Early-career researchers: we offer a Peace Research Fellowship at @ipz.bsky.social University of Zurich - fully funded, 2-week research visit with the Decades of Peace team. Deadline: March 20 Application details: www.decadesofpeace.com/fellowship August in Zurich may include a swim in the river.

🚨Job alert 🚨 I have an opening for a postdoc in my team at @ipz.bsky.social in the area of digital democracy starting Sep 1, 2026. If you are working on the impact of the digital transformation on politics, please apply by 🗓️ Mar 1, 2026. 📤 Please share widely! www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns...

⏳ 5 days left to apply! 4-year PhD position @stawi-univie.bsky.social @univie.ac.at in a collegial & supportive department. Focus: representation, party competition, political behavior, political institutions, political economy, or related. Deadline: 28 Jan 26 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Kleine Interviewschnipsel von mir. Take-away: die Lage ist düster, aber evtl sollte man das nicht an Auftritten beim WEF festmachen.

2026 Political Networks Conference: 4-7 August 2026 at the University of Manchester. Save the date! More info will be released in early spring. #SNA #polinetworks #polnet #polisky #networkanalysis #politicalnetworks #politicalnets #policynetworks #complexsystems #netsci #polmeth #polisci

we have 5 positions open at @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt - a 4,5 year postdoc in my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage - 2 postdoc & 2 PhD positions, 4 years, in a research group on Reconfiguration & Internalization of Social Structure www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...

🚨 Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion (2 years) We’re hiring a 100% Postdoc at the University of Greifswald. ✨ What makes this job special: Two full years to focus on research (no teaching, no admin overload) embedded into an International Research Training Group

📣 We're hiring a postdoc in political science for our ReJust project @uni-konstanz.de! Project with Dirk Leuffen @leuffen.bsky.social and Urs Fischbacher 3-year position | Deadline: Dec. 15, 2025 | Start: April 2026 Please share widely 🙏

How are contemporary cleavage structures stabilized in times of declining mass social and political organizations? In this new paper with @davidattewell6.bsky.social @bjpols.bsky.social, we suggest that homogeneous social (educational) networks provide part of the answer. tinyurl.com/49cs8jwp

💡 How does moving to opportunity reshape political behavior? 🗞️ In our new BJPolS paper, @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that residential relocations that increase access to opportunity foster political integration and shift political preferences to the left. 👉 tinyurl.com/46utjj65

🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna! ⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025 wratil.eu/files/MULTIR... 1/4 🧵

Post-Doctoral Research Position (80%) in the Research Group of Professor Thomas Widmer Department of Political Science at the University of Zurich, research area ‘Policy Analysis & Evaluation’ www.ipz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:55da...

Very proud of our @ipz.bsky.social students who celebrated their graduation tonight. Congratulations to all, especially our prize winners! The prizes for best dissertation go to @reidingerve.bsky.social and @indubioproreto.bsky.social - Congrats! 🎉🥂🍾

You have work on politics in Europe, European integration or the EU? Submit it to next year's @epssnet.bsky.social conference section on "European and EU Politics“ 👇 @bjornhoyland.bsky.social & I are open to diverse proposals with a European dimension.

Together with the great colleagues @i4replication.bsky.social, we are organizing the first Münster replication games (28/11/25)! Highly recommended to junior & senior scholars. Joint project together with #MueCOS & #CDSC @uni-muenster.de. More info/registration: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3526/

Diktatfrieden und Zollkrieg? Nach dem Gipfel in Alaska wächst in der Ukraine und der Schweiz die Sorge, im Machtpoker der Weltmächte übergangen zu werden. Eine lebendige Diskussion im SRF Club unter anderem mit Stefanie Walter @stefwalter.bsky.social www.srf.ch/play/tv/club...

🚨 New piece for @ecpr.bsky.social's @ecprtheloop.bsky.social — @maxheermann.bsky.social & I map trips of world leaders using @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social's COLT of over 78K+ foreign trips by heads of state and gov from 1990-2023. Reference: bsky.app/profile/jose...

Late to the party. New publication with Axel Bayer in the International Political Science Review about political interactions of MPs in Zambia that switched their party affiliation. doi.org/10.1177/0192...

How does participation in the human rights complaint mechanisms of the United Nations affect the situation of civil society organizations? To learn more on this question, please check out our new publication @bjpols.bsky.social

(1/5) My article Disintegration and Party Competition is out in the latest issue of @jeppjournal.bsky.social ! I ask how parties in other member states reacted to #Brexit. Do #Eurosceptic challengers frame it as an example to follow? Or do they instead row back on ‘hard’ demands to #leave the EU?

Morgen, Mi 2.7.25 um 17 Uhr spreche ich im nächsten Crisis Conference Call mit Prof. Dr. Ralph Ossa, Ökonom an der @uzh-ch.bsky.social und ehemaliger Chefökonom der WTO über die Krise des Welthandelssystems. Offen für Alle, Anmeldung zum Zoom-Call hier: www.crisiscompetence.uzh.ch/de/events/Kr...

Gerade ist ein Riesenkarton mit Ausgaben der #Exponentialgesellschaft angekommen, entsprechend große Freude beim unboxing. Danke, @suhrkamp.de! Ich verlose hier zwei Exemplare unter allen, die diesen Post bis Freitag teilen. Viel Glück! 🤞

🚨3-Year Postdoc Position in Zurich @ipz.bsky.social ❓Political implications of labor market transformation Plenty of flexibility, no teaching obligations, great research environment in an highly livable city. Deadline: May 18, 2025. tinyurl.com/postdoczurich #polisky #poliscijobs #psjminfo

Post-doc position with Lucas Leemann, deadline April 15th: www.ipz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:1317...

Attending #MPSA2025 and interested in how IOs interact with gender representation across different political systems? Join us for the panel on "Substantive Representation" 📍 Sat, April 5 | 11:40am–1:10pm CDT / 12:40–2:10pm EDT I’ll be presenting our coauthored work with @dalangmalang.bsky.social

💥Postdoc call 💥 Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University 🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension) ❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth 🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data) Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD

Sure you don't want to work with us? We're clearly not an Ivy League institution, but we can offer a great work environment in a beautiful region. Lake and the Alps are included for free. In case it matters, egg prices are stable at around 30 cents apiece. stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/8...

Christina Zuber is hiring a Polish Speaking Postdoc for her new project w/ experience in qualitative methods. I often join this incredibly friendly group for coffee, research discussions and outings and am thankful for Christina's sharp mentorship during my postdoc so apply and join us! :)

🚨New research network on Africa: Last year, we founded the "International Politics in Africa" (IPIA) network, w/ Mwita Chacha (Birmingham), Eniye Dubakeme (Baze University), Consolata Sulley (Dar es Salaam) & others, after ASAUK 2024. It's been fairly low key so far, but we want to expand: 1/6

And now we get to watch as potentially epoch changing events occur. There's a very 19th Century feel about the sight of the US and Russia discussing European borders. Though rather than Vienna or Berlin, modern day statecraft apparently happens in Saudi. 5/5

Thrilled to share that I'll be a visiting research scholar at @harvard.edu 's Department of Government. Grateful for this opportunity and looking forward to learning more from the department’s faculty and students. 📍If you are in the area, I will be at Cambridge’s Knafel Building.

Job Alert: PhD position (3.5 years) in my research project "Contested Representation of Inequalities in International Cooperation" @ipz.bsky.social , University of Zurich. Join our international, friendly department with excellent working conditions! #PhD #AcademicJobs #PoliticalScience

Job Alert: PhD position (3.5 years) in my research project "Contested Representation of Inequalities in International Cooperation" @ipz.bsky.social , University of Zurich. Join our international, friendly department with excellent working conditions! #PhD #AcademicJobs #PoliticalScience

‼️ Hiring ‼️ Two (!) positions in my group at @ipz.bsky.social in Zurich 📣 1 postdoc position (3+3 years) 📣 1 PhD position (3,5 years) Application deadline in early March. Job ads & details: tinyurl.com/3p6yhptk We are an international and friendly department with excellent working conditions

Closing in two weeks: 2 open positions in my new consolidator project "Decades of Peace" at the University of Zurich @ipz.bsky.social funded by @snsf-ch.bsky.social, focusing on Latin America. PhD position: ipz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:e32a... Postdoc position: ipz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:94e1...

Pleased to share our paper exploring how agroecological practices can improve the food security of smallholders facing droughts and floods in Tanzania. @haerroos.bsky.social @nikhaenze.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨 Out now in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social : "Citizens' Preferences for Multidimensional Representation". Jack Blumenau, Fabio Wolkenstein & I investigate citizens' preferences regarding 6 dimensions of representation using surveys conducted in 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇩🇪. Short 🧵(1/10) doi.org/10.1017/S15375

Now that the slides are almost finished, I can say that I am really looking forward to this event tomorrow @ipz.bsky.social

Collective societal threats often lead to a short-lived boost in trust towards political institutions. This rally effect, however, is stronger in some contexts than in others. In a new study, @svenhegewald.bsky.social and I show that ethnic diversity of local context shapes the size of rally effects

🚨 Job alert: Postdoc in Computational Social Science, especially text analysis in the MULTIREP @ERC_Research project at Uni Vienna @Dept_Government . If you do quantitative text analysis & are interested in pol representation, this 👇 is for you 🧵 (1/4) wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...

📣Job alert - interested in empirical research on IOs and global governance? #ECIB join us @unipotsdam for a 3-year post-doctoral research position (+max 3 years, 70% research)! Application deadline: 31/12/24. More information: tinyurl.com/e7py8brd

You are a PhD/postdoc & have a paper on how citizens view or understand representation, or what they expect from representatives? If yes, please send us your paper proposal for a fully-funded place in a workshop on "Citizens' Views on Representation" 👇. t.co/aJ0SOwyCge

#Syllabus Preparation Time on the #PoliticsOfInequality Q1/X 😉 I'm looking for conceptual & descriptive papers on measurement & trends of ANY kind of Inequality. (yes, income, but also gender, ethnic, class, ... ) Ideas? 🙏 #Sociology #Polisky #PoliSciSky 🗺

NB: Unlike what the ad says, the position cannot be divided into two part-time positions. This is something that our HR department adds to job advertisements without consulting with the project leaders first, and they refuse to take out this factually incorrect information prior to publication.

Bin im Sommersemester (mal wieder) arbeitslos. Diesmal kommt mir das ein bisschen recht: weniger Geld, aber mehr Zeit. Hoffentlich nicht für länger. Heißt aber, dass ich gerne irgendwo für Vorträge hin fahre - insbesondere natürlich bei Übernahme der Reisekosten ...

🚨Jobs🚨 2 postdocs up to six years: shorturl.at/BP027 Small FAQ already provided. Get in touch if you have questions, I will try to update the FAQ regularly. Please share and apply!

Gabi Spilker (University of Konstanz) is looking for a Postdoc (potentially until 2032!) with a strong background in survey research methods. Gabi is one of the nicest people in the field, and this is a great job! The deadline is Feb 18, 2024. stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/4...

We have been collecting a lot of data on evolving public opinion on international cooperation in the DISINTEGRATION project. Some of this data is now publicly available for download in the SWISSUbase repository. Check it out!

French government uses paragraph 49.3 to pass a law without a vote for the 19th time since May 2022. Nobody cares anymore, and it’s barely reported in the media. Crazy how much Macron has damaged French democracy. www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

Did you ever wonder what people think about the future of EUrope? Or whether they have any preferences at all? Then @lukashoffmann.bsky.social and I have you covered in our new article, in which we manually coded and analyzed open answers: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... EUsky