Some professional news as I took my oath of office today: On September 1st, I joined the University of Hamburg as a full professor of democratic political decision making👋 I'm very excited about this job & the chance to continue researching democracy, party competition and digitalization here 1/2

📣 Attention, postdoctoral researchers! ❗ Apply now for our MZES Visiting Fellowships 😊 💡 Spend 2-4 weeks at the MZES to share ideas 💰 Funding for accommodation, travel, daily allowance 📆 Deadline: 28 November Full information: 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/deta...

New paper in Computational Communication Research with James Cross, @derekgreene.bsky.social & Martijn Schoonvelde: “Mapping Digital Campaign Strategies: How Political Candidates Use Social Media to Communicate Constituency Connection and Policy Stance” PDF (open access): doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...

Are you a @ucdpolitics.bsky.social graduate? Join our discussion event on the upcoming presidential election.  🎙️ Panelists: @kevinrafter.bsky.social, Art O'Leary & Sheila Naughton 🗓️ 30 Sept, 18:30 📍 Museum of Literature Ireland Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @ucddublin.bsky.social

Very happy to have been appointed to the Young Academy Ireland Executive Committee. Many thanks to the outgoing EC members for their outstanding work in establishing and developing @yai.ie over the past two years! www.ria.ie/2025/09/12/y... @ria.ie

Young Academies give a voice to and represent the interests of young scientists in academia, helping them to be heard by national governments and wider society go.nature.com/4nr8SNh

New podcast out on your favourite/least-hated audio platforms now. - Dissecting the 'powder keg' narrative of America. - Threats against politicians here. - The Áras race and whether Sinn Féin have bungled the whole thing. - RTÉ's Eurovision move. Fill your boots. linktr.ee/TheGroupChat...

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗ 📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

Inspiring day at the @yai.ie ‘s “evidence for policy summit” with a big focus on how early career researchers fit into the system across the island, with a focus on sustainability and a fair and inclusive society. Big thanks to Johnathan Dalzell from DAERA coming down from NI.

🚨 Reposting to avoid any confusion between EPSS & EPSA 🚨 If you want to support non-for-profit, member-led political science association, EPSS is the place to be! More here 👇🏽

We're excited to share some EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social updates with you - and we're so grateful to the political science community in Europe (and beyond!) for the amazing support 👇

Some of the very best and most internationally renowned political scientists in Germany are at Cologne. This is a very real threat to a globally strong group.

As someone who spent some time at the Cologne Center for Comparative Politics, I can just say that this used to be a great place educating many excellent scholars. It will be a great loss to see polsci in Cologne defunded. Sign 👇

As a former assistant at the IR Chair (1993-1998) and Managing Director of the Institute (1998-2002) I kindly ask you to sign

Very interesting work on extracting 'scalar constructs' from #TextData with #LLMs by @haukelicht.bsky.social and colleagues: arxiv.org/abs/2509.03116

The University of Cologne plans drastic cuts to its Political Science department, potentially abolishing the MSc in Political Science and eliminating the professorships in IR and Comparative Politics. This would severely weaken the social sciences at @unicologne.bsky.social. Petition (de/en) ⤵️

now with page numbers: Grossman & Guinaudeau (2025), "Tunnels of Attention: Reconsidering Issue Competition", Comparative Political Studies, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 2559-2593.

💙💛 Warmest congratulations to Assistant Professors Mary O’Keeffe, Lucía Tiscornia, Kevin Daly and Graham Benham, who have each been awarded prestigious European Research Council (@erc.europa.eu) Starting Grants worth over €1.5m. www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

Our paper “A Supervised Machine Learning Approach for Assessing Grant Peer Review Reports” has been accepted at Quantitative Science Studies. We present a workflow and fine-tuned transformer models to analyse grant peer review reports at scale. Paper (open access): doi.org/10.1162/qss....

📘64.4 A new regime divide? @gessler.bsky.social & N.Wunsch show partisan emotions among opposition supporters drive attitudes toward democratic norms. What does this mean for #DemocraticResilience? 🤔 Read more 👇 ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

My latest blog posts: The abilities and character traits required to do well in a PhD program. blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/phd-level-...

Navigating Open Research: A Guide for Early Career Researchers. Great work from the CONUL Research Group. Free to download zenodo.org/records/1702... #irishResearch #openResearch

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!

🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 Why do some people keep voting throughout their lives while others drop out? And how do authoritarian elections - even uncompetitive ones- shape citizens’ habits? Ksenia Northmore-Ball and I tackle these questions in my new paper, now out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social.

Fianna Fáil #aras25 endorsements list docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Pleased to announce the Connected_Politics Lab Autumn Seminars: – @profdansmith.bsky.social & Nam Pham – Eoghan Cunningham @ucdpolitics.bsky.social – Elissa Berwick @mcgill.ca – @jbslapin.bsky.social – @sabrinabarias.bsky.social – @dpzollinger.bsky.social All welcome! www.ucd.ie/connected_po...

Last chance to register for YAI Membership Application Webinar 2025. Join us to learn more about YAI and how to apply for membership in 2025. Registration closes on Monday 18 Aug at 10 am. Link to register: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal... #YoungAcademyIreland #YAI #EarlyCareerResearchers

Reminder that all three books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use (and the fourth will be, too)

Holy shit, I think I need to start reviewing less. SINGLE DIGIT AVERAGES for full professors?? Less than a paper a month seems scandalous

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵

Andy Eggers (@aeggers.bsky.social) and I are co-chairing the Political Methodology section for EPSS 2026 in Belfast. Please submit a paper, full panel proposals, or suggestions for alternative formats (such as roundtables and lightning rounds). ➡️ epssnet.org/belfast-2026... @epssnet.bsky.social

🚨 We're #hiring at LSE! Join our Department of International Relations: 🔹Assistant Professor in IR (International Security) ➡️ bit.ly/41l2GOa 🔹Assistant Professor in IPE ➡️ bit.ly/4ogBjPj 📆 Deadline: 7 September 2025. 📢 Please share widely! #AcademicJob #AcademicSky #PoliSky

New paper out @wepsocial.bsky.social! 🥡 Key Take-Away: Opposition parties seek more conflict with the government when performing poorly in the polls – especially when falling below their previous election result. Read full 🧵 below:

not widely known, but political science has been and continues to be one of the leaders in reproducible computational research. when I was in graduate school learning ML/AI methods, I would specifically search for poli sci articles because I knew I might actually find some code...

The Call for Papers for the 2026 EPSS conference is now out! epssnet.org/belfast-2026/ Join us in Belfast for #EPSS2026 👇

The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference! 📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast
 🗓️ June 18–20, 2026
 📍 ICC Belfast
 📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025 🧵

Delighted that my paper was selected for the 2025 Best PhD Paper Award @psaautocracy.bsky.social ! Thanks to the panel @emisimison.bsky.social & @scottrw630.bsky.social, to my supervisor @alexdukalskis.bsky.social for nominating me, and to @ucdpolitics.bsky.social for being a great intellectual home

A regular reminder that the Political Studies Association of Ireland (@psaireland.bsky.social) publishes a weekly newsletter. Sign up to stay informed about job opportunities and events across the island: www.psai.ie/newsletter/ Maintained by PSAI Secretary @sarahwagner.bsky.social.

Dear universities, I am begging you to stop requiring letters of recommendation for master's programmes. You and I both know you don't read them, so stop asking for them. Instead, have applicants list a name and get in touch if it's a borderline case. Signed, Everyone.

Applications Now Open! Are you an early-career researcher or innovator living on the Island of Ireland? Join a dynamic network making real impact. 📅 Info Webinar: 20 Aug @ 11am 🔗 Register: shorturl.at/O656W 🗓️ Apply by 26 Sept: shorturl.at/pmPpu @ria.ie #YoungAcademyIreland #ECRIs #Innovation

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.

Excellent initiative: The Irish Presidential Election Study (2025) seeks proposals for questions on Irish elections & democracy. – 3 waves: campaign, election week, post-election – Submit proposal incl. theory and evidence to Gail McElroy – Deadline: 12 Sept 2025 @psaireland.bsky.social neds.ie

Why do 90% of minor footballers not make the senior grade? The odds of progressing from county minor to county senior are overwhelmingly stacked against young players for a variety of reasons. Analysis by Karol Dillon @unioflimerick.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Tipperary crowned All-Ireland hurling champions after completing stunning second-half comeback against Cork www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic...

All-Ireland Hurling Final Day - a sacred day, in the cathedral of our game #Hurling #AllIreland youtu.be/0UyIZ-LWZ6k?...

The uncorrected proofs have arrived! Gallagher, O‘Malley, and @theresareidy.bsky.social: “How Ireland Voted 2024 – The New Normal?” 📘 link.springer.com/book/9783031...

#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy Job Opening! We're seeking a Postdoc in Computational Social Science to join our team at GESIS! Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/ins...#jobs#stellenangebote

My soror shared this note from a university hiring manager. The market isn’t just wrecked. I don’t think this is just a recessionary pullback. 2,000 applications for one higherEd job is 100% a sign of a structural failure. It’s so horrible. I’m sorry.

My visit to the National Diet of Japan in Tokyo—perfect timing for two reasons! 🇯🇵🏛️ 1) An Upper House election is just days away, with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner potentially at risk of losing their majority 2) Exciting new polisky research on legislative leadership