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Prof David Farrell, UCD
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Full Professor UCD Politics. Member of the Royal Irish Academy. Member of the Academia Europaea. Representative politics, electoral systems, deliberative minipublics https://people.ucd.ie/david.farrell he/him. Personal account. .. more

David M. Farrell is a political scientist. He was appointed to the Chair of Politics at University College Dublin in 2009, having returned to Ireland after two decades working at the University of Manchester, where from 2006-09 he was Head of the School of Social Sciences. A specialist in the study of electoral systems, elections and parties, he has published 15 books and over 90 articles and book chapters. His most recent books include: Political Parties and Democratic Linkage (2011), which was awarded the GESIS Klingemann Prize for the Best Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) Scholarship, and Electoral Systems. He is the founding co-editor of Party Politics, the President of the Political Studies Association of Ireland and the Speaker of the Council of the European Consortium for Political Research. In 2013 he was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. In March 2019 he and Dr Jane Suiter were awarded the Brown Democracy Medal for the Irish Citizens' Assembly Project. .. more

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The best turkey afters

With Lucio in the background, of course.

Pavarotti on. Wine chosen. And risotto in progress. There’s turkey in the mix.

A perfect early morning Christmas walk around @ucddublin.bsky.social

The calm before…
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
hey #polisky - besides the annual meeting, APSA has a Virtual Research Meeting in April. connect.apsanet.org/vrm2026/

We're entirely shifting to a format of research groups: eight 90-minute sessions over two days where you curate a research network of 10-30 people to do cool shit. Examples:
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Wow
BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein
The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.
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Congratulations. And I’m also very impressed by the big hammer.

It’s hard to believe how far she’s come in just 3 weeks
Our neighbours at @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social are hiring 3 (!) tenure-track faculty members:

– Assistant Professor in Political Economy
– Assistant Professor in International Politics
– Assistant Professor in Political Science

Deadline: 15 Jan 2026
More details: jobs.tcd.ie
@tcddublin.bsky.social
The time between christmas and new year is usually a time of little political activity. But not this year in Kosovo, where a general election will take place on 28 December. Kosovo becomes the 12th European country since 1945 to hold more than 1 election in a calendar year.
The killing of these “regional centers” will make U.S. academia and society even more parochial and, ultimately, less competitive and safe.
UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026
As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...
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Bedding down
1/ 📣 Jobs alert! 3x 3 year post docs & 2 PhD studentships on the Global Methane Project with Jan Selby at Leeds Uni cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1...
Global Methane Politics | METH-POL | Project | Fact Sheet | HORIZON | CORDIS | European Commission
The ambition of the Global Methane Politics project is to produce a pioneering body of research that simultaneously establishes the distinctiveness of methane politics, investigates and demonstrates t...
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Announcement: The Second Advance Release of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) Module 6 dataset is now available for download! For more information, please see: cses.org/2025/12/16/m...

A glorious Dollymount afternoon

Oliver Sears, not for the first time, raises important points. Members of the Irish Jewish community need to be treated with a lot more respect than has been the case heretofore

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Oliver Sears: In Bondi, on the first night of Hanukkah, the intifada was truly globalised
Pointing to Gaza as an explanation for the Bondi killings is victim blaming
www.irishtimes.com

What a ridiculous proposition for a debate
WTF are we doing here, BBC?
WTF are we doing here, BBC?

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14 December 1903 | A Polish Jew, Bezalel Zucker, was born in Leżajsk. A merchant.

In #Auschwitz from 26 February 1942.
No. 25366
He perished in the camp on 9 March 1942.
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Our podcast talks about the situation of Polish & Jewish prisoners in the camp: https://youtu.be/_ZaWqIsmY4U

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Comedian Jimmy Carr with a great insight. Debate vs deliberation.

www.youtube.com/shorts/c7Kwg...
Less debate, more deliberation. #jimmycarr #hecklers #crowdwork #standup #heckles
YouTube video by Jimmy Carr
www.youtube.com

Sums it up perfectly
#speirgorm if you are in the Clonliffe Road area please keep an eye out for our lovely former foster boy Ernie

And we’re up 😊

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Greetings from Kyiv,
where I’m having a warcoffee in a bookstore
and waiting for something I want to show you soon.

Reposted by David M. Farrell

UCD SPIRe Receives Fáilte Ireland ‘Conference Ambassador Award’🏆

Congratulations to the committee members: David Farrell (Chair) @davidfarrell-ucd.bsky.social , Caitriona Dowd, Johan Dornschneider-Elkink, Alexander Dukalskis and the administrator, Joseph Dillon!

Full story👉 shorturl.at/CGbZF
UCD SPIRe Receive Fáilte Ireland ‘Conference Ambassador Award’
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