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Posts by Thomas Malang
Fieldwork update: many observations, insightful exchanges, and some unexpected new-found fame in India.
Deadline to apply for two 2-year postdoc positions in International Relations is in 4 days: 10 April! Positions linked to my ERC-project "Protectionism in Place: Explaining How Subnational Change Affects Public Support for Protectionism". @stockholm-uni.bsky.social #polisky #econsky #poliscisky👇
🚨 Deadline approaching at the end of this week. Political Networks Conference 2026 at Manchester. sites.google.com/view/confpol... Connecting research communities -- North America + Europe, different disciplines, methods, theories. #NetworkAnalysis #Polisky #publicpolicy #netsci #NetworkScience #SNA
The German public is more approving of police violence when victims are immigrants, and this bias is highly resistant to new information. This shows our new study published in Science Advances. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (1/3)
Example of a binary paired profile table with four attributes (occupation, religion, reason for migration, distance from origin) as shown to survey respondents (for credits see Fig. A1 of the article)
How do rural host communities respond to environmental migrants? With @linus-hormuth.bsky.social, @the-free-heart.bsky.social & V. Koubi (@ethz.ch), we show for a Global South context and with visual conjoint experiments that deservigness matters -- now in Comm. Earth & Environment: rdcu.be/e8Czw
Early-career researchers: we offer a Peace Research Fellowship at @ipz.bsky.social University of Zurich - fully funded, 2-week research visit with the Decades of Peace team.
Deadline: March 20
Application details: www.decadesofpeace.com/fellowship
August in Zurich may include a swim in the river.
🚨Job alert 🚨
I have an opening for a postdoc in my team at @ipz.bsky.social in the area of digital democracy starting Sep 1, 2026.
If you are working on the impact of the digital transformation on politics, please apply by 🗓️ Mar 1, 2026.
📤 Please share widely!
www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns...
⏳ 5 days left to apply!
4-year PhD position @stawi-univie.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
in a collegial & supportive department.
Focus: representation, party competition, political behavior, political institutions, political economy, or related.
Deadline: 28 Jan 26
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
Die Fragen wurden beantwortet, bevor Macron mit der Sonnenbrille kam. Jetzt denke ich doch: die Welt ist eine andere
Kleine Interviewschnipsel von mir. Take-away: die Lage ist düster, aber evtl sollte man das nicht an Auftritten beim WEF festmachen.
2026 Political Networks Conference: 4-7 August 2026 at the University of Manchester. Save the date! More info will be released in early spring. #SNA #polinetworks #polnet #polisky #networkanalysis #politicalnetworks #politicalnets #policynetworks #complexsystems #netsci #polmeth #polisci
we have 5 positions open at @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt
- a 4,5 year postdoc in my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage
- 2 postdoc & 2 PhD positions, 4 years, in a research group on Reconfiguration & Internalization of Social Structure
www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...
🚨 Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion (2 years)
We’re hiring a 100% Postdoc at the University of Greifswald.
✨ What makes this job special: Two full years to focus on research (no teaching, no admin overload) embedded into an International Research Training Group
📣 We're hiring a postdoc in political science for our ReJust project @uni-konstanz.de!
Project with Dirk Leuffen @leuffen.bsky.social and Urs Fischbacher
3-year position | Deadline: Dec. 15, 2025 | Start: April 2026
Please share widely 🙏
How are contemporary cleavage structures stabilized in times of declining mass social and political organizations?
In this new paper with @davidattewell6.bsky.social @bjpols.bsky.social, we suggest that homogeneous social (educational) networks provide part of the answer.
tinyurl.com/49cs8jwp
💡 How does moving to opportunity reshape political behavior?
🗞️ In our new BJPolS paper, @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that residential relocations that increase access to opportunity foster political integration and shift political preferences to the left.
👉 tinyurl.com/46utjj65
🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project
You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna!
⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025
wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...
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Post-Doctoral Research Position (80%)
in the Research Group of Professor Thomas Widmer
Department of Political Science at the University of Zurich, research area ‘Policy Analysis & Evaluation’ www.ipz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:55da...
Very proud of our @ipz.bsky.social students who celebrated their graduation tonight. Congratulations to all, especially our prize winners! The prizes for best dissertation go to @reidingerve.bsky.social and @indubioproreto.bsky.social - Congrats! 🎉🥂🍾
You have work on politics in Europe, European integration or the EU?
Submit it to next year's @epssnet.bsky.social conference section on "European and EU Politics“ 👇
@bjornhoyland.bsky.social & I are open to diverse proposals with a European dimension.
Together with the great colleagues @i4replication.bsky.social, we are organizing the first Münster replication games (28/11/25)! Highly recommended to junior & senior scholars. Joint project together with #MueCOS & #CDSC @uni-muenster.de. More info/registration: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3526/
Diktatfrieden und Zollkrieg? Nach dem Gipfel in Alaska wächst in der Ukraine und der Schweiz die Sorge, im Machtpoker der Weltmächte übergangen zu werden.
Eine lebendige Diskussion im SRF Club unter anderem mit Stefanie Walter @stefwalter.bsky.social
www.srf.ch/play/tv/club...
Das ist der Zeitgeist: aufgeben
🚨 New piece for @ecpr.bsky.social's @ecprtheloop.bsky.social — @maxheermann.bsky.social & I map trips of world leaders using @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social's COLT of over 78K+ foreign trips by heads of state and gov from 1990-2023.
Reference: bsky.app/profile/jose...
Late to the party. New publication with Axel Bayer in the International Political Science Review about political interactions of MPs in Zambia that switched their party affiliation. doi.org/10.1177/0192...
How does participation in the human rights complaint mechanisms of the United Nations affect the situation of civil society organizations? To learn more on this question, please check out our new publication @bjpols.bsky.social
(1/5) My article Disintegration and Party Competition is out in the latest issue of @jeppjournal.bsky.social ! I ask how parties in other member states reacted to #Brexit. Do #Eurosceptic challengers frame it as an example to follow? Or do they instead row back on ‘hard’ demands to #leave the EU?
Morgen, Mi 2.7.25 um 17 Uhr spreche ich im nächsten Crisis Conference Call mit Prof. Dr. Ralph Ossa, Ökonom an der @uzh-ch.bsky.social und ehemaliger Chefökonom der WTO über die Krise des Welthandelssystems.
Offen für Alle, Anmeldung zum Zoom-Call hier:
www.crisiscompetence.uzh.ch/de/events/Kr...
Box mit zehn Exemplaren des Buches Die Exponentialgesellschaft.
Gerade ist ein Riesenkarton mit Ausgaben der #Exponentialgesellschaft angekommen, entsprechend große Freude beim unboxing. Danke, @suhrkamp.de!
Ich verlose hier zwei Exemplare unter allen, die diesen Post bis Freitag teilen. Viel Glück! 🤞