🕑 Join us *today* at 13:45 CEST for the talk 'What Shapes Voter Perceptions of Election Polls? The Impact of Partisanship and Visual Design' by @eliaskoch.bsky.social (Hertie School) ⬇️ Zoom link and details below

🚨 EPSS Belfast 2026 Call for Papers - One week to go! 🚨 Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

*Bayesian Modelling: From Foundations to Custom Solutions* by @denis-cohen.bsky.social 🗓️ 16-17 & 23-24 April 2026 🏢 Online 🌐 t1p.de/bayesian-mod...

🚨 CfP: SekMethoden 2026 🗓️ March 12-13, 2026 🗺️ Hannover, Germany ⏰ DL Dec 07, 2025 👉 Apply here: sosci.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/sekmethoden2... 👥 @gessler.bsky.social, @lukrudolph.bsky.social, @donyhu.bsky.social, Jona Baumert, Morten Harmening and I look forward to your submissions!

Better get your paper submissions in for the @epssnet.bsky.social conference in June 2026, as the deadline is 7 November, and we have no intention of extended that (given the submission numbers)! epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

🚨 Upcoming: "What Shapes Voter Perceptions of Election Polls? The Impact of Partisanship and Visual Design" 👤 @eliaskoch.bsky.social (Hertie School) 🗓️ Wed, November 5, 13:45-15:15 CET 📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Ich habe mit @zeit.de über die Reaktionen etablierter Parteien auf den Erfolg der radikalen Rechten gesprochen – warum Anpassung und Einbindung riskant sind und wo Chancen jenseits reaktiver Strategien liegen.

🕑 Join us *today* at 13:45 CEST for the talk 'Large Language Models for Social Research: Potentials and Challenges' by @indiiigo.bsky.social (University of Mannheim) ⬇️ Zoom link and details below

"Mainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda" - for the @theguardian.com, @ashifakassam.bsky.social summed up our study. @tevoelker.bsky.social and I answered some questions to put our results into context. Give it a read! Study: bit.ly/4hhRFUN

Great write-up of an important study by @tevoelker.bsky.social and @dasalgon.bsky.social. Far-right actors have been very successful in setting the political agenda. Many in politics and media still ignore this. They argue "immigration is important to people, hence we need to talk about immigration"

Why do people turn to populist parties? 🤔 📣 Our new study just published at @ejprjournal.bsky.social shows it’s not just real inequality - it’s perceived inequality that drives populism. 📌 Blog: hu-govlab.de/en/perceived... 📊 Study: tinyurl.com/msnndnpn 🏛️ Funded by: @scripts-berlin.eu

We look forward to welcoming @indiiigo.bsky.social in the MZES Social Science Data Lab next week! Tune in if you you want to learn more about LLMs for social research. Details and Zoom link ⬇️

The Spanish centre-right is taking a tumble and the far-right is on the rise. I was lucky enough to present some new causal work on Friday at LSE showing that the PP does better when it signals distinctiveness from VOX. ~1.5K tests, same result. Rejecting far-right benefits centre-right

Shout it from the roof tops: accommodation doesn't work #farright #radicalright

#NeuesAusDerForschung @dasalgon.bsky.social und @tevoelker.bsky.social unterstreichen in ihrer Analyse (für Deutschland, seit 1990), dass die Übernahme rechtsextremer Positionen durch andere Parteien deren Ideologie und Positionen normalisiert und verbreitet: doi.org/10.1017/S147...

Die Übernahme von Rechtsaußenpositionen führt zur #Normalisierung dieser Parteien - das ist empirisch mittlerweile sehr gut belegt, wird aber immer wieder ignoriert. Für @lagedernation.org haben @tabouchadi.bsky.social und ich hier versucht aufzuräumen (ab 1h 13). 🎤 lagedernation.org/podcast/ldn4...

What's the difference between @epssnet.bsky.social and the "old" EPSA, and why you should come to our conference in Belfast in June 2026: epssnet.org/uncategorize...

Still confused about EPSA vs. EPSS? Which conference should you go to? Here is a link to clarify things: epssnet.org/uncategorize... TL;DR: "EPSA" community will be in Belfast. Same community, new organisation, bigger mission; slightly new name; and a very different foundation @epssnet.bsky.social

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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/...

📣 Attention, postdoctoral researchers! ❗ Apply now for our MZES Visiting Fellowships 😊 💡 Spend 2-4 weeks at the MZES to share ideas 💰 Funding for accommodation, travel, daily allowance 📆 Deadline: 28 November Full information: 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/deta...

Looking forward to seeing your paper, panel, roundtable etc. proposals for the Party Politics section of EPSS. Don't forget: submissions are due on November 7, and the conference will take place in Belfast on June 18-20. @epssnet.bsky.social @sarahwagner.bsky.social

Reminder 👇🙂

The call for papers for the first ever EPSS conference 2026 in Belfast is open until November 7th 2025. epssnet.org/belfast-2026/ @rdassonneville.bsky.social and I will be chairing the section on Electoral and Voting Behavior. We look forward to your submissions and to a fantastic conference!

🗳️ Tag 1 der AK-Wahlen-Tagung @ FU Berlin 💡Hervorragende Präsentationen und intensive Diskussionen zu aktuellen Themen der Wahl- und Einstellungsforschung 🤝 Viele Gelegenheiten zum Networking 📝 Wir freuen uns auf den zweiten Tag mit weiteren spannenden Einblicken! #Wahlforschung #AKWahlen

🚨 Upcoming: "Roundtable Discussion: New Developments in Large-Scale Survey Data in Germany" 👤 Claudia Schmiedeberg, Pablo Christmann, Stefanie Wolter, Michael Bergmann, Arne Bethmann 🗓️ Wed, September 24, 13:45-15:15 CET 📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026... Starting today, we'll feature two sections each week to provide more information about the conference. 🔝 This week: Electoral + Voting Behaviour & Climate Politics ▶️ Electoral + Voting Behaviour 🧵

👏Applause offers a revealing lens on party competition! In a recent article @wepsocial.bsky.social (w/@[email protected]), we study how applause reflects party and coalition unity, ideological agreement, political exclusion, issue ownership, and the electoral cycle! (1/6)

I wrote a longer essay on how social status matters for far-right support. Many still wrongly associate the far right with the economically left behind. Taking social status seriously also cautions against the idea that deliverism will win back far-right voters. equitablegrowth.org/threats-to-s...

🕑 Join us *today* at 13:45 CEST for the talk 'Assessing the Reproducibility of Observational Social Research' by @lschaechtele.bsky.social (LMU Munich) ⬇️ Zoom link and details below

The rise of radical-right parties doesn’t begin with the “left behind.” It begins with those most insulated from stigma. In Spain, the better-off broke the taboo first, making it easier for others to follow. 📄 Full paper here: osf.io/preprints/so... Feedback is more than welcome! 🙏

The takeaway: 👉 Accommodating the radical right on immigration doesn’t win back voters. 👉 It alienates the progressive base. 👉 And it raises the salience of the very issue the radical right owns. In short: it’s electoral self-harm.

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...

Looking forward to presenting recent findings on the attitudinal effects of election polls later this term in Mannheim, in part based on joint work w/ @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social, @linushagemann.de, @hannahrajski.bsky.social, Thomas Gschwend, @lstoetze.bsky.social & @cornelius-erfort.bsky.social.

I feel overwhelmed and incredibly honoured to announce that I have been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant for my project “VisibleQueers”, fully titled as “Making the Queers Visible: Partisanship and Support among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Eastern and Western Europe”. #ERCStG

It’s striking how much these patterns are similar across many European counties (both the center left one and the radical right one). And yet there’s much work to be done in shifting the discourse from competing narratives that have little empirical backing.

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 🧵

🚨 Upcoming: "Assessing the Reproducibility of Observational Social Research" 👤 @lschaechtele.bsky.social (LMU Munich) 🗓️ Wed, September 10, 13:45-15:15 CET 📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 🔗 socialsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/page/events/

🚨 The MZES Social Science Data Lab returns this Fall 2025 with a new round of events — live-streamed and open to all. 👉 Follow @mzes-ssdl.bsky.social for event announcements and content alerts 👉 Find the event schedule with Zoom registration at socialsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/page/events/

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

The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference! 📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast
 🗓️ June 18–20, 2026
 📍 ICC Belfast
 📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025 🧵

We're hiring @ifpolms.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de! 🟢 W3 Professorship in “Political Science with a Focus on International Sustainability” 🟢 📅 Deadline: 26 September 2025 🌐 stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/c... Please share #AcademicJobs #PoliticalScience #Sustainability #GlobalGovernance

🚨 Content alert 🚨 New recording and workshop materials published! ➡️ Forecasting the German Federal Election 2025 - Different Modelling Approaches 👤 @hannahrajski.bsky.social (Uni Mannheim) & @cornelius-erfort.bsky.social (Witten/Herdecke Uni) 📺 youtu.be/iQXUQ3NsKsk 🗒️ github.com/SocialScienc...

🚨 We're hiring! Join our CSES Team @gesis.org Cologne as a Senior Researcher. If you’re into comparative electoral research and love diving into data, this is your moment. Come shape global democracy with us! 🌍📊 www.gesis.org/en/institute...

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...

Gestern Interview mit Rheinischer Post zur Frage, inwiefern Zusammenarbeit BSW/AfD wem nützt oder schadet. Jetzt laufen - wie erwartbar - die Mail- und Postfächer voll. Wissenschaftsfreiheit stirbt auch damit, wenn so aktiv versucht wird, Meinungsäußerung einzuschüchtern.

Did you know that @epssnet.bsky.social will honor your #EPSA membership? Sign up today! epssnet.org/sign-up/#join That said, your membership dues are staying with EPSA & EPSS is starting with zero financial funds. So if you can, consider paying for an EPSS membership to help us get off the ground.

Yesterday EPSS was founded, today we answer members’ questions. A 🧵 1. Who formed EPSS? EPSS was founded by a supermajority vote of the EPSA Council, made up of 3 EPSAL shareholders & 9 elected, appointed, or ex officio members. 1/

🚨 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. 🧵

📢📢📢 JOBS: 4 postdocs 📢📢📢 Uni Münster has opened a call for 4! postdoc positions. I'm involved in one hiring and really hope that suitable candidates (in particular quants) apply! Why would you apply? Check out @thiloalbers.bsky.social FAQ! sites.google.com/site/tnhalbe...