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Alexander Geisler

@alexmgeisler.bsky.social
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Polisci PhD / Managing editor @spsr.bsky.social / Postdoc University of St. Gallen / Research on political communication and behavior alexgeisler.netlify.app

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I got a *remarkably quick* rejection email from a tenure track job that I applied to. Rejections are part of the process! However, if you’re going to screen candidates with ai, please don’t ask for more than a cv and let us know! It’s a lot of time learning about your dept, writing and tailoring.
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European Political Science Review @epsrjournal.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
What does this mean for you? 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 @alexmgeisler.bsky.social introduces a novel survey to determine how far citizens are considerate of others’ interests as a result of their participation in processes like #MiniPublics buff.ly/zWnk8nb
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How considered interests evolve in deliberation: evidence from Swiss citizens’ juries | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
How considered interests evolve in deliberation: evidence from Swiss citizens’ juries
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Alexander Geisler @alexmgeisler.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
📝How do considered interests evolve in deliberation? My new article in @epsrjournal.bsky.social investigates whether deliberative minipublics actually deliver on their promise to get people to care about others' interests. 🧵👇 Article available here: doi.org/10.1017/S175... #demoinno #polisci
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Vanessa Schwaiger @vanessaschwaiger.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
"Left behind" and an undemocratic mind? Happy to see that my article on the link between perceived marginalization and democratic orientations is now out in @ejprjournal.bsky.social 🧵👇 Read the article here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 16/06/2026
Monthly gatherings were once a staple of Washington’s influence operation in Brussels. Now that key channel for informal diplomacy has all but disappeared. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/brus...
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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
NEW - Who Do Parties Speak To? Introducing the PSoGA: A New Comprehensive Database of Parties’ Social Group Appeals cup.org/43fmXFj - @alonadolinsky.com, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social & @rwillh11.bsky.social #FirstView
BJPolS abstract discussing political party appeals across multiple European countries from 1970 to 2025. It mentions Austria, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, highlighting the use of the Parties’ Social Group Appeals (PSoGA) Database and its compatibility with MARPOR.
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Carolin Amlinger @camlinger.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
„Da ist es verstörend, wenn Erstsemester in Gebäuden ankommen, deren Zustand ihnen vom ersten Tag an signalisiert, dass man die Orte ihrer Ausbildung inzwischen behandelt, als könne man ihnen nahezu jede Form materieller Verwahrlosung zumuten.“ www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
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Baulicher Verfall deutscher Universitäten: Gefahr für Bildung?
Deutsche Universitäten sind wissenschaftlich exzellent, doch oftmals verwahrlost und baulich marode. Wer sie verfallen lässt, beschädigt auch die Vorstellung, dass Bildung und Wissenschaft geschützt g...
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
It’s pretty interesting to compare Easter messages from political leaders and then consider which ones the media treats as being out of the mainstream or dangerous
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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I am shocked to see this language from the NSF. “The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.”
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Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request to Congress
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Alexander Geisler @alexmgeisler.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
R.I.P.
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Kampf mit Kette @kampfmitkette.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
NeurIPS reviewers typically review 6+ papers, each with 100 or so citations. The reviewers can't possibly check that every citation is real. But why don't we have an automated way to do this checking (and desk-rejecting if fake citations found) *before* the papers are sent to reviewers?
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 18/01/2026
OpenAI's former Head of Policy Research Miles Brundage announces AVERI, a nonprofit aimed at advocating the idea of external audits for frontier AI models (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
New tariff just dropped. Americans set to pay an additional 10% tax on all goods from Germany, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland. It starts in two weeks, rising to 25% by June. (Aside: A trade war with one EU country is a trade war with the entire EU).
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Explaining the (relatively muted) market impact of Trump threatening to jail Fed Chair Powell: Trump talk, talk, talks, and only rarely acts. His talk is alarming, but he TACO's so often that markets have learned not to respond. And so he's broken that feedback loop from politics to markets.
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Alexander Geisler @alexmgeisler.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Turns out Independents like independent central banks
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Felix Haass @felixhaass.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
🚨Job alert! 🚨 I'm advertising a PhD position (66%) in Comparative Politics at HU Berlin. Ideal candidates combine a research interest in autocratic politics, conflict, and/or political violence with strong quantitative methods skills. ⏳ 4 (+2) years | 🗓 DL 16.01; Start March/April 26 More info:
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Research fellow (m/f/d) in the field of “contentious politics/political violence/autocratic politics” - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 04/01/2026
This polling data is really important, not least because it is a sober reminder that the government in power in DC does not make policy by public opinion poll. The other party that might want to hold power ought to think hard about what this means.
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Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Denmark, you up?
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Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
One of the Europeans who has been barred by Rubio’s State Department from entering the US for his work in combating online hate speech happens to be a permanent US resident with an American wife and child. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
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Judge Blocks Detention of British Researcher Who Scrutinizes Online Hate
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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
NORAD Santa tracker is Woke
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honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23/12/2025
my festive spirit amidst our grimly stupid reality (2025)
a red original Mini Cooper parked between two Tesla Cybertrucks
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Alexander Geisler @alexmgeisler.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
fair question from a friend: is there anything relevant going on in quant political science besides finetuning standard errors, causal identification and AI algos?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Community. Note.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
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U.S. Moves to Drop Charges in International Soccer Corruption Case
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 07/12/2025
Wow. This says *everything* about the German defence debate, really. For YEARS experts have fretted over public opinion on defence spending and how it would be impossible to justify spending over 1 or 2%. Turns out 35% (!!!!) of Germans think we’re already spending OVER 5 % of GDP. WTH.
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Bürgerrat @buergerrat.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Die @ec.europa.eu lädt 150 zufällig geloste Bürgerinnen und Bürger aus allen 27 EU-Mitgliedstaaten zu einem Bürgerforum zum Thema Krisenvorsorge ein. www.buergerrat.de/aktuelles/mi... #bürgerrat
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Mitglieder für EU-Bürgerforum gesucht
Die Europäische Kommission lädt 150 zufällig geloste Bürgerinnen und Bürger aus allen 27 EU-Mitgliedstaaten zu einem Bürgerforum zum Thema Krisenvorsorge ein.
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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear? "Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
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Alexander Geisler @alexmgeisler.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI
Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.
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Alexander Geisler @alexmgeisler.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
So glad the implication is to develop better tests rather than to desk reject all work based on online surveys 🙏
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
NARRATOR: Roth quite clearly did not name call & we need our leaders to stop granting <every bad faith premise> of the far right authoritarians' lawless assault on higher education before we push back.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
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CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
#30DayMapChallenge Day 18 - Tour De France 1975 The 1975 Tour de France was the 62nd edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It took place between 26 June and 20 July, with 22 stages covering a distance of 4,000 km (2,485 mi).
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Map of Belgium and France with the Tour de France route drawn over it
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Alexander Geisler @alexmgeisler.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I want Arnold Schwarzenegger to know that the notion of "out-cheating" each other in electoral districting is farcical when working in an area where using PEDs is increasingly becoming the norm (bodybuilding) to "outcompete" each other
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
THE YAED APPLE
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Alexander Geisler @alexmgeisler.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Sliwa receives almost exactly the number of votes Cuomo would have needed to close up to Mamdani
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026... This we’’ll feature the last two sections today: 🔝 This week: Comparative Politics of Development & Political Representation 🧵
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Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference
Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.
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Alexander Geisler @alexmgeisler.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
If I count Sam Altman as an elder millennial, it is actually quite noteworthy what he achieved: he made boomers and gen x listen
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Alexander Geisler @alexmgeisler.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
honestly tired of autocrats playing strongmen on the world stage just because their power doesn't depend on the will of the people in their countries
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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
It's bad when your German friends say this all seems so familiar
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
We believe there’s room for multiple poli sci conferences in Europe, just like in the US & other regions. 🔝 But if you’re looking to support a Europe-based not-for-profit member-led organization, submit your work to 1️⃣ EPSS conference: 📍 Belfast 📅 18–20 June 2026 📝 epssnet.org/belfast-2026/ 4/
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EPSS 2026 Conference | June 18–20 | ICC Belfast, UK
Join top political scientists for the EPSS 2026 Annual Conference in Belfast. Submit papers, attend panels, and network with fellow researchers.
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Alexander Geisler @alexmgeisler.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Europeans: Kafkaesque Americans: McCarthyesque
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Rory Truex @rorytruex.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Here's 90 minutes with @adamprz.bsky.social, Sue Stokes, Steven Levitsky, and @dziblatt.bsky.social on the state of American democracy right now. It was a great honor for me to be able to convene this set of people to speak together at this moment. Please share! open.spotify.com/episode/0F8W...
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The State of American Democracy with Steven Levitsky, Adam Przeworski, Susan Stokes and Daniel Ziblatt | The Civic Forum E10
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Alexander Geisler @alexmgeisler.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
It wasn't even remotely Jimmy's most biting monologue that night
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Aleksandra Sojka @alesojka.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Emboldened by the Trump 2.0 administration, Orban-funded "researchers" are laying the ground for questioning some of the key tenets of European integration.
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Alexander Geisler @alexmgeisler.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Very bad news for any political scientist wanting to replace human annotators with AI -- as expected, you can basically generate *any* statistical result you want.
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Alexander Geisler @alexmgeisler.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
A little warning about the CUP "coffee break" in Exhibit Hall A: they only had organic decaf when I went there #apsa2025 #apsa25
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Alexander Geisler @alexmgeisler.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
PSA: All APSA panels will be distributed along the various beaches of Vancouver
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