Auffälligkeit in den Daten der neuen #Mitte-Studie: Unter den jungen Befragten sind Fremdenfeindlichkeit und ein rechtsextremes Weltbild deutlich stärker verbreitet als bei den älteren Menschen. (Komplette Studie der @fesonline.bsky.social: www.fes.de/index.php?eI...)

🗳️ New study (w @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social) on AfD success in integration council elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: AfD achieved significant results in councils elected exclusively by voters with migration backgrounds. It's not about economics—it's about political competition. (1/3)

Wer reinschauen will... Das ist ein exzellent moderiertes Gespräch gewesen (mit @ricardalang.bsky.social)

🚨 Who is willing to participate in video-based web surveys? 🎥 👉 Especially younger, male, and extraverted respondents as well as those with high survey interest. Check out our new #OpenAccess paper with #tlenzner @jkhoehne.bsky.social @conradziller.bsky.social in #mda. 🌐 doi.org/10.12758/mda...

For my DFG-funded project “German Sexual Identity and Election Study” and my ERC-funded project “VisibleQueers”, I am looking for three student assistants (m/f/d) to provide dedicated support and active collaboration. Please share! www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/three-stu...

German Reunification Day invites both gratitude and reflection. Gratitude, because the peaceful revolution of 1989 was nothing short of a miracle — a bloodless dismantling of a repressive regime. Reflection, because the wounds of the transition still mark the country —and because

Posted by the President of the United States.

Just out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 🚨 Together with @dschraff.bsky.social, I ask: Is the urban–rural divide in Europe affectively polarised? 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 1/7 🧵

2024 haben die KI-Serverfarmen in den USA so viel Strom verbraucht wie ganz Polen. Und diese Zahl wird sich in den nächsten Jahren locker verzehnfachen. Den Planeten für diese Zufallsgeneratoren mit Massendatenspeicherung anzuzünden ist nicht "Künstliche Intelligenz", das ist menschliche Dummheit.

One of the guys buying US TikTok

As Reform's Nathan Gill admits taking bribes from Russian 'secret service pawn' Oleg Voloshyn, here’s a nice photo of Nigel Farage with Voloshyn’s wife.

Coming up on Monday the @medem.bsky.social conference at @gesis.org in Cologne. Stay tuned for the future of democracy research infrastructures www.medem.eu/coming-up-th... Keynotes from @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social and @sldelange.bsky.social

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.

🥲 Thank you for the kind words, @nilssteiner.bsky.social! It was a great honor and pleasure for me to serve as spokesperson for @dvpw.bsky.social #AKWahlen for 6 years and to work with you, @conradziller.bsky.social, @heikogiebler.bsky.social and @melff.bsky.social in the steering committee.

That was very cool! Many thanks to @nilssteiner.bsky.social, @ackermannk.bsky.social, @conradziller.bsky.social and everyone else for these two great days 🚂

The #AKWahlen will meet again in Mainz on May 7-8, 2026, returning to our regular schedule. We hope to welcome many of you to beautiful Mainz next year!

At the business meeting, @sgarritzmann.bsky.social was elected as a new spokesperson of the #AKWahlen of the @dvpw.bsky.social. 🎉 Welcome aboard, Susanne! We are very much looking forward to steering the working group together with you.

The conference marked the end of @ackermannk.bsky.social’s second term as spokesperson. Kathrin, thank you so much for your dedicated service to the #AKWahlen over the past six years! Conrad and I will miss working with you in this capacity.

Two fantastic days of the annual conference of the #AKWahlen are now behind us. Many thanks for the many excellent presentations, the friendly atmosphere, and to the local Berlin team for the fabulous organisation on site! ❤️ Watch out for the special issue in @electoralstudies.bsky.social!

🗳️ Tag 1 der AK-Wahlen-Tagung @ FU Berlin 💡Hervorragende Präsentationen und intensive Diskussionen zu aktuellen Themen der Wahl- und Einstellungsforschung 🤝 Viele Gelegenheiten zum Networking 📝 Wir freuen uns auf den zweiten Tag mit weiteren spannenden Einblicken! #Wahlforschung #AKWahlen

Kommunalwahl in Nordrhein-Westfalen: Konsolidierte Koalitionsparteien, erstarkte AfD und Verluste bei den Grünen. Darüber konnte ich am Wahlabend mit dem Deutschlandfunk sprechen 🎙️➡️ www.deutschlandfunk.de/wie-weiter-n... #Kommunalwahl #NRW @emppolitikwiss.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social

#APSAbyseaplane maybe not the environmentally friendliest way to travel, but certainly the coolest 😎 Looking forward to discussing latest polsci research and meeting friends and colleagues at #APSA2025

On Thursday, September 11, 2025, @conradziller.bsky.social  will present the paper „Understanding Public Support for Integration Councils in Germany“ (co-authored with @hummlerteresa.bsky.social  and @paulvierus.bsky.social ) at #APSA2025!

@conradziller.bsky.social and @hummlerteresa.bsky.social investigate differences in the acceptance of two different parenting styles between Muslim and non-Muslim respondents. Read this open access article here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The meeting was a disaster for everyone except two people. Trump got his photo op and his ego boost. Putin got his photo op, whitewashing of war crimes and no sanctions. No one in Ukraine, Europe or the United States benefited in any way.

🇺🇸‼️ The Alaska summit marks a major success for Putin, as it effectively ends his diplomatic isolation. His true goal is not peace, but securing Trump’s support, NYT reports. 📍 The Kremlin seeks to ease Washington’s frustration over its delays in implementing a ceasefire.

How does the second-order national election (SONE) theory hold up in the 2024 European Parliament election? I explore this in a short letter now published in @eupthejournal.bsky.social. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📢 New publication in Social Science Research: "Beyond Religious Categories" (with @hummlerteresa.bsky.social ) 📊 In a survey experiment, we investigate why Muslims are more likely to accept violent parenting practices than non-Muslims 📚 Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/3

🤬 Putin appears to have teamed up with a Libyan warlord to trigger a fresh migrant crisis in the EU, - The Telegraph The European Commission has tracked an increased number of flights between the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi and Minsk.

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 🧵

Die Polarisierungsunternehmer* haben gewonnen. Der autoritäre Umbau rückt ein großes Stück näher. Das war nur die erste von vielen Kampagnen&Kulturkämpfen autoritärer Kräfte. Die AfD hat nun eine Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung für die Übernahme von Regierungsmacht. www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...

📰Lesetipp! @conradziller.bsky.social erklärt im Welt Artikel zur NRW- #Kommunalwahl in Köln, warum die Aufstellung eigener Kandidaten der Parteien positiv zu bewerten ist und inwiefern die Karten in Köln neu gemischt werden! 👇

As in: Ich darf euch vorschreiben wir ihr zu sprechen habt und zwar so, dass ich, weißer Mann, der Standard bin.

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage! I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

Die Geheimkontakte von Platzeck, Pofalla, Stegner usw. nach Moskau sind insofern nach Berichten von FAS/FAZ und Spiegel interessant, da es sich entweder um von der Scholz-Regierung gedeckte oder um Verratshandlungen handelt. Gelogen wird in jedem Fall.

WTF! 20 Jahre bleibt ein Programmierfehler in einer Software im Kultusministerium BaWü... u soll der Grund für 1.400 unbesetzte Lehrerstellen sein, für die es Geld im Haushalt gab, aber irgendwie merkte das keiner, 20 JAHRE LANG!!! Bis zum Computer Update!

Er versucht das nun seit Wochen mit seinem Freund Krah und schafft, da ihm schon in Brüssel nichts gelingt, nicht einmal das: Wie erbärmlich dieser Typ ist

Quite a strong final statement: "Descriptive research is important and it is a pity that the general obsession with causal estimates disincentivizes researchers from attempting to publish careful and detailed description."

“The stunning reversal of ocean circulation in the Southern Hemisphere confirms the global climate system has entered a catastrophic phase>' This is very very bad news: www.intellinews.com/southern-oce...

Eine neue Studie zeigt mittels einer Umfrage auf, dass die Erfüllung gewisser sozialer Normen, die typischerweise im Rahmen der «Integration» verlangt werden, von «Ausländern» stärker erwartet wird als von der Gesellschaft als ganzes.

(2/2) 🤝However, social openness and positive intergroup contact in the neighborhood can mitigate this negative impact. ➡️ Social openness builds trust — including trust in politics. 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #Research #Trust #Migration #Discrimination #Integration #PoliticalTrust

Extremely happy to see my first single-authored paper published! Check it out in @ersjournal.com 👇

President Trump has issued no new restrictions on Russia this year, in effect allowing Moscow to acquire the money and materials it needs in its conflict with Ukraine.

New paper out in @ssreditorial.bsky.social! A. Bertogg, @ppraeg.bsky.social and I find that cargiving is associated with better cognitive health - so some positive effect for a change

📢 New publication in Social Science Research: "Beyond Religious Categories" (with @hummlerteresa.bsky.social ) 📊 In a survey experiment, we investigate why Muslims are more likely to accept violent parenting practices than non-Muslims 📚 Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/3

As someone who has already published in PVS and serves on the board of the German Political Science Association, I’m incredibly proud of the German Political Science Quarterly, which now has an impact factor of 2.5! @pvs-journal.bsky.social

❕📣 My first paper is now published! “They don’t have the time for that, participating in politics” - How local politicians interpret political integration in the USA. It is available as open access in the Journal of International Migration and Integration. doi.org/10.1007/s121...

🗞️ Honored to be featured in The New York Times discussing the far-right's strategic expansion in western Germany 📰 "Far-Right Party Tries to Expand Its Appeal in Germany’s West" by Clay Risen // Link (w paywall): www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/w... 📄 PDF for those behind the paywall: shorturl.at/1svWh

Female PhD students (in economics) benefit tremendously from having female faculty around. When female professors go on leave, it decreases third-year female PhD students’ likelihood of publishing & securing academic positions. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....