"Mainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda" - for the @theguardian.com, @ashifakassam.bsky.social summed up our study. @tevoelker.bsky.social and I answered some questions to put our results into context. Give it a read! Study: bit.ly/4hhRFUN

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/...

📣 MORAL APPEALS IN POLITICAL COMMUNICATION 📣 New version of @twidmann.bsky.social and my working paper answering: * Have moral appeals increased over time? * Is the tendency to moralize ideologically patterned? * Are some topics consistently more moralized than others? osf.io/preprints/os...

Ever asked yourself how to detect and extract social groups from texts with computational social science? @haukelicht.bsky.social and me have a solution for you out at @bjpols.bsky.social. You can also find the pre-trained models on huggingface!

This is such a great and important paper – especially when read alongside those two by @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social & @twidmann.bsky.social in @psrm.bsky.social & @bjpols.bsky.social: 📄 #1 (PSRM): www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 📄 #2 (BJPS): www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Now in an issue @psrm.bsky.social: I show that the 🇩🇰 Social Democrats could have won policy support for a pro-immigrant platform if their messaging were framed in moral terms. Findings provide a central corrective to the popular notion that the Social Democrats were destined to go anti-immigrant 👇🏻

📣 Jobs, jobs, jobs! Aarhus University’s Department of Political Science is hiring: 🔹 Assistant Professor 🗓 Deadline: 25 August 🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil... 🔹 Associate Professor 🗓 Deadline: 8 September 🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

New Article from our latest issue (Issue 7, 2025): "The Evolution of Global Cleavages: A Historical Analysis of Territorial and Functional World Alignments Based on Automated Text Analysis, 1843–2020" by Daniele Caramani, Siyana Gurova, and @twidmann.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🚨 New publication 🚨 : Happy to share that my paper, "Losing Touch: The Rhetorical Cost of Governing" is now forthcoming at @cpsjournal.bsky.social. Short 🧵 about the paper here 👇 1/10

🚨 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...

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When politicians use simple language, citizens understand more and see them as less elite. New paper with @danbischof.bsky.social out in @thejop.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1086/736693

Should democracies ban parties that threaten democracy? In the DEMOTRADEOFF project survey we asked people in 15 countries about this. A short 🧵 with some results Citizens are deeply divided about this issue Support for bans is highest in 🇮🇱 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇳🇱 🇵🇹 🇨🇭 🇩🇪 www.dw.com/en/germany-i...

Happening now at #COMPTEXT2025 🤩🤩🤩 @ahrabhikat.bsky.social @krangelie.bsky.social @indiiigo.bsky.social

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

💥Postdoc call 💥 Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University 🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension) ❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth 🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data) Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD

And if you won't be at COMPTEXT, feel free to get in touch at [email protected] if you have questions. Team members from my current research project are also happy to talk: @twidmann.bsky.social ([email protected]), Juliane Høgh Schmidt ([email protected]), Anna van Vree ([email protected]).

‼️If you haven't seen the call already, this is your reminder‼️ 3-year postdoc in computational social science at Aarhus University to study societal norms about political power 🫅 I'll be @comptext.bsky.social in Vienna (April 24-26) if you want to meet up and hear more about the position ☕🗣️

⭐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

Gestern vor 22 Jahren haben Rechte in Frankfurt (Oder) Enrico Schreiber ermordet. todesopfer-rechter-gewalt-in-brandenburg.de/enrico-schre... Auch jetzt, wo rechte Gewalt in Brandenburg wieder Höchstwerte erreicht ist es wichtig daran zu erinnern. www.opferperspektive.de/aktuelles/st...

Wonderful project, wonderful uni, wonderful opportunity! 👇👇

This is a fantastic postdoc opportunity, to work with a one of the top scholars of political behaviour in Europe. Go for it!

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.

📢 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...

Thanks to @twidmann.bsky.social for a wonderful collaboration - and go read his thread for the study's key take-aways: bsky.app/profile/twid...

‼️ No party is immune from the competitive pressures that polarization places on them to moralize: the language of right and wrong, good and evil is used by parties positioned at extreme ends as well as those in the middle of the ideological spectrum ⚡️⚡️⚡️ A key conclusion from our new study 👇🏼

Tomorrow, in the CIS Colloquium @ethzurich.bsky.social and @ipz.bsky.social I'll be presenting new work on the electoral potentials (and pitfalls) of using moral rhetoric for individual politicians 📣🗳️ Joint work with @twidmann.bsky.social Come if you're around!

🚨 Very happy to have a new study out in @bjpols.bsky.social with @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social We research across 8 countries what drives parties to use moral rhetoric in their communication: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

NEW - When Do Political Parties Moralize?: A Cross-National Study of the Use of Moral Language in Political Communication on Immigration - cup.org/41t5yI4 - @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social & @twidmann.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Something else Wilma was concerned about - so much of the election campaign was about migration, and often as a moral-emotional rather than fact-based debate. To understand how this can be, she read the study by her smart colleagues @twidmann.bsky.social and @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social 2/🧵

Wir haben einen Blogbeitrag in @lseblogs.bsky.social über die deutsche Bundestagswahl und das Thema Einwanderung und Moralisierung geschrieben - mit viel Forschung aus unserem Projekt @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social #BTW25 #Bundestagswahl

Morgen zweite Kanzlerdebatte - diesmal mit alle 4 Kandidaten! Los geht's um 20.15 Uhr bei RTL. Wer die Kandidaten live bewerten will, kann dies mit unserer App tun. Alle Infos zum Projekt sowie Link zur App gibt es hier: rptu.de/s/tvduell #TVDuell #btw25

Curious about targeting strategies in the 2025 German elections? 🗳️ favstats.github.io/de25/targeti... Updated daily, my dashboard tracks how much € German parties spend on targeted ads. For example 1M on “lookalike” audiences to reach people similar to a pre-defined audience (often supporters). 📊

🚨 #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

This is the moralized language of right and wrong; good and evil – but what do we know about its political drivers and consequences? @twidmann.bsky.social, @bartbonikowski.bsky.social and I have some answers 👇

Am 23. Februar 2025 ist Bundestagswahl in Deutschland – sieben Monate früher als geplant. Wie positionieren sich die Parteien ideologisch, und welche Themen stehen im Fokus? Unser erster Blogpost dazu erscheint morgen! Im Fokus: die Herausfordererparteien! Zum #ManifestoMonday ein kleiner Teaser:

Now available Open Access: 📰 Does (immigration) framing influence public opinion? 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Diese ausgezeichnete Studie von @krausewe.bsky.social und @christinagahn.bsky.social bekommt gerade viel Aufmerksamkeit (gerade im Bericht aus Berlin). Zum anständigen Umgang mit Forschung gehört allerdings mindestens auch die Autor:innen zu nennen. Weiß eigentlich nicht warum man das betonen muss.

Aktuell liegen 3 Parteien in den Umfragen an der 5%-Hürde. Doch was bedeutet das für ihre Wahlchancen? Neue Studie mit @christinagahn.bsky.social! Wir zeigen, dass Parteien, die auch nur knapp unter der Sperrklausel liegen, eine signifikant geringere Chance haben, ins Parlament einzuziehen. 1/7

Reminder that these protests work: - Evidence from Greece: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... - Evidence from Italy: academic.oup.com/poq/article-... - Evidence from France: academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a...

Our article “Which Information Do Politicians Pay Attention To? Evidence from a Field Experiment and Interviews” (w/ @henrikseeberg.bsky.social ) is part of the latest @bjpols.bsky.social issue. This was such a fun project to work on, and I learned a lot from it. OA Link: doi.org/10.1017/S000...

🚨 New piece out at @electoralstudies.bsky.social We discuss the results of a conjoint experiment with candidates to investigate the reasons why they choose to go negative on their rivals TLDR: candidates think strategically, but the profile of the opponent also matters ➡️ tinyurl.com/456d36zw

#RadicalRight parties made significant gains at the ballot box during 2024. Drawing on his recent book @oxunipress.bsky.social, @valentimvicente.bsky.social @ieuniversity.bsky.social argues that this success owes much to the normalisation of their views. @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social

🚨 Job alert: I have an opening for a researcher position (65% FTE, 2 years) in a project on "Elite Affective Polarization in Israel and Germany" funded by the German Israeli Foundation and conducted jointly w/ @liorsheffer.bsky.social. 🗓️ 17/01/2021 www.tu-chemnitz.de/verwaltung/p...

Da kann er noch so suffisant gucken, hier ist meine Zusammenfassung der Causa #Mischke . Mit zahlreichen Gründen dafür, warum es um mehr als nur eine problematische Personalie geht. Danke @uebermedien.de für den Stall! uebermedien.de/101568/ein-b...

🚨 PUBLICATION ALERT 🚨 Excited to share that my article has just been published at @apsrjournal.bsky.social! It examines voter responses to mainstream party legitimization of (former) pariah parties. A thread 👇1/n... doi.org/10.1017/S000...

⭐ CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: 5 open PhD Positions at the newly founded Vienna Doctoral College for Digital Humanism, funded by the WWTF, @univie.ac.at , Technische Universität Wien and WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business). All information here: t.ly/836lz