This reflects unmodelled structural differences, such as regional political cultures & identities, but also organisational strength and social embeddedness of parties.
If you are interested in German Politics and/or political behaviour & regionalisation, find the full pre-print here 👇
The latest from YouGov (n ~ 45k). Some really alarming stats about the state of America today.
Americans place Five Guys as America's top burger.
They place Subway above Jersey Mike's. And somehow, Taco Bell continues to outperform "handfuls of dry cardboard."
yougov.com/en-us/report...
📯One month left to apply 📯If you want to join our team @au.dk to study young people's beliefs about political power, this is your chance! Two 2-year postdocs in my ERC-funded project YOPOW: international.au.dk/about/profil...
🆕 Vulnerability and Voice 🔇
These authors 🧵 investigate how the gender of representatives influence their ability to estimate party voters' policy position when electorally vulnerable, using original survey data from Germany and Switzerland 👩💼
buff.ly/7hf0EQ0
@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!
A postdoc position is now available in my project Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity. Start date flexible within the next 12 months, apply by 9 May.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
and also blueskyless Daphne van der Pas, who travelled all the way to Innsbruck to discuss sexism with me, with a mountain view (beats even UvA's 8th floor oat milk coffee machine, I fear 😅)
@sfranceschet.bsky.social @elisestorme.bsky.social @dariusribbe.bsky.social @matildecer.bsky.social @sarahdingler.bsky.social @saradybesland.bsky.social
with blueskyless Berit Mues, Cristina Pozzoli, Maria Alonso, Daniel Baldin Machado, and Anna Guildea ☁️🌞
there was no need to overexplain intersectionality and gendered pathways OR F1 scores and complex survey designs
instead:
💻 excellent classifier and literature suggestions
📚 from experts in representation, sexism, candidate selection AND TaDa & networks analysis
😍 lovely, kind, supportive feedback
Participants of our Joint Sessions workshop on gender and quantitative methods in Innsbruck, with beautiful mountains in the background
Me and Maarja smiling proudly, with Innsbruck mountain background ✨
and that's a wrap on our @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions workshop that brought together incredible scholars applying quant and computational methods to politics and gender topics!
for @maarja.bsky.social (who graciously came down from the mountains for this ⛷️) and I, this was a dream come true ✨
I’d especially like to encourage women to apply. We’re a fantastic department with excellent scholars, in beautiful Vienna. Data shows that women are less likely to apply for positions than equally qualified men (Muriel Niederle & Lise Vesterlund 2011), so if you’re considering it, please go for it!
📣 Applications are open for the Summer School of the Standing Group on Parliaments!
🗓️ 27 Jul–6 Aug, Goethe University Frankfurt
@sgparliaments.bsky.social proudly presents its Summer School which offers a platform to:
✔️ Explore recent advancements
✔️ Present research
✔️ Receive career advice
⌛️7 May
congratulations dear Luis ✨🥹 and all the best for the next steps in Innsbruck 🏔️
Are you a policymaker, teacher, practitioner, academic in political science, psychology, education or related field? We’re inviting experts to complete a short survey on youth political participation: tinyurl.com/ywnseae3
For every completion, we’ll donate €1.20 to UNICEF. Please share!
🔺We're #hiring.
We are recruiting four #research #officers who will be part of the research project “Popular Government in Global Perspective” (POPGOV) co-led by Assistant Professor @brunoleipold.com. The positions are full time for a period of four years.👇🏾
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQZ727/r...
Excited to welcome Dr. Liz Przybylski @aissr.bsky.social @men4dem.bsky.social for a talk on hybrid ethnography followed by a discussion moderated by @britanlar.bsky.social
📅 15 April 2026, 12:00–14:30
📍 Roeterseilandcampus, CREA Music Hall
🔗 More info & registration: aissr.uva.nl/content/even...
We are hiring! The Department of Inequality, Transformation and Conflict is looking for Postdoc & Doc Researchers (m/f/d). Find out more & apply via www.ips.mpg.de #MaxPlanck #Postdoc #PhD #Sociology #SocialScience #PoliticalScience #Inequality #Conflict www.ips.mpg.de/13135/stelle...
The sky is not falling; high-quality platforms (Prolific, Verasight, CR Connect) have low rates of apparent bots. osf.io/preprints/ps... But also not zero; vigilance is very much needed!
📖 🛒 'The Government and Politics of the European Union' is now available in paperback! 👉 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/governmen...
This is a completely updated and restructured edition of a classic that makes it easier for students to understand how the European Union works!
#EUsky #Eursky #Poliscisky
EPSS Travel Grants for 2026 Belfast conference:
PhD students & junior scholars @ institutions in European countries that are often underrepresented, can apply for full fee waiver & £500 stipend
Apply: lnkd.in/ehXjhCgf
Deadline: March 8, 11:59pm GMT.
More details: lnkd.in/eZTP5sWR
📢 We are hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology at SOFI, Stockholm University.
Interested in research on the causes and consequences of social policy for individuals and society?
Apply by 13 April 2026.
More information and application:
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
#postdoc #sociology
New working paper!
I examine whether exposure to local unemployment during adolescence shapes immigration attitudes in adulthood, focusing on the long-term imprint of early economic insecurity
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
Screenshot from the first page of the PDF showing the title, author names and abstract of the paper. Title: Between “Cancel Culture” and Campus Culture: Debate and Dissent in the Discursive Space of the University.
Based on a representative survey of academics at German universities, Christiane Thompson and I find little support for "canceling" controversial views on campus. Instead, universities are widely expected to facilitate debate on controversial issues. Our two main findings:
doi.org/10.1007/s110...
1/ So happy that my article “Disinformation as repression signaling: the cost of dissent in Russia” is out in @ersjournal.com! I show how autocrats use disinformation as part of the transnational digital repression toolkit to signal their capacity to repress.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🎉 New publication 😍 The 4th wave of the #farright is marked by #mainstreaming & #normalisation - but how can we distinguish between them? In our new article, @gefjonoff.bsky.social and I map the existing literature, introduce a conceptual framework & outline research avenues. doi.org/10.1017/S147...
🧺 Paper Picnic 2.0 is here! More journals. New features. An easier way to keep up with the latest research in political science and adjacent fields. 🧵👇
NYU is hiring two postdocs at the Center for Social Media, AI & Politics:
csmapnyu.org/jobs
And a grant manager in Sociology with the Social Science Research Hub:
uscareers-nyu.icims.com/jobs/15327/g...
I'm part of both groups--please share with anyone who is interested!
🧵on my new paper "Synthetic personas distort the structure of human belief systems" w Roberto Cerina I'm v excited about...
🚨 Do synthetic samples look like human samples?
We compare 28 LLMs to the 2024 General Social Survey (GSS) to find out + develop host of diagnostics...
my dear friend and favorite author has their first PhD paper out 🎊
the next time you’re doing a lit review on public opinion formation mechanisms, cool experimental setups, support for LGBT+ and specifically trans folks, here is a tip for you! 😎
