🧵 Excited to share my new book w/ @hildecoffe.bsky.social : "Different and Unequal? Gendered Political Participation in European Democracies" — with @universitypress.cambridge.org Elements in Gender and Politics (open access!) TLDR? Women don't just participate less. They participate *differently*

🌀 🌐 Voters now identify as winners and losers of globalisation ⚖️ @nilssteiner.bsky.social, Matthias Mader & Harald Schoen explore how citizens’ perceptions of themselves as “winners” or “losers” of globalisation are increasingly structuring political competition.

Last week, we (@clandwehr.bsky.social, my colleague Leonard and I) had the joy of welcoming some great colleagues working on the topic of democracy to Mainz, for the concluding workshop of our project "Conceptions of Democracy among Citizens and Political Elites". Thank you for three wonderful days!

Great to see this go live 👇 As part of the EPSS Diversity Committee, I’m especially excited about this mentoring program—open to all EPSS members, both as mentors and as mentees. 🗓️ Fill out the survey by March 31 to participate. ℹ️ FAQ: epssnet.org/about/divers...

@kgattermann.bsky.social, @elskevdhoogen.bsky.social & @claesdevreese.bsky.social: The role of far-right party performance in shaping disinformation concerns of European voters: evidence from the 2024 European Parliament elections 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🌀 📊 How powerful are polls in influencing election outcomes? 🗳️ @krausewe.bsky.social & @christinagahn.bsky.social examine how election polls can shape voter behaviour, from bandwagon effects to strategic voting, and why their influence is more complex than it first appears 🤔

Highly interesting paper - congrats! But as you asked researchers for delving more into the conditions under which #scapegoating is successful: a lot of the lit on the topic already suggests (& tests) a moderation effect of characteristics of those receiving the communication. /1

Tagung zur Demokratiebildung: Welche Rolle spielen Hochschulen? – Die Tagung „Demokratiebildung als Auftrag für die Hochschullehre?“ am 13. März geht dieser Frage nach. Die Konferenz wird von der Uni Münster, @germanu15.bsky.social und der Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre organisiert.

🌀 @andduer.bsky.social and @robert-a-huber.bsky.social argue that (changes in) trade flows and regions’ economic structures matter for political outcomes. Regions’ trade competitiveness affects legislators’ trade attitudes and incumbents’ chances of re-election bit.ly/4cv7Yun

This is a really cool initiative by @epssnet.bsky.social - spread the news!

🔥 POSTDOC POSITIONS ON CHILDREN'S POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION 🔥 Wanna understand young people's beliefs about political leadership, politics, and power? Then this is your chance! I'm looking for two 2-year postdocs to join my ERC-funded research project @au.dk international.au.dk/about/profil...

Exciting news: @hajoboo.bsky.social will take over as Editor-in-Chief of CCR @computationalcommunication.org from June 7. Hajo is a dream candidate to take over and I have no doubt CCR will continue to flourish under his leadership. Welcome! journal.computationalcommunication.org/announcement...

I've just made live the updated website that accompanies my R book (www.discovr.rocks) - it's mostly finished: almost all of the chapter solutions/task solutions are done, data are live, updated info about the `discovr` package of interactive tutorials, and it's had a face lift.

It's FReD Friday AND #LoveReplicationsWeek, so here is a recap of what has been going on with the FORRT Replication Database. In 2024, we published the paper on our dataset with 99 (!) authors. But this was only the beginning. doi.org/10.5334/jopd.101

📢 We are hiring: Combined Postdoc position at V-Dem Institute and GLD! Applications are open for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Cross-National Survey Methodology in Political Science. Application: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103... 🧵1(4) #Polisky #PoliSciSky #PoliticalScienceJobs #PostDoc

The AJPS announces new policies on correspondence and corrections. Read the Editor's Blog here: ajps.org/2026/03/05/n...

Please note the very short deadline

Wow, congrats @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social and @sofiavasilopoulou.bsky.social - greatly deserved!

Welcome to day 2 of #LoveReplicationsWeek! I'll be posting here about today's talks. - You can still register for upcoming events: forrt.org/LoveReplicat... - We try to make all slides publicly available on Zenodo: zenodo.org/communities/...

Kenne U. Malmendier vom Advisory Board des @wzb.bsky.social als kompetente, sachorientierte, nette Kollegin. Dass man so jemanden in der Politikberatung beim @bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de nicht haben möchte, beunruhigt mich-genau wie die jüngsten energie- u klimapolitischen Fehlentscheidungen.

#CallForProposals for the 2nd funding period in the Infrastructure Priority Programme "New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences" (SPP 2431). Objective: Expanding data sources and methods for the social sciences. Interested researchers are invited to a workshop on 8 May 26. Details: sohub.io/2s2g

@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/...

It's #LoveReplicationsWeek! I'll be posting impressions from the talks all week here. >> You can still sign up for talks since we are sending out invites on the morning for new registrations. forrt.org/LoveReplicat... >> Slides will be shared in our Zenodo Community: zenodo.org/communities/...

Professur für "Quantitative Methoden der digitalen Kommunikationsforschung" ausgeschrieben an der @unisalzburg.bsky.social Bewerbungfrist: 01.04.; Beginn: 01.10.

Tagung „Enabling Democracy“, 30.09-02.10.26 in Bonn. Nähere Informationen: www.jura.uni-bonn.de/institute-un...

🚨 TADA Speaker Series Spring 2026 schedule is here! 🚨 We've assembled a fantastic lineup of researchers exploring the future of survey research in the age of LLMs. Mar 18 - May 27, online at 17:00 CEST. Join us! More info & signup: tada.cool

🟡 At the end of INCITE-DEM's run, we present a wrap-up presentation that outlines the main steps that we undertook and showcases the project's main achievements. 💛 Thank you for following our journey! 🔗 incite-dem.eu/news/policy-...

Replication Research (R2), a 🆕 community-led Diamond OA journal, makes replication studies more discoverable, publishable & rigorously evaluated—without subscription barriers or author fees. Ahead of #LoveReplicationsWeek, R2's senior editors shared their vision in our Q&A:

Together, we deployed a new instance of AmCAT (amcat4.labs.vu.nl) for the @medem.bsky.social project in Vienna — strengthening infrastructure for open & reproducible computational content analysis.

MEDem attended the #ESFRIroadmap2026 hearings ✅ This crucial step was only possible thanks to our incredible community. Thank you for the continued trust and strong support! 🙌 But what does this milestone mean, and what comes next? Read more on our #MEDemBlog 👉 www.medem.eu/a-shared-ste...

Don't forget to apply until the end of the week! 🚨

📢 JOB ALERT! Fully funded 3-year PhD in Climate & Comparative Politics at @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social. Starting in September. The project is on the political consequences of climate policies in carbon-intensive communities across Europe. 🗓 Deadline: May 17 www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

📢Publication alert 📢 LLMs are an awesome technology, but they come with trade-offs! Paul Balluff, @justinho.bsky.social, @seanhp.bsky.social, Alexis Palmer, @lrossi.bsky.social, Irina Shklovski, Chung-hong Chan and I commented on these trade-offs in #commsky research. Out now and open access!

postdocs for enviro/climate people at the @gsos-lse.bsky.social!

Auf @soziopolis.bsky.social ist heute das Dossier zu strategischer Prozessführung erschienen, das ich mit Verena Frick herausgebe. Sechs Autorinnen beleuchten strategische Klagen aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven: www.soziopolis.de/dossier/stra...

🎉🎉🎉 It's publication day for the symposium @adam42smith.bsky.social and I co-edited on teaching qualitative methods in undergraduate political science education! 🎉🎉🎉

Applying for these positions is strongly recommended! Working together with @lisadellmuth.bsky.social really is a pleasure, the project is fascinating, and the location is great.

Very happy to see this paper published. We examine how elites (legislators) and the public evaluate different policies designed to compensate the losers from trade. Using original survey data from legislators and public opinion surveys in 3 countries, we find only a limited elite–public gap.

Kathrin Ackermann u ich kandidieren für den RatSWD u freuen uns über die Unterstützung der Politikwissenschaft (u darüber hinaus :) ). Bis Montag (16.2.) können sich alle Promovierten registrieren, um dann an der Wahl im März teilnehmen zu können. Registrieren: www.konsortswd.de/ueber-uns/ra...

🚨📄 New paper (conditional accepted at @thejop.bsky.social): We test whether social desirability bias actually distorts answers in online surveys. Short version: It mostly doesn’t. w. @timallinger.bsky.social @kristianvsf.bsky.social @morganlcj.bsky.social URL: osf.io/preprints/os...

The methodology evolution is coming. On Feb 11th, #MethodsNET opens the Call for Proposals for our next conference. We’re looking for innovative takes on qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods. Check out the conference details here: methodsnet.org/conference/3... #AcademicSky #MethodsNET

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨 7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers. Free of charge (limited travel support). Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org #methodsky #polisky

Starting a new thread to collect critical perspectives on AI, as they are articulated dozens of times every day and appear repeatedly on my timeline. I can't read everything right away, but if, like me, you want to stay up to date, then this might help a bit:

Looking for speeches from all German state parliaments? @cgnguyen.bsky.social , Eric Beltermann, Sabine Kropp & Antonios Souris have you covered. Introducing the StateParl Corpus. Now open access with PVS: doi.org/10.1007/s11615-025-00643-5

Join us for the LOVE REPLICATIONS WEEK from March 2 - 6 with talks on reproductions, replications, how to find them, how to conduct them, how to have them conducted on your study, where to publish them, and much more!

Today in @theguardian.com, I argue that Donald Trump’s foreign-policy playbook is increasingly about attention capture, or what I call geopolitical clickbait. Plus I outline why this matters for Europe & what to do about it. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Geopolitics is now also a battle for attention. Europe should stop feeding the spectacle, and start playing the long game. /end

🚨 Postdoctoral Position at the University of Konstanz 🚨 We’re hiring a post-doc for our @excinequality.bsky.social project on political elites and decision-making. 4-year position | Deadline: Feb. 20 | Start: Sept 2026 Please share widely 🙏 The ad is here stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f...

When two years of academic work [using ChatGPT] vanished with a single click www.nature.com/articles/d41... "these tools were not developed with academic standards of reliability and accountability in mind". I don't to express Schadenfreude here bc I don't feel it, but this was clear from the 1/