As I was answering the questions, I realised just how European I am ;D

Thanks Julius! Glad you're coming to Milan, see you next week ☀️

Looking forward to presenting at the Political Institutions, Parties and Public Opinion seminar series at the University of Milan on 14 April, together with my friend @dienerjulius.bsky.social

Feel free to message me for the Teams link if you'd like to follow the seminar online.

GitHub - paride92/italyParlR: An R package to access Italian Parliament open data via SPARQL, covering both the Camera dei Deputati and the Senato della Repubblica. An R package to access Italian Parliament open data via SPARQL, covering both the Camera dei Deputati and the Senato della Repubblica. - paride92/italyParlR

🎉 Excited to share italyParlR — an open-source R package I built (with the help of Claude Code) to make Italian parliamentary data accessible to researchers, journalists, and data enthusiasts directly in R.
github.com/paride92/ita...

#OpenData #Italy #Parliament #DataScience #PoliticalScience

We (@felixgruenewald.bsky.social and our RA Lina Zündorf) have once again updated our encyclopedia of polarization with some great new examples of polarization research and documentation of further measures. You can find the new entries on polarization.wiki and some examples listed below:

New piece out at @electoralstudies.bsky.social w @ealasaid.bsky.social @havlikv.bsky.social @alenakluknavska.bsky.social

TLDR: incivility from populists marginally increases support for political violence among their followers

Data: 🇦🇷🇨🇿🇩🇪🇮🇹
Paper: tinyurl.com/2yhj43pm
Open data: osf.io/9m7zu

Finally out! The @elgarpublishing.bsky.social Encyclopedia of Political Representation, ed. with André Freire, @evahonnudottir.bsky.social & Hermann Schmitt. 155 entries, 147 scholars. A special tribute to the late André, the true driving force behind the project
www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/elg...

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📢 My first dissertation paper is out in the BJPIR! 📢

Why do ethnic majorities support the radical right?

I show that feeling deprived compared to ethnic minorities increases support for hierarchical societies - which in turn fuels radical right support.

doi.org/10.1177/1369...

A short 🧵:

I totally agree. And there’s another layer: starting from 2021–2022, some Twitch streamers effectively advertised slots with sponsored/demo accounts, made fake money look like real gambling, and profited from affiliate links, subs and donations. Twitch took far too long to regulate that.

⁉️ Are anti-immigration people really "sexually modern"?

No

⁉️ Are people more supportive of anti-immigration platforms when these also include progressive positions on gender and sexuality?

Also no

I explore these questions w/ 🇬🇧🇩🇪 original survey data (+ a conjoint in 🇩🇪)

👉 osf.io/preprints/so...

EPSS Diversity Committee is happy to announce the launch of our mentoring program: a new initiative designed to develop a new network within the EPSS community.

March 31 is deadline, and program runs from May 1, 2026, to April 30, 2027.

More info: epssnet.org/about/divers...

Heroes and villains, valence, and group based inferences, but this time using real world historical figures.

Hitler views as ideologically part of the other camp.

Jesus viewed as ideologically one of us.

👇🏽

📢 New paper out in Party Politics with Francesco Bromo, @paridecarrara.bsky.social, and @paologambacciani.bsky.social

📉 What happens when MPs lose their political incentives to be loyal to their party?

1/3 🔽

⏰ Last chance to register for my GESIS course

▶️ Bayesian Modeling: From Foundations to Custom Solutions

📅 Apr 16–17 & 23–24 (online)

We cover:
• Foundations of Bayesian inference
• Applied modeling with brms in R
• Building custom models in Stan

Feel free to get in touch if you have questions.

Paper w/ @carogarriga.bsky.social: Academia’s Class Problem. PoliSci is dominated by the upper middle class / people with parents who went to university – unlike society as a whole.
dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

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

An image of the schedule with speaker images. You can find the full schedule on tada.cool.

🚨 TADA Speaker Series Spring 2026 schedule is here! 🚨

We've assembled a fantastic lineup of researchers exploring the future of survey research in the age of LLMs.

Mar 18 - May 27, online at 17:00 CEST. Join us!

More info & signup: tada.cool

🧺 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. 🧵👇

Applications are still open until the end of the week!

Today I really needed to read this again. I'm sure you can imagine why! :D

Very happy to see our new article “Reference groups and electoral behavior” (coauthored with Rune Stubager, Christoffer Hentzer Dausgaard & Michael Lewis-Beck) published!

Using ANES, DNES and AUTNES data, we show that liking or disliking social groups shapes vote choice.

Currently in FirstView: in “Potential and Pitfalls of Audio as Data for Political Research: Alignment, Features, and Classification Models,” @r-mestre.bsky.social and Matt Ryan provide solutions to challenges encountered when analyzing audio data in political science.

Our @sarahwagner.bsky.social @kirareneekurz.bsky.social Research Note is now published in @pvs-journal.bsky.social.
Besides being happy about this article online, I feel very gifted for having worked - again - with these amazing co-authors! :-)

Code examples for the Python package elfen: # initializing extractor extractor = elfen.Extractor( data = df, language = "en", text_column = "text") # extracting a single feature: ttr extractor.extract("ttr") # extracting a feature area/group: readability extractor.extract_feature_group("readability") # extracting all available features extractor.extract_features()

Extracting structural/linguistic properties for large text datasets can be annoying. Existing tools either are not maintained, do not scale, or do not cover extensive sets of linguistic features.

For this reason, I implemented 🧝elfen, a Python package for efficient linguistic feature extraction

Measuring factional conflict: A comparative approach using party leadership contests - Mike Cowburn, Amelia Malpas, Rachel M Blum, 2026 Intra-party factions have attracted increased scholarly attention in the twenty-first century as party systems have fragmented. Yet, we lack a comparative appro...

🚨🎉 New Publication! 🎉🚨

Measuring Factional Conflict: A Comparative Approach Using Party Leadership Contests

w/ @malpas.bsky.social & @blumrm.bsky.social

Out now in Party Politics. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1354...

(🧵 below)

Attitude Manipulation and Voting Intentions - Political Behavior A large body of research documents the substantial effects of persuasive communication on political attitudes. However, opinion manipulation often represents merely an intermediate goal in a greater e...

Now in print (and open access):

What happens when voters learn their party disagrees with them?

I ran a pre-registered experiment with a representative sample of ~3,000 German voters to find out.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🧵

🚨📄 New paper (conditional accepted at @thejop.bsky.social):

We test whether social desirability bias actually distorts answers in online surveys.

Short version:
It mostly doesn’t.

w. @timallinger.bsky.social @kristianvsf.bsky.social @morganlcj.bsky.social

URL: osf.io/preprints/os...

Measuring football fever through wearable technology - Scientific Reports Football is the world’s most popular sport, evoking strong physiological and emotional responses among its fans. Yet, the specific reactions to fan involvement have received little attention in the literature. In this paper, we quantify the resulting physiological responses through a unique case study from professional football: the 2025 cup final of the German Football Association (DFB) between first-division club VfB Stuttgart and third-division club Arminia Bielefeld. We collected high-resolution smartwatch data, including heart rate and stress level, from 229 Arminia Bielefeld fans over approximately 12 weeks, complemented by survey responses on identification with the club, match attendance, and personal characteristics from a subset of 37 participants. By combining physiological data with survey information, we analyse variations in emotional arousal across individuals and contexts, measured by physiological reactions to the cup final. This approach provides rare, data-driven insights into the football fever that captivates fans during high-stakes competitions. Furthermore, we compare the vital parameters recorded on the day of the match with baseline levels on non-matchdays throughout the entire observation period. Our findings reveal pronounced physiological responses among fans, beginning hours before the match and peaking at kick-off.

The mean stress level of fans of the football club Arminia Bielefeld (@arminia.de) was 41% higher on the day of the German Football Association’s 2025 Cup final compared to non-match days, according to a study in Scientific Reports: spklr.io/63320DOZ2n

#DFBPokal ⚽

If you are an advanced PhD student or PostDoc working on AI and global politics/tech/authoritarianism come spend 1-6 months in Berlin this year with @scripts-berlin.eu! We have some funding for you and will help w/ visa and other moving issues.
Info here: www.scripts-berlin.eu/about-us/job...