New publication alert! 📘🚨 Our new book on news use, political knowledge, and misperceptions is out! (currently open access – link below🔓) We examine across 18 countries (N = 26K) what we call the "twin challenge of increased media choice."

The 5th edition of Campaigns & Elections (or 9th if you count the midterm updates) is ready for Fall course adoption & review: wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Political campaigns worldwide experiment with AI. But how do people see different electoral uses of AI and with what consequences? In a new study in @polcommjournal.bsky.social with @adrauc.bsky.social and @kunkakom.bsky.social, we address these questions. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/

If you have interesting ideas for SI proposals for the PVS/GPSQ @pvs-journal.bsky.social, please let us know 👇

Our book, Catching Fire in the News, is out!! 😅 By Amber Boydstun, me, @dallascard.bsky.social & Noah Smith! Will do a longer thread soon, but so over-the-moon excited!! Thank you to @snsoroka.bsky.social! Online appendix: www.amber-boydstun.com/catching-fir... www.cambridge.org/core/element...

I'm very excited about the most recent @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org Element in Politics & Communication, "Catching Fire in the News The Necessary Conditions for Media Storms" by Amber Boydstun, @jilllaufer.bsky.social, @dallascard.bsky.social & Noah Smith. Check it out: doi.org/10.1017/9781....

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Some Wahlrechtsthoughts here im Gespräch mit @jbebermeier.bsky.social :)

🚨 Postdoctoral Position at the University of Konstanz 🚨 We’re hiring a post-doc for our @excinequality.bsky.social project on political elites and decision-making. 4-year position | Deadline: Feb. 20 | Start: Sept 2026 Please share widely 🙏 The ad is here stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f...

Trump, if you are after bad hombres, I have a suggestion:

And more job opportunities: @univie.ac.at aims to fill 40 (!) doctoral positions in the social sciences, humanities and cultural studies careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...

AMSTERDAM ❤️ ALSO BEAUTIFUL IN WINTER 😍 🎿🧀 One more week to apply to this postdoc position in Political Communication @ascor.bsky.social Thank you for sharing 🫶 Please reach out if you have any questions. @polcomm.bsky.social @fgkommpol.bsky.social @alessandronai.bsky.social

Please share - @pewresearch.org wants to hire a data archivist who will be an advocate for data users, helping to ensure that our datasets are easy to discover and reuse by researchers, journalists, and the public. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CenterExtern...

New article with @corinnaoschatz.bsky.social and @jenniferbast.bsky.social in Party Politics on the perceived costs and benefits of negative campaigning for male and female candidates and its impact on attack behavior doi.org/10.1177/1354...

Idee: Deutschland entführt Christian Stocker, regiert Österreich erstmal selbst und reißt sich alle Schätze des Landes unter den Nagel (Kaiserschmarrn, Fritattensuppe, Red Bull, Manner etc.).

🫵WE WANT YOU 🎓 Are you interested in political communication, negative campaigning, and social norms? Are you experienced in quantitative methods? Do you have good rain clothes? Then our postdoc position might be just for you: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... Thank you for sharing. Merry Christmas

I am delighted to have been invited to write a chapter on #TelevisedDebates for this excellent encyclopaedia edited by @alessandronai.bsky.social, @maxgroemping.bsky.social & @dominiquewirz.bsky.social www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/elg...

Great to see this out in the world! My entry, on letters to leaders, is available here dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

Join us! Die Abteilung für Innenpolitik & Politische Soziologie sucht zum 01.04. eine*n neue*n Kollegin*en. Wir bieten: volle Promotionsstelle (EG13) für drei Jahre (Verlängerung um 3 Jahre möglich), flexible Arbeitszeitregelungen, kollegiales & forschungsstarkes Team. Mehr Informationen hier👇

Political communication research overwhelmingly relies on text. But parliamentary speech is multimodal! In our new @psrm.bsky.social article, Mathias Rask and I show that legislators also signal partisan conflict nonverbally— through changes in vocal pitch during floor speeches. 🧵 1/11 #polisky

🚨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)🧵

Interested in the theory and empirics of multi-party governments? Thomas Bräuninger and I edited a Handbook on Coalition Politics with Edward Elgar Publishing: lnkd.in/eis8Yc2y /1

Für jene die immer meinen, man solle AfD/FPÖ halt mal mitregieren lassen, dann würden sie eh an der Realität scheitern. Eine Untersuchung von 57 Ländern zeigt das Gegenteil. Schlechte Regierungsarbeit schreckt die Wählerschaft rechtsextremer Parteien nicht ab. www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/demo...

🎬 Excited to co-direct a #ecprjs26 Workshop w/ J. Dedeigne on hostile communication styles 🤬 Working on uncivil 🙄, intolerant 🙅🏻‍♀️, or violent 🤜 political rhetoric and its effects across countries, contexts, or media? Join us! 📅 Submit by 10 Dec: tinyurl.com/yjcaa3ay

😮 Hat Downs doch recht?! „Ich möchte uns jedenfalls nicht in einem Unterbietungswettbewerb sehen: Wer bietet sozusagen das niedrigste Rentenniveau an. Damit gewinnen wir keine Wahlen.“ So klar sprechen Politiker selten aus, dass es ihnen nicht um die Sache, sondern um Macht geht...

The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions is now acceptable applications for the 2026-27 year. Please share and encourage people to apply! Post Doctoral application apply.interfolio.com/177609 Visiting Scholar application apply.interfolio.com/177613

🚨New Cambridge Element 🚨 Cognition and Conspiracy Theories by Andreas Musolff is now free to read until November 17th! https://cup.org/47PLKBW #Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦

Are victimhood claims in political party manifestos and election programs on the rise? Yes, they are! Check out a brand new paper authored by @marlenevoit.bsky.social , @lucaskohler.bsky.social et al. -- published yesterday in @polpsyispp.bsky.social. Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/pops....

Ein Lieblingsprojekt (wieder) online. www.arbeiterzeitung.at Mehr als 200.000 Zeitungsseiten von 1945 - 1989 digital offen. Mit Volltextsuche von Politik bis Sport. Von 2004 bis 2021 gab es 2 Millionen Recherche-Cases. (Leider) weiterhin die einzige derartige zeitgeschichtliche Primärquelle.

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ANES Data Release! electionstudies.org/data-center/... The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.

Interested in the sociodemographic background, policy preferences, attitudes and campaign strategies of candidates for the 2025 Bundestag election? The @gles.bsky.social Candidate Study 2025 is now available (doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA... @gesis.org) and includes CCS Module IV @ccs-project.bsky.social 👇

🚨 New piece out at @thejop.bsky.social w awesome @cvargiu.bsky.social & D Garzia If incivility means breaking norms, & norms are person- and context-dependent, *does incivility even exist*? In the stage-2 registered report we investigate what drives perceptions of incivility tinyurl.com/4h5u4y8y

Out now: key data from the third wave of the Worlds of Journalism Study. 75 countries, >32,350 journalists, >300 researchers, seven years of successful collaboration. Many thanks to all who contributed to this project! www.worldsofjournalism.org/reports-wjs3/

🤖 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐃𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐀𝐈𝐠𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫 🇳🇱 Less than one week before the Dutch elections, @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social & I looked at over 20k posts to reveal patterns in the usage of AI-generated visuals across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X. #tk2025 🧵Thread

The increase in science funding applications from 2023 to 2025 across programs is huge. And most likely the competition will increase unless investments are made in science and research (which have repeatedly shown to pay off later for society at large). www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New publication alert🔓🚨 Toxic speech is widespread on social media – but do users mirror the toxic behavior of their ingroup or react defensively to outgroup toxicity? Our new paper in JCMC examines how ingroup and outgroup behavior shape the spread of toxicity on social media.

📣 Studie zur Wahrnehmung und Wirkung der TV-Debatten 2025 mit Marco Hirsch, Kevin Brendel, Peter Hevesi, Paul Lukowicz, @jenniferbast.bsky.social und @hannahdecker.bsky.social. doi.org/10.5771/0340...

This is a highly interesting, timely and great initiative - a new diamond OA journal for #replication research! It is interdisciplinary, but #PolSci is specifically invited. Hence, if you or someone you know has an interesting replication paper, do not hesitate to submit!

📢 New Publication Alert! Thrilled to share our latest article with @jasminriedl.bsky.social & Johannes Steup 👉 Topical Negative Campaigning Under Spatial Pressure: Party-Level Strategies for Attacks Across Multiple Issues 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0964...

Have added Global Perspectives in Communication (@gpccomm.bsky.social) to @moritzbuchi.bsky.social's and my list of open access journals in the field of Communication. #openscience #opencomm

Exciting new job in Landau 🤩 We’re searching for a Professor of Political Psychology (W2). Very much looking forward to your applications – if you have any questions, please reach out to me. jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/3...

Die Arbeitseinheit Politische Kommunikation der RPTU in Landau sucht einen wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter (100% TVL-13) für 3 Jahre. jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/2... Post bitte gerne teilen!

New in PNAS with @seanjwestwood.bsky.social and @ylelkes.bsky.social: Why depolarization is hard: Evaluating attempts to decrease partisan animosity in America @prl.bsky.social @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

▶️ Party Politics 👉🏽 Section chairs: @zeynsom.bsky.social & @sarahwagner.bsky.social 📢 This section welcomes work on party organizations, party electoral strategies, parties in government, as well as electoral and behavioral consequences of parties’ strategies & their organizational changes. 1/

Here is the (open access) scientific paper for folks interested in digging deeper:

In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong". Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

Do candidates with a „dark“ personality are more likely to attack in televised debates? You bet! New research with @alessandronai.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1016/j.ac...