Just came across this excellent piece (that also mentions our study on Trump's authoritarian style pol comm: theconversation.com/king-pope-je... (study: shorturl.at/BEMMu)

Now I also got it @adridelrio.bsky.social @chknutsen.bsky.social :-) Thanks @apsa.bsky.social for mentioning our #education dataset: Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Data: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

We are hiring a PhD student to join us at the @hertiesecurity.bsky.social (start Sept. 2026)! If you want to conduct research on topics related to digital authoritarianism, state repression, contentious politics or social movements online, then this job might be for you!

Thanks @apsa.bsky.social for the mention to my coauthored #education dataset with @chknutsen.bsky.social and @plutscher.bsky.social in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Data: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

Jeg har vært på Ekko og snakket litt om diktatorer før og nå, og NRKs serie Tyrann: radio.nrk.no/serie/ekko/M...

After large-scale disasters autocrats often shift the blame on others to save their popularity. Our 🚨new paper🚨, just accepted at Perspectives on Politics, shows that this tactic is prone to backfire. With @edwardgoldring.bsky.social & @fapaydin.bsky.social . shorturl.at/v6wIV%E2%AC%...

TWO DAYS LEFT TO APPLY! Come work with us ✅ hot topic ✅ cool project ✅ cool and empathetic team ✅ cool department ✅ cool city 👇👇👇👇

The age of leaders increases more rapidly than the age of the population: here seen as the share over 65 for both leaders and the population. We would see the same trend if we look at the mean, median, within country, and so on.

We updated our manuscript w/ @chknutsen.bsky.social and @draege.bsky.social on propaganda in Turkey osf.io/preprints/os... --- all comments welcomed.

I just found NotebookLMs AI podcast function. Pretty cool. Here a summary of our article on propaganda in the US (t.co/f3DtlZnR3I) -- Link to the AI podcast: notebooklm.google.com/notebook/1e9...

So glad to finally see this in print!

Spotlighting articles @tboeggild.bsky.social, @plutscher.bsky.social, @jacobnyrup.bsky.social & Sascha Göbel find that European citizens support for #Ukraine does not falter due to economic concerns. They become more supportive when presented with arguments related to principles such as democracy.

Come an work with us! Happy to answer questions. 👇🏻

Back on this platform!

Anyone access to this article? www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1... Thanks for sharing :)

In a new article in R&P we show that support for Ukraine increases significantly when coupled with human rights and democracy. Contrary, support 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 decrease when people are reminded of the costs associated with supporting Ukraine /w @plutscher.bsky.social @tboeggild.bsky.social & Sascha Göbel

Bluesky Polisky methodsky hive mind what is the best (experimental) method to measure the persuasiveness of arguments, and has anyone suggestions how to implement them :)

Now officially online first @JPR_journal : journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... our work on the perception of visual propaganda in Venezuela.

Who else is going to EPSA 2024 in Cologne? Looking forward to a conference in Germany again!

SURPRISE! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

As fears of disinformation are making their way from #davos into headlines, this new publication might be timely: In a survey-experiment @adrauc.bsky.social and I show that alarmist warnings against disinformation carry significant unintended negative effects. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Protests in Germany against the AfD

The new year just started and I return to some older research interests. Cyber conflict hivemind---what are the most influential/latest studies in social science and security studies here? polisky

🚨Amazing work by @csmapnyu.org now out in Nature. Must read for anyone interested in misinformation. tl;dr popular interventions encouraging to search for information to verify may inadvertently increase(!) belief in misinformation because of low quality search results! polisky cssky behavioursky

Polisky hivemind: Does anyone know good resources for event data on the Russian-Ukrainian war?

"Since May, websites hosting AI-created false articles have increased by more than 1,000 percent, ballooning from 49 sites to more than 600"

PhD openings at Stockholm University! polsky

Great PhD opportunity in Berlin! polsky commsky

When you unpack the synergy between our political climate and the logics and economics of American journalism, it's clear how and why authoritarianism is rewarded by the ethos of televisual culture. "TV rewards the authoritarian candidate." for @niemanlab.org www.niemanlab.org/2023/12/tv-r...

🧪 Scientist? 🟦 New to BlueSky? 👀 Wanna find posts by other people in your area and use the right hashtags in your own posts? 📃 Here’s a list of 200 science-related feeds and their hashtags. #AcademicSky #PhDSky

Relistening to Nicolas Jaar's www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4kr... after some years-just brilliant.

@argohdes.bsky.social just saw this: global.oup.com/academic/pro... — and pre-ordered! Looking forward reading your book.

Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow with specialisation in extremism and related topics (e.g., Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism & Racism) in Norway. The appointment is for a fixed period of 2 years, with no teaching requirement

Very happy to share that our paper with @chknutsen.bsky.social on COVID-19, Democracy and State Capacity has been accepted and is forthcoming in World Politics! Its earlier version is available as V-Dem working paper here: t.co/d9ChlTJSZK Short summary in a thread below 1/

Happy to share even more research on propaganda (osf.io/x7cav/), this time accepted work forthcoming in the Journal of Peace Research. @karstendonnay.bsky.social and I explore how citizens in the crisis-ridden regime of 🇻🇪 perceive overt “hard” propaganda. A 🧵 dictatorsky commsky polsky (1/7)

We are hiring a postdoc for 2 years as part of the ERC-StG project INEQNEWS aiming to examine social inequalities in digital news consumption! Apply by December 15! smit.vub.ac.be/vacancy/post...

Lecture slides on technological development and inequality for our new political economy class prepared ✅ @chknutsen.bsky.social

Happy to share a new working paper together with @carlhknutsen and @JonasDraege titled "The Diverse Effects of Hard Propaganda in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes": osf.io/n4g6k/ -- What is it about? (1/7) polsky dictatorsky menasky

🗓️Deadline approaching - Apply by November 15! Postdoc positions at #VDemInstitute: v-dem.net/news/new-job-o… Please help spread the call in your networks🙏

With platforms shutting down safety and integrity teams, and researchers faced with legal threats for doing their work on misinformation, the outlook for the 2024 election cycle is bleak. Not just in the US. commsky polisky polcomm www.npr.org/2023/11/10/1...

Internet speeds have come a long way since the days of the dial-up modem, but sometimes you can’t beat the millennia-old method of carrier pigeon. wapo.st/3MGfGXs

My paper w/ @hbahamonde.bsky.social in Political Psychology is out. Finns tend to vote for upper-class-looking candidates. Female candidates with a working-class appearance face electoral penalties. No such association is observed among men. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Our paper "High replicability of newly discovered social-behavioral findings is achievable" appears today in Nature Human Behaviour. Just as the large replications provided an inflection point in identifying replicability challenges, this paper does so for solutions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Anyone working on (authoritarian) propaganda and planning to submit a paper to EPSA 2024? polsky dictatorsky polcomm commsky

New (and Open Access!) article in Perspectives on Politics: “A Case for Description” from Michelle Jurkovitch, Mary Anne Mendoza-Davé, @mkguliford.bsky.social and me! With a huge thank you to everyone who participated in our workshops, as well!

Excellent Comparative Institutions and Regimes workshop at University of Oslo today (the kind that makes you feel stupid because everyone else is so smart), with an equally excellent dinner tonight. I am going to miss this place.

This looks fantastic! I can remember Anna presenting her work here at the department earlier.

Come join us in Vienna! We are hiring a tenure track assistant professor in social policy, broadly defined. Do get in touch if you have questions. https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-Track-Professor-in-the-field-of-Political-Science-with-focus-on-Social-Policy/1001235101/