(Local event in Swedish) Nästa Demokratitisdag på Kulturpunkten i Gottsunda föreläser Statsvetenskapliga institutionens Siri Sylvan och Carl Öhman om "Vem ska man tro på? Desinformation och demokratins motståndskraft" 19 maj 14.00–15.00 Mer info: kulturhus.uppsala.se/gottsunda-ku...

(Local event in Swedish) Den 19 maj kl. 17:00 bjuder Stockholms nation in till panelsamtal med temat "Vem i hela världen kan man lita på? Institutioner, teknologi och människor". Med Åsa Cajander, Otto Fischer och @emeliekarlsson.bsky.social. Moderator: Janne Lindqvist.

Seyla Benhabib, is the 2026 this year’s recipient of the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science! Read more here: www.skytteprize.com/prize-laurea...

We're hiring! Are you a social scientist with experience working with genetic data? Join us as a postdoc and work on gene-environment interplay - with amazing data - in a collaborative project between Uppsala, Oslo and Amsterdam!

Glad that my article is finally out in Political Studies! In it, I examine generalised trust as a source of immigration policy preferences, distinguishing it from prosociality, with Swedish twin data. The main points👇

Happy that my article just published in PSRM! In "Inclusion to Exclude“, I show that when politicians invoke women's rights to justify anti-immigration positions, it shifts citizens' policy preferences - but differently so depending on their prior views. doi.org/10.1017/psrm... [Thread below]

We're happy to announce at least three vacant PhD positions starting in fall 2026! Read more and apply here: www.uu.se/en/departmen...

Jag söker en forkningsassistent i statsvetenskap för att hjälpa till med diverse uppgifter! Sök här: www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-...

Nominations for the Johan Skytte Prize 2026 are open until January 31, 2026. Nomination instructions and nomination form are found here 👇 skytteprize.com/nominate

One week into my stay at the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social, visiting the research group on Platform Algorithms and Digital Propaganda led by Dr Elizaveta Kuznetsova until mid-December. So grateful to spend time in such an inspiring academic environment! www.weizenbaum-institut.de/portrait/p/e...

Just nu massor med tjänster inom statsvetenskap vid Linköpings universitet. BUL i offentlig förvaltning och internationell politik samt UL i internationell politik. Tex: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I011/853...

🚨 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. 🧵

Currently in Madrid for #EPSA2025, and tomorrow I will be presenting one of the papers from my dissertation project on the topic of digital election interference. Let me know if you’re around and want to grab a coffee!

🚨 We’re hiring! Join our lab at @ipk-univie.bsky.social as a predoc on mediated communication using computational methods! The team is also nice 🤗 📍 Vienna 🗓️ Start: September 2025 📌 Apply by June 26 #AcademicJobs #PhD #CommSci #CCL #CSS #Computational #CCS

Today I had the honour of presenting my thesis project at the Center for Security Studies colloquium at @ethz.ch . A huge thank you to everyone who attended and shared their constructive feedback and insightful reflections, and a special thank you to @jvscurrell.bsky.social for the invitation! ⭐

🚨We’re hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science! 📍The Swedish Excellence Centre for Computational Social Science (SweCSS) 📅 Apply by June 3 🔗 liu.se/en/work-at-l...

After 3 packed days of research, workshops, and networking, #COMPTEXT2025 has officially wrapped up! In 48+ panels, 220+ presentations, and a full day of tutorials we received a great review of the state-of-the-art in our field. Thanks everyone and see you next year!

Sharing our new preprint "An Image is Worth K Topics: A Visual Structural Topic Model with Image Embeddings" with @mansmag.bsky.social @matmagnani.bsky.social Alexandra Segerberg and Nataša Sladoje. Available on ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2504.10004

Excited to be at #comptext25 hosted by @compcommlab.bsky.social at @univie.ac.at! 📚 The program is packed with fascinating panels and presentations. Tomorrow, I’ll be presenting part of my thesis on digital election interference, with a focus on news media reporting.

Herbert P. Kitschelt is the winner of the 2025 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. 🏆 He is awarded the prize for " having increased knowledge of the functioning of democratic party systems with exquisite theoretical acuity and impressive empirical breadth and depth."

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Today, I joined the @compcommlab.bsky.social at @univie.ac.at as a visiting PhD student for the remainder of this semester! I'm thrilled to be part of such a vibrant research environment and to dive into the final stages of my dissertation on digital election interference!

Are you interested in learning computational social science methods? If so, you now have the opportunity to apply for the second round of the Swedish Interdisciplinary Research School in Computational Social Science (SIRCSS) at @iasliu.bsky.social ⌛Apply by 31st of March! liu.se/en/research/...

Today I successfully defended the 80% seminar of my PhD thesis! I am beyond grateful for everyone that took the time to attend the seminar and read and comment my draft - and for such a professional performance of my discussant Oskar Hultin Bäckersten and chair @charlesparker.bsky.social!

Apply to the PhD program in political at Uppsala University! Application open now! www.uu.se/en/departmen...

The Call for Papers, Panels and Data Presentations for #COMPTEXT2025 is now out; please feel free to circulate shorturl.at/AmocX! Deadline: January 15! We look forward to meeting you at the University of Vienna and @compcommlab.bsky.social on 24-26 April 2025!

Last week we finalized our second session of the Swedish Interdisciplinary Research School in Computational Social Science (#SIRCSS) - focusing on machine learning and network analysis. A big thank you to all amazing teachers and fellow research-school participants! @iasliu.bsky.social

Repost if you’ve participated in a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science. Let’s get #SICSS Bluesky going!