🚨 Content alert 🚨 New recording and workshop materials published! ➡️ Large Language Models for Social Research: Potentials and Challenges 👤 @indiiigo.bsky.social (University of Mannheim) 📺 youtu.be/p5wPJHK-74M 🗒️ github.com/SocialScienc...

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/...

❗️ Tue, Nov 11, 13:45-15:15 CET 📍 A 231 and ZOOM MZES Speaker Series with Andreas Wimmer ( @columbiauniversity.bsky.social ) "The Shadow Side of Rootedness: How Geographic Stability Across Generations Increases Radical-Right Attitudes" 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even... 1/2

❗️ Tue, Nov 11, 12:15-13:30 CET 📍 A 231 and ZOOM MZES Speaker Series with @acalacino.bsky.social "Ballots, Bullets, and Trees: Election Timing and Violence Against Environmentalists" 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even... 1/2

Can AI-generated images work as visual vignettes in survey experiments? I argue yes - and discuss how . in my new @sscratsage.bsky.social paper: doi.org/10.1177/0894...

🕑 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

📣 New Social Data Science doctoral track launching in 2026 at our Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences (CDSS)! Applications open mid-November 2025. ℹ️ www.uni-mannheim.de/gess/apply/admission-requirements/for-cdss/ #PhD #DoctoralStudies #DataScience #SocialStudies

Reminder: Deadline is 28 November 👇🙂

Zugewanderte identifizieren sich ähnlich stark mit demokratischen Werten wie Menschen ohne Migrationshintergrund 👇Das ermitteln Prof. Helbling & Dr. Gülzau vom #SVRMigration & Dr. Morgenstern vom #MZES in einer Studie, die Daten des SVR-Integrationsbarometers 2022 & des European Social Survey nutzt.

🚨 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!

We are hiring an Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science. The post will be part of our new Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM) and is a joint hire with the Oxford Internet Institute. All details in the job ad below. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Hier die Presseinformation zur Studie von Marc Helbling, @fguelzau.bsky.social und @snmorgenstern.bsky.social Migrant*innen identifizieren sich ähnlich stark mit der Demokratie wie Personen ohne Migrations­hintergrund: 👉 www.uni-mannheim.de/newsroom/pre...

📣 Migrant*innen in Europa teilen demokratische Werte Meldung der @dpa.com zur Studie von MZES-Vorstandsmitglied Marc Helbling, @fguelzau.bsky.social ( @svrmigration.bsky.social ) und MZES-Fellow @snmorgenstern.bsky.social Pressemitteilung folgt. 👉 www.deutschlandfunk.de/migranten-in... 1/2

Happy to share that our paper on the ideological biases of international organizations is now out in the current issue of the AJPS (@ajpseditor.bsky.social): dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajps... @the-peio.bsky.social @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social @akentikelenis.bsky.social

🚨 New data release: GLES Panel 2025, Wave 29 (ZA10118) 💻📱 CAWI 👥 14,328 panelists 📅 2025-01-16 - 2025-01-30 🗳️ Covers political attitudes, party & candidate evaluations, voting behavior, media use & personal values 📥 dx.doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA...

⏳ Two more weeks! 👉 meine.dvpw.de/einreichungen/ #CfP 11/14 #Dreiländertagung #3LT2026 #DACH #Europe #Future #PolSci #PoliticalScience

❗️ Tue, Nov 4, 13:45-15:15 CET 📍 A 231 and ZOOM MZES Speaker Series with Wojtek Przepiorka ( @unibe.ch ) "Signaling Norms" 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even... 1/2

❗️ Tue, Nov 4, 12:15-13:30 CET 📍 A 231 and ZOOM MZES Speaker Series with Natascha Zaun (Leuphana University Lüneburg) "'Unpolitics' in EU Policymaking: The role of Austria, Czechia, Italy and Poland in Policymaking around the European Green Deal and the Asylum and Migration Pact " 1/2

Very much looking forward to presenting recent experimental findings on voters’ perceptions of election polls @mzes-ssdl.bsky.social (@mzesunimannheim.bsky.social) next week!

🚨 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...

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#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy Work at GESIS and benefit from many advantages. youtu.be/YnPMagm0GWE Apply now for a job as #Researcher/ #PostDoc (Salary group 13 TV-L, working time 100 %, 2-year contract) www.gesis.org/en/ins...

Deadline in about a month @ all postdocs! Hope to meet you in Mannheim soon next year :)

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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.

Adopting far-right rhetoric: Germany has failed to learn from its neighbors, says @wurthmann.bsky.social. "It seems that active politicians apparently aren't conscious of how central their task is in preventing something like that from happening." 👉 www.dw.com/en/does-adop...

Happy to serve as the editor-in-chief of the Politische Vierteljahresschrift/German Political Science Quarterly (PVS/GPSQ) link.springer.com/journal/11615 @dvpw.bsky.social from January 2026 onwards. Thanks to Eric Linhart for his great work in the last six years! 1/3

📣 Please note ❗ Additional talk by @dustintingley.bsky.social ( @harvard.edu ) ❗️ Thur, Oct 30, 17:15 CET 📍 lecture hall EO150, University of Mannheim "Climate Policy and Energy Transition Tradeoffs: Local Economies and Global Contexts" Details please see 👉 www.uni-mannheim.de/news/climate...

❗️ Tue, Oct 28, 12:15-13:30 CET 📍 A 231 and ZOOM MZES Speaker Series with @dustintingley.bsky.social ( @harvard.edu ) "Who Gets Credit for Green Industrial Policy?" 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even... 1/2

Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey in Four European Countries - Germany verknüpft mit administrativen Daten des IAB (CILS4EU-DE-ADIAB) 1975-2023: Antoni, Manfred; Dollmann, Jörg; Schmucker, Alexandra; Weißmann, Markus

🕑 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

⌛ 17 days until submission deadline for the first @epssnet.bsky.social conference! Send us your paper proposal or ideas for lightening rounds, esp of very early work, or "author meets critic" on the topics of conflict, violence & security!

📣 MZES Fellow @janaberkessel.bsky.social has won the first prize at the Short Talk Awards at the 18th Swiss Psychological Society Conference in Crans-Montana – congratulations! 👏 👉 www.linkedin.com/posts/the-ps...

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❗️ Tue, Oct 21, 13:45-15:15 CET 📍 A 231 and ZOOM MZES Speaker Series with Irena Kogan ( @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social ) "Partnership Formation in the Context of Forced Migration: Insights on Syrians and Afghans in Germany" 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even... The lecture is organised... 1/2

❗️ Tue, Oct 21, 12:15-13:30 CET 📍 A 231 and ZOOM MZES Speaker Series with Fabio Wolkenstein ( @univie.ac.at ) "Connecting Dyadic and Systemic Representation" 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even... 1/2

📢 Heute hat die Promovierendentagung der DeZIM-Forschungsgemeinschaft (FG) am @iabnews.bsky.social mit einer Keynote von @yuliyakosyakova.bsky.social zum Thema begonnen. Darin machte sie klar: „Integration muss als Fortsetzung von Vertreibung und Flucht betrachtet werden, nicht als separate Phase.“

#CallforSubmissions #SocialMedia #conference #research #infrastructure #archiving #indexing #access Join us at the Social Media Access Days from March 17th till 19th, 2026 The conference is organized by DNB in cooperation with GESIS.

🚨 Upcoming: "Large Language Models for Social Research: Potentials and Challenges" 👤 Indira Sen (University of Mannheim) 🗓️ Wed, October 22, 13:45-15:15 CET 📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 🔗 socialsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/page/events/

For my DFG-funded project “German Sexual Identity and Election Study” and my ERC-funded project “VisibleQueers”, I am looking for three student assistants (m/f/d) to provide dedicated support and active collaboration. Please share! www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/three-stu...

📣 Kompromissbereitschaft in Migrationsfragen: Einstellungen zu Einwanderung sind nuancierter als oftmals angenommen. Der Mannheimer Soziologe Marc Helbling zeigt im Interview mit der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, wo grundsätzliche Differenzen Raum für Einigungen lassen 👇 www.kas.de/de/interview... 1/3

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❗️ TODAY, Tue, Oct 14, 13:45-15:15 CET 📍 A 231 and ZOOM MZES Speaker Series with Ben Jann ( @unibe.ch ) "Improving the Quality of Education in Developing Countries: An Experimental Evaluation of Teacher Training Programs in El Salvador " 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even... 1/2

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Wie unterscheiden sich die liberaldemokratischen Werte von Migranten und Nicht-Migranten in Europa? Dr. Gülzau, Prof. Helbling und Dr. Sandra Morgenstern veröffentlichen dazu einen Artikel im European Journal of Political Research 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Hello Mannheim! I'm presenting tomorrow at the Centre for European Social Research. Come for all the empirical modelling you know all about, stay for all the stuff about oil in Northern Europe you know less about 🛢️🌊

📣 Diversity Week 🏳️‍🌈 📆 13-16 October 2025 📍 University of Mannheim With contributions from MZES researchers Rainer Freudenthaler, @wurthmann.bsky.social (14 October), Andrea Chagas López, Oliver Rittmann (15 October) and many others. Programme and details: 👉 www.uni-mannheim.de/en/gleichste...