🚨Job alert! 🚨 I'm advertising a PhD position (66%) in Comparative Politics at HU Berlin. Ideal candidates combine a research interest in autocratic politics, conflict, and/or political violence with strong quantitative methods skills. ⏳ 4 (+2) years | 🗓 DL 16.01; Start March/April 26 More info:

🧵 PhD position (75%) in Political Behavior / Political Communication / CSS 📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026 We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization

Super creative and important framing experiment! Go check it out ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Nächste Woche diskutiere ich bei der Schwarzkopf-Stiftung Junges Europa wie die radikale Rechte in Europa die Demokratie bedroht. Man kann sich noch weiterhin zur Veranstaltung anmelden.

⏰ Two weeks left to apply for SekMethoden 2026 — the annual meeting of the DVPW Section "Methods of Political Science"! ⬇️ See below for the CfP and link to the application portal. @gessler.bsky.social @lukrudolph.bsky.social @donyhu.bsky.social @dvpw.bsky.social

We're looking for a colleague (postdoc) 📢 @politikuhh.bsky.social 3+3 years Doing your own research while teaching 2.5 courses per semester Research agenda with links to our team (democracy, digital politics, political competition/behaviour) DL 🗓️ 05/01 stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/6...

🔔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!

Really excited to share my new article published in @electoralstudies.bsky.social! 1/7

🎉 Kicking off the Zweitstimme.org Workshop! We’re looking forward to two days discussing new work on Elections, Public Opinion & Elite Behaviour. Today’s sessions: 👉 Panel I – Elites 👉 Panel II – Participation 👉 Panel III – Party Strategies Huge thanks to @hertieschool.bsky.social for hosting us!

Labour is desperately trying to appeal to Reform supporters. In October, we asked people in the UK if they perceive a party as a "party for someone like them". Only very few people say this for both Labour and Reform. The correlation is negative. Labour is chasing an electorate that does not exist.

🚨 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 🧵

Very much looking forward to this event! Do sign up if you are in Berlin on November 21.

We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food) www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...

🚨 Job alert! 🚨 (English in comment) An meinem Lehrbereich ist zum 1.2.26 eine Postdoc-Stelle (100%) zu besetzen. Gesucht wird ein*e Kandidat*in mit Kenntnissen in quantitativen Methoden sowie Expertise in einschlägigen Themenbereichen. Mehr hier: www.verwaltung.uni-halle.de/dezern3/Auss...

📣 The Politics Lecture Series is back with a fantastic line-up! Opening talk: Melissa Sands (LSE) on “Measuring Racial Avoidance on Virtual Streets” Tue, 28 Oct 2025, 12–1 pm, Room 002 Everyone is welcomed to attend!

It has been a real pleasure to discuss my work on support for the green transition among conservative voters with this great crowd of scholars! Thanks for the invitation @manesweisskircher.bsky.social 🙏

@markuskollberg.bsky.social und @ivobantel.bsky.social zeigen, dass vor allem über Parteigrenzen hinweg koordinierte Botschaften einer 'common front' die affektive Abgrenzung der Wähler*innen gegenüber der extremen Rechten stärken. Dieser Effekt nutzt sich allerdings ab. doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Great to finally see this important paper published! ⬇️

Very excited for our 4th Progressive Politics Research Network workshop today and tomorrow at Humboldt University in Berlin. With a fabulous group of participants we will not only discuss our research but also how we can use it to inform public debate.

New 📝 out in @reggovjournal.bsky.social 1. Governments are taking a more active role in education and training 2. Linking technical issues to politically salient debates, such as climate change and digitalization, helps open the door to new public policies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Happy to see that my paper w\ @jochemvanagt.bsky.social now has issue- and page-numbers. Also check-out our post @ecprtheloop.bsky.social to learn more about why unsuccessful coalitions - like those that we see across the EU right now - do not mitigate polarization! theloop.ecpr.eu/coalition-go...

🎉 Today at @humboldtuni.bsky.social the 1st Annual Workshop of the Humboldt Governance Lab! 🚀 Inspiring discussions on the challenges facing democracy & how to strengthen it. 🔗 More information on the GovLab: hu-govlab.de

New preregistered report @jepsjournal.bsky.social "Thin" populism treatments manipulate perceptions of people-centrism + anti-elitism But: some treatments (e.g., "American people") affect perceptions of host ideology, complicating causal analyses of impact of populist rhetoric cup.org/4n3DvZm

💥Online first: "Communicating a common front: mainstream party rhetoric and affective polarisation towards the radical right" by @markuskollberg.bsky.social & @ivobantel.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Very happy to see our new paper out in WEP. We document that rhetorically countering the Radical Right requires mainstream parties to form a common front to be effective. Full paper (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... Highlights in the thread below.

Returning from vacation and looking for a late summer read? @ivobantel.bsky.social and I got you covered! In our new @wepsocial.bsky.social paper, we assess how mainstream parties rhetorically create an affect-based "common front" against the radical right. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW - Detecting Group Mentions in Political Rhetoric A Supervised Learning Approach - cup.org/45WZppQ - @haukelicht.bsky.social & @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social #OpenAccess

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

🚨 Reminder: Heute endet die Deadline für die Anmeldung zur Jahrestagung des AK Wahlen & pol. Einstellungen!

🏛️ @markuskollberg.bsky.social: The challenger advantage – how challenger parties disrupt mainstream party dominance in the European Parliament 🧷 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

✨Very happy to see my paper "Attitudinal ambivalence toward multiculturalism" out on @jeppjournal.bsky.social ! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/8 🧵

📢 Call for Papers – London Experimental Seminar Series (LESS) in Political Science @lsegovernment.bsky.social. We are launching a new forum for experimental political science research: First seminar: 19/11/2025. Deadline: 31/08/2025. Submit here: forms.gle/ZUJcBbZoDoaY...

In einem Monat, am 18. & 19.9., trifft sich die Wahlforschungscommunity zur Jahrestagung des AK Wahlen & pol. Einstellungen der @dvpw.bsky.social an der FU Berlin. Spannendes Programm, freundliche Kolleg:innen! Anmeldung über meine.dvpw.de bis zum 1.9. möglich. Siehe: www.dvpw.de/gliederung/a...

@deeesharp.bsky.social & I are looking for a collaborator on a project w/ @offenegesellschaft.bsky.social on empathy-based interventions against affective polarization @uni-hamburg.de j0b.de/veca 75% PhD position, 1st yr project funded & can be converted to a position w/ teaching afterwards 📆31/08

📣 Very excited to welcome the fabulous @anjaneundorf.bsky.social at the Politics Lecture Series @humboldtuni.bsky.social @dynamics.bsky.social tomorrow. Come and join us! 👇

New article out in World Politcs. We analyze how different groups react to varying programs of social democratic parties. We find less trade-offs than often assumed. Generally, more left-progressive programs increase support among social democratic potentials muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Excited to share that my first single-authored article is now published in @wepsocial.bsky.social! In light of the current backlash to climate policy, I explore the (rural) geography of support for climate policies in Europe. 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@siljahausermann.bsky.social @simonbornschier.bsky.social @dpzollinger.bsky.social @mrsteenbergen.bsky.social (@ipz.bsky.social) show an eroding segmentation within the right field. More information below: doi.org/10.1080/0140... #Academicsky #Polisky 👇

Excited to present work on the impact of local unemployment in formative years on anti-immigration attitudes in adulthood tomorrow at #epsa2025 Saturday 11.20am-1pm Room 1A.08

Very excited to present my paper with @heikekluever.bsky.social on the consequences of far-right parties in government at #EPSA2025 on Friday! 🗓️ Friday 4:50-6:30 📍 Room 0A.06 | Panel P10-S253

🚨 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. 🧵

Looking forward to this year's #EPSA2025! I will be presenting two new projects. Today, joint work with @anselmhager.bsky.social & @heikekluever.bsky.social on the potential of correcting group-based grievances in countering radical right success. 🕐: 11:20am 🚪: 0A.05 "Class and electoral politics"

From April 2025 - Winning Votes and Changing Minds: Do Populist Arguments Affect Candidate Evaluations and Issue Preferences? - cup.org/4jGIsVP - @markuskollberg.bsky.social, @benlauderdale.bsky.social & @chriswratil.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Können Bürgerräte die repräsentative Demokratie stärken? Wir diskutieren Ergebnisse aus vier praxisnahen Forschungsprojekten auf einem Roundtable mit @polenz.bsky.social, @kliesenberg.bsky.social, Felix Arndt, Stabstelle Bürgerräte @bundestag.de und @heikekluever.bsky.social 1/4

🇬🇧 data question here: I’m looking for an over-time (survey?) measure of party brand recognition and/or voters’ left-right placement of parties for *Reform UK*. Ideally it would cover *2024* Any ideas?

What a pleasure to direct this amazing @ecpr.bsky.social Joint sessions workshop on citizens democratic commitment with Hannah Werner - thanks to all participants for the exciting papers and stimulating discussions!

How (un)fair is school, and how is this perception related to the development of political engagement in youth? Drop by and find out TOMORROW, if you're around,when I present @humboldtuni.bsky.social findings from @excinequality.bsky.social 's project PerFair

What drives support for the 'European Green Deal'? And how did that play out in the 2024 EU elections? We answer this question in our new @jeppjournal.bsky.social paper. w/ @jannikjansen.bsky.social @tabouchadi.bsky.social @nilsredeker.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1350...

@jochemvanagt.bsky.social and I have written a short blogpost for @ecprtheloop.bsky.social summarizing our recent EJPR article! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Or, read the full paper here: ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🚨3-Year Postdoc Position in Zurich @ipz.bsky.social ❓Political implications of labor market transformation Plenty of flexibility, no teaching obligations, great research environment in an highly livable city. Deadline: May 18, 2025. tinyurl.com/postdoczurich #polisky #poliscijobs #psjminfo