dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited!
- `filter_out()` for dropping rows
- `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools
These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats!
tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...
🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨
7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers.
Free of charge (limited travel support).
Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org
#methodsky #polisky
Mit einem Phishing-Angriff versucht ein bislang unbekannter Akteur offenbar gezielt Zugriff auf die #Signal-Konten von Journalist:innen und Aktivist:innen zu bekommen. Wir erklären, wie der Angriff funktioniert und wie man sich vor ihm schützen kann.
netzpolitik.org/2026/phishin...
partycoloR is now on CRAN! Started as a simple idea 6 years ago, now it's a full-featured package. Extract party colors and logos from Wikipedia with one line of code. It's already powering ParlGov Dashboard.
install.packages("partycoloR")
Last week 54 members of the European Parliament wrote a letter to the European Commission President to support open social networks made in Europe. The Grok desaster shows that regulation is not enough. We need to build and we need to do it fast.
alexandrageese.eu/wp-content/u...
Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.
Publication Alert 🚨
Our paper on the effect of Symbolic Policies on Climate Policy Support has been published in the APSR! @apsrjournal.bsky.social Below is a summary of the results
Extremely grateful to have written this with the wonderful @malojan.bsky.social and @theodoretallent.bsky.social 🥳
Within the next decade the radical right is going to be the main force on the right in Europe (national and EU level). This includes far-right parties and formerly centre-right parties shifting their position. Moderate conservatism and Christian democracy will largely disappear on the right. 1/
📌 Notes:
– Both projects are free, open-source, and meant to be used, tweaked, or remixed.
– I’m not a professional developer —just someone who enjoys building small, useful things at the intersection of research and tools.
If you try them or have thoughts, feel free to reach out.
Happy tracking 🧠✨
🔗 Try it:
friederikequint-shinychronicles-app.share.connect.posit.cloud
🔗 Code:
github.com/friederikequ...
📊 SanityApp Shiny Edition
A browser-based R Shiny app: mobile-friendly, and easy to deploy.
One daily entry (after 6pm): mood, stress, diary note.
Calendar + trends + full data export (CSV/JSON).
No install. Full control.
📲 SanityApp (iOS)
A lightweight iPhone app to log moods, stress levels, and optional diary notes at the end of each day.
Private (your data stays with you), simple, and meant for gentle self-reflection — not optimization.
🔗 Code & details:
github.com/friederikequ...
📉 Amid depressing news, getting back into office life after a break, and slowly inching toward the end of my PhD, I wanted a simple way to track how my days actually felt — ideally colour-coded in a calendar so I could look back and reflect.
So I built one (well, two) and made them open-source.
🧵⬇️
Schlicht erschütternd, wie Regierungen versuchen, Tatsachen zu vernebeln, sie nicht beim Namen zu nennen, Bürger:innen im Dunkeln zu lassen über die politische Realität. Das erodiert die Grundvoraussetzungen der Demokratie. Wer soll sich so motiviert fühlen, Demokratie aktiv zu gestalten?
Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
Ultimately, our graphics should tell a story about our research, whether it’s about changing media habits or shifting social norms. Here's a few of our favorite visuals from 2025, how we made them, and what makes them successful.
📣 out now, with @argohdes.bsky.social and Mark Gibney - and in honour of the wonderful Steve Poe, who motivated the 1st edition with @universitypress.cambridge.org
tinyurl.com/2s4kh6z3. If you enjoy reading this even a fraction as much as I enjoyed creating it, you’re in for a ride 🤩
AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail
I cannot think of a democracy anywhere in the world where this sort of thing could happen. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
Both abstracts are attached if you’d like to take a closer look. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions.
Outside the beautiful conference centre, British Columbia offered the perfect backdrop to recharge – with hikes through forests and mountains, and stunning ocean views 🌲⛰️✨
📄 Bystanders and Reporters: Who Acts Against Illegal Online Content?
with @yannistheocharis.bsky.social, @spyroskosmidis.bsky.social , Molly Roberts & Ahmed Gaafar
📄 Does the Community Understand the Community Guidelines?
with @yannistheocharis.bsky.social , @mianahrgang.bsky.social , @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & Molly Roberts
Back from a successful #APSA25 in Vancouver 🇨🇦 – full of inspiring projects, great discussions, and reconnecting with colleagues. I presented two of my co-authored dissertation papers: one at the Political Communication Preconference and another at APSA (American Political Science Association).
📣 We’re launching the London Social Media Observatory! 🎉
➡️ We are a new multidisciplinary research centre, directed by @andreucasas.bsky.social & funded by the @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship
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Again: they found absolute monsters to run gov social media accounts. People who at some point lost or never had the idea that the things you say online might have real world connections. Literal psychopaths.
In many countries, mainstream politicians are adopting rhetoric and policies that typical of the far-right.
Our new paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social and E Dinas), out now in the @bjpols.bsky.social, finds that doing so erodes norms more than when far-right politicians make similar statements.
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BJPolS abstract discussing the effects of extensive media exposure on public perceptions and normalization. It references specific research surveys conducted on Sky News UK and Australia, analyzing changes in public attitudes and policy effects due to media strategies.
NEW -
Media Platforming and the Normalisation of Extreme Right Views - cup.org/4mmVIAL
"exposure to uncritical interviews increases agreement with extreme statements and perceptions of broader support in the population"
- @dianebolet.bsky.social & @florianfoos.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
Mit freundlichen Grüßen an die Redaktionen von ARD und ZDF und all diejenigen, die weiterhin denken, man könnte die radikale Reche in Interviews entzaubern...
You can already submit your paper and panel proposal for EPSS next year. Looking forward to seeing many people in Belfast. I will be there.
