Pretty extraordinary story here www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

#OpenAccess from @jepsjournal.bsky.social - Can Monuments to Victims Increase Tolerance? - https://cup.org/47G8gOG - Ana Ruipérez Núñez & @melinscribe.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

Hello Mannheim! I'm presenting tomorrow at the Centre for European Social Research. Come for all the empirical modelling you know all about, stay for all the stuff about oil in Northern Europe you know less about 🛢️🌊

Look, this "dramatic break" stuff is simply not true. Domestic politics & geopolitics have shaped economic policies for ~forever, even as, yes, the causal arrow goes both ways. People have written vast piles of books & articles about this. An entire field, called "international political economy" 🤷‍♂️

JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

Turns out, predicting crises isn’t about crystal balls, it’s about data. Enjoyed exploring the future of early warning data at the German Federal Foreign Office @diplo.de with colleagues across academia & practice.

Free Speech in Schwyz: Nur für Männer. 🗣️👨

A reminder on World Humanitarian Day.

This article should have been published alongside the one it responds to. The original article finds that the authors' own (commercial) data outperforms the free UCDP data. Conflict of interest? Nah. But at least we know now that this conclusion is based on "a series of unfounded claims." 👇

ACLED locking researchers out feels less like data protection, more like damage control. Especially when the numbers already… don’t add up because they're sourced from people doing the fighting. 📉 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Tuesday morning, @melinscribe.bsky.social covered Advanced Data visualization 🎨 bsky.app/profile/meli...

Just wrapped up a workshop on advanced graphics & data viz! 📊📈 Have a fantastic and inspiring rest of the week! ✨

There is always at least one boomer in a quiet wagon 🚂 who is not quiet. 🤐

Autofreie Quadrate & Bäume auf alle Parkplätze 💁‍♀️

If Dante wrote Inferno today, Circle 9 would be a heat dome and the sinners drive SUVs and run coal plants. 🔥🚗🏭 www.ft.com/content/5189...

I'm also presenting joint work with @acalacino.bsky.social in the same session. ✨ We argue that environmentalists are less likely to get killed during election cycles because the increased media attention could jeopardize FDI inflows.

Is my research topic relevant, or is it just stalking me on holiday? Does that count as fieldwork? 🕵️‍♀️

„KI verändert schon jetzt, wie wir denken" Ein Experiment mit jungen Forschern an der Universität Mannheim zeigt, wie tiefgreifend ChatGPT & Co das wissenschaftliche Schreiben verändern – und dass das noch längst nicht alles ist. Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/06...

New preprint! 🚨 We ran an experiment with early-career social scientists to test how ChatGPT helps with academic writing. Spoiler: It boosts clarity and coherence, but not originality, methodological rigor, depth, or literature use.

❗ Hier das working paper zu diesem Thema von Marc Ratkovic, Thomas Gschwend, @wendering.bsky.social, Kevin Bauer, @annakurella.bsky.social, Oliver Rittmann, @melinscribe.bsky.social, @nschwitter.bsky.social: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Totally out of office 🐴

Very excited to expand our research on attacks against healthcare and other civilian infrastructure as part of this project ✨ congrats @scott gates 🥳

10 years abroad. Countless supermarkets. Endless heartbreak. And then today … the Zweifel Paprika chips appeared in Germany. This is my redemption arc. 🙂

🎉 Thrilled to share that Kristina Petrova and I have been awarded a 3-year grant through the Margarete von Wrangell Juniorprofessorinnen-Programm to work on climate conflict, migration, and humanitarian aid dynamics. She’ll be joining us in Mannheim as a postdoc. www.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/?tx_...

🚨 A new program for postdocs who are affected by growing constraints on academic freedom (e.g., in the United States). 1. Postdoc stipends for 24 months 2. Research groups for 3+3 years Thinking of escaping? Mannheim’s calling. My last visitor said it best 😎: www.bwstiftung.de/de/ausschrei...

Make your last rejection a useful datapoint for science 👇📈

🚨Last days to apply!🎉 summerschoolwpm.org

🚨 Job offer: We seek to appoint a #PostdoctoralResearchFellow (m/f/d) in comparative politics, focusing on #SubSaharanAfrica with a doctoral degree in #SocialSciences. Applications are invited for a full-time position, 3 years of contract. ➡️ More info: www.giga-hamburg.de/en/career/po...

Oh hey ACLED user, Turns out inter and interaction codes quietly shapeshifted into group name strings. Better fix your code before it fixes you. 🙃 #ACLED #DataSurprise

So excited to be back – this time as an instructor! I’ll be teaching data viz at this year’s Summer School for Women* in PoliSci Methods. Come join! ✨

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Bremen 🚨 Open to PhD students and early career scholars Fully-funded places available for applicants, deadline 1st of May 📅 summerschoolwpm.org

I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social! German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf Please share

Come join us in Mannheim as Professor for Survey Methodology! ✨ #academicsky #polisci www.uni-mannheim.de/media/Univer...

Come be my colleague in one of the best post-doc positions in German academia (imo)! Lovely people, excellent infrastructure, great conditions. Feel free to contact me for questions. #polisky #polscijobs

Political elites are important. Some, for example, post classified info on Signal. If you do research on political elites, and want to go to Oslo on September 1-2, 2025, we have the workshop for you. Deadline is in one week! Find the call for papers here: bit.ly/WhoGovWorksh...

My previous postdoc position in peace studies at @ox.ac.uk is up for grabs again! I highly recommend applying. I had a truly wonderful time at LMH College, and, well, I haven’t had to change professions since. ✨ lmh.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/...

Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.

Lots of insights for UN peacekeeping scholars, too 🇺🇳

Deutschland fehlt eine Grünliberale Partei, geführt von Habeck. grunliberale.ch

Accidents down 55% and injuries down 51% since nyc congestion pricing (!!!) www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/22/c...

Because you TOTALLY asked for this… and MapQuest has NOTHING better to do… We’ve granted you exclusive access to a place very dear to our heart: gulfof.mapquest.com Think of it as the Upside Down but more... minimalist. Pls share so we can behold your genius (or judge you, lovingly) 😘

We're hiring a Professor of Military Strategy and Technology @hertieschool.bsky.social @hertiesecurity.bsky.social! More details here: apply.interfolio.com/163523

And just like that, the demographic health survey (DHS) data are gone. #polisci #conflictsky

Couldn't have written it in a more inspiring place 🥰

The timing for Switzerland to cut development aid funding could not be worse. European governments should increase funding to fill the gap left by the new US administration. genevasolutions.news/global-news/...

so I guess humankind will eventually self-destruct even without nuclear bombs.

The defunding of #USAID and US humanitarian aid in general will have devastating effects on the global humanitarian system. More than 40% of all official humanitarian aid comes from the US. The system is completely dependent on US contributions.

We just happened to publish an article that shows what happens when an electoral autocracy co-opts humanitarian organizations and uses them for its goals. Autocrats don’t do humanitarian aid. They do control. #USAID doi.org/10.1007/s121...

🎉 Thrilled beyond words! As a master’s student, I dreamed of publishing in JPR. Never did I imagine winning the Best Article of the Year! 🏆✨ Even more surreal: it’s also the runner-up for Best Visualization! Huge thanks to everyone who made this possible! 🙌 doi.org/10.1177/0022...