Michal Ovádek

EPSS Travel Grants for 2026 Belfast conference:

PhD students & junior scholars @ institutions in European countries that are often underrepresented, can apply for full fee waiver & £500 stipend

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FPTP giveth, FPTP taketh

Matt Goodwin tweet Statement: @GoodwinMJ • 39m "We are losing our country. A dangerous Muslim sectarianism has emerged. We have only one general election left to save Britain. Vote Reform every chance you get. I will continue the fight. I will always fight for you. I will stand at the next general election. Matt." Picture below of Matt Goodwin typing something on his phone.

Victor Anichebe @VictorAnichebe Can you tweet something like Unbelievable support yesterday and great effort by the lads! Hard result to take! But we go again! 23/10/2016, 14:24

I can't even treat myself to that mega standard pack without feeling guilty

though I'm definitely better at maximizing passive income in-game

now I wonder how our choices about managing balatro economy map onto real life personality

if the first two skips aren't both investment tags I'm not touching it

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true of most trade agreements. On the flip side, the political investment in their passage also rarely matches the projected benefits

I always believed in the emergence of a pan-European media conglomerate based in Bratislava

a hex sticker showing the autrian parliament with palace athene

Happy to release the initial version of ParlAT, an #rstats package wrapping the API of the Austrian Parliament @parlament.gv.at . If you are a researcher, student, journalist, simply someone interested in the AT Parliament, ParlAT hopefully comes as a helpful tool. werkstattcodes.github.io/ParlAT/

Nick Vivyan, Chris Hanretty (@chanret.bsky.social) and I have a new book out: “Idiosyncratic Issue Opinion and Political Choice”. The core of the book is making the argument that citizens’ views about political issues neither reduce to an ideological orientation nor to a lack of substance. (1/10)

surely just one X post away from electoral valhalla

Facilitating access to data on European Union laws Much of empirical research on European integration relies on data published by European Union (EU) institutions concerning the EU’s laws and policies. However, despite wide disciplinary appeal and ...

obligatory links to related resources:

doi.org/10.1080/2474...

github.com/michalovadek...

michalovadek.github.io/eucourt/

michalovadek.github.io/eulaw/

almost six years since I first released the eurlex R package 📦 as a side product of my PhD. It is still alive and kicking. I streamlined the dependencies and released a new version this week. Back in October the package came second in UCL’s Open Science and Scholarship Awards, a nice recognition!

weird to me! I'd say I review 3-5x of what I submit in an average year and think it's a totally doable amount of work

We are pleased to announce that the call for the 4th Annual Early Career Workshop on Social Science Approaches to Law and Courts is now live. If you are a PhD student or postdoc working in this area, you can send us your abstract via this link: qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

For the 4th consecutive year @uclspp.bsky.social will be co-hosting a workshop for early career scholars in law and courts. We are trying to nurture an international, interdisciplinary and methodologically diverse community of scholars in this subfield.

Apply via qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

Schumer and Jeffries negotiating to limit the number of journalist arrested by the Department of Justice each year to a maximum of 20.

maybe just to put this in context this is someone whose own psychological state is regularly questioned on the domestic scene (post-assassination attempt)

NEW PAPER ALERT! My paper, with @bjornhoyland.bsky.social , on how “policy loss” shapes support for the EU has just been published in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. Check it out!
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it's common (and maybe good) that this type of organising comes from outside opposition parties in democracies. The question then is of course how the party establishment responds to the new leaders these events are going to produce

anyway: the US government is executing protestors in the street

Contested Competences in the European Union: The Law and Politics of Institutional Choice Abstract. What role do rules really play in shaping the behaviour of legislative actors? In theory, competences and procedures provide a framework within w

it's from my book (chapter 2): academic.oup.com/book/61769

a footnote to this discussion is that the EP acquired the power to request these opinions from the CJEU only in 2003, along with the general power to request the annulment of EU legislation

haven't thought about JT in a long time

The Price of Housing in the United States, 1890–2006* Abstract. We construct the first annual market rent and home sales price series for American cities over the 20th century using 2.7 million newspaper real

Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Price of Housing in the United States, 1890–2006,” by Lyons (@ronanlyons), Shertzer (@econhist-allday), Gray (@econhistoryorbust), and Agorastos: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

How we built CoPE We just published the methodology behind CoPE. This is the model that powers Zentropi, and we think the approach might be useful for others working on policy-steerable classification systems. We had ...

We just published the methodology behind CoPE, our 9B parameter model that matches GPT-4o at content classification at 1% the size! The model is already open source, but now we're sharing our training technique. blog.zentropi.ai/how-we-built... 🧵 1/6

depends on who is asking

photo of Fiesole, Italy

I am visiting @eui-eu.bsky.social this term for my sabbatical. If you find yourself passing through Florence, do say hello!

What do people in England think about their local area? In this short report I take a look at surveys we conducted with @yougov.co.uk in 2022, 2024 and 2025 to gain some insights...

Some key findings...