Rubio: "It's just not the kind of mission that you can pre-notify Congress about because it endangers the mission." Informing oil companies apparently does not endanger the mission....

You know you are in Germany when...

🎓Funded PhD Alert🎓 AMAZING #Interdisciplinary #MixedMethods Opportunity Exploring Victimhood Identities & Radicalisation in Europe. Work With Myself #TerezaCapelos & #MikkoSalmela on Extremism, Hate Speech and Polarisation. Please Share Widely 👇👇 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

How are anti-immigration narratives and anti-gender discourse connected in voting behaviour? Some insights in the final podcast of our PushBackLash project. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6cJ...

You want to know more about the GLES? Here it is! www.gesis.org/en/gles/over...

This is a fantastic dataset for studying the evolution of political attitudes and party preferences in Germany. Here's a mosaic plot of vote choices in 2025 by vote choices in 2021 (as reported back then). One striking observation is the high volatility behind the overall gains of the Left Party.

A desperately needed paper on the power of fossil capital to repress civil liberties around the world.

This is a brilliant piece on the restructuring of political competition in Western Europe and goes far beyond the question of populism. Great also for teaching.

Let's try to do that with our datasets next year @gesis.org, yes? 😅

If you do not have to go, you do not go.

A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today. 🧵 www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Keynote by Prof. Monika Kuffer (Twente) on the importance of earth observation in the Social Sciences

Linking different sensor data to track conflict lines by Sebastian Schutte (PRIO) in our Earth Observation Data in the Social Sciences workshop @gesis.org

Our first keynote at the EOSS Workshop @gesis.org by Hannes Taubenböck was truly inspiring.

To anyone who ever worked with municipality level data: this is the gif from hell...Just one needle in your stomach after another...

Registration for the ISSP user conference (online) on Nov. 24th is still open! If you are interested in international health (care) attitude research, check here: issp.org/about-issp/i... #socialresearch #healthcare #internationalsurveys #ISSP

Please share! Top Gelegenheit Erfahrungen im Maschinenraum der Sozialforschung zu sammeln.

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In this last episode on the "Man Up: Conversations on Gendered Hate in the Digital Age" podcast, we focus on the topic of exposure to online hate and how parents, educators and administrators can respond. Produced by Long Story Short and hosted by @milleridriss.bsky.social. Listen Here:

Alarming news/perspective for many social scientists here.

New publication!📢 @jvanslageren.bsky.social and I study political socialization during adolescence in urban and rural areas, using data from @adkspanel.bsky.social Discussing politics with parents and peers is positively related to multiculturalist attitudes in cities, but not in rural places (1/3)

(1/10) 🚨Preprint alert!🚨 In this article, I challenge claims of a generational rise of conservative men. In the media and recent academic publications, the so-called ‘youth gender gap’ has been interpreted as a generational phenomenon. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

See here for the full article Operationalising masculinities in theories and practices of gender-transformative health interventions: a scoping review doi.org/10.1186/s12939-023-01955-x

"The most common response among men aged 18-25, as with their female peers, is to state that they would never consider voting for Reform." Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte & Emilia Belknap argue that most British young men reject the right https://ukandeu.ac.uk/most-british-young-men-reject-the-far-right/

We are in Bergamo with the @men4dem.bsky.social Horizon Europe project, discussing democratic masculinities and their impact on the well-functioning of democracy. How men's perceptions of themselves and their roles in society influence the quality of democracy for everyone.

Educational gap and pay gap in Europe.

Coole Sachen mit dem Allbus. www.gesis.org/en/allbus

"gentrification looks like integration in the data" New ways to look into segregation.

Please repost: We're looking for an excellent writer/editor with strong data journalism skills to join the religion team at @pewresearch.org. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...

Interesting findings and best practices on annotation with LLMs.

Why do rustbelts vote radical right? Studying the German Ruhr area, @nilsblossey.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social and I show: it’s not just about deindustrialization, but also about the original industrialization. Where coal is buried deeper and mining started later, the AfD is stronger today 1/12

Lea Heyne, @rosanavarrete.bsky.social, @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social examine how party conflict and EU politicisation influence public attitudes, finding a negative link between EU polarisation and membership support. In @sespjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social. It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼💰👩‍💼 are by studying many local labour markets. Thread 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I am not sure about how can show that observational regression is often not causal (except that it seems plausible once knows more about causal modeling). Given that, the causal quartet may help: doi.org/10.1080/2693... Or simply the www.tylervigen.com charts?

This is the "leader of the free world".

A special day for @gesis.org today. We gather to exchange ideas, present our own research, and discuss next steps. GESIS research day, here we come!

@dpzollinger.bsky.social and I are thrilled "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies" is out as an SI at @wepsocial.bsky.social! Its papers explore the foundations of the cleavage pitting new left against radical right parties, and how it compares to the classic cleavages of Lipset & Rokkan: 🧵⬇️

Nice chart from @ourworldindata.org showing the contrast between what Americans die of (heart disease and cancer) v what the US media reports on (homicide and terrorism). This naturally leads to it being trickier to build a fact based world view ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

Great paper on the state of political science osf.io/preprints/os... by @guygrossman.bsky.social et. al. We have become more diverse, more quantitative, and more collaborative.

I am preparing for my second year class on the German election 2025. What elements of the literature would you include? Any cool new literature that I might have missed on voting behaviour in Germany?

Discover how the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) is partnering with #C3S to address climate uncertainty in European energy systems. By integrating #C3S data into its grid planning, ENTSO-E is helping ensure a secure, resilient energy future for Europe.

Now now, how to hack the article review, if Reviewer 2 is lazy and using AI to draft the review text.... asia.nikkei.com/business/tec...

The relationship between income and vote has reversed in the USA.

📢 We're hiring a Doctoral Student in Research Software Engineering for Digital Behavioral Data! Work at the intersection of computer science and social science, develop innovative tools, and pursue your doctoral degree with us. 👉 Apply here: www.gesis.org/en/institute...

CSS is still a young field and has a great potential and enthusiasm!

MEDem conference day 1: @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social gave an amazing keynote on data and their impact on the future steps of democracy research @gesis.org in Cologne @medem.bsky.social

MEDem conference day 1: fantastic keynote speech by @sldelange.bsky.social on the future of democracy research. @gesis.org @medem.bsky.social

Day 2 of the @medem.bsky.social conference, @sziaja.bsky.social presenting our HarDIS/PartyFacts project to make linking on the basis of Party IDs future proof.

They say: once there’s a paper 📝, it’s real… 🎉 #MEDem in #EPS @ecpr.bsky.social The paper outlines how MEDem will strengthen #OpenScience by making data #FAIR in #DemocracyResearch – and how scholars across Europe are joining forces to build a truly open #ResearchInfrastructure ⚙️

This new study shows: in Germany, it has become much harder for children to earn more than their parents, now about as hard as in the US: "parental income has become much more important for educational outcomes of children"