My 9yo told me he’d done his homework at the daycare. I told him this was impossible. He showed me his finished work. I told him the problem was conceptual not empirical. Now he’s annoyed at me.

Just published in @bjpols.bsky.social: @sergipardos.bsky.social and I show that inter-regional moves in pursuit of employment security reduce individual worries about immigration—a mobility pattern that, in the aggregate, reinforces spatial polarization in anti-immigration sentiment. cup.org/3XiB6yD

🚨 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 🧵

Our article with Erica Frantz, Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Joe Wright is out in Political Behavior (open access). We show that polarization is not just a driver of democratic backsliding; it is endogenous to backsliding. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🎓 We’re hiring! Two researcher / PhD positions in the ERC project DANCE – Dark Nerd Communities at the University of Münster 🇪🇺 🧮 Quantitative: survey, lab + field experiments 🎙️ Qualitative: ethnography, focus groups, interviews Apply by 28 Nov 2025 👇 #AcademicJobs #ERC #PhD #CommunicationResearch

As the programme director of the Münster side, I handed over a present to my UT counterpart, Veronica Junjan: a German apple tree, to be planted in Dutch soil on the UT campus, symbolizing our commitment to continuing the fruitful collaboration in the future (kudos to my wife for the decoration!)

After the @uni-muenster.de's minibus had safely brought us to Enschede, the delegation of @ifpolms.bsky.social couldn't resist and used the UT photo frame to snap a little group pic

"Academic" is just a fancy job title for Elsevier's content creators.

Methods don’t make meaning. Theory does. Better methods won’t eradicate the slot machine. Put the tools to the use of theory. Thanks to @lseimpactblog.bsky.social for featuring my post. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

🚨New INCITE-DEM webinar! 𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 - how can we make sense of complex data on democratic innovations? 📅 Wednesday, November 19th ⌚ 12:00 – 13:00 CET 🔗 Register: forms.office.com/e/0dwyEbXvMT #incitedem #democraticinnovations #webinar

You know how people wait until the last minute to submit paper proposals? Well, it’s almost the last minute. Get those abstracts ready and send them in!

For my course on Conflict and Representation in the EU, I made an interactive Shiny app that plots CHES party positions, for all countries, years (1999-2024) and (most) dimensions in the dataset. Enjoy! dimiter.shinyapps.io/ches/ #polsci #Polisky #EUsky #Comparativesky #polbehaviorsky

Steffen Wamsler and I have a new paper in @ejprjournal.bsky.social ! We show that citizens who perceive their in-group to be disadvantaged express lower support for democracy and higher openness towards authoritarian alternatives! tinyurl.com/y78hj253 @espol-lab.bsky.social @lifbi.bsky.social

👉 What works against right-wing extremism? Excited to discuss this question with Tamara Ehs, Carolin Lange, Daniel Siemens, Thomas Weber & Daniel Ziblatt at Berlin’s Maxim Gorki Theater - together with German politicians and author Mely Kiyak. 🗓️ Nov 8, 7:30 pm 🔗 www.gorki.de/de/der-rat-d...

Once again, it's time for anyother episode (8) of my series on "Great colleagues @ifpolms.bsky.social doing exciting (and enviable) research": @tobiasalbrecht.bsky.social does not only write important pieces like the one below, he is also a great (and fun) colleague to work with!

From our latest issue: Empowered Minipublics for Democratic Renewal? Evidence from Three Conjoint Experiments in the United States, Ireland, and Finland by SASKIA GOLDBERG, MARINA LINDELL, ANDRÉ BÄCHTIGER www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I am very pleased to share that I have been appointed Professor of Transdisciplinary Social Science at the University of Amsterdam! 🎉 www.uva.nl/shared-conte...

Thanks to the great help by @rstrauch.bsky.social, Gabriele Spilker and the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" @excinequality.bsky.social, version 5.0 of the "Mass Mobilization in Autocracies Database" (coverage until 2022) is now available at mmadatabase.org!

Colleagues @powimz.bsky.social are seeming lucky - not only because they start later than the rest of us, but also because, you know: "The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy." (Albert Camus)

Wonderful to see our paper on perceived inequality and populism at the EJPR. 👇

@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris). We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵: #PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐

Cool paper by @eddieyang.bsky.social, confirming our LLM hacking findings (arxiv.org/abs/2509.08825): ✓ LLMs are brittle data annotators ✓ Downstream conclusions flip frequently: LLM hacking risk is real! ✓ Bias correction methods can help but have trade-offs ✓ Use human expert whenever possible

Great news for #replication #research. We have our own journal now! www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/in... #openscience @flavioazevedo.bsky.social

Die Universität Münster lädt alle Interessierten am 27. Oktober zu einem Tag der Lehre 2025 ein. Unter dem Titel „Die Lehre(n) der Zukunft: Gemeinsam forschend lernen und lehren“ können sich alle Interessierten über aktuelle und innovative Lehrkonzepte austauschen.

New semester, new great lineup for our #InternationalStudies seminar with amazing speakers at @uni-konstanz.de ➡️ Gabriella Gricius @ggricius.bsky.social ➡️ Fabio Franchino ➡️ Livia Schubiger ➡️ Kenneth Schultz ➡️ Giorgio Malet @giorgiomalet.bsky.social ➡️ Timon Forster @timonforster.bsky.social

Did you know? 🤔 We’re 100% Gold Open Access ✅ Every article we publish is peer-reviewed, high quality, and free to read from day one. 😱 This #OpenAccessWeek, dive into research you can share without barriers. 📖✨

Am 18. November findet der Tag der #Forschungsdaten NRW unter dem „FAIRe Daten, FAIR Play – Alles eine Frage der Aufstellung“ statt. Auf dem Programm stehen unter anderem Diskussionen und ein interaktiver Escape-Room für Studierende. www.uni-muenster.de/Forschungsda...

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS! Special Issue ‘Towards an integration of personality research across psychology and biology’ in Personality Science Editors: Mitja Back, Barbara Caspers, @mdammhahn.bsky.social & @niclaskuper.bsky.social Submit your proposal before November 30! More info tinyurl.com/y9demmtt

#OAWeek 🤷 What is #OAWeek about? 💬"It's an opportunity for the academic & research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of #OpenAccess" @sparcopen.bsky.social 👉 www.openaccessweek.org

🎓 This Friday (17.10): another Graduate Friday at the #HotPoliticsLab! We’re excited to hear Linda Bomm and Daniel Komáromy present their work on societal threats and support for the radical right. 📍 Location: Common Room (REC-B9.22) 💻 Or join us online 👉 teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/...

This has taken some time, but the cover alone makes it worth the wait: 'The Promise of EU Democracy' is due to come out at OUP this spring It collects the very best on EU democracy - promises and disillusions - from the H2000 RECONNECT-project global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Time for another episode (ep. 7) of my series on "Great colleagues @ifpolms.bsky.social doing exciting (and enviable) research": @cwegscheider.bsky.social presents his cool research tomorrow, and everybody should listen and discuss. Be there or be not interested in support for liberal democracy!

Publication day: My new paper @poppublicsphere.bsky.social explores American public attitudes toward punishing 'uncooperative' security partners. Turns out, voters have strong opinions👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In the higher education sector, I am hearing discussions of how AI may help ramp up climate education and spur climate awareness. Good qs but imo we cannot honestly speak abt that w/o speaking about how computing power is currently eating fossil fuels and asking how that research offsets that cost.

Deadline for abstracts for the next NIG conference is close: this Wednesday (15 October). Doing work on democratic innovation and citizen participation? Krista Ettlinger and I have the perfect panel for you.👇

Join the GESIS Panel.dbd Insight Days on February 23–24, 2026 in Mannheim! Learn about fundamentals and best practices for working with the GESIS Panel.dbd and get exclusive access to a closed Call for Study Proposals only for workshop participants! www.gesis.org/en/gesis-pan...

This is a highly interesting, timely and great initiative - a new diamond OA journal for #replication research! It is interdisciplinary, but #PolSci is specifically invited. Hence, if you or someone you know has an interesting replication paper, do not hesitate to submit!

ReplicationResearch.org is now open for submissions! Submit replications and reproductions from many different fields, as well as conceptual contributions. With diamond OA, open and citable peer review reports, and reproducibility checks, we push the boundaries of open and fair publishing.

#ASConference25 Societal Challenges and the important infrastructures for the Social Sciences on the way to get answers. Sebastian Stier shows how to unlock digital behavioral data. as25.sociology.uni-m...

🟡 The Incite-Dem Interactive Forums are novel events where institutional actors are recruited to reflect on how citizen-generated models might be integrated into governance structures, and what adaptations are needed to make them work in practice. ⬇️

Die ULB Münster hat das Forschungsdatenarchiv „datasafe“ auf Open-Source-Software umgestellt. Das bringt u.a.: ➡️deutlich mehr Speicherplatz (bis zu 5 Terabyte) ➡️eine verbesserte Oberfläche ➡️ein feingliederiges Rollen- und Rechtemanagement Mehr Infos: www.ulb.uni-muenster.de/bibliothek/a...

NEW! The public opinion effects of antisemitic elite cues: a survey experiment on the Hungarian Soros campaign in @eepolitics.bsky.social w/ @bencehamrak.bsky.social @erinjenne.bsky.social G.Simonovits. Soros cues worked through partisan motivated reasoning & not antisemitism doi.org/10.1080/2159...

New data for legislative scholars! Committee Membership Dataset with @bcastanho.bsky.social, @dmpullan.bsky.social and Firuze Taner: Committee assignments for all MPs (Wikidata IDs!) in 14 countries Harmonized roles/policy areas Data: doi.org/10.7802/2940 Working paper: tinyurl.com/vf54r78p ⬇️

👏 Congratulations to @gijsschumacher.bsky.social, who has been appointed Professor of Political Psychology! 🎓 🧠 'Politics is emotion. Emotions influence how we think about politics and the decisions we make. The scientific challenge is to unravel the interplay between democracy and emotions.'

I really like this research, congrats! But: What if there are two kinds of professionals, "good" & "bad" ones? How likely is it that your assumption of donation likelihood holds only for the "good" ones, but not for the "bad" ones"? And what would this mean for your findings?

Great reporting on the contagion risks of the Trump presidency, drawing in parts on insights from the @disintegrationerc.bsky.social project.

🚨🚨 Due to @ecpr.bsky.social decision to accept&set up our RN shortly bef deadline for renewing all SG / RN memberships, we quickly gained a lot of members until Sep 30 & then lost them again. Please note: To follow our mails / newletters, please make sure to renew your membership via MyECPR!

🆕 Sore losers on election night? 🫢 Einar Bäckström shows #VoterSatisfaction does not change right after electoral decisions, but becomes more polarised over time ⏰ instead long-term processes drive the winner-loser gap🏅 📖 #OA

As the US steps back from leading in global governance institutions, China has increasingly stepped into leadership roles, serving as head of WHO, FAO, and other important UN agencies in recent years. In new (open access!) work with @rhulvey.bsky.social in @the-peio.bsky.social we ask: why? 1/5

Open Science Professor ship at HU Berlin www.academics.de/jobs/w2-prof...