New article out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Tabea Palmtag and @dpzollinger.bsky.social 📝 We use open-ended survey questions (in Germany) to assess how and among whom social status shifts are perceived. This tests cultural backlash narratives in voters' perceptions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...

NEW ARTICLE: @palesl.bsky.social, Vesa Koskimaa and I have an letter out in JOP, "Politicians talk less about the future as they age" doi.org/10.1086/739406 (1/10)

I ran a simulated social media experiment with 1450 Republicans to test different fact-checking interventions. AI produced the largest decrease in engagement with Trump misinformation, outperforming independent fact-checkers and doing so far more consistently than Community Notes.

⚠️New paper fothcoming in POQ! ⚠️ With @marcjacob.bsky.social and @seanjwestwood.bsky.social, we worried about norm-violating local politicians rising to higher office. We tested when voters defect from such politicians in local, state and federal races. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵...

Job 🚨! PRL is looking for a postdoc based at Dartmouth College for next year. Candidates should bring advanced data skills and enjoy writing. Read more about our work at polarizationresearchlab.org and apply through Interfolio by February 15, 2026: apply.interfolio.com/175722

🇨🇿 Today’s Czech vote went little differently than polls suggested — centrist populism dominates, extremists underperformed. The next coalition is uncertain, but a minority ANO government backed by the radical right looks likely. Now all depends on coalition talks and what they can secure in return.

🎉 We're excited to share our Fall/Winter 2025-26 schedule! We have a stellar lineup of research highlighting cases from Central Europe to Central Asia🎉 Workshops are on Fridays 5pmCET/11amET/8amPST with links+papers shared on our list-serv the week before. Sign up here⤵️ eepg-workshop.github.io

New in PNAS with @seanjwestwood.bsky.social and @ylelkes.bsky.social: Why depolarization is hard: Evaluating attempts to decrease partisan animosity in America @prl.bsky.social @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Now it has also been published in an issue! But I’m curious—and increasingly worried—about how this will look in a year or two.

👉Check out our new publication in @electoralstudies.bsky.social (with Toth & Chytilek)! Using eye-tracking and surveys, we test whether framing political issues in moral terms attracts more attention than presenting them with facts. Surprisingly, facts hold a slight advantage doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

In real time, we can observe very different approaches to the Kirk assassination. Cox (R) places the blame on the attacker, while Trump does not hesitate to politicize it. We have a parallel in 🇸🇰, continuing for months. Politicization can easily succeed. A paper on this topic is in progress.

A job opening for comparativists!

📊We collected data from the public and from political scientists in 🇨🇿 to assess the state of the field. We now provide a dashboard of results. 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞? With traditional centers strained, CEE could expand the academic labor market, attract foreign talent, and integrate into the global community.

🚨CFP - DEADLINE AUG 7!🚨 Apply to present at the Fall/Winter 2025-26 Series of our monthly online East European Politics Workshop for grad students! Submit your abstract BEFORE AUG 7: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... & sign up to our mailing list: eepg-workshop.github.io

Slovensko je případ, který světová politologie málokdy reflektuje, i když by to leckdy stálo za to. Tak jsme se na to vrhli my :)

𝟒𝟑% 𝐨𝐟 🇨🇿 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐬 in our recent survey (N = 118, RR = 46%). IMO, this reflects gaps in methodological training and academic writing rather than systemic bias—but this can isolate CEE scholars from the global community. 1/3

#MethodsHub #Study #helpwanted Invitation to participate: Study on method reproducibility The Methods Hub team at GESIS is conducting a study as part of the Tier2 project on how easily researchers can reproduce results from computational methods.

If people think American scientists are somehow going to land in Europe, I've got news for you about the difference between millions and billions. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🆕 EJPR NEWS 📰 Find us here on Bluesky 🦋 @ejprjournal.bsky.social for original, peer-reviewed research on comparative European politics. Stay informed, stay connected. #PoliticalScience #EJPR #PoliSky

1.3K followers & counting. Thank you all for your incredible support! The EPSS journey is just getting started & we couldn’t do it without you. Thank you for so many of you who already joined EPSS! If you haven't already, please join: epssnet.org/sign-up/#join Let’s do this together.

Congrats to Matěj! Follow @matejjung.bsky.social for deep insights on Central and Eastern Europe and more.

🧠Can affective polarization erode democratic support without strong party ties? ➡️Using a survey experiment in Chile’s 2022 plebiscite, L. Cox, P. Cubillos & @carmenlef.bsky.social show that subtle polarization cues reduce democratic commitment www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Big moments lately: became a dad and defended my PhD. Huge thanks to @andrewroberts.bsky.social and committee members @noamgidron.bsky.social, @filipkostelka.bsky.social, and @ylelkes.bsky.social for their thoughtful feedback. Looking forward to the next chapter at Aarhus with @suthank.bsky.social!

“The gender-equality paradox entails that countries with more equality have larger gender differences in behavior. Positive associations between equality & gender differences disappear or reverse when accounting for cultural clusters of countries. The paradox appears to be a methodological artifact”

New paper out in IJPOR! We (w Ian McAllister) use @ess-survey.bsky.social and other survey data to examine East/West differences in the use and meaning of left-right. academic.oup.com/ijpor/articl...

NEW - Beyond Observational Relationships: Evidence from a Ten-Country Experiment that Policy Disputes Cause Affective Polarization - cup.org/3Zvgchx - @noamgidron.bsky.social, James Adams, @rwillh11.bsky.social & @ttichelbaecker.bsky.social #OpenAccess

🚨NEW PAPER: Why are Members of Congress so extreme? We conducted a 4-wave panel of thousands of voters in 27 districts during last year’s primary AND general elections to trace polarization’s roots The results challenge conventional wisdom… and suggest lessons for parties🧵👇

📢 The APSR is opening a new Research Notes track! Authors may now submit directly as Notes—or, with editor agreement, have papers reclassified during review. Notes should be ≤7,000 words (excl. refs/appendices).

📢 The final piece of my dissertation is out in @polbehavior.bsky.social! Does being an ideologue matter for political disagreement—beyond how many issues are involved? It does, shaping both animosity and how people engage. 🧵https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-025-10049-z

🚨New R package! {easymediation}🚨 The *Simplest* and *Most Correct* Way to Do Causal Mediation Analysis Are you tired of explaining mediation analysis to your colleagues? Just send them this package. github.com/rpsychologis...

The article on culture wars in public opinion across Europe now also covered at @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social. Thanks!

🚨 New paper out at @bjpols.bsky.social with @benlauderdale.bsky.social & @chriswratil.bsky.social! We ask: How does populist rhetoric affect the electoral fortunes of candidates? And is it successful in changing the issue preferences of voters? Three key findings in the 🧵 below:

📢 Excited to share my publication in the EJPR! I examine ideological alignment, arguing for asymmetry—left-wing partisans are more aligned than the right. Analyzing 15 countries, 20 issues, and two time points, I reveal evidence and limits of this asymmetry. 🧵 doi.org/10.1111/1475...

Who supports free speech, and how consistent is the support? Together with @suthank.bsky.social, I’ve conducted a survey of citizens in 33 countries for The Future of Free Speech. A lot of interesting findings (see 🧵 + link): futurefreespeech.org/wp-content/u...

1/9 Massive protest in the USA against Trump. Correct me if I'm wrong but there seems to be NO violence whatsoever. This illustrates a new model of the role of Group Relative Deprivation (GRD) in activism and radicalism (IN PRESS, available online soon) 🧵 #PsychSciSky #socialpsych #polisky #HandsOff

I am looking for a post-bac (Dartmouth language for a pre-doc) researcher to join our team studying elections and democracy. If you (or someone you know) have expertise in data science or political science, please apply or share this opportunity! polarizationresearchlab.org/hiring/

My book is now officially out! How Politicians Polarize introduces and documents the concept of "negative representation" – when representatives focus on the other side rather than their own. Some key findings: 🧵 www.amazon.com/How-Politici...

📢Proud to share my first publication in European Union Politics, now online and #OpenAccess! I examine which of 19 European countries (1990–2017) saw culture wars emerge in public opinion. I analyze how opinions and identities on morality and economic issues aligned into distinct ideological camps🧵

In May 2024, a lone shooter attacked the Slovak prime minister. Despite calls for unity, governing officials blamed the opposition for inciting violence. Ten months later, we still observe its effects on people's attitudes and support for political violence. A 🧵 based on a new survey.

75% of Germans don't see the U.S. as a reliable partner anymore, new poll for ARD-TV finds. Majority open to more debt for defence. Full results (in German) here: www.tagesschau.de/inland/deuts...

@liesbethooghe.bsky.social & Gary Marks measure the extent to which political parties on the contemporary socio-cultural divide are cleavaged. doi.org/10.1080/0140... Part of the forthcoming Special Issue "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies". #polisky #academicsky

Fantastic new macro data source for 243 countries - GDP, inflation, government finance, trade, unemployment, interest rates etc. - open-source - continuously updated - unification and extension of existing resources (IMF, World Bank, and OECD) with historical records:

New preprint! osf.io/preprints/ps... The age-period-cohort problem is something that many researchers are vaguely aware of. There have been very cool advances in how to reason about it which don't seem to be well-known in psych. So, I've written a primer!

New open-access paper in Annual Review of Psychology with @mjbsp.bsky.social: “Ideology: Psychological Similarities and Differences Across the Ideological Spectrum Reexamined” www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Super excited that we can organize another summer school on challenges to electoral democracy! Paris in July + amazing speakers: this will be *great* !

People don't really think any of this! Overestimates of small proportions are a quirk of general innumeracy, not genuine misperceptions. See research by @brianguay.bsky.social et al: —PNAS forthcoming: www.brianguay.com/files/guay_2... —Psychonomic Bulletin 2017: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Donald Trump Jr. spend 4 hours in Greenland and has, on this basis, widely reported on what Greenlanders feel about racism, Denmark and US. What do know from actual research? 🧵 (1/8)

If you feel that BlueSky is “different“ from X, the data supports you :) Using a network of 15M users (56% of the platform) we find that the probability that the log-normal law is wrong wrt to the power-law is just ~7% Why that matters? Pop 🧵 follows! 1/ #scaling #NetSky #ComplexSystems 🧪

New Cambridge Element 'Cleavage Formation in the 21st Century' by Simon Bornschier, @lhaffert.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social, Marco Steenberge & @dpzollinger.bsky.social out now! Read #OpenAccess here: cup.org/3ZLtQ0o #cambridgeelements #politics

It was a thrill to be a visitor at @ipz.bsky.social and ETH Zurich. Thank you to everyone who made my stay so pleasant. I hope we will have the chance to meet again soon.