4 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 (𝐏𝐡𝐝, 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜, 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫) 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐃𝐂!!! 😯🤩
The DDC is expanding its team with *4* new opportunities for researchers passionate about the intersection of AI, media, democracy, & society.
Deadline: 📅 Feb 15 for 3 of these roles!
The Professorship deadline follows in March.🧵👇
Cool PhD Position in an amazing project 🚀
Gefeliciteerd Matthijs! Very well deserved! 🥳
🚨 We have a cool new ESRC PhD studentship opportunity on the topic of political persuasion for someone interested in campaigning, field experiments and/or computational methods @lsegovernment.bsky.social, in collaboration with
@campaign-lab.bsky.social. All info 👇
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
For those on the #polcomm academic job market this year, I am sharing the job market material folder that I put together a few years back.
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
🚀 New postdoc position for Platform Data & Computational Social Science
Join us to drive @gesis.org' efforts around the Digital Services Act (DSA) and conduct research with online platform data
💼 TV-L EG 14 | Location: Cologne
📌 Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/institute...
#DSA #CSS #DataScience
My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years.
If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply!
shorturl.at/kcTbG
This is big and super harmful.
YouTube increased the threshold for takedowns: videos can now contain 50% (formerly 25%) misinformation or hate and still stay up if deemed “public interest.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/t...
PhD opportunity!
ASCoR is looking for a motivated PhD candidate for the project “Visual Politics and the Emergence of Angry Publics.” This four-year PhD track will be supervised by @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social, @lindabos.bsky.social, and @alessandronai.bsky.social DL: June 4
shorturl.at/YeXpf
Wir haben das AfD-Gutachten des Verfassungsschutzes digitalisiert und machen die Zitate durchsuchbar, die das BfV als Belege für die Bestrebungen der Partei gegen die freiheitliche demokratische Grundordnung heranzieht: www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
When politicians use simple language, citizens understand more and see them as less elite.
New paper with @danbischof.bsky.social out in @thejop.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.1086/736693
Canceling research on misinformation is not only an attack on science and academic freedom.
It is also a democracy, safety, and security threat.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/b...
Glad this one is out at @poqjournal.bsky.social, w @lindabos.bsky.social and P van Erkel
The attack against far-right Baudet 🇳🇱 slightly increased support for #violence among people who dislike his party & experience partisan #Schadenfreude
Open paper: tinyurl.com/4d7dx2fv
Open data: osf.io/6cpbg/
We're organizing another round of the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology 🎉
summerschoolwpm.org
Our super-cool speakers include msands.bsky.social @allisonwkoh.bsky.social @melinscribe.bsky.social @rebeccakittel.bsky.social @fabiennelind.bsky.social & @indiiigo.bsky.social
📆01/05
People don't usually do two PhDs in a row, with these kind of projects that's hard not to....
Amazing topic + stellar supervision team!!
APSR 2025
Lots of talk about ‘left behind’ places & far-right’s rise.
How do industrial decline, economic hardship, & resentment actually fuel far-right support?
In new @apsrjournal.bsky.social
paper exploring
Xylella epidemic that devastated centuries-old 🫒 groves in 🇮🇹, we find out
shorturl.at/xgeho
#Germany's federal criminal police office, not exactly known for over-counting such things, reports that at least 41,000 crimes with a right-wing extremist motive were committed in 2024, a 1/3 increase compared to 2023. 2023, with a 23% increase on 2022, had already marked an all-time high #farright
How do we justify studying the US in these times (asking for a friend who's writing the RD section of their paper)?
Congratulations 🎉
In Antwerpen today attending an event on digital political campaigning from a practitioners perspective :)
(with @philippmendoza.bsky.social)
2) More anti-immigrant positions do not weaken the radical right
Our research shows that when established parties move to the right on immigration this does not weaken the radical right but if anything strengthens them. It contributes to their normalization and legitimation
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
I would love to be added 🙏
@ascor.bsky.social
#takeaways (2/2):
➡️ harsh campaign effects vary across contexts and voters.
➡️ using third-party attackers or targeting harsh campaigns may reduce backlash.
➡️ classical PolSci models can help us understand the effects of contemporary campaigning tactics.
#takeaways (1/2):
➡️ having better alternatives shapes how voters assess and react to negative or uncivil campaigns.
➡️ harsh campaigns may mobilize core supporters, but risk alienating swing voters with viable alternatives.
5️⃣ This effect is especially emphasized among respondents that follow the election campaigns more closely.
However,
4️⃣ Voters lend less political support to parties leading harsher campaigns when they have an at least equally attractive alternative to choose from!
Parties lose any “negativity bonus” among voters that are ideologically at least equally close to their competition.
3️⃣ The campaigning party's ideological proximity to other competing parties also has little impact (no significant interaction).
2️⃣ These differences are not due to the differing number of parties available to voters across contexts (no sig. interaction).
Note: Previously negative baseline effects render positive after inclusion of covariates such as parties' euroskepticism.