And... we're off Join us next Spring at the University of Potsdam for the third Applied Causal Graphs workshop: applied-causal-graphs.de Now that the date and place are set and two of the keynote speakers are fixed, all we need is an abstract from you.

Shockingly long in the making, but I'm happy it's finally out: @cgnguyen.bsky.social's and my article on the rel between attitudes on the welfare state ("support") & penal punitiveness ("punish") in 22 countries: doi.org/10.1177/1462... #welfarestate #criminaljustice #redistribution #punishment

Survey folks, what are people’s recent experiences with online panels in terms of: 1. Panel quality (bots/LLMs)? 2. Representativeness? 3. Cost + time to complete? Planning a 700–800 US nat-rep pilot. Best practices welcome!

Updating my own teaching using the excellent "Statistical Rethinking" resources from @rmcelreath.bsky.social , but am wondering if someone has already done some work adapting it to a political science / psychology context? Any pointers are welcome.

Updating my own teaching using the excellent "Statistical Rethinking" resources from @rmcelreath.bsky.social , but am wondering if someone has already done some work adapting it to a political science / psychology context? Any pointers are welcome.

"eines Bundeslandes"? tja, und dann wills wieder keiner gewesen sein www.welt.de/vermischtes/...

Check out my new blog post based on my article "Integration is local"! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 👇

What is the hive mind view of the Frontiers (e.g frontiers in political science) journals ? I have seen some controversy about them being predatory, but also have seen colleagues publish interesting papers in them.

Some researchers don't discuss their future research plans for fear of being scooped. Not me. I drop bad ideas for unscrupulous people to 'steal'. - What are the neural correlates of Open Science practices? - What is the role of habits in learning a new skill through repetitive practice?

Does anyone have recommmendation for papers in "mainstream" political science that problematize this polarization framing?

Together with the great colleagues @i4replication.bsky.social, we are organizing the first Münster replication games (28/11/25)! Highly recommended to junior & senior scholars. Joint project together with #MueCOS & #CDSC @uni-muenster.de. More info/registration: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3526/

Trying to apply a regex-based dictionary to a (fairly large) corpus in Quanteda, and my computer is chocking hard on it. Are there any tips for optimizing such tasks that other users may have? #Quanteda #R

Thank you so much for sharing, very much appreciated! Here's the link to the full article with @ankuepfer.bsky.social (@ejprjournal.bsky.social): ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper out @wepsocial.bsky.social! 🥡 Key Take-Away: Opposition parties seek more conflict with the government when performing poorly in the polls – especially when falling below their previous election result. Read full 🧵 below:

"Trust me, Bro!": You should read this working paper if you consider using commercial #LLM endpoints for annotating #TextAsData arthurspirling.org/documents/Ba...

Seoul novelty hats as political science concepts. A thread. 1. Quantitative methods

How are the classic social identities (urban-rural, education, etc. ) and perceptions about those groups related to a persons own European and national identity? Read it here (in fantastic company) in print

Wir brauchen Daten! Im Rahmen eines meiner Seminare @powimz.bsky.social sollen die Studis auch eigene Erfahrungen mit der Datenerhebung sammeln. Dazu haben wir eine kleine Umfrage zusammengestellt (ca. 15 Min.). Wir sind dankbar für jede*n Teilnehmer*in :) survey.zdv.uni-mainz.de/index.php/89...

Live footage of Friedrich Merz leaving the White House not wanting to be caught in the crossfire

🥁 It's the second half of our 🌱 speaker series (tada.cool) this term, and we couldn't be more excited! Next week (Wednesday, April 30 at 5pm CET), we have the pleasure of welcoming @taniseceron.bsky.social to share insights on "Facilitating Information Access Through Language Models". More details ⬇️

Morgen ist es soweit: In einem transdisziplinären Workshop loten wir die Möglichkeiten der Landesparlaments-Datenbank stateparl.de für Wissenschaft, Journalismus, Verwaltung und Zivilgesellschaft aus. Die Veranstaltung wird durch die @berlinualliance.bsky.social möglich gemacht. 🫶

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🧵1/4 Excited to celebrate Anna Huang‘s first first-authored paper just published in EJSP. 🥳 In this theoretical article, Anna explores how Social Identity Theory (SIT) and Self-Categorization Theory (SCT) apply to individuals with Mixed racial-ethnic identities.

Researchers interested in #unfairness: Is there any PolSci/SoSci lit emp. analyzing the correlation btw. different dimensions of perceived unfairness? That is, NOT procedural vs. distributional, but btw. economic, political, cultural, life unfairness (perceptions)? Suggestions greatly appreciated!

Use a #StarTrek meme to describe how you feel

I am supposed to teach US students this week what the differences (and similarities) of the German and US political systems are, and I am honestly at a loss on what to say now. Doing the usual "two party vs. multiparty" system spiel seems woefully inadequate.

Don't make me tap the meme.

Don't make me tap the meme.

sitting in my office, doing my silly little regressions on how people feel about politics, wondering if any of this shit matters anymore

To reiterate one of my academic themes for 2025: It’s a real problem that students feel incapable of operating without genAI, particularly given that they do worse with it. I don’t care if slackers slack, but if insecurity x manipulation shields well-meaning students from their education, I care.

Also for the international crowd: #Instagram censors “Democrat” as a search term, while allowing “Republican” and seems to prioritize anti-leftwing content in search queries for alternative search terms. #DSA

Apropos of nothing

Without downloading any new pics what’s your energy going into 2025

If you read only one newsletter about the best coding language for data journalism, choose wisely

⚠️ Six-year position at our department - work in lovely Vienna with a friendly team, 2 classes a term, and follow/develop your own research agenda. Feel free to ask me questions you might have. Deadline 24/01/25 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Made whole day available for student office hours - and already two of them just did not show up. Not only a waste of my time, but also inconsiderate towards other students who did not get a slot this week. Beyond pointing this out to students (which I already do) not sure what to do about this?

Wie verändert die #AfD die #Kommunalpolitik schon jetzt? Wie inszeniert sie sich als "Kümmerer" und beschädigt zugleich die politische Arbeit und Debattenkultur? 🐑🐺 Darüber habe ich mit @benjaminhoehne.bsky.social für den @verfassungsblog.de geschrieben. 👉 verfassungsblog.de/kummern-und-...

As most people know, there is a strong sense of Bavarian regionalism in Germany. But did you know that Bavaria itself has its very own regionalisms?

Asian people and Black people can both face dehumanization in the US, but the type differs: Asian = machine, Black = animal osf.io/preprints/ps... psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-... #prejudice #socpsych #polpsych #psyscisky

Does anyone know where I can find a dataset of official language by iso3 code?

There are few better feelings than when former students go off and do great things, and then write to you and let you know about them. Students: never wonder if you should get in touch with a former teacher or supervisor to share this kind of thing. It is one of the purest rewards there is. /1

Unexpected experience with severe culture shock: Comparing Kale recipes from the English world (Kale Chips, Kale Salad, Steamed Kale etc.) with German ones (Grünkohl with meat, Grünkohl with bacon and more meat, Grünkohl with sausage and lard etc.).

I do not want to live in interesting times - I just want to sit here and write my code.

University of Münster in Germany is seeking a unlimited Postdoc (teaching) position in Sociology. Might be interesting for some who want to focus on teaching entirely stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/8...

Data Viz Question: I am trying to visualize relative references in speeches between entities (here German federal states referencing one another). Problem is that scales of reference are very different, so heatmaps look a bit funny. Anyone have a suggestion on alternatives/ adjustments? Draft below.