🚀 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

My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years. If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply! shorturl.at/kcTbG

This is big and super harmful. YouTube increased the threshold for takedowns: videos can now contain 50% (formerly 25%) misinformation or hate and still stay up if deemed “public interest.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/t...

PhD opportunity! ASCoR is looking for a motivated PhD candidate for the project “Visual Politics and the Emergence of Angry Publics.” This four-year PhD track will be supervised by @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social, @lindabos.bsky.social, and @alessandronai.bsky.social DL: June 4 shorturl.at/YeXpf

Wir haben das AfD-Gutachten des Verfassungsschutzes digitalisiert und machen die Zitate durchsuchbar, die das BfV als Belege für die Bestrebungen der Partei gegen die freiheitliche demokratische Grundordnung heranzieht: www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

When politicians use simple language, citizens understand more and see them as less elite. New paper with @danbischof.bsky.social out in @thejop.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1086/736693

Canceling research on misinformation is not only an attack on science and academic freedom. It is also a democracy, safety, and security threat. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/b...

Glad this one is out at @poqjournal.bsky.social, w @lindabos.bsky.social and P van Erkel The attack against far-right Baudet 🇳🇱 slightly increased support for #violence among people who dislike his party & experience partisan #Schadenfreude Open paper: tinyurl.com/4d7dx2fv Open data: osf.io/6cpbg/

We're organizing another round of the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology 🎉 summerschoolwpm.org Our super-cool speakers include msands.bsky.social @allisonwkoh.bsky.social @melinscribe.bsky.social @rebeccakittel.bsky.social @fabiennelind.bsky.social & @indiiigo.bsky.social 📆01/05

People don't usually do two PhDs in a row, with these kind of projects that's hard not to.... Amazing topic + stellar supervision team!!

Lots of talk about ‘left behind’ places & far-right’s rise. How do industrial decline, economic hardship, & resentment actually fuel far-right support? In new @apsrjournal.bsky.social paper exploring Xylella epidemic that devastated centuries-old 🫒 groves in 🇮🇹, we find out shorturl.at/xgeho

#Germany's federal criminal police office, not exactly known for over-counting such things, reports that at least 41,000 crimes with a right-wing extremist motive were committed in 2024, a 1/3 increase compared to 2023. 2023, with a 23% increase on 2022, had already marked an all-time high #farright

How do we justify studying the US in these times (asking for a friend who's writing the RD section of their paper)?

In Antwerpen today attending an event on digital political campaigning from a practitioners perspective :) (with @philippmendoza.bsky.social)

2) More anti-immigrant positions do not weaken the radical right Our research shows that when established parties move to the right on immigration this does not weaken the radical right but if anything strengthens them. It contributes to their normalization and legitimation doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Why do voters often not mind negative or uncivil campaigns—is it for a lack of better electoral alternatives? 🧵 In my PhD study “The Fleeting Allure of Dark Campaigns” (w/ @lindabos.bsky.social & @alessandronai.bsky.social) we test this idea: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #polcom #commsky

Devastating news for our @mundusjournalism community this morning, with the 7-year prison sentence for alumna Gwyneth Ho. Gwyneth is a true example and teaches us that (press) freedom should never be taken for granted. We think of Gwyneth today and in the difficult time to come.

Shazam 🎉 I'm super excited to share that the first paper of my PhD dissertation (together with @alessandronai.bsky.social and @lindabos.bsky.social) is now openly accessible 🔓 online. www.tandfonline.com/doi/metrics/... Stay tuned for a short summary thread 🍿

*** Assistant Professorship in Political Communication with Tenure Track *** Our department (IKMZ - University of Zurich) is hiring! More info: jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell... Thank you for spreading the word and/or applying!

Missing Tweetdeck as much as I am? Just discovered @deck.blue 🥳

Excited to share on 🟦 as well: My project on Multidimensional Polarization received a 4-year grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation 🎉 🚨 Please help me share the ad for the PhD position on the project! jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell... polisky PSJMinfo

(Tell your students to) come & do your PhD at ASCoR on Morality and Political Communication (x2) with an amazing supervision team @lindabos.bsky.social, @freddy_hopp, and @Hameleers_M! vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Two-...

Want to sweeten the start of your week? www.bbc.com/news/world-e... A win for liberal dem. & the safety LGBTQi+ community in Poland: Exit polls projecting the incumbent PRR PiS to lose parliamentary majority, & opening the possib. of the first left-wing government participation in the past 18 years.