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/...

🚨New paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1350... @manuelwagner.bsky.social & I re-conceptualize class representation to take into account social mobility between classes and variation in how individuals enter politics.

@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris). We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵: #PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐

🆕 Sore losers on election night? 🫢 Einar Bäckström shows #VoterSatisfaction does not change right after electoral decisions, but becomes more polarised over time ⏰ instead long-term processes drive the winner-loser gap🏅 📖 #OA

🚨 Job Alert! The Department of Government is offering a position as Senior Lecturer in ‘Quantitative Methods and the Political System of Austria’. Interested? Find the full vacancy here: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-L... Applications are open until 27th of October! ✉️‼️

We're hiring! 📢 Senior Lecturer in ‘Quantitative Methods and the Political System of Austria’ for 23 hours per week The position is to be filled from September 1, 2026, and is limited until August 31, 2030 Deadline: 27 October 2025 More details: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-L...

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...

Awards, awards, awards! 🏆✨ At the 11th Annual @oegpw.bsky.social Conference, three members of the Department of Government @univie.ac.at were among the awardees: 🎓 Best PhD – @christinagahn.bsky.social 📘 Best MA – Benjamin Riesch 📗 Best BA – Luca Conte 👏 Huge congrats to all! 🎉 #PoliSky 🧪

New publication with @kgattermann.bsky.social : “Does media framing of election results affect whether voters perceive parties as election winners or losers?” @polstudies.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0032... A short 🧵:

Happy to have you with us. Even happier as your office neighbour 😀

📣 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...

Das, was derzeit meinen Kollegen @dunjahayali.de und Elmar Theveßen widerfährt, dürfte z.T. auch eine orchestrierte Kampagne sein. In den digitalen Kloaken genügt es ja, jemanden zu markieren und dann wird das zum Selbstläufer, in rechtsfreien Räumen, denen sich bislang keine Kraft entgegenstellt. 🧵

💥Online first: "The sound of party competition: how applause reflects unity, disagreement, and the electoral cycle in parliaments" by @ankuepfer.bsky.social @jocmuel.bsky.social & @pluggedchris.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140...

The University of Cologne plans drastic cuts to its Political Science department, potentially abolishing the MSc in Political Science and eliminating the professorships in IR and Comparative Politics. This would severely weaken the social sciences at @unicologne.bsky.social. Petition (de/en) ⤵️

Ein neuer #OpenData Showcase des @parlament.gv.at mit Daten zu personellen Wechseln zwischen Nationalrat und Bundesrat. Wir zeigen darin auch, dass sich die Verweildauer von NR-Abg. seit den 1960ern mehr als halbiert (!) hat:

I will be attending the @ecpr.bsky.social general conference next week on Tuesday (and also Wednesday morning). In my role as editor of the ECPR/OUP Comparative Politics Book series, I'd be happy to meet with anyone who wishes to discuss a project. Please email me directly to set up a meeting.

Do men see gender parity in representation as detrimental to their interests? What about when women’s representation exceeds parity? And how do such shifts affect men’s fairness perceptions? I address these questions in my article, now published in PRQ. 1/9 
doi.org/10.1177/1065...

🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 "From crisis governance to electoral normality and the longest coalition negotiations: the 2024 Austrian parliamentary election" 🇦🇹🗳️🤝 📄 Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0140... By Manuel Scharrer, @janabernhard.bsky.social, @marvins.bsky.social, @schnizzl.bsky.social and me

I am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637

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 🧵

The @epssnet.bsky.social call for the 2026 conference in Belfast opened today! 😮 epssnet.org/belfast-2026... Deadline: 7 November 2025

Dear universities, I am begging you to stop requiring letters of recommendation for master's programmes. You and I both know you don't read them, so stop asking for them. Instead, have applicants list a name and get in touch if it's a borderline case. Signed, Everyone.

⭐🎓The Department of Sociology in Vienna @univie.ac.at‬ invites applications for a Tenure Track Professor in Sociology with focus on Quantitative Social Science Research Methods | #Sociology | quant methods Apply here (17 Sept 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

📣 Postdoc (75 %, 3 yrs) at @unigreifswald.bsky.social — start autumn 2025 on perhaps Germany’s most beautiful campus. Know someone with a PhD (or nearly done) in Political Science? ⬇️ #PolSci #Postdoc

📣 Call for Applications 📣 3-year Postdoc position in Berlin 🚀 Join our Comparative Political Behavior Group at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & the @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social Great people, great projects, great city – come work with us! 🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025

📝🧵 New Publication ✨ My paper on multi-option referendums is now available open access in @cpsjournal.bsky.social If you are interested in referendum design and/or immigrant enfranchisement and/or multi-method work, read on...

🖤 vds-sosci.univie.ac.at/news/news/in...

We're thrilled to already welcome 1.1k followers here on Bluesky, & > 300 members on our Listserv, and counting! Your enthusiasm shows there’s a real appetite for a fresh, open, collaborative space in European political science. Thank you! 1/

I just joined the newly established European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social. It will shape the discource and exchange in our discipline in forseeable future - thanks to all founding members & entrepreneurs.

Service announcement: you can actually spend almost all of #EPSA25 in panels with my colleagues from @stawi-univie.bsky.social. Mostly nice people 😉

Looking forward to @epsanet.bsky.social 2025 & the pre-EPSA European Political Institutions Conference (EPIC) organized by @damienbol.bsky.social & Pedro Riera in Madrid next week. If you want to meet for ☕ , 🍻or 🍽️, please let me know :-)

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION! Who belongs to “the people” – and who does not? What a great way to start the week. I’m really happy that my article on populist in- and outgroup references is now out in @polstudies.bsky.social #openaccess 🔓 doi.org/10.1177/0032... 🧵 1/10

Congratulations, @nicolaiberk.bsky.social ! 😀🎉

A huge congratulations to @nicolaiberk.bsky.social for winning this year's 2025 Kaid Sanders @polcomm.bsky.social article of the year award! #ica25 Having known Nico for a long time, I have seen the gigantic effort that went into this paper and can say it is incredibly well deserved!

What a wonderful evening! Insights into inspiring teaching and doctoral research, a well-deserved birthday party and a fantastic concert of The Sound of Social Science: vds-sosci.univie.ac.at/rising-voices/

I look great in a hat so… It was a pleasure to celebrate the 5th birthday of the Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences - i miss working with excellent colleagues @evakoessner.bsky.social Roman Pfefferle @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social Emma Dowling & many more 🫶🏼🫶🏼 vds-sosci.univie.ac.at/your-benefit...

To be published this autumn 👇

New publication @wepsocial.bsky.social w/ Timothy Hellwig and Lawrence Ezrow! We argue and show that non-centrist/extreme governments prioritize their core supporters over the median voter when making policy. However, this strategy is likely to backfire at the next election. tinyurl.com/ynexbzwh

🚨 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)

#reminder: Jedes zweite Jahr vergibt die Margaretha-Lupac-Stiftung einen Wissenschaftspreis. Er ist mit 21.000 € dotiert. Bis 15. Juni 2025 können Sie Publikationen und Dissertationen zur parlamentarischen Demokratie & ihren Institutionen einreichen. ➡️ https://parl.at/f9s-

Rising Voices: A glimpse into award-winning research and teaching. Celebrate 5 years of ViDSS, Vienna Doctoral School of #SocialSciences, with award-winning teaching & research on 3 June 2025! 🥳 More about it here: ⤵️ vds-sosci.univie.ac.at/your-benefit... #Sozialwissenschaften

Less than two weeks to apply! ⬇️ Please share widely. Thanks!🙂

🚨New Publication 🚨 link.springer.com/article/10.1... Does attitude manipulation affect voting intentions? 🧵

🔥Exciting postdoc position in political communication @ascor.bsky.social starting 1 Sep! The postdoc will work w/ @lindabos.bsky.social, @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social & me on media-politics relations + framing effects in the aftermath of elections. Interested?😀Apply by 5 May⬇️ tinyurl.com/4wz3u5vn

Du weisst, dass du in 🇦🇹 wohnst, wenn du am 1. April überlegst, ob die Meldung nicht doch stimmen könnte...

Terrifying. Students are being detained and deported for expressing support for Palestine on a student newspaper.

Visiting @univie.ac.at this week for @thieled.bsky.social’s defense. If anyone is up for a meeting, let me know! Always happy to chat with junior scholars specifically.

Check out this awesome postdoc opportunity with my friend @jonathanpolk.bsky.social at Lund: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... So much great work to be done in this area and working with Jon would be fantastic!