Putin comes to Budapest so often, even pest control companies plan around his visits –– this one promises to be on time, even when he's in town

on my way to Naples to close the conference season with #SISP2025, presenting 2 papers on Thursday! Non vedo l’ora di vedere i miei amici e colleghi!

arriving early to the #ecprgc25 party to get a glimpse of Thessaloniki before 4 days of intense teaching & paper presentations @ecpr.bsky.social

if memory serves me well & if we can assume I was well-integrated enough to the Austrian society back then to only cross when🚦are green, it was a 6-min walk

excited to return to my alma mater @weareceu.bsky.social for the @methodsnet.bsky.social summer school to teach Intro to R! 👨🏻‍💻📊

while I’m mildly disappointed that taking trains won’t be an option for yet another major European conference, I’m also very excited to see colleagues and friends again at #EPSA2025!

FTFY, JD Vance

take a gentle intro course on R @weareceu.bsky.social @methodsnet.bsky.social Summer School with me! I assume zero pre-existing knowledge w/ programming & guarantee that you'll leave Vienna with strong analytical skills and plenty of data viz tricks up your sleeve!

last week Orbán infamously demanded "Union without #Ukraine" on 🇭🇺 National Day. Opposition #TISZA, leading the 📊 polls rn, first wants to figure out via consultations how divided its own supporters on 🇺🇦's 🇪🇺 membership. @solid-erc.bsky.social data collected in March by @yougov.co.uk is quite telling👇

happening tomorrow!

one of those moments when I wish my earlier findings on #Hungary wouldn't travel:

super excited to return to my alma mater 🇦🇹 @ceu-polsci.bsky.social @weareceu.bsky.social Tmr to present work-in-progress w/ the great @benhmrk.bsky.social on the effect of descriptive representation on local-level political engagement in the context of 🇸🇰 pres election: events.ceu.edu/2025-03-12/d...

where do these voters came from? Most are supporters of 'old' established opposition parties, but TISZA was the only party that could draw sizable support from self-declared non-voters, who abstained (or
spoiled the ballot). Also some party switching from 🍊 #Fidesz & far-right Our Homeland #Polisky

there has to be a joke that starts like “4 CEU graduates walk into a sala lettura in Milan…” @nenaoana.bsky.social @ztruchlewski.bsky.social

after a delayed Frecciarossa, a missed connection, 6h wait in Mestre, a cancelled ÖBB RJX, a regionale to BLQ, and a ✈️ ticket bought 2h before take-off, I’m finally in Budapest… time to get some sleep & see y’all tmrw at my 🇭🇺 TK PTI talk (or on Friday 🇦🇹 @oegpw.bsky.social if you’re in Cisleithania)

very happy to return to my alma mater next week for @oegpw.bsky.social! I'll be part of a panel with @cqschneider.bsky.social & present results from a survey experiment in 16 🇪🇺 countries! If you're in 🇦🇹 Vienna on Friday, drop by!