I spent the day evening finishing the 4th book in the current series I’m reading and wow have I not missed the news.

Colleagues in BE, NL, and DE, I secured a small grant to collect disaster survivor narratives. Looking for #NGO and #Research affiliation to conduct this work. #edusky #academicsky #disasters #research

Faculty are VERY welcome to adjust their INCREASINGLY high expectations/demands of early career scholars looking for entry-level jobs when it comes to publications. There are nowadays postdoc positions that only hire people with 3-5 publications. This is not sustainable.

Morning all

Recent movies I watched in cinema based solely on how much I liked them: The Roses 4/10 Honey Don’t 5/10 The Golden Spurtle 8/10 Bugonia 1/10 The Penguin Lessons 9/10

NEW PREPRINT 💡 Together with @dougaparry.bsky.social, I just published a new preprint experimentally examining how specific normative cues on social media shape self-disclosure using an innovative simulation approach. Link: osf.io/preprints/ps... Read on for more information (1/9) 👇

Are you conducting research combining qualitative cross-case methods (comparative case studies or QCA) with process tracing? ➡️ ** We are looking to show-case your work** ⬅️ 🧵 1/

Very happy to update the {traktok} #rstats readme. After 1.5 years, you can finally search TikTok again without access to the Research API. It's slow and a bit clunky, but it works! Thanks, @michaelgoodier.bsky.social for the crucial hint!

I object to the Ben Gvir led passage in preliminary Knesset vote of capital punishment for terrorists. But Hamas condemning it as a violation of humanitarian law and human rights is a bit rich.

The first EPSS conference is going to be fantastic! @epssnet.bsky.social

We should talk more openly, loudly and frequently about the hard parts of our job, even though, and actually because, we love it. If you need someone to talk to, especially if you are an early career scholar, reach out to me. You are not alone. youtu.be/VM56KXM4y4c?...

אם מישהו בישראל שחושב שבכירי הבי בי סי התפטרו בגלל משהו שקשור לסיקור של ישראל, אתם חיים בסרט.

One week left to apply for the postdoc position -- the deadline is on the 17th of November: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... (and two weeks left to apply for the PhD positions, the deadline is on the 24th of November: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...)

🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna! ⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025 wratil.eu/files/MULTIR... 1/4 🧵

My “favorite” anti-war argument: “If you really oppose the actions of the government in your country, why don’t renounce your citizenship and leave?” Bc I don’t have a second citizenship/passport and where exactly am I suppose to go?!

Did women ruin the workplace?

🔥 When fancy faculty @zeynsom.bsky.social coauthor with fancy alum @josephfcozza.bsky.social in fancy journals. Congrats.

Microsoft Teams is just awful. Why oh why do we (universities) insist on using it?? (This is by no means a hot take)

Paper proposals for the @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions, taking place in beautiful Innsbruck, April 7-10 2026, are now open. If you're working on an exciting gender paper using quants methods, please apply to our workshop: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... @mtplk.bsky.social @sgparliaments.bsky.social

Deadline for application to @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026 conference is this Friday 7th of November. There's been an amazing response to the call for papers so far, we hope for even more great proposals this week. Here is the call for papers: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

I had to sign the date for today on some form and it took me some seconds to remember, and only because of

How and why do parties target specific social groups? 🎯On Friday 28th November, Dr. @lenamariahuber.bsky.social (University of Mannheim) will discuss the importance of social group appeals during the next edition of the Gaspar Lecture Series. ➡️Registration link: event.ugent.be/registration...

מעולם לא צפיתי במלחמת הכוכבים

גם אחרי יותר משנתיים כאן אני לא מבינה, וכנראה שעולם לא אבין למה אנשים מצטלמים / עושים סלפי עם השלט של בית אנה פרנק. מה עושים אח״כ עם התמונה הזו? (לא משנה שהם חוסמים בשביל זה את כל המדרכה בדרך שלי לעבודה/הבייתה)

For a while there in my life I could speak a little Japanese (I took it for 2 years at University). I just tried to say something I know for certain I was able to but all I could think of was how to say that in Dutch. 😅

Continuing with economic capital, the Privilege & Participation Survey asked how people spend their time on an average day: privilegeandparticipation.org/2021/06/23/s... Takeaway: unsurprisingly, being in work or not dramatically shapes how people spend their time. #PrivilegeandParticipation

הזיכרון הפוליטי הראשון שלי, 30 שנה אחרי.

FUNDED PhDs! We are advertising for three ESRC-funded PhD scholarships! Any specialism permitted, depending on departmental supervision available. Spread the word! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH631/e...

For more on the harms, definitely read @karenhao.bsky.social 's Empire of AI and for more on the bonkers ideology of Silicon Valley, @adambecker.bsky.social 's More Everything Forever.

If you would like to learn more about why these products are not the sort of entity that can have "opinions", and also why the production and marketing of them is so harmful, please see my book (w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social ): thecon.ai >>

A film you’ve seen more than seven times with a gif

“Decisions are made by those who show up” Yeah, no kidding.

Mocht je naar #museumnacht gaan: in museum Tot Zover geef ik vanochtend een serie korte lezingen! museumnacht.amsterdam/programma/sp...

Now I know I’m not made of sugar, and I have a long rain coat, and boots, and its just water, and I really should go to the market that’s just outside my place bc very soon I will no longer live here and I will miss it. But also

🚨 EPSS Belfast 2026 Call for Papers - One week to go! 🚨 Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

We're hiring a Lecturer in Political Science @vuamsterdam.bsky.social (deadline Nov 24): 👉 werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/le...

Have you been part of the launch, implementation, and daily running of a social or datascience lab? If so, I would love to hear about your experience! What should new lab directors: avoid, implement, or consider?

Really happy to see this out from our joint work on multilingual text analysis - we give advice on how to validate your empirics. Check it out!

It's like LLMs in the past few months realized that little reprexes are cool, but people aren't realizing that and just going with the fake code. Can't wait for this to inevitably make it into published stuff.

"...it seems unsustainable for those who care about British democracy to remain on a platform whose owner is fixated on its very destruction."

Happy, alongside @emiliabelknap.bsky.social, to make my debut contribution with the fantastic folks at @ukandeu.bsky.social Emilia & I use data from @britishelectionstudy.com to correct the atomistic fallacy in people's understanding the Reform UK gender gap ukandeu.ac.uk/most-british...

We're hiring! @univie.ac.at is seeking a TT Assistant Professor in the Psychology of Digitalization. If your work is about automation, AI, or immersive technology (e.g., VR) in the context of work and organizations (broadly defined), we’d love to hear from you. 👇

With the official prognosis giving one additional seat to PVV and one to FvD compared to the ext poll, the narrative should really not be that the Netherlands/Jetten has beaten the radical right. The far right bloc remains remarkably stable.

The powdered sugar gets EVERYWHERE but when it’s warm it’s heaven

As a scholar I rarely offer electoral guidance. But today I do: DO NOT USE AI CHATBOTS AS YOUR VOTE ADVICE APPLICATION AHEAD OF (THE DUTCH) ELECTIONS Full of errors, bias and lack of transparency. @ernesto-deleon.com @favstats.eu @theoaraujo.bsky.social and🙋unpack why algosoc.org/results/1-in...

Election day also means a quick round up of my comments in the international media that have been published today. Pick your favorite language 🙂 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Election day treasure from outside the train station (Yes I’m a nerd; No, I cannot vote here; But I do study campaign leaflets :) )

אירופאים יקרים: האפליקציה אומרת שבחוץ 12 מעלות אבל מרגיש כמו 6 והגשם לא מפסיק. אז כבר לגיטימי להדליק קצת את החימום?