Calling early-career scholars! Apply now for the APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grant, open for scholars whose #research areas focus on one of the following target research areas.

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New York Times opinion piece „We should all know less about each other” by Michelle Goldberg

Jede Einzelheit aus Christian Lindners Privatleben habe ich gegen meinen Willen erfahren, deshalb:

Tory MPs talking about Erasmus as if it’s a sleeper cell recruitment programme.

This has always been my go to for this question.

👇Staggering results of expansion of early public children on female employment in Germany

Immer wenn mich Zweifel beschleichen, ob mein Urteil über Hayek & andere Vertreter der neoliberalen Theorieschule zu hart ist, lese ich einen Text, der mich bestätigt. Das ist jetzt eine faire, aber intellektuell ehrliche Diskussion ihrer Argumente. Dass sie dabei schlecht wegkommen, that’s on them.

Refugee labor market integration at scale: Evidence from Germany’s fast-track employment program | PNAS Governments face persistent challenges in integrating refugees into the local labor market, and many past interventions have shown limited impact. ...

🚨New Paper in PNAS: "Refugee Labor Market Integration at Scale: Evidence from Germany’s Fast-Track Employment Program"

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Ungated preprint osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/px9ew_v3

w/ J Hainmueller, D Hangartner, @niklas-harder.bsky.social & E Vallizadeh

#econtwitter #econsky

a nonprob college fraternity panel called brolific

Postdoc In Meta-science Personal type: Scientific staff

We are inviting applications for a two-year postdoctoral position in a collaborative meta-science project on the effectiveness of data and code sharing policies in research-performing organizations. www.tue.nl/en/working-a...

Die Wählerwanderung aus RP wird gerade wieder verwendet um zu argumentieren, die SPD verliere stark an die AfD. Vielleicht nachvollziehbar. Großer Balken da denkt man große Verluste. Ist aber schlicht nicht so. Ich versuche die Schwierigkeit mit Wählerwanderungen mal zu erklären. 1/

(Entering an academic's office) Wow. Have you read all these tabs?

Try inserting an image to your text and it will pull a gun at you

When my students argue that there’s no example of a computer program they would qualify as “alive” today, I always respond with “Y’all have obviously never tried to reposition a table in Microsoft Word.”

6/6 Lebensführung ist bei Haltungen zu Migration, Diversität & Klima ein eigenständiger Erklärungsfaktor. Wie man lebt & welchen Grundorientierungen man folgt, macht einen Unterschied. Zugespitzte Kulturkampf-Erzählungen finden in unseren Befunden aber wenig Rückhalt.

Bodenständige gegen Weltoffene? In unserer neuen Studie prüfen wir, wie stark die Lebensführung mit politischen Einstellungen zusammenhängt. Befund: systematische Zusammenhänge, aber wenig Hinweise auf tiefe Spaltung. Unterschiede vor allem bei Klima und Migration.🧵
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Whether more social housing weakens the far right depends on whether housing is politicized as a (natives vs migrants) group conflict. This is similar in areas like climate policy: How objective distributive effects are perceived is mediated by politically induced group scripts. Politically,...

We're looking for a new postdoc to join our team! Do you enjoy conceptualizing, improving, and rethinking empirical methods training for social scientists? Then this job might be for you 😊

Feel free to share among your network and to reach out if you have any questions!

„Gemeinsam gegen Rechts, für Demokratie und Vielfalt“ Welche leeren Signifikanten wurden zur Mobilisierung genutzt und wie wurden sie gefüllt? Welche Reaktionen gab es darauf?
Ronja Hoffmann und Stefan Matern untersuchen das Beispiel des Protests in München 2024
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The cost of compromise: How coalition participation shapes party membership - Marc Debus, Michael Imre, Hanna Bäck, 2026 How does coalition participation influence party membership? We argue that parties that take part in coalition governments are likely to experience less favorab...

The paper is published in Party Politics and available open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung Hannah-Arendt-Institut fürTotalitarismusforschung. Interdisziplinäres Forschungsinstitut zurvergleichenden Diktatur-, Transformations- u. Extremismusforschung.

Bald ist es wieder so weit: Das HAIT-Kolloquium im Sommersemester 2026 beginnt und widmet sich dem Thema "Politische Repräsentation und Formen der Unterdrückung marginalisierter Gruppen"!


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The Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) invites applications for a Postdoc position on family formation among sexual minorities. Apply by 5 May: vacatures.knaw.nl/job/The-Hagu...

Three 2-year Postdoctoral positions at Aarhus University: Projects on personality cults and strategic communication in autocracies - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

@au.dk is hiring 3 postdocs (2 yrs) on personality cults & strategic communication in autocracies, led by Jakob Tolstrup & Alexander Baturo. They're looking for profiles with text-as-data, survey experiments and/or Chinese politics experience. Start fall 2026. Looks like a great opportunity!

"Wird KI wie eine zulässige Rechtschreibprüfung bspw. bei Word genutzt, bewegt sich der Prüfling im Rahmen der eigenständigen Anfertigung und täuscht nicht. Anders verhält es sich wiederum, wenn gerade die Rechtschreibung Teil der Prüfungsleistung ist."

Job Vacancies - Universität Bremen Offene Stellen

I am looking for a postdoc to join my team at the University of Bremen. 5-year-contract, top-up to 100% possible for most of the contract period.

Apply by 04 May 2026.

If you have questions about the position, send me an email!

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Hillbilly Eulogy expected

A line chart which shows the development of the V-Dem Liberal and Electoral Democracy Indices in Hungary from 1980 to 2025. The x-axis shows years, the y-axis shows index values from 0 to 1. After the end of communist dictatorship, Hungary adopted liberal democracy in 1990 - the LibDem index rose from 0.10 to 0.76. When Orbán became prime minister for a second time, he systematically dismantled democratic achievements, reflected in rapidly decreasing indices, LibDem index at 0.32 in 2025.

Will today mark the end of the autocratization of Hungary? 🇭🇺

Development of V-Dem indicators for liberal and electoral democracy from 1980 to 2025.

#30DayChartChallenge | Day 12 - Theme Day: FlowingData #dataviz 📊

1/ The starting point:
Orbán did not build an illiberal democracy. He built an authoritarian regime: an illiberal kleptocracy with institutional cover.

Utrecht University is hiring an Assistant Professor in Statistics and Social Data Science - great opportunity for scholars working at the intersection of advanced statistical methods and computational social science research. #AcademicJobs #ComputationalSocialScience

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a joyful golden retriever mid-sprint through green grass under a canopy of pink cherry blossoms

i feel like you all need this

The old bluesky is dying, and the new bluesky struggles to be born: now is the time of LinkedIn.

— Antonio Grindsci