#bearspray exchange at a #polisci conference, I think it’s a first! Thank you for ensuring my safety @brittvandewalle.bsky.social !
#apsa2026 #vancouver #apsa25

- Enjoy one of the many awesome playgrounds. Family favourites are Charleston park, Kitsilano beach, and Hasting mills park (next to Jericho)

Not free but fun:
- Kids market on granville island
- Vancouver aquarium in Stanley park for cute sea otters 🦦
- Pirate ship adventures

Enjoy! #apsa2025

Are you a parent attending #apsa25 with kids? Here are a couple of ideas of great activities:
- Take an aquabus to the maritime museum and check it out, nice old boats 🛥️ and captain costumes👨‍✈️
- Check out the bunnies in the hills at Jericho beach 🏖️

Attending #apsa2025? Interested in the new opportunities offered at @ejprjournal.bsky.social? Stop by the Cambridge University Press stand this Thursday from 9.30 to 10.30am. I’ll be there with @markuswagner.bsky.social to answer all your questions. See you there!

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS
🗓️ Joint COST @relink2.bsky.social and BRIAS Workshop

Citizens, Political Organisations and Digital Technologies: Disconnection or/and Reconnection?
📍 1–2 October 2025 | Brussels, Belgium

📝 Submit your abstract (max. 300 words) by 17:00 CET, 25 July 2025.

📣 Join us for the BrIAS/CEVIPOL/AmericaS seminar with Arun Chaudhary: "The Filibuster for Democracy"

🗓 Wednesday 7th of May 2025, 13:30 - 16:00
📍BrIAS: USquare - bd general jacques 210
⚠ Please register here: lnkd.in/eAyZ9jDW
🔗Full info: lnkd.in/eYPgT55H
📽️ Livestream: lnkd.in/dVVeJJ8D

🚨 Call for Expressions of Interest – BrIAS x ULB Solidarity Fellowships 🚨

Are you a researcher at risk working on democratic governance?

The new BrIAS program invites expressions of interest from early-career researchers who wish to apply for a ULB postdoctoral Solidarity Fellowship.

Another cleaning session at the office, another nostalgia moment. My first ever academic presentation at the ABSP congress in 2002 🙀. Who misses having to print these before class??

Spring cleaning of the office 🧹 I found some gems 💎 ! My first @ecpr.bsky.social joint sessions more than 20 years ago now 💚😱. That’s where I met a.o. @timbale.bsky.social Nick Aylott, Nicole Bolleyer, Airo Hino, @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social, Paul Lucardie, Jan Sunberg, Liam Weeks

We will work around 4 work packages led by ULB and VUB colleagues, with a crosscutting WP on innovative solutions
WP1 on Polarization, division and violence (Jasper Van Assche, @bramspruyt.bsky.social)
WP2 on Democratic short-termism and sustainability (Louise Knops, Didier Caluwaerts)

BrIAS is the joint #ULB-#VUB Institute for Advanced Studies. BrIAS’ aim is to stir the exchange of ideas, foster transdisciplinary collaborations, and host renowned international colleagues with complete intellectual freedom to think on this topic, in the beautiful setting of USquare

Very happy that our project on Democratic governance: challenges and innovations, developed with Silvia Erzeel, has been selected for the next BrIAS programme.

Au Parlement de la fédération #Wallonie-#Bruxelles pour une présentation sur les jeunes et leur rapport au politique, à partir des données d’enquête électorale par panel de notre projet FNRS EoS

Nice to see this volume in print! With @s-rgi.bsky.social, Thomas Legein and David Talukder, we apply process tracing to analyse the #reform process of the FR Christian-democratic party. Check out the many great chapters linking party studies and #democraticinnovations