It’s almost summer conference season and I for one feel seen.

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Looking forward to sharing some preliminary results from new work with Lukas Obholzer on this next week!

Well, that’s one way to test the second order election hypothesis. 😳😳😳

After his party's defeat and a historical score of the far-right at the European elections (37%!), Macron just announced that he dissolves parliament. 🧵 theguardian.com/world/live/202…

Our recent reminder of how different campaign styles were between the #Macron and #RN legislative candidates in 2022. The far right is certainly not “de-demonized.” Given how soon filing deadlines will need to be for a 30/6 election, we can imagine similar candidates again.

Be a comparativisit and never be entirely wrong.

Great to speak with Artículo 14 about all things EP elections and learn more about their great new news platform. After seeing my work translated into Welsh last week, why not Spanish this one! Nottingham Politics

Many thanks to Max Valentin Robert and the whole team at ESPOL-Lab @espol-lab.bsky.social for the great opportunity to discuss some developing work with Lukas Obholzer on European Parliament social media campaigns yesterday. Great questions and great ideas!

Very happy now to shift into full-on summer conference mode, presenting work today at ECPR European Union 🇪🇺 with Lukas Obholzer and connecting again with many friends and familiar faces. Obrigado, Lisboa!

Happy to chat with the team at The Currency about populist voting in 🇬🇧and🇫🇷elections. Both ended up being an interesting exercise in centre-/left-wing parties working strategically with their electoral systems, rather than against them. Nottingham Politics shorturl.at/FS6GR

I had incredible teachers in my suburban America late 1990s high school, but the thought that any of them - and *especially* the football coach - would have stood up for hurting gay kids like me to start a GSA is far fetched. So happy to see such a decent man chosen! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸