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/

⏳ 5 days left to apply! 4-year PhD position @stawi-univie.bsky.social @univie.ac.at in a collegial & supportive department. Focus: representation, party competition, political behavior, political institutions, political economy, or related. Deadline: 28 Jan 26 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Very happy that our review article (with the @annualreviews.bsky.social) on „Austerity and Populism“ is now available as preprint: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... - with @sattlersthomas.bsky.social

@posit.co this fundamentally undermines me using your products as a teaching tool. Will this be in posit cloud too? If so, instructors need to be able to switch this off in module workspaces.

This sounds like a fantastic project and workshop - congrats, @rsenninger.bsky.social! Asking for a friend who has to teach on Mondays: Any chance that some parts may take place in a hybrid fomat?

🟡 At Incite-Dem, we believe that a data-driven approach is crucial for tackling the democratic crises of our times. ⬇️

We are happy to release the Paths to Power Dashboard. It is the perfect tool for politics nerds! You can find it here: ptp.isv.sv.uio.no/ptp/ It allows you to explore governments from 1966-2021 using the PtP and WhoGov datasets. See examples below. The app has been programmed by Stuart Bramwell.

Check out our new paper in the European Journal of Political Research (@ejprjournal.bsky.social): www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...

📘 Presenting my new book project “How Democracies Can Survive” at the University of Hamburg Come join us if you’re around! 👋 📅 Wednesday, 14 January 2026 ⏰ 17:15–18:45 📍 VMP9, Room B130 👉 Many thanks to the HPS³ team for the invitation — looking forward to the discussion!

This is really interesting for (members of) a university discussing whether or not some publishers may be causing problematic developments in the science community. @aufdroeseler.bsky.social - also relevant for the work of #MüCOS, I guess.

In the final session of the final INCITE DEM event (12.30pm), @olivertreib.bsky.social, @canersimsek.bsky.social & I will present findings on dimensions of #inclusiveness that make people more/less willing to participate in & accepting the results of #democraticinnovations. 1/2

Do #governments use int' organizations to avoid #blame for policies that are unpopular domestically? 🌐😡 In our contribution to #RIO @the-peio.bsky.social, @tommccraehunter.bsky.social, @sujeongshim.bsky.social & I explore this question in the case of the #IMF: lnkd.in/d6kyAxKj

🚨 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!