way of solving criminality oh no wait

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 5d

I don't think it's cognitive dissonance. Europeans disapprove Trump for style not substance

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Sven-Oliver Proksch @sopro.bsky.social · 6d

This is a fantastic public good for scholars working on parliaments and representation!

Jens Wäckerle @jwaeckerle.bsky.social · 6d

New data for legislative scholars! Committee Membership Dataset with @bcastanho.bsky.social, @dmpullan.bsky.social and Firuze Taner:

Committee assignments for all MPs (Wikidata IDs!) in 14 countries
Harmonized roles/policy areas

Data: doi.org/10.7802/2940
Working paper: tinyurl.com/vf54r78p

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GESIS-Suche

doi.org

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 6d

It's finally out! All parliamentary committee assignments for 14 countries, 30+ years, harmonized with other MP and parties datasets

Jens Wäckerle @jwaeckerle.bsky.social · 6d

New data for legislative scholars! Committee Membership Dataset with @bcastanho.bsky.social, @dmpullan.bsky.social and Firuze Taner:

Committee assignments for all MPs (Wikidata IDs!) in 14 countries
Harmonized roles/policy areas

Data: doi.org/10.7802/2940
Working paper: tinyurl.com/vf54r78p

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GESIS-Suche

doi.org

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 7d

Top papers in any social science discipline generally require huge amounts of work which are equivalent to books. People think their own discipline is the special hardworking snowflake only because that’s the only one they’ve seen up close

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 7d

Very cool (and depressing)

Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 7d

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 8d

Tell me you work in Germany without telling me you work in Germany

Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 8d

Buying a USB-C to VGA adapter because the future is now but my employer hasn't quite arrived yet.

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 12d

Very happy to host @francescafeo.bsky.social this term!

Francesca Feo @francescafeo.bsky.social · 12d

🚨Excited to begin my research stay at the Institute of Sociology, @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, hosted by Prof. @bcastanho.bsky.social.
Grateful for the opportunity and looking forward to advancing my work in this inspiring environment!

Happy to catch up on research & (academic) life, just DM!

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Carol Galais @galais.bsky.social · 15d

Proud to be part of such a productive research group!

🔎Looking for a panel survey? Feel free to use ours!

Roberto Pannico @robpannico.bsky.social · 15d

From the research group @dec-gr.bsky.social, we are glad to share our new Scientific Data article presenting the release of the first 12 waves of the Spanish Political Attitudes Panel (POLAT).

rdcu.be/eIkms

The Spanish Political Attitudes Panel (12 waves)

Scientific Data - The Spanish Political Attitudes Panel (12 waves)

rdcu.be

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 17d

Wait wait wait. A paper that explains radical right support with a sensible theoretical mechanism and a causal explanation that can actually be influenced by policy? Didn't know these still existed

Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 19d

Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 19d

this is a depressingly good point (about how the EU / Aus / China / Asia-Pac etc did not step up nearly enough to fill the gap left by USAID)

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 19d

if literally any country on earth had responded to the imminent death of millions by saying "i think that shouldn't happen," then -- fine. the era of american hegemony is over.

but no one did that. that's still a need unserved. and if we abdicate in 2029 (or whenever), it will continue to be.

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 22d

Congratulations! They're lucky to have you!

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 23d

That looks cool, thanks for sharing!

Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 25d

Curioso pra ler!

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 26d

The current consensus in political science is that Nazis hating me and me hating Nazis are both equal parts of the ~polarization problem

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 26d

💯 yes to this

Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 26d

Political science has obsessed over polarization while largely neglecting extremism, and with few exceptions has been inattentive to the roots of it all—power, structures, and identities. Too many elites are just as unprepared. Thus, their takes are empty, trite, and naive.

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 26d

But since people on the other side of the political spectrum are not speaking out well there's nothing else to do, move on everyone

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 27d

Periodic reminder.

I will come to your office and set your computer on fire 🔥

$Screenshot of a tweet that contains two slides from a presentation: the first reads "If the first line of your R script is setwd("C:\Users\jenny\path\that\only\I\have") I will come into your office and SET YOUR COMPUTER ON FIRE", the second reads "If the first line of your R script is rm(list = ls()) I will come into your office and SET YOUR COMPUTER ON FIRE$

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 27d

Oh the amount of colleagues for whom Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer waltzed off their tongues but still cannot pronounce a friend's 5-letter foreign name even once...

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Eva Anduiza @evaanduiza.bsky.social · 27d

🧲 We are hiring!
✨ PhD position to join @dec-gr.bsky.social
🏁 4-year FPI contract
🎓 Pol Sci / Social Sci background + Master’s + English
📧 Send expression of interest with CV and motivation letter to [email protected]
🔗 tinyurl.com/yc3epmv2

Call for expressions of interest for a PhD scholarship within the project GPOL – Democracy, Elections and Citizenship

tinyurl.com

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 27d

I feel I should clarify I have no idea of anything cycling and have no clue who this person is but sure go for it! As long as there's no wolves on the way

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