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....

📊 New study: What makes people share personal data with digital services? Large-scale experiment shows: 🤝 Friend recommendations strongly increase data sharing willingness 🌱 Sustainability promises work - but mainly for environmentally conscious users doi.org/10.1016/j.te...

Die Niederlande zeigen: Wenn Konservative glauben, sie könnten Rechtsextreme einhegen, endet das in ihrem eigenen Machtverlust. Die Lehrbuch-Koalitionspleite rund um Wilders ist eine Warnung – auch an ostdeutsche Partei-Verbände, die mit der AfD liebäugeln. 👉 www.handelsblatt.com/meinung/komm...

Erinnerung an den CfP für die diesjährige AK-Wahlen-Tagung in Berlin (18./19.09.) - Deadline ist der 15. Juni 🕖📝🏃

LLMs may sometimes act like humans because they’ve read the social science research telling them how they’re expected to act

Wer die Herausforderungen unserer Zeit verstehen und gute Ideen für die Zukunft entwickeln möchte, braucht mehr als nur eine Perspektive. Genau dafür steht unser BA in PPE an der @unidue.bsky.social! > Studieninteressierte sind herzlich zum PPE-Infotag am 4.6. eingeladen www.uni-due.de/ppe/infotag25

📣 Call for Papers: Jahrestagung DVPW-Arbeitskreises "Wahlen und politische Einstellungen" 📅 18.-19. September 2025 Freie Universität Berlin 📨 Einreichungsfrist Abstracts: 15. Juni 2025 an [email protected] @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @dvpw.bsky.social www.dvpw.de/fileadmin/us...

#jobs 🚨🚨🚨 4 postdocs in Münster: stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/5... I‘m involved in one appointment. More details will follow soon!

The first person I hooded: Congrats Dr. Paul Vierus @paulvierus.bsky.social @emppolitikwiss.bsky.social #proud

"Nicht die Einstellungen der Deutschen haben sich grundlegend gewandelt – sondern die Art, wie diese aktiviert, politisch mobilisiert und medial verstärkt werden." (@conradziller.bsky.social @makronom.bsky.social) makronom.de/wie-migratio...

Der mediale Umgang mit AfD-Gutachten ist unerträglich. Habe selten solche Dichte an Interviews mit Aktiven der Partei erlebt wie jetzt. Diese Lust, Täter in Mittelpunkt zu stellen und zu fragen, ob sie das alles wollten, ob sie wirklich so schlimm seien, ob sie das gar nicht so meinten. Grauenhaft

MAGA: You and your children work in these plants for the rest of your lives Everyone: So, uhm, are you talking about well-paid union jobs that make the brutal work worth it? MAGA: Stop whining and accept your fate! USA! USA! USA! Everyone: ??? MAGA: America is Great Again! Trump is our God-King!