Alejandro Ciordia
@alexciordia.bsky.social
Social scientist
🔍 contentious politics, social network analysis, (climate) activism
Maastricht Sustainability Inst @erc-foodcharities.bsky.social &
Centre on Social Movement Studies @sns.it
Previously: @coalescelab.bsky.social | PhD: Univ of Trento
🔍 contentious politics, social network analysis, (climate) activism
Maastricht Sustainability Inst @erc-foodcharities.bsky.social &
Centre on Social Movement Studies @sns.it
Previously: @coalescelab.bsky.social | PhD: Univ of Trento
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I’m very proud to share a newly published research article co-authored w/
@luigischiavo.bsky.social and Mario Diani, just out in Politics and Governance:
“Shifting Grounds of Collaboration in Changing Contexts: Evolving Environmental Networks in the Basque Country”
🔗 doi.org/10.17645/pag... 🥳🤗
@luigischiavo.bsky.social and Mario Diani, just out in Politics and Governance:
“Shifting Grounds of Collaboration in Changing Contexts: Evolving Environmental Networks in the Basque Country”
🔗 doi.org/10.17645/pag... 🥳🤗
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Since I've got a lot of new followers debating the incremental and failed policies of the climate regime and the COP process, here's a reminder to check out the #COPOut Podcast, which focuses on apocalyptically optimistic climate conversations cece.american.edu/cece-launche...
November 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Since I've got a lot of new followers debating the incremental and failed policies of the climate regime and the COP process, here's a reminder to check out the #COPOut Podcast, which focuses on apocalyptically optimistic climate conversations cece.american.edu/cece-launche...
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✨Join us today at @sns.it Palazzo Vegni to discuss feminist, antigender politics, and societal democratization from the perspective of gender regimes theory! 👉🏽https://www.sns.it/it/evento/do-feminist-institutional-responses-address-anti-gender-regime
Do feminist institutional responses address the ‘anti-gender regime’? | ScuolaNormaleSuperiore
ProgramPrevious seminar:
www.sns.it
November 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
✨Join us today at @sns.it Palazzo Vegni to discuss feminist, antigender politics, and societal democratization from the perspective of gender regimes theory! 👉🏽https://www.sns.it/it/evento/do-feminist-institutional-responses-address-anti-gender-regime
New pre-print out! 🤩
Co-authored with @mirandalubbers.bsky.social (from @coalescelab.bsky.social), Eva Jaspers and Jan-Willem Simons (both from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social).
A fresh look into why people discuss some topics with particular contacts and not with others in their personal networks.
Co-authored with @mirandalubbers.bsky.social (from @coalescelab.bsky.social), Eva Jaspers and Jan-Willem Simons (both from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social).
A fresh look into why people discuss some topics with particular contacts and not with others in their personal networks.
Not All Political Topics Are Created Equal: How Issue Polarization Shapes Partner Selection in Informal Political Discussion: https://osf.io/zauq4
November 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
New pre-print out! 🤩
Co-authored with @mirandalubbers.bsky.social (from @coalescelab.bsky.social), Eva Jaspers and Jan-Willem Simons (both from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social).
A fresh look into why people discuss some topics with particular contacts and not with others in their personal networks.
Co-authored with @mirandalubbers.bsky.social (from @coalescelab.bsky.social), Eva Jaspers and Jan-Willem Simons (both from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social).
A fresh look into why people discuss some topics with particular contacts and not with others in their personal networks.
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Something deeply fucked up when you can blindly break basic state functions and condemn millions to death and then people make you the richest man in the world instead of a pariah
November 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Something deeply fucked up when you can blindly break basic state functions and condemn millions to death and then people make you the richest man in the world instead of a pariah
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We are pleased to share that Alejandro @alexciordia.bsky.social gave a presentation, "Reconstructing the emergence of charitable food provision fields through ESA: Goals, challenges and prospects." at the ARS’25 Tenth International Workshop on Social Network Analysis in Naples on 30-31 October 2025.
November 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
We are pleased to share that Alejandro @alexciordia.bsky.social gave a presentation, "Reconstructing the emergence of charitable food provision fields through ESA: Goals, challenges and prospects." at the ARS’25 Tenth International Workshop on Social Network Analysis in Naples on 30-31 October 2025.
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Last week, our urban ethnography reading group met to discuss influential works 📚 — Sidewalk (Duneier, 1999), Code of the Street (Anderson, 1999), No Shame in My Game (Newman, 1999), and Wacquant’s (2002) review of these studies on urban poverty.
October 30, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Last week, our urban ethnography reading group met to discuss influential works 📚 — Sidewalk (Duneier, 1999), Code of the Street (Anderson, 1999), No Shame in My Game (Newman, 1999), and Wacquant’s (2002) review of these studies on urban poverty.
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This new reconstruction of global whale biomass shows that countries can successfully tackle environmental problems when they come together
But it's a story with an under-recognised hero
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But it's a story with an under-recognised hero
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October 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This new reconstruction of global whale biomass shows that countries can successfully tackle environmental problems when they come together
But it's a story with an under-recognised hero
🧵 1/
But it's a story with an under-recognised hero
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A year ago, Spain was hit by deadly floods
They were supercharged by climate change
Yet in their wake, climate-denying politicians gained influence - which risks undermining climate action, making people less safe
Today we publish new research on this troubling dynamic🧵
www.scri.org.uk/derailment
They were supercharged by climate change
Yet in their wake, climate-denying politicians gained influence - which risks undermining climate action, making people less safe
Today we publish new research on this troubling dynamic🧵
www.scri.org.uk/derailment
Welcome to the Strategic Climate Risk Initiative
How can we stop the consequences of climate change from undermining climate action?
www.scri.org.uk
October 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
A year ago, Spain was hit by deadly floods
They were supercharged by climate change
Yet in their wake, climate-denying politicians gained influence - which risks undermining climate action, making people less safe
Today we publish new research on this troubling dynamic🧵
www.scri.org.uk/derailment
They were supercharged by climate change
Yet in their wake, climate-denying politicians gained influence - which risks undermining climate action, making people less safe
Today we publish new research on this troubling dynamic🧵
www.scri.org.uk/derailment
I’m very proud to share a newly published research article co-authored w/
@luigischiavo.bsky.social and Mario Diani, just out in Politics and Governance:
“Shifting Grounds of Collaboration in Changing Contexts: Evolving Environmental Networks in the Basque Country”
🔗 doi.org/10.17645/pag... 🥳🤗
@luigischiavo.bsky.social and Mario Diani, just out in Politics and Governance:
“Shifting Grounds of Collaboration in Changing Contexts: Evolving Environmental Networks in the Basque Country”
🔗 doi.org/10.17645/pag... 🥳🤗
October 23, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I’m very proud to share a newly published research article co-authored w/
@luigischiavo.bsky.social and Mario Diani, just out in Politics and Governance:
“Shifting Grounds of Collaboration in Changing Contexts: Evolving Environmental Networks in the Basque Country”
🔗 doi.org/10.17645/pag... 🥳🤗
@luigischiavo.bsky.social and Mario Diani, just out in Politics and Governance:
“Shifting Grounds of Collaboration in Changing Contexts: Evolving Environmental Networks in the Basque Country”
🔗 doi.org/10.17645/pag... 🥳🤗
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💫New paper out with @chjncke.bsky.social in @europeansocieties.bsky.social:
📝"Far-right contention in civil society: Multiple lenses on action repertoires, actors, and targets"
🧵A short thread about the paper:
📝"Far-right contention in civil society: Multiple lenses on action repertoires, actors, and targets"
🧵A short thread about the paper:
October 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
💫New paper out with @chjncke.bsky.social in @europeansocieties.bsky.social:
📝"Far-right contention in civil society: Multiple lenses on action repertoires, actors, and targets"
🧵A short thread about the paper:
📝"Far-right contention in civil society: Multiple lenses on action repertoires, actors, and targets"
🧵A short thread about the paper:
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Three excellent books on what the #ClimateEmergency means for higher education & how universities should respond 📚 🧵
1️⃣ Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis by @edufuturist.bsky.social
www.universitiesonfire.com
1️⃣ Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis by @edufuturist.bsky.social
www.universitiesonfire.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Three excellent books on what the #ClimateEmergency means for higher education & how universities should respond 📚 🧵
1️⃣ Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis by @edufuturist.bsky.social
www.universitiesonfire.com
1️⃣ Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis by @edufuturist.bsky.social
www.universitiesonfire.com
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The Food Charities project had a kick-off meeting on Sept 24th at the Maastricht Sustainability Institute! PI Filippo Oncini @pipponcini.bsky.social gave a project overview, & postdoc Alejandro Ciordia @alexciordia.bsky.social presented on Events Sequence Analysis (key method for research module 1).
October 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The Food Charities project had a kick-off meeting on Sept 24th at the Maastricht Sustainability Institute! PI Filippo Oncini @pipponcini.bsky.social gave a project overview, & postdoc Alejandro Ciordia @alexciordia.bsky.social presented on Events Sequence Analysis (key method for research module 1).
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The @europarl.europa.eu just made a fool of itself with this ban. Is there evidence that consumers think a "veggie burger" contains meat? Utterly ridiculous, and just (further) undermines the credibility of the institution (at the behest of the EPP).
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
EU parliament votes to ban meat names for plant-based foods
Pressure to ban meat labels for plant-based products comes from Europe's livestock farmers.
www.bbc.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 AM
The @europarl.europa.eu just made a fool of itself with this ban. Is there evidence that consumers think a "veggie burger" contains meat? Utterly ridiculous, and just (further) undermines the credibility of the institution (at the behest of the EPP).
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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We are very excited to share the launch of a special issue in Global Food Security!
👉 Understanding Food Insecurity in High-Income Countries: New Theoretical Approaches, Multidimensional Perspectives, and Innovative Practices and Policy Responses
Read more and find the link below🔽
👉 Understanding Food Insecurity in High-Income Countries: New Theoretical Approaches, Multidimensional Perspectives, and Innovative Practices and Policy Responses
Read more and find the link below🔽
September 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
We are very excited to share the launch of a special issue in Global Food Security!
👉 Understanding Food Insecurity in High-Income Countries: New Theoretical Approaches, Multidimensional Perspectives, and Innovative Practices and Policy Responses
Read more and find the link below🔽
👉 Understanding Food Insecurity in High-Income Countries: New Theoretical Approaches, Multidimensional Perspectives, and Innovative Practices and Policy Responses
Read more and find the link below🔽
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Congratulations to @nuriatargarona.bsky.social (COALESCE Lab), Louise Ryan & @alexciordia.bsky.social (@erc-foodcharities.bsky.social / @sns.it) for their ⭐new article⭐ in @socresonline.bsky.social, discussing two visual tools to inductively explore social boundary making in relationships! #socsky
Our methodological open-access article (co-authors: Louise Ryan & @alexciordia.bsky.social), presenting new interactive visual tools to inductively explore social categorisation and boundary-making processes within personal networks, is out in Sociological Research Online doi.org/10.1177/1360...
October 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Congratulations to @nuriatargarona.bsky.social (COALESCE Lab), Louise Ryan & @alexciordia.bsky.social (@erc-foodcharities.bsky.social / @sns.it) for their ⭐new article⭐ in @socresonline.bsky.social, discussing two visual tools to inductively explore social boundary making in relationships! #socsky
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people's opinions are formed through a combination of long-lasting exposures and political socialization, and we should not expect one-shot experimental settings to *scale* in the first place.
this is such a needed correction to the "polarization" literature:
this is such a needed correction to the "polarization" literature:
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 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
people's opinions are formed through a combination of long-lasting exposures and political socialization, and we should not expect one-shot experimental settings to *scale* in the first place.
this is such a needed correction to the "polarization" literature:
this is such a needed correction to the "polarization" literature:
Some belated professional news:
A few months ago I started working as a postdoc at Maastricht University on the exciting ERC project @erc-foodcharities.bsky.social led by @pipponcini.bsky.social
Really happy to be part of this international team, based at the Maastricht Sustainability Institute!
A few months ago I started working as a postdoc at Maastricht University on the exciting ERC project @erc-foodcharities.bsky.social led by @pipponcini.bsky.social
Really happy to be part of this international team, based at the Maastricht Sustainability Institute!
We are now on Bluesky 🎉
Using a comparative and relational approach, the Food Charities project explores how charitable food provision operates in urban spaces in different welfare and civil society contexts: Italy, Japan, and the Netherlands.
Follow us for project updates, events, and calls!
Using a comparative and relational approach, the Food Charities project explores how charitable food provision operates in urban spaces in different welfare and civil society contexts: Italy, Japan, and the Netherlands.
Follow us for project updates, events, and calls!
Food Charities - At the heart of food support lies a web of relations
Food Charities aims to uncover how these connections build, sustain, transform, and at times hinder responses to food insecurity across different contexts.
foodcharities.eu
September 22, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Some belated professional news:
A few months ago I started working as a postdoc at Maastricht University on the exciting ERC project @erc-foodcharities.bsky.social led by @pipponcini.bsky.social
Really happy to be part of this international team, based at the Maastricht Sustainability Institute!
A few months ago I started working as a postdoc at Maastricht University on the exciting ERC project @erc-foodcharities.bsky.social led by @pipponcini.bsky.social
Really happy to be part of this international team, based at the Maastricht Sustainability Institute!
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I have taught in 5 countries for more than 25 years and I had never before been warned for being set-up and reported by my own students by university administrators… until this semester.
Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
www.insidehighered.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I have taught in 5 countries for more than 25 years and I had never before been warned for being set-up and reported by my own students by university administrators… until this semester.
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Nota: este es el mismo trato que reciben los presos americanos normalmente. El sistema penitenciario de Estados Unidos es un puto gulag desde hace décadas.
Uno de los trabajadores surcoreanos detenidos y deportados por ICE a pesar disponer de visados temporales llevó un diario secreto de la experiencia: fueron esposados y, algunos, encadenados en cintura, piernas y muñecas; se les transportó en vehículos que apestaban a orina y sin aire acondicionado.🧵
September 15, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Nota: este es el mismo trato que reciben los presos americanos normalmente. El sistema penitenciario de Estados Unidos es un puto gulag desde hace décadas.
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Our methodological open-access article (co-authors: Louise Ryan & @alexciordia.bsky.social), presenting new interactive visual tools to inductively explore social categorisation and boundary-making processes within personal networks, is out in Sociological Research Online doi.org/10.1177/1360...
September 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Our methodological open-access article (co-authors: Louise Ryan & @alexciordia.bsky.social), presenting new interactive visual tools to inductively explore social categorisation and boundary-making processes within personal networks, is out in Sociological Research Online doi.org/10.1177/1360...
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The amount of carbon that forests can take up is much lower than previous estimates. If we don't reduce CO₂ emissions rapidly, we can say goodbye to the Paris climate targets forever.
Land availability and policy commitments limit global climate mitigation from forestation
Forestation (afforestation and reforestation) could mitigate climate change by sequestering carbon within biomass and soils. However, global mitigation from forestation remains uncertain owing to vary...
www.science.org
September 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The amount of carbon that forests can take up is much lower than previous estimates. If we don't reduce CO₂ emissions rapidly, we can say goodbye to the Paris climate targets forever.
🚨🚨📢📢 New open-access article (co-authored w/ @nuriatargarona.bsky.social & @mirandalubbers.bsky.social), just out in American Behavioral Scientist:
“The Relational Toll of Political Involvement in Polarized Times: Relationship Decay Within Activists’ Personal Networks” doi.org/10.1177/0002...
“The Relational Toll of Political Involvement in Polarized Times: Relationship Decay Within Activists’ Personal Networks” doi.org/10.1177/0002...
September 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
🚨🚨📢📢 New open-access article (co-authored w/ @nuriatargarona.bsky.social & @mirandalubbers.bsky.social), just out in American Behavioral Scientist:
“The Relational Toll of Political Involvement in Polarized Times: Relationship Decay Within Activists’ Personal Networks” doi.org/10.1177/0002...
“The Relational Toll of Political Involvement in Polarized Times: Relationship Decay Within Activists’ Personal Networks” doi.org/10.1177/0002...
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Ten years ago, the world saw the image of Alan Kurdi lying lifeless on a Turkish beach after his family’s boat sank on the way to Greece.
That photo shocked millions, but was also an example that the more we face extreme suffering, the faster we grow numb to it.
That photo shocked millions, but was also an example that the more we face extreme suffering, the faster we grow numb to it.
September 2, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Ten years ago, the world saw the image of Alan Kurdi lying lifeless on a Turkish beach after his family’s boat sank on the way to Greece.
That photo shocked millions, but was also an example that the more we face extreme suffering, the faster we grow numb to it.
That photo shocked millions, but was also an example that the more we face extreme suffering, the faster we grow numb to it.
Honored to receive the Best Paper Prize 2024 from @politicalnets.bsky.social together with the brilliant Luigi Schiavo. Many thanks to the jury and colleagues!
It was our pleasure to personally award the Best Paper Prize presented at the previous ECPR conference in Dublin. @ecpr.bsky.social 🏆
The jury, consisting of Maria Brockhaus, Katia Pilati, and Volker Schneider, unanimously decided for @alexciordia.bsky.social and Luigi Schiavo.
Congratulations! 👏
The jury, consisting of Maria Brockhaus, Katia Pilati, and Volker Schneider, unanimously decided for @alexciordia.bsky.social and Luigi Schiavo.
Congratulations! 👏
September 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Honored to receive the Best Paper Prize 2024 from @politicalnets.bsky.social together with the brilliant Luigi Schiavo. Many thanks to the jury and colleagues!
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The Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange is up 150% in the past 12 months (and 62% in the past 6m) in case you are wondering why the government feels no pressure to end the war on Gaza.
August 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange is up 150% in the past 12 months (and 62% in the past 6m) in case you are wondering why the government feels no pressure to end the war on Gaza.