Feliz natal, Alda! Bjs
Feliz natal, Alda! Bjs
Time for high quality academic publishers to deal with this impending AI references’ crisis in academic journals, or else risk witnessing the demise of their golden eggs goose.
Researchers find that influencers influence. New experimental evidence for old theories around opinion leaders, parasocial relationships, and persuasion, with implications for political messaging in our digitally connected era.
www.wired.com/story/the-mo...
No país da Giorgia Meloni há uma nova lei do femicídio depois do assassinato de 2 jovens mulheres. Em Portugal, até Novembro, tinham sido assassinadas 24 mulheres, mas está tudo bem. www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...
🌳 Thrilled to launch The PopulisTree — a new website covering decades of populism in Europe (both national and European elections) using a new taxonomy and dataset.
🔗 populistree.org
📄 More in my brand new article in European Union Politics:
🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Os dez anos da classificação de Óbidos como Cidade Criativa da Literatura da UNESCO vão ser comemorados, no próximo dia 11, com a inauguração de um monumento e um programa com a participação de escritores e leitores.
Sabe mais: comunidadeculturaearte.com/obidos-celeb...
Screenshot from The Onion, originally published October 9, 2002. Headline: Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches for Grandkids Below it, a photo of a plate with multiple deconstructed sandwiches balanced precariously, vaguely resembling a Frank Gehry building.
Frank Gehry, 1929–2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...
Do #training subsidies improve worker outcomes? Using the German case, Christine Dauth @iabnews.bsky.social shows that training #subsidies significantly increase cumulative #employment duration and #earnings in the short run and middle run for workers, especially #women.
doi.org/10.1177/0019...
Morreu a jornalista Constança Cunha e Sá. Tinha 67 anos
Leia mais: www.publico.pt/2156697
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
💡NEW STUDY FINDS…💡
There are two patterns of defection from the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS): towards the radical left and the radical right.
READ the article by A. Espírito-Santo, sofiaserrasilva.bsky.social, and N. Santos 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
A Constança Cunha Sá vai fazer muita falta. Depois de uma carreira no jornalismo que passou por vários jornais e revistas, conheci-a como uma voz independente, divertida, e destemida. Nunca tinha medo de ir à guerra, fosse com quem fosse. Ficamos mais pobres sem ela. Descanse em paz.
Breaking news: Tom Stoppard, the Czech-born British playwright whose intellectually daring and verbally dazzling works became some of the most acclaimed and frequently staged of the past half-century, has died at 88.
Um dia bom para os direitos humanos na União Europeia.
Mais de metade do debate a falar de corrupção…
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
Abstract of the article "The irresistible populist force: the Portuguese 2025 snap elections" by Luís Russo.
Figures 2 (upper panel) and 3 (lower panel), displaying yearly change in frequency of the two most important issues facing Portugal (2024-2025; Figure 2) and the three most important concerns facing Portuguese respondents (Figure 3).
Figure 4, displaying political party account engagements in Facebook (left panel) and Instagram (right panel).
Figure 10, displaying vote switches from different parties in 2024 (left) into Chega in 2025 (right).
💥 Online first:
"The irresistible populist force: the Portuguese 2025 snap elections" by Luís Russo
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...
Portugal, Pitagórica poll:
Presidential election
M. Mendes (*-EPP): 23% (+3)
Gouveia e Melo (*): 21% (-6)
Seguro (PS-S&D): 17% (-1)
Ventura (CH-PfE): 15% (+1)
Cotrim (IL-RE): 13% (+4)
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+/- vs. 06-10 October 2025
Fieldwork: 05-14 November 2025
Sample size: 1,000
➤ europeelects.eu/portugal
Como poderão já ter notado, foi publicada a carta hoje, no Público on-line, em defesa de uma reforma da Ciência, com autonomia, ambição e responsabilidade: www.publico.pt/2025/11/15/c...
Se concordarem, era mesmo importante recolher assinaturas neste link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
De forma algo inesperada, a presidência da Assembleia Municipal de Lisboa fica para o ex-ministro socialista do PS André Moz Caldas, que promete ser “isento”.
Promotional image for the European Political Science Review featuring text that reads "EPSR, European Political Science Review, NEW ISSUE" in a dual-tone beige and purple colour scheme.
Latest issue from @epsrjournal.bsky.social -
European Political Science Review - Volume 17 - Issue 4 - November 2025 - https://cup.org/4oDPDka
#OpenAccess
Útil, num momento em que cada vez mais se fala de outros partidos europeus em Portugal.
Obrigada pela dica!
Really interesting thread on how social media has become the main channel for communicating science around the world.
Muito obrigada pela partilha.
Some key findings:
1️⃣ #Social #media are the most important source of information about science in most countries – but traditional #news media remain relevant, particularly in Northwestern Europe.
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"Legitimating Austerity. The Politics of Crisis in Southern Europe".
A new book by Tiago Moreira Ramalho, Professor at SciencePo ULB (Centre d'étude de la vie politique de l'ULB - Cevipol), by Bloomsbury.
www.bloomsbury.com/in/legitimat...
Sondagem. Pela primeira vez, Gouveia e Melo não lidera. Marques Mendes à frente, Ventura logo atrás.
All this and more on the link above, and many thanks to the wonderful @bonniefield.bsky.social for all her support in the publication process. 5/5