TODAY Aug 28 - "Politics in 60 Seconds: Short-Form Video, TikTok, and Political Communication" at #APSA2025 - 2 PM, VCC West Ballroom B Chair: @eunjikim.bsky.social. Discussant: @mollyeroberts.bsky.social

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵

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

If you want to understand the timing of Trump’s authoritarian political theater around DC policing, check out @janzilinsky.bsky.social in @goodauth.bsky.social. He shows how critical coverage of Trump and Epstein spiked with both liberal & conservative media goodauthority.org/news/the-eps...

New preprint commentary from me, @malte.the100.ci, and @ianhussey.mmmdata.io. Cognitive dissonance in large language models is neither cognitive nor dissonant. THREAD BELOW 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...

We're hiring! The @au-spa.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor specializing in political violence and terrorism. Deadline: September 22nd. Feel free to reach out if you have questions! See below for the job ad and application. american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-...

❗The segmentation of the right field is eroding, especially among young voters❗ New article out by @simonbornschier.bsky.social @dpzollinger.bsky.social @mrsteenbergen.bsky.social and myself @ipz.bsky.social ‬ @wepsocial.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ycxfx2aj A short 🧵 1/7

How harmful is GenAI around elections? Will it trigger a misinformation apocalypse and upend elections? I am happy to finally be able to share @sachaltay.bsky.social & my answers to these and other questions on which we have been working for a year and which is now out via @knightcolumbia.org

📄 New paper out in Scientific Reports with our amazing team of collaborators ETH, UZH & UCL lead by @gloriagennaro.bsky.social & Dominik Hangartner! 💡 We find that counterspeech using perspective-based messages can both reduce hate speech and its amplification online. polisky csssky socsky commsky

📣 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...

USE & RT OPT OUT of META's (Facebook, Instagram) AI training be4 deadline May 26 2025 Insta link help.instagram.com/contact/2339... Facebook link www.facebook.com/help/contact... Source: via german WDR, recently reminded by National Council @meretschneider.bsky.social www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/...

👀 Very timely and relevant work by @henryhenryhenry.com on how (online) communities radicalize!

Our latest episode is out, recorded just last week! 🎙️🤩 We spoke to Silja Häusermann about the crisis of social democratic parties and a little bit about the German national elections at the very end. Give it a listen - and we're happy to receive suggestions for future guests/topics btw!

PhD opportunity in my team! 📢 Fully funded PhD position (3+1 years) 🏫 University of Zurich / Zurich University of Applied Sciences 📅 Start of the position: September 1, 2025 ⏳ Application deadline: May 31, 2025 Job ad: www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns... Project Info: www.dizh.uzh.ch/en/2025/04/1...

People, this was supposed to be funny. Please share widely! thx! @bertous.bsky.social @stefwalter.bsky.social @fgilardi.bsky.social @indubioproreto.bsky.social @istad.bsky.social @karstendonnay.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social @lucasleemann.bsky.social @gessler.bsky.social @reidingerve.bsky.social

Today marks the final day of the DISINTEGRATION project, a project on the mass politics of disintegration generously funded by the @erc.europa.eu . We celebrate with a thread on all we have done and found: 1/20

If you know me, you know I am obsessed with building dashboards. 😅 Well, I am excited to share that @ernesto-deleon.com, Max Paulus, & I were awarded a small grant to build an #rstats package to make them accessible to other researchers. And we’re hiring a Research Assistant to help us do that!

We are looking for a research assistant to help us develop tools to make dashboards easier for social scientists to create 🤩 If you are really into R and passionate about data and science communication, please apply!

The biggest ever COMPTEXT conference at the @univie.ac.at is officially under way! Registration has opened and the first panels—on ideological estimation, misinformation, climate discourse, global economic narratives, and digital content influence—are now taking place. #COMPTEXT2025

Call for Papers! 📢 6th Annual Digital Democracy Workshop 🏫 University of Zurich 📅 13-14 November 2025 ⏳ Deadline to submit paper abstracts: 31 May 2025 democracy.dsi.uzh.ch/app/uploads/...

The Department of Political Science @ipz.bsky.social at University of Zurich is inviting applications for a Senior Lecturer in Digital Public Governance, starting Sep. 1, 2025, or later by agreement. This is primarily a teaching position with ~25% of the time reserved for research. polisky socsky

🚀 Hiring a Postdoc in Political Communication @ikmz.bsky.social for my SNSF project. Seeking a researcher with experience in computational methods to explore negative news, political knowledge, and well-being. Apply by: 11 May 2025 Start: 1 Sept 2025 (or by agreement) jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

This is an interesting question, and kind to ask. I am U.S.-based (not U.S.), but here are my thoughts. 🧵

📢 New article 🌟 👥 Philipp Matthias Lutscher @plutscher.bsky.social (ISV) and Karsten Donnay @karstendonnay.bsky.social 🔎 Does Hard Propaganda (Also) Work in Democracies? Evidence from the United States 📖 Open access in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Does Mainstream Populism Work❓ I answer this question in a new paper officially out at @psrm.bsky.social❗ Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1017/psrm... Key take-aways in the thread below 🧵⬇️:

💥Postdoc call 💥 Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University 🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension) ❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth 🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data) Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD

We are hosting an event together with @dizh.bsky.social and Dezentrum. 💥 The 4th Apéro Digital on April 16 brings together media specialists from federal office and AI experts to explore the influence of Big Tech and AI on democracy and elections. Register now: www.dizh.uzh.ch/event/the-al...

No conferences in the US for me for some years. (I still need to formally withdraw my presentations from ICA this year, but yeah, I'm not going. See the ICA crowd in South Africa next year I guess!)

📣 New publication in "Perspectives on Politics" with my fantastic co-author @plutscher.bsky.social on perceptions of authoritarian-style political messaging used by the first Trump administration during the 2020 BLM protests in the US Main takeaways & methods: ⬇️ 1/10 polisky csssky socsky commsky

Reviewing a paper for a journal, and whoever compiled this scale.... And this is returned to the authors! I really did not like the paper, but "dreadful" or "useless"?.. is not something I want to send to the authors...

Thrilled to see my very first publication online! Many thanks to my great friend and co-author @victoraraujo.bsky.social !! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Back to the Future: What We Can and Cannot Optimize For. Workshop @COSS_eth starting, watch live (or later): www.youtube.com/@COSS_eth Full program: www.backtothefuture.ch

The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991. Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens. As of this morning, it’s gone.

🚨New WP🚨 Remember Musk+Zuck+Trump+Jordan etc crying fact-checker bias b/c Reps were flagged more than Dems? We analyzed Community Notes on Musk's X and guess what: posts flagged as "misleading" are 67% more likely to be written by Reps! The issue is Reps, not fact-checkers... osf.io/preprints/ps...

I have been following expert reactions to the leap in performance reported for DeepSeek R1 and struck by the simplicity/elegance of it all. And not just that, the similarities to human learning, to how our kids learn are striking: long (reinforcement) learning, more direct feedback, better data.

We have a #job opening for a #Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social #Statistics at Manchester. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai.... Closing date 16/3. Looking across #quantitative #SocialScience, ideally focus on social stats #AcademicJobs #jobs #academia #css #survey #quant

‼️ Hiring ‼️ Two (!) positions in my group at @ipz.bsky.social in Zurich 📣 1 postdoc position (3+3 years) 📣 1 PhD position (3,5 years) Application deadline in early March. Job ads & details: tinyurl.com/3p6yhptk We are an international and friendly department with excellent working conditions

My fantastic co-author Julian Voss has meticulously compiled municipality-level election results for Post-WW2 Western German elections (1949-1969) from historical records. What a great resource! Read the paper, use the data: osf.io/preprints/os...

I really, really don't want to do this, but let's do a bit (just a LITTLE BIT) of fact checking about what Zuck said on the Joe Rogan podcast, because this is something I not only followed closely, but also spent time *talking to the actual people at Meta who dealt with this* which WAS NOT ZUCK.

Ahead of Friday's oral argument, TikTok's fate remains up in the air. Yet, almost no rigorous research exists to inform debates around nat sec & Chinese influence. At @brookings.edu, we outline 3 data access pathways researchers could use to understand TikTok's influence & challenges of each.

A quick reminder: we are hiring! The deadline for the application is 20 January. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have questions about the position. jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

An incredible opportunity for the right person: The Santa Fe Institute is seeking applications for full-time resident faculty positions at all academic levels For me, this has been the best possible job ever. More info here: santafe.edu/about/jobs/r...

⏰Xmas came early this year!🎄 My final dissertation paper officially out in @polcommjournal.bsky.social! We test the role of algorithms in shaping the cost of reaching voters. We find: who sees political ads & at what price depends NOT just on targeting choices.🧵 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a #ScienceAdvances analysis finds.

We are hiring: 4-year post doc position at our department, open to all topics in political science. 75% research and 25% teaching, good salary, great department and colleagues, and a beautiful city. Deadline: February 15 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Happy our correspondence is published: + Narratives on gen AI: existential risks, immediate risks, acceleration, balanced risks + They shape public perceptions & policy + We need more research to understand their impact w/ @argohdes.bsky.social A. Kasirzadeh et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

✨ New LLM paper ✨ > Open-source LLMs perform well in text annotation tasks > Fine-tuned open-source LLMs outperform zero-shot GPT-4 > Fine-tuning beats few-shot training with modest amount of annotated data w/ @malizadeh.bsky.social @maelkubli.bsky.social et al. link.springer.com/article/10.1...