Looking forward to presenting at #EPSS2026 in Belfast this week! @klingelt.bsky.social and I hand-collected 10,000+ campaign posters in Berlin and use automated image analysis to study placement and content strategies across parties THU, 5:10–6:50pm, Brookfield (Hilton) @epssnet.bsky.social

Looking forward to #EPSS2026! I'll present work on how the certainty of partisans' policy preferences can reduce movement towards their party's stances. Excited to try the new lightning round format with such wonderful fellow presenters! When: Fri 19 June, 17:10-18:50 Where: Room Hall 2B (ICC)

Got a PhD in social sciences and expertise in (digital) survey research and programming? We are looking for you! With the establishment of the new #NexusSoSci facility we are seeking to hire a Senior Scientist for the Online-Panel Lab. 📅Deadline: 22nd of June Find out more and apply ⬇️

New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social (w/ @christinagahn.bsky.social) Do opinion polls shape election results? Using both cross-national data and a survey experiment, the answer we find is yes - though it depends on how we communicate polling results. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Upcoming Guest Talk! 🎤 We are happy to announce that Assoc. Prof. Rachel Bernhard @rivb.bsky.social will be holding a talk on appearance-based discrimination in politics at our department on June 15th. staatswissenschaft.univie.ac.at/news-detaila...

How is voters’ democratic satisfaction affected when populists win an election but are shut out of government? Next to traditional winner-loser logic, procedural fairness, democratic norms, and populist attitudes significantly drove voters democratic (dis)satisfaction. ⚖️🗳️ Read the study recap:

🚨Out now 🚨 The third DeVOTE policy brief "How Electoral Reforms Can Shape Turnout and Democratic Engagemen" provides a concise analysis of what voting means to citizens and how those meanings relate to electoral institutions and regime type. @carolinaplescia.bsky.social

Neuer Beitrag der Social Impact Platform 🎯📰 Das Projekt DIGIPARL zeigt, dass die offenen Daten des Parlaments keine bloße Pro-forma-Transparenz sind, sondern sinnvoll genutzt werden können. Dafür ist ein Forscherteam unseres Instituts tief in parlamentarische Prozesse eingetaucht.

Please sign this petition. #UnisRetten Often we hear “education is a key investment in the future”. Yet the federal government is planning major cuts to universities. These cuts would put research and teaching at risk – and, ultimately, undermine our shared future. mein.aufstehn.at/petitions/un...

Now it’s official official 😮🤩 Happy to be staying at @stawi-univie.bsky.social, only in a new role 🥳

2,5 Milliarden weniger für die Universitäten 🤯 Entspricht inflationsbereinigt einem Personalabbau von bis zu 20% der Beschäftigten Proteste am 27./28. Mai 2026 in Wien, Linz, Graz, Salzburg, Klagenfurt + Innsbruck geplant unigewerkschaft-bv13.goed.at @nuwiss.bsky.social #IchBinHanna #UnisRetten

Zur Erinnerung: Bereits vor den angekündigten Kürzungen war die Beschäftigungssituation prekär - 80% arbeiten befristet. Durch Sparmaßnahmen wird sich die Lage weiter verschärfen. #UnisRetten #SuperGAU

Officially finished my PhD and defended on Friday, May 22 🎉🎓 It’s been years of balancing teaching, research, work, and mental health – with plenty of challenges and growth along the way. This means a lot, and I still can’t believe that it’s done.

Upcoming Guest Talk! 🎤 We are happy to announce that Christoffer Green-Pedersen will be holding a talk on the topic "Coalition Voting in Comparative Perspective: Under What Circumstance do Voters take Coalitions into Account?" on 1st of June.

„Pint of Science“ bringt Forschung ins Lokal Beim Wissenschaftsfestival „Pint of Science“ erklären Fachleute ab Montag ihre Arbeit – aber nicht im Hörsaal, sondern bei einem gemütlichen Bier in verschiedenen Bars und Lokalen in sechs österreichischen Städten. science.orf.at/stories/3235...

It's timeee! The Pint of Science festival is starting today with 30 events all about research. 🔍🍺 Be there or be 🟥!

Die Originalstudie, auf der diese Grafiken basieren, gibt es übrigens hier frei zugänglich: oezp.at/OEZP/de/arti...

🎯 New paper alert! It includes the main theoretical & empirical contribution of my dissertation: disentangling targeting and tailoring in political social media advertising. Really happy @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social and I found such a great home for it 🏠 Open Access 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1369... 1/4

„Irgendwie passt diese Wahl überhaupt nicht in die Muster, die wir kennen“: @schnizzl.bsky.social hat die Zufriedenheit der Wähler:innen (und vor allem die Unzufriedenheit der FPÖ-Wählerschaft) nach der NRW untersucht - und gibt Empfehlungen für Parteien und Medien: www.sn.at/politik/inne...

My first paper is out! Co-authored with @falkscheidig.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/pa/g...

🚨 Diskussionsveranstaltung: Hochschulstrategie 2040 🚨 18. Mai 2026 16:00 - 19:00 Uhr AK Bildungsgebäude Theresianumgasse 16-18, 1040 Wien Anmeldung: veranstaltung.akwien.at/de/diskussio...

Can attitudes change our identities? 🪪 Group-based anti‑immigration appeals nudged participants to newly claim “working‑class” or “Christian” even without strong objective ties or changes to policy views - showing instrumental belief justification. #Identity #Immigration Read the study recap:

I’m also beyond happy that I get to stay at this wonderful department as a Senior Scientist within the new Democracy and Human Rights Research Network @stawi-univie.bsky.social 🥹✨ Looking forward to continuing to work on questions of democratic resilience in an increasingly backsliding world❗️ 2/2

Congratulations! 🎉🎓 Yesterday, PhD candidate in the @authlibeu.bsky.social project @martav.bsky.social successully defended her thesis "Democracy's Conditional Guardians: How Citizens Understand Democracy and Respond to Its Erosion" #phdone

🚨 New Article in Politics and Governance When Populists Win but Are Excluded From Power: Explaining Post‐Electoral Dynamics of Democratic Satisfaction By @schnizzl.bsky.social and S. Kritzinger 🔗 Open access: doi.org/10.17645/pag... 🧵 1/6 #Polisky

Kann die Causa Wöginger zum entscheidenden Wendepunkt im Umgang mit der "Freunderlwirtschaft" in Österreich werden? Was es dafür jetzt bräuchte, darüber habe ich mit Pia Miller-Aicholz von @jetzt.at at gesprochen. www.jetzt.at/artikel/sg2f...

Die Demokratie ist unter Druck. Parteien sind die zentralen Akteure in der liberalen Demokratie. Aber sind sie Teil des Problems oder Teil der Lösung? @gulp1959.bsky.social & ich bieten am 27.5. um 16.30 Uhr allen Interessierten online die Möglichkeit zur Diskussion. Anmeldung: [email protected]

Auf #Ö1 durfte ich anlässlich des 1. Mai zum Thema "Wer vertritt die Arbeiter:innen?" diskutieren. oe1.orf.at/programm/202... Vielen Dank an Marina Wetzlmaier und Eric Miklin.

🚨Out now 🚨 The second DeVOTE policy brief "Sticking to Eighteen: Status Quo and the Politics of Lowering the Voting Age" provides a concise analysis of public preferences on the franchise question of lowering the voting age. @carolinaplescia.bsky.social @callegall.bsky.social

🚨 Western democracies are often described as polarized. @katharinalawall.bsky.social, @mtsakiris.bsky.social + I study how polarization actually feels. Now published in @ejprjournal.bsky.social, we asked citizens in 5 European countries to report their emotions ⬇️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢 Deadline extended to May 8, 2026 - apply now!

Only two days left to apply! 📆

📢 Open data is not enough if it cannot be found, understood, linked, and reused. That is why MEDem welcomes the @dfg.de call to strengthen resilient research data infrastructures, especially for Democracy Research hat depends on linking diverse data across countries and time. 🔗 shorturl.at/VLdLC

Heute Abend ⬇️

In the age of AI, there's a lot of talk about students not doing real work anymore. As a teacher, I catch myself focusing on the struggles rather than the wins. Time to fix that. A thread highlighting standout papers from my quantitative methods seminar last term @univie.ac.at. 🧵

Wonderful to see this book now published! 🎉 I am happy that we were able to contribute a chapter and huge thanks to the editors for putting this together! #PoliSky #EUDemocracy

Upcoming Guest Talk! 🎤 We are happy to announce that @jwaeckerle.bsky.social will be holding a talk about the interplay of power and femininity in politics on 4th of May. Not in Vienna? Feel free to join online! Find all details here: staatswissenschaft.univie.ac.at/news-detaila...

*** 70 Jahre FPÖ *** Aus diesem Anlass diskutieren am kommenden Donnerstag @nataschastrobl.bsky.social, @oliverdasgupta.bsky.social, @lukasgg.bsky.social & ich auf Einladung der ÖH Uni Wien: Do, 23.04., 18:30 TU Wien, Hörsaal EI 7 Gußhausstraße 27, 1040 Wien Kommet zuhauf!

📘 What can party manifestos tell us about party competition across democracies? Our latest MEDem Data Network Focus spotlights the @manifestoproj.bsky.social with insights from Pola Lehmann (@wzb.bsky.social) and Simon Franzmann (@uni-goettingen.de). Read more: www.medem.eu/medem-data-n...

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 We have an opening for a 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 @stawi-univie.bsky.social starting Aug/Sep 2026! Focus: political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields 📅Apply by 29 April 2026 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

"Kann sich die Sozialdemokratie noch retten?" 🥀 fragt @markuswagner.bsky.social im Kommentar der Anderen im @derstandard.bsky.social Neben den Gründen für den Wählerverlust der Sozialdemokraten zeigt Prof. Wagner außerdem mögliche Wege aus der Krise auf: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Das Programm für Pint of Science 2026 ist online und der Ticketverkauf hat begonnen! 🎟️ pintofscience.at/events/wien/ Seid dabei vom 18.–20. Mai 2026, jeweils 19–21:00 Uhr, bei Wissenschaftsvorträgen an verschiedenen Veranstaltungsorten in Wien – und in vielen weiteren Städten weltweit. #pint26 🧪

Vorurteile unter wissenschaftlicher Lupe 🔎 Das PARTISAN Projekt von @markuswagner.bsky.social untersucht, wie politische Vorurteile und Stereotype Konflikte verstärken. Neugierig? Ein neuer Beitrag der Societal Impact Platform gibt Einblicke in das Projekt: impact-sowi.univie.ac.at/faecher/poli...

This is most certainly true. Orban had paralyzed (European) Council politics wherever unanimity ruled — and tried to exert influence beyond by threatening vetos on key unanimity issues (eg Ukraine). This will change. It will not be dramatic, but significant.

Thanks to the organizers of today’s workshop “Science Informs Policy” @univie.ac.at, especially @juliareiter.bsky.social! Glad to have been one of the presenters and part of such a thoughtful exchange with T. König, @robertboehm.bsky.social, @sandrafrauenberger.bsky.social, and all participants! 🧪

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Great discussions this morning at the University of Vienna during the “Online Panel Surveys” workshop, bringing together colleagues from Italy and Austria to exchange ideas on panel-based social science research in Europe. Thanks to A. Spinello and E. Reale for visiting us! #ORP #Digitize #AUTNES

Postdoc position open - come join us! 🚀

🚨Open Position! We are looking for a Senior Scientist - Austrian Politics (20h/week). Start: 1 September 2026 Application deadline: 28 April 2026 Find the full job advertisement here 👇 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...

🎉 New release! An updated version of the #AUTNES Online Panel Study 2017–2024 (SUF edition) is now available via @aussda.bsky.social. 📊 Now includes the post–coalition formation wave (March 2025). 🔗 Download & explore: doi.org/10.11587/HNU... #openscience #elections #PoliSky