Allow me to translate: “it’s okay to kill these people because they’re queers”

📄 New paper out in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social with my amazing co-author @plutscher.bsky.social ! 💡 Ever wondered if authoritarian strongman messaging also works in democracies? We find that, yes, it did under Trump during the BLM protests in the U.S. in 2020. polisky csssky socsky commsky

Fear, anger, and populism on Twitter/X 😡 Using machine learning on 1M UK tweets, @giulianoformisano.bsky.social, Jörg Friedrichs, Florian S. Schaffner & Niklas Stoehr seperate #Populist from #Governmentalist rhetoric and track how emotions drive #PoliticalCommunication

🚨 Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion (2 years) We’re hiring a 100% Postdoc at the University of Greifswald. ✨ What makes this job special: Two full years to focus on research (no teaching, no admin overload) embedded into an International Research Training Group

🚨Publication Alert! My first first-author publication with @msaeltzer.bsky.social and @pluggedchris.bsky.social is out in @polbehavior.bsky.social, which began as my bachelor's thesis. We study how party polarization shapes affective polarization—with a particularly important role of the AfD. (1/7)🧵

🔔Job Alert 🔔 Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?” We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!

Excited to be back at my alma mater, the University of Zurich, for the Digital Democracy Workshop! Looking forward to two days of interesting presentations, reconnecting with familiar faces, and meeting new ones. Thank you very much for hosting me @karstendonnay.bsky.social over the week!

Ich kotze. „Fragen Sie mal Ihre Töchter“, entgegnet Merz einen Journalisten, der nachfragt, ob eine Entschuldigung angemessen wäre. Zur Erinnerung: Junge Frauen haben die CDU kaum gewählt. Die Merz-Regierung macht keinerlei Gleichstellungspolitik. Aber Frauen für Rassismus instrumentalisieren.

🚀Two post-doc positions at my institute! If you have any questions about our institute or Oldenburg, please feel free to reach out!

New publication out in #IJPP! 📑 We study how audience expectations of journalism 📰 shifted during COVID-19 in Austria 🇦🇹 – showing both short-term rally effects & longer-term recalibration 🔄. Led by @clmron.bsky.social & @danielwiesner.bsky.social , w/ @andreasriedl.bsky.social & me. 1/n

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

📢 Neue Publikation Mit @sarahdingler.bsky.social und @corinnakroeber.bsky.social habe ich für die Zeitschrift des @juristinnenbund.bsky.social den Beitrag „Wahlsystem und Wahlrecht – Barrieren und Lösungsansätze für die Wahl von Frauen“ verfasst. Hier gehts zum Heft: www.djb.de/zeitschrift/...

Some personal news! 📰 I am very excited to share that I have started a new PhD position with the fantastic @msaeltzer.bsky.social at the University of Oldenburg. I will be working alongside the amazing @alonadolinsky.com and @klingelt.bsky.social in their new CONSTRUCT project. 🧵

💥 Update! 💥 This paper is now officially published in Volume 30, Issue 4 of The International Journal of Press/Politics! 🗳️ Experimental evidence that voters prefer moderately tailored messages - highly tailored ones can backfire & targeting can be too much: doi.org/10.1177/1940... #IJPP

Interested in gender & politics and working with exciting empirical methods? Want to critically discuss “quant” and “quali” research on gender, intersectionality & inequality? Join us at #ECPG26 for the section: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... 1/3

💥Online first: "The sound of party competition: how applause reflects unity, disagreement, and the electoral cycle in parliaments" by @ankuepfer.bsky.social @jocmuel.bsky.social & @pluggedchris.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140...

I feel overwhelmed and incredibly honoured to announce that I have been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant for my project “VisibleQueers”, fully titled as “Making the Queers Visible: Partisanship and Support among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Eastern and Western Europe”. #ERCStG

📣 Postdoc (75 %, 3 yrs) at @unigreifswald.bsky.social — start autumn 2025 on perhaps Germany’s most beautiful campus. Know someone with a PhD (or nearly done) in Political Science? ⬇️ #PolSci #Postdoc

3. When citizens are asked to recall a situation of politics, what do they think of, how did that situation feel, and how did it change their engagement in politcs? (w @dpltr22.bsky.social + @chriswratil.bsky.social) SUN, 3:55 - 5:10, RB 209 Also, please send running routes for Prague! 🏁

🚨 My first publication, co-authored with Sylvia Kritzinger & Susanna Bastaroli, is out! In our chapter, we explore how Italians re-elaborate their country’s role in the WWII & the Holocaust. Available online & in print (EN): www.wallstein-verlag.de/978383535866... 🧵 Some key findings: 👇

Huge thanks to everyone who made this conference possible! It’s been such a special experience — and there’s something extra nice about attending a conference at your own home institution. :)

Thank you, #COMPTEXT2025! ❤️ It was amazing to see familiar faces, meet new ones, and have so many insightful conversations and discussions. Thank you for the great feedback and inspiring presentations! I'm excited about where the field of computational social science is heading!

New paper with @ankuepfer.bsky.social accepted at EJPR🎉 When do MPs debate each other & when do they avoid discourse? Applying a new framework to study the emergence of elite discourse, we find that ideology and gov/opp dynamics shape MPs incentives to seek & avoid dialogical interactions. #polisky

🚨 Open Position at the University of Vienna 🚨 University Assistant (Postdoc) 📅 Start: June 1, 2025 ⏳ Duration: 6 years (fixed-term) 💼 Focus: Political representation, party competition, institutions, & behavior 📌 Deadline: Jan 24, 2025 Join us! 🇦🇹 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Big name in climate/ecology leaving ETH Zurich after allegations: www.tagesanzeiger.ch/klimaforsche... and www.tagesanzeiger.ch/eth-hochschu... (in german)

🚨There is a new 6-year Postdoc Position at our Department in Vienna. German is not required. Own research & teaching. Let me know if you have questions about the Department or City!

🚨Job Alert: Postdoc in Computational Social Science Come work with us! Fantastic team, exciting department and vibrant city! If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out 😊Only 6 more days to apply!

One week left to apply! 4-year-contract at 75%, possibility to top up through teaching.

🚨 Early-career researchers: Please join us for this fantastic opportunity! If you have any questions, do not hesitate to reach out. 😊

#Polisky #polsci - Looking for a corpus of parliamentary debates in Canada. Ideal from 1990 to today. Grateful for any pointers! :)

polisky polsci - What is the best practice in bot detection nowadays when running a survey in Qualtrics?

When you use AI to generate a politician in parliament and get a George Michael Impersonator.

Join our team! 🤗 We have an amazing Postdoc position open in our project! Please feel free to reach out to me directly for any questions about our project, department, or the city of Vienna ☺️

Very happy that this is finally out! It was a pleasure working with you @corinnaoschatz.bsky.social Teresa Gil-Lopez @sebstier.bsky.social @tanjev.bsky.social on this! It was very exciting collecting all this data and seeing the project evolve over time :)

🎉New open access publication in PSRM with @msaeltzer.bsky.social 🎉 We show that Democratic candidates communicate more liberal positions during contested congressional primaries, then moderate if they lose the nomination. Republicans don't do this! doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Come and work with us in beautiful Amsterdam! We are looking for a PhD student to explore the 'Role of Social Norms in Negative Campaigning and Affective Polarization' Deadline: 10 Jan 24 Starting: Preferably April 24 All details: tinyurl.com/45ryj32t RT=🧡 @ascor.bsky.social, # commsky # polsky

Und nochmal für die deutsche Bubble: haben Wahlumfragen - genau genommen die Darstellung von "Schwankungsbreiten" - einen Einfluss auf Wahlentscheidungen von Bürger*innen? Ja, vor allem wenn die Umfrage knapp ist und Journalist*innen das auch korrekt interpretieren. 📊🗳️👇 polisky commsky polcom

New Publication in IJPOR with Ronja Demel, David Schieferdecker, @hannaschwander.bsky.social , Swen Hutter and Jule Specht Shift in Public Opinion Formations on Defense, Energy, and Migration: The Case of Russia’s War Against Ukraine academic.oup.com/ijpor/articl...

Our team at POLITICO is hiring. If you want to do fascinating research work and are looking for an amazing team (& want to enjoy Berlin summers), please consider applying and reach out ([email protected])! Equally, do get in touch if you have questions, will happily talk you into applying! ;)

This is such an amazing opportunity! @karstendonnay.bsky.social is a great supervisor who is very dedicated! I can highly recommend everybody to apply for this position. If you have any questions about working with him or the IPZ, please feel free to reach out!

Repost if you’ve participated in a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science. Let’s get #SICSS Bluesky going!

🚨🚨 Job Alert! 🚨🚨 Interested in audiovisual social media (TikTok, Insta), climate change and computational methods? My team at ZeMKI U Bremen is looking for a PhD student (TV-L 13 65%, 3y) starting January 2024. Deadline is October 6th, contact @pzerrer.bsky.social or me for questions.

@profmusgrave.bsky.social could you please add me to PoliSky?

Under a clear blue sky No mountain high enough 🎵