🌟 Warm congratulations to our doctoral graduates on their outstanding placements from the 2024/2025 job market, completed 2025. Here's a selection of the institutions our alumni have joined. For the complete overview of placements, please visit: www.uni-mannheim.de/gess/alumni-...

📼 New episode out! With the final application deadline approaching⏳, this is a good time to explore whether a structured #doctoral program is the right fit for you. If you already have an offer, this video gives you a clear sense of what to expect. 📮 #Apply: gess-application.uni-mannheim.de/portal/

📣 New article alert 📣 We're happy to see Domantas’ solo‑authored paper out now! His article is an insightful contribution to understanding patterns of political support among immigrant communities. Congratulations, Domantas! Fantastic work and an important step in your academic journey! 🥳

🥳 Huge congratulations to Klara on successfully defending her dissertation! Her work will undoubtedly advance conversations in political methodology. ⭐ A major milestone! We are very proud of you, doctor! 🎓

▶️ Episode 2 of our video series is out! How does #interdisciplinarity change your research? Voices from across our community explain how coursework and training across economics, business, and the social sciences inform research questions, foster co-authorships, and open new professional paths.

To mark #InternationalWomensDay, the University of Mannheim is launching “Women in Research – Success Stories @UniMA” on LinkedIn. Look out for new interviews highlighting our scholars and their career journeys. The first interview features our doctoral candidate Yasmin Kuhlmann (CDSB): #IWD2026

📣 New article alert 📣 Big congrats to Johannes Lattmann and David Schweizer, doctoral researchers at the CDSS, on their new publication. Excellent work! Read more below 👇

Am Sonntag ist Landtagswahl in Baden-Württemberg. Was sagt das Zweistimme.org Modell vorher? ⬇️

🎬📼 We are launching a new video series, with a fresh episode every 2 weeks, and episode 1 is out now! Listen to doctoral researchers and alumni explain how cohort meetups, feedback circles, and celebrating collective wins translate into stronger scholarship and a more rewarding doctoral journey.

🚨 Upcoming: "When Events Change Samples: Disentangling Causal Effects from Compositional Bias in Quasi-Experimental Designs" 👤 Klara Müller (University of Mannheim) 🗓️ Wed, February 25, 13:45-15:15 CET 📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Danke für die Möglichkeit! @wirtschaftsdienst.bsky.social @gessunimannheim.bsky.social

Thursday, February 12th, 2026, at 12:15 pm, we welcome Rüdiger Bachmann, University of Michigan, to our Macro-CRC TR 224 Seminar (@EPoS224). The title of the paper to be presented “The Nature of Capital Expenditures over the Business Cycle.” More info – https://t.co/zdcOyXdB1e https://t.co/DSuRXH...

Excited to kick off the @mzes-ssdl.bsky.social Spring series 🙌 I’ll talk about different threats to causal inference in quasi-experimental designs and share hands-on tools to tackle common biases. Hybrid event, so happy to see non-Mannheim folks joining on Zoom as well! 🗓️ Feb 25th, 1.45pm CET

Why hasn’t the energy‑intensive manufacturing sector in Germany become more efficient? In this video, CDSE doctoral candidate @joschakrug.bsky.social explains how preferential treatment for large firms can blunt climate policy and increase energy intensity. More in the video. #ClimatePolicy #Econsky

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨 7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers. Free of charge (limited travel support). Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org #methodsky #polisky

🌟 Proud moment for the GESS! Congratulations to CDSS doctoral candidate Julius Diener on becoming Managing Editor at @pvs-journal.bsky.social alongside new EIC Prof. @marcdebus.bsky.social and Associate Editors. All the best to you and the whole editorial team! 🍀

📣 New article alert 📣 Using cross-country data, a new study shows that individuals with radical, extremist, or fundamentalist attitudes share notable similarities. Proud that doctoral candidate Nina Osenbrügge (@ninao.bsky.social) is a co-author! 👏 Learn more in 🧵 or here: dx.doi.org/10.1057/s415...

📣 New article alert 📣 Congratulations to the authors on their newest publication! We are especially proud of our CDSS doctoral researcher Samuel Wissel and alum Dr. Marc Philipp Janson. 👏

Words like "patriotism" and "racism" are often associated with the right, while "solidarity" and "socialism" are associated with the left. But who uses these associations, and how do political positions matter? 📊 App: lukas-warode.shinyapps.io/lr-words-map/ 📄 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to see this project out – combining the best of both worlds of cognitive & educational research! 🎉 Credit also goes to @gessunimannheim.bsky.social for bringing Samuel Wissel & me together in the first place & encouraging us to think about combining our shared interest in metacognition.

The experience of Norwegian milkmaids suggests that gender-biased technological shocks can narrow the gender gap by disrupting entrenched gender norms in the labor market, say researchers at @gessunimannheim.bsky.social, @unibergen.bsky.social, and @nhhnor.bsky.social. #econsky

A #trr266 paper by members Bischof, Giese & @gerritvzedlitz.bsky.social (all Uni Mannheim) and co-author Luzi Hail was featured by Knowledge at Wharton. It highlights how climate stress tests can influence banks’ transparency and lending behavior. Read the article here: buff.ly/W1EwnrT

📢 Final call for early review! 🔔 The early deadline for our doctoral programs is this Thursday! 📮 Submit by 15 Jan to be considered for early review. Apply now via gess-application.uni-mannheim.de/portal/ Looking forward to receiving your applications! #ApplyEarly #PhD #ClassOf2026

New working paper with @eelcoharteveld.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/so... Does thinking of political opponents in terms of their ideas, personality traits or social make-up change how we feel and reason about them? We explore this question through a pre-registered experiment in the Netherlands 👇

🎯 New Year's Resolutions: Apply early! 🔔 Tomorrow’s scholars in Business, Economics, and Social and Behavioral Sciences, do not miss the early deadline. 📮 Submit your application here by 15 January: gess-application.uni-mannheim.de/portal/ #ApplyEarly #PhD #NewYearNewGoals #ClassOf2026

🎓 Please join us in congratulating our newest doctoral graduate, Linda Stürmlinger, who successfully defended her dissertation, yesterday. Bravo! We are so proud of you, Linda! 👏

✨Season’s Greetings from the GESS✨ Thank you for walking alongside us through 2025’s many moments, the quieter days and the moments of joy alike. May your holidays be joyful and peaceful, your winter break restful, and your new year full of promise and possibility. 🧣🧤 Happy Holidays! ❄️⛄

📣 Apply Now: Be part of the GESS 📣 🎓 #ApplyNow to our fully funded doctoral programs beginning Fall 2026! 📊 #Business 📊 #Economics 📊 #SocialSciences Application Deadlines: 📬 Early: 15 Jan 2026 📬 Final: 31 March 2026 🔗 Don’t miss your chance to apply via our Online Application Portal:

Wie lässt sich das brutale Vorgehen von Trump's ICE Agenten erklären? Und warum erinnert es so sehr an Diktaturen und ihre Geheimpolizei? Unser neues Buch liefert Antworten - wie wir heute in der @zeit.de erklären. Buch: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

🌟Proud alumni moment for us🌟 In @zeit.de, CDSS alumni Dr. Christian Gläßel (Hertie School) and Prof. @ascharpf.bsky.social (University of Copenhagen) discuss the U.S. immigration enforcement agency ICE through the lens of their research on recruitment in autocratic security apparatuses (in German).

Thinking about pursuing a #doctorate in #Business (Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Management, Marketing, Operations Management, Taxation)? 🎓🤔 📣 Then don't miss our info session hosted by the CDSB Academic Director, Program Directors, and Center Manager: 📅 27 Nov 2025 | 🕖 12-1 p.m.

📣 New Social Data Science doctoral track launching in 2026 at our Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences (CDSS)! Applications open mid-November 2025. ℹ️ www.uni-mannheim.de/gess/apply/admission-requirements/for-cdss/ #PhD #DoctoralStudies #DataScience #SocialStudies

🥇 We are happy to announce the recipients of this year’s GESS Awards for outstanding achievements in teaching and research! These awards acknowledge the commitment and hard work our graduate students have poured into their academic work. 🏆 Congratulations to our award winners!

📣 Diversity Week 🏳️‍🌈 📆 13-16 October 2025 📍 University of Mannheim With contributions from MZES researchers Rainer Freudenthaler, @wurthmann.bsky.social (14 October), Andrea Chagas López, Oliver Rittmann (15 October) and many others. Programme and details: 👉 www.uni-mannheim.de/en/gleichste...

🚨 New working paper alert! 🚨 I analyse how the UK Supreme Court declaring the Rwanda Scheme unconstitutional changed individuals' political values. I find that Britons become more supportive of racial and ethnic hierarchies after the ruling. doi.org/10.31235/osf... A 🧵:

🚨 New working paper (highly recommend reading open-ended answers about politics btw. A good reality check if nothing else)

Full circle moment ⭕: @psaepop.bsky.social was the first ever conference I presented at, and now I'm thrilled to wrap up my PhD conference cycle at #EPOP2025 in Exeter. Enthusiatic to present joint work with @aleferna.bsky.social and to be part of this promising panel. Curious to hear your thoughts!

Join us tomorrow, we’re super curious about your feedback! 🙌🏻

Breaking from tradition, this one isn’t about our doctoral students’ accolades: We are excited to share an update about our board of directors! Please join us in welcoming Prof. Höhle and Prof. Rothe to their new roles!

Orientation day is here in Mannheim! 🏙️ We warmly welcome our incoming cohort of doctoral students as they arrive for orientations. After months of preparation, we're excited to meet you and help you navigate the start of your academic journey with us at the GESS, University of Mannheim! 📚🎓 (1/2)

🌍 Can climate stress tests drive real change in the financial system? #TRR Excited to share our new working paper on climate stress tests! We show that climate stress tests can drive change but primarily if #banks are already climate-committed or under #ESG pressure. (1/3)

3.5 amazing weeks at #GESISsummerschool 2025 done! Thanks to: - participants for curiosity - instructors for passion - speakers for insights - @gessunimannheim.bsky.social & @esrasurvey.bsky.social for support! Bring on 2026!

Interested in election forecasting? 📊🗳️ Check out @cornelius-erfort.bsky.social and my talk on different forecasting models for the 2025 German election and insights into our Zweitstimme.org research project.

📢 We’re also excited to announce that Oliver Rittmann received this year’s Bojanovsky Dissertation Prize, awarded by the Prof. Dr. Anna and Prof. Dr. Jörg Jiri Bojanovsky-Stiftung, which honours outstanding research by young scholars at the University of Mannheim.

🥳 We’re on a roll this week, and it’s only Wednesday! Congratulations to our alum Dr. Oliver Rittmann for winning the Lorenz von Stein Award for his dissertation! 🎉

📣 New article alert 📣 How do we understand the rally around the EU flag effect after the Russian invasion of Ukraine? CDSS doctoral candidates Domantas Undzėnas and Muhammad Muhammad's new article has valuable insights. Highlights in the thread below. Congratulations on your publication! 👏 #polisky

📣 New article alert 📣 In-depth insights from CDSS doctoral candidate Klara Müller on the determinants of post-election survey participation. Take a look at her thread below, in which she breaks down her main results. Congratulations, @klaramueller.bsky.social !👏

❗ Hier das working paper zu diesem Thema von Marc Ratkovic, Thomas Gschwend, @wendering.bsky.social, Kevin Bauer, @annakurella.bsky.social, Oliver Rittmann, @melinscribe.bsky.social, @nschwitter.bsky.social: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Wie beeinflusst KI wissenschaftliches Arbeiten? Journalist @jmwiarda.bsky.social berichtet aktuell über den #hackathon, den die Mannheimer Politikwissenschaftler Thomas Gschwend und Marc Ratkovic letztes Jahr mit @springernature.com veranstaltet haben: ‬ www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/06...

🎉 Cue the confetti, ... CDSE doctoral graduate @felixrusche.bsky.social has been awarded the FBK-IRVAPP Best Paper Award 2025 for his research showing how access to media can serve as a trans­formative tool in advancing gender equality. Congratulations, Felix! 👏 (1/2)