Please sign this petition. #UnisRetten Often we hear “education is a key investment in the future”. Yet the federal government is planning major cuts to universities. These cuts would put research and teaching at risk – and, ultimately, undermine our shared future. mein.aufstehn.at/petitions/un...

#UnisRetten #zukunft-kann-man-nicht-einsparen #uni-super-gau #uni-kürzung

Budget - Unis rufen zu Demos gegen Kürzungen auf 📅 Mittwoch, 27. Mai 2027 um 13.00 🏛️ Start am Ring vor dem Hauptgebäude der Uni Wien www.univie.ac.at/aktuelles/pr...

Now it’s official official 😮🤩 Happy to be staying at @stawi-univie.bsky.social, only in a new role 🥳

🚨 I'm recruiting a PhD student for a new project on Parties' social group ownership, based in the @vd-researchgroup.bsky.social research group at KU Leuven! Deadline for applying is 26 June, estimated starting date is 1 Oct 2026. All info is here 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Share widely!

Congratulations to the brilliant @martav.bsky.social for a stellar PhD & defense! 🎉 Serving on PhD committees and getting to read all this new & exciting work is one of the best parts of our job. 🙃

Luckily, I already landed my dream first post-defense job 🥹✨ But I’m always open to talk invites, collabs, or just brainstorming ideas and projects 🙈 😉 Thanks Ben! 🥹

Congratulations! 🎉🎓 Yesterday, PhD candidate in the @authlibeu.bsky.social project @martav.bsky.social successully defended her thesis "Democracy's Conditional Guardians: How Citizens Understand Democracy and Respond to Its Erosion" #phdone

Soo, since yesterday I am officially PhDone! 😮🎓✨🥂 I’m incredibly grateful to my supervisors Sylvia Kritzinger & @markuswagner.bsky.social for their guidance & support in this journey, and to my wonderful committee @gessler.bsky.social & @chrisclaassen.bsky.social for the thoughtful discussion. 1/2

"Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections." (@adamprz.bsky.app) Sometimes that's even true for non-democracies. #Hungary

Reuters says Tisza has at least 135 seats: 133 is the constitutional supermajority! Live by highly disproportional electoral systems (which Orbán made even more disproportional with the extra compensation votes awarded to winners), die by highly disproportional electoral systems.

Tisza pulling off a win is a big deal, not just domestically, but as a potential playbook for reversing democratic backsliding in the region. Orbán conceding and congratulating them is just as monumental (feels strange to say, but here we are). www.bbc.com/news/live/c2...

Keeping this for the future: Orbán on TV saying that the election results are painful but clear. This feels momentous. #Hungary

I’d especially like to encourage women to apply. We’re a fantastic department with excellent scholars, in beautiful Vienna. Data shows that women are less likely to apply for positions than equally qualified men (Muriel Niederle & Lise Vesterlund 2011), so if you’re considering it, please go for it!

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 We have an opening for a 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 @stawi-univie.bsky.social starting Aug/Sep 2026! Focus: political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields 📅Apply by 29 April 2026 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

🌍📊 From survey data quality to research infrastructures: The #CSDIWorkshop 2026 in Vienna brought together researchers and practitioners to discuss current challenges and innovations in comparative survey design and implementation. Read more in our latest #MEDemBlog: www.medem.eu/csdi-worksho...

I've been asked over the last few days/weeks what I think will happen on April 12th in Orbán's 🇭🇺 (and the aftermath), so here's my assessment, looking at everything as it stands now 🧵 tldr: It's complicated, and no one really knows (and those who say they do are either lying or overly confident) 1/

Darf eine demokratische Mehrheit alles entscheiden? Oder gibt es Grenzen, die selbst eine Mehrheit nicht überschreiten darf? Das Verhältnis zwischen #Demokratie und #Menschenrechten ist nicht immer konfliktfrei. 💭 "Wohin steuert die Demokratie?" 🎮 #semesterfrage Diskutiere mit im @derstandard.at ⤵️

Want to know all the details? Read the full paper by Marvin Stecker, @martav.bsky.social, Sylvia Kritzinger, and @hajoboo.bsky.social here: www.authlib.eu/country-pape...

New blog post ✒️ What is the state of Austrian democracy and how has the FPÖ reshaped the country’s political landscape? Find out more about Austria’s democratic challenge in our blogpost on a recent publication by @authlibeu.bsky.social staatswissenschaft.univie.ac.at/news-detaila...

EPSS Travel Grants for 2026 Belfast conference: PhD students & junior scholars @ institutions in European countries that are often underrepresented, can apply for full fee waiver & £500 stipend Apply: lnkd.in/ehXjhCgf Deadline: March 8, 11:59pm GMT. More details: lnkd.in/eZTP5sWR

I know the AI hype can drive anxiety about academic productivity, but please remember that an additional paper can have negative returns to both society and your reputation.

Bad Bunny: TOGETHER WE ARE AMERICA

What a moment.

#DemocraticBacksliding: The erosion of US democracy under Trump is steeper than any recent precedent, including Hungary, Venezuela, Turkey, R//ZZ.l'a/nd Source: Financial Times @jburnmurdoch.ft.com www.ft.com/content/b474...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

Marta Vuković @martav.bsky.social @univie.ac.at shared insights from her work with Sylvia Kritzinger on how justifications shape citizens' support for party ban and ultimately for militant democracy.

📊 AUTHLIB has extensively studied voters' attitude to explore the societal base of illiberalism and their support for democracy. The presentations at our concluding conference show the many issues that can be studied through the data collected in the AUTHLIB project.

We (@stawi-univie.bsky.social) are hiring a PhD researcher: - focus: representation, party competition, pol behavior, pol institutions, pol econ, or related - 4 years, starting 1 Oct 26 - 30h/week, incl some teaching - deadline: 28 Jan 26 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

And more job opportunities: @univie.ac.at aims to fill 40 (!) doctoral positions in the social sciences, humanities and cultural studies careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...

If you are in Budapest next week, don't miss our concluding conference! Register by January 4 and join us!

Our 32-country conjoint study on which societal characteristics citizens prioritize is now published at @bjpols.bsky.social w. excellent @anjaneundorf.bsky.social @sirianned.bsky.social @aykutozturk.bsky.social

📣 AUTHLIB Final Conference 🗺️ Mapping the Illiberal Challenge: Patterns, Drivers, Consequences 📅 Jan 8–9, 2026 📍 @weareceu.bsky.social, Budapest Two days on illiberalism, democracy & democratic responses. 👉 Register today to secure your spot: www.authlib.eu/authlib-fina...

🚨 New in Nature+Science!🚨 AI chatbots can shift voter attitudes on candidates & policies, often by 10+pp 🔹Exps in US Canada Poland & UK 🔹More “facts”→more persuasion (not psych tricks) 🔹Increasing persuasiveness reduces "fact" accuracy 🔹Right-leaning bots=more inaccurate

What happens when a minority decides for the majority? On Sunday, Swiss citizens head to the polls again. But Switzerland remains one of the most exclusionary democracies in the OECD. In highly cosmopolitan places like Basel-Stadt, only 50.5% of all residents were entitled to vote (as of 2024)

"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people," Westwood said in a press release. "With survey data tainted by bots, AI can poison the entire knowledge ecosystem.” www.404media.co/a-researcher...

A reminder of the day: “I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.” Toni Morrison

🚨New paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1350... @manuelwagner.bsky.social & I re-conceptualize class representation to take into account social mobility between classes and variation in how individuals enter politics.

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” RIP Jane Goodall

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

New publication with @kgattermann.bsky.social : “Does media framing of election results affect whether voters perceive parties as election winners or losers?” @polstudies.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0032... A short 🧵:

🎉🎉🎉 Extremely proud of @manuelwagner.bsky.social who yesterday defended his excellent PhD thesis on the political representation of the working class. Big thanks to co-supervisor Nick Carnes & committee members @noamlupu.bsky.social, @denisetraber.bsky.social & @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social)!

We have a JOP article about how swifties ~randomly denied tickets to the eras tour due to website allocation errors changed their views on related policies www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

I think you should be able to say things the president doesn’t like and still be a citizen. Maybe we should write that down somewhere.

‪European Federation of Journalists (EFJ)‬ #Serbia: We urge the EU to respond to the ongoing repression of journalists, students and civil societies, also being perpetrated by state representatives and law enforcement officers. Absolute indifference must stop. The EU must take action.

I can only echo this - very excited to finally see this out in print! For anyone interested in (citizens' meanings of) voting, political participation, and the use of open-ended questions in public opinion research across countries 💡

In every writing process, there’s a time when nothing works. When everything looks like a mess: No argument, no structure, no nothing. If that’s where you’re, congratulations! You’re doing it right. 👉 My latest Respect the Marble post: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/your-first... 🧵

Doing important things at @epsanet.bsky.social …like locating the one veg canapé at the reception 👀 @stawi-univie.bsky.social @bseisl.bsky.social @mkaltenegger.bsky.social @alexanderdalheimer.bsky.social @marvins.bsky.social @elenaheinz.bsky.social @mascakir.bsky.social @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵