Lecturer in European Institutions, Politics and Policy at University College London https://michalovadek.github.io/https://bsky.app/profile/movadek.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/movadek.bsky.social/post/3mvpnpsfam22pshortly pulling up into Liverpool for the Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (EPOP) conference! First time and excited to be presenting joint work with Umut Yüksel on comparative estimates of trust in courts from over 160 countries. Meanwhile, Stuart Perrett is presenting our experimental paper17 Sep 2026 12:28 +0000at://did:plc:eed6oovrvz3rtadhlm45tsvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvpnpsfam22phttps://bsky.app/profile/movadek.bsky.social/post/3mvph33pre22u@epssnet.bsky.social 2027 is going to be great for judicial politics scholars [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Sep 2026 10:29 +0000at://did:plc:eed6oovrvz3rtadhlm45tsvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvph33pre22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/movadek.bsky.social/post/3mv36lajtv22xLooking forward to talking about my book at @lselaw.bsky.social next month with @vvelyvyte.bsky.social and @janzglinski.bsky.social. I think this will be a really fun conversation about European integration, both nuts and bolts and big constitutional questions. Join us! https://www.lse.ac.uk/law/events/seminars/golem-seminar-series-book-launch-contested-competences-in-the-european-union09 Sep 2026 09:04 +0000at://did:plc:eed6oovrvz3rtadhlm45tsvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv36lajtv22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/movadek.bsky.social/post/3muyteo66m225as per Eurostat data, bond yields in Hungary dropped by almost 2 pct points (~25%) since Viktor Orban lost power in the April election, even as yields are slightly up over the same period in the rest of the EU08 Sep 2026 10:38 +0000at://did:plc:eed6oovrvz3rtadhlm45tsvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3muyteo66m225https://bsky.app/profile/movadek.bsky.social/post/3muuu5cbnjk2hI like it when the notation is purposeful and easy to follow06 Sep 2026 20:41 +0000at://did:plc:eed6oovrvz3rtadhlm45tsvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3muuu5cbnjk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/movadek.bsky.social/post/3mqtyqhasbc2eNew working paper! in which Umut Yüksel and I investigate trust in courts across the world, drawing on millions of individual responses. We also created an app to make it easier to browse our trust estimates: trustincourts.netlify.app Link to paper: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/hd5a7_v1 https://trustincourts.netlify.app17 Jul 2026 14:50 +0000at://did:plc:eed6oovrvz3rtadhlm45tsvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqtyqhasbc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/movadek.bsky.social/post/3mqmrssowkk2nhilarious [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Jul 2026 17:57 +0000at://did:plc:eed6oovrvz3rtadhlm45tsvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqmrssowkk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/movadek.bsky.social/post/3mqeimjc4js2ievery type of faculty are going to find themselves in this thread and they are not going to like it [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Jul 2026 10:51 +0000at://did:plc:eed6oovrvz3rtadhlm45tsvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqeimjc4js2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/movadek.bsky.social/post/3mq7vnvrgkk2fnot the worst way to close the season09 Jul 2026 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:eed6oovrvz3rtadhlm45tsvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq7vnvrgkk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/movadek.bsky.social/post/3moxoygk2ls24to put the sadness of the fantastic inaugural #EPSS2026 ending behind us, next week colleagues and I are organizing our annual law and courts workshop at @uclspp.bsky.social. Fourth year running and it's another stellar line up of young scholars working across methods and disciplines.23 Jun 2026 15:16 +0000at://did:plc:eed6oovrvz3rtadhlm45tsvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3moxoygk2ls24https://bsky.app/profile/movadek.bsky.social/post/3mosbfh6kmc2ethis was a blast. Exactly the kind of home political science needs at this moment. Thanks to everyone who made it happen and long may it continue [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Jun 2026 11:29 +0000at://did:plc:eed6oovrvz3rtadhlm45tsvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mosbfh6kmc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/movadek.bsky.social/post/3mog4di4srk2cgreat to be back in beautiful Belfast for the week16 Jun 2026 15:26 +0000at://did:plc:eed6oovrvz3rtadhlm45tsvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mog4di4srk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/movadek.bsky.social/post/3mnva3zpxos2fnot that there is a major political science conference in Belfast next week09 Jun 2026 22:19 +0000at://did:plc:eed6oovrvz3rtadhlm45tsvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnva3zpxos2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/movadek.bsky.social/post/3mmcurz3ysk2greposting for no particular reason [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 May 2026 21:43 +0000at://did:plc:eed6oovrvz3rtadhlm45tsvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmcurz3ysk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/movadek.bsky.social/post/3mm5uzhkr7s2ronce again shocked to discover that a complex phenomenon dozens of scientists around the world spend a lot of time and effort studying does not, in fact, neatly reduce to a bivariate plot in the Financial Times. But maybe the next one will [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 May 2026 22:04 +0000at://did:plc:eed6oovrvz3rtadhlm45tsvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm5uzhkr7s2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/movadek.bsky.social/post/3mm27v7m7ts2hMy hunch is there is still some low-hanging fruit, the kind of stuff where you burn half a million tokens on a bug that would take 3 seconds of brain time to fix. But the long term economic viability of large-scale AI deployment probably depends on wider, hitherto unrealized efficiency gains. [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 May 2026 11:08 +0000at://did:plc:eed6oovrvz3rtadhlm45tsvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm27v7m7ts2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/movadek.bsky.social/post/3mks4ftbhos2bdo sign up if you want to take your work with LLMs beyond chat.com [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 May 2026 12:19 +0000at://did:plc:eed6oovrvz3rtadhlm45tsvb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mks4ftbhos2b