🚨 New paper in JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies: 'Waking a Dormant Legal Resource. Institutional Activation and the Origins of Important Projects of Common European Interest' (with Henrique Lopes Valença). 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧵 👇

I’m delighted to share that the August 2025 special issue of Sociological Methods & Research on Generative AI is out now. Along with my co-editor, Daniel Karell, we put together this issue to build on the conference we organized last year. Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage! I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

🤔 The #EU 🇪🇺 aspires to be a global actor 🌍 — but do other states recognize it as such? My new study in @intlinteractions.bsky.social develops targeted #NLP / #TextAsData tools to analyze 50 years of foreign policy discourse in the annual #UN General Debate (1970–2020). A thread (1/n)

Congratulations @luukschmitz.bsky.social and @timoseidl.bsky.social, winners of the JEPP Best Paper Prize 2024! 💐 Read the open access paper 'Moving on to not fall behind? Technological sovereignty and the ‘geo-dirigiste’ turn in EU industrial policy' here: s.gwdg.de/LMomqf

It was a daunting task that Antoaneta Dimitrova and I took on. But we reached a compelling conclusion, I believe: “Moving on not to fall behind” was the best article in @jeppjournal.bsky.social in 2024 Much deserved congrats to @timoseidl.bsky.social and @luukschmitz.bsky.social

Super happy, deeply honored, and a little humbled to win this award! JEPP has always been one of my favourite journals, not just as an author, but also as a reader, reviewer, and even SI editor—so this one is especially dear to my heart! Many thanks to the jury, the editors, and my co-author Luuk!

#jobs 🚨🚨🚨 4 postdocs in Münster: stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/5... I‘m involved in one appointment. More details will follow soon!

We are inviting applications for a 4-year PhD position in International Relations at the @unisalzburg.bsky.social. Requirement: MA in Political Science or a closely related social science Application deadline: 2 June 2025 For more details, see tinyurl.com/5ew3auby #Polisky #poliscijobs

🚨 New book alert! Policy Preparation Inside the European Commission is out with OUP @oxfordacademic.bsky.social It’s about the behind-the-scenes stage of EU policymaking that shapes everything—yet rarely gets the spotlight: how the Commission prepares its proposals. Link: doi.org/10.1093/9780...

Mark Blyth and I sang a duet. It’s about how a country’s growth model shapes its state capacity to decarbonize - both the advantages and disadvantages. Enjoy! @ripejournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Very grateful for two days of collective thinking on the EU’s geoeconomic challenges Huge thanks to my fab co-organizers @ankehassel.bsky.social @katemcnamara.bsky.social @donatodc.bsky.social @trgn.bsky.social + to the brilliant scholars who shared their insights about the challenges ahead

I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social! German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf Please share

🚨 Want to join me at the Technical University of Munich? I’m hiring a PhD student (100%) in the area of the political economy of technological change! 📅 Apply by 18 May | Start Date: July (flexible) 🔗 More info & how to apply: hfp.heyrecruit.de?page=job&id=... ❓Reach out if you have any questions

⭐I am looking for 2 PhD candidates w/ focus on qualitative representation research in my ERC project INCONEX at University of Salzburg! On the project: sites.google.com/view/inconex... Applications due: 2 May 2025 Full ad: sites.google.com/view/inconex... #EUsky #poliscijobs #qualitativemethods

📢 New JEPP collection 📢 One of Europe's toughest 🥜 to crack? Balancing the green and digital transitions while staying competitive. Martin B. Carstensen and Berthold Rittberger bring together the latest JEPP collection on European competitiveness in the twin transition 👇

Teaching the political economy of the green transition this term, I used, and learned from, some amazing 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬. A 🧵 on some of the best. Further suggestions are very welcome, I'll add them below.

As the new semester is approaching (at least here in Munich), I thought it might be a good time to reshare my course guidelines on the use of A.I. Perhaps you find it useful or have some comments on what I'm missing here (this is work in progress of course). 🔗 www.timoseidl.com/blog/seidl-a...

For everyone interested in working with computational tools, this is an amazing Postdoc position at the Political Science Department in Aarhus If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me.

Ich habe eine Stelle als Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in (@criticaldatalab.bsky.social / Uni Oldenburg) zu vergeben und freue mich sehr über Bewerbungen. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 30.4., Fragen gern an mich: www.soziopolis.de/ausschreibun...

Busy day for COM, with defence package (ec.europa.eu/commission/p...), Savings and Investment Union strategy (ec.europa.eu/commission/p...) and now the Steel and Metal Action Plan presented - one of multiple sector plans, which are the work horses for implementing the Clean Industrial Deal. So far,

Instead of teaching political economy and R separately, I’ve once again combined them into a single integrated course—this time focusing on the (European) Political Economy of climate change & economic security. You can find both slides and syllabus here: www.timoseidl.com/teaching/r-a...

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS 📢 "Moral Economies of the Polycrisis. Conflict, Critique, and Legitimation in Critical Times" Workshop, June 16-17 University of Hamburg Deadline for abstracts: 07/04 Supported by the Economic Sociology section of @dgsoziologie.bsky.social linuswestheuser.com/cfp-moral-ec...

📚✨ New paper alert: How are we doing on turning nature into a source of calculable risk? We take a critical look at how 1990s risk models and environmental science enable riskification, and study very new regulatory strategies that go beyond it. #openaccess: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What are the political and legal implications of #blockchain technology? 📖 Book launch: “Blockchain Governance” 📅 28 March 2025, 5PM 📍 Am Kupfergraben 5, Berlin / online (DM for more info) With @wesselreijers.bsky.social, @katrinbecker.eu and @annanosthoff.bsky.social. See you there!

New Publication 🚨 Why are contemporary societies increasingly looking to private companies to solve climate change? In my latest article, I analyze the rise of green tech firms and the cultural operations driving this shift. Out now in @jcultecon.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I agree—Political Economy, in both its economics and its political science versions, should at least partly be »Geopolitical Economy«. This has probably always been true, but it has become really obvious in recent years.

Lots of great positions at @mpifg.bsky.social, pls share! - 2yr postdoc in wealth research - 2yr postdoc in technology & sovereignty - 3+3yr senior researcher in political economy - 3+3yr senior researcher in economic sociology - tenure/director-track group leader digitalization & society

Some professional news: Last week I joined the Technical University of Munich as an Assistant Professor of Political Economy (with a focus on technological change). Can't wait to get to know my new students & colleagues at HfP, and big thanks to everyone who made this possible—you know who you are!

Terrific & much needed deep empirical analysis of new EU industrial policy state aid tool by @timoseidl.bsky.social & @luukschmitz.bsky.social. The key goldilocks punch line? Critical policy goals best achieved with ‘just the right’ amount of EU conditionality rules.

IPCEIs have recently emerged as a key tool in the EU's fast-growing industrial policy toolbox. In a new paper in Competition & Change, @luukschmitz.bsky.social, @tobiaswuttke.bsky.social and I take a closer look at how this instrument works on the ground. A short thread (link to the paper below)👇

Next week, the new European Commission will put forward its clean industrial policy plans. In a new paper, @ph-jaeg.bsky.social and I dig into what this strategy needs to deliver— backed by lots of brand-new *sectoral* data on the distribution of national subsidies. Here are our main takeaways:

🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky

Do you want to explore what’s happening? I am recruitung doctoral researchers for my Lise Meitner Research Group on Technology and Sovereignty @mpifg.bsky.social Find more information in the link below Apply by February 28, 2025 Starting date is October 1, 2025 career.mpifg.de/jobposting/e...

Extremely happy that my first single-authored paper is now published (open access) at @EJPRjournal: “Asymmetric backlash against structural economic change: the electoral consequences of the coal phase-out in Germany” Here's a summary thread... 1/n

🚀 Releasing a new zeroshot-classifier based on ModernBERT! Some key takeaways: - ⚡ Speed & efficiency: It's multiple times faster and uses significantly less memory than DeBERTav3. You can use larger batch sizes and enabling bf16 (instead of fp16) gave me a ~2x speed boost - 📉 Performance tradeoff:

Why Do Green Taxes Struggle with Public Support? In a new article, @istad.bsky.social, Klaus Armingeon and I explore whether information, compensation and party cues can boost support for green taxes, using survey experiments conducted in 🇨🇭. #OpenAccess JEPP article: doi.org/10.1080/1350...

I've tried this as well and can really recommend it. Making it easier to play around with (and share) customized feeds has a lot of promise, so shout-out to @graze.social! Would be great to combine this with something like Popular with Friends, but I don't have the time for this right now...

I couldn't find a starter pack on the political economy of digitalisation, so I made one. (Self-)recommendations accepted! go.bsky.app/SGZAADH

✨ New LLM paper ✨ > Open-source LLMs perform well in text annotation tasks > Fine-tuned open-source LLMs outperform zero-shot GPT-4 > Fine-tuning beats few-shot training with modest amount of annotated data w/ @malizadeh.bsky.social @maelkubli.bsky.social et al. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Pleased to share the latest version of my paper with Arthur Spirling and @lexipalmer.bsky.social on replication using LMs We show: 1. current applications of LMs in political science research *don't* meet basic standards of reproducibility...

Do you work on European integration and want to live in one of the most livable cities in 🇪🇺? We have an opening for 3-year postdoc position at our research group, which is part of the #polsci department @univie.ac.at. Application Deadline: Jan 9, 2025. More info: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Perhaps a bit late to this, but this is a great example for why progressive movements that don't have a healthy skepticism towards—and proper theory of—bureaucracy almost inevitably go astray (the environmental movement has similar problems). www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/m...

Cool to see that my review essay 'Charting the Contours of the Geo-Tech World' is the 9th most-read article in Geopolitics this year. Shoutout also to @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social for offering this unique format, i.e., discussing multiple books & putting them in a broader intellectual context.

I've started putting together a starter pack of political scientists on Bluesky who focus on the political implications of technological change. It's still a work in progress, so feel free to DM me if you'd like to be included or have any suggestions! go.bsky.app/NAFAj7N

Given the spike in activity on here (finally!), it might be a good moment to repost two recent working papers on the governance and history of the 'poster child' of the EU's new industrial policy: the Important Projects of Common European Interest or IPCEIs. Links 👇

Made a starter pack for European Politics. Started with 27 profiles (wink wink) on a bit of everything, but feel free to (self-)recommend people to add. go.bsky.app/8UntgMG

@jonasnahm.bsky.social made this industrial policy starter pack! go.bsky.app/Ej9XsNu

Do you want to know more about Fintechs in Kenya and Nigeria? Or the politics and culture of digital capitalism in general? Join us for PCDC on Wednesday, 6 November at 13:30 (CET)! Florence Dafe and Radha Upadhyaya will present their research. More info here: pcdc.timoseidl.com/colloquium

🚨 New paper with Henrique Lopes-Valença: 'Waking a Dormant Legal Resource. Institutional Activation and the Origins of Important Projects of Common European Interest' 🔗 osf.io/preprints/os...