⏱️Don’t forget to apply! Internship application deadline for spring 2026 is November 16. Read more on the V-Dem website: v-dem.net/about/intern... We especially welcome applicants with an interest in quantitative research and data collection, or social science research communication (or both).

📢 New Thematic dataset: 𝐋𝐚𝐰𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 The #Demscore v6 update comes with a new thematic dataset on Laws and Liberties. Available for free at the Demscore website: www.demscore.se/data/themati... More info in 🧵1(3) #SocialScienceData #Polisky #PolDataSky #PoliSciSky #PoliticalScienceData

📢 Out Now! DEMSCORE v6 Demscore v6 update includes the new @ucdp.bsky.social annual release, updated @repdem-org.bsky.social Basic datasets, @viewsforecasting.org monthly updates until August 2025, + a new thematic dataset on Laws and Liberties. #SocialScienceData #PoliticalScienceData #Polisky 1(5)

Coming very soon! DEMSCORE v6 offers new updates from UCDP, REPDEM, and VIEWS, and a new thematic dataset. @ucdp.bsky.social @qoginstitute.bsky.social @vdeminstitute.bsky.social @viewsforecasting.org ‬‬ @repdem-org.bsky.social #polisky #PoliSkyData #PoliSciSky #SocialScience #SocialScienceData 1(3)

🏛️ Today is the last day of #ecprgc25 in Thessaloniki, and your last chance to come by the #DEMSCORE booth in the Exhibition area of the Law Building. If you do, you could f ex find out more about a useful DEMSCORE #DataHack👇 #Polisky #PoliSciSky #SocialScience #CompSocialScience @ecpr.bsky.social

This week #DEMSCORE is at the #ECPR General Conference 2025, at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The DEMSCORE team will be available throughout the conference at our booth in the Exhibition area of the Law Building. A virtual booth is accessible via the event app: ecpr.eu/app #ecprgc25 #PoliSky

🏆We are happy to announce that #DEMSCORE has received the 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆 & 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 Award, in the framework of Acquisition International’s Non-Profit Organisation Award 2025🎉 #SocialScienceData #SocialScience #PolDataSky #PoliSkyData #PoliSciSky #PoliSky #AcademicSky 1(3)

🎉 New data drop! We’ve just updated our dataset covering political parties, parliaments, and governments in 33 parliamentary democracies from 1945 (or their democratic transitions) until June 2025. Find it here: repdem.org/index.php/cu... #Democracy #OpenData #ComparativePolitics #Demscore

📢 We’re Hiring! Data Manager for the DEMSCORE Research Infrastructure and the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg. Apply by August 10 @ web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103... More below👇 #SocialScience #Polisky #PoliSciSky #PoliticalScienceData #SocialScienceData #PolDataSky

Thank you to all attendants of the 2025 #DemscoreConference! Your presence and contributions made it a success - we truly value the insights shared in all panels and workshops, and hope to see you again soon. www.demscore.se #SocialScience #Polisky #PoliSciSky #SocialScienceData #PolDataSky 🧵1(3)

🥁#DemscoreBestMastersThesisAward 2025 goes to Lena Malin Grüninger, University of Gothenburg & ‪@rptu.bsky.social‬, for her thesis “The World is Getting Old – Pension Policies as Drivers for U-Turn Regime Transformations” 🏆Congratulations!🎉 #Polisky #PoliSciSky #PoliticalScienceData #PolDataSky 1/5

Right now at the #DemscoreConference: Final panel - How to deal with uncertainty in #conflict data collection and forecasting? @uupeace.bsky.social @ucdp.bsky.social @viewsforecasting.org‬‬‬ @uupeace.bsky.social ‬ #SocialScience #Polisky #PoliSciSky #SocialScienceData #PolDataSky 🧵1(3)

#DemscoreConference Methodology Workshop presentations from the Demscore modules highlight the many different methods of collecting data, the diverse sources and kind of data collected and eventually included in Demscore. #Polisky #PoliSciSky #SocialScienceData #PolDataSky 🧵1(

#DemscoreConference Panel 3: Measurements, Methods, & Infrastructures @paulbederke.bsky.social, @magnusoberg.bsky.social, & Melina Liethmann (@demscore.bsky.social) discuss current problems and solutions for data merging, with examples from #PartyFacts, #UppsalaConflictDataProgram, and #Demscore 1/2

#DemscoreConference: Panel 2 gives examples of the use of Demscore in research: using indicators on for ex. corruption perception, government efficiency and liberal democracy from @qoginstitute.bsky.social & @vdeminstitute.bsky.social combining them with other datasets, and qualitative research. 1/3

At the #DemscoreConference 2025: The Demscore modules present ongoing work, and we compare Demscore to the Webb telescope. #SocialScience #Polisky #PoliSciSky #PoliticalScienceData #SocialScienceData #PolDataSky #Democracy #Environment #Migration #SocialPolicy #Conflict #Representation #data

Ready to welcome you to the Demscore Conference 2025! Check out the program at www.demscore.se/events/demsc... #Polisky #SocialScienceData #PolDataSky #PoliSciSky @qoginstitute.bsky.social @vdeminstitute.bsky.social @ucdp.bsky.social @repdem-org.bsky.social @viewsforecasting.org

📢 The 2025 #DemscoreConference program is now online: www.demscore.se/events/demsc... The diversity of subjects and approaches highlights the broad scope of research made possible by combining data through Demscore. #SocialScience #Polisky #PoliSciSky #SocialScienceData #PolDataSky 🧵1(4)

🎉Congratulations on completing your #Master’sThesis! Did you use data from at least two of DEMSCORE's partnering modules? 🏆 Submit your paper for the DEMSCORE Best Master Thesis Award! 📆 Deadline: May 25 See www.demscore.se/events/demsc... #polisky #PoliticalScienceData #PoliSciSky #SocialScience

#DemscoreConference Data Workshop 💾 How to collect, process and generate data for research projects? Join Demscore partners for a discussion on research data collection, transforming raw data into datasets, & the main challenges during data collection & dataset generation. #Polisky 🧵1(2) Link ⬇️

📍Registration reminder: #DEMSCORE Conference 2025 Join us in Gothenburg, Sweden, on June 9-10 for the Demscore Conference 2025. 🗓️ Registration deadline: May 19 More information and registration: www.demscore.se/events/demsc... #Polisky #SocialScienceData #SocialScience #ResearchData

#Demscore version 5 offers three new thematic datasets on #EconomicDevelopment, #Health, and #Peace respectively. Explore all Demscore thematic datasets at www.demscore.se/data/themati... More in 🧵1(4) #PoliticalScienceData #Polisky #SocialScienceData #PoliSciSky #SocialScience

More news in #DEMSCORE v5.0 - Added datasets from #COMPLAB and #H-DATA COMPLAB #MIGPOL Migrant Social Policy Dataset (ImmigSR) www.demscore.se/data/static-... H-DATA Political Leaders Through Time www.demscore.se/data/static-... Read more in 🧵1(4) #polisky #socialsciencedata #migration

DEMSCORE version 5.0 includes additional datasets from UCDP: The Cities and Armed Conflict Events (CACE), Deadly Electoral Conflict dataset (DECO), and the Ethnic One-Sided Violence (EOSV) Dataset. Explore at www.demscore.se/data/ @ucdp.bsky.social #Polisky #PoliSciData #SocialScienceData 🧵1(4)

#Demscore version 5.0 includes 161 datasets with 25,299 unique variables. Among these are the updated #REPDEM Basic datasets, providing detailed information on #governments and #PoliticalParties in 33 parliamentary democracies from 1945 until December 2024. #Polisky #poltheory #PoliSkyData 🧵1(2)

📢 #DEMSCORE v5 is out tomorrow, March 28! The update includes the annual updates from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social & @qoginstitute.bsky.social. #REPDEM Basic dataset has been expanded with countries outside Europe and new, additional datasets from #COMPLAB, @ucdp.bsky.social and #HDATA. #polisky 1(2)

📢 Registration is now open for #DEMSCORE Conference 2025, June 9-10 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Register here: www.demscore.se/.../dem.../d... @vdeminstitute.bsky.social @ucdp.bsky.social @qoginstitute.bsky.social @medem.bsky.social #polisky #poltheory #PoliSkyData #SocialScienceData 🧵1(3)

❕Deadline coming up❕ Don't forget to submit your paper abstract or panel proposal for the #DemscoreConference2025 by March 16! www.demscore.se/events/demsc...

📢 Data Update: Demscore v5.0 will be available March 28! Free access to harmonized data on #Democracy #Environment #Migration #SocialPolicy #Conflict #Representation @ucdp.bsky.social @qoginstitute.bsky.social @vdeminstitute.bsky.social @medem.bsky.social #Polisky #SocialScienceData

⏰One month left to submit panel proposals and paper abstracts for the DEMSCORE Conference 2025, June 9-10 in Gothenburg. 📆 Abstract and Proposal Submission Deadline: March 16, 2025 www.demscore.se/events/demsc... #PoliSky @ucdp.bsky.social @qoginstitute.bsky.social @vdeminstitute.bsky.social

New dataset update from Demscore Partner QoG! To be included in v.5 of Demscore.

🧑‍🎓Are you a #SocialScience #Student writing your #MasterThesis? Consider using Demscore data and submit your thesis to the Demscore Best Master Thesis Award 2025! 🏆⤵️ More info at www.demscore.se/events/demsc... 📆 Submission deadline May 25, 2025. #polisky #SocialScience #PoliSciSky 1(3)

📢Call for Papers DEMSCORE Conference 2025 We invite submissions for research papers, panels, and workshop proposals for the #DEMSCORE Conference 2025, June 9-10 in Gothenburg. 📆Abstract Submission Deadline: March 16 See www.demscore.se/events/demsc... #PoliSky #PoliSciSky #SocialScience ⬇️

📅 Save the Dates: #Demscore Conference 2025, June 9-10 in Gothenburg. 📢 Call for Papers and Panels open now, learn more at www.demscore.se/events/demsc... @ucdp.bsky.social @vdeminstitute.bsky.social @medem.bsky.social @digitalsocietyproject.org @sampol.bsky.social @prioresearch.bsky.social

🔦Spotlight on Demscore Modules: V-Dem #VarietiesOfDemocracy is the world’s largest dataset on #Democracy and a unique approach to conceptualize & measure democracy, It collects data on 5 principles of democracy: electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative, and egalitarian. 👇1(6)

💡 Data #Hack: Using #Demscore to Combine External Data Our latest blog post shows a useful Demscore-hack, illustrating how Demscore can minimize the usual hassle that comes with combining data from different sources 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐬. Read at www.demscore.se/news/using-d...

New in #Demscore v4: The Demscore e-infrastructure has been expanded with new datasets from UCDP and MIGPOL. #UCDP Peacemakers at Risk Risk (PAR) Dataset #MIGPOL Historical Immigration Policies (HIP) Explore the new data at www.demscore.se @ucdp.bsky.social @medem.bsky.social

❗ Don't forget to apply! 📆 #Demscore #Internship application deadline: Friday November 22. 🌐 www.demscore.se/about/intern... @ucdp.bsky.social @medem.bsky.social @digitalsocietyproject.org @sampol.bsky.social @magnusoberg.bsky.social @kailmarkvart.bsky.social @silindberg.bsky.social

New in #Demscore v4: Added Download Options = More Customization The 'Download by Variable’ Interface makes it easy to search for keywords among all variables, filter datasets, view year coverage for individual variables, and select multiple variables. www.demscore.se/data_analysi... 🧵1(3)

📢 New in #Demscore v4: The thematic dataset on #Security and #Violence provides a valuable resource for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners interested in studying the patterns, causes, and effects of violence and security. Download at www.demscore.se/data/themati... 🧵1(3) 👇

📢 New in #Demscore v 4: Thematic Dataset on #Corruption The new thematic dataset offers a valuable resource for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners interested in studying the mechanisms, patterns, and consequences of corruption. Download at www.demscore.se/data/themati... 🧵1(3) 👇

DEMSCORE v4.0 is now available! Explore new data and features on our website, including two new thematic datasets on Corruption, and Security & Violence. More details coming soon. www.demscore.se @ucdp.bsky.social @medem.bsky.social @digitalsocietyproject.org

🔦Spotlight on Demscore Modules: UCDP/VIEWS 🔦 UCDP, @ucdp.bsky.social, is the world’s main provider of data on organized violence and is the oldest ongoing data collection project for civil war. VIEWS is an ambitious early-warning system at the frontier of research on conflict forecasting. 🧵1(7) 👇

🔦 Spotlight on #Demscore modules: #QoG The Quality of Government (QoG) Institute conducts research on the causes, consequences and nature of Good Governance, focusing on concepts related to #QualityOfGovernment, #transparency, and #PublicAadministration. 🧵1(5)👇

🔦 Spotlight on Demscore Modules: COMPLAB The Comparative Policy Laboratory (COMPLAB) provides policy data across three different policy strands: #environmental-, #social-, and #migration policy, combining data from three projects and databases: SPIN, GRACE and MIGPOL.🧵1(6)👇

🌍🔬 MEDem Community Survey! 🔬🌍 To better understand your personal needs, motivations, and expectations as researchers in the #MEDem #Community, we are conducting a short survey. It only takes 4 minutes! 📋 Share Your Voice here: unipark.de/uc/medem-use... Thank you! 🙏

Apply now to join our team in Spring 2025! Deadline November 22. 🔎 Seeking: Internship Candidates 📅 Duration: 20 weeks, January - June 2025 🎓 Open to Master's/Bachelor's students 🌏 Social science, data and research 💼 Unpaid, but academic credits offered 📩 demscore.se/about/intern...

🔦Spotlight on Demscore Modules: REPDEM The Representative Democracy Data Archive (REPDEM) contains unique data on governments, parliaments and political parties for (mainly European) parliamentary democracies, and is a world-leading database for research on the competition for government in Europe.

🔦 Spotlight on the Demscore Modules: H-DATA The Historical Data Archive (H-DATA) is a hub of historical country-level data going as far back as the French revolution. H-DATA works to collect, integrate, and curate historical data from Demscore’s other modules. 👇@medem.bsky.social @ucdp.bsky.social

The #Demscore Tour continues: September 12-14, Demscore is at #SISP2024 in Trieste 🇮🇹, introducing the Demscore modules and methods, as well as the download interface functionalities. Visit us at the SISP exhibition from 14:30-18 today and 9-18 tomorrow: sisp.it/en/conferenc... @ucdp.bsky.social