Twitter may be burning, but I’m not leaving yet (as I have said a thousand times before). Still, it is good to have alternatives, and so I set up an account on Mastodon back in November ’22 when we all felt the evil presence of You-Know-Who. But much as I like the ideas behind Mastodon…
When even so-so- journals reject promising manuscripts if even one reviewer doesn’t like them, the system is broken. That’s the long and the short of it.
There is a lot of interest in the Political Geography of the Radical Right. We identify 4 different aspects of ‘place’ and show how they relate to far-right attitudes throughout Germany. Watch the video, or read the free article.
Unideological protest voting is not a driving the surge in support for the radical right AfD. Here is why.
Hey look, I have unlocked a new level of predatory publishing fraud: someone out there is automating so aggressively that they are not just misspelling the title of my article and inventing an affiliation for me: they literally can’t be arsed to spell out my name. Of course, there is no one at King’s with…
Here is another gem from today’s mailbag. They are just taking the piss now.
The good folks over at ECPS invited me to give the opening lecture for their 2023 Summer School on Populism, War, and Crises. Here are the slides.
Support for the radical right #AfD is up 3-4 points since May 2023. Most of that shift happened in May, but that does not mean that the surge is over.
The other day, I read an article about #ChatGPT simulating understanding by correlating words. Which brought on a painful flashback to that time when I took a course on Luhmann
