Black Mirror: in this episode I invented the Dead Person AI as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Dead Person AI from the classic Black Mirror episode, Don't Create The Dead Person AI

CfP is online! We particularly encourage submissions from early-career researchers (MA students, PhD candidates, postdocs) and scholars interested in interdisciplinary exchange. June 11-13! www.atlantische-akademie.de/aktuelles/ak...

Political scientists in Europe (& beyond) working on topics related to the U.S., consider submitting to the DGfA PolSci Conference 2025 in beautiful Freiburg next June! Now welcoming paper and panel submissions: www.atlantische-akademie.de/aktuelles/ak... Supported by @atlantakademie.bsky.social

📣 The first publication from the DEMOLAW team is out today! 📣 Check out the below thread and follow us for further news and publications from the project. #polisky

@lkseiling.bsky.social & @markscott.bsky.social plea in @techpolicypress.bsky.social for a new data access regime emerging from a "generation of decentralized platforms that treat data transparency not as a regulatory burden but as a civic and scientific good" www.techpolicy.press/in-critical-...

📣 The first publication from the DEMOLAW team is out today! 📣 Check out the below thread and follow us for further news and publications from the project. #polisky

🚨🎉New Publication Friday 🎉🚨 Campaigning in the Age of Platforms: A Longitudinal Analysis of German Parties & Politicians w/ @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social & @andersoloflarsson.bsky.social Out now in Political Communication. #polisky #commsky doi.org/10.1080/1058...

🚨🎉New Publication Friday 🎉🚨 Campaigning in the Age of Platforms: A Longitudinal Analysis of German Parties & Politicians w/ @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social & @andersoloflarsson.bsky.social Out now in Political Communication. #polisky #commsky doi.org/10.1080/1058...

🇳🇱🗳️ Sondage sorti des urnes @IpsosNL pour les élections législatives aux Pays-Bas : 🟡D66 (progressistes) 27, +18 ⚫️PVV (extrême-droite) 25, -12 🔵VVD (libéraux) 23, -1 🟣GL-PvdA (gauche écologiste) 20, -5 🟡CDA (chrétiens-démocrates) 19, +14 ⚫️JA21 (droite radicale) 9, +8

For the second time this postseason I (in Europe) have woken up and they are still playing baseball. ⚾️

The @ec.europa.eu preliminarily finds TikTok and Meta in breach of transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act. The EC also finds that Meta and TikTok have put in place "burdensome procedures and tools for researchers to request access to public data." ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Now out in Party Politics 🎉 Our study (@jbpilet.bsky.social)suggests that when a mainstream right-wing party signals willingness to rule with the radical right, support for the radical right rises — while the mainstream gains nothing. 👉 A legitimisation effect. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Senator Merkley is on hour 20 of reading How Democracies Die, mixed w commentary, on u.s. senate floor

If you've been reading that fantastic new paper by @dasalgon.bsky.social & @tevoelker.bsky.social on how mainstream parties lose if they adopt far-right issues: We looked at a case study & found similar dynamics for media. This was partly based on data from Daniel & Teresa!❤️ bsky.app/profile/curd...

Very cool to see friends’ work being reported in the national media, congrats @tevoelker.bsky.social!

Job Alert! We are hiring two post-docs (full time, 4+ years) in our project SCEPTIC - Social, Computational and Ethical Premises of Trust and Informational Cohesion with @annanosthoff.bsky.social @guzoch.bsky.social and Prof. Andreas Peters (uol.de/informatik/s...)

This is an essential. "Democrats need to beat the Trumpists in elections that we ensure are free" is the best strategy for the next 2-4 years. But it is not a long-term strategy! The only possible long-term strategy is that someone else needs to defeat the Trumpists for control of the Repub Party.

Very good news from the east of Germany, where the far-right (AfD) has its strongest base - the AfD got soundly defeated in two mayoral elections, in places where they were trying to use the presence of people seeking asylum as a decisive issue. Many voters rejected that outlook. That's hopeful.

Happening this morning at the @wzb.bsky.social conference, straight after @catherinedevries.bsky.social‘s opening keynote.

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...

Happening this morning at the @wzb.bsky.social conference, straight after @catherinedevries.bsky.social‘s opening keynote.

After a great evening at the first @wzb.bsky.social conference on the future of democracy I’m looking forward to the first full day first tomorrow. I’m presenting work (w/ @curdknupfer.bsky.social & @yunkangyang.bsky.social) at 9:30am in B001 mikecowburn.com/wp-content/u...

At the inaugural @wzb.bsky.social Future of Democracy conference. Tomorrow I’ll be presenting work with @curdknupfer.bsky.social & @yunkangyang.bsky.social but tonight it’s the opening discussion event with @betoorourke.bsky.social, Anna Lührmann and Anna Sauerbrey

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

This was always the funniest conspiracy theory to me — that there are MRI machine-like devices that can cure all known illnesses in seconds, but the government has been hiding them — and Trump just posted an AI generated video of himself announcing they're real. We're cooked!

@kaplaner.bsky.social and @steffenhurka.bsky.social had the privilege to present and discuss the DEMOLAW project at the University of Aarhus. DEMOLAW thanks @rsenninger.bsky.social and the entire department of political science for the kind invitation, the hospitality, and the great feedback!

Democratic women are disadvantaged in competitive district primaries, where party elites prioritize electability & view men as safer. Republican women are disadvantaged in safe district primaries, where elites & voters assume they are less conservative. www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

🚨🎉 New Publication 🎉🚨 w/ @meredithconroy.bsky.social Where Do Women Win Primaries? Asymmetric Opportunity Theory in Congressional Nominations We offer a party-asymmetric theory of incentives for female candidates in nominations across different districts www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Empirically, we show that Democratic women are disadvantaged in competitive districts (likely due to perceptions of “electability”) whereas Republican women less often win safe districts (likely due to views about the role of women in politics/society among primary voters and party elites) #polisky

🚨🎉 New Publication 🎉🚨 w/ @meredithconroy.bsky.social Where Do Women Win Primaries? Asymmetric Opportunity Theory in Congressional Nominations We offer a party-asymmetric theory of incentives for female candidates in nominations across different districts www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

👉 Just published: "Empowering People in Online Spaces: Democracy and Well-being in Digital Societies" - Book of Abstracts of the Weizenbaum Conference 2025. #WIConf25 ➡️ doi.org/10.34669/WI.... 🔗

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Labour’s turn to the right on immigration did nothing to win them support from Reform voters and made their own voters like them less. It really is that simple.

Schumer is out of his fucking mind. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

this book is huge. i've never been able to believe that primaries are not a driver of polarization, an avenue for a re-anchoring movement. i have seen the dilemmas for that view posed by Sides and others, but i've resisted them fiercely. here is amazing data collection & a smart, plausible solution.

Felix continuing his fantastic work on intra-party politics. Always worth reading

Felix continuing his fantastic work on intra-party politics. Always worth reading

If you work in higher-ed, please read this interview with @dkreiss.bsky.social. I believe the types of public signals to the sector he points to here have direct ramifications beyond the US.

The left-most candidate – who was endorsed by AOC, Bernie and the Working Families Party – won the congressional primary, and the NYT is spinning it as a loss for Mamdani’s politics. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/u...

This is such a great new piece of research by @curdknupfer.bsky.social et al. It should be mandatory reading for journalists. academic.oup.com/joc/advance-...

The entire Open Access book is now available for FREE download here: academic.oup.com/book/60493

DEMOLAW team drinks in Madrid #EPSA2025

Happening this afternoon #EPSA2025

Intra-party politics night out in Madrid #EPSA2025 #falafel @blumrm.bsky.social @janaschwenk.bsky.social @malpas.bsky.social @jacobgunderson.bsky.social @mkaltenegger.bsky.social @felixlehmann.bsky.social @fabioangiolillo.bsky.social

Happening this afternoon! #EPSA2025

Happening today! #EPSA2025

Waking up this morning and wondering how primaries became factional contests between ideologically-distinct candidates, and whether these primaries have transformed parties? Well do I have just the book for you… tinyurl.com/4w6tfvjx

Waking up this morning and wondering how primaries became factional contests between ideologically-distinct candidates, and whether these primaries have transformed parties? Well do I have just the book for you… tinyurl.com/4w6tfvjx

The democratic socialist @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has beaten Cuomo and is now the Democrats’ nominee for Mayor of NYC, de facto Mayor-Elect. Democrats and liberals serious about defeating illiberalism better pay attention. There is a model for organizing the majority and saving democracy. 1/7

In Madrid, can confirm it is warm 🥵 #EPSA2025