This morning at #ecprgc24.

🚨New publication 🚨 Our article "A Community of People Like Me. An Analysis of Members’ Perceptions of Their Engagement in Party Youth Wings" is now out in YOUNG. Co-authored with Ann-Cathrine Jungar journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/11… 1/4

One advantage of jet lag is that you get magnificent Dún Laoghaire pier all to yourselves at 6 am. #ecprgc24

Great assembly of scholars! Paul D. Webb Thomas Poguntke K. Kosiara-Pedersen Patricia Correa Thomas Montgomerie Gabriela Borz Duncan McDonnell Sofia Ammassari

Our favourite *duck* pond at UCD. A homage from Ben Stanley @bdstanley.bsky.social & me to the greatest ever tweet by a political scientist. [Photo & location direction from Anders R. Jupskås] #ecprgc24

Jesus apologises for not showing up to yesterday's reception at #ecprgc24 and transforming 7 vegan eclairs into enough food to actually feed 1000 political scientists.

It's the hope that kills you.

Budapest looking very fine this Saturday evening.

I will never forget the disappointment of listening to Oasis's third album on a long train journey from Holyhead to Aberystwyth during my Masters year. They should have stopped then.

Recurring characters you see on airplanes: The tall guy who stands up just after the plane lands and spends the next 10 minutes in this uncomfortable curved position. [He thinks he's on a bus and will miss his stop if he sits down].

As usual, I was one of the first to join in as people started clapping when the plane landed in Italy. I will do all I can to keep that tradition going (also because, for some reason, it embarrasses the Italians I know).

L'Italia è il paese che amo (cit) I've lived more of my adult life in Italy than anywhere else and it's always a pleasure to come back.

I'm in Europe doing interviews at the moment, but I put my "Australian politics" hat back on this morning to talk to Meredith Lake from ABC about the recent elections in the Northern Territory. From 32:00 to 38:00 & 44.00-51.00. abc.net.au/listen/program…

People on buses watching stuff on their phones without using headphones should be banned from using public transport for a year.

After a week in which my mum died on Wednesday and my dad on Friday, the sunset over Dún Laoghaire pier is a balm for the soul.