This honor means so much to me. I'm immensely grateful to @epovb.bsky.social, the award committee, @debraleiter.bsky.social, @joshuadarr.bsky.social and last year's recipient @mikecowburn.bsky.social. And thank you, Stuart @turnbulldugarte.com for the nomination and for seeing me and my work. :)

Big thanks to @matildecer.bsky.social, @mtplk.bsky.social, and @nzwiener-collins.bsky.social for the invite and for bringing together such lovely people! Really loved my time in Munich, grateful to have been part of it!

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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...

🧵1/ Are primaries bad for political diversity? Conventional wisdom says yes—but our article in @wepsocial.bsky.social shows that candidate selection modes are not necessarily a bottleneck for representation, at least when it comes to demand. 🗳️👥 @sandrahkansson.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140...

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐝𝐨 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭? 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞? Before yesterday's election and amid rising interest in the Church's ideological stance, Michal Grahn @grahn.bsky.social and l surveyed 1,500 US adults asking them to evaluate different hypothetical papal profiles.

Sharing our new preprint "An Image is Worth K Topics: A Visual Structural Topic Model with Image Embeddings" with @mansmag.bsky.social @matmagnani.bsky.social Alexandra Segerberg and Nataša Sladoje. Available on ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2504.10004

🚨 Talking about harassment in politics hurts your political career. Yes, even in 🇸🇪. And, yes, for both women & men. Here’s what me and @sandrahkansson.bsky.social found in our Political Behavior paper using both experimental and descriptive approaches: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 👇

Congratulations to my talented colleague @grahn.bsky.social!

What a month - I presented my paper at APSA and at my mid-term seminar and received such encouraging feedback especially from @sergipardos and @GrahnMichal. This phd journey just keeps getting better :

Humbled to present my work on elite femonationalism and selective (il)liberal preferences tomorrow morning at #ECPG2024. With me will be a fantastic panel consisting of @Jess_Smith1534 @bertous @LenkaHrbkov and Juliette Corbi. @ECPR

Second half incoming : t.co/bJgIgNcjb0

The second podcast is out now, this time presenting the research project PolarVis in an interview with our collegue @Luca_Rossi_LR : x.com/polarvisprojec…

So proud of this gang 🥰 x.com/UU_PoliSci/sta…

My supervisor Alexandra Segerberg and our collegues @matmagnani @dvladek are hiring a new PhD candidate on desinformation and security. I can wholeheartedly recommend joining this team : x.com/uuinfolab/stat…

One of the research projects I am affiliated with just launched its first podcast on climate communication and visuals. The episode hosts Andreas Szeles head of communication of @greenpeaceHU (16 min on Spotify) 🎙️📻 x.com/polarvisprojec… open.spotify.com/episode/5Ro86I…

Rounding off our first Swedish CSS conference #sc2s2 by brainstorming the future. Thanks for a great week @uucsslab and everyone who participated! x.com/uucsslab/statu…

Come work with us! We are hiring at least three new PhD students, fully funded. www.statsvet.uu.se/education/ph...

Repost if you’ve participated in a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science. Let’s get #SICSS Bluesky going!

Came across a great thread today! I, too, learned R by teaching myself with online material for my master thesis. Later, I added summer school courses and am now teaching R at @UU_University. I can only stress that it is such a versatile and empowering tool to know. x.com/ErinnDuprey/st…

Returning home after three beautiful days in Gothenburg at the annual @wasp_hs conference with a bunch of creative and impressive minds. Tack till alla inblandade! x.com/wasp_hs/status…