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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 🧵

love it

Truly a pity. Cordelia Cupp one of the best characters of recent memory

in space no one hears your bells jingle

make a Bond movie casual

Tomorrow never dies, or perhaps it does, dunno, whatevs
make a Bond movie casual

Live and let sleeping dogs lie
make a Bond movie casual

Quantum of Shoelace

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make a Bond movie casual

Live and let sleeping dogs lie
make a Bond movie casual

Quantum of Shoelace
make a Bond movie casual

regular-pussy

GM - and I cannot stress this strongly enough - AFB
vox.com Vox @vox.com · 10d
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/LUCScTR

Ah yes, little known work by Agatha Jesus F*cking Christie

Said “sorry, can’t” more often than I thought I'd be capable of. Very much looking forward to expand this newfound skill next year. Mental health for the win
At this time of “LOOK WHAT I DID LAST YEAR,” let’s do something different.

Not: I WROTE A BOOK; I BOUGHT A HOUSE; I WON AN AWARD

Rather: something small you’re proud of.

I’ll start
I’m better at having “no f*cks left to give”
I stopped owning other people’s judgements of me
Most of the time

You?
At this time of “LOOK WHAT I DID LAST YEAR,” let’s do something different.

Not: I WROTE A BOOK; I BOUGHT A HOUSE; I WON AN AWARD

Rather: something small you’re proud of.

I’ll start
I’m better at having “no f*cks left to give”
I stopped owning other people’s judgements of me
Most of the time

You?

You don't really know happiness until you are done shaving a pile of wee baby carrots, by hand, in tiny slices

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Well, happy anniversary to one of the finest of festive exchanges

Curious to hearing how you feel about it now!

Stop scrolling and post two characters that bring you happiness
Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

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Here's a relatively recent (2024) syllabus for an MA course on #farright #voting
Far Right voting: a new reading list - kai arzheimer
I'm sharing my syllabus on the radical right vote in Europe.
www.kai-arzheimer.com

#55
Creation Lake (Rachel Kushner, 2024)

Somewhere at the intersection between a spy novel and a philosophical essay about the human nature, this was a pleasant surprise. Kushner writes smartly and compellingly, and her characters are deliciously flawed. If Schadenfreude was a book

#booksky 📚🖋️
@profsanderlinden.bsky.social describes the importance of having a multi-layered defense against misinformation, and why such education should be found in all schools.
THREAD.

My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.

I've collected his work here...

same here - down with skynet
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.

Well... cool, I guess?

Interesting indeed - it will take us decades to dissect all of this, and try to make sense of what happened

OMG this is 'le meme juste'

Imagine seeing this clip - just this clip - without knowing anything about the past 15 years of US politics. And being told that this is the new normal, and that about 50% of voters, plus minus irrelevant fluctuations, are ok to delegate their power to this
Trump: And I think based on that, I won't even take questions today because there's no way I can take questions that are in a comparable to what you just witnessed

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Trump: And I think based on that, I won't even take questions today because there's no way I can take questions that are in a comparable to what you just witnessed
I’m currently outside of the Kennedy Center:

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The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.

Well... cool, I guess?
Latest book organization just dropped. 👇

I plan to send it for review next summer. 🤞 Advance contract is w/ UChicago Press.

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If you're looking for a quick present for someone, ebooks are always great, and I've got a great one for the poli-sci, cyberpunk, big data nerd, and/or sci fi political thriller fan in your life.
www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/...

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📢 Happy that the Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication has just been published ! Have a look at my chapter on “Digital Intra-Party Democracy,” on how digital tools & AI are reshaping internal party processes and political participation. Link to my entry 👉🏻 www.elgaronline.com/display/book...
www.elgaronline.com
🫵WE WANT YOU 🎓
Are you interested in political communication, negative campaigning, and social norms? Are you experienced in quantitative methods? Do you have good rain clothes?

Then our postdoc position might be just for you: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Thank you for sharing. Merry Christmas
Vacancy — Postdoc: "Role of Social Norms and Norms Transgression in the Acceptance of Negative Campaigning"
<p><span>Are you passionate about political communication, election campaigns, and quantitative empirical research? The Amsterdam School of Communication Research is seeking a highly motivated Postdoc for the research project<em> ‘That’s (not) appropriate’– Role of Social Norms and Norm Transgression in Voters’ Acceptance of Negative Campaigning, </em></span><span>led by Dr. Corinna Oschatz.</span></p>
werkenbij.uva.nl