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Just for avoidance of doubt, this would be a war crime. It could arguably be multiple war crimes as it would violate multiple international laws which specifically prohibit the destruction of objects indispensable to civilian survival, which "obliterating Iran's power plants" would definitely be.

What an amazing idea! Just tried it and already learned a lot about new interesting research - highly recommended!

Bei den #Integrationsratswahlen in NRW 2025 erzielte die #AfD überraschende Ergebnisse. Eine Studie der Uni Siegen & der #UDE zeigt: Nicht soziale Not oder wirtschaftl. Abstieg erklären den Erfolg, sondern fehlender polit. Wettbewerb. www.uni-due.de/2026-03-09-w... 📸 alphaspirit – stock.adobe.com

📢 New in IMR. We often ask whether #refugees “integrate.” But what happens when the host society becomes hostile? I develop the concept of social marginalization and show that refugees in more #violent German counties report stronger feelings of exclusion and discrimination. doi.org/10.1177/0197...

🚨 Job alert! 🚨 We’re #hiring a #PhD candidate at NIDI (The Hague). Together with @frankvantubergen.bsky.social and @glorenz.bsky.social, I will supervise a project on the connection of different dimensions of social cohesion in ethnically diverse schools. Deadline 1 April 2026. More information:

Am Sonntag ist Landtagswahl in Baden-Württemberg. Was sagt das Zweistimme.org Modell vorher? ⬇️

Fascinating paper by @elena-amaya.bsky.social on Kinderschreck folklore and far-right voting in the Weimar Republic. It fits neatly with theories of “black pedagogy” and how fear-based upbringing can foster authoritarian dispositions.

📢 Our study (w @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social) on AfD success in integration council elections is now published in @pvs-journal.bsky.social 📖 doi.org/10.1007/s116... 👉Socioeconomic factors explain where the AfD runs, but not its success ❗Mainstream party competition is central to counter PRRP success

About one week left to submit proposals for our #AKWahlen conference in Mainz. No fee, open topic, nice people & city! More here: www.dvpw.de/gliederung/a... Cc: @sgarritzmann.bsky.social @conradziller.bsky.social @dvpw.bsky.social

Der neue Blogbeitrag von @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social und @conradziller.bsky.social zeigt: Nicht sozioökonomische Faktoren sind entscheidend, sondern fehlender Parteienwettbewerb und institutionelle Leerstellen. 👉 Mehr dazu im Blog! www.politik-wissenschaft.org/2026/01/12/a...

Wie konnte die #AfD bei den #Integrationsratswahlen 2025 in NRW ausgerechnet unter Wähler:innen mit Einwanderungsgeschichte große Erfolge erzielen? 🤔 (1/2)

What could go wrong?

Does social media harm everyone? No. But it harms *most* adolescents. However, not all platforms are harmful. An analysis of 44,211 diaries from 479 adolescents over 100 days finds that 60% of adolescents experienced small, negative effects of social media link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📣 New open-access article on political knowledge among naturalized German citizens in International Migration Review. “Becoming an Informed Citizen — the Relationship Between Naturalization Regimes, Language, and Political Knowledge Among Naturalized Citizens”. doi.org/10.1177/0197...

🎄 Neuer Blogbeitrag 🎄 Machen Linke mehr Geschenke? 🎁
@jeicheler.bsky.social untersucht in seinem neuen Blogbeitrag, ob politische Überzeugungen nicht nur Meinungen sind – sondern sich auch im tatsächlichen Geben zeigen. (1/3)

Neuer Blogbeitrag zur Advents- und Weihnachtszeit: Machen Linke mehr Geschenke? Ideologie beeinflusst, wie viel Menschen bereit sind, anderen zu geben: Linke geben (in unserem Experiment) mehr.

🎉 The GLES panel data releases for the 2025 German federal election are now complete—an amazing data treasure for analyzing political attitude shifts and decision‑making during the campaign and beyond. #GLES2025 #BTW2025 #ElectionResearch

we have 5 positions open at @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt - a 4,5 year postdoc in my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage - 2 postdoc & 2 PhD positions, 4 years, in a research group on Reconfiguration & Internalization of Social Structure www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...

Exklusiv: Mindestens 6 AfD-Landtagsabgeordnete aus Sachsen-Anhalt sind gerade für eine Republikaner-Gala nach New York gereist. Einige haben ihre Ehefrauen dabei. Bezahlt wird der USA-Trip von der Fraktion - aus Steuergeldern. Kritiker schätzen Kosten von 50.000 Euro www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

I want to emphasize that this has been a very cool and stimulating event in previous years!

Nichts sagt so sehr "Ich will ja niemanden angreifen." (Putin) wie ein 10-stündiger Drohnen- und Raketenangriff auf eine europäische Großstadt und Luftkriegterror gegen Zivilisten.

📢 Call for Papers: Jahrestagung des DVPW-Arbeitskreises Wahlen und politische Einstellungen 📅 7./8. Mai 2026 in Mainz 📧 [email protected] 🗓️ Deadline: 31.01.2026 Themenoffener Call - Wir freuen uns auf zahlreiche Einreichungen! @sgarritzmann.bsky.social @nilssteiner.bsky.social @dvpw.bsky.social

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.