LoPaPol is back! 💥 Come join us in Darmstadt for the 3️⃣ edition of the Local Party Politics workshop! ⏰ 24-25 March 2026 🚧 Organizers: @christinajuen.bsky.social Björn Egner @pluggedchris.bsky.social & myself with the help of LoPaPol legends @simonotjes.bsky.social & @rafreuse.bsky.social

if you want to understand why #Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony (@europeangreens.eu) is protesting w/ flaming torches rn in front of PM #Orbán 's office & why the 🇭🇺 capital might go bankrupt very soon, I have an OA 🔓 article published at @cjres.bsky.social for you: academic.oup.com/cjres/articl...

@sonjapriebus.bsky.social Aleksandra Maatsch& me are organizing a workshop on 'Opposing challenges to democracy across contexts' in Frankfurt (Oder) 26-27 March 2026. Do you have a paper that might fit? ➡️Call for Papers (📆Deadline: 05/12) www.dvpw.de/informatione...

🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨 Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3

🌟 JOB ALERT! 🌟 I’m hiring 1 postdoc for my ERC project ECONENGAGE (@ Gothenburg 🇸🇪)! Starting ca. Aug '26! Congenial colleagues + int'l & supportive environment. 💸 for conferences + workshops! Lots of professional networking opportunities with scholars! Deadline Jan 7th. Apply! (see more below 🧵)

rent might be higher in Budapest than in Florence, and croissants cost more than in Vienna –– but you can still get a high-quality, nationally representative probability sample via CAPI in Hungary for under 3,000 EUR

today marks the end of our RADAR 📡 consortium meeting! Our @eui-stg.bsky.social team was delighted to host partners from @hertieschool.bsky.social @io-pgi-kuleuven.bsky.social @qoginstitute.bsky.social @ditpgouv.bsky.social Radboud, SNSPA & TalTech 🙌

Start of the consortium meeting of the Horizon RADAR project theradarproject.eu on democratic anchorage of public administration reforms. Some universities have better ceilings than others.

📣 this is a super exciting opportunity for anyone methods-minded!!

Publication Alert: @evertmeijers.bsky.social and I examined the spatial orientation of MPs in NL. We studied whether MPs' region of origin matters and the parties' electoral consequences. We show a paradox: peripheral places don't reward parties that pay attention to them doi.org/10.1111/tesg...

tmap or ggplot2 for maps? 🗺️ David O’Sullivan breaks down the trade-offs in a blog post. URL: dosull.github.io/posts/2024-1... #RStats #RSpatial #Maps #tmap #ggplot2

Work on #transnational #illiberalism? Consider submitting a paper for my workshop at ecpr.bsky.social joint sessions! Seeking papers on #illiberal #parties, #socialmovements, #transnationalism and trans-regionalism. Deadline 3 December! Event details here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna! ⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025 wratil.eu/files/MULTIR... 1/4 🧵

Tomorrow from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., we at the Italian Center for Electoral Studies will host a webinar with @sldelange.bsky.social to analyze the evolution of the Dutch party system after the recent 2025 election! Info and link to join here: scienzepolitiche.luiss.it/research-sem...

Four (!) three-year postdoc positions available at @au.dk: international.au.dk/about/profil... Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy. Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs

🖥️ New to R? Our 2-day online intro course at #KOMEX2026 covers coding basics, data wrangling, visualizations, & regression – no prior experience needed. 📅 Feb 19–20 | €180 early bird | 1 ECTS 👨‍🏫 Taught by @kovarek.bsky.social @ @eui-eu.bsky.social 🔗 afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...

Sadly I’ll have to miss the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social conference, as two of my best friends are tying the knot that same weekend 👰‍♀️🤵 For anyone not drowning in 30-somethings hunting for rings and last names, this is definitely the one to apply for!👇

We are hiring PhDs and postdocs to work on the ERC project GETGOV, where I am the PI. We will investigate governing elites since 1789. I am sure that it will be a lot of fun and result in great research! Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... PhDs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Putin comes to Budapest so often, even pest control companies plan around his visits –– this one promises to be on time, even when he's in town

NEW! The public opinion effects of antisemitic elite cues: a survey experiment on the Hungarian Soros campaign in @eepolitics.bsky.social w/ @bencehamrak.bsky.social @erinjenne.bsky.social G.Simonovits. Soros cues worked through partisan motivated reasoning & not antisemitism doi.org/10.1080/2159...

📢 Call open! We are hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher for the EU-funded project TaCT-FoRSED, which studies how conspiracy theories affect democratic attitudes. ℹ️ Info: tauler.seu-e.cat/detall?idEns... 🔗 Application: seleccio.uab.cat/seleccio/log...

super happy to receive a BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant with my friend @dasilvapp.bsky.social to field survey experiments in 🇭🇺 Hungary (and hopefully also bring him to @eui-eu.bsky.social to visit once we have results!) 🎉 #Polisky

Whoa—my book is up for pre-order! 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭 & 𝐌𝐋 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 #Rstats 𝐚𝐧𝐝 #PyData The book presents an ultra-simple and powerful workflow to make sense of ± any model you fit The web version will stay free forever and my proceeds go to charity. tinyurl.com/4fk56fc8

📘 64.4 🔥 MPs often invoke local cues in Tweets, especially during campaign periods, but these authors study finds no clear electoral reward. Local references don’t boost voters’ support or preference votes. 📊 #PoliSky #VotingBehaviour #OA

New blog post! Ever wonder what geom_histogram is actually doing? How about geom_boxplot? In celebration of the release of #ggplot2 4.0.0 (ggplot8?), I explore the relationships between the “geoms” and “stats” offered by the core {ggplot2} functions. #rstats

Interested in gender & politics and working with exciting empirical methods? Want to critically discuss “quant” and “quali” research on gender, intersectionality & inequality? Join us at #ECPG26 for the section: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... 1/3

🚨📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Computational Political Science at the University of Antwerp! 💻 Focus: NLP + ML + political text analysis 🗳️ Project: ERC DEMO-LIES (disinformation in democracies) 🌍 Location: Antwerp, 🇧🇪 📅 Deadline: 16 Oct 2025 www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...

join #KOMEX2026 and learn R with me next February! 👨🏻‍💻📊

on my way to Naples to close the conference season with #SISP2025, presenting 2 papers on Thursday! Non vedo l’ora di vedere i miei amici e colleghi!

no better way to depart from #ecprgc25 than 👀 my paper just published in @eupthejournal.bsky.social! I find localism in an unlikely place & show that people feel more represented when they live in incumbent MEPs' hometowns, using survey data from 🇷🇴🇭🇺🇮🇹🇧🇪 doi.org/10.1177/1465... #Polisky

after 3 days of teaching at @ecpr.bsky.social methods school, it's now time to wrap up #ecprgc25 by presenting a survey experiment on @solid-erc.bsky.social data on Friday afternoon –– drop by if you're not at the beach already

Registration is NOW OPEN for #KOMEX2026 ✨ Excellence. Affordability. No flights. In-person @uni-konstanz.de or online via #ekomex Learn from top scholars in: 🧠 R, Python, NVivo, QCA, Process Tracing, ML, SNA & more 🗓️ Feb 2026 🔗 Join: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/komex/kon... @methodsnet.bsky.social

My experiment on election outcomes, partisan identity & affective polarization is now out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social. Puzzle: From a group ID lens, outcomes could shift both perceived out-party threat & in-group status → ambivalent predictions for affective polarization.

🌅📙 64.3 The Personalisation of Politics 📚 @mathiastromborg.bsky.social & @mvinaes.bsky.social look at local elections in 🇩🇰 to find whether making party lists more open has little effect on how voters or politicians focus on individuals. 🔗

arriving early to the #ecprgc25 party to get a glimpse of Thessaloniki before 4 days of intense teaching & paper presentations @ecpr.bsky.social

{tinytable} 0.13.0 for #RStats can now draw interactive tables with sorting, filtering & pages! And the 📦 is still an ultra-simple, powerful, and 0-dep way to create beautiful tables in basically any format: tex, typ, docx, pdf, png, md, etc Gallery & Docs: vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

New Post: "For Your Syllabus: Statistical Power" Add content on statistical power to your social science courses. Not just to methods courses. For substantive courses, Bloom's MDE (i.e., 80% power to detect 2.5*SE) is easy to teach and really helpful! www.carlislerainey.com/blog/2025-08...

Apply to EuroWEPS 12/13! We're organizing the next EuroWEPS workshops at Bocconi (Nov 14) and EUI (Dec 15) to discuss designs/papers focusing on causal inference. No presentations, just constructive discussions. Early career scholars are especially welcome to apply! Submission deadline is Sep 30

I'm delighted to advertise an exciting job as centre manager, helping me build Oxford's new Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). We start this academic year and aim to attract as new faculty some of the world's top people in computational, experimental and qualitative methods.

Munger 1-0 Charlemagne kevinmunger.substack.com/p/i-guess-th...

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 🧵

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS! We’re looking for presenters for the upcoming term (early October to mid-December 2025). If you’d like to present, please fill out the form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🗓 Deadline for proposals: August 31

this could be a serious blow for Orbán's Fidesz, which "outspends everyone on Meta’s Facebook and Instagram" (via @politico.com) opposition #TISZA already leads the polls, despite the €371K spent on GONGOs and Astroturf influencers over the course of a single month (!) to discredit the party leader

New paper out @wepsocial.bsky.social! 🥡 Key Take-Away: Opposition parties seek more conflict with the government when performing poorly in the polls – especially when falling below their previous election result. Read full 🧵 below:

During grad school, I once submitted a paper, stood up from my desk, put on my coat, left to grab a käseleberkässemmel, and got my desk rejection before I reached the Würstelstand 🌭

🔗 More details and application link (deadline: 16 September 2025): www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universit...

glad to see that my recent article on TISZA, a new 🇭🇺 partly that'd defeat #Orbán if elections were held today, now comes with page numbers in @eepolitics.bsky.social ! (it's also temporarily free to read 👀) #Polisky

📢 📢 Last Day to Register ! 📢 📢 The full conference timetable is now available explore what is in store at the 2nd MethodsNET Conference: - 20+ short training modules -4 thematic tracks & many more🤩 👉 Check the programme here: bit.ly/4m3WXUX ➡️ Register before midnight: lnkd.in/e9WD5wfY

📢 New Publication! I’m happy to share that my research on access to information found its home in the Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media. Here’s the link to the full study (open access): journalqd.org/article/view...