Today, @lintuslotta.bsky.social defended her doctoral thesis on educational inequalities at the @eui-eu.bsky.social Great defense, thanks to Lotta and the commiittee with @kbkarlson.bsky.social Bess Bukodi and @hermwerf.bsky.social

On the way to work yesterday

Today was my last day as Director of the @eui-eu.bsky.social Max Weber Programme. In September I told the fellows that they will look back at the postdoc years as the best ones of their careers. My years at the MWP matched those. I’ll miss them, the fantastic fellows, and the view from the office

Paper rejections enter the quantum revolutions age: our first rejected paper for 2025 (44 mins past midnight) may have been the last paper to be rejected by the journal in 2024.

We’re doing some trendy polisci 🙂 @fresejoris.bsky.social @simonhix.bsky.social

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Since cohort replacement will continue in the future, we also project that Brexit support will continue to decline (or at least, population structural pressure is not on its side and minds will have to change in a major way for supporters to become the majority again)

EUI ranked #6 globally in political science.

A truly astonishing achievement by our polisci phd researchers, postdocs and profs!

Also a good time to have my first political science journal paper accepted (with @fresejoris.bsky.social @simonhix.bsky.social ) and benefit from the halo

Fulfilled my duty as a demographer and participated in the Italian census