Today I received my official appointment as a W2 Professor of Political Behavior and Representation at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. As of April 1, this marks the beginning of a new chapter in my life and career—one I am very much looking forward to.

@lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social, @astroppe.bsky.social @wurthmann.bsky.social & @msaeltzer.bsky.social use NLP+Wikidata: 50k tweets + 190k FB posts (Bundestag 2017–21). District MPs cite nearer places and deprived in-district areas more than list MPs. Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New paper with @lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social, @astroppe.bsky.social, @msaeltzer.bsky.social !

📢 Study out in Research & Politics! We (@lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social @wurthmann.bsky.social @msaeltzer.bsky.social) find that directly elected MPs talk more about local & deprived places than list MPs on social media. 🔍 doi.org/10.1177/2053... Some Highlights [1/3]

I’m excited to share a new book, Reforming Primary Elections: Voters, Campaigns, and the Future of Congressional Politics, exploring how reforms could improve primaries. In our chapter, @msaeltzer.bsky.social & I analyze candidates in primaries. Free download: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Solche Hasskommentare gegen Frauen gibt es tausendfach im Netz. Häufig ist es unmöglich, die Menschen dahinter zu ermitteln. In einem Fall, den ich für die @taz.de recherchiert habe, sprechen aber zahlreiche Hinweise dafür, dass dahinter ein hochrangiger Jurist aus Niedersachsen stecken könnte: (1)

🚨Publication Alert! My first first-author publication with @msaeltzer.bsky.social and @pluggedchris.bsky.social is out in @polbehavior.bsky.social, which began as my bachelor's thesis. We study how party polarization shapes affective polarization—with a particularly important role of the AfD. (1/7)🧵

A critique of our (w/ @bertous.bsky.social) paper “Instrumentally inclusive” has just been published. Our response is under review (see below on process) but we feel obliged to share our draft for balance since the comment has been released without the response. osf.io/rn6h3/files/...

🎉 New publication 🎉 Why do #youngpeople vote for the #AfD? This question has kept our research project busy for quite some time, so I'm beyond excited that our first article - co-authored with @timonscheuer.bsky.social - is now out in #GermanPolitics! 🤩 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My son found this in the forest and brought it home and the Star Trek nerd in me wants to kill it before things get out of hand

We are hiring! We are looking for two post-docs in our interdisciplinary research group “SCEPTIC” at the University of Oldenburg, 4+years, on the dynamics and drivers of (dis)trust in digital environments, more info below 👇

Job Alert! We are hiring two post-docs (full time, 4+ years) in our project SCEPTIC - Social, Computational and Ethical Premises of Trust and Informational Cohesion with @annanosthoff.bsky.social @guzoch.bsky.social and Prof. Andreas Peters (uol.de/informatik/s...)

Super happy to get Dylan to Oldenburg! After some big chances we are building a great pol sci department with an applied NLP focus here. Look out for further job ads soon!

Some personal news! 📰 I am very excited to share that I have started a new PhD position with the fantastic @msaeltzer.bsky.social at the University of Oldenburg. I will be working alongside the amazing @alonadolinsky.com and @klingelt.bsky.social in their new CONSTRUCT project. 🧵

I feel overwhelmed and incredibly honoured to announce that I have been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant for my project “VisibleQueers”, fully titled as “Making the Queers Visible: Partisanship and Support among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Eastern and Western Europe”. #ERCStG

New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357 Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!

This may look like unity but political leaders only arrange themselves in a sine wave when they are in heavy distress.

📢 New Publication Alert! Our (@msaeltzer.bsky.social) latest article, "Issue congruence between candidates' Twitter communication and constituencies in an MMES: Migration as an exemplary case", has just been published in Parliamentary Affairs. academic.oup.com/pa/advance-a...

I am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637

☀️ Vol 17.3 Arguing that current views on #NegativeCampaigning are too narrow, these authors (🧵⬇️) outline a complete model building on personality traits, values, social norms and attitudes toward #NegativeCampaigning across 12 elections 🇩🇪 buff.ly/EHKUM1w 📖 #OA #PoliSky

Hear me out: The Bear, but for a Post doc who founds an open access journal

Ich bin Akademiker, ich bin viel zu schlau für clickbait microtargetttttiiiiiiiiinnng 🫨

About a hundred reasons not to use Excel. Yes, these are politely described as 'spreadsheet' horror stories, but we all know which bit of software we're really talking about. (HT @pgmj.bsky.social)

Never been to Greifswald but Jochen is one of the nicest people in German academia and the Position looks great :)

3. When citizens are asked to recall a situation of politics, what do they think of, how did that situation feel, and how did it change their engagement in politcs? (w @dpltr22.bsky.social + @chriswratil.bsky.social) SUN, 3:55 - 5:10, RB 209 Also, please send running routes for Prague! 🏁

Gestern Interview mit Rheinischer Post zur Frage, inwiefern Zusammenarbeit BSW/AfD wem nützt oder schadet. Jetzt laufen - wie erwartbar - die Mail- und Postfächer voll. Wissenschaftsfreiheit stirbt auch damit, wenn so aktiv versucht wird, Meinungsäußerung einzuschüchtern.

#computationalsocialsciences, #jobsjobsjobs, #textasdata, für mein DFG-Projekt zur Fragmentierung digitaler Nachrichtenpublika mit Frank Mangold @gesis.org suche ich eine*n Doktorand*in mit Interesse an den neuesten (KI-gestützten) Methoden der Inhaltsanalyse www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

I took a closer look at the program #EPSA2024 and found some interesting trends – there seem to be more US based scholars than last year 🇺🇸 @epsanet.bsky.social‬ A thread on this year's authors and affiliations 🧵

Sorry i have a new cellphone that has not learned my german-english Mixture so it keeps autocorrecting to the most likely german worden

💥💥💥 Deadline tomorrow!

Our new book THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ATTACK POLITICS is out next month! 🔥📚 We offer a new look at negativity effects, via perceptions & evaluations🤔😱👿🤣 You can pre-order it with a nice 20% discount on the cover price (for paperbacks this makes it £32 or so) Check out discount code & link in the flyer 👇

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION! Who belongs to “the people” – and who does not? What a great way to start the week. I’m really happy that my article on populist in- and outgroup references is now out in @polstudies.bsky.social #openaccess 🔓 doi.org/10.1177/0032... 🧵 1/10

"It's his home too."

Christ's sake, Chicago, I'm just trying to go for a walk.

After weeks of correcting production errors for our accepted article—errors we did not cause—we are once again being asked to repeat corrections we have already made, multiple times, exactly as instructed. It is painfully obvious that AI is being used in production. The results speak for themselves.

Very interesting and important paper on the development of education bias in prob-based surveys in Germany www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

What the hell is wrong with academic Publishing right now?

Our newest piece on BSW is now published. We show that when attitudes toward Wagenknecht come into the game, policies are no longer that meaningful in predicting behaviour. Personalisation in a personalised party! What a surprise! 😀 @sarahwagner.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

I'm currently experiencing one of the most unprofessional proof processes I've ever encountered. Even after fully correcting what was clearly an AI-mangled literature reference list, new distorted versions keep coming back repeatedly. It’s incredibly frustrating.

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Freue mich sehr, dass ich zum Sammelband von Kerstin Völkl und @cerpintaxt.bsky.social einen Beitrag leisten durfte. 💡Wie wichtig sind die Aussagen lokalpolitischer Akteure für die Wahlentscheidung? 🔗https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-47548-2_9 Ein kurzer 🧵:

Hey y'all I am hiring a PhD student. Minimal teaching load and many opportunities for more ;) uol.de/job566en

Some papers are really good because they make just one point, but they make it really clearly — such as “Statistical Control Requires Causal Justification” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

My ESS course 'Ideal Point Estimation, IRT, and Scaling Methods for Surveys and Behavior' returns this summer -- online and in-person, 21 July - 1 August. essexsummerschool.com/summer-schoo...

🚨Publication Alert🚨 New update to the ManifestoVault repository is available! Included: cleaned, content-verified manifesto texts at the natural-sentence level of the 2025 German general election. Full coverage: Ireland, UK, Germany 1970-2025 @rwillh11.bsky.social, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social

Thrilled to see my 1st PhD paper out in #PartyPolitics! Based on ~15000 posts by 86 German subnat. parties (2015-2019), Simon Franzmann & I show that dominant & challenger parties differ in the use of policy-based vs symbolic & positive vs negative appeals. 🔓: doi.org/10.1177/1354...

📢 🇪🇺📘 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

Das längste Konklave dauerte 2 Jahre und 9 Monate. Also ungefähr so lange wie ein durchschnittliches deutsches Berufungsverfahren. #IchBinHanna

🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵