In Brandenburg fanden heute die ersten beiden von 29 Bürgermeisterwahlen statt. Nach #Meißen + #Wolmirstedt setzte es auch in #Wriezen + #Nauen deutliche Niederlagen für die AFD. In ihren beiden Hochburgen rutschte die Partei von 46% auf 27% bzw. von 37% auf 16% (Vergleich BTW 25) 🧵 #dieblaueDelle

There has never been a more important time to study public policy and public administration. With @fgilardi.bsky.social , I’m chairing the section on these topics for the first @epssnet.bsky.social conference, in Belfast, 18–20 June 2026. Send us your best work: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

Interviewing extremists, even critically, in mainstream news outlets normalizes and increases support for their views

NEW - Media Platforming and the Normalisation of Extreme Right Views - cup.org/4mmVIAL "exposure to uncritical interviews increases agreement with extreme statements and perceptions of broader support in the population" - @dianebolet.bsky.social & @florianfoos.bsky.social #OpenAccess

NEW - How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD "we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians" - @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Leiden University is hiring two assistant Professors in Public Administration. More here: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years. If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply! shorturl.at/kcTbG

Großartig zu sehen wie die Volksparteien Deutschlands, CDU und SPD, die Not der Stunde erkennen und staatsmännisch agieren, um die wichtigsten Richterämter des Landes zu besetzen. In Zeiten des Populismus und der Erosion von Legitimität und Vertrauen und Politik, wirklich erfrischend. /s

To be clear, the final vote in the House hasn’t happened yet. It has cleared a procedural hurdle to get to a floor vote, but the final vote is pending. It is urgently necessary to call GOP reps and demand that they vote down the bill.

This was absolutely my experience when I started at NIH in 2003. I was very impressed with how well run things were compared to my experiences in both academia and the private sector.

Social scientists should not use chat interfaces when using LLMs in their research: they are impressively inefficient, and obscure/impose important methodological decisions that require thought. THREAD🧵

Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called: "How to Write a Title and Abstract" Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles. #EconSky #AcademicSky

1/ In die Milliarden-Masken-Affäre von Spahn kommt neue Bewegung. Spoiler: Es tun sich Abgründe auf. Ein seit Monaten vorliegender Aufklärungsbericht wird im BMG unter Verschluss gehalten. Dazu, und was das alles mit dem Sohn von Helmut Kohl zu tun hat – ein längerer Thread 🧵

AJPS has for decades been recognized as one of the top two or three journals in all of political science. The central goal of the new editorial team is to maintain and, if possible, further strengthen this reputation. Read about the Editorial Principles at AJPS here: ajps.org/2025/06/05/e...

Im Wahlkampf hatte die CDU versprochen, dass „Rentnerinnen und Rentner“ mit der „Aktivrente“ bis zu 2000 Euro pro Monat steuerfrei „hinzuverdienen“ dürfen - was ja nur bedeuten kann, dass das zusätzlich zu Rente sein soll. (1/2)

📣 Jobs, jobs, jobs! Aarhus University’s Department of Political Science is hiring: 🔹 Assistant Professor 🗓 Deadline: 25 August 🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil... 🔹 Associate Professor 🗓 Deadline: 8 September 🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

Lindner: "Ich kann da durchaus argumentative Unterstützung gebrauchen." Porsche-Chef Blume: "Volle Unterstützung von Porsche Seite. Wir legen nochmal nach. Danke für Ihren Einsatz." Was sich der Finanzminister und der Autolobbyist zu E-Fuels und Verbrenner-Aus schrieben 👇

Über 3 Jahre mussten wir uns das E-Fuels-Gelaber der FDP und fossilen Lobby anhören, die damit den Klimaschutz zerlegten. Beide schossen sich die argumentativen Bälle hin und her. Ein unfassbares Paradebeispiel für fossilen Lobbyismus. Danke an @abgeordnetenwatch.de für die Aufklärung.

Holy, what's happening at #EGPA and #IIAS right now? Apparently, none from the Steering group will try to run for the EGPA presidency, none will pursue another term, there is no host uni for EGPA 2026 and the same group is establishing a new association "European Network for Public Administration"

Volume 27 issue 6 now out, featuring @hongtaoyi.bsky.social @nathanfavero.com @matdoering.bsky.social @yantochandra.bsky.social on citizen satisfaction, interlocal collaborative processes, task-oriented leadership, social enterprise and more! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpxm20/2...

🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵

This week we have been happy have @drelizabethbell.bsky.social from University of Texas, Austin as a guest. She has presented her recent work on "Administrative Burden and the Access-Fraud Trade-Off" with @sebjilke.bsky.social , followed by an engaging discussion. Thanks for your visit, Elizabeth!

Finally on my way to #IRSPM2025 in Bologna. Looking forward to a conference with fantastic colleagues and friends. This year, I have two papers:

Gute Neuigkeiten für die Wissenschaftspolitik: Ab jetzt kann man einfach Beliebiges behaupten, auch wenn‘s fernab jeder denkbaren Realität ist. Hier z.B.: wundersame Mittelerzeugung durch unsere lieben US-Spitzenforscher, die dann auch noch Bedingungen im dt. Wissenschaftssystem verbessern sollen. 🥰

Hallo Bluesky, ich brauche mal wieder Eure/Ihre Hilfe. An welchen deutschen Hochschulen oder Forschungseinrichtungen sind US-Fragebögen zu Diversitätsmaßnahmen etc. eingegangen? Bitte nur direktes Wissen. Wenn lieber persönlich, gern an: [email protected] Gern reposten und weiterleiten. Danke!

Want to talk about how you can target your research to JPART? We are offering 1:1 meet the editors sessions at #ASPA2025 & #IRSPM2025 & #PMRC2025 & #EGPA2025 We start with ASPA in D.C. next week - book your time below: calendar.app.google/Fh9YAJviLdwK... @sassmikkelsen.bsky.social

ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed. No one knows why he was detained.

Is everyone huffing paint? Crypto guy claims to have built an LLM-based tool to detect errors in research papers; funded using its own cryptocurrency; will let coin holders choose what papers to go after; it's unvetted and a total black box—and Nature reports it as if it's a new protein structure.

Bedeutet die Existenz einer "demokratischen Mitte", dass es auch eine "undemokratische Mitte" gibt? Oder dass es auch einen "demokratischen Rand" gibt? Frage für journalistische KollegInnen...

In contrast, we show that "any factual AI system ... is so astronomically unlikely to be anything like a human mind, or even a coherent ... part of that mind, that claims of ‘inevitability’ of AGI ... are revealed to be false & misleading. 7/n irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/09/17/d...

🚨 Danish Historical Political Economy Workshop 🚨 Do you work on HPE? If you do, make sure to check out Lasse Aaskoven's Danish HPE Workshop, scheduled for Feb. 21, 2025. I had a fantastic experience when I attended in 2023! Several travel & hotel grants are available. Deadline: Dec. 31, 2024 ‼️

Nur 7 % der Geflüchteten in 🇩🇪 senden Geld ins Ausland, zeigt unsere Studie. Dies zeigt den Irrsinn der Einführung der #Bezahlkarte, bei der behauptet wurde, diese solle #Geflüchtete daran hindern, Geld ins Ausland zu überweisen. Unsere Studie: 1/5 🧵 www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c....

Started a behavioral public management starter pack for us (defined broadly at the intersection of public management, economics, and behavioral science). There are way too many people to add so suggest names! go.bsky.app/QRPmSLf

Sharing this starter pack of experts on policy interests and influence go.bsky.app/LU255wB

I made one for nonprofits that may be of interest, given the aim being taken at civil society. go.bsky.app/BbiqfAc

New here? Or not really using the platform much? Get started by following these Public Administration scholars 👇🏻👇🏻 go.bsky.app/44RAXUc

I'm quite happy to share a new article with you all: "Time to rediscover task-oriented leadership? A multi-source, time-lagged study on leadership and well-being in public service jobs" Joint work with Signe Pihl-Thingvad & Rick Vogel www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#Wilmasreview of the week Wilma's 🐶 leadership behavior appears to be quite relations-oriented 🫂 But that may not be all you can do as a manager to positively influence the well-being of your employees. A study by @matdoering.bsky.social, Pihl-Thingvad and @dominikvogel.bsky.social finds: 1/🧵

Submissions wanted @ IRSPM 2025! Are you doing research on #leadership across organizational units, jurisdictions, networks, teams, or volunteers? Join us in panel 29: “The leadership imperatives of collaboration, adaptation and complexity” Abstract deadline is 28 October 2024.

PostDoc wanted! Come work with us at SDU! We are looking for candidates for a 3-year PostDoc position working on topics like public health, absenteeism, occupational psychology, and public management. The Application deadline is 15 October 2024!

What happens when radical right-wing populist parties are in government? In our op-ed, we summarize some key polisky findings: normalization, curtailed civil liberties, weaker economic performance, greater inequality, and an overall threat to democracy itself www.derbund.ch/adrian-vatte...

unsplash.com is great if you're looking for good quality images for presentations or documents. I use it all the time.

Looking forward to this year's #EGPA2024 in Athens. Today, I will be presenting a study on how public organizations can effectively communicate after a crisis has occurred to maintain their reputation. Joint work with Jurgen Willems, WU Vienna If you're interested, join the BPA panel!

One of the many, MANY reasons Bluesky is better than Twitter, Threads & Facebook is that you can see links that other people post here. You may have noticed that if you share a link to a podcast, newsletter, article or anything else on those other sites, you get almost no likes or re-posts <1/n>

Wir suchen im Team GESIS Panel eine*n WiMI im Bereich Umfragemethoden zum 1.10. Bitte weiterleiten. Dank! www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge...

Are you an expert in dealing with lobby registers, transparency laws, corporate registers and the like? You want to understand how autocrats and their regimes influence foreign democracies? We (@alexdukalskis.bsky.social) have some funds to hire someone for some work on a freelance basis. ⬇️

📣1-3 PhD fellow positions open at Department of Political Science, University of Oslo. 👉We invite applications from excellent candidates in all sub-fields of political science. 📅Deadline: September 1st, 2024 🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

🧵For anyone looking for classroom materials for intro stats/research methods, I've recently posted to GitHub a bunch of data labs and lecture materials that others are welcome to use.

It's a wrap. This has been a fantastic workshop on citizen-state interactions @ NoPSA 2024. We had an exceptionally diverse group from various countries (Norway, Israel, France, Canada etc.), cases (emergency services, policing, schools etc.) using the full spectrum of our methodological toolkit

It's #NoPSA2024 in wonderful Bergen, Norway! Looking forward to an exciting panel on citizen-state interactions with scholars from the Nordic countries, France, Israel, Canada and many more If you're around, feel free to drop by!