📢 Job Ad: I am looking for one doctoral researcher (75%) in my newly funded DFG project on misperceptions and factual information on immigration from 1.10. or soon after! 📌 Location: MZES, University of Mannheim 💢 Application Deadline: 21st of July

💭 Looks like the heat wave has brought some attention to my study - enough that it got a mention in the New York Times 👉 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/w... It’s also a good example of how weather extremes can shift public attention toward climate change (without necessarily prompting policy change).

Are you a woman who has recently started a TT position in politics or a politics related field? Then @katharinalawall.bsky.social and me would like to warmly invite you to join a new network for early career women: WIPS: Women in Political Science.

Excited to share our new paper in @thejop.bsky.social with @krausewe.bsky.social! Parties polling just below an electoral threshold are far less likely to clear it: a self-fulfilling prophecy that diminishes when polls communicate uncertainty. 🗳️📊 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Hier könnt ihr einen Beitrag in den WZB-Mitteilungen zur Forschung von @tevoelker.bsky.social und MIka Bauer über die Medien und den Aufstieg der äußersten Rechten lesen.: bibliothek.wzb.eu/artikel/2025...

Our dataset of local protests in Germany 2000–2020 based on our research @fgz-risc.bsky.social is now publicly available at Gesis. Here is the article describing the dataset: doi.org/10.1080/0964...

I’m hiring 2 doctoral researchers in Politics of Climate Change at Heidelberg University 🌍 📊 Survey Research & Political Participation 🗣️ Qualitative Research & Group Formation Part of “The New Climate Divide” Deadline: 21 June 2026 Calls: www.ipw.uni-heidelberg.de/en/about-us/... Please share!

We're organising the workshop: Protest*Ethnography 🗓 8–9 October 2026 | University of Bremen (in person) to collectively reflect on ethnographic approaches to studying contentious politics & protest. All are welcome. Please register at [email protected] until July 15, 2026.

🚨Stellenausschreibung🚨 Postdoc-Stelle im Bereich „Politisches System Deutschlands und der EU“ (100%, 3 Jahre), Uni Oldenburg Bewerbungsfrist: 9.6.2026 Bei Fragen gerne per E-Mail bei mir melden. Gerne teilen! 🙂 uol.de/job/wissensc...

❗Confrontational tactics like street blockades and food attacks on art hurt activists' image, but not their cause. 📄 New paper out in Political Behavior (@polbehavior.bsky.social) w/ @dasalgon.bsky.social @sophiahunger.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social. 🧵1/7

I am looking for a postdoc to join my team at the University of Bremen. 5-year-contract, top-up to 100% possible for most of the contract period. Apply by 04 May 2026. If you have questions about the position, send me an email! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

Delighted our paper (with an amazing group of co-authors) is forthcoming in the APSR Takeaway for Labour and other centre-left parties: fixing public services is key to reducing support for the populist right 👇

Welcome, @mierkezat.bsky.social! We are so lucky to have you @unibremen.bsky.social, thank you for your kind words - excited for what’s ahead ✨

I'm hiring a postdoc! @goetheuni.bsky.social Focus: CSS, political behavior, political communication & transforming information environments. 📍 Frankfurt | ⏳ 3 years | 📅 Deadline: 14 April 2026 Full job ad here: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen... (search for “political behavior” to find it)

Some in the Iranian opposition, most prominently proponents of Pahlavi, have argued that military intervention is all that is left for Iranians to rise up and topple the regime. Now, with what looks like the most extensive strikes against Iran ever, would be time for them to prove their assertions.

Except hardly anyone cared to know about what 'populism' meant in the 2010s, not even academics (see article below) Its careless use has been key to the mainstreaming of far-right politics and, as expected, there is zero reflection about it www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Don't forget to apply until the end of the week! 🚨

Das WZB-Projekt „Wirksam gegen Rechtsaußen" hat Strategien von zivilgesellschaftlichen Institutionen in der Auseinandersetzung mit #Rechtsextremismus untersucht und systematisiert. Den neuen Policy Brief dazu gibt es hier: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10... @chjncke.bsky.social @tevoelker.bsky.social

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨 7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers. Free of charge (limited travel support). Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org #methodsky #polisky

Ever wondered why Germany, in 2001 only the seventh country in the world after the Nordic ones and Netherlands to have more than 30% of MPs female, has since completed stagnated and been overtaken by 50-odd countries? In this newly published paper, @maarja.bsky.social and I try to explain that.

Desinformation & KI: Dieser Zusammenhang sorgt für Unbehagen. Die Deepfake-Episode auf Grok unterstreicht es. Doch wie weit sind solche Inhalte verbreitet? Wie wirken sie? Dem geht der erste Schwerpunkt des Atlas: Wahrheit und Wissen im digitalen Wandel nach atlas.machine-vs-rage.net/ki-und-desin...

📣 Call for Papers: 🗓️ 23-24 April 2026 at LSE Submit full papers: forms.office.com/e/9qVWeNTK0p Please share with colleagues & early-career researchers!

🚩INTERACTconversation 14 (hybrid), 26 Jan, 19:00 "Iran in Bewegung" mit Naika Foroutan @dezim-institut.de, @teraqerat.bsky.social @zfk-mr.bsky.social, Azadeh Zamirirad @swp-mea.bsky.social, Jannis Grimm @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social Mehr infos: www.interact.fu-berlin.de/News/convers...

Diese Studie ist eine Sensation: Heike Klüver hat 1.237 Regierungen in 57 Demokratien über 50 Jahre ausgewertet. Die Schlüsselfrage: Werden Rechtsextreme „entzaubert“, wenn sie mitregieren? Die Antwort – eindeutig: Nein. Sobald rechtsextreme Parteien an der Regierung sitzen, profitieren sie.

✨Deadline for abstract submission to COMPTEXT 2026: Friday January 16 ✨

Das @manifestoproj.bsky.social analysiert seit vielen Jahren politische Texte - aber unser Datensatz ist voll mit Zahlen. In einem Artikel in den neuen WZB-Mitteilungen haben meine Kolleg:innen und ich anhand von sechs Zahlen beschrieben, was wir da eigentlich so machen. 🔍🖥️📄

🚨🚨 job alert time 🚨🚨 @unibremen.bsky.social 3 PhD positions within the 3rd phase of the @sfb1342.bsky.social, with a focus on computational methods and/or on protest mobilization, specifically with a focus on Africa. Starting time: early 2026, deadline: 14th of January. more info below:

⏰ Job alert: We are looking for PhD Researchers! Only one week left to apply for our open #PhD positions in #socialpolicy at CRC 1342 | @unibremen.bsky.social. 🗓️ Application deadline: 14.01.2026 Details: www.socialpolicydynamics.de/about-the-cr...

📣 Come work with us! The @wzb.bsky.social Center for Civil Society Research is looking for a research associate/doctoral candidate (75%) for a 3 year period, starting on Apr 1, 2026. The researcher will work in the Manifesto Project. More: wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/428... Apply by Jan 25, 2026! 🗓️

📣 @pietrocastellig.bsky.social and I are absolutely thrilled to announce that the call for the 5th @ecpr.bsky.social Summer School on ‘Concepts and Methods for Research on Far-Right Politics’ is now open! 🇮🇹 The event will be hosted by @unibo.it, from 6 to 10 July 2026. 🔗 ecpr.eu/Events/353

🚨🚨 job alert time 🚨🚨 @unibremen.bsky.social 3 PhD positions within the 3rd phase of the @sfb1342.bsky.social, with a focus on computational methods and/or on protest mobilization, specifically with a focus on Africa. Starting time: early 2026, deadline: 14th of January. more info below:

In our research on socioeconomic background in academia, we ran a survey. Over 2,000 faculty members responded (thanks if you were one!) Social & cultural capital showed up time and again as key issues. A few findings you might be interested in...🧵

@sonjapriebus.bsky.social Aleksandra Maatsch& me are organizing a workshop on 'Opposing challenges to democracy across contexts' in Frankfurt (Oder) 26-27 March 2026. Do you have a paper that might fit? ➡️Call for Papers (📆Deadline: 05/12) www.dvpw.de/informatione...

We will be hiring new PhD students interested in social movements and protest in Africa, soon. Keep your eyes open for job openings 🪧

🙌 So happy to be part of the third phase of the CRC 1342. With a large team of colleagues, we will study how social programs contribute to improving social living conditions and support political integration across the globe over the next four years.

Die neuen Essentials sind raus! Das ist unser Policy Brief, in dem die Fokus-Studie einer jeden Ausgabe komprimiert aufbereitet wird. Also diesmal die Analyse zu Community Notes: machine-vs-rage.net/ausgabe-8/de... Dazu das Wichtigste auch hier nochmal zusammengefasst. 1|11

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

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...