Everyone knows it takes time but the feeling of impatience still remains.

Wer im Wahlkampf auf Meta Werbung trotz ihres Verbots schaltet verschafft sich einen unfairen Vorteil. @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social & ich sprachen mit der @szde.bsky.social über unsere Untersuchung in der wir dutzende Anzeigen im Landtagswahlkampf fanden. www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/m...

🚀 Launching our CampAIgn Tracker for the Dutch municipal elections! We monitor AI-generated content across 4 platforms in 30 municipalities. PVV leads AI use again. And 90% of posts without any label. Can you spot the AI? Try our "AI of Niet?" game! gr26.campaigntracker.nl

How did the Disney movie Hoppers manage to have most real and most utopic depiction of academia at the same time???

Inflation happens again!

Pausing to work on papers is really not a good idea. All files have different naming schemes, the Rproj inflated itself and takes 200GB of my harddrive and I have to rephrase all my sentences to not sound like fresh-PhD me.

🚀 dashboardr is out! An #rstats package for building interactive dashboards with tidyverse-style syntax. Launched with a fun hackathon at @ascor.bsky.social (🍕 included). 📦: favstats.github.io/dashboardr/ Big thanks to the dashboardr team, Digicomlab, and @vivifabrien.bsky.social for the logo 🎨

Delighted that our project “Democracy and AI” has been selected for Una Europa Seed Funding. Our project establishes a network of 25 researchers from six Una Europa institutions: University of Zurich, KU Leuven, University of Edinburgh, FU Berlin, Leiden, UCD. ➡️ www.una-europa.eu/stories/10-n...

Connected_Politics Lab Seminars, Spring Trimester ⤵️ - 28 Jan: @jessicadicocco.bsky.social – 11 Feb: Akitaka Matsuo – 25 Feb: @malojan.bsky.social, @luissattelmayer.bsky.social, and Noémie Piolat – 4 Mar: @vivifabrien.bsky.social – 1 Apr: @elisaadamico.bsky.social – 15 Apr: @miriamsorace.bsky.social

Sadly, my research stay at the @socfub.bsky.social, @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social has come to an end Very grateful to prof. @bcastanho.bsky.social for hosting me and to @vivifabrien.bsky.social and @francescafeo.bsky.social for making this such a special experience. Hope to be back soon ✨

Today I wrote down slice_sample(n=76) and really had to hold myself back from switching the numbers. The consequences of consuming memes.

#rstats teachers: How do you teach reading in data to students? What is your go to way? I try to introduce projects as early as possible but a lot of students seem to struggle with the concept of folders and paths.

With the deadline extension you still have a few days left to send us your abstracts for the #ECPG26 Methods Section! We are looking forward to reading your work :) @ecpr.bsky.social @ecprgender.bsky.social @nclpolitics.bsky.social #polsci, #PoliticalScience, #Methodology, #Researchmethods

Crazy exit poll in the Netherlands. D66 almost certainly the biggest party. PVV the big loser but other far right wins bit back (FvD & JA21). Terrible night for the Dutch left and particularly GL/PvdA and Frans Timmermans.

Netherlands, 9:00 PM Ipsos-I&O exit poll: Seat projection national parliament D66-RE: 27 (+18) PVV-PfE: 25 (-12) VVD-RE: 23 (-1) GL/PvdA-G/EFA|S&D: 20 (-5) CDA-EPP: 19 (+14) JA21~ECR: 9 (+8) FvD-ESN: 6 (+3) BBB-EPP: 4 (-3) ... +/- vs. Last election result ➤ europeelects.eu/netherlands

Upcoming AMCIS Seminar: On 12 Nov. @tevoelker.bsky.social talks about "Mainstreaming the Far Right: How Far-Right Actors and Ideas Shape Public Debates" - just 2 weeks after the Dutch elections! Info & Registration: amcis.uva.nl/content/even... @aissr.bsky.social @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social

The Facebook page behind these images was the most active spreader of political AI content, posting multiple times a day and becoming the most engaged-with pages on Facebook among all those we track. Even surpassing Geert Wilders in total engagement during October. The page has now been deleted.

There’s a growing & deeply problematic tendency to use #genAI for political and historical education Take this example from Germany, which translates as: «Hey AI, who should I vote for.» What’s typical here is that AI is not only addressed as pseudo-person but also as a kind of impartial judge 1/

I have to admit that I have missed the streets of Amsterdam a little bit. 🥰

„Wir haben mal 1 KI gefragt“, heißt es dieser Tage beiläufig in allen möglichen Kontexten, häufig ohne jeden erkennbaren Mehrwert, einfach, weil man‘s kann. Das ist Normalisierung der Nutzung von Fake-Schleudern, die Kreativen die Jobs streitig machen & das Internet mit Slop zumüllen. Was soll das?

I thought with the rise of generative AI less social science students would be interested to actually learn programming but it feels like the complete opposite. It does give me some hope.

✨ Delighted to begin my visiting research stay at the @socfub.bsky.social, @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. Deeply grateful to Prof. @bcastanho.bsky.social for hosting me. Looking forward to advancing,and hopefully completing my thesis here. Also for discussions and collaborations.

👋🎉 We welcome our new BA & MA students in their first semester! 🎓 Join us for our Introduction Event on 📅 7 October! Find the 🕙 program here: www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/en/soziologi...

If any early bird is interested the panel moved to the Law Building, on floor 3, room 319!

Today starts #ecpr25! ✨ On Thursday, you can hear me talk about how MPs' experiences influence and shape the representation of disabled people in German politics.

The "I am your supervisor and need your assistance" scammers always give me a little jump scare before I see their silly Gmail email address.

I should remember to only run models in winter so I can get better use out of this space heater.

Zwei wichtige Einrichtungen der Disability Studies in DE sind akut in ihrer Existenz bedroht. ZeDiSplus (Hamburg) und iDiS an der unicologne.bsky.social. Forschende aus den DS fordern in einer Petition, beide Einrichtungen zu erhalten. Schließt euch an! weact.campact.de/petitions/di...

We (@matildecer.bsky.social @nzwiener-collins.bsky.social and I) pulled off our small but mighty workshop, bridging boundaries between gender x politics subfield and quantitative methods 👧🏻📊 So grateful to @lmumuenchen.bsky.social and Fritz Thyssen Stiftung for making it possible 🤓

📢 Out now! The Handbook of Affective Polarization is officially published 🎉 📖 Open Access & packed with 30 great chapters thanks to amazing authors. Huge thanks to everyone, and in particular to @marianotorcal.bsky.social for the great (and fun) collaboration! 💙 Link below for the e-book 👇

I'm adding to the Seoul novelty hats as political science concepts collection: Comments from Reviewer 2

Had a great time presenting today at final day of #IPSA2025. Thanks for everyone attending and the great questions! (and thank you @vivifabrien.bsky.social for snapping pictures)

Had a blast presenting yesterday! I received very insightful comments. Thank you to everyone who was attending. ☺️ (and to @favstats.eu for taking pictures where I gesture wildly)

For all the early birds at #IPSA2025 🐥 @bcastanho.bsky.social will present our joint work on age-based representation tomorrow!

Here is my (a little bit belated) mandatory #IPSA2025 post! I will present tomorrow on disability representation and emotion! See you there ✨

Found my way to Seoul at #IPSA2025 this year 🇰🇷 I'm presenting research on (1) ad delivery algorithms in a large scale cooperative audit study and (2) targeting strategies used by political campaigns all over the world (50 countries!) in super election year 2024. Be there or be square! ⬜️

📣 Postdoc (75 %, 3 yrs) at @unigreifswald.bsky.social — start autumn 2025 on perhaps Germany’s most beautiful campus. Know someone with a PhD (or nearly done) in Political Science? ⬇️ #PolSci #Postdoc

Very happy to see this paper by my PhD student Leonard Häfner published in @repjournal.bsky.social Using data from legislator surveys we conducted in Germany and the US, he shows how legislators' conceptions of democracy affect their representation styles. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Pretty strong but also bleak message today by Former General Secretary of the UN Ban Ki-moon at #IPSA2025, says he has "no hope" for current world leaders, calling out nationalism, Trumpism, says we need a new young generation to carry things forward as global citizen.

YouTube ads from the Israel's Foreign Affairs Ministry about "the Iranian missile threat to Europe" that don't show up in the Google ad library 🤔

This is a very interesting observational paper for those working on gendered dynamics of far-right, descriptive rep & femonationalism Does women's descriptive rep. lower anti-gender discourse among far-right? No, it *increases* it (according to parl speech data 2009-2023) doi.org/10.1177/1465...

LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."

Der Linken-Abgeordnete Dirk Bruhn aus Mecklenburg-Vorpommern hat Parkinson, seine Hand zittert deswegen. Zwei AfD-Abgeordnete haben sich darüber lustig gemacht, sagt er. Den Ordnungsruf für seine Reaktion hat Bruhn in Kauf genommen:

Ardificial indelligence can solve dasks thad breviously only humans could solve. So whedd dischdinguishes us from machines? Geklaud vo:

I dunno man, if the WH can point to people from Latin America and say "gang member," and point to people from the Arab world and say "terrorist" or "antisemite," and those designations lead directly to detention or worse, I think we have to acknowledge we're in a pretty bad place.

Research Amnesia: The feeling of opening a project with the goal to implement something that you apparently already implemented 4 months ago, but blacked out on.

🚨 New article alert! 🚨 Thrilled to share our latest open-access article in Politics & Gender: “Beyond Likes: The Role of Influencers in Promoting Views about Feminism and Anti-Feminism in Spain”, w/ @martafraile.bsky.social and @pzuluaga.bsky.social . 📢 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🧵👇 Thread

Picked some surprisingly sunny days to visit the Netherlands again. 😎 ☀️

A well-paid, four-year PhD position in political theory/philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, to work primarily with my wonderful colleagues Lillian Cicerchia and Paul Raekstad, and also a bit with yours truly. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...