🚨 We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Political Science ⏰ Deadline 4th January 2026 🙋‍♀️ Any questions, please reach out 👇

Why do citizens who say they support democracy tolerate leaders who dismantle it? Delighted to share my paper “Framing Democracy: How Elite Discourse Shapes Citizens' Understandings of Democracy and Enables Backsliding” is forthcoming in World Politics...(1/5, link at the end)

Very happy to share that the Faculty Board has appointed me as the new Head of our Public Administration department, starting in January. I’m really looking forward to this new role, above all because our group is made up of a bunch of fantastic colleagues.

𝗢𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 #𝟰𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗮𝘆, 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 (𝗖𝗜𝗚𝗦) 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝘂̈𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿! The #CIGS offers an inclusive space for exchange and networking in research and teaching in #GenderStudies at the @uni-muenster.de.

we have 5 positions open at @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt - a 4,5 year postdoc in my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage - 2 postdoc & 2 PhD positions, 4 years, in a research group on Reconfiguration & Internalization of Social Structure www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...

We @uni-konstanz.de are hiring a full professor in machine learning for our MSc program in Social and Economic Data Science: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/6...

Very pleased to see our new article out in JEPOP. It details some of the fascinating insights we gleaned from digitalising and cleaning almost 800 individual-level polls carried out by Gallup in Britain between 1955-1991.

Plus ca change

Große Freude! Die @dfg.de zeichnet den Chemiker Prof. Armido Studer @chempharmms.bsky.social für seine exzellente Forschung mit einem Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis aus. Mit einer Preissumme von 2,5 Mio. Euro ist der Leibniz-Preis der höchstdotierte und wichtigste deutsche Forschungsförderpreis.

Oh wow, this is really great news, Lisa! So well deserved!

The Infra4NextGen project has published a report featuring analysis of climate change questions from our panel survey (CRONOS-3). Written by @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social (Cardiff University), the report covers attitudes towards #climate change, fairness, and action in 11 countries.

🚨 ‼️ Five days left to apply for the postdoc in Political Text Analysis in the MULTIREP ERC project 👇. Use your last chance to apply 😉

Two PhD Positions in Project about Protests in Africa @sophiahunger.bsky.social and I are looking for two PhD researchers in our project „Welfare States and Protest: Understanding the Contentious Outcomes of Social Policy in Africa". Application deadline is 14.1.26: www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪

"It is important to understand whether people in left-behind regions– such as former coal communities – feel that the transition is something done with them rather than to them." @patrickbayer.bsky.social & @fgenovese.bsky.social on climate cooperation and devolution ukandeu.ac.uk/climate-coop...

Agree with much of what Cyrus says in his blog post and the comments below. I'd add that some of the best recent work in poli sci is mixed methods, and uses a combo of observational data, experiments/quasi-experiments, and in-depth interviews/case studies to answer a puzzle from multiple angles.

A blog post giving a more thorough take on survey experiments and the credibility revolution: cyrussamii.com?p=4168

It has been a while since @flavioazevedo.bsky.social asked me to take over the Reversals project at @forrt.bsky.social... It has since evolved beyond my wildest dreams, mostly thanks to @aufdroeseler.bsky.social & @lukaswallrich.bsky.social. We are very proud of the Replication Hub & Database ♥️

⏰ I’m happy to share that a major paper from my dissertation was published today (🔗 doi.org/10.1017/pan....) in Political Analysis. In the paper, Clemens Lechner and I conduct an extensive validation study on how to measure politicians’ public personality traits using computational text analysis!

It was our pleasure having you, @fialalenka.bsky.social & @i4replication.bsky.social here @uni-muenster.de - great to see many people from several disciplines working together to improve (social) science! Thanks also @aufdroeseler.bsky.social #MüCOS & Katrin & Oliver #CDSC for making co-orga fun!

@andreadis.bsky.social and I are happy to announce the #ecprjs26 Workshop 'Linking Euroscepticism and Populism' 7 – 10 April, University of Innsbruck, Austria. We look forward to your papers! Submit by 10 Dec #Polisky #CallforPapers #Euroscepticism #populism #democracy #EUPopLink

Die Präsidentin der Universität Osnabrück, Prof. Dr. Susanne Menzel Riedl, wird zum 1. Oktober 2026 neue Rektorin der Universität Münster. Sie tritt damit die Nachfolge von Prof. Dr. Johannes Wessels an, der seit 2016 im Amt ist.

We are very looking forward to having you, @fialalenka.bsky.social, and hosting the event @uni-muenster.de jointly with #MüCOS and #CDSC! The (unexpectedly) high number of participants once again confirms that #reproducibility and #openscience really matters.

After a long time in development, {traktok} #rstats is now finally on CRAN! Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered jbgruber.github.io/traktok/

🔔Job Alert 🔔 Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?” We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!

🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨 We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social Any questions, please reach out to me 📣 Please share! 📣 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Beside listening to the podcast, you should really read the full paper - the environmental costs are only one of the paper's punchlines. Plus: it is written in a very accessible way. Kudos to the authors, @seanhp.bsky.social, @isaacbravo.bsky.social & @clint0475.bsky.social! osf.io/download/vwb5h

NEW - Public Support for Pro-environment and Environment-Critical Movements - https://cup.org/3XzCAEJ - @dirckdekleer.bsky.social, @catherinedevries.bsky.social & @simonvanteutem.bsky.social #OpenAccess

The current historical moment - esp. embodied by the return of President Trump - has let pundits push a need for so-called "Climate Realism". @jeffcolgan.bsky.social & I are pleased @iojournal.bsky.social let us write our thoughts on this and subsequent trends in global climate politics. 🧵 below:

On Wednesday, @riazsascha.bsky.social will join us in Münster to present phenomenal work on regime loyalty during the Nazi regime! joint work w De Juan, @felixhaass.bsky.social + @juvoss.bsky.social As always, you can join us via zoom! organized w @danbischof.bsky.social + @mwegemann.bsky.social

Very happy that my paper on the future of US trade policy, co-authored with Alessia Invernizzi, is part of this special issue

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)