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"

The nordic paradox has puzzled sociologists when looking at gender equality. Well, it was a methodological artefact due to low data quality and bad modelling. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Today in Salzburg we are presenting our results from the EU funded Push*Back*Lash on gender equality and democracy. Results will be included in the upcoming recommendations of the EU on gender equality and the European Democracy Shield.

Are you linking different data types to test your hypotheses? Thus is your ecpr network. Join us!

This government is demonising women for their choices during pregnancy. It is telling them they should toughen up, otherwise they would cause autism to their children. And they do this without ANY SCIENTIFIC BACKING. Because they are just women. Who cares.

Coming up on Monday the @medem.bsky.social conference at @gesis.org in Cologne. Stay tuned for the future of democracy research infrastructures www.medem.eu/coming-up-th... Keynotes from @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social and @sldelange.bsky.social

🕒 Deadline: This Friday! Our call for a W3 Professor in Political Science (focus International Sustainability) **We have a broad reading of the topics being covered by this professorship.** Apply!

The first picture is from the original account of the White House. The second one is history.

Brilliant idea!

Winter is coming. When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives.

AI forces existential questions upon us... "Have I actually written this"?

Ratswahl #Köln, wie aus dem Bilderbuch #KommunalwahlNRW (Stärkste, 2.stärkste, Briefwahl) @hudde.bsky.social

⏰ Only one week to go until our Working with Reddit data workshop! This free workshop will introduce natural language processing and sentiment analysis using Reddit as a case study. 📅 22 September 2025 ⏰ 13:00-15:00 📍 Online 🔗 ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/worki...

Here is the bubble I live in. The results of local elections in the city of Cologne, and a zoom in on my neighbourhood #Cologne Ehrenfeld, a place with a higher immigrant citizen share.

New publication in @wepsocial.bsky.social! Are young men becoming more conservative? This debate requires a) more nuance and b) theoretical explanations for often descriptive results. With Amy Alexander and Nicholas Charron, we try addressing both. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In case you are wondering what is happening in the USA and who has started the rhetoric on civil war: “Charlie Kirk is a casualty of war.” (Steve Bannon) "If they won’t leave us in peace, then our choice is fight or die" (Elon Musk).

This is a great example of how the use of innovative data can bring us a step further with old research questions

The best news commentary I saw today.

A textbook case of how not to report polls. '50%? Oh my god!' 'Oh, you mean a 9-point increase'?

A reminder of how COVID19 still rocks our world through science scepticism that came with it: www.statnews.com/2025/09/06/c...

Totalitarianism is basically what you get when one person takes losing way too personally.

From SIX years ago… insane that so many on the “center left” still don’t get the point. There is now so much solid empirical research available too.

Cologne is a city in NRW. And yet... What can we expect from the local and regional elections coming up?

It was great being in Thessaloniki at the ECPR sessions hosted by @ecprpovb.bsky.social Thank you @andreadis.bsky.social for the hospitality!

Are you a student in Cologne or near by? Here are some great opportunities to support our computational social science team: [SHK GESIS AppKit (Kennziffer SHK-CSS-32)] www.gesis.org/institut/kar... [SHK GESIS Web Tracking (Kennziffer SHK-CSS-33)] www.gesis.org/institut/kar...

Eine Kollaboration von @prif.org und @gesis.org zum Thema Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik.

Meinungsumfragen zu Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik werden häufig zitiert. Doch was muss man beachten, wen man sie liest? Neues PRIF Spotlight von @sarahbrockmeier.bsky.social, Christina Eder, @jedinger.bsky.social, @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social‬ & @leonkrause.bsky.social blog.prif.org/2025/08/15/s...

Warming up for #ecprgc2025 in Thessaloniki. Cold coffee, hot breeze, and interesting art.

I might have had a hand in this 💪 After a long journey, my lobbying for democracy research has made its way to the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology & Space — and the timing couldn’t be more perfect.🚀

So viele Menschen auf Fahrrädern hat Köln noch nie gesehen. Kleine und große Radfahrende aus 21 Veedeln. Von 0 bis 99 – wir radeln gemeinsam über die großen Straßen von Köln. Denn: Straßen sind für alle da! #KidicalMass 🥳21.9.2025 Alle Infos und Startorte hier kidicalmasskoeln.org/kidical-mass...

Politically irrelevant German FDP targets our most basic instincts. The need to park freely anywhere we want. Make your cities wild again.

Last day, everyone!

Really? I mean, really?

If you have any questions for this post, @markusquandt.bsky.social and myself are happy to respond.

Job offer: You love international electoral studies? If you'd like to lead the CSES data processing team at GESIS in Cologne, Germany, and be part of the CSES Secretariat, apply here before August 15th: www.gesis.org/en/institute...

🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website! Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14

Make America Sick Again: Apparently science on the impact of saturated fats on heart disease stopped in the 1970s and was all wrong anyway. Go eat your Big Mac and deep fried onion rings without a second thought.

Short piece about our @nature.com paper on the immigrant-native pay gap in The Conversation! Also broad coverage in (so far) German, Dutch, and Spanish central news outlets today!

🎤 Powerful keynote by @milleridriss.bsky.social from @perilresearch.bsky.social at the #iRex Institute opening in Tübingen. Miller-Idriss exposed how antidemocratic movements exploit gender to polarize, elevate “strong men,” and sell a fantasy of male supremacy. Research we urgently need right now!

The history of data infrastructures go back a full century! History lessons at #ESRA conference. 🌍

🚨 We're hiring! Join our CSES Team @gesis.org Cologne as a Senior Researcher. If you’re into comparative electoral research and love diving into data, this is your moment. Come shape global democracy with us! 🌍📊 www.gesis.org/en/institute...

If #ESRA then have a stob by the @gesis.org stand. See you there!

We invite paper submissions to our workshop on Earth Observation Data in the Social Sciences @gesis.org ⏳November 26-28, 2025 🎓Keynotes Prof. Dr. Monika Kuffer (University of Twente) Dr. Ana Andries (University of Surrey). ⏱️Deadline August 6th ✉️abstracts (max. 500 words) to [email protected]

Final statement: "Descriptive research is important and it is a pity that the general obsession with causal estimates disincentivizes researchers from attempting to publish careful and detailed description." Thank you.

#Forschungsinfrastruktur #mitGESISindieZukunft GESIS ist mit dem Konzept #RIDLOP auf der Shortlist für das nationale Priorisierungsverfahren für Forschungsinfrastrukturen! Ziel: Datenzugang zu großen Online-Plattformen für die Wissenschaft ermöglichen. Mehr zum Projekt: www.gesis.org/ridlop#Forschungsinfrastruktur#mitGESISindieZukunft