▶️ Social Science Data Lab: Spring 2026 Events Four input talks by great researchers (see below ⤵️)! 🗓️ Details & Zoom: socialsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/page/events/ 👥 Organizers: @rubac.bsky.social, @denis-cohen.bsky.social and Alexander Wenz

📌 Hiring one postdoctoral and two predoctoral researchers for the @erc.europa.eu project #COUNSTER, each position for up to 3 years to start on May 2026. Postdoc: stars.bilkent.edu.tr/staffapp/IR2... (Deadline Feb 20) Predoc: stars.bilkent.edu.tr/staffapp/IR2... (Deadline March 1)

New year, new publication! 🎆 Thrilled to kick off 2026 by sharing our latest work with Bilge Yabancı (@bilgeyabanci.bsky.social) in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (@scmrjems.bsky.social). Full text: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New year, new publication! 🎆 Thrilled to kick off 2026 by sharing our latest work with Bilge Yabancı (@bilgeyabanci.bsky.social) in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (@scmrjems.bsky.social). Full text: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open access! Part of a special issue on Turkey's 2023 general election. Thanks to special issue editors Berk Esen and @mertmoral.bsky.social.

Why do citizens who say they support democracy tolerate leaders who dismantle it? Delighted to share my paper “Framing Democracy: How Elite Discourse Shapes Citizens' Understandings of Democracy and Enables Backsliding” is forthcoming in World Politics...(1/5, link at the end)

BAGEP başvuruları başladı. Son başvuru 23 Ocak 2026.

One slot free for tomorrow’s International Office Hours. Next week will be the last of this year. There will be no IOHs next semester.

📣 My new working paper is out! I tested how people in 5 countries judge the fairness of biometric + automated border checks. If you care about migration or algorithmic governance, this one is for you 👉 cadmus.eui.eu/server/api/c... The big takeaway: people don’t find automation inherently fairer

The electoral effects of state-sponsored anti-LGBTQ measures doi.org/10.1086/739782 Accepted paper in @thejop.bsky.social by Violeta I. Haas, Konstantin Bogatyrev, Nuffield Fellow @tabouchadi.bsky.social Heike Klüver and Lukas F. Stoetzer

(1/10) 🚨Preprint alert!🚨 In this article, I challenge claims of a generational rise of conservative men. In the media and recent academic publications, the so-called ‘youth gender gap’ has been interpreted as a generational phenomenon. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Far-Right Networks in Motion — Webinar on Dec 5, 4 PM CET A discussion on the transnational dynamics of the far right with @steppe-project.bsky.social @casmudde.bsky.social @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social steppe.hypotheses.org/2236 📩 Register with [email protected]

🚨 New Publication! 🚨 In this piece, I examine both the extreme and the more “moderate” factions within the AfD 🇩🇪 and compare their positions on 🇺🇦/🇷🇺 with their stances on 🇮🇱/🇵🇸. Key insights and findings👇🏻 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Do Americans judge acts of partisan political violence impartially? No. We show that Democrats and Republicans exhibit clear partisan bias: both see the same violent act as more justified when it targets the other party than when it targets their own side. osf.io/preprints/so... #polisky

Thrilled to share my new article in Political Psychology: “The psychology of political attitudinal volatility.” 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.... @ispp-pops.bsky.social

Just got the letter—I’m now an Associate Professor! Deep thanks to everyone who’s been part of this journey. Excited for what’s ahead! 🎉

New #openaccess study We made >16,000 visa appointment requests at German embassies and consulates worldwide Key finding: The poorer the country, the longer the wait time and the lower the chance to get an appointment. "A time panelty for the Global South?" shorturl.at/ZiAFb

AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail

Be our colleague! We are hiring: "Koç University invites applications for a full-time Assistant Professor position in International Relations with a focus on International Political Economy (IPE) starting in September 2026." Details in the link below: jobs.ku.edu.tr/open_positio...

🚨New publication! My article “Far-right parties and gender policies in contemporary Türkiye” is out now. I analyze the Victory Party, New Welfare Party & Free Cause Party and map their gender policy positions. Free access: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/INVR6...

🚨New publication! My article “Far-right parties and gender policies in contemporary Türkiye” is out now. I analyze the Victory Party, New Welfare Party & Free Cause Party and map their gender policy positions. Free access: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/INVR6...

Interesting paper! When you ask people about the most important issue "facing the country," they often say immigration. But when you ask them about issues facing them personally, it doesn't crack the top 10. This indicates that voters are reacting to media narratives, not their own experience.

Visualized here. Hot tip for journalists: the real question isn’t why Wilders lost, but why the far right has consolidated — despite Wilders's ineffectiveness in government.

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗱𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀? In our new dataset, we track these prosecutions with @seva.bsky.social @sahibjafarov.bsky.social. It's more common than you might think. Check out our @foreignpolicy.com op-ed for the findings. foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/28/d... @idos-research.bsky.social

🎉 @rpsychologist.com 's PowerLMM.js is the online statistics application of the year 2025 🎉 powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com - Calculate power (etc) for multilevel models - Examine effects of dropout and other important parameters - Fast! (Instant results)

🚨 New publication alert! Social media is often seen as a catalyst for the transnational spread of far-right and anti-gender movements. But is it really? How does it work? My research examines how anti-gender movement organizations exchange across borders online. Curious about the findings? 🧵👇

HEADS-UP! 🚨 On Wednesday October 29, the Netherlands will holds its 9th (!) legislative elections of the 21st century. I will continue to post disproportionately about my country of birth and citizenship (but not of residence) in the coming weeks. This will be my thread for Dutch news! 🧵

We’re excited to host Samantha Bradshaw for a seminar on 17 November at Özyeğin University. She’ll share insights from her groundbreaking work on international competition over quantum technologies. @sbradshaw.bsky.social Link for the registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Two job openings at our department. One for Turkish Politics (stars.bilkent.edu.tr/staffapp/POL...) and one for Public Policy (stars.bilkent.edu.tr/staffapp/POL...) .

Rejection is one of the toughest parts about academia and this post provides some great guidance on how to deal with it (that I will start trying to follow myself). Here's a couple of thoughts that the post triggered, if those happen to be of interest:

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... 🧵

NEW - Inflation and Incumbent Support: Experimental Evidence from the 2024 US Presidential Election - https://cup.org/3JaiZYj "priming Americans to think about inflation reduced support for the incumbent party" - Selim Erdem Aytaç, @danielmcdowell.bsky.social & David A. Steinberg #OpenAccess

Our special issue "Genocide is a feminist issue" is now available here: tandfonline.com/toc/cgpc20/3... @snehakrishnan.bsky.social

peer review is a process of removing every sentence every sentence every sentence you liked

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 #𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 #𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬? They face huge risks, especially during economic crises, when dictators choose to financially extort or #purge their business allies. And yet, despite their power to disrupt, business elites rarely switch sides. My research shows why.

Thrilled to be starting as a Visiting Scholar at Concordia University’s Political Science Department with the Immigration Research Initiative! Excited for new ideas, collaborations, and great conversations on migration.

Working on political psychology research with a focus on East Asia? A new special issue of our journal will center East Asia to broaden the field’s geographic & cultural assumptions. Find the call in the Special Issues section of the link below & consider submitting your work! linktr.ee/POPSjournal

"The DP’s authoritarianism emerged as a result of its pursuit to establish hegemony right from the start. Failure of establishing consent gave way to forceful domination, setting the DP period as the first example of competitive authoritarianism in Turkey" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

3-year, full-time post-doc position with my ‪@griffith.edu.au‬ friend & colleague, Ferran Martinez i Coma. Ferran is one of the key people who has made our department the top comparative politics research cluster in Australia. Please apply, share, etc. jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...

🌅📙 64.3 #NostalgicDeprivation in Europe 🇪🇺 These authors (🧵⬇️) look at impact of #NostalgicDeprivation on support for #PopulistParties across both Eastern and Western Europe 🌍 linking populist attitudes and voting. 🔗 buff.ly/HuJNAqL

OUT NOW: 'Vigilant Whiteness: Racism, Transphobia and the Mainstreaming of Far-Right Politics in Britain' - by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social & Maddy Clark @identitiesjournal.bsky.social - a brief summary🧵(2-11) below: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Today is my first teaching day of Fall 2025. I'm teaching a grad course on Qualitative Methods, for the first time in almost 10 years. As several people have asked me to post my syllabus, here it is. Note that it can be, and often is, changed a bit during the semester.

📢 New article 🌟 👥 Audrey Gagnon @audreygagnon.bsky.social and Tamta Gelashvili @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social (ISV) 🔎 How can institutions better support researchers? The case of extremism and terrorism research 📗 Open access in Qualitative Research doi.org/10.1177/1468...

🚨 New article out in @govandopp.bsky.social 🔥 How did far-right parties go from political outcasts to election contenders in Germany, Portugal, Spain & Sweden? Turns out, stigma doesn’t last forever… www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

NEW - How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD "we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians" - @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social #OpenAccess

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS! We’re looking for presenters for the upcoming term (early October to mid-December 2025). If you’d like to present, please fill out the form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🗓 Deadline for proposals: August 31

New publication in @wepsocial.bsky.social! Are young men becoming more conservative? This debate requires a) more nuance and b) theoretical explanations for often descriptive results. With Amy Alexander and Nicholas Charron, we try addressing both. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

As I explore at length in the article below, "immigration" is not a "legitimate concern" that rises from the bottom to force the elite to crack down but a top-down construction to divert attention away from the many other real crisis people care about journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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I'm delighted to see this article out in @govandopp.bsky.social! Jonas Wenker and I show that losing an election has a far stronger negative effect on populist voters than on non-populist ones. For populists, losing signals that the system is broken. 1/5 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...