I’m hiring 2 doctoral researchers in Politics of Climate Change at Heidelberg University 🌍 📊 Survey Research & Political Participation 🗣️ Qualitative Research & Group Formation Part of “The New Climate Divide” Deadline: 21 June 2026 Calls: www.ipw.uni-heidelberg.de/en/about-us/... Please share!

Our paper is out in Nature Human Behaviour! @rsenninger.bsky.social and I asked a simple, underexplored, question: when governments write policy documents, whose knowledge do they actually cite? 👉 rdcu.be/fhngy 🔓 seramirezruiz.github.io/papers/ramir... DOI: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇

❗Confrontational tactics like street blockades and food attacks on art hurt activists' image, but not their cause. 📄 New paper out in Political Behavior (@polbehavior.bsky.social) w/ @dasalgon.bsky.social @sophiahunger.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social. 🧵1/7

❗Confrontational tactics like street blockades and food attacks on art hurt activists' image, but not their cause. 📄 New paper out in Political Behavior (@polbehavior.bsky.social) w/ @dasalgon.bsky.social @sophiahunger.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social. 🧵1/7

Some exciting news: I'm heading back to Europe! In April, I'll be starting a three-year fellowship at the University of Bremen. I will be hosted in the research group of the amazing @sophiahunger.bsky.social, working on wrapping up my first book on identity and writing my second on democracy.

NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 "Street mobilisation during election campaigns in multilevel systems: a supply–demand analysis" with @leonhardschmidt.bsky.social — now out in @wepsocial.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2026.2634027 1/6

We have just advertised a Full Prof position in the Political and Social Sciences department at the EUI (@eui-sps.bsky.social). Here are the details. Please spread the word, and get in touch if you have any questions. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

I can highly recommend this program — amazing people and an inspiring environment. I learned so much during my time @europeatharvard.bsky.social. Reach out to me if you have questions 🚀

Happy to share that I’ve started as a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social this month! The people are amazing, the architecture is stunning, and the food is delicious 🥐🍝🍕 If you’re at the EUI or in Florence and up for un caffè or uno spritz, let me know! ☕🍷

🚨 New preprint out with @evazschirnt.bsky.social & @jessdaik.bsky.social We tackle a simple but major question: Are parents discriminated against in hiring? Check out our meta-analysis results ⬇️ 👉 Preprint: osf.io/preprints/so... Or join the discussion tomorrow at the #ECSR2025 poster session!

I’m very excited to share that my paper “Cleavage theory meets civil society: A framework and research agenda” with @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter has now been published online in ‪@wepsocial.bsky.social‬ (w/ open access funding thanks to @wzb.bsky.social‬!) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tomorrow 10:45: I'll be presenting a working paper with @lennartschuermann.bsky.social which shows that effective state action against the far right increases public support for democracy. This is part of the great panel by @larboe.bsky.social , @javidibad.bsky.social & @sldelange.bsky.social

📫 Latest special issue: Europe's Changing Protest Landscape, edited by ‪@sophiahunger.bsky.social and Swen Hutter. In their introductory article, they sketch Europe's ‘new contentious politics’ landscape and preview the issue's articles 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚀 New postdoc position for Platform Data & Computational Social Science Join us to drive @gesis.org' efforts around the Digital Services Act (DSA) and conduct research with online platform data 💼 TV-L EG 14 | Location: Cologne 📌 Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/institute... #DSA #CSS #DataScience

🚨New article w/ @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter Protest and the rise of left-nationalist challengers: evidence from Germany 📔 Social Movement Studies 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1474... In 2022, Germany faced a cost-of-living crisis. Many expected a “Hot Autumn” of mass protest—but it never happened. Why?

Thinking about using #CSS methods to study #racism, #stereotypes or #hate speech in text? 📐 👉 Check out my first dissertation paper co-authored by @fabiennelind.bsky.social and @hajoboo.bsky.social just published in Annals of the ICA! @icahdq.bsky.social 🥳 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/annc...

🚨New article w/ @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter Protest and the rise of left-nationalist challengers: evidence from Germany 📔 Social Movement Studies 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1474... In 2022, Germany faced a cost-of-living crisis. Many expected a “Hot Autumn” of mass protest—but it never happened. Why?

🚨 New article out in Journal of Civil Society with Swen Hutter! We explore how civil society organizations (CSOs) mobilized volunteers during the COVID-19 pandemic, a moment of both rising need and shrinking organizational capacity. 📖 Open access link: doi.org/10.1080/1744...

I recently presented at INAS2025 in NYC: “Why women leave academia? A longitudinal study of the leaky pipeline in German sociology” Thanks to @womensforuminas.bsky.social and the INAS attendees for the inspiring exchange, and @europeatharvard.bsky.social for their support! 📝 Preprint👇

🤩I'm extremely excited to have @laiabalcells.bsky.social at the WZB to discuss secessionism, protest, and affective polarization in Catalonia on June 20 - including findings from her research and my very own book. 📖 The event will be hybrid at the WZB and on Zoom - more info how to register below!👇

My favorite paper from my dissertation, co-authored w @gijsschumacher.bsky.social & @mrooduijn.bsky.social, is now available as a preprint! 🤗 If you work on emotions in politics or if you‘re curious about what we can (not) infer from people‘s emotions, check it out! We‘d love to hear what you think!

Fascinating substack post by @laurenleek.eu on the problem of declining humans and increasing AI agents in survey responses. This is going to become a huge issue in survey research! open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

A Tinder Test of Democratic Norms💋 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social with @bertous.bsky.social We rely on a visual conjoint experiment, cross-sectional data, & panel data to show that affective polarization drives the normalisation of the far right among the centre-right 🇬🇧🇪🇸 doi.org/10.1086/736698

📢 🇪🇺📘 Exciting news! The second edition of our textbook "Foundations of European Politics: A Comparative Approach" - with @catherinedevries.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social and @jbslapin.bsky.social - is out at Oxford UP! 🧵👇 1/5

Come and join me (online) next week!

If you are in Boston area next Monday, join me next Monday in a very special conversation with former Irish PM Leo Varadkar -- one of the first openly gay heads of government in the world.

That’s a wrap on my poster at #PAA2025 — thank you to everyone who stopped by and shared thoughts on justice perceptions in parental leave decisions! ⚖️👶 Couldn’t make it? You can still check out the preprint here: osf.io/preprints/os...

How Far-Right Actors and Ideas Shape Public Debates? @tevoelker.bsky.social (@wzb.bsky.social) will discuss “Mainstreaming the Far Right” on Friday, April 18. Discussant: Friederike Windel (AUP). Register here: tinyurl.com/CCDSVolker

NEW - Studying Multi-Level Systems with Cross-Level Data: Introducing Three Integrated Datasets - cup.org/4b8LzTi - Leonce Röth, @dasalgon.bsky.social, @dielea.bsky.social & André Kaiser

Join us March 7 (4pm) @wzb.bsky.social for the book presentation "Movement Parties of the Far Right" with @andreapirro.it & @pietrocastellig.bsky.social +Info & registration www.wzb.eu/de/veranstal... It's part of our Lecture Series 'Civil Society and Political Conflict' www.wzb.eu/en/node/62311

Podcast Alert🎙️🚨🧵! Ahead of Germany's crucial election, @vikburgi.bsky.social and I talk to the brilliant @bjoernbremer.bsky.social from @europeatharvard.bsky.social about public opinion on austerity politics and debt borrowing. open.spotify.com/episode/0VHO...

🔥📢 Neuer Artikel in der FAZ @faznet.bsky.social zu unserem WZB Discussion Paper (w\ @meretstephan.bsky.social) 📌 Fazit: Geht demonstrieren (und wählen am Sonntag) für eine starke Demokratie! ✊🗳️ 🔗 Hier der Link zum Papier: bibliothek.wzb.eu/pdf/2025/zz2... 🙏Danke an @jopennekamp.bsky.social

"Kompromiss"🤝- ein Wort, das wir nach der Bundestagswahl 2025 noch oft hören werden. Pola Lehmann, Leiterin des Manifesto-Projekts, hat mit @derstandard.at über die Bedeutung pol. Kompromisse gesprochen: (Pola Lehmann on the importance of compromise in politics:) www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Last week, I spoke with @jenkirby.bsky.social from the Green European Journal about the state of Germany’s climate movement — check out this article to learn what happened to its momentum! 🌍🌳💭✊ www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/what-happene...

With the amazing Jana Lipps and @giorgiomalet.bsky.social we have a new publication in ISQ! We explore and theorize citizens’ preferences for border securing policies using open-ended survey responses and a conjoint experiment academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

This research is the second of three papers that @turnbulldugarte.com and I have been working on together on selective liberalism. Are you in Boston area? Wanna hear more about comes next? Come see me talk about it next Wednesday at the @europeatharvard.bsky.social. bsky.app/profile/euro...

A majority of citizens stereotype Muslims as inherently homophobic. Our new paper (w/ @turnbulldugarte.com & @michaelhunklinger.bsky.social) shows this across four countries 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇩🇪🇳🇱, published in @bjpols.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Exciting news for legislative scholars! We're thrilled to announce the release of #ParlLawSpeech, featuring full texts of parliamentary speeches and corresponding bills & laws in 7 parliaments + in the EP. Access full texts via @gesis.org & check out www.parllawspeech.org for R tutorials. (1/2)

Do citizens stereotype Muslims as inherently homophobic? In a new @bjpols.bsky.social paper w/ @bertous.bsky.social & @michaelhunklinger.bsky.social we answer this question using a double-list experiment across 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 doi.org/10.1017/S000... Spoiler: Yes. 🧵

🔥 Können Proteste wirklich etwas verändern? 🔥 Ich durfte mit einem meiner Lieblingspodcasts Wissen Weekly (Spotify Original) über genau diese Frage (und andere) sprechen. 🎙️✊ Die Folge heißt: „Demos: Können sie wirklich etwas verändern?“ 🎧 Jetzt reinhören: open.spotify.com/episode/35xn...

Unsere Studie mit @meretstephan.bsky.social zeigt, dass anti-rassistische Proteste die AfD schwächen können ✊ Jetzt hat @volksverpetzer.de die Ergebnisse nochmal zusammenfassend aufgearbeitet! Das vollständige @wzb.bsky.social WZB Discussion Paper gibt es hier:👇

📢 Call for Papers! Digital Communication and Computational Approaches to Understanding Social Movements in the Social Media Era Special Issue w. Computational Communication Research: tinyurl.com/2p8wcbh2 co-edited with: @smtorres.bsky.social & @oenna2002.bsky.social More details below 👇

Anfang 2024 ging eine Protestwelle gegen #Rassismus durch Deutschland. Welchen Einfluss hatten die Demonstrationen auf Wahlen? Eine WZB-Studie zeigt für die Europawahl: Dort, wo antirassistische Proteste stattfanden, büßte die AfD an den Wahlurnen knapp ein Prozent ein. www.wzb.eu/de/news/prot...

Even more directly to the point, evidence from Germany: bibliothek.wzb.eu/pdf/2025/zz2... (Thanks @chitbazoo.bsky.social for raising my attention to this one)

Evidence from Germany too! bibliothek.wzb.eu/pdf/2025/zz2... (recent working paper from @lennartschuermann.bsky.social and @meretstephan.bsky.social)

This Spring semester at @europeatharvard.bsky.social

Anti-racist protests reduced AfD vote shares in both the 2021 German Election and the 2024 European Election. While the Greens gained in 2021, *they didn’t in 2024*—likely due to their shift towards anti-immigration policies in government. Important implications for progressive parties. More: 👇

📢 Excited to share our new @wzb.bsky.social Working Paper together with the brilliant @meretstephan.bsky.social! ❗️Key finding: Anti-racist protests can change voting behavior, pushing society toward greater inclusivity. 📄 Link: bibliothek.wzb.eu/pdf/2025/zz2... 🔍 For a quick summary, see thread 👇

📢 Excited to share our new @wzb.bsky.social Working Paper together with the brilliant @meretstephan.bsky.social! ❗️Key finding: Anti-racist protests can change voting behavior, pushing society toward greater inclusivity. 📄 Link: bibliothek.wzb.eu/pdf/2025/zz2... 🔍 For a quick summary, see thread 👇