Including the symposium on the EP elections 2024, guest edited by @simonhix.bsky.social 👇

💥 OUT NOW: Volume 49, Issue 1 (2026) Lots of exciting research on: 👉 Polarisation: climate change, immigration, democratic deficit 👉 EU politics & voters/citizens 👉 Working class politicians 👉 Political protest 👉 Housing policy 👉 Symposium 2024 EP Elections 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fwep20/c...

I am over the moon to announce that #COMPTEXT2026 will take place at the "Institute for Data and AI" at the University of Birmingham. Look out for the imminent CfP on all channels. And go and tell your friends. Looking forward to hosting y'all in April 2026 #sciencerocks ‪@comptext.bsky.social

Join our CSS department @gesis.org! Postdoc/senior researcher position, tenure track! All info at: www.gesis.org/institut/kar...

Although not yet available to read (January 2026!), very happy to see our book on political trust online. Co-edited with @mfair.bsky.social and available open access, we think it'll be a useful addition to the field. www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/a-r...

Shout-out to all #PoliticalTrust researchers interested in attending the first @epssnet.bsky.social conference in #Belfast @annakern.bsky.social, @danjdevine.bsky.social, @cvalebeek.bsky.social, @hannesbey.bsky.social and I are coordinating 3 trust panels!

Very pleased to say my new article is out @polstudies.bsky.social ! In it I compare single individuals to those with partners with different past vote choices/party identifications and demonstrate that this is associated with an individual's own vote choice. doi.org/10.1177/0032...

📣 New Preprint! Have you ever wondered what the political content in LLM's training data is? What are the political opinions expressed? What is the proportion of left- vs right-leaning documents in the pre- and post-training data? Do they correlate with the political biases reflected in models?

We are looking for a project manager for our large-scale project SOUNDS! Learn more: bit.ly/SOUNDS-Manager #compsocsci #PoliSky #PoliSci #hiring #JobAlert

Their lecture was followed by @giucarny.bsky.social and @alexhartland.bsky.social, who continued the discussion by presenting further perspectives and examples on assessing polarization and analyzing the sentiment and topics of political posts.

More than 20 new elections ❗️ Albania 2017, 2021 Bosnia-Herzegovina 2022 Canada 2021 France 2022 Germany 2025 Greece 2023 May Hungary 2022 Israel 2022 Japan 2021 Latvia 2022 Malta 2003, 2008, 2013, 2017, 2022 Portugal 2022 Serbia 2023 Spain 2023 United Kingdom 2024 United States 2024

🚨📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Computational Political Science at the University of Antwerp! 💻 Focus: NLP + ML + political text analysis 🗳️ Project: ERC DEMO-LIES (disinformation in democracies) 🌍 Location: Antwerp, 🇧🇪 📅 Deadline: 16 Oct 2025 www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...

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) ⤵️

💡📚 Passionate about emotions, gender & migration? We’re hiring a Research Associate for the #PROTEMO project at @uni-saarland.de! 🌍 Focus: migrant women’s experiences of domestic violence & how emotions, security & politics intersect. 📝 Apply by 10 Sept 2025 👉 www.protemo.eu/news-post/we...

The amount of data available is greater than ever, yet remains mostly unused by social scientists & #PoliSci researchers. The Societal Observatory Using Novel Data Sources (SOUNDS) aims to change that - and receives 29 million Euro in funding from Saarland's state gov!🎉 Read more: bit.ly/SoundsPM

I have a new paper out in @wepsocial.bsky.social looking at immigration rulings in the UK (doi.org/10.1080/0140...). It's a short read, but the two main findings are: 1) the success of an immigration appeal depends a lot on who the deciding judge is 2) BAME women are (surprisingly) strict judges

🚨 New paper in Science Advances @science.org Can changing how we argue about politics online improve the quality of replies we get? T HeideJorgensen, @gregoryeady.bsky.social & I use an LLM to manipulate counter-arguments to see how people respond to different approaches to arguments Thread 🧵1/n

How is #polarisation reflected on social media❓ @uni-saarland.de's @alexhartland.bsky.social responded to this question in his presentation at the #ActEU mid-term conference 🎓 Check it out on YouTube 👉 youtu.be/3l9XQFZAlQU

🚨Job Alert W2 (TT W3) Professorship in Computer Science "AI for People & Society" @saarland-informatics-campus.de/@uni-saarland.de is looking to appoint an outstanding individual in the field of AI for people and society who has made significant contributions in one or more of the following areas:

Do LLMs represent the people they're supposed simulate or provide personalized assistance to? We review the current literature in our #ACL2025 Findings paper and investigating what researchers conclude about the demographic representativeness of LLMs: osf.io/preprints/so... 1/

📣 NEW PAPER ALERT! 🚨 "School subject choices in adolescence affect political party support" Just published in @wepsocial.bsky.social with @nspmartin.bsky.social and @rolandkappe.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1080/0140... 🧵👇

I am happy to share that our work titled "Exploring LLMs for Automated Generation and Adaptation of Questionnaires" has been accepted to the ACM Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) Conference 2025. Check our work: doi.org/10.1145/3719... @cui.acm.org #CUI2025 #ACM

🤖💬 Can AI tell the difference between toxic speech and emotionally charged political debate? Liliia Mairova and Ariq Suryo Hadi P. provide some interesting insights in the next blogpost of the Observatory: politics.i2sc.net/blogposts/to...

Extremely happy to see my first single-authored paper published! Check it out in @ersjournal.com 👇

In doing so we find that the UK's registration difficulty level is closer to that of countries transition in and out of democracy, as opposed to other electoral democracies (according to V-Dem's categorization)

Mine and @profsob.bsky.social paper Comparing registration systems using the International Difficulty of Registration Index (IDORI). How difficult is electoral registration in the UK? has been published. Please read it here, url: academic.oup.com/pa/article/d...

Our new #PoliSci collected volume on border regions as laboratories of European research is finally here. Check it out (in German): www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/9...

A key function of the state is to ensure the #welfare of its citizens. But do more generous welfare policies also foster more #political #trust? 🎉 Our paper, co-authored with Matthijs Gillissen and Anna Ruelens, was accepted ‪@polstudies.bsky.social‬! @vd-researchgroup.bsky.social‬ #HIVA

📢 New on the Observatory of Online Politics blog! 🎯 TikTok and its role in the 2025 German Elections By @rosanavarrete.bsky.social & Ariq Suryo Hadi P. Read more politics.i2sc.net/blogposts/ti...

Wann join us in Vienna? 😊Apply for a 4year phd position with the @compcommlab.bsky.social

Here's another workshop at the intersection of #NLProc and politics: cpss-sig.github.io/CPSS-2025/cf... Deadline is June 13th, if you have any questions about the submission format, ping me, @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social @cklamm.bsky.social or @dede1989.bsky.social

What are the drivers of political #engagement in Europe❓ #ActEU researcher @alexhartland.bsky.social (@uni-saarland.de) explores the triggers of political participation in our latest video recording from our December mid-term conference 📺 Watch it on YouTube ➡️ youtu.be/M7Rcmco6jCQ?...

🛎️ New Publication 🛎️ How did public and party priorities interact during the 2024 European Parliament elections? In our new @wepsocial.bsky.social article, Daniela Braun, @giucarny.bsky.social @rosanavarrete.bsky.social @annreinl.bsky.social and I find some connections tinyurl.com/yhc4ae8m 🧵

As migration, climate change, and other issues cut across borders, we would expect increasing links between public and party salience In reality, we find the relationship is largely dependent on the issue and country context. PTVs increase where parties talk more about migration or the environment

But this is not consistent across the public as a whole. Where we really see a difference is in the mediating effect of individual priorities. When the public cares, they support parties who care too. We see this in both our aggregate and country-level analysis on migration and the environment.

@alexhartland.bsky.social Daniela Braun @giucarny.bsky.social @rosanavarrete.bsky.social & @annreinl.bsky.social observe a gap between the concerns of citizens & the issues political parties emphasise. doi.org/10.1080/0140... Part of the Symposium "European Parliament Elections 2024"

This is a very interesting observational paper for those working on gendered dynamics of far-right, descriptive rep & femonationalism Does women's descriptive rep. lower anti-gender discourse among far-right? No, it *increases* it (according to parl speech data 2009-2023) doi.org/10.1177/1465...

⬇️New week - new publication ⬇️ This time we focus on the 2024 EP elections🗳️ Thanks for putting this @wepsocial.bsky.social symposium together @simonhix.bsky.social!

🚨⬇️Publication alert ⬇️🚨 How did public and party priorities interact during the 2024 European Parliament elections? Take a look at @alexhartland.bsky.social 's summary on how our work contributes to a better understanding of issue voting. Ah, it's also #openaccess :)

🛎️ New Publication 🛎️ How did public and party priorities interact during the 2024 European Parliament elections? In our new @wepsocial.bsky.social article, Daniela Braun, @giucarny.bsky.social @rosanavarrete.bsky.social @annreinl.bsky.social and I find some connections tinyurl.com/yhc4ae8m 🧵

Come join us in Amsterdam for a fully funded 4-year PhD position on the topic of "Visual Politics and the Emergence of Angry Publics", with @alessandronai.bsky.social and @lindabos.bsky.social! All info here, deadline is June 4 👇👇👇 (Please share!) #polcom #commsky werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

📣 CfP: Join us in beautiful Freiburg in September for the Annual Workshop of the @dvpw.bsky.social Populism Working Group, this year focusing on #populism in #authoritarian regime contexts! Seongcheol Kim and I accept abstracts until 9 June 📆 For further info on the WG: www.dvpw.de/themengruppe...

UK has a comparatively difficult registration process. Our comparative analysis of registration difficulty in 62 countries is timely as Labour consider introducing automatic voter registration. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🚨NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 Though people have moved on from Brexit, they still vote in line with their Brexit preferences - with age/education still separating voters. Voters now back party blocs, which matters greatly for Labour's current appeals to Reform voters. 🧵 academic.oup.com/pa/advance-a...

🚨 We're hiring! Join us at @LMU_Muenchen for the DFG-funded project "Democratic Persuasion: How to Make the Case for Democracy." Interested in making scholarly & societal impact? We’re looking for: 🔹 1 Postdoc (100%) 🔹 1 PhD researcher (70%) Starting: Oct 2025 | Apply by: July 8 More info ⬇️ (1/7)

Friedrich #Merz scheitert im ersten Durchgang an der #Kanzlerwahl – Polit-Twitter/X explodiert. #Bundestag #ProjektSPARTA

#CallforApplications 📢 Join our #ActEU Trans-National Youth Democracy Lab! 📆 Tuesday, 10 June, 11:00 - 12:30 📍Online (Zoom) This is a great opportunity for young people to discuss the challenges to today's #democracies & generate recommendations 📃 Apply by 27 May 🔗 tepsa.eu/events/acteu...

Expert + LLM = Better Sexism Detection? ✨ Paper: 𝘛𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘔𝘦 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘚𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘮: 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵-𝘓𝘓𝘔 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘰-𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘡𝘦𝘳𝘰-𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘵 𝘚𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘋𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 w: @indiiigo.bsky.social, @matteo-mls.bsky.social y.social & @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social @ Findings #NAACL2025 !🤩

Out now (OA) in @electoralstudies.bsky.social. Do people in rural areas want politicians offering stronger representation to rural areas - as opposed to just their local area? Yes - based an original conjoint experiment in the UK (1/5) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...