Is social media dying? How much did Twitter change as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation?
Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has changed
Here are the key take-aways 🧵
Full paper out now in in JQD:DM!
Job vacancy announcement for a postdoctoral position at the University of Vienna Department of Government, starting August/September 2026. Research focus includes political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields. Application deadline: 29 April 2026. Full details are also available through the shared link.
🚨 Job Alert 🚨
We have an opening for a 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 @stawi-univie.bsky.social starting Aug/Sep 2026!
Focus: political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields
📅Apply by 29 April 2026
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
Workshop graphic for the CSDI Workshop 2026 in Vienna featuring the logos of CSDI, MEDem, the Generations & Gender Programme, and Meeting Destination Vienna above three event photos showing speakers presenting at the University of Vienna.
🌍📊 From survey data quality to research infrastructures:
The #CSDIWorkshop 2026 in Vienna brought together researchers and practitioners to discuss current challenges and innovations in comparative survey design and implementation.
Read more in our latest #MEDemBlog: www.medem.eu/csdi-worksho...
New blog post ✒️
Who gets emotional about politics and what impact do knowledge, interest, and confidence-in-knowledge have?
Find out more about the sophistication-emotion link in our latest blogpost:
🚨 NEW REPORT! 🚨
What is the state of the UK academic job market in politics, and what does this mean for the field and #highered?
In a new @psaecn.bsky.social report, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social @williamlallen.bsky.social and I find worrying trends in job adverts and HESA data from 2012-25
#PSA26
Con @dielujan77.bsky.social y @sarahledoux.bsky.social analizamos el ascenso de #Milei como una variedad de personalismo electoral
➡️ Milei no se explica solo como #populismo
ℹ️ Su campaña puede abordarse desde un concepto + preciso: personalismo electoral
🔓Open access: doi.org/10.1017/gov....
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!
Delighted to see our collaboration out in doi print 🎉 In this paper, we qualitatively and quantitatively analyse the concept of 'electoral personalism' through the case of Milei in Argentina and identify 3 key elements: self-promotion, ideological rhetoric and moral appeals.
See link for more 👇
🚨 Upcoming TIP EVENT! 🚨 with @ceciliarikap.bsky.social!
Join us on Wed 25 FEB 3-4pm GMT (on Zoom!) to discuss Cecilia's book "Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud" in conversation 💬 with our very own @danweiss.bsky.social
More info & sign-ups here 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/techn...
🚨 Deadline Soon (***February 5, 2026***): 3-Year Postdoc in Political Science 🚨
I am seeking applicants for a 3-year postdoc related to my @erc.europa.eu research project EQUILIBRIUM that focuses on state-citizen interactions.
The application link and further information are in the post below. ⬇️
Looking for speeches from all German state parliaments?
@cgnguyen.bsky.social , Eric Beltermann, Sabine Kropp & Antonios Souris have you covered.
Introducing the StateParl Corpus. Now open access with PVS:
doi.org/10.1007/s11615-025-00643-5
🚨 Job Alert!
We are looking for a Senior Scientist (40h/week) to develop, establish, and organize the research network “Democracy and Human Rights”.
Start: March 1, 2026
Application deadline: February 2, 2026
Find out more👇
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...
🚨 Postdoctoral Position at the University of Konstanz 🚨
We’re hiring a post-doc for our @excinequality.bsky.social project on political elites and decision-making.
4-year position | Deadline: Feb. 20 | Start: Sept 2026
Please share widely 🙏
The ad is here stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f...
📢 PhD Scholarship at QUT to join my DECRA project "Democratic Resilience Online: Strengthening Public Opinion Formation Amid Digital Threats" @qutdmrc.bsky.social
📅 Applications close: 13/03/2026
More info here: www.qut.edu.au/study/fees-a...
Please share and reach out if you have questions!
The MPG x TIP conference in Bournemouth is a go! We've already had a fantastic keynote by Susan Banaducci and now we're onto the first wave of panels!
@psampg.bsky.social
👨💻 In a piece based on @polbehavior.bsky.social research, @chrisbutlerpol.bsky.social reports on his survey of politicians.
💡 He finds that while politicians do have reasonable understanding of which issues matter, they often make mistakes that have consequences for representation
👇 bit.ly/3KZhugI
🧵 PhD position (75%) in Political Behavior / Political Communication / CSS
📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026
We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization
Incredible work by Matt Smith at @yougov.co.uk summing up the most heard news stories of 2025! Check out the whole story & breakdown here yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
"Cool" only begins to describe how it feels to see outputs from the AI topic quantifier after I developed it at YouGov last year ♥️
Reminder about this political text analysis postdoc job: deadline is on Monday! 🕒
Key paper for those using proprietary models for ideological stance annotation and text generation. Walker &
@joantimoneda.bsky.social not only show a clear conservative/liberal split between languages prompted, but also changes in outputs from GPT-3.5 to GPT-4 (see graphs)
📣 Join us 𝒕𝒐𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒘 📣 (2 Dec) to discuss "The Politics of Platform Regulation" 📖 with Robert Gorwa @gorwa.ca 3:00-4:15pm GMT!
Looking forward to a thought-provoking discussion on how govs shape content moderation & strategies to combat harmful content
Sign up 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/techn...
Call for papers:
IJPOR has a call for a special issue on AI, public opinion and democratic resilience.
1000 word initial abstract submission
🗓️: deadline February 15, 2026
@ddc-sdu.bsky.social @aimediademlab.bsky.social @algosoc.org @polcomm.bsky.social #commsky
academic.oup.com/ijpor/pages/...
Several recent studies have found that politicians aren't very good at estimating public support for policies. But we have little idea about whether politicians are good at knowing which issues are more important to voters. Our new publication has a first go at answering this question rdcu.be/eQGm4
💥Upcoming event! 💥"The Politics of Platform Regulation"
🕒 2 Dec @ 3-4:15pm GMT
Join us in our discussion w Robert Gorwa @gorwa.ca to talk about his recent book on "how governments shape online content moderation" + strategies to combat harmful content
Sign up 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/techn...
Despite new EU transparency laws, researchers are still blocked from vital social media data, while corporations buy the same information freely, argues Brandon Silverman. The result: a two-tier system that shields platforms from scrutiny and weakens democratic oversight.
Another job with MULTIREP! 👉 Deadline 15 Dec
Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions/interest, I'd be happy to have a chat 😄
🆕 What kind of personalities are drawn to politics? 🗳️
This cross-national study across 🇨🇦🇩🇰🇮🇱🇳🇱🇨🇭 explores #Representation and how honesty-humility and other HEXACO personality traits shape people’s ambition to run for office 🧵1/2
buff.ly/xk4qMa3
🚨 The MULTIREP team is hiring! Please share with MAs based in Vienna with a keen interest in pol behaviour and survey experiments 🙏
🚨New paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1350...
@manuelwagner.bsky.social & I re-conceptualize class representation to take into account social mobility between classes and variation in how individuals enter politics.