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Political Science | Postdoc Uni Saarland |
http://acteu.org
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James David Griffiths
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๐จ New Research Recently accepted at the
@bjpols.bsky.social
, our paper shows that Brexit led to weaker British ๐ฌ๐ง identities among Remainers! You can read the paper by
@jaclarner.bsky.social
, me, and
@danielwincott.bsky.social
here:
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR
10 days ago
#OpenAccess from
@psrm.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
- Validating open-source machine translation for quantitative text analysis - https://cup.org/4tHDIVv - Hauke Licht, Ronja Ida Sczepanski, Moritz Laurer & Ayjeren Bekmuratovna
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Deadline for this great postdoc vacancy is tomorrow ๐ Happy to chat about the position, department and all things Saarland, just send me a DM/ email or find me at
#comptext2026
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New postdoc vacancy in political science/ CSS at Uni Saarland Please share widely/ consider applying If you have any questions, feel free to drop me a DM or find me at the
@comptext.bsky.social
conference in a few weeks
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about 1 month ago
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Jack Bailey
about 1 month ago
Do I know a German speaker with a few minutes to spare?
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Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA)
about 1 month ago
๐จ
#OUTNOW
๐ The
#ActEU
book on activating European citizens' political trust๐ This new book looks at the future of European democracy, featuring perspectives from ActEU researchersโ and a chapter authored by the TEPSA teamโผ๏ธ Read it now๐
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Lena Maria Huber
2 months ago
Another day, another publication: Our new paper introduces a transformer-based approach to measure how parties talk about each other, capturing who talks about whom and with what stance, with applications to coalition signals in Germany and negative campaigning in Austria. Out now, open access!
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Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA)
3 months ago
๐งฒ How did
#ActEU
researchers collect data on political trust? ๐ฝ๏ธThis animated video explores ActEU's web-scraping tool, one of the largest collections of European political communications ๐
youtu.be/LwTeWZjWMtE
@alexhartland.bsky.social
@pfcdgayo.bsky.social
@politicsunisaar.bsky.social
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How do we collect data on political trust? | Animated Explainer
YouTube video by Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA)
https://youtu.be/LwTeWZjWMtE
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Philine Widmer
3 months ago
Can feed algorithms shape what people think about politics? Our paper "The Political Effects of X's Feed Algorithm" is out today in Nature and answers "Yes."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA)
3 months ago
How can we measure political trust in Europe? ๐
#ActEU
researchers have explored this topic with the help of a large-scale survey ๐ Find out more about the results and test your knowledge of
#ActEU
findings with this video๐
youtu.be/aI1tGW13V2s
@uni-saarland.de
@unidue.bsky.social
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How do we measure political trust? | TEPSA Animated Explainer
YouTube video by Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA)
https://youtu.be/aI1tGW13V2s
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Politische Vierteljahresschrift
3 months ago
Looking for speeches from all German state parliaments?
@cgnguyen.bsky.social
, Eric Beltermann, Sabine Kropp & Antonios Souris have you covered. Introducing the StateParl Corpus. Now open access with PVS:
doi.org/10.1007/s11615-025-00643-5
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Decoding German Politics with StateParlโAย Text Corpus of Plenary Protocols in the 16ย German Lรคnder Parliaments - Politische Vierteljahresschrift
The availability of large amounts of machine-readable text data has enabled political scientists to explore a variety of novel and innovative research questions. In this context, parliamentary documen...
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11615-025-00643-5
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Swen Hutter
3 months ago
Two new articles in Party Politics With
@gessler.bsky.social
Measuring party positions and issue salience with mass media and manifesto data"
doi.org/10.1177/1354...
With Hanspeter Kriesi "Restructuring party systems in Northwestern Europe"
doi.org/10.1177/1354...
Feedback very welcome!
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Interdisciplinary Institute for Societal Computing
3 months ago
The Societal Observatory Using Novel Data Sources (SOUNDS) project is inviting applications for the following position: ๐ฃ๐ผ๐๐๐ฑ๐ผ๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ (๐ณ/๐บ/๐ ) ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฒ๐๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด (๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ณ: ๐ช๐ฎ๐ด๐ฌ๐ญ) Paygrade: E13 TV-L 100% Duration: 2 years
@ingmarweber.de
@politicsunisaar.bsky.social
@uni-saarland.de
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Jasper Tjaden
3 months ago
Looking for RAs based in Berlin/Brandenburg. Please share! ๐
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Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA)
3 months ago
After a short break, the first panel of the
#ActEU
Final Conference will begin ๐ Sofie Marien,
@anthonyzach.be
,
@valeriefrey.bsky.social
&
@alexhartland.bsky.social
will discuss political trust in democracy. Keep following the conference on our YouTube channel ๐
youtube.com/live/YVOClu1...
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European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger
3 months ago
Coming soon: Activating European Citizensโ Trust in Times of Crisis and Polarization This
#PoliSci
book will explore how trust and legitimacy shape Europeโs representative democracies, introducing the
#ActEU
framework to assess democratic change and polarization.
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European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger
4 months ago
We're
#hiring
: This time we're looking for a project lead assistant for our large-scale
#compsocsci
project SOUNDS!
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Endre Borbรกth
4 months ago
Big supply-side takeaway: since the 1960s, parties increasingly drop โpartyโ and classic ideology words. By the early 2020s, nearly 2/3 of parties no longer identify as โpartiesโ in their official name; โmovementโ references rise in waves (e.g., post-2008).
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Katrin Weller
5 months ago
January 16, 2026: Julian Jaursch from the German Digital Service Coordinator
@bnetza.bsky.social
will introduce the EU's
#DSA
Data Access Portal during the series "Show &โฏTell โ Social Media Data in Research Practice". Register here:
events.gwdg.de/event/1259/
#digitalservicesact
#platformdata
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Applications via the EU's DSA Data Access Portal: An Introduction
Researchers can submit requests to the EU's "Data Access Portal" to obtain non-public data from very large online platforms in certain cases. What information do researchers need to provide and what d...
https://events.gwdg.de/event/1259/
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Giuseppe Carteny
5 months ago
New Publication out! ๐ฅ Italyโs right-wing politics has changed dramatically over the past two decades. With
@gippone.bsky.social
and
@leonardo-puleo.bsky.social
we started from a basic question: Why has the radical right surged inside Italyโs right coalition? Radicalisation or something different?
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Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA)
5 months ago
๐ถโThe relationship between voters and parties is a complicated dance, with high potential for misalignmentโ ๐ถ Find out more in this
#ActEU
blog post ๐
www.foederalist.eu/2025/12/acte...
โ๏ธ
@alexhartland.bsky.social
, Daniela Braun, Giuseppe Carteny,
@rosanavarrete.bsky.social
&
@annreinl.bsky.social
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The COMPTEXT Association
5 months ago
The Call for Papers and Panels for
#COMPTEXT2026
in Birmingham (23-25 April) is out; feel free to circulate:
shorturl.at/gRg0p
! Deadline: January 16!
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European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger
5 months ago
European parties often miss what voters actually care about. New
#ActEU
research shows clear gaps between party platforms and voter priorities with consequences for trust and political stability. Read more in our latest
#PoliSci
blogpost:
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Ein Blog รผber die Demokratie in Europa
https://www.foederalist.eu/2025/12/acteu-parties-voters-priorities.html
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Ceri Fowler
5 months ago
Deadline today!! :)
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Anna Kurella
5 months ago
Happy to share that the German Research Foundation DFG funds my new project: โCountering Polarization: The Borda count as a basis for proportional representationโ. I am recruiting 2 PhD candidates to join me in Hannover as of March 2026 or later! Feel free to reach out!
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European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger
5 months ago
And another job ad: We're looking for four student assistants!
#hiring
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James Dennison
6 months ago
Thrilled to share my new article in Political Psychology: โThe psychology of political attitudinal volatility.โ In it, I attempt to answer why do some people change their political views more than others? Open access at:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Will Allen
6 months ago
Who shares which sources on social media, and why does this matter politically? Our open-access
@polcommjournal.bsky.social
article shows how far-right French Twitter/X users strategically post and cite sources to achieve their goals.
doi.org/10.1080/1058...
#polisky
#commsky
#migcitsky
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Chris Butler
6 months ago
Several recent studies have found that politicians aren't very good at estimating public support for policies. But we have little idea about whether politicians are good at knowing which issues are more important to voters. Our new publication has a first go at answering this question
rdcu.be/eQGm4
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How Politicians (mis)Perceive Policy Salience
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Dr. Silke Goubin
6 months ago
๐จWorking on economic inequality perceptions and support for redistribution? Sonja Zmerli and I are coordinating a Section about perceived economic inequality at the next
@ecpr.bsky.social
's General Conference. ๐ Do consider submit your paper!
ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
@vd-researchgroup.bsky.social
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Exploring the intricacies of citizens' economic inequality perceptions and their redistributive correlates: Ill-informed, attitudinally incoherent, or predictably irrational?
European Consortium for Political Research
https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/SectionDetails/1670
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European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger
6 months ago
We are looking for a teamlead for our large-scale project SOUNDS!
#compsocsci
#PoliSky
#PoliSci
#hiring
#JobAlert
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Martin Gross
6 months ago
Including the symposium on the EP elections 2024, guest edited by
@simonhix.bsky.social
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WEP Journal
6 months ago
๐ฅ OUT NOW: Volume 49, Issue 1 (2026) Lots of exciting research on: ๐ Polarisation: climate change, immigration, democratic deficit ๐ EU politics & voters/citizens ๐ Working class politicians ๐ Political protest ๐ Housing policy ๐ Symposium 2024 EP Elections ๐
www.tandfonline.com/toc/fwep20/c...
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West European Politics
Volume 49, Issue 1 of West European Politics
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fwep20/current
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Chris Arnold
6 months ago
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
โช@comptext.bsky.social
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Gabriella Lapesa
6 months ago
Join our CSS department
@gesis.org
! Postdoc/senior researcher position, tenure track! All info at:
www.gesis.org/institut/kar...
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GESIS Leibniz Institut fรผr Sozialwissenschaften
https://www.gesis.org/institut/karriere/jobs/details/postdoc-senior-researcher-in-computational-social-science-css-116
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Daniel Devine
7 months ago
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...
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Dr. Silke Goubin
7 months ago
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!
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Ceri Fowler
7 months ago
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...
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Partner Effects and Gender Gaps in Vote Choice in the United Kingdom: Brexit and Subsequent Elections - Ceri Fowler, 2025
This article explores differences in voting behaviour between those that were single and those that had a Eurosceptic or Europhile partner at the United Kingdom...
https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217251371944
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Tanise Ceron
7 months ago
๐ฃ 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?
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European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger
8 months ago
We are looking for a project manager for our large-scale project SOUNDS! Learn more:
bit.ly/SOUNDS-Manager
#compsocsci
#PoliSky
#PoliSci
#hiring
#JobAlert
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Interdisciplinary Institute for Societal Computing
8 months ago
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.
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Manifesto Project
8 months ago
More than 20 new elections โ๏ธ 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
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Maurits Meijers
8 months ago
๐จ๐ข Weโre hiring a Postdoc in Computational Political Science at the University of Antwerp! ๐ป Focus: NLP + ML + political text analysis ๐ณ๏ธ Project: ERC DEMO-LIES (disinformation in democracies) ๐ Location: Antwerp, ๐ง๐ช ๐ Deadline: 16 Oct 2025
www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...
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Postdoctoral scholarship holder in computational political science | University of Antwerp
YUFE vacancies
https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vacancies/academic-staff/?q=4123&descr=Postdoctoral-scholarship-holder-in-computational-political-science
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Stefan Mรผller
8 months ago
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
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PROTEMO Project
8 months ago
๐ก๐ Passionate about emotions, gender & migration? Weโre hiring a Research Associate for the
#PROTEMO
project at
@uni-saarland.de
! ๐ Focus: migrant womenโs experiences of domestic violence & how emotions, security & politics intersect. ๐ Apply by 10 Sept 2025 ๐
www.protemo.eu/news-post/we...
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European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger
9 months ago
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!๐ Read more:
bit.ly/SoundsPM
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Project analysing society and the economy with new data sources garners millions in state funding
Satellite images, social media and barcode scanners in shops offer a wealth of data that has so far been little used in the social sciences. New AI-supported methods are helping with the evaluation, b...
https://www.uni-saarland.de/en/news/society-data-sounds-39208.html
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Michal Ovรกdek
9 months ago
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
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Judicial diversity and immigration appeals: evidence from the United Kingdom
Almost all studies of judicial behaviour and diversity conceptualise judgesโ race and gender as independent, additive variables. Specifically, black and female judges are often seen as more liberal...
https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2025.2527542
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Anne Rasmussen
10 months ago
๐จ 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 ๐งต1/n
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Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA)
10 months ago
How is
#polarisation
reflected on social mediaโ
@uni-saarland.de
's
@alexhartland.bsky.social
responded to this question in his presentation at the
#ActEU
mid-term conference ๐ Check it out on YouTube ๐
youtu.be/3l9XQFZAlQU
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Studying polarisation with social media data | Alex Hartland | #ActEU Mid-Term Conference
YouTube video by Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA)
https://youtu.be/3l9XQFZAlQU
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