Research by day, networking by night! Great to see many of our PhD Researchers and Alumni presenting their work at the first Annual Conference of the European Political Science Society in Belfast. We are proud of the ideas they shared and the conversations that continued after the panels ended.

Extended proposal submission deadline - #CfA for the 4th Int. #FReDA User Conference 26–27 November 2026 in Cologne, Germany Extended Submission deadline: 21 June 2026 Submission: Abstracts (max. one DIN-A4 page) should be sent by to [email protected] www.freda-panel.de/F...

I am very excited to be part of the first edition of EPSS and to present two of my projects: Today, 15:20, meeting room 2b (ICC): "Liberal framings of immigration by Western political parties" Tomorrow, 15:20, meeting room 3b (ICC): "Gender (gaps), Social norms and Social Desirability Bias"

On my way to the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social conference in Belfast. I'm very much looking forward to presenting two papers! Paper I on party strategies in contested liberal democracies: 13:30-15:10, 20 June, Lagan B (Hilton)

We’re excited to announce this summer semester’s DYNAMICS Lecture Series talks featuring @minekuhn.bsky.social , Aksel Sundström, and Ruth Ditlmann. 🚀 First talk: Monday, March 23, 12:30 @hertieschool.bsky.social Mine Kühn – “From Breakups to New Beginnings: Family Pathways and Health” Join us!

We’re organizing a workshop at Aarhus University. Please share and consider submitting! 🗓️ 13–14 April 2026 | 📝 Deadline: Mon, 16 Feb 2026 (extended abstract) — junior scholars prioritized 🎤 Keynotes: @stefwalter.bsky.social (Univ. of Zurich) & @hhuang.bsky.social (Ohio State)

🚨Happy to finally see this out in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social (with @leonardocarella.bsky.social) ⁉️ Does growing up when immigration is salient make people vote for parties they agree with on immigration *for the rest of their lives*? doi.org/10.1017/S147...

Yesterday, I returned to snowy Kiel to receive the award for the best political science master’s thesis. The thesis examines how cuts to local train services affected political alienation following German railway privatization in 1994. Big thanks to @swegmann.bsky.social & @chwmartin.bsky.social!

Two more weeks to apply for this job! Tenure track or tenured! Living in Paris! Nice colleagues (and me)! Let me know if you have any questions! Details: www.shorturl.at/E57le

Postdoctoral Researchers #ECPRMemberJobs 📅 Two-year contract 🇩🇪 Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies ⌛ Monday 15 December buff.ly/To2VLHn #PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky

🚀 We’re hiring a Postdoc! Our group is looking for a Postdoc to join the team working on computational comm research. If you’re excited about automated content analysis, large text & social-media data, open science, this might be for you. 💡 Sounds like you or someone you know? Please share/boost!

From tasty Potluck bites to White Elephant steals and endless chats – our DYNAMICS Holiday Party delivered all the holiday vibes! ✨ @humboldtuni.bsky.social @hertieschool.bsky.social

‼️ Noch 9 Tage bis zum Bewerbungsschluss ‼️ Call for Papers: DGfP Young Researchers Conference 2026 📅 Wann? 13. Februar 2026, 10:00–17:00 📍 Wo? Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg 📝 Deadline für Abstracts: 19. Dezember 2025 Wir, @ronaldschleehauf.bsky.social und ich, freuen uns auf Einreichungen!

🔍 Der wiss. Stab von #SVRMigration sucht eine/n Mitarbeiter/in für die sozialwissenschaftliche Erhebung zu integrationsbezogenen Fragen im kommunalen Kontext in Form einer wiederholten #Panelbefragung. 📆 Bewerbungsfrist: 8. Dezember 2025 Alle Infos 👉 www.svr-migration.de/oeffentlichk...

Thrilled to celebrate our doctoral resesearcher @jeinhoff.bsky.social ´s successful PhD defense! 🎉 His dissertation on the social stratification of extending working lives is officially wrapped — and now he’s kicking off his postdoc journey at the @mpidr.bsky.social . Congrats!

The 8th European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN 2026) will take place on 11-15 August 2026 in Norrköping, Sweden, hosted by @iasliu.bsky.social ⌛ Deadline for workshop and session proposals: 1 December 2025 More information: liu.se/en/event/eus...

📢 Call for Abstracts Join us at the Family Diversity & Health Workshop June 29-30 2026 in Berlin! We welcome submissions on intersections of health & family research, especially using register data. 🌏 🫶 No participation fees & hotel costs are covered. 📨 Send us your abstracts by Jan 31 2026

Last week we ran the first “Career Planning Workshop for Within and Outside Academia” for female and non-binary doctoral researchers — a space to openly discuss career goals and skills. Thanks to everyone who took part and contributed. More to come.

📢 Call for Papers 📢 Excited to co-edit a Special Issue on “Time Use and Family Dynamics in Contemporary Europe” in Comparative Population Studies (CPoS)! We invite submissions using time-use data to advance research on family life across Europe. 🔗 www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP...

Three @dynamics.bsky.social alums in one paper 🤩 Congrats to @antvalentim.bsky.social , Tom Arend and @fabioellger.bsky.social on the new @bjpols.bsky.social publication exploring how voters react to new, disruptive political actors!

This week, we hosted “A PhD 101” with alumni @tabeanaujoks.bsky.social, @cornelius-erfort.bsky.social and @markuskollberg.bsky.social who shared insights from their own journey, and a workshop on how to kick off a successful PhD. Our new cohort is ready to dive into their PhDs! 🚀

📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026... We'll feature two sections each Tuesday & Thursday to provide more information about the conference. 🔝 This Tuesday: Party Politics & Historical Political Economy

New 📝 out in @reggovjournal.bsky.social 1. Governments are taking a more active role in education and training 2. Linking technical issues to politically salient debates, such as climate change and digitalization, helps open the door to new public policies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

👇 Great opportunity for post-docs! Come to the @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social for 2-4 weeks as visiting fellow! Application deadline 28 Nov 2025.

We are incredibly proud of our newest PhD @stefaniamolina.bsky.social who successfully defended her dissertation today on “The influence of family dynamics on the well-being of adults and children.” Congratulations on this outstanding achievement, Stefania! 🎓👏 @dynamics.bsky.social

It is the time of the year when I tell you about my favorite post-doc ever 👇 Unless you are allergic to the French, this one sits up there with the Nuffield postdoc (life style, productivity, interdisciplinary stimulation). Share widely! Apply! #poliscky www.iast.fr/research-fel...

In terms of city or department, doesn't get much better than this

This week we welcomed our 6th (and final) cohort of doctoral researchers 🎉 @dynamics.bsky.social We kicked off with an inspiring keynote by Ursula Daxecker and can’t wait to support these talented researchers on their PhD journey. Excited to see all the amazing research projects ahead! 🚀

✨Very happy to see my paper "Attitudinal ambivalence toward multiculturalism" out on @jeppjournal.bsky.social ! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/8 🧵

Summer party vibes at DYNAMICS this week – with amazing pizza! 🍕☀️ Huge thanks to our alumnus @cornelius-erfort.bsky.social , who served up one delicious pie after another. Thanks to everyone who made it such a fun evening 💛 @dynamics.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @hertieschool.bsky.social

📢Come and join the Politics Lecture Series @humboldtuni.bsky.social Berlin next week: Kris-Stella Trump, JHU (@kstrump.bsky.social‬) "Perceptions of Income vs Wealth Inequality: A distinction without a difference?" When? Tuesday, June 17, 12pm Where? ISW #002 All welcome!

Personal news: I am happy to share that I will be starting a PhD in the joint @dynamics.bsky.social doctoral program of the @humboldtuni.bsky.social and the @hertieschool.bsky.social this autumn in Berlin. I will now briefly thank some people who have supported me over the past few years 🧵.

Great to have DYNAMICS alumnus Tom Arend with us this week as part of our "Life After PhD" series! Tom offered our PhD researchers valuable behind-the-scenes insights into his work as a researcher at the OECD —and what a career in international organizations can look like with a PhD

At yesterday’s DYNAMICS Lecture, @demography.bsky.social shared new evidence on how armed groups in Colombia weaponised kinship to maximise suffering. A powerful talk on the social demography of war-related bereavement in Colombia @hertieschool.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social

How do parties tailor their campaign ads to women? 🗳️👩 Excited to share that my paper on how parties adapt their ads is out now at @thejop.bsky.social! 📖 Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... A quick breakdown of the findings ⬇️🧵

Does Mainstream Populism Work❓ I answer this question in a new paper officially out at @psrm.bsky.social❗ Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1017/psrm... Key take-aways in the thread below 🧵⬇️:

🚨 New paper out at @jeppjournal.bsky.social. We show a growing youth gender gap in far-right support, driven by young men. 3 key findings in 🧵⬇️ w/ @zachdickson.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @heikekluever.bsky.social @theresakuhn.bsky.social @tonirodon.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1350...

Less than a week to go to apply to the Paris Summer Institute in CSS. This year we will focus on LLMs and gen AI. It's entirely free, open to all disciplines across the social sciences, and our speaker's list is already wonderful and getting better. More info here: sicss.io/2025/paris/

The TADA Speaker Series is thrilled to welcome @prashantgarg.bsky.social from @ucl.ac.uk to present his research on causal claims in economics! 🎙 Prashant Garg: Causal Claims in Economics 📅 March 19, 2025 | 🕔 17:00 Berlin Time 🔗 Subscribe for details: tada.cool See you next week!

EuroWEPS 11 is here! We'll meet in Bergen on May 16 to discuss designs/papers focusing on causal inference. No presentations, just constructive discussions. Early career scholars are especially welcome to apply! Submission deadline is March 30.

👩‍🔬 #Women in #Science? Und noch nicht für den #ZiaKongress beworben? 👉 Dann jetzt für die Teilnahme beim Kongress am 06. Mai in Berlin bewerben! Die @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social, @holtzbrinckberlin.bsky.social und die @zeit.de Verlagsgruppe freuen sich auf Euch! Alle Infos hier: zia-kongress.de

Du fragst dich, was wir eigentlich wie fördern? 🧐 Kein Problem, wir bieten ein kostenloses, einstündiges Info-Webinar 💻 zu unserem #Förderportfolio an (in englischer Sprache). 🗓️ 15. April, 10:30 Uhr, Teilnahme kostenfrei und ohne Anmeldung. Weitere Infos + Zugangsdaten: 👇 #Wissenschaft #Forschung

🤩 Amazing opportunity with @officialuom.bsky.social and UKICE's @robfordmancs.bsky.social 👇

📣 We’re hiring! For our research areas led by Lucio Baccaro and Jens Beckert we are inviting applications for senior researcher positions in political economy: s.gwdg.de/Sw6Mu8 and economic sociology: s.gwdg.de/trrYgR Please spread the word!

⏰ | WE'RE HIRING: IPPR is recruiting a Senior Research Fellow to lead work on democracy in an era of populism. A chance to influence big ideas, policy & politics at a pivotal moment. Find out how to apply here 👇 www.ippr.org/jobs/senior-...

Welcoming spring with a fantastic team bowling night! 🎳🌸 #HelloSpring #StrikeTogether @dynamics.bsky.social @hertieschool.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social

Curious about the LIS/LWS database and eager to learn how to use quantitative methods with the harmonised cross-national dataset for comparative research? Register for the LIS Summer Workshop! I will also contribute to teaching macro-panel (or time-series cross-section) methods using LIS data.

Some of our awesome doctoral researchers and alumni are diving into decomposition methods at this week’s workshop @dynamics.bsky.social with Ben Jann from the University of Bern & Johannes Giesecke @humboldtuni.bsky.social 🧠✨

We are incredibly proud of our PhD candidate @cornelius-erfort.bsky.social who successfully defended his dissertation on Voter Targeting and Campaign Communication Strategies yesterday @dynamics.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social Congratulations on this major achievement – well deserved! 🎓🎉 🥂

Applications for ESRC Postdoc Fellowships at the LSE's European Institute are now open. Happy to answer any questions! www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...