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Sebastian Koehler
@sebastiankoehler.uk
Lecturer in Comparative Politics, Queen Mary University of London. Academic Convenor of the @ECPR.bsky.social Methods School. QM Centre for Excellence in AI in Education. Interested in Data, Methods, Lobbying, Legislative Politics and Climate Change.
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‼️ There are a few more days left to apply for the PhD positions in my group at KU Leuven. Make sure to send in applications by July 4! 👇
I'm recruiting 2 PhD researchers to work with me on a project studying how social groups influence vote choices!

Info on the position and how to apply 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Please share with interested students who would like to move to beautiful Leuven!
2 PhD positions in Electoral behavior
2 PhD positions to research how social group memberships become connected to vote choices
www.kuleuven.be
June 30, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.

🔗 epssnet.org

Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.

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June 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Inspiring talk by @profcathyelliott.bsky.social at the launch event of @aspirenetwork.bsky.social about the career on the teaching track. #aspirelaunch
June 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The football gods are on fire! Congrats, @sportingcp.bsky.social for winning the title!!! Now I hope the Lions will eat the Eagles in the Cup Final on the 25th of May!!! #DiaDeSporting #SportingCP
May 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Einmal alle: Juuuuuubellllll!
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#SCFSGE 1:3 | #SGE
May 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
What an amazing football weekend. Congrats to Crystal Palace for beating Sheik FC in the FA Cup Final! Hard working Londoners >> Dirty Oil Money! #FAcup
May 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Congrats, @eintracht.de !!! I hope Europe is ready for you! #NurDieSGE
May 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
So the worlds largest paedophile ring and oldest real estate mafia now has an American leader. Very practical, that will facilitate what they do best: Suck up to fascists for their own gain.
May 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The natural order has been restored! Congrats Liverpool FC! #YNWA #LiverpoolFC #LFC
April 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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@danielgover.bsky.social is a great person to follow if you're interested in the UK parliament and legislative process. This is an example of recent coverage he has been providing of the assisted dying bill
Spoke to Sean Curran for Radio 4’s Today in Parliament about what comes next for the assisted dying bill, after it completed its Commons committee stage this week.

From around 12 mins in here. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
28/03/2025
Podcast Episode · Today in Parliament · 28/03/2025 · 28m
podcasts.apple.com
March 29, 2025 at 10:04 AM
How is that Trippier handball not a penalty? #LFCNUC
March 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Event later today.
At 1pm today, join Meg Russell, David Natzler and @danielgover.bsky.social to discuss the problems and potential solutions with the legislative process.

This free, online event will include a Q&A and you can submit a question by replying to this post.

Sign up to attend 👇
Improving parliamentary scrutiny of legislation
An expert panel discusses how to improve the UK parliament’s scrutiny of legislation.
www.ucl.ac.uk
February 24, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Executive orders are not laws. The Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom has started Executive Power Watch, which includes breakdowns of Trump's EOs on education, what they do and don't mean ,and how to resist. More at the link: academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/how-should...
How Should We Respond to Executive Power Abuses
Executive Power Watch, a growing resource from the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom
academicfreedomontheline.substack.com
February 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
South Western Railway is certainly the worst shitshow known to man. They are even worse than Deutsche Bahn. Unbelievable.
January 28, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Wow, that was unexpected... www.record.pt/modalidades/... Congrats to the Portuguese handball team!
Histórico: Portugal elimina Espanha e apura-se pela primeira vez para os 'quartos' do Mundial de andebol
Triunfo da Seleção Nacional por 35-29
www.record.pt
January 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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📢 Call for Papers!
The 8th Annual LSE/Imperial Workshop on Environmental Economics will be held in person at LSE on June 10-11, 2025.
✅ Submissions by Feb 1
📄 Full papers only (no abstracts)
🎤 Keynote: Prof. Josh Graff Zivin
🔗 Submit here: forms.gle/577G9RBZ1V79... #EnvEcon #EconSky
January 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Is your research in Historical Political Economy and are you based in Europe? @beckerbastian.bsky.social, @cathrinmohr.bsky.social and I seek to map the current state as well as the future potential of the field in Europe. Help us to do so by taking our 15-minute survey: forms.gle/kXXsGQZUVtrH...
Historical Political Economy - Insights from Europe
Thank you for your interest in our survey. We are a team of researchers based at the Humboldt-University of Berlin, University of Bonn and University of Geneva. The goal of this survey is to map the ...
forms.gle
December 10, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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Anyone wanting to do research on business/organisational records who doesn't have access to funding can apply to the Business Archives Council's Research Support Bursary, simple Googleform to apply by 20/9 businessarchivescouncil.org.uk/activitiesob... Please fo contact me with any questions!
Business Archives Council - Activities & Events ‹ BAC Bursary for Business History Research ‹ BAC Bursary for Business History Research
businessarchivescouncil.org.uk
September 4, 2024 at 9:06 AM
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Starmer is not betraying Brexit, he is trying to improve an absolute shit show that has blown a multi billion pound hole in our GDP, divided our society beyond imagination, and made Britain an object of pity and ridicule the world over. He can go to Berlin every week in my view.
August 28, 2024 at 9:53 AM
It's actually shocking to see another one of those ridoculous Premier League referee officiate the second quarter final. Don't we have any qualified referees elsewhere in Europe?
July 5, 2024 at 7:12 PM
"Good process, boys!"
That one deserved a VAR check at the very least!
July 5, 2024 at 7:07 PM
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That one deserved a VAR check at the very least!
July 5, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Well, Premier League Referees are going to be Premier League Referees. I get Ødegaard vibes...
July 5, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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PSA: All #rstats package on #cran will get an official DOI!

This will facilitate bibliometrics and giving credit to R package authors.

Registering all 20,000+ packages will still take a few more days. But the first couple of thousand are already live. Example:
June 11, 2024 at 8:32 AM