Pritzer gets the mechanics of authoritarianism – systemic intimidation, seizing control of elections, etc. – in a way others in national democratic leadership don't or won't say out loud.

We - @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social, @kgattermann.bsky.social @sebstier.bsky.social, @sziaja.bsky.social & I - are very excited to start the work of the RN on #DataLinkage! If you are interested in why, when & how to link data formats in PolSci research, do not hesitate to join our Network!

"Fussball ist ein Sport der Genies, die kooperieren." Wie wild kreativ mann bei Sport wird. So eine überhebliche Grütze.

My hottest take of the day for the survey methods & immigration crowd: Conjoint experiments on immigrant profile choice are not a good way to know whether refugees are more popular than economic immigrants (or any other descriptive Q about immigration policy preferences).

🚨🚨🚨 Survey Researchers! WE HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM!🚨🚨🚨 I have access to the Comet browser by Perplexity. I asked it to pretend to be a human, take the survey, and give me feedback. IT DID!

🕒 Deadline: This Friday! Our call for a W3 Professor in Political Science (focus International Sustainability) **We have a broad reading of the topics being covered by this professorship.** Apply!

Doncic is a shitty defender who - for whichever reason - gets continuously safed by refs around the globe. On every boxout he fouls, most drives by opponents. Shit. All shit.

Deadline for the position as Full Professor at our dept is coming closer: Great position, great colleagues & very positive working atmosphere. Please contact @danbischof.bsky.social if you have any questions. And thanks for asking - yes, the pic shows today's view from the position's office.

The University of Cologne plans drastic cuts to its Political Science department, potentially abolishing the MSc in Political Science and eliminating the professorships in IR and Comparative Politics. This would severely weaken the social sciences at @unicologne.bsky.social. Petition (de/en) ⤵️

It’s really worrying that it takes a political scientist to point out all these irregularities in a paper that is picked up to such an extent by the press — reviewers, science editors, anyone listening? Anyone bothered to ask for the underlying data & code?

Statt Demokratieprojekte zu unterstützen - gerade während diese Angriffen von rechts ausgesetzt sind - macht die Familienministerin munter mit; wie einige aus den Reihen der Union, die es der AfD nachtun und Demokratieförderungsprojekte unter Generalverdacht stellen.

Returning from vacation and looking for a late summer read? @ivobantel.bsky.social and I got you covered! In our new @wepsocial.bsky.social paper, we assess how mainstream parties rhetorically create an affect-based "common front" against the radical right. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Please share: Seeking seed funding to develop innovations for open science, design, aggregation, transfer..? Call open now with @egap.bsky.social egap.org/our-work/res... @awilke.bsky.social Deadline 31 October

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Speaking as someone who studied and taught at US universities for over a decade, that KB has been telling this story for so long, without anyone in the UK previously questioning it is kind of amazing. It reflects total credulity about how the US works from the Spectator/Ashcroft etc.

Science research gets more engagement on Bluesky than X, study finds Bluesky posts referencing scholarly articles ‘find substantially higher levels of interaction’ than on Elon Musk’s platform www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Sure, traditionally bread was of course toast.

➡️ Deadline approaching—only one month left to send in your papers and presentation proposals for #CDSM2025! 🚨 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗖𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 🚨 📅 𝗡𝗼𝘃 𝟭𝟮–𝟭𝟯, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 (𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹) 📥 Submission Deadline: 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝟯𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

If you do one thing this weekend: watch "Katrina: Come Hell & High Water". Masterpiece.

Auf vielfache Nachfrage: ich hatte auf eine intelligente Reflexion zum Thema gehofft, wusste nicht, dass ein so tumber Text vorangestellt wird. Sonst hätte ich nicht mitgemacht. Texte wo der Ausdruck „nordamerikanische Universitäten“ als Platzhalter vorkommt, lese ich schon lange nicht mehr.

"No democratic constitution is self-enforcing [...]. Citizens and leaders must defend democratic institutions whenever they are threatened and whatever the scale of the threat."

🚔Did George Floyd’s murder change Americans' racial attitudes? ➡️ @amengel.bsky.social & C. D. Kam find attitudes shifted, but unevenly: largest and most lasting for Black Americans and White Democrats, weaker or countervailing for others www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

A new piece I wrote appearing in FOREIGN AFFAIRS today www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/warn...

🚨 New in Journal of Politics! 🚨 Do radical right parties need to cut ties with old dictatorships to succeed? 👉 @sergipardos.bsky.social and my study of Spain’s VOX says: ❌ Not necessarily.

Meine Antwort: die Frage führt in die Irre!

Figure 3 from "Why is it so Hard to Counteract Wealth Inequality" illustrates how people with low #wealth are much less likely to have an opinion about #inheritance #taxation than people with high wealth @madselk.bsky.social @benansell.bsky.social @aslicansunar.bsky.social @mhaslberger.bsky.social

Linke wollen eine bessere Welt und das auch noch politisch umsetzen. Selbst schuld wenn danach die Faschos kommen und alle „anderen“ fertig machen wollen. Message received.

I'm taking over our PhD professional development seminar this year, which covers everything from 'so how do you actually do this PhD thing', to applying for jobs, via writing, ethics, inter alia. If anyone has run similar things elsewhere, I'd love to see what you cover - please drop me a line!

Ist das for real oder "blown out of context" somehow? Sonst kann er auch gleich sagen: "Eure Armut kotzt mich an."

Looking forward to these two panels at #ecprgc2025 "The Normativity of International Institutions: Between Commitment and Contestation" (with @brianmilstein.bsky.social @mpatberg.bsky.social Eva Erman, Silviya Lechner) "Postnational Constitutionalism" (with Carmen Pavel, Francesco Rizzi Brignoli)

The surprising thing? It turns out that couples that last always select on the dependent variable.

Together with the great colleagues @i4replication.bsky.social, we are organizing the first Münster replication games (28/11/25)! Highly recommended to junior & senior scholars. Joint project together with #MueCOS & #CDSC @uni-muenster.de. More info/registration: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3526/

Das Problem "wie ein Vater sein und mit Emotionen umgehen" beginnt halt nicht mit dem "Vaterwerden", sondern lang davor. "Erstmal Bierchen" ist halt auch emotional, eigentlich. Muss man sich trauen auszusprechen mit diesen männlichen Freunden. www.zeit.de/familie/2025...

Seit heute macht das Gerücht die Runde, die SPD könnte Katarina Barley als Kandidatin fürs Bundesverfassungsgericht nominieren. Seit heute gibt es eine Ergänzung in ihrem Wikipedia-Eintrag zu ihrer Position zu Schwangerschaftsabbrüchen - von einem anonymen Account, der extra dafür angelegt wurde.

New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357 Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!

Meinung vs beobachtbare Realität

Good to see growing support for abduction or 'inference to the best explanation', recently by Spirling and Stewart in @thejop.bsky.social. This is... www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Kernproblem wie Medien Wissenschaft reflektieren wollen:

Q for all of you: I am building a text classifier w OpenAI to categorize administrative texts. We aren't planning on having training data for the model. For research purposes, I see the limitation that I won't be able to report any validation metrics. Are there some best practices to follow?

This is a prime case study of how moving your issue agenda as a center right party (Cons) to the right extremes will eventually cost yourself everything. The Cons are projected at 24!!! seats right now. Reform at 395!

This little parable is a nice illustration of why it is important for mainstream parties to set and uphold clear, bright line anti-prejudice norms, and of why the failure of senior Conservatives to do so risks doing great harm to their party

📢 Call for Papers – London Experimental Seminar Series (LESS) in Political Science @lsegovernment.bsky.social. We are launching a new forum for experimental political science research: First seminar: 19/11/2025. Deadline: 31/08/2025. Submit here: forms.gle/ZUJcBbZoDoaY...

Orgin beats Performance. In Germany, 10th graders who apply for an apprenticeship have a 15pp lower chance to receive an answer. @dgsoziologie.bsky.social @mpsa.bsky.social @davidajaeger.bsky.social @cesifo.org @danbischof.bsky.social @p-hunermund.com papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

As questions come in about our hire for a Professorship (IR & Sustainability): We have a rather broad reading of "sustainability" guided by goals defined by the German government on sustainability: www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/schw...

Didn’t I hear „The U.S will remain on board“ … and other bla bla over the weekend? Good luck 🍀 genuinely to European leaders today, when meeting with US admin. But please also face reality and finally defend a free Europe! Amen. 🙏

Können wir dieses Bild des Oberbürgermeisters von Koblenz bitte auch viral gehen lassen 🌈 Well played, David Langer 🙏🏻

The far right are now fairly openly signalling that they are unhappy with how WW2 went and this should be a sign for the mainstream media that those "legitimate concerns" are just a fig leaf for their real nazi views: bsky.app/profile/joxl...

Fyi statistical methods to detect ballot stuffing were often developed on Russian data because it was so easy to spot and validate