🎤 The speaker for the 20th session of the PBC will be @ludwigschulze.bsky.social, PhD Researcher at the European University Institute, who will be presenting “Land and Freedom: The Political Consequences of Land Reform in East Germany” 📍 Join us on Zoom! Register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

🚨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...

Want to work with us? stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/8...

Finally out in @polanalysis.bsky.social (w/ @stefan-scholz.bsky.social, @zacharyst.bsky.social, @keremoglu.bsky.social and Bastian Goldlücke): "Improving Computer Vision Interpretability: Transparent Two-Level Classification for Complex Scenes" Available #OpenAccess at doi.org/10.1017/pan....

Together \w @jbeisermcgrath.bsky.social, I wrote a blog post for @ecprtheloop.bsky.social on women in autocratic cabinets and how dictators treat their political elites. theloop.ecpr.eu/autocracies-...

New paper forthcoming in PA, w/ @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, @zacharyst.bsky.social, @keremoglu.bsky.social and Bastian Goldlücke! We propose a method that makes image classification more transparent by identifying which objects on images are related to the outcome. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2407.03786

How do European publics perceive autocratic hosts of sport events? New study in PLOS ONE w/ Johannes Gerschewski, @heikogiebler.bsky.social, Sebastian Hellmeier & Michael Zürn. ➡️ doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Our study on autocrats' control over the Internet infrastructure is featured on Internet Society's Pulse Blog @internetsociety.bsky.social pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/mapping...

Ich durfte mit dem Deutschlandfunk über unsere neue Studie zur Internet-Infrastruktur in Autokratien und Demokratien sprechen. @unikonstanz.bsky.social www.deutschlandfunk.de/autokratisch...

Check out our new comparative study on the Internet topology in democracies and autocracies, led by @keremoglu.bsky.social ! Final version of the article is now available at doi.org/10.1093/pnas....

How is the Internet infrastructure set up in autocracies and democracies? New study at PNAS Nexus with @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, Alex Gamero-Garrido, Esteban Carisimo, Alberto Dainotti, Alex C. Snoeren. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...