On Wednesday, the brilliant @krausewe.bsky.social will join us in Münster to present work w @christinagahn.bsky.social on opinion polls and elections! We are so thrilled! You can join via Zoom: uni-ms.zoom-x.de/j/62265873291 co-organized @danbischof.bsky.social + @mwegemann.bsky.social y.social

The race to churn out papers is a systemic problem. Early career scholars are desperate to get more papers to compete in the academic job market. This can make it hard for faculty mentors hard to reduce their output unless they shrink their lab (which removes opportunities from next generation).

We are hiring PhDs and postdocs to work on the ERC project GETGOV, where I am the PI. We will investigate governing elites since 1789. I am sure that it will be a lot of fun and result in great research! Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... PhDs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Write the paper you want to see in the world.

Interested early career folks here!

The book is real! To celebrate, I will give out five copies to interested early career folks. DM if you’d like one.

🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna! ⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025 wratil.eu/files/MULTIR... 1/4 🧵

This sounds so cool! Glad researchers do this ⬇️

📄 New WP version out - full overhaul! The Politics of Evidence Selection (w/ @jesperasring.bsky.social ) Comments welcome! 🔗 osf.io/preprints/so...

Delia‘s research keeps inspiring me. Look this up ⬇️⬇️

We’re looking for an RA for the MULTIREP ERC project at @univie.ac.at — working on citizens' fundamental motivations for political representation. We look for MA students with some experience and a lot of interest in surveys & experiments. Deadline is 10 Nov, 23:59pm! wratil.eu/files/Resear...

The research I discuss about turnout amongst Muslims is from work in progress lead by @gefjonoff.bsky.social. Find the pre-print here: Off, G., & van Oosten, S. (2025). Do gender patterns differ between the ethnic majority and Muslim minorities? doi.org/10.31219/osf...

✨ Academic life goal achieved: interviewed about my research for Al Jazeera! @aljazeera.com I discuss research on turnout amongst Muslims, voting for DENK and I bust the myth that Muslims vote for the PVV Watch the full item here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnqF... links to research in below 👇🧵

Dieser Text bedeutet mir sehr viel. Seit (mindestens) eineinhalb Jahren beschäftigt mich, wie das Reden über unsere psychischen Probleme auf die Psyche selber wirkt. Es ist eine wahnsinnige Errungenschaft, dass das Schweigen der "traumatisierten" Kriegsgeneration... 1/n www.zeit.de/2025/45/psyc...

Es ist problematisch, wie wenig der öffentliche Diskurs zwischen “Meinung” und “Fakten” unterscheidet. Die Wissenschaft hat keine “eindeutige Meinung” hierzu, sondern “eindeutige Fakten”, die mittlerweile auf sehr viel Evidenz beruhen. Meinungen (d.h. Bewertungen) kann man ablehnen, Fakten nicht.

Moreover, I have recently been awarded an ERC starting grant towards the project GETGOV to work further on this, so expect more data on cabinet members in the future. I am currently hiring two PhDs and two postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

📢Can free academia withstand democratic backsliding? Why some universities wither while others survive. Read the recently published article in #ISPR. Together with Katrin Kinzelbach and @silindberg.bsky.social (Open Access): doi.org/10.1177/0192...

A grim Monday in Europe: The leader of the Western world posts an AI video dumping poo on protestors, abandons 🇺🇦 yet again & funnels 💰 bn in 🗳️ support to ideological friends abroad. What is meant to breed apathy should spark resolve: We 🇪🇺 must finally act for ourselves — at a scale never seen.

🚨 New Working Paper with R.Bauböck + @sumpierrez.bsky.social We introduce the concept of incongruent suffrage. This describes when there are voting rights but no candidacy rights for a group. Or vice versa. The paper includes descriptive data & exploratory case studies. doi.org/10.33774/aps...

My department is hiring a PhD student in Political Science with an orientation towards Politics & AI. This is part of WASP-HS, an interdisciplinary research cluster on AI’s impact on people and society. Come and be my colleague! Submission date: 15 Nov. 2025 su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Didn‘t expect to be so happy and relieved about who got the Nobel Peace Prize (and who did not). @nobelprize.bsky.social

🚨We are looking for a research assistant at the masters level to help us with designing & running some surveys in the MULTIREP project. If you are based in Vienna or around, have some interest in political representation & experience with surveys, consider applying! 👇 wratil.eu/files/Resear...

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

There are many parallels between publishing papers and putting a baby asleep. An endless 🧵 1. it takes longer than you think. 2. there are strategies, but it‘s essentially trial + error. 3. don‘t let them out of your hands too early, it‘ll fail 4. you usually hear back from them sooner than hoped

Politicians don’t just care how many people hold an opinion — they care how good that opinion is. In our new (open-access) article in West European Politics, based on survey data from 900+ politicians across 11 countries, we show: quality > quantity. Read more: doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Hörtipp für den Feiertag / langes Wochenende also - Deutschlandfunk Systemfragen: Was sich an dem Streit über die nicht mehr veröffentlichten Armutszahlen übers Arm sein und über Forschung selbst lernen lässt. www.deutschlandfunk.de/arm-sein-war... 5/5

There are many parallels between publishing papers and putting a baby asleep. An endless 🧵 1. it takes longer than you think. 2. there are strategies, but it‘s essentially trial + error. 3. don‘t let them out of your hands too early, it‘ll fail 4. you usually hear back from them sooner than hoped

Are you, or do you know, someone who wants to do a PhD? Applications are open for full funding (scholarship + maintenance) @sotonpolitics.bsky.social through the @scdtp.bsky.social Get in touch if you're interested southcoastdtp.ac.uk/apply/

🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are? @simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions Thread 🧵1/10

“We argue that previous moralization explains focus groups’ perception of division as persistent and insuperable” Sounds like a great paper ⬇️ Important to move beyond elite and media causes to collective sense-making. How ppl see “the other side” is sticky- it stays and spreads

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 🧵:

We have a new paper out with @gricoc.bsky.social in @jwpp.bsky.social (this time I swear I am going to post the right link): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Do Integration Courses Influence Refugees’ Integration Trajectories? Evidence from Norway" by Jeremy Ferwerda and Henning Finseraas. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Excited to announce the publication of my article in Comparative Political Studies on how crises shape the ideological legitimation strategies of authoritarian regimes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🚨New pre-print🚨 "Do citizens’ views of democracy and its actors vary with how they feel?”, @lilymasonphd.bsky.social and I ask in a new paper. Why would they? While citizens widely endorse democracy in principle, temporary factors often shape their views. Also, work on “irrelevant events" 1/8🧵

In a moment when the narrative has swung so far to the other end, this book by Volha Charnysh is more important than ever. It shows the displacement of people historically fostered state capacity, private entrepreneurship, and long-term economic performance. www.cambridge.org/core/books/u...

🚨New pre-print🚨 "Do citizens’ views of democracy and its actors vary with how they feel?”, @lilymasonphd.bsky.social and I ask in a new paper. Why would they? While citizens widely endorse democracy in principle, temporary factors often shape their views. Also, work on “irrelevant events" 1/8🧵

OK, a🧵: Our new paper studies workers' political consciousness in times of class demobilization. We show there's more to workers' politics than right-wing resentment. Listening to workers, we reconstruct their moral critiques of money, power & recognition. Link journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

➡️📍📑 New Working Paper with @sumpierrez.bsky.social and Rainer Bauböck Work on migrant voting rights often has a state-centric perspective. We propose *migrant franchise constellations* as a migrant-centric approach. A 🧵 with our argument and new data! 🗳️ preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/...

The University of Cologne plans drastic cuts to its Political Science department, potentially abolishing the MSc in Political Science and eliminating the professorships in IR and Comparative Politics. This would severely weaken the social sciences at @unicologne.bsky.social. Petition (de/en) ⤵️

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

New ERC StG. Eternal thanks to my husband @samkschi.bsky.social, my academic friends and colleagues @comppollu.bsky.social and Gothenburg, & @lunduniversity.bsky.social research services - John Philips, Kerstin Gidlöf, and Carl Lagerqvist! This would be impossible without supportive colleagues 👇

🧪 🗳 New in Scientific Data "The #AUTNES Online Panel Study 2017–2024: A Dataset of Austrian Voter Attitudes and Behavior” The new data descriptor offers background on study design & data quality. ➡️ doi.org/10.1038/s415... 📂 Dataset: doi.org/10.11587/HNU... #OpenScience @aussda.bsky.social

Sure, here‘s a picture of a “junior scholar looking interested and happy, expressing curiosity and opportunity.“ Do you want me to advertise his research, too?

"Where We Are: (1) Donald Trump is acting as a dictator. (2) He is fairly easily defeated time after time when people fight back. (3) Far too few people are fighting back." substack.com/home/post/p-...

Very happy and thankful that @michaelimre.bsky.social and I received some funding for our project "Gender in the Journals Revisited: A Comprehensive Look at Trends Across Five Decades" by @apsa.bsky.social!

Meet Christina Gahn and Michael Imre, 2025 Advancing Research Grants for Early Career Scholars Recipients Project Title: Gender in the Journals Revisited: A Comprehensive Look at Trends Across Five Decades Christina Gahn, University of Vienna Christina Gahn is a postdoctoral researcher in the…