Herzlichen Glückwunsch! Das sind tolle Neuigkeiten für Hamburg 🎉

Academic Job Market Trends in Politics and International Relations - Political Studies Association Academic Job Market Trends in Politics and International Relations: Evidence from the UK, 2012-25 Authored by: Dr Ralph Scott, Dr Lawrence McKay, and Dr William Allen Read the full report here   Execu...

🚨 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

Herzlichen Glückwunsch!! 🎉

To add examples. We had more conceptual questions like „Is it a still a decision if there is war?“ but also quite specific ones like „Why do people still live in New York? I would emigrate from there because I heard the rents are really high, especially close to a park.“

Explained emigration to 8–12 year olds at the Children’s University @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social 👩‍🏫
Big questions and lots of curiosity! 🌱✨

For kids in MA - spring lectures are fully booked but fall lectures will be online soon: www.uni-mannheim.de/studium/lebe...

This is a great new resource ⬇️🚨

Sociology Research Colloquium

Who considers migrating as the climate changes? @snmorgenstern.bsky.social from @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social presents experimental findings on climate literacy, future orientation, and gendered migration aspirations.

📅March 4, 2026, 4:15–5:45 p.m.
📍UNIBE, vonRoll B202

Only 3 days left to apply 👩‍💻

❗️Early Career Women* Scholars

🏫 join us for the summer school in political methodology 📈 all payed

👩‍💻 See you in July (19-25) in Mannheim

🌍 What does the evidence say about international migration and economic development?

Read the new @voxdev.bsky.social literature review on “International Migration" co-edited by NOVAFRICA Scientific Director and @NovaSBE Professor @catiabatista.bsky.social

👉 voxdev.org/voxdevlit/in...

Abstract for the publication "Does Hard Propaganda (Also) Work in Democracies? Evidence from the United States"

📄 New paper out in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social with my amazing co-author @plutscher.bsky.social !

💡 Ever wondered if authoritarian strongman messaging also works in democracies? We find that, yes, it did under Trump during the BLM protests in the U.S. in 2020.

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Fantastic news! Congratulations !

Personal update: proud owner of the first pair of MZES merchandise socks. Being a staff representative @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social for four years was totally worth it! 💪😅

Amazing! Ich freue mich sehr für dich und die zukünftigen Doktorand*innen - super Projekt!

We're looking for a colleague (postdoc) 📢 @politikuhh.bsky.social
3+3 years
Doing your own research while teaching 2.5 courses per semester
Research agenda with links to our team (democracy, digital politics, political competition/behaviour)
DL 🗓️ 05/01
stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/6...

⚠️ This suggests gendered targeting might be even more skewed than we thought
⚠️ Prevention efforts need to tackle both vulnerability AND unequal targeting

Publication in Journal of Development Studies

💡 Rethinking vulnerability to international human trafficking in theoretical frame: agency instead of passive victimhood

🚻 No baseline gender gap—but: a gendered bystander effect, increasing men’s vulnerability, not women’s

doi.org/10.1080/0022...

🚨New working paper: Compositional Effects, Internal Migration and Electoral Outcomes

osf.io/preprints/so...

#polisciresearch

Just published in @bjpols.bsky.social: @sergipardos.bsky.social and I show that inter-regional moves in pursuit of employment security reduce individual worries about immigration—a mobility pattern that, in the aggregate, reinforces spatial polarization in anti-immigration sentiment. cup.org/3XiB6yD

Forschung - Migranten in Europa teilen demokratische Werte Zuwanderer in Deutschland und anderen Staaten in Europa haben laut einer Untersuchung ähnlich ausgeprägte demokratische Werte wie Menschen ohne Migrationshintergrund. Das ergab eine Studie der Univers...

📣 Migrant*innen in Europa teilen demokratische Werte

Meldung der @dpa.com zur Studie von
MZES-Vorstandsmitglied Marc Helbling, @fguelzau.bsky.social ( @svrmigration.bsky.social ) und
MZES-Fellow @snmorgenstern.bsky.social

Pressemitteilung folgt.

👉 www.deutschlandfunk.de/migranten-in...
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Liberal democratic values among immigrants in Europe: Socialisation and adaptation processes | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core Liberal democratic values among immigrants in Europe: Socialisation and adaptation processes

🆕 🗳️ Using surveys across 🇪🇺 & 🇩🇪 @fguelzau.bsky.social Marc Helbling & @snmorgenstern.bsky.social compare migrants from democratic vs. non-democratic countries to see whether support for #LiberaDemocratic values differs between migrants in Europe and non-migrants

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Deadline in about a month @ all postdocs! Hope to meet you in Mannheim soon next year :)

Hello Mannheim! I'm presenting tomorrow at the Centre for European Social Research.

Come for all the empirical modelling you know all about, stay for all the stuff about oil in Northern Europe you know less about 🛢️🌊

Thank you so much for organising and curating these well-fitting research presentations on irregular #migration - @langlotzsarah.bsky.social @paul-michel.bsky.social and Sebastian @hwwi-economics.bsky.social

Wie unterscheiden sich die liberaldemokratischen Werte von Migranten und Nicht-Migranten in Europa? Dr. Gülzau, Prof. Helbling und Dr. Sandra Morgenstern veröffentlichen dazu einen Artikel im European Journal of Political Research 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The results complement the exiting work on migration information campaigns by @jorgencarling.bsky.social @jaspertjaden.bsky.social @jamesrdennison.bsky.social @macartan.bsky.social

Credibility and/or anxiety - The moderators of political information on migration In the policy of migration information campaigns Western governments aim to influence perceptions on irregular migration in potential sending countrie…

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

⚠️New publication @ssreditorial.bsky.social

📖 #ethics in the practical implementation of #migration information campaigns

➡️ Sender credibility and Anxiety-trigger both impactful for information provision
➡️ but via distinct paths: No double-down-effect

🛄 Multi-treatment RCT, N=2612 in Nigeria

Super! Herzlichen Glückwunsch an dich und die Uni Hamburg 🙌

Screenshot of the call for applications for MZES Visiting Fellowships, 22 September 2025. For the full text, please follow the link.

📣 Attention, postdoctoral researchers!

❗ Apply now for our MZES Visiting Fellowships 😊

💡 Spend 2-4 weeks at the MZES to share ideas
💰 Funding for accommodation, travel, daily allowance
📆 Deadline: 28 November

Full information:
👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/deta...