⚙️ #ecprjs26 Workshop directors 🎬 @maarja.bsky.social & @mtplk.bsky.social 💡 Seeks Papers examining how gender & sexuality shape democratic representation, political participation and power structures ✔️ @sgparliaments.bsky.social endorsed ⌛ Submit by 3 Dec buff.ly/YsJGQYo #Polisky #CallforPapers

🚨 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 🧵

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/...

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

CfP🚨 Maarja and I are grateful to @sgparliaments.bsky.social for their endorsement and look forward to exciting paper proposals on politics and gender in legislatures (and beyond!) using quantitative and computational methods. Shoot us a message if you have any questions ✉️ #ecprjs26

🚨 EPSS Belfast 2026 Call for Papers - One week to go! 🚨 Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

For my course on Conflict and Representation in the EU, I made an interactive Shiny app that plots CHES party positions, for all countries, years (1999-2024) and (most) dimensions in the dataset. Enjoy! dimiter.shinyapps.io/ches/ #polsci #Polisky #EUsky #Comparativesky #polbehaviorsky

If you know anyone considering doing a PhD in political science or sociology, encourage them to apply to the EUI PhD program and join the institute's landmark 50th cohort of PhD researchers in the SPS Department! Applications from Central and Eastern Europe are particularly welcome!

#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch It's good, for other people, for you not to be a bigot. New longitudinal paper shows: Being racist makes you more mentally distressed over time. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Delighted to announce we are advertising our first academic post in the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). The position is Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science and is joint with Politics, the Oxford Internet Institute, and Reuben College 1/n

Have a multilingual cross-country text analysis project? We just published a paper in @computationalcommunication.org with advice for validating your empirics! 👉 doi.org/10.5117/CCR2....

On the advice of @massdara.bsky.social, I looked at a 2011 article by scholar Alena Ledeneva, "Open Secrets and Knowing Smiles," about how Russians navigate the gray areas and paradoxes of authoritarian society. meduza.io/en/brief/202...

"If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?" Billie Eilish speaking directly to Mark Zuckerberg, as she donates $11.5m to food poverty and climate justice organisations.

We're hiring a Lecturer in Political Science @vuamsterdam.bsky.social (deadline Nov 24): 👉 werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/le...

The first EU member state to do so barely 2 years after the long-fought EU accession to the Istanbul Convention 💔 A very troubling development

🎤 With @sldelange.bsky.social in @theguardian.com on the Dutch election outcome: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

🚨🚨Very welcome new French landmark legislation was approved yesterday introducing the concept of consent in the legal definition of #rape following the shocking #GisèlePelicot trial last year. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/fran...

Pairwise visual conjoint experiment in the wild

Ready to rumble! Live commentary on exit poll and results with @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social and yours truly from 8.30 PM till very late on NPO1

Vandaag zonder paywall. Mijn column voor De Groene van deze week. Over de politisering van de rechtsstaat en de linkse respons.

Visiting Researchers Program #ECPRMemberJobs 📝 Applications are welcome from professors, postdoctoral researchers, and doctoral students 🇩🇪 Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies ⌛ Friday 31 October buff.ly/BbRQdYD #PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky

Honored to share that my book Parties under Pressure has been awarded the Brian Farrell Prize by the @psaireland.bsky.social for the best book in political science in 2024. A massive thanks to all who supported me, including the fantastic team @uchicagopress.bsky.social. Book: tinyurl.com/bp7tpr4a

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AI chatbots offer vote advice ahead of elections. Unreliable, non-transparent. And are these applications high risk AI? Dutch data protection authority warns voters not to rely on chatbots ahead of October 29 elections. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

🌸 #ECPG26 @ecprgender.bsky.social Section seeking Panels and Papers ⤵️ 📚 Bridging Boundaries: The State of the Art in Empirical Gender and Politics Research 🪑@dariusribbe.bsky.social @mtplk.bsky.social ⌛👇 7 Nov buff.ly/1Te6ATa #GenderSky #Governance #PoliticalMethodology #qualitative #quantitative

@mrooduijn.bsky.social en ik duiken vandaag in het electoraat van JA21 op @stukroodvlees.bsky.social stukroodvlees.nl/plaatjes-van...

finally posting about this here as well: I have successfully defended my dissertation this Monday 🤓 with a stellar committee @lucykinski.bsky.social & @rheinisch.bsky.social and my lovely supervisors by my side @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social & @nzwiener-collins.bsky.social 🤍 onwards and upwards now!

If you're looking to do a PhD on a timely subject, I'm on the advisory board of a cool new project; "When Lies Take Root: Investigating the Impact of Misinformation on Those at Risk" at the top-ranked Amsterdam School of Communication Research/ Do share & apply: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

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 🧪

In the The Shadow Scholars documentary, Oxford professor Patricia Kingori uncovers Kenya's hidden essay mills where highly educated yet underemployed writers produce academic papers for wealthy Western students. Directed by Eloïse King.

💫📣 #ECPG2026 Call for Papers and Panels is open!! Join our LGBTIQ+, Sexuality, Queer and Trans Studies, Policies and Politics Section 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸: mobilizations, trans/intersex politics, anti-gender movements, links to racism/colonialism, migration, geopolitics & affect/resistance. ecpr.eu/Events/Event....

🚨Dark Politics is now out at OUP in paperback, hardcover, ebook Feeling that politics is getting dark? We have a book for ya We investigate dark personality traits in politicians worldwide, and why they matter - for voters, elections, and democracy mini🧵(& voucher!)

Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📣 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...

The call for papers for the first ever EPSS conference 2026 in Belfast is open until November 7th 2025. epssnet.org/belfast-2026/ @rdassonneville.bsky.social and I will be chairing the section on Electoral and Voting Behavior. We look forward to your submissions and to a fantastic conference!

It's hiring season at @iast.fr! - 2y research postdoc contract - Full autonomy, you are your own PI - Awesome multidisciplinary environment - All social and behavioral sciences welcome - Seed funding for projects and workshops - Gorgeous city in the south of France www.iast.fr/research-fel...

Great to see this out! With @bsky.charispapaevangelou.eu we analyse the DSA “Statement of Reasons” database, the EU-mandated archive of moderation decisions by online platforms. We examine what kind of platform observability the database affords & find large regional and cross-platform differences.

Delighted to see @melissamichelson.bsky.social announce @sophiemainz.bsky.social as this year's recipient of the @epovb.bsky.social John Sullivan Award for her fantastic experimental work on femonationalism from APSA 2024 🏆 Sophie will be on the job market soon & any uni. would be luck to have her!

LSE's Department of Methodogy is searching for an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science. Applicants from across the social sciences are very welcome! Please reach out if you would like any more details.

🔔 Call for papers for ECPG 2026 is now open! 🔔 Submit your empirical gender & political communication papers/panels to our section by Nov 7th. Full info here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

📢 CfP alert! Our section “Bridging Boundaries: The State of the Art in Empirical Gender and Politics Research” at #ECPG26 is now open for submissions! @dariusribbe.bsky.social and I are super excited to chair this section! More info here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... @ecprgender.bsky.social

🚨📢 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...

📢 CfP Men and Masculinities in Politics at the #ecpg26 @ecprgender.bsky.social in Newcastle. Section chaired by @men4dem.bsky.social members @niklinders.bsky.social #malinholm. Now open for paper submissions! ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

We are hiring! Join @ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz as a 👉 Postdoctoral Researcher in Comparative Area Studies and take part in building the future 🌏 Center for Multidisciplinary Area Studies (CenMAS). Based in Prague – details here: bit.ly/CenMASpostdoc @millanos.bsky.social @karelkouba.bsky.social

I feel overwhelmed and incredibly honoured to announce that I have been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant for my project “VisibleQueers”, fully titled as “Making the Queers Visible: Partisanship and Support among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Eastern and Western Europe”. #ERCStG

closing one chapter in Salzburg and opening a new one in Amsterdam 🇳🇱 super excited to join @lizamugge.bsky.social’s Politics of Diversity group @ @aissr.bsky.social as a postdoc and work on the “Political Masculinities in Europe” project 🤓 and look at the view 😍

New study in Nature Communications (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62452-z): "3 stages of religious decline around the world." We find a secular transition begins at different times in different places. Over generations, drops in religious: 1. Participation 2. Importance 3. Belonging

✨ New open-access paper ✨ We explored language similarity between Querdenken (Telegram) and German politicians (Twitter). In short: AfD’s communication most similar, but parts of FDP and CDU/CSU also find common ground through discrediting left-wing politics. Full paper: 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1369...