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Alessandro Nai
@alessandronai.bsky.social

Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam, ASCoR @ascor.bsky.social

Dark politics, Political communication & psychology, Negative campaigns, Leader personality

Editor-in-Chief at EJPR @ejprjournal.bsky.social

http://www.alessandro-nai.com .. more

Political science 51%
Sociology 18%
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After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

📚 Three volumes
⭐ 431 entries
🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world

A very short 🧵

🔥 Check out the APSA Political Communication awards!

Nominate & self-nominate!

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The APSA Political Communication section is accepting nominations for its annual awards. Please send nominations directly to the chair of each committee.

🔎 More details on awards, committee, and eligibility criteria:
politicalcommunication.org/awards/

Thanks Pavlos! 🫶

(and I'd say the secret is having WONDERFUL co-editors - would certainly not have done it without them 🙂)
The APSA Political Communication section is accepting nominations for its annual awards. Please send nominations directly to the chair of each committee.

🔎 More details on awards, committee, and eligibility criteria:
politicalcommunication.org/awards/

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Guys, guys—I found a Superb Owl that is also a Super Bowl!!!

For your consideration

hope this gets lots of love

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Sometimes reddit is an amazing resource.

www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/co...
From the Cooking community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the Cooking community
www.reddit.com

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This headline is true and I also couldn't disagree with the author more. To state the obvious, yeah, this is Zack de la Rocha's moment. But for whatever reason, he's out. And that's fine. The guy doesn't owe anyone a thing.
Zack de la Rocha, This Is the Moment You Were Made For
Tom Morello played a set of Rage Against the Machine songs at a Minneapolis concert, but they were missing one crucial ingredient: Zack de la Rocha.
www.rollingstone.com

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Just to be clear: best article in the *FIELD* of political communication, not the journal
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(SELF)NOMINATIONS OPEN

@apsa.bsky.social Walter Lippmann Award for Best Published Article in the field of political communication in ‘25

Low threshold, email to me by 1 March with link to article

The same article cannot be nominated in successive years

Self-nominate, really!

Plz RT

Info 👇
Section23 - American Political Science Association (APSA)
Political Communication (Section 23) The purpose of this section is to foster the study of political communications within the discipline of political
apsanet.org

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✨ Meet the Minds ✨

Charlotte Meier is a research associate and doctoral candidate at the Chair. She has been engaged in research and teaching.

Her entry “Digital activism” was recently published in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication.
🔗 www.elgaronline.com/display/book...

🚨
(SELF)NOMINATIONS OPEN

@apsa.bsky.social Walter Lippmann Award for Best Published Article in the field of political communication in ‘25

Low threshold, email to me by 1 March with link to article

The same article cannot be nominated in successive years

Self-nominate, really!

Plz RT

Info 👇
Section23 - American Political Science Association (APSA)
Political Communication (Section 23) The purpose of this section is to foster the study of political communications within the discipline of political
apsanet.org
Seven years ago yesterday, this ad ran during the Super Bowl.
'Democracy Dies in Darkness': Super Bowl commercial (2019)
YouTube video by Washington Post
www.youtube.com

HOLY MOLY!! Brilliant! 🔥🔥🔥

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📣 Fifth PolCom Classics 📣

What does research tell us about how politicians use social media — and where this is heading?

Join the next PolCom Classics with Peter Van Aelst!

🗓 Wednesday, March 4
🕛 12:00–13:00 CET, Online

Registration is free through the QR code or through the link below 👇
What Sofia is too modest to explicitly say in her post below, is that - in addition to our PRR youth wings book - she has a solo one coming out with OUP in June on grassroots women in the PRR:

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

We have a Boston Review Forum out today on the Democratic Party in a time of authoritarianism

www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
🎉 Really happy to see my first single-authored article published in @politicalgeography.bsky.social !

It analyses how inequalities in access to basic services (healthcare, education, roads, and internet coverage) affect levels of rural resentment

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[1/5]

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
There is nothing here! Unequal access to services and rural resentment in Spain
The rural-urban divide in political attitudes and behaviour has gained increasing attention in recent years. One of the key unresolved debates in this…
www.sciencedirect.com
'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3
AI is not a peer, so it can’t do peer review
If we still believe that science is a vocation grounded in argument, curiosity and care, we can’t delegate judgement to machines, says Akhil Bhardwaj
www.timeshighereducation.com
Coming out in June.

(when @casmudde.bsky.social & I will be presenting it at the @ces-europe.bsky.social conference in Dublin)

I wish <3

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Have a piece about our wonderful profession? Something about a new teaching initiative, a cool new way of doing research, a new dataset, a scientific innovation?

For this, and much more, do consider the @epsjournal.bsky.social !

Check it out 👇
📗 EPS publishes contributions written by and for the political science community.

❇️ We are the professional journal of @ecpr.bsky.social

🌱 Looked after by Editors @stellatseliou.bsky.social, Linda Basile & @ljramiro.bsky.social

🔓 Fully #OpenAccess from 2026

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So long, I barely knew thee
Has FIFA yet announced that its new Best Picture Award goes to “Melania?”
📗 EPS publishes contributions written by and for the political science community.

❇️ We are the professional journal of @ecpr.bsky.social

🌱 Looked after by Editors @stellatseliou.bsky.social, Linda Basile & @ljramiro.bsky.social

🔓 Fully #OpenAccess from 2026

buff.ly/WdoSNLx

Enjoy! It's a wild ride :)

Calculation of Volume is excellent!

New government coalition in the Netherlands “opts for knowledge and focuses on international talent"

Welcome back to the 21st century, NL (for now)
De coalitie kiest voor kennis en zet in op internationaal talent
De formerende partijen zijn van plan om stevig te investeren in onderwijs, onderzoek en innovatie. De bezuinigingen van het vorige kabinet op het onderwijs worden hiermee teruggedraaid. Caspar van den...
www-universiteitenvannederland-nl.translate.goog

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Submit your application for the political science position in our new cross-disciplinary project on Carbon Capture and Usage! The deadline is fast approaching! One week to go. Do not hesitate to contact me if you have questions! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (291366) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (291366), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, February 6, 2026
www.jobbnorge.no
Interested in an academic career in political science? Do you want to work in a vibrant department with friendly colleagues? Interested in climate governance or EU studies? Do to live close to nature, but also enjoy a vibrant cultural scene? Appreciate a good work-life balance?