Genuinely interested in your views: What is the future of teaching statistical programming language for data science in the age of AI? Will we even still teach programming R or Python?

It's one thing for corruption to make a red card disappear. It's another for the coach to send that player onto the pitch. That's not just tolerating corruption: it's legitimizing it. The case shows how much power other actors have in enabling the autocratic playbook. Stand firm!

My department at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social is advertising 3 Tenure-Track AP positions in Political Science and 2 Teaching positions. The department is nice, non-toxic, and in good financial shape (which is not a given these days, in the UK or elsewhere): warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Cancelled today - due to extreme heat in London

Apply! One of the best environments to do empirical social sciences in the world.

Arrived in Bamberg yesterday for a very special event: a workshop celebrating Thomas Saalfeld and his achievements. Safe to say that without Thomas, I would never have done a PhD. Thank you! If you'd like to read the Festschrift in his honor: www.routledge.com/Democracy-at...

Great @epssnet.bsky.social so far! Today, I am presenting ongoing work w. @elenaleuschner.bsky.social, @timallinger.bsky.social, @danbischof.bsky.social, @kristianvsf.bsky.social, and @morganlcj.bsky.social on citizen's conceptualisations of democracy. 📍 CP09, Lagan B (Hilton) ⏰ 15:20

📢 I’m hiring 2 three-year postdocs at Dept of Political Science, @au.dk! Come work with me on The Politics of Shaming and Shamelessness — a new project on elite rhetoric, emotions, norms, hostility and political violence. Deadline: 31 August 2026 Start: Dec 2026–Feb 2027 Please share widely! 🙏

Now traveling to @epssnet.bsky.social I would like to draw your attention to a panel on: Standards for Replication in Political Science 10:50-12:30 Thursday, 18 June, 2026, Bar 2 w. @bochkareva.bsky.social @fresejoris.bsky.social @macartan.bsky.social @aeggers.bsky.social and myself.

Looking forward to presenting at #EPSS2026 in Belfast this week! @klingelt.bsky.social and I hand-collected 10,000+ campaign posters in Berlin and use automated image analysis to study placement and content strategies across parties THU, 5:10–6:50pm, Brookfield (Hilton) @epssnet.bsky.social

Exactly 10 years ago today, Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered by a far-right man. She was just 41 years old. One of many victims of far-right terrorism. R.I.P. 💔

Our department has three calls for tenure track positions. IE is a fast growing group of scholars doing top-notch work, which offers very attractive conditions in a great European city. If you are looking for an academic job in Europe, definitely do consider applying.

I'm tired of switching around survey platforms from Qualtrics to Question Pro to limesurvey and so forth. Also tired to write code in small boxes instead of doing everything with code. I'm thinking about going formR with an own server. Any opinions on formR?

I’ll be at @eui-eu.bsky.social this Thursday and Friday to present ongoing work on whether social norms can be used as interventions to help safeguard democracy. Talk: Thursday, 4pm Seminar Room 2, Badia Fiesolana www.eui.eu/events?id=58... Come by, say hi, or message me if you’d like to meet up.

🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨 in Science Advances. We meta-reanalyze 100 conjoint experiments to assess which immigrants citizens prefer around the world. Our evidence reinforces existing findings, identifies novel insights, and provides a basis for future research 1/n www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I like this @thejop.bsky.social : "We are now implementing a system in which the editorial team has the right to not consider submissions from authors who have failed to review for the journal three or more times, when invited to do so by the editorial team."

🚨 What happens with voters when politicians use simpler language? New @thejop.bsky.social paper with @rsenninger.bsky.social: simple language changes not just what citizens understand, but who they think politicians are. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

It's time for our final speaker series of the semester! On Wednesday, @mstalinski.bsky.social will present work on "The Prosocial Ranking Challenge: Reducing Polarization on Social Media without Sacrificing Engagement". w @danbischof.bsky.social @mwegemann.bsky.social @thiloalbers.bsky.social

A great overview of the accommodation question by Hanno Hilbig, worth your time!

🚨Stellenausschreibung🚨 Postdoc-Stelle: Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte (100%, 3+2 Jahre) @unigreifswald.bsky.social Bewerbungsfrist: 24.06.26 Bei Fragen gerne per E-Mail bei mir melden. Gerne teilen! www.uni-greifswald.de/universitaet...

New paper out in Nature Human Behaviour. "Government policy documents across 185 countries largely cite Global North sources" with @seramirezruiz.bsky.social DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Ungated: rdcu.be/fh0Ss

Chapter on AI and Democracy with Bailey Flanigan, @politicsprof.bsky.social and Charles Stewart 👇

Having a hard time managing travels to lovely Belfast. Anyone with experience able to tell me if it's at all possible to catch a flight in Dublin 10am on Saturday?

On Wednesday at 12.00, we welcome @cathrinmohr.bsky.social in Münster, presenting her working paper "Hysteresis and Selection in the Rise of Fascism: The “Ordinary Men” of the Nazi Party" @danbischof.bsky.social @mwegemann.bsky.social @thiloalbers.bsky.social

Very glad to have you around today and tomorrow. Looking very much forward to your talk!

📄 Neues Paper mit MA-Studentin @jmschulte.bsky.social: Wenn Sozialdemokrat:innen in der Migrationspolitik nach rechts rücken, folgen die Wähler:innen dann tatsächlich? Wir untersuchen Olaf Scholz' radikalen Kurswechsel in Deutschland im Oktober 2023. (original: EN, Abstract Übersetzung via AI)

📄 New paper with a fantastic MA student @jmschulte.bsky.social: When social democrats move right on migration, do voters actually follow? We study Olaf Scholz's radical shift on migration in Germany (October 2023).

Stimmt, ich gehe künftig auch nur noch zur Arbeit wenn’s nicht „mies“ ist. Das muss mir schon reinlaufen, sonst nixe mixe.

Is it only me or has OSF become quite buggy lately?

My partner works in consulting. She just saw my calender and said: "I would have a meltdown with your amount of appointments." I mean consulting, she is basically only in meetings...

It's a new semester in Münster and that means a new start to our speaker series! We have teamed up with @thiloalbers.bsky.social + Andreas Stegmann to organize next year's talks. We are so excited to kick off w @alexjabbour.bsky.social next week 🎉 @danbischof.bsky.social @mwegemann.bsky.social

Agree. This increases the lottery effect of the results and, in essence, adds more Matthew effect to it.

@au.dk is hiring 3 postdocs (2 yrs) on personality cults & strategic communication in autocracies, led by Jakob Tolstrup & Alexander Baturo. They're looking for profiles with text-as-data, survey experiments and/or Chinese politics experience. Start fall 2026. Looks like a great opportunity!

I am looking for a postdoc to join my team at the University of Bremen. 5-year-contract, top-up to 100% possible for most of the contract period. Apply by 04 May 2026. If you have questions about the position, send me an email! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

This is similar to what we find in our recent study on which countries people want their government to learn from. China ranks in the middle but still comes out ahead of the United States, pointing to shifting perceptions of the two powers.

🌟 New publication 🌟 Very happy that our paper “When Legislators Do Not Differentiate: A Field Experiment on British MPs' Responses to Constituent Policy Queries” has been accepted at the British Journal of Political Science! Current link here: osf.io/preprints/os... Short thread below 👇

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 We have an opening for a 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 @stawi-univie.bsky.social starting Aug/Sep 2026! Focus: political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields 📅Apply by 29 April 2026 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Following up on this: if audit aim to recruit "real" people as confederates. Several reasons why you should aim to do exactly that are outlined in these papers of ours.

🚨 New paper accepted at the @bjpols.bsky.social: we were in the field while Brexit dominated British politics. Do MPs respond differently when constituents disagree with the party line? What we find surprised us: a null! url: osf.io/preprints/os...

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🚨 Just shipped a major update to GERDA, the German Election Database. - State elections update: new years + mail-in - 3 new election types: Mayoral, County, European - Municipal elections: 1984-2025 - Meinungsbild public opinion - New website & features german-elections.com

T-14 days until the Hungarian election. 🇭🇺🗳️ In this thread, I discuss Magyar's prospects of success in restoring (liberal) democracy (if he wins) and will tell you he's not the saviour you might think he is (but that he’s still good enough for now). 🧵 1/

A cover that was a year ahead of its time

Eventuell überlegen es sich Süddeutsche Zeitung, @zeit.de und FAZ, ob sie bei den nächsten „Plagiatsvorwürfen“ dieses Mannes wirklich wieder SOFORT Meldungen und Artikel schreiben? 🙂

CfP Jahrestagung AK #Demokratieforschung 1.-2. Oktober 2026 #Berlin Deadline 19. April www.dvpw.de/gliederung/a... @humboldtuni.bsky.social @dvpwtheoriesektion.bsky.social @dvpw-regieren.bsky.social @akpf-dvpw.bsky.social @ecib-dvpw.bsky.social @dvpw-ipe.bsky.social

Last week, we (@clandwehr.bsky.social, my colleague Leonard and I) had the joy of welcoming some great colleagues working on the topic of democracy to Mainz, for the concluding workshop of our project "Conceptions of Democracy among Citizens and Political Elites". Thank you for three wonderful days!

Thank you @rikkidean.bsky.social @crowdermeyer.bsky.social @pcmagalhaes.bsky.social @danbischof.bsky.social @saengler.bsky.social @peterenns.bsky.social @kstrump.bsky.social @christopherojeda.bsky.social @nilssteiner.bsky.social @arminschaefer.bsky.social @elinesevers.bsky.social and Hannah Werner!!

NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2

Einfach Danke für diese starke Rede. Der rote Faden: „Deswegen ist es in der Demokratie notwendig, dass Menschen der Mehrheiten in der Gesellschaft es als ihre ureigenste Pflicht ansehen, sich gleichermaßen für Minderheiten und deren Rechte einzusetzen.“ www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft...