📣 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

Happy to share that our paper on the ideological biases of international organizations is now out in the current issue of the AJPS (@ajpseditor.bsky.social): dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajps... @the-peio.bsky.social @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social @akentikelenis.bsky.social

BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name

New publication on immigrant attitudes toward immigration in 🇫🇷 We find that European origin immigrants attitudes converge with natives over time, while African and other non-European minorities -who are more discriminated against- stay pro-immigration. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

Migrant Electoral Rights Dataset (1960-2020) 📊 Link to dataset: hdl.handle.net/1814/93661 📕 Link to codebook: cadmus.eui.eu/server/api/c... 💼 Link to 400 page documentation: cadmus.eui.eu/server/api/c...

For postdocs around, I can't recommend this enough! In just four weeks in Mannheim, I connected to lots of amazing young scholars, presented my research, finished writing up my dissertation and applied for my current job at LSE. MZES organized my stay so smoothly that I couldn't wish for more.

🚨 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 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 research finds that people “with both high psychopathy and low cognitive ability are the most actively involved in online political engagement” This is something I’ve observed in many political arguments online and it’s why I try to avoid online debates. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New article out in World Politcs. We analyze how different groups react to varying programs of social democratic parties. We find less trade-offs than often assumed. Generally, more left-progressive programs increase support among social democratic potentials muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

In our new publication to @nature.com Humanities & Social Sciences Communications @muhx2.bsky.social and I explore if the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine increased support for European integration among Europeans. The answer is yes! A short 🧵: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Excited to see my first solo-authored paper now published in IJPOR! 🚨 Do election outcomes affect participation in post-election surveys? And specifically, do election winners respond more than losers? The short answer: not really. The slightly longer answer: 🧵👇 academic.oup.com/ijpor/articl...

New preprint w/ @grahn.bsky.social & @joenoonan.se What happens when the world's most powerful democracy rolls back core liberal values? 🇺🇸 In this paper, we show how US liberal retrenchment, especially on women’s rights & LGBTQ+ equality, damages US global standing. 📄 doi.org/10.31219/osf...

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

#RDDers: check it out. rd2d: Causal Inference in Boundary Discontinuity Designs "This article introduces the R package rd2d, which implements and extends the...results developed in Cattaneo et al. (2025) for boundary discontinuity designs [like geographic RDDs]" arxiv.org/abs/2505.07989

The first paper of my dissertation has been published in West European Politics! @wepsocial.bsky.social See the thread below:

❗ Reminder: Apply now for a fellowship at the MZES, University of Mannheim! 📅 Deadline: 26 April ❗ Please note the updated link 😊👇🏻 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/deta...

Last week I had the pleasure to present at the University of Kent Social Psychology Seminar on the Rwanda scheme and racial hierarchies among Britons. It was also my first time presenting at a pub, great atmosphere and drinks. Thanks again to @sengupta.bsky.social for inviting me!

In a contribution to @respol.bsky.social, we show that Germans with a Russian or a Turkish migrant background are less in favour of sanctions against Russia. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... @himmelrath.bsky.social @dienerjulius.bsky.social @pluggedchris.bsky.social @dezim-institut.de

Out now and open access at @polbehavior.bsky.social! Which factors do Americans use to evaluate episodes of political violence? link.springer.com/article/10.1... (with Kal Munis, @nicolehufman.bsky.social, Arif Memovic, and Jacob Ford) 🧵

Published Today in PSRM: Based on a novel “Multiple Unexpected Events during Survey Design” (MUESD), I contextualize previous findings suggesting that Europeans become more empathetic toward migrants when exposed to migrant suffering. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... A Summary Thread: 1/15

No opposition in the legislatures No opposition in the market No opposition in the media No opposition in the streets “The world’s oldest democracy” 🤷‍♂️

Do we systematically prefer educated candidates? Or do educational groups select in ways that reward their own? This article by @turnbulldugarte.com and I suggests the answers are yes, and yes - but only for the graduate group. Huge thanks to all who shared their data with us!

Very happy that our paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social & E Dinas) has been accepted @bjpols.bsky.social . We've seen the center right increasingly adopt far-right rhetoric. Our experiment in 🇩🇪 finds that this erodes anti-prejudice norms *more* than when the far-right employs similar rhetoric. 1/3

New working paper! In this research note, @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social, and I present the first systematic test that causally identifies the electoral consequences of state-sponsored homophobia: osf.io/preprints/os... 🧵Thread

Labour seems set on making the same mistakes as other parties dealing with the far right. Such strategies will only normalize and empower the far right. It also ignores the consequences that this will have on progressives. All of this is well-documented. 1/ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Like many other European social democratic parties, Labour is moving right on immigration, certainly driven by the recent success of Reform. We have researched this question for years now. There is an abundance of evidence of why this isn't a good strategy. A thread summarizing some of our research

Important new paper on the effect of Citizens United on democratic institutions in the US. tl;dr Citizens United meaningfully contributed to voter suppression & gerrymandering. design: diff-in-diff & synthetic control gated: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

"Does Right-Wing Violence Affect Public Support for Radical Right Parties? Evidence from Germany" Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with page numbers! Blog Post: theloop.ecpr.eu/right-wing-v... Full Article (Open Access): journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11

You may have stopped believing in X but over there, attractive young women are really getting into causal inference rn