Poland never wants to be invaded by Russia again, so it has built the biggest army of any EU country. But as Putin knows, it has a different vulnerability: its split and distrustful society. That's where he's striking. Me @financialtimes.com after my recent visit to Poland on.ft.com/3IrSfC8

In den Niederlanden gab es am Wochenende rechtsextreme Ausschreitungen. In den 4 größten Ländern Europas führen rechtsradikale Parteien in den Umfragen. Ich verstehe den Fokus auf das Spektakel, aber der Dauerfokus auf Trump, Kimmel, Kirk scheint mir stark zu vernachlässigen was in Europa passiert.

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

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

Years ago, investigative journalists documented that the #AfD parliamentary party employed over a hundred staffers with ties to well-known right-wing extremist organisations. Only now are some of them having their parliamentary accreditation withdrawn #Germany #farright

Such an important tool! @veralomazzi.bsky.social

The US right is doing everything they warned a left-wing government would do

TikTok-Übernahme vollendet die mediale Gleichschaltung der USA. digitalpolitik.ghost.io/tiktok-ubern...

More evidence (if you need it) that the world cannot afford billionaires 👇

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

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

As someone who spent some time at the Cologne Center for Comparative Politics, I can just say that this used to be a great place educating many excellent scholars. It will be a great loss to see polsci in Cologne defunded. Sign 👇

It’s striking how much these patterns are similar across many European counties (both the center left one and the radical right one). And yet there’s much work to be done in shifting the discourse from competing narratives that have little empirical backing.

#DataCuration #DataQuality Out now: Insa Bechert, Kerstin Beck, and Ivet Solanes Ros: Caring for Data’s Soul –The Development of a Curation Impact Factor to Pinpoint the Effects of Data Curation Activities on Data Quality: ijdc.net/index.php/i...#DataCuration#DataQuality

Auflösung: März/April 2025: 45% sehr/eher positiv 51% sehr/eher negativ 4% weiß nicht/keine Angabe

Nice! Now ICE can put that spyware on your phone when they take it from you to check your social media posts upon entering the U.S.

It's as blunt as it can be: the FTC simply writes to big US tech companies that they should not comply with the EU's Digital Services Act #DSA The 'censorship', 'freedom of speech', and 'safety of US citizens' language are tired arguments. www.wired.com/story/big-te...

New publication: the 2024 European parliamentary elections in #Germany and 26 other EU member states. A lot of #populism - and all Open Access!

Surveying emigrants worldwide–using Facebook and Instagram to recruit respondents in cross-national (e)migration research by Pötzschke & Weiß: doi.org/10.1186/s408... Social Networking Sites provide an opportunity for the recruitment of certain hard-to-reach populations in almost all countries.

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

Final release ISSP Data on Family and Changing Gender Roles The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) has conducted a survey that sheds light on attitudes, opinions, and behavior related to Family and Changing Gender Roles across six continents. The release contains data from 32 countries.

I was invited by a British medium outlet to comment on the Reform UK publicity stunt, which continues to be willfully promoted by most British media. My response: "As I think the UK would be a much better place if the media would talk less rather than more about Reform UK, I’m going to pass."

Es wird noch absurder. Die USA überlegen Sanktionen gegen die EU und Mitgliedsstaaten, wenn der DSA durchgesetzt wird. Viel Spaß mit Euren Microsoft-Infrastrukturen, die dann so abgeschaltet werden können wie beim Chefankläger des Internationalen Gerichtshofes. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

Kulturkampf von rechts gehört ausgetragen? Wer das fordert, überschätzt die Ernsthaftigkeit seiner Verursacher. Was sich als Debatte tarnt, ist in Wahrheit substanzlos und Teil der rechtspopulistischen Strategie. @zeit.de www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-...

A key sentence here seems to be: The deal could “give OpenAI access to government data” 👀 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is getting very bad: *FBI raids top Trump critic's home *Trump loyalist gins up "mortgage fraud" pretexts for DOJ probes of Schiff, Letitia James, Lisa Cook *Bannon says ICE will monitor 2026 voting *DHS memo vows LA operations "for years to come" New from me: newrepublic.com/article/1994...

We are delighted that the new “Hightech Agenda Deutschland” by the #BMFTR recognizes the importance of strengthening data infrastructures in the social sciences and humanities – and explicitly mentions #MEDem. ⚙️📊 Full source here: www.bmftr.bund.de/SharedDocs/P...

#ISSP_research Leite et al. (2023) use ISSP #religion data to evaluate the measurement invariance of religious practice & religious beliefs across six world regions. doi.org/10.1177/0084... Interested in this module? The ISSP cumulative #religion (1991-2018) available www.gesis.org/en/issp/data...

#Covid and the war against facts

This. Vance wasn’t here for a holiday.

New paper from my team (Insa Bechert, Kerstin Beck, Ivet Solanes Ros), about how we in the Social Science data archives try not to mess up the data you deposit... It turns out it is (surprisingly?) difficult to assess the success of such quality assurance work. ijdc.net/index.php/ij...

The CHES EU team has published a new research note in @electoralstudies.bsky.social describing some trends across the 25 years now covered by our trend file and exploring two new items included in the 2024 wave of the survey: doi.org/10.1016/j.el... Here’s a summary thread: 1/

Our short article pairs nicely with @sarahobolt.bsky.social et al’s introductory essay for the @jeppjournal.bsky.social special issue on the 2024 EP elections: doi.org/10.1080/1350... And, as in previous waves, our teams have coordinated on question wording to facilitate party-voter comparison 6/

#internationalyouthday Our data show that #youth remain optimistic. More data on opinions and attitudes can be found in our data archive: tinyurl.com/4zryvwxp

Eine wirklich außerordentlich erhellende Studie von @dianebolet.bsky.social und @florianfoos.bsky.social, die zeigt, wie Sichtbarkeit von extrem rechten Politiker*innen in Interviews wirkt und dass die Kritik, so etwas normalisiere deren Positionen, eine sachliche Grundlage hat.

One day, two German headlines: 1) Police raid manor of local #AfD politician to seize weapons & explosives; 2) #AfD surpasses Christian Democrats in new opinion poll

🚨 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...

Statement of @isa-rc28.bsky.social on the decision of @isa-sociology.org to suspend the Israeli Sociological Association

🚨New article with Reiner Mauer in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social This might be for you if you collect or use digital trace/behavioral data (e.g. social media data) and want to share it! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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...

Schüler*innen in Schulen, Menschen in Ländern, Antworten über die Zeit – genestete Daten sind überall. Lerne, sie korrekt mit Mehrebenenanalyse in deiner bevorzugten Software (Stata oder R) zu modellieren – in unserem #GESISworkshop! ➡️ tinyurl.com/09-25-Mehreb...

Die Reaktionen auf die Störung von Weidels #Sommerinterview zeigen, was von der bürgerlichen Mitte zu erwarten ist: eine Mischung aus Feigheit, Naivität & Anstandsglauben, die einem den Atem nimmt. Die #AfD will das System abschaffen. & die Leute so: Demokratie heißt, den anderen ausreden zu lassen.

“We are expected to be moral without being political, inclusive yet not ideological. We should teach critical thinking, but not too much in case we fall into wokery. The classroom is in danger of becoming a minefield.” Heartbreaking letter by anonymous (!) teacher that will resonate with many.

Ein Faktencheck am Bildschirmrand wird auch überlesen. Am Besten man unterbricht die Sendung an jedem Punkt und stellt die Fakten live dem Gesagten gegenüber und gibt der interviewten Person Gelegenheit dazu Stellung zu nehmen. Vermutlich würde eine Weidel dann zu keinem Interview mehr kommen.

#stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy 🚀 #Job Opening at GESIS! We're hiring a Senior Researcher for International Electoral Research (#PostDoc) in #Cologne. Join our Survey Data Curation team and contribute to global electoral studies. 📅 Apply by August 15th, 2025: www.gesis.org/en/ins...

Exceptionally long, but familiarly pompous and uniformed, puff piece on the “good” nativism of Mette Frederiksen in Denmark. Completely ignores most basic data and, of course, any academic research. Some quick points 🧵

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...