I'm very excited, extremely grateful and deeply honoured to receive the Best Dissertation Award from the German Political Science Association(DVPW)!

🏆 Der #DVPW #Dissertationspreis 2025 wird geteilt und geht an Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social und Julian Michel @julianpolsci.bsky.social! Beide Arbeiten leisten einen herausragenden Beitrag zur Erforschung der #Stabilität von #Demokratie. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 🥳

@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris). We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵: #PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐

𝗔𝗰𝗵𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝗴𝗮𝗯𝗲 𝘃𝗼𝗻 𝑴𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝑨𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒂𝒈𝒆 (𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲-𝗠𝗮𝗴𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗻 𝗳ü𝗿 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗞𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗹𝗶𝗸𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗻𝗴) 𝗵𝗲𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗻. Was erwartet Euch in dieser Ausgabe? 1|4 machine-vs-rage.net/ausgabe-8/

Great write-up of an important study by @tevoelker.bsky.social and @dasalgon.bsky.social. Far-right actors have been very successful in setting the political agenda. Many in politics and media still ignore this. They argue "immigration is important to people, hence we need to talk about immigration"

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...)

Morgen erscheint die neue Ausgabe von 𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝐴𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑎𝑔𝑒. Doch schon heute berichtet @spiegel.de exklusiv über die Ergebnisse unserer Studie zu Community Notes, die wir vorab zugänglich gemacht haben. 1|2

Die AfD Sachsen-Anhalt fragt gezielt nach Listen postkolonialer Seminare und Lehrstühle. Wie die Universitäten beginnen, sich gegen die Angriffe zu wappnen.

How do populists define “the people”? @tiondelisa.bsky.social examines how right-wing populists construct ingroup identity through opposition. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/sGDTDQV @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky #polsci #ECRs

At BIGSSS we are currently looking for two PhD students (four years of DAAD funding) in our program Contentious Politics in the Digital Age (CoPoDi). Apply until 27 October 2025, more information here: www.bigsss-bremen.de/static/uploa...

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🧵

Out now @socmovstudies.bsky.social: we introduce the concept of a "protest script" & demonstrate how video-enhanced protest event analysis (vPEA) helps trace a common script of the Italian and German anti-containment protests. doi.org/10.1080/1474...

As I am fairly new to Bluesky, this comes a bit late, but it is still worth checking out: Our #oa introduction to the @jeppjournal.bsky.social special issue on "Europe’s Changing Protest Landscape" with @sophiahunger.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3...

Seit dem Hamas-Angriff auf Israel hat sich die Diskussionskultur an deutschen Hochschulen massiv verändert. In einer Umfrage berichten Forschende nun von Selbstzensur, Anfeindung und einer bedrohten Wissenschaftsfreiheit. Im Tagesspiegel und Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/09...

Three weeks left to apply 👇

📣 Manifesto Project Data & Corpus Update 2025 is here! What's new? 🧵:

The University of Cologne plans drastic cuts to its Political Science department, potentially abolishing the MSc in Political Science and eliminating the professorships in IR and Comparative Politics. This would severely weaken the social sciences at @unicologne.bsky.social. Petition (de/en) ⤵️

Hotline gegen Hass Wie der Scicomm-Support angefeindeten Wissenschaftler:innen hilft: Teresa Völker und Matthias Fejes über Drohungen, Schutzstrukturen und den Mut, in der Öffentlichkeit weiter für Wissenschaft einzustehen. Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/08...

"Wissenschaftskommunikation ist Teil meiner Arbeit und nicht mein Privatvergnügen." Genau deshalb muss der Umgang mit Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit systematisch erfolgen und darf nicht an Individuen hängenbleiben. Auch wenn gerade bei kommunizierenden Forscherinnen die "Kritik" ad personam erfolgt.

@deeesharp.bsky.social & I are looking for a collaborator on a project w/ @offenegesellschaft.bsky.social on empathy-based interventions against affective polarization @uni-hamburg.de j0b.de/veca 75% PhD position, 1st yr project funded & can be converted to a position w/ teaching afterwards 📆31/08

📢 Europe's Changing Protest Landscape Protests have grown more fragmented in recent years. New actors, claims, and tactics have emerged. A special issue @jeppjournal.bsky.social ‪with an introduction by Swen Hutter & @sophiahunger.bsky.social provides insights. www.wzb.eu/en/news/euro...

Why do parties do what they do? Excited to share my 2nd dissertation paper, just published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social In the paper, I argue that parties seek internal unity and try to keep the team together: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/11 🧵

A bit late to post, but last week was too good not to celebrate! Immensely grateful to the organizers and everyone who made it such a supportive space – so much learning, coding, and laughing! 💻✨ #wpm

My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years. If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply! shorturl.at/kcTbG

It's been a busy July so far! ☀️ It was great to first attend the Barcelona School of Economics Summer School, where I learned lots about Statistical Machine Learning for Large and Unstructured Data 👩‍💻

It's not easy being a female researcher. But this week, I felt the power of brilliant women* coming together: mutual support, inspiring conversations & lots of code!👩‍💻 We tackled it all: Web scraping, LLMs & data viz. Many thanks to @sophiahunger.bsky.social @gessler.bsky.social, Jelena & Sophia #wpm

🚞 Now I'm on my way home from the fantastic #WomenInPolMeth Summer school in Bremen. Learned lots and met awesome like-minded folks 🫶 From web scraping to LLMs, we covered it all! Many thanks to the organizers @gessler.bsky.social, @sophiahunger.bsky.social and bsky-less Sophia and Jelena!

Made a tiny pit stop between conferences to teach at the summer school for women* in #polmeth [http://summerschoolwpm.org/]. And I'm glad, because I got to meet all the talented participants! Thanks to @sophiahunger.bsky.social and @gessler.bsky.social for organizing and for having me!

Happy to be part of this great initiative this year! 😊

Today, we wrapped up the first part of the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology at @unibremen.bsky.social with a hackathon 👩‍💻 #WomeninPolMeth #PolMeth #wpm So far, we've had a great week thanks to our fantastic participants and instructors 🧵⏬

📫 Latest special issue: Europe's Changing Protest Landscape, edited by ‪@sophiahunger.bsky.social and Swen Hutter. In their introductory article, they sketch Europe's ‘new contentious politics’ landscape and preview the issue's articles 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Grateful to be part of this unique and inspiring summer school. Looking forward to the days ahead and the opportunity to learn from both the outstanding speakers and fellow participants. A heartfelt thank-you already for the excellent organization! #wpm

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

What an inspiring first day at the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology here in Bremen yesterday! We were honored to be welcomed by the president of @unibremen.bsky.social‬, Prof. Jutta Günther, (1)

on my way to Bremen with spezi and the most beautiful booklet I’ve ever seen 🥹 (there is a even list of specialty coffee locations!)

Hi everyone, is anyone using the Meta Content Library API? I am specifically interested in getting in touch with people with API access, rather than access to the frontend only. transparency.meta.com/de-de/resear...

📣 Postdoc (75 %, 3 yrs) at @unigreifswald.bsky.social — start autumn 2025 on perhaps Germany’s most beautiful campus. Know someone with a PhD (or nearly done) in Political Science? ⬇️ #PolSci #Postdoc

Excited to kick off #EPSA2025 on Day 1, Panel 1! 🎉 I’ll present my co-authored research with @michaelimre.bsky.social on 50 years of gender representation in political science publications. We analyze nearly 100,000 articles across 72 journals to uncover long-term trends. 🔍 @epsanet.bsky.social

❗ The 𝘞𝘡𝘉 𝘉𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘯 (@wzb.bsky.social‬) establishes a 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 for the 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 and is looking for its future 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 ❗ 📣 Let all the excellent democracy researchers out there know! ⁣ ⁣ wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire... ⁣ #Polisky @epsanet.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social

Die deutsche Zivilgesellschaft diskutiert permanent über Strategie - zum Beispiel gegen die extreme Rechte. In unserem Forschungsprojekt haben wir 192 Handreichungen und Leitfäden von zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen - darunter sicherlich einige die sich als "links" verstehen - gesammelt.

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION! Who belongs to “the people” – and who does not? What a great way to start the week. I’m really happy that my article on populist in- and outgroup references is now out in @polstudies.bsky.social #openaccess 🔓 doi.org/10.1177/0032... 🧵 1/10

🚨 New WP! 📄 "Publish or Procreate: The Effect of Motherhood on Research Performance" (w/ @valentinatartari.bsky.social 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 We investigate how parenthood affects scientific productivity and impact — and find that the impact is far from equal for mothers and fathers.

🚨 New publication 🚨 : Happy to share that my paper, "Losing Touch: The Rhetorical Cost of Governing" is now forthcoming at @cpsjournal.bsky.social. Short 🧵 about the paper here 👇 1/10

The Hungarian government 🇭🇺 further cracks down on its civil sector. The bill proposes forcing those leading civil orgs to disclose their private assets and defunding orgs that 'harm sovereignty' e.g. by criticizing the gov as undemocratic or advocating LGBTQ rights summary: telex.hu/english/2025...

To complete the X migration, I am happy to share my recent article, now open access in @jeppjournal.bsky.social. The argument: Intra-party divisions are one important reason why mainstream parties take on the issues and positions of Eurosceptic and anti-immigration parties. doi.org/10.1080/1350...

We're organizing another round of the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology 🎉 summerschoolwpm.org Our super-cool speakers include msands.bsky.social @allisonwkoh.bsky.social @melinscribe.bsky.social @rebeccakittel.bsky.social @fabiennelind.bsky.social & @indiiigo.bsky.social 📆01/05