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...

🚨 New research! 🚨 Check out this recent article by @twanhuijsmans.bsky.social and Wouter van der Brug on place-based resentment and populist voting in the Netherlands. Free to read here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 We're hiring! Join our CSES Team @gesis.org Cologne as a Senior Researcher. If you’re into comparative electoral research and love diving into data, this is your moment. Come shape global democracy with us! 🌍📊 www.gesis.org/en/institute...

📣 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

Putting myself out there a bit. Honest request from an open-source developer: Can I please ask you to encourage people you know to stop with the "any updates on this?" discussion post? Every post like that genuinely makes me die inside a little bit. I'll try to explain in this thread. 1/

It’s publication day!!🎊 In a new Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social piece, Rebecca Johnson, Tyler Simko @simko.bsky.social & I ask: How do you measure conflict in local politics in the United States? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

If I had to choose a conference based on where the awards consistently go to people who truly deserve them, ISPP would be at the top of my list — this is just so nice to see 👏

excited to return to my alma mater @weareceu.bsky.social for the @methodsnet.bsky.social summer school to teach Intro to R! 👨🏻‍💻📊

📦 My R package {ggsurveillance} now supports nested date scales. All thanks to the fantastic {legendry} package by @teunbrand.bsky.social 🔗 ggsurveillance.biostats.dev/ 🔗 teunbrand.github.io/legendry/ ggplot rules supreme #rstats #ggplot #DataViz

New paper @electoralstudies.bsky.social With @gricoc.bsky.social and @rgarciadelhorno.bsky.social we study the presence of legislators with urban and rural backgrounds in national parliaments www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵

this looks like a great read!

while I’m mildly disappointed that taking trains won’t be an option for yet another major European conference, I’m also very excited to see colleagues and friends again at #EPSA2025!

When I moved to Florence for my postdoc I expected a lot of things. The EUI taking center stage for CEE political behavior was definitely not one of them. Huge thanks to @filipkostelka.bsky.social for defying my expectations and turning Fiesole into a powerhouse for studies on the region every June!

🤩 Absolutely delighted to share that our journal, @eepolitics.bsky.social, has earned an Impact Factor of 3.1 for the year 2024. We are stably ranked Q1 in our categories of reference: Political Science (46/322) and Area Studies (4/182). Many thanks to our contributors, reviewers, and readers! 🙏

In 2021 and 2023 I had the chance to serve on the @ERC_Research Starting Grant evaluation panel. There are a couple of things I learned that might be helpful to future applicants. I guess some points apply to other grants as well.

New article from our latest issue (Issue 8, 2025): "Constituency Service and Electoral Accountability in Autocratic Legislatures" by Erin York journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #polisky #socialscience #ComparativePolitics #academicsky

📣 Jobs, jobs, jobs! Aarhus University’s Department of Political Science is hiring: 🔹 Assistant Professor 🗓 Deadline: 25 August 🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil... 🔹 Associate Professor 🗓 Deadline: 8 September 🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

Happy to share this paper with Jeevan Baniya, @smeserve.bsky.social‬, and Brigitte Seim. We used multiple survey experiments to see how Nepali voters think about the trade-off between vote-buying and candidate provision of local public goods (schools, plumbing) in office. doi.org/10.1111/ajps... 1/

FTFY, JD Vance

🇪🇺🇦🇫 Published Today in CPS 🇪🇺🇦🇫 “Stand by those who share our values” – how refugees fleeing the Taliban improved European attitudes toward immigration Article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/os... Thread: 1/8