As a man of the people, I will always defend trail hunting, which I know is a top priority for all my working class constituents who own horses and enjoy simple pleasures like ripping foxes apart for laughs.

Alcohol?

Our 32-country conjoint study on which societal characteristics citizens prioritize is now published at @bjpols.bsky.social w. excellent @anjaneundorf.bsky.social @sirianned.bsky.social @aykutozturk.bsky.social

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Ein fatales Dauerzeichen der Regierung: Schuld an der Krise seid ihr, die Bürger - und nicht wir, die Politik, die 20 Jahre lang keine Ideen entwickelt und nichts reformiert hat.

New position at @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social, dont’t hesitate to apply if you study ecological transitions👇👇👇

WOW! #BilbyFiles are looking really bad for Riker! BUT DEFINITELY NOT ME THOUGH! #StarTrek #Sisko197

Clear evidence that at universities conservatives don't face higher obstacles than liberals to establish student groups + invite outside speakers. "These results fail to offer support for the view that conservative students encounter more difficulty in efforts to access campus resources."

📄 New paper out in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social with my amazing co-author @plutscher.bsky.social ! 💡 Ever wondered if authoritarian strongman messaging also works in democracies? We find that, yes, it did under Trump during the BLM protests in the U.S. in 2020. polisky csssky socsky commsky

This smells distinctly like collider bias and/or selection bias and/or regression to the mean... You simply can't select teen prodigies, and world class athletes rom databases, and go run regressions without serious consideration of the selection process!

Collider bias: the gift that keeps giving.

love Kumail

🚨 History buffs of the Holy Roman Empire: We built an app to visualize rulers' itineraries between 919 and 1519 based on the Regesta Imperii. Thank you @albertwendsjo.bsky.social for all the help! Explore here: carlmc.shinyapps.io/hre-itinerar... Please let us know of any issues and feedback!

we have 5 positions open at @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt - a 4,5 year postdoc in my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage - 2 postdoc & 2 PhD positions, 4 years, in a research group on Reconfiguration & Internalization of Social Structure www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...

We are (re-)learning that intelligence is a much more complicated and multi-dimensional concept than just "can solve problems"

📣📣📣 GREAT, time-sensitive opportunity for senior/mid-career scholars to join us in Madrid at UC3M´s social sciences department (UC3M-ATRAE Program 2026) on an attractive pay+research funds package 📣📣📣 This does NOT happen everyday. THREAD below if this is of interest 1/n

We @uni-konstanz.de are hiring a full professor in machine learning for our MSc program in Social and Economic Data Science: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/6...

For my causal inference intro course I'm looking for a paper with a simple survey experimental approach: treatment vs. control. Nothing else. But on a timely topic. Any suggestions, ideas? I find it hard to find "simple survey" experiments these days.

🌟 JOB ALERT! 🌟 I’m hiring 1 postdoc for my ERC project ECONENGAGE (@ Gothenburg 🇸🇪)! Starting ca. Aug '26! Congenial colleagues + int'l & supportive environment. 💸 for conferences + workshops! Lots of professional networking opportunities with scholars! Deadline Jan 7th. Apply! (see more below 🧵)

A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the release of Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance” and the advent of the late-2000s electro-pop era, which both appeared around the same year, 2008.

The Christmas prepping was prepping, and I almost forgot to tell you that @miguelpereira.bsky.social is coming all the way to Münster to present work on politicians' ability to use evidence in policy making! This Wednesday, find the Zoom link below 👇 @danbischof.bsky.social @mwegemann.bsky.social

Horrormeldungen noch und nöcher www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/...

Irgendwann kommt einfach: Leben ist zu teuer, bitte hört auf zu leben - mindestens 90 Tage im Jahr.

Today I was elected to become Head of the Department. Wish me and the Department best of luck! :)

We are very excited to host Noam Gidron today in our Hamburg Political Science Seminar Series (info below) - very much looking forward to your talk, @noamgidron.bsky.social ! Please all join if you are interested. Everyone is welcome to attend, no prior registration necessary.

PhD opportunity at the University of Oxford. The Morelli scholarship funds a doctoral student to work with me on on democratic backsliding, strategies of democratic defense and regeneration, or the rise of illiberalism. Deadline Jan 9. More information at users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0073/

Susan Hall's condition has now reached the 'shouting at biscuits' stage.

Ich bin so froh, dass wir sie demnächst inhaltlich gestellt haben werden. Sonst hätte einem ja schon etwas bange gewesen sein können bei solchen Nachrichten.

🚨Jobs!🚨 3-year PostDoc positions (aka Research Officers) at @lsegovernment.bsky.social to work with me on the local consequences of border change. Please reach out for questions and apply by Jan 4th to join the team and department: I’d love to hear from you! Job ad: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

I’ve never seen such a smooth parallel trend with such beautiful shaped lines. And then PhD hits.

Use of mental health medications in the population of Swedish PhD students is 40% higher than a matched sample by the fifth PhD year. Be kind to PhD students. Don't take up PhD students you can't invest in. Alert prospective students of the reality of a PhD. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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„Ich habe immer gefunden, dass der schönere Begriff von Demokratie nicht Herrschaft der Mehrheit' wäre, sondern Schutz der Minderheit unter dem Protektorat der Mehrheit.“ Guten Morgen mit Roger Willemsen

Our Element is out! 🎉 Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms? www.cambridge.org/core/element...

📢 Call for Submissions UK-based early career researchers in political science, political economy & public policy: apply to our January Early Career Workshop at LSE. 🗓️ Deadline: 28 Dec 2025 🔗 forms.gle/HXU4DnBq9HmX...

Highly recommended for any academic or social scientist who is interested in politics and public writing! I wouldn't be able to launch my newsletter without participating in the fellowship and being a part of GA.

Survey experiments' popularity in political science is getting attention. What is good and bad about them? How can one maximize their benefits and mitigate their downsides? Greg Huber and I wrote up our thoughts: Paywalled: doi.org/10.1016/bs.h... Free: m-graham.com/papers/Huber...

When you learn about "controlling on a post-treatment variable", you begin to see it everywhere. Today's example: do coalition governments that take longer to form work quicker when they take the reins? doi.org/10.1111/1475... (1/n)

With No. 10 not having qualified yet. You missed Lothar Matthäus on this list.

A short preprint describing our adoption of more consistent and precise use of terminology related to reproducibility, robustness, replicability, repeatability, and credibility. osf.io/preprints/me...

Die CDU ist empört über die Bronzestatue von Walter #Lübcke vor ihrer Parteizentrale. Ich bin empört über die Reaktion der CDU. (Geschenklink) www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

The "credibility revolution" doesn’t ask every paper to have an explicit identification strategy. It asks that without one, you must be clear about the limits and admit you cannot claim causality with your quant study.

Survey experiments are certainly not a golden bullet. But a) think about where we came from (large data with poor measures and strong modeling assumptions) b) they are far from being as bad as so many want them to be. For once: Maybe we could be humble about different approaches.

This is an impressive project. My reaction to what it shows though is that survey experiments have gotten out of hand in polisci. I will blog more on this, but I do not think survey experiments are emblematic of the credibility revolution. Some are already interpreting as such, which is a problem.

This is pretty amazing. Read it.

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It was our pleasure having you, @fialalenka.bsky.social & @i4replication.bsky.social here @uni-muenster.de - great to see many people from several disciplines working together to improve (social) science! Thanks also @aufdroeseler.bsky.social #MüCOS & Katrin & Oliver #CDSC for making co-orga fun!

On the side: might be wise to report more on the actual situation on the living standards of asylum seekers. Give that a platform. Instead news are full with citizens „feeling reports“ or what politicians on the right think citizens feel.

There is also full exposure to this: any train to the South passes this „camp“. I’m seeing the situation anytime I commute to Münster. Shitshow. We can do better: www.zeit.de/2025/50/gefl...