🚨 3-Year Postdoc in Political Science at Aarhus University 🚨

I’m seeking to recruit a postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu research project 𝑬𝑸𝑼𝑰𝑳𝑰𝑩𝑹𝑰𝑼𝑴 on state-citizen interactions.

Link and more information in second post.

Position Start: Fall 2026
Application Deadline: ‼️ February 5, 2026, 23:59 CET ‼️

New study out in BJPS led by @andreavik.bsky.social : We explore how unelected representation — when activists speak for self-defined constituencies — shapes citizens’ feeling of being represented with experiments in four European countries (N = 8,279). See summary and link to the paper below 👇

Congratulations on the publication of this article, Andrea. I have learned so much from this project and it has been such a pleasure to work with you in the lead

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BJPolS societal views towards immigrants and ethnic minorities in Europe, focusing on resource contribution and compliance with societal norms. The text discusses a study in Denmark regarding information manipulation and its effects on societal perceptions.

NEW -

The Correlates of Ethnicity: Why the Ethnic Majority Expects That Ethnic Minorities Contribute Less to the Collective - cup.org/4lOX7jN

- @matkruse.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

Are chatbots reliable text annotators? Sometimes Abstract. Recent research highlights the significant potential of ChatGPT for text annotation in social science research. However, ChatGPT is a closed-sour

🚨 New in PNAS Nexus:
We compare ChatGPT, open-source LLMs & supervised ML for binary text annotation in media tweets.

💡 DistilBERT outperforms both. 💡ChatGPT's performance is inconsistent & raises concerns for Open Science.

📄 shorturl.at/6rE5h

#OpenScience #LLM #AI #GPT

The climate crisis is urgent. This year's MatchPoints Conference at Aarhus University is themed “Beyond Climate Neutrality: How do we get the planet back on track?” Join us to gain insights to tackle this global challenge, May 14-16, program here: matchpoints.au.dk/matchpoints2...

A full house in Aarhus this week for @snsoroka.bsky.social’s talk on “Negativity and Misinformation” where he argued that negativity biases in news account for a substantial portion of longstanding inaccuracies (or “misinformation”) in media coverage of key societal issues