Our research group under the supervision of Kevin Munger is starting a presentation series at EUI called PING (Politics and the INternet Group). We’re accepting applications for the fall term. Come present and hang out in Florence!

I will link the website and call in the comments.

Pls share widely

Drop whatever you are doing! ✨New✨ Dataset by @marcoseche.bsky.social about MPs on TikTok

Announcing Round 1 of the 𝐌𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐤𝐓𝐨𝐤 (𝐌𝐏𝐏𝐓𝐢𝐤𝐓𝐨𝐤) dataset!

It provides manually collected TikTok handles for MPs and parties in 17 Western democracies (elected as of December 2025).

Dataset: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/mp...

Preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Trying out this whole blog thing before I inevitably move to substack. Todays topic:

Finally store api-keys properly

https://p4ul.eu/posts/keychain-mac/

Today, we ordered TikTok to freeze and preserve all data and evidence linked to the Romanian elections.

This is a key step by the @ec.europa.eu to enforce the DSA.

This follows our RFI and declassified information released yesterday, pointing to foreign interference from Russia.

europa.eu/!fN4Xt6