Veikko Isotalo
@isoveikko.bsky.social
PhD candidate in political science @SocSciHelsinki | intraparty competition | ideology | voting advice applications | FNES
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🚨 New paper with Maria Grasso on generational shifts in political values. Despite talk of rising age polarisation, we show that gaps in attitudes are stable or even narrowing. Economic attitudes move in cycles, while social values have become more liberal – mainly due to generational replacement.
Political Socialisation in the UK: Describing Generational Changes of Values - International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society
A growing bulk of research examines intergenerational shifts in attitudes and the extent to which they are attributable to new cohorts of voters being socialised under different socioeconomic and cult...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM
🚨 New paper with Maria Grasso on generational shifts in political values. Despite talk of rising age polarisation, we show that gaps in attitudes are stable or even narrowing. Economic attitudes move in cycles, while social values have become more liberal – mainly due to generational replacement.
Aika yllättävä veto, että vaalidataa laitetaan AWS pilveen (Ruotsin servereille). Kyse kuitenkin kriittisestä infrastruktuurista. Vaalitietojen näyttäminen ei ole enää ns. omissa käsissä.
Olisi kiva kuulla kyber-osaajien mietteitä tästä.
yle.fi/a/74-20191502
Olisi kiva kuulla kyber-osaajien mietteitä tästä.
yle.fi/a/74-20191502
Suomen vaalidata siirtyy Amazonin pilveen – USA:n vaalivilppiepäilyjä tutkinut asiantuntija varoittaa riskeistä
Ensimmäistä kertaa vaaleissa ehdokas- ja äänestäjätiedot sekä tuloslaskenta siirtyvät Suomen rajojen ulkopuolelle. Tutkija ei käyttäisi pilvipalvelua kansallisen turvallisuuden asioissa.
yle.fi
November 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Aika yllättävä veto, että vaalidataa laitetaan AWS pilveen (Ruotsin servereille). Kyse kuitenkin kriittisestä infrastruktuurista. Vaalitietojen näyttäminen ei ole enää ns. omissa käsissä.
Olisi kiva kuulla kyber-osaajien mietteitä tästä.
yle.fi/a/74-20191502
Olisi kiva kuulla kyber-osaajien mietteitä tästä.
yle.fi/a/74-20191502
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Ukraine may be repeating a costly mistake in Pokrovsk.
It’s a recurring pattern, seen for example in Vuhledar and Kursk – a reluctance to conduct a controlled, militarily justified withdrawal from a threatened salient when the situation no longer favors the defender. 1/
It’s a recurring pattern, seen for example in Vuhledar and Kursk – a reluctance to conduct a controlled, militarily justified withdrawal from a threatened salient when the situation no longer favors the defender. 1/
November 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Ukraine may be repeating a costly mistake in Pokrovsk.
It’s a recurring pattern, seen for example in Vuhledar and Kursk – a reluctance to conduct a controlled, militarily justified withdrawal from a threatened salient when the situation no longer favors the defender. 1/
It’s a recurring pattern, seen for example in Vuhledar and Kursk – a reluctance to conduct a controlled, militarily justified withdrawal from a threatened salient when the situation no longer favors the defender. 1/
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Ennen: Mannerheim-linja
Nyt: Linkola-linja
Nyt: Linkola-linja
Erinomainen idea.
”Biologin silmin paras ratkaisu olisi rajaseudun luontokäytävä, joka olisi suojeltujen ja ennallistettujen soiden ja metsien mosaiikki. Vanhat, tiheät metsät tarjoaisivat suojaa luontokappaleille ja drooneilta piiloutuville taistelijoille.”
suomenkuvalehti.fi/paajutut/ei-...
”Biologin silmin paras ratkaisu olisi rajaseudun luontokäytävä, joka olisi suojeltujen ja ennallistettujen soiden ja metsien mosaiikki. Vanhat, tiheät metsät tarjoaisivat suojaa luontokappaleille ja drooneilta piiloutuville taistelijoille.”
suomenkuvalehti.fi/paajutut/ei-...
”Ei kukaan hullu siitä hyökkää” – Biologi suunnitteli itärajalle upottavan panssariesteen
Biologi Risto Sulkava ehdottaa ennallistettavaksi 50 ojitettua suoaluetta itärajalta. Ne toimisivat panssariesteinä ja hiilinieluina.
suomenkuvalehti.fi
October 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Ennen: Mannerheim-linja
Nyt: Linkola-linja
Nyt: Linkola-linja
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💫💫💫 Great News: We are over the moon that our paper "Election Pledges in Multiparty Governments: When do Voters Accept Non-Fulfillment?" is now published in BJPS @bjpols.bsky.social 🍾 🤗
👉🏻 doi.org/10.1017/S000...
w/ Juha Ylisalo, Katrin Praprotnik & @laurenzennser.bsky.social
🧵1/5
👉🏻 doi.org/10.1017/S000...
w/ Juha Ylisalo, Katrin Praprotnik & @laurenzennser.bsky.social
🧵1/5
Election Pledges in Multiparty Governments: When do Voters Accept Non-Fulfillment? | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Election Pledges in Multiparty Governments: When do Voters Accept Non-Fulfillment? - Volume 55
doi.org
October 23, 2025 at 8:20 AM
💫💫💫 Great News: We are over the moon that our paper "Election Pledges in Multiparty Governments: When do Voters Accept Non-Fulfillment?" is now published in BJPS @bjpols.bsky.social 🍾 🤗
👉🏻 doi.org/10.1017/S000...
w/ Juha Ylisalo, Katrin Praprotnik & @laurenzennser.bsky.social
🧵1/5
👉🏻 doi.org/10.1017/S000...
w/ Juha Ylisalo, Katrin Praprotnik & @laurenzennser.bsky.social
🧵1/5
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The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
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Now out in Party Politics 🎉
Our study (@jbpilet.bsky.social)suggests that when a mainstream right-wing party signals willingness to rule with the radical right, support for the radical right rises — while the mainstream gains nothing.
👉 A legitimisation effect.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Our study (@jbpilet.bsky.social)suggests that when a mainstream right-wing party signals willingness to rule with the radical right, support for the radical right rises — while the mainstream gains nothing.
👉 A legitimisation effect.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
October 24, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Now out in Party Politics 🎉
Our study (@jbpilet.bsky.social)suggests that when a mainstream right-wing party signals willingness to rule with the radical right, support for the radical right rises — while the mainstream gains nothing.
👉 A legitimisation effect.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Our study (@jbpilet.bsky.social)suggests that when a mainstream right-wing party signals willingness to rule with the radical right, support for the radical right rises — while the mainstream gains nothing.
👉 A legitimisation effect.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Chatbots offer explicit vote advice ahead of elections.
A simple prompt leads to receiving an advice for the Dutch October 29 elections ⬇️
The Dutch Data Protection Authority concluded: AI chatbots are not transparent, they are not auditable, and providers should prevent use as vote advice.
A simple prompt leads to receiving an advice for the Dutch October 29 elections ⬇️
The Dutch Data Protection Authority concluded: AI chatbots are not transparent, they are not auditable, and providers should prevent use as vote advice.
October 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Chatbots offer explicit vote advice ahead of elections.
A simple prompt leads to receiving an advice for the Dutch October 29 elections ⬇️
The Dutch Data Protection Authority concluded: AI chatbots are not transparent, they are not auditable, and providers should prevent use as vote advice.
A simple prompt leads to receiving an advice for the Dutch October 29 elections ⬇️
The Dutch Data Protection Authority concluded: AI chatbots are not transparent, they are not auditable, and providers should prevent use as vote advice.
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...in contrast to the study above, @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social @hannawass.bsky.social and Johanna Peltoniemi find that in Finland, the implementation of postal voting had a negligible effect on turnout across low-participation areas
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
...in contrast to the study above, @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social @hannawass.bsky.social and Johanna Peltoniemi find that in Finland, the implementation of postal voting had a negligible effect on turnout across low-participation areas
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Great paper on the state of political science osf.io/preprints/os... by @guygrossman.bsky.social et. al. We have become more diverse, more quantitative, and more collaborative.
October 7, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Great paper on the state of political science osf.io/preprints/os... by @guygrossman.bsky.social et. al. We have become more diverse, more quantitative, and more collaborative.
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Online first:
"Women’s descriptive representation in multi-level political systems: (almost) no pyramids found"
The new research note by @adamgendzwill.bsky.social & Stanislaw Mazur
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
"Women’s descriptive representation in multi-level political systems: (almost) no pyramids found"
The new research note by @adamgendzwill.bsky.social & Stanislaw Mazur
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
October 7, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Online first:
"Women’s descriptive representation in multi-level political systems: (almost) no pyramids found"
The new research note by @adamgendzwill.bsky.social & Stanislaw Mazur
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
"Women’s descriptive representation in multi-level political systems: (almost) no pyramids found"
The new research note by @adamgendzwill.bsky.social & Stanislaw Mazur
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
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New paper with @hjghassell.bsky.social and @michaelheseltine.bsky.social out in @bjpols.bsky.social.
We develop measures of voter perceptions of candidate ideology and candidate messaging ideology and find that perception's are related to what candidates say www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
We develop measures of voter perceptions of candidate ideology and candidate messaging ideology and find that perception's are related to what candidates say www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
October 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
New paper with @hjghassell.bsky.social and @michaelheseltine.bsky.social out in @bjpols.bsky.social.
We develop measures of voter perceptions of candidate ideology and candidate messaging ideology and find that perception's are related to what candidates say www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
We develop measures of voter perceptions of candidate ideology and candidate messaging ideology and find that perception's are related to what candidates say www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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September 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
September 25, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
September 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Happy to see our study out! Our main takeaway is that while poor voters vote less often, are less ideologically aligned with their preferred party, and see their preferred party less often in government - voting still does not seem to explain unequal representation.
📘 64.4
@jesperlindqvist.bsky.social, @professormpersson.bsky.social, W.Schakel & A.Sundell look at 🗳️ voters’ policy preferences often misalign with what they get in practice with the study showing how this “electoral connection” gap contributes to unequal outcomes
#OA
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@jesperlindqvist.bsky.social, @professormpersson.bsky.social, W.Schakel & A.Sundell look at 🗳️ voters’ policy preferences often misalign with what they get in practice with the study showing how this “electoral connection” gap contributes to unequal outcomes
#OA
🔗
Poor choices? Examining the electoral connection behind unequal policy representation
JESPER LINDQVIST, MIKAEL PERSSON, WOUTER SCHAKEL, ANDERS SUNDELL
ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Happy to see our study out! Our main takeaway is that while poor voters vote less often, are less ideologically aligned with their preferred party, and see their preferred party less often in government - voting still does not seem to explain unequal representation.
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Millaista oli vaalijulkisuus viime presidentinvaaleissa? Mikä selittää presidentin korkeaa kansansuosiota? Tuore kokoomateos Presidentinvaalit 2024 avaa mm. näitä kysymyksiä. www.tuni.fi/fi/ajankohta...
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Jännittynyt turvallisuusympäristö heijastui vuoden 2024 presidentinvaaleihin | Tampereen korkeakouluyhteisö
Presidentinvaalit 2024 -teos analysoi vaalien ehdokasvalintaa ja kampanjointia, median roolia vaaleissa sekä kansalaisten näkemyksiä presidentin asemasta. Samalla kirja tarjoaa uusia avauksia Suome...
www.tuni.fi
September 24, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Millaista oli vaalijulkisuus viime presidentinvaaleissa? Mikä selittää presidentin korkeaa kansansuosiota? Tuore kokoomateos Presidentinvaalit 2024 avaa mm. näitä kysymyksiä. www.tuni.fi/fi/ajankohta...
@pisotalus.bsky.social
@elinakk.bsky.social
@asavschoultz.bsky.social
@isoveikko.bsky.social
@pisotalus.bsky.social
@elinakk.bsky.social
@asavschoultz.bsky.social
@isoveikko.bsky.social
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🚨🚨🚨 Survey Researchers! WE HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM!🚨🚨🚨
I have access to the Comet browser by Perplexity.
I asked it to pretend to be a human, take the survey, and give me feedback. IT DID!
I have access to the Comet browser by Perplexity.
I asked it to pretend to be a human, take the survey, and give me feedback. IT DID!
September 22, 2025 at 9:51 AM
🚨🚨🚨 Survey Researchers! WE HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM!🚨🚨🚨
I have access to the Comet browser by Perplexity.
I asked it to pretend to be a human, take the survey, and give me feedback. IT DID!
I have access to the Comet browser by Perplexity.
I asked it to pretend to be a human, take the survey, and give me feedback. IT DID!
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Like this! sessioninfo::session_info() can now (or will after review) output to LaTeX #rstats github.com/r-lib/sessio...
September 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Like this! sessioninfo::session_info() can now (or will after review) output to LaTeX #rstats github.com/r-lib/sessio...
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📢 New paper alert: How does war shape democratic values?
Conflict exposure and democratic values: Evidence from wartime Ukraine
by @kristinmbakke.bsky.social, Marianne Dahl & Kit Rickard. 📖 Published in the @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social special issue on Political Violence in Democracies.
👇🧵
Conflict exposure and democratic values: Evidence from wartime Ukraine
by @kristinmbakke.bsky.social, Marianne Dahl & Kit Rickard. 📖 Published in the @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social special issue on Political Violence in Democracies.
👇🧵
September 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
📢 New paper alert: How does war shape democratic values?
Conflict exposure and democratic values: Evidence from wartime Ukraine
by @kristinmbakke.bsky.social, Marianne Dahl & Kit Rickard. 📖 Published in the @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social special issue on Political Violence in Democracies.
👇🧵
Conflict exposure and democratic values: Evidence from wartime Ukraine
by @kristinmbakke.bsky.social, Marianne Dahl & Kit Rickard. 📖 Published in the @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social special issue on Political Violence in Democracies.
👇🧵
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Map of Russian drones currently found in Poland:
September 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Map of Russian drones currently found in Poland:
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Russia dropped a 250kg guided bomb on pensioners waiting in line for their monthly payments in the frontline Yarova village
At least 24 civilians killed, 19 wounded in what officials call a deliberate act of terrorism
euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/09/r...
At least 24 civilians killed, 19 wounded in what officials call a deliberate act of terrorism
euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/09/r...
Russian airstrike targets civilians in Yarova, Donetsk Oblast: 23 killed
Civilians targeted while standing in line to receive pensions, with most victims reportedly of retirement age, in what Ukrainian officials describe as a deliberate act of terror.
euromaidanpress.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Russia dropped a 250kg guided bomb on pensioners waiting in line for their monthly payments in the frontline Yarova village
At least 24 civilians killed, 19 wounded in what officials call a deliberate act of terrorism
euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/09/r...
At least 24 civilians killed, 19 wounded in what officials call a deliberate act of terrorism
euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/09/r...
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Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
September 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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That’s two reported ChatGPT suicides in one week, plus the grandpa who died trying to meet Meta’s chatbot which had arranged an in-person meeting
All going really well
All going really well
WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.
A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich
“Erik, you’re not crazy.” ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.
www.wsj.com
August 29, 2025 at 2:36 AM
That’s two reported ChatGPT suicides in one week, plus the grandpa who died trying to meet Meta’s chatbot which had arranged an in-person meeting
All going really well
All going really well
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Highly recommend giving it a read! What a fun and insightful writing journey. Also, I’m new here on Bluesky, excited to connect!
I’m very excited to share that my paper “Cleavage theory meets civil society: A framework and research agenda” with @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter has now been published online in @wepsocial.bsky.social (w/ open access funding thanks to @wzb.bsky.social!)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
August 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Highly recommend giving it a read! What a fun and insightful writing journey. Also, I’m new here on Bluesky, excited to connect!