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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We are hiring at LMU Munich: two PhD positions and one postdoc on democracy, political psychology and computational social science. Start: January 2027 or as soon as possible. We review applications on a rolling basis until October 20. Details below. Reposts very welcome! 1/7

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Heike Klüver @heikekluever.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

📣 We're hiring! Looking for a PhD position? Join our team in Berlin! Work with @heikekluever.bsky.social and @markuskollberg.bsky.social in #STATEWORK at Humboldt University and join our @dynamics.bsky.social PhD programme Great people, great project, great city! 🗓️ Deadline: 13 October 2026

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Christian Breunig @breunig.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026

What an awesome lineup for our speaker series. @saadgulzar.bsky.social @na-wehl.bsky.social @marysanford.bsky.social ord.bsky.social Karolin Soontjens Femke Roosma @andrearuggeri.bsky.social @lchristensen.bsky.social Thank you, Maria and Jakob for organizing!

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Nils Weidmann @nilsweidmann.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We have a 2-year postdoc position available in a new SNSF/DFG-funded project on nationalist mobilization. More details here: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/5.... Please share widely!

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Postdoctoral Position in Computational Social Science

Deadline: 04.10.2026

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

📣 Call for applications Apply for a 2027-28 CASBS residential fellowship & join a multi-disciplinary community of social & behavioral scientists like no other. Deadline to apply: October 30, 2026. Exit surveys suggest it will be the best year of your professional life. Start here: bit.ly/3STrBaK

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 04/09/2026

Congratulations to Christian Breunig and Chris Koski on receiving the Virginia Gray Book Award from the APSA State Politics & Policy Section for Means, Motives, and Opportunities: How Executives and Interest Groups Set Public Policy. cup.org/4zSnzzM #APSA2026 #PolSky #CUP

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Christian Breunig @breunig.eurosky.social · 30/08/2026

DC Open Highlight Bendzulla x Breunig Petra Rinck Gallerie

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Fabrizio Gilardi @fgilardi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I'm hiring! Three-year postdoc (80%) in my research group at @ipz.bsky.social, starting January 2027. Digital technology and politics, some teaching. Deadline: 30 September 2026. Questions welcome, and please share! www.ipz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:bbee... (pdf)

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Did you hear about this?👂 Sevenans, @awenig.bsky.social, @breunig.eurosky.social, Walgrave, Soontjens & @rensvliegenthart.bsky.social used citizen surveys to claim that politicians show biased views of what citizens want... buff.ly/SI2okwQ

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Are poor people poorly heard? | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Are poor people poorly heard? - Volume 64 Issue 3

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Erik Nordman @eriknordman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

🎂Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom was born on this day in 1933! Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics for her research on "collaborative governance, especially the commons." She showed how communities of users could work together to sustain their shared resources. 1/9

Elinor Ostrom receiving the Nobel Prize in Economics. She is a older white woman with gray hair and glasses, wearing a long batik dyed dress, and holding the certificate and medal (in a box).

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Nils Steiner @nilssteiner.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We are hiring a postdoc in Comparative Politics at JGU Mainz! Join our friendly and productive team, led by Armin Schäfer (@arminschaefer.bsky.social). • Full-time position • Five-year contract (!) • Start: from 1 October Apply by 22 August: stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/56328 Please share!

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Christian Breunig @breunig.eurosky.social · 04/08/2026

Exactly my temperature when a resubmission comes back a second time ('The email on the title page did not match to the email in our system')

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Christian Breunig @breunig.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026

Led by Javier Olivera & just published in JEBO, we compare the “mental maps” of redistribution among politicians and citizens across seven parliaments. The headline finding is that politicians hold markedly more polarized views on redistribution than citizens. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Christian Breunig @breunig.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026

We reworked the whole paper. Each part is more solid, but we need to work on transitions and the overall framing. (despite appearance Maurizio Cattelan is not a co-author).

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Nathalie Brack @nathaliebrack.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

New paper, out today in @commssustain.nature.com : politicians are far more polarized on climate change than the citizens they represent. Study in 8 countries, with 714 politicians and 18,281 citizens in open access: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Universität Konstanz @uni-konstanz.de · 16/07/2026

An international study involving @excinequality.bsky.social at the #UniKonstanz shows: The ideological polarization on the topic of climate change is much greater among political representatives than in the general population: t1p.de/nqd3a

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Johannes Kotz @johanneskotz.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

🧵 New preprint! Can AI dialogue shift beliefs and policy support on climate change, vaccination, and economic inequality — even among skeptics?

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Heike Klüver @heikekluever.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

📣 We're hiring! Looking for a PostDoc? Join our team in Berlin! Work with @heikekluever.bsky.social, @macartan.bsky.social and Johannes Giesecke at Humboldt University, @scripts-berlin.eu and @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social Great people, great project, great city! 🗓️ Deadline: 15 August 2026

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Christian Breunig @breunig.eurosky.social · 24/06/2026

The good old days of teaching in the low 30s.

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Jae Yeon Kim @jaeyeonkim.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

My favorite policy book of the year is Reform as Process (Columbia University Press 2026) by Martin Williams from Michigan. I wrote a post on why I think this book deserves a wide audience, including scholars, students, and practitioners. jaeyeonkim.substack.com/p/my-favorit...

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My favorite policy book of the year is Reform as Process (Columbia University Press 2026)

My favorite policy book of the year is Reform as Process: Implementing Change in Public Bureaucracies by Martin Williams, Associate Professor of Organizational Studies at the University of Michigan.

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Lukas Rudolph @lukrudolph.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

📢 #PhD Researcher at the #PoliticalScience Department & Inequality-Cluster @uni-konstanz.de Apply by July 5 to join our @dfg.de funded team researching citizens' demand for representation amidst Green Transition infrastructure conflict #AcademicJobs Call: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/d...

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Doctoral Researcher in Electoral Behavior, Inequality, and Climate Change Policies

Deadline: July 5th, 2026

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Steffen Hurka @steffenhurka.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

📢 PhD position in Political Science Join the ERC-funded #DEMOLAW project, studying the design, creation and survival of democratic laws across the US, UK and EU using computational methods. 📍 Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen 📅 Apply by 12 July 2026 #PhD #PoliticalScience #AcademicJobs

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Christian Breunig @breunig.eurosky.social · 08/06/2026

great catch. there isn't a 1531 or 1541 in batman's desk.

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Lior Sheffer @liorsheffer.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

New preprint: Jack Lucas, @breunig.eurosky.social and I reanalyze 70,470 assessments made by 12,860 politicians about their constituents' public opinion and demographics, sourced from every available published study of elite perceptual accuracy, and our own original data. /1 osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Bergwelt🇨🇭 @bergwelt.me · 28/05/2026

Grossartiges Panorama heute Mittag auf der Meglisalp.🤩 #Alpstein #Bergfrühling #Wandern

Blick über eine grüne Blumenwiese auf die Meglisalp im Alpstein. Ein schmaler Weg führt zur kleinen Kirche und den Gebäuden der Alp. Dahinter ragen steile, teils noch schneebedeckte Berggipfel unter dramatischen Wolken in den Himmel. Im Vordergrund blühen gelbe Löwenzahnblumen und kleine weisse Blüten.

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Marc Debus @marcdebus.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Analog zur Positionsverschiebung der Grünen und zur angewachsenen innerkoalitionären Stärke der CDU hat sich das grün-schwarze Koalitionsabkommen wirtschafts- und gesellschaftspolitisch nach rechts verschoben. 1/2

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Corinna Kroeber @corinnakroeber.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

📣 Call for Papers! Die Themengruppe Vergleichende Parlamentarismusforschung lädt zur Tagung am 🗓 1.–2. Oktober 2026 📍 in Greifswald (dieses Jahr bei uns vor Ort – ich freue mich sehr!) Einreichungen bis 15. Mai 👇 Hier gehts zum Call for Papers shortlink.uk/1tdsI

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Peter K. Enns @peterenns.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Sharing a video based on my recent @sociologicalsci.bsky.social article: youtu.be/5OAXBmBmQEY. The prominent finding that U.S. policy ignores average citizens and lower income groups results because of Simpson’s paradox. More here: medium.com/p/b60d0440e756.

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Responsiveness to the Lowest Income Group

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Michael R Strain @michaelrstrain.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

🚨New paper. 🧵Our baseline estimate implies that preserving trust in the integrity and quality of official statistics generates economic benefits of about $25 for every $1 spent on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics's budget. cc: @nickbloom.bsky.social, @ericagroshen.bsky.social, #econsky

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Data Science Lab - Hertie School @hertiedatascience.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Would you like to tackle major societal challenges through cutting-edge data science? Then join our team as a Postdoctoral Researcher – Data Science for Public Policy (gn). We're hiring! 🚀 Apply 👉 hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs... #Data4Good #WeAreHiring

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Joris Frese @fresejoris.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

link.springer.com/article/10.1... I conducted a similar study a while back, looking at EU+NA. Among German departments, Konstanz and Mannheim placed the largest numbers of their PhD graduates into professorships at high-ranking European departments ;)

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Karsten Donnay @karstendonnay.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

📢 Call for Papers: first Annual Digital Publics Conference 📅 21–23 October 2026 | Digital Society Initiative, University of Zurich 👉 To submit: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/BxVnAMyxNh ❗Deadline for abstract submissions is 31 May 2026❗Acceptance notifications will be sent by early july.

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

🆕 Vulnerability and Voice 🔇 These authors 🧵 investigate how the gender of representatives influence their ability to estimate party voters' policy position when electorally vulnerable, using original survey data from Germany and Switzerland 👩‍💼 buff.ly/7hf0EQ0

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Electoral vulnerability and women MPs’ estimation of voters’ preferences on women’s issues | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Electoral vulnerability and women MPs’ estimation of voters’ preferences on women’s issues

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Daniel Höhmann @dahoehmann.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

📢 Are women MPs better at estimating their party voters’ preferences on women’s issues? In our new paper (with @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and @breunig.eurosky.social), we analyze whether and under which conditions women MPs assess these preferences more accurately. doi.org/10.1017/S147...

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Electoral vulnerability and women MPs’ estimation of voters’ preferences on women’s issues | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Electoral vulnerability and women MPs’ estimation of voters’ preferences on women’s issues

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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I’ve long since lost count of how many papers built on Autor and Colleagues’ famous “China Shock” papers. Bob Kaestner gives us good reasons to really doubt the whole enterprise. econjwatch.org/articles/glo...

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Globalization and the China Shock: A Reassessment of Autor, Dorn, and Hanson · Econ Journal Watch : trade exposure, employment, wages

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Gijs Schumacher @gijsschumacher.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

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!

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The Politics of Inequality @excinequality.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Looking for a job with a view? Join us as Research Group Leader @uni-konstanz.de! Full-time | E14 | Start Oct 1 | Deadline May 15 | More info: t1p.de/q7r21 Spread the word!

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Shay O’Brien @shayobrien.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

My latest article is online now at American Sociological Review: “Kinship Interlocks.” It’s about how some elite families manage to stay rich and powerful for many generations while others don’t. 🧵 (1/16)

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Kinship Interlocks: How the Intimate Exchange of Wealth, Status, and Power Generates Upper-Class Persistence - Shay O’Brien, 2026

How do some families manage to entrench themselves in the upper class for many generations while others do not? Bringing together economic sociology, political ...

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David Garcia @dgarcia.eu · 23/03/2026

Registration is open for the Master in Social and Economic Data Science at the University of Konstanz. Please distribute and feel free to DM if you have any questions! www.polver.uni-konstanz.de/studium/mast...

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How to apply | Master Social and Economic Data Science | Master | Studium | Fachbereich Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaft

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Christian Breunig @breunig.eurosky.social · 04/03/2026

One of them is for the project "Inequalities in Climate Finance". Apply.

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DVPW-Sektion Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft @dvpw-vergleich.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Postdoctoral Position at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality” in the project “Making political decisions" TV-L E13 100%. The deadline for applications is 20 February 2026 stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f...

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Postdoctoral Position at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality”

Deadline: 20 February 2026, 12:00 pm CET

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Christian Breunig @breunig.eurosky.social · 23/01/2026

🚨 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...

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Postdoctoral Position at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality”

Deadline: 20 February 2026, 12:00 pm CET

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