We're looking for a PhD candidate for a project investigating neural synchrony in #autism at @upf.edu ! 🎓 📍 Location: Barcelona, Spain 📅 Duration: 3–4 years, starting Winter term 2025/26 🔍 About the project & application: See attachment 👇 Please share with anyone interested! @mrgbcn.bsky.social

We look forward to receiving your submissions for the Comparative Politics section of the EPSS conference (@epssnet.bsky.social)! In addition to innovative work on traditional topics & cases, we especially welcome strong contributions on less studied countries and regions (e.g., Eastern Europe). 📝

Soon to open offer for a *funded* PhD to study child poverty dynamics at @demosocupf.bsky.social @upf.edu If you have an interest in quantitative methods, social policy and child poverty this may be for you! Feel free to reach out for enquiries

🎉 Delighted to share new research out today: The Political Consequences of the Mental Load 📄 European Sociological Review doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf019 @europeansocreview.bsky.social What happens to political engagement when the “mental load” of running a household gets too heavy? 🧵

Should liberal leaders prioritize quick action or effective reform after illiberalism? Both options could benefit their opponents. Read "Democracy After Illiberalism: A Warning from Poland" by Stanley Bill and Ben Stanley: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage! I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

New article out in Global Networks! We explore how donor dynamics, embeddedness, and organizational form shape civil society’s strategies for contesting global power and advancing justice, using a global dataset of 290 organizations. Proud to co-author this with @mkolczynska.bsky.social!

NEW - Understanding Voter Fatigue: Election Frequency and Electoral Abstention Approval - cup.org/4enhQaZ "findings hold major implications for our understanding of voter turnout and democratic institutional engineering" - @filipkostelka.bsky.social #OpenAccess

We just published this open access review paper on SES inequality in family formation and dissolution in Central and Eastern Europe. We identified several promising RQ and hypotheses for others to examine. Especially with the new @ggp.bsky.social data. compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

For researchers with limited background in statistics, we have written this gentle introduction to simulation studies (with @timpmorris.bsky.social and other people from the STRATOS initiative): bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/1...

🌎 Compare #data across countries! 🔎 Prof. Marta Kołczyńska's "Comparative Survey Research" course at #RECSM teaches essential harmonization techniques, including survey weights and multilevel regression! More #discounts available: 🔗 www.upf.edu/web/survey/2... #Barcelona #Summer #Methods

⬇️Video is *live*! Fabulous talk by @carolinaplescia.bsky.social about her forthcoming OUP book on "The Meanings of Voting." Highlight video: youtube.com/watch?v=2wT0... Full video & additional info: prd-erc.eu/events Thanks to Carolina, student panelists, webinar advisory board members including...

🚨 We're hiring! Join us at @LMU_Muenchen for the DFG-funded project "Democratic Persuasion: How to Make the Case for Democracy." Interested in making scholarly & societal impact? We’re looking for: 🔹 1 Postdoc (100%) 🔹 1 PhD researcher (70%) Starting: Oct 2025 | Apply by: July 8 More info ⬇️ (1/7)

Are #smartphones and #socialmedia harming a generation? This is a hotly debated and often polarizing debate. So we surveyed over 120 experts on the topic to see where there was genuine consensus (or not), like experts have previous done for climate change. See our paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Update: We submitted the comment to the Journal of Population Economics, and today we got a desk reject with this motivation. However, we do not know their conclusion about the main results and why the paper was not retracted. Clearly, they do not hold. 1/4

WE'RE HIRING! Four 3-year Doctoral Research Assistant positions in my research project on students, generations, and communism...candidates have to be enrolled in a Polish doctoral school programme...otherwise, there's quite some flexibility...links here: isppan.bip.gov.pl/search/jobof...

🎓 Heads up! Apps are OPEN for the SPS Summer Academy 2025 at @eui-eu.bsky.social 📍 Florence | 🗓️ 1–5 Sept 📝 Deadline: 15 May (spots = limited!) 💶 Free + support available www.eui.eu/apply?id=the... #SummerSchool #EUISPS #SmartSummer

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

If your NSF grant has been terminated recently, please report it here ⤵️ airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... We're tracking these terminations to organize, advocate, and possibly litigate. And please spread the word!

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Bremen 🚨 Open to PhD students and early career scholars Fully-funded places available for applicants, deadline 1st of May 📅 summerschoolwpm.org

We crowdsourced 85 teams to indep. computationally reproduce results from a single study in randomized conditions. Reproducibility: • depends heavily on the transparency of materials • high (~95%) for same sign/sig, but low (btw. 48-77% depending on transparency) when requiring within 0.1 effects

Big announcement! POLIN Museum is hosting a Summer School for Early Career Scholars in Jewish studies. We’ll combine seminars, workshops and field visits over a week (Jul 21-28). POLIN is offering very generous financial support. More details below. Please share! polin.pl/en/event/sum...

Wonderful film about the European University Institute Florence & its contemporary Polish History, incl a remarkable recognition for the great historian & politician Bronislaw Geremek who I interviewed for the Vienna daily newspaper in 1990. @patriziananz @EUI_EU polonia.tvp.pl/84120139/pol...

Został przyjęty na #PolitechnikaGdańska jako naukowiec światowego formatu z licznymi publikacjami w międzynarodowych pismach. Jak twierdzi portal #ForBetterScience, jego dorobek ma opierać się na plagiatach i oszustwach #Trójmiasto #wyborcza trojmiasto.wyborcza.pl/trojmiasto/7...

Consistent with our recent APSR on *International* Relations experiments! IR theories are mostly general and supposed to hold across many contexts, but the evidence in support of these theories has almost exclusively come from the U.S. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Want to add a few questions to the General Social Survey? The 2026 module competition is open now! gss.norc.org/content/dam/...

Sweet tooth. I'll take it

Życzę wszystkim (i sobie również), byśmy w 2025 mogli skupiać się w dyskusji na promocji nauki, i tym co w niej pozytywne i inspirujące, zamiast na ciągłym dramacie w jej finansowaniu i kolejnych aferach, które ogniskowały uwagę na akademii.

Many problems with analyzing and presenting data in just one chart! Who can name them all?

Wiadomo, dzięki temu można co roku rozgrywać naukowców, a koniec końców rzucać jakieś doraźne drobne albo obligacje. Prawda @andrzej-domanski.bsky.social @donald-tusk.bsky.social? :)

For the first time in history, each governing party in developed countries with elections saw a decline in vote share. Inflation is a big factor, but I wonder if the rise of negativity as the go-to attention-grabber in today's social media ecosystem might also play a role.

A great substack by @laurenleek.eu on the best places to do a postdoc … although a sense a slight NL bias in the weightings fo give you that final top 10 laurenleek.substack.com/p/the-postdo...

We @unikonstanz.bsky.social are hiring a junior professor in computational social science with a specialization in text-as-data methods and LLMs. Please share and contact me if you are interested! stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2...

What happens after the electoral defeat of illiberal politics? Find out about challenges of post-Pis reform in Poland at our ViPET seminar with @benstanley.pl this Wednesday!🔜

University of Oslo is hiring 2-4(!) Associate Professors in Political Science. The call is open to candidates from all subfields. Deadline is February 3rd. It comes with amazing colleagues, great work conditions, and lots of snow. Brown cheese, salmon, and cross-country skis can be supplementary.

APSR will start inviting replications for a random subset of accepted papers. I really like this as well as the constructive tone around it 👏 (from the latest Notes from the Editors)

@ncngovpl.bsky.social Thanks to NCN I will be able to study human spermatogenesis and oogenesis on knockout mouse models with the spatial transcriptomics resolution 🧬🔬🐭I am pleased to start a new OPUS27 Project 😁

Great news! :) My project 'Taking plastic trees and bad sex seriously. Fresh insights into the liberal vs. legal moralism debate over coercive regulation' got funding from Polish National Science Centre @ncngovpl.bsky.social! Thanks to Reviever3 for the critical comments, I fully agree with them!

Not sure how many #academics are following me here, but here is a great opportunity to lead an awesome team of people in CSS at GESIS. This is actually my position, because I will be leaving academia at the end of the year (1/2)

❗DO YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW WANT TO DO A PHD? We have a PhD project on 'Democratic Resilience, Identities, and Geographical Imaginaries'. Fully funded ✅ Generous research support grant ✅ Supervised by me and a colleague in Geography. Details: generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/irs/wp-conte...

A List of Things People Blamed on Short Skirts 🧵

Nauka na okładce! Polecam jeszcze raz świetny tekst @alicjagardulska.bsky.social, którego nie sposób przeoczyć w weekendowej Wyborczej 🙂

🚨🚨🚨 Job opportunity: 3-yr Postdoc on Inequality & Polarization in my team, with 1-yr secondment @ LSE DSI. Pol economy/behaviour research + strong quantitative/computational methods expertise required. Apply here shorturl.at/XzpXi by Jan 7, 2025. Feel free to reach out with any questions! #polisky

Drafts of the first chapters of my brms Book: Applied Bayesian Regression Modelling Using R and Stan are online: paulbuerkner.com/software/brm... Check it out and let me know what you think!

From 2025 BJPolS will be a fully #OpenAccess title which means new articles are published as Gold Open Access under a Creative Commons licence. You can find your open access options here - cup.org/4hWjxxI And in 2025 BJPolS will publish continuously (no issues).

Anyone have access to the cumulative @chesdata.bsky.social that includes the partyfacts_id? I originally thought partyfacts included variables indicating party IDs from across different sources and unified them with a single partyfacts_id but I can't find a dataset that has this