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For scholars of elections and European politics: the European Elections Study 2019 #EES2019 is going ahead. We can't wait to share the data with the research community!

“Sun boycott reduced Euroscepticism on Merseyside”. Good write up of a great piece of research by @FlorianFoos and @DanBischof ft.com/content/ffdb6e…

Constituency with the most poverty (54% of kids in poverty) is Bethnal Green & Bow in London. It voted remain (69%). What is it about places with a high % of non-whites that they can be ignored by wealthy white leavers in their pure people vs corrupt elite narrative?

We're hosting a workshop on Euroscepticism and EU legislative politics Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS) in February! Submit your abstracts by 6 November. CfP:  scripts-berlin.eu/news-media/new…

+CfP+ The contestation of European integration has become a key feature of EU politics. How does this play out in legislative politics? We invite papers that explore how and to what extent Euroscepticism shapes legislative behavior in the EU institutions t.ly/mg5dx

Belgian humor has no limits

For those navigating the remote instruction transition from a technology and pedagogy perspective, we've collected a range of resources here: teachremotely.harvard.edu Of course lots of other challenges. #COVID19 #Harvard

BRAND NEW #FutureEUreport The Future of the EU: new perspectives, is OUT TODAY Georgina Wright Luigi Scazzieri @JMieral Sophia Russack Lukas Obholzer Paula Lamoso KatjaSwider Armida van Rij Nele Marianne Ewers-Peters Josephine Harmon Julia Magntorn Garrett Brendan Moore ukandeu.ac.uk/research-paper…

The flip side of this, as Lukas Obholzer argues is that of Ursula von der Leyen’s weak position may mean the EP might in fact be strengthened in future, with a renewed #Spitzenkandidaten system and potentially the right of legislative initiative. (A stronger EP. Yippee… 🙄) 5/24

Quarantine day 6.

Ein Bild, das unfassbar weh tut. In #Bergamo werden die Särge von 70 Toten per Militärkonvoi aus der Stadt gefahren, weil die Krematorien überfüllt sind. Hinterbliebene können sich nicht verabschieden. Dieses Foto ist ein Einschnitt, die Situation ist ernst. #COVID19 #StayAtHome

In South Africa, even if Covid cases are being under-reported, total deaths in the last month are down

Great piece on Africa's response to covid-19

Incredible

Is it fair at this point to think that the Oxford scientists who developed the vaccine at record speed are absolutely brilliant but that AstraZeneca is perhaps a little incompetent? nytimes.com/live/2021/03/2…

Germany vaccinations are now really picking up steam – thanks to general practitioners getting involved since Tuesday. What a beautiful sight!

Pfizer-BioNTech have announced that they will start manufacturing their highly effective Covid-19 mRNA vaccine in South Africa for distribution across the continent...more to come.

BREAKING [Thread]: 1. SA’s first real-world data on #Pfizer’s #COVID19 jab’s protection @ #Omicron infection + hospitalisation via @Discovery_SA + SAMRC Note: This is data from the 1st 3 weeks of the outbreak, so it might change - regard it as preliminary real-world data