Interested in the theory and empirics of multi-party governments? Thomas Bräuninger and I edited a Handbook on Coalition Politics with Edward Elgar Publishing: lnkd.in/eis8Yc2y /1

Una conversazione su NASPread con Giulia Riva sulla violenza politica nelle democrazie. Lo spunto è una special issue su @JPR_journal che ho curato con Ursula Daxecker e Neeraj Prasad ( intro qui bit.ly/3JVFsZD) Ecco il nostro dialogo: open.spotify.com/episode/4oex...

This very interesting paper raises a broader questions: why do some scandals stay contained while others discredit an entire political class? Part of the answer, I think, lies in diffeences in the clarity of accountability across democratic political systems. A well-established line of research

Now out @apsrjournal.bsky.social with page numbers! 🫒 We advance a new argument on how economic crises fuel support for far-right parties in left-behind places by tapping into long-standing community narratives shorturl.at/bA55v @catherinedevries.bsky.social

I'm sorry to burst the bubble but the idea that Republican elites and/or base are a couple of pieces of evidence from the Epstein files away from the tipping point is a fantasy. We've been through this for 10 years now. It's not going to happen. It's not who they are.

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

Not hard to make profit margins over 30% if you don't pay people who produce the content you sell, and their employers pay you for access

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🚨🎉New Publication Friday 🎉🚨 Campaigning in the Age of Platforms: A Longitudinal Analysis of German Parties & Politicians w/ @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social & @andersoloflarsson.bsky.social Out now in Political Communication. #polisky #commsky doi.org/10.1080/1058...

Maybe we could all “quarantine the morning to read and write” and send non-urgent emails only after lunch? :) "He protects what he calls his “first-thing” hours: the stretch of morning when thought still moves unfiltered. No meetings before eleven if he can help it, and ideally, no email either."

Posting is correlated with affective polarization: 😡 The most partisan users — those who love their party and despise the other — are more likely to post about politics 🥊 The result? A loud angry minority dominates online politics, which itself can drive polarization (see doi.org/10.1073/pnas...)

During the COVID lockdown, I spent countless hours watching his streams. That’s when I really started learning and improving in chess. I never met Naroditsky, but I’m really sad today :\

Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it. 
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures. 
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do. 👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette... 🧵

A great scholar and a very good friend coming to Milan: Ursula Daxecker. Thursday 16 October, 3 pm.

I had the pleasure to teach a 3-day crash course on #LLMs for PhD students. We covered: 1️⃣ Text Representation and Embeddings 2️⃣ Machine Learning & Transformer Architecture 3️⃣ Generative Models for Social Sciences The 6 slide sets and 10 notebooks are available on github: github.com/nicolaiberk/...

Had the blessing to spend last spring at MZES as a visiting PhD student and it was a BLAST! Brilliant scholars, a super supportive environment, and the perfect place to be productive (also have fun!) 🌈

Checked a random one just for fun during my lunch break, same dataset: dmsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... In Supplement 2, sdLDL-c→WC (T2D) is β=0.008 with CI (−0.12, −0.14) 🤔🤔🤔 In Table 3 (WC), lbLDL-c is β=0.03 with CI (−0.03, 0.03) strange CIs?? 🤔 Thanks for your service Sophie!

I regret to inform you I found *another* paper by (some of) these authors with similar errors... 🧵

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825

"Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds" Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"... www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...

Had a great time at #SISP25 in Naples! :D Presented a couple of papers on valence politics and political scandals, plus a bonus talk on AI & audio-as-data in the Research Methods workshop! It was wonderful to catch up with so many friends 💜

Stefano Sangiovanni presents the paper "Party Competition and the Strategic Use of Valence Signals in Electoral Campaigns" in the panel on party organization. #Sisp2025 #NapleSisp @stesangio.bsky.social

Have you ever wondered if young politicians perceive their roles as representatives differently than their older colleagues? Then, my new research note in Party Politics may interest you. I investigate age differences in the representation styles of politicians. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Assistant professors teach courses that are closer to the knowledge frontier than tenured faculty.

My thoughts on the crucial importance of methodology on self-reported AI performance on mathematics competitions, and my policy on commenting on such reports going forward: mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1148814...

Dichiarazione della Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (SISP) su Gaza

Super happy to share my new (well, actually first ever!) publication! In this article, @giacomomelli.bsky.social and I set out to operationalize and validate a scale of populist attitudes, using data from Round 10 of the #EuropeanSocialSurvey. Full article here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Today (w/ @ox.ac.uk @stanford @MIT @LSE) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19  LLMs, 707 political issues. We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more!  🧵:

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

📄 @fgilardi.bsky.social created this template for writing abstracts several years ago, and I’ve tried to follow Fabrizio‘s suggestions ever since. PDF: fabriziogilardi.org/resources/pa...

Hey y'all I am hiring a PhD student. Minimal teaching load and many opportunities for more ;) uol.de/job566en

MUST READ. Super super relatable. I use the "Rant Technique" a lot with my partner and colleagues. It really helps us feel like we’re all in the same boat, not just on the academic journey, but in life in general.

🚨 New WP! 📄 "Publish or Procreate: The Effect of Motherhood on Research Performance" (w/ @valentinatartari.bsky.social 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 We investigate how parenthood affects scientific productivity and impact — and find that the impact is far from equal for mothers and fathers.

We are looking for a PhD student! Check out the cfa below, please repost for N and diversity 👇👇🔥🔥🔥

Do you want to learn how to apply #computational methods to study social and political #dynamics? We have a new Master's programme in #Milan. Join the presentation of this programme on 27 May 11:30 CET time by registering to the link below! cosp.orientamentounimi.it/en/dettagli_...

🕑 Join us *today* at 13:45 CEST for the talk 'Forecasting the German Federal Election 2025 - Different Modelling Approaches' by @hannahrajski.bsky.social (University of Mannheim) & @cornelius-erfort.bsky.social (Witten/Herdecke University). ⬇️ Zoom link and details below

A Tinder Test of Democratic Norms💋 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social with @bertous.bsky.social We rely on a visual conjoint experiment, cross-sectional data, & panel data to show that affective polarization drives the normalisation of the far right among the centre-right 🇬🇧🇪🇸 doi.org/10.1086/736698

🚨 working paper (w. @morganlcj.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social): Protesters are not judged equally - even if tactics of groups are similar. We ran an experiment in 🇩🇪 testing how people react to farmers vs. climate activists blocking roads. What we find is disturbing: osf.io/preprints/os...

🚨 “Good Description” with @annagbusse.bsky.social 🚨 What sets 'good' description apart from 'mere' description? We develop a framework for evaluating descriptive research, whether we are doing it as scholars or assessing it as readers. Two main contributions... 🔗📄 tinyurl.com/gooddesc

New 📰: In "Can Individual MPs Damage Their Party’s Brand? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Public Procurement Corruption Scandal" out in @thejop.bsky.social @lukrudolph.bsky.social and I show that the "mask affair" cost the CDU 4%-points in elections. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 1/

💡NEW STUDY FINDS…💡 ‘Emphasizing the unity and coherence of one’s own party or that of their own coalition is associated with higher levels of user engagement and positive reactions’ #Italy #2022 #GeneralElection Read the article by Ceron, Berloto & Rosco here 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Excited to start my visiting fellowship at the @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social! Looking forward to learning a lot, meeting great people and enjoying a few good German beers :D If you’re around and feel like saying hi, just reach out!

Populism remains an important necessary concept to understand current political transformations. But analysts need to move away from it as the main focus. Authoritarian nativism, white supremacy, racism, sexism and fascism are the ideologies at the core of the current erosion of liberal democracy 1/

We're organizing another round of the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology 🎉 summerschoolwpm.org Our super-cool speakers include msands.bsky.social @allisonwkoh.bsky.social @melinscribe.bsky.social @rebeccakittel.bsky.social @fabiennelind.bsky.social & @indiiigo.bsky.social 📆01/05

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Bremen 🚨 Open to PhD students and early career scholars Fully-funded places available for applicants, deadline 1st of May 📅 summerschoolwpm.org

This is exactly the type of response ChatGPT will give you when you would ask it to come up with a potential formula for a US tarif rate. You will not be able to convince me otherwise.

Off to Mannheim from Milan for the @mzes-ssdl.bsky.social - @dvpw.bsky.social Conference 'Methods of Political Science' Looking forward to presenting on Political Scandals and some cool Experimental stuff! :D

I've created an intra-party scholars starter pack: mostly political scientists with a sprinkling of polcomm scholars and historians who research the internal politics of political parties. Let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/A3MY3nF

Bluesky really is the new #rstats twitter because we have the first base R vs tidyverse flame war 🤣

So I am going to redo my feeds after I come back from America But until then I am going to add relevant starter packs to the PoliSci Meta Feed Spreadsheets So do please link me any relevant ones docs.google.com/spreadsheets...