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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Wrapping up the semester with a trip to the @unicologne.bsky.social, where I presented our (w Richard Nadeau) working paper on rural appeals. Thanks to Chitralekha Basu, @sopro.bsky.social & @jasminrath.bsky.social for the invite. And to everyone for super helpful feedback and suggestions!

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 29/01/2026

#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - Voices of the party base: How supporters want established parties to respond to new parties - cup.org/4q1M0ET - Dominik Duell, @dielea.bsky.social, @sopro.bsky.social, Jonathan B. Slapin & @chriswratil.bsky.social #FirstView

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Gefjon Off @gefjonoff.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

New publication w/ my friend & amazing coauthor @fedetrastulli.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social! 🎉 doi.org/10.1017/S147... We explore: Who considers which political issues as important & how is this related to sociodemographic/socioeconomic variables?

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Who prioritises what? Determinants and measurement of voters’ issue prioritisation | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Who prioritises what? Determinants and measurement of voters’ issue prioritisation

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I’m so glad to see this paper — my first solo-authored one and second from my dissertation — finally published! If you’ve heard me talk about my research in the last couple of years, you know this is the story that started it all for me, and I’m so happy to finally have it out there in the world.

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Jens Wäckerle @jwaeckerle.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

New from @erc.europa.eu project #MINORITYRULE with @sopro.bsky.social: We study voters’ knowledge about and perceptions of minority governments in 🇩🇰, 🇩🇪 and 🇸🇪. Link: doi.org/10.1017/S147... When survey researchers or politicians talk about minority governments, what do voters understand? ⬇️

Screenshot of the start of the paper. Title (Political knowledge and perceptions of minority governments in Europe), authors (Jens Wäckerle and Sven-Oliver Proksch) and journal (European Journal of Political Research)

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

It's finally out! All parliamentary committee assignments for 14 countries, 30+ years, harmonized with other MP and parties datasets

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Calling all comparative legislative scholars! We’ve got a new dataset with committee memberships from 14 countries over 35 years, spanning almost 15,000 MPs in 260 parties! Grateful for my excellent coauthors! #polisky #gendersky

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Jens Wäckerle @jwaeckerle.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

New data for legislative scholars! Committee Membership Dataset with @bcastanho.bsky.social, @dmpullan.bsky.social and Firuze Taner: Committee assignments for all MPs (Wikidata IDs!) in 14 countries Harmonized roles/policy areas Data: doi.org/10.7802/2940 Working paper: tinyurl.com/vf54r78p ⬇️

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Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The University of Cologne plans drastic cuts to its Political Science department, potentially abolishing the MSc in Political Science and eliminating the professorships in IR and Comparative Politics. This would severely weaken the social sciences at @unicologne.bsky.social. Petition (de/en) ⤵️

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Keine WiSo ohne PoWi! Für eine starke Politikwissenschaft im Bachelor & Master

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Alexia Katsanidou @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Are you a student in Cologne or near by? Here are some great opportunities to support our computational social science team: [SHK GESIS AppKit (Kennziffer SHK-CSS-32)] www.gesis.org/institut/kar... [SHK GESIS Web Tracking (Kennziffer SHK-CSS-33)] www.gesis.org/institut/kar...

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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Ever asked yourself how to detect and extract social groups from texts with computational social science? @haukelicht.bsky.social and me have a solution for you out at @bjpols.bsky.social. You can also find the pre-trained models on huggingface!

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Lea Kaftan @dielea.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

📄 🚨 New Research on Polarization, Fragmentation, and Democracy in @democratization.bsky.social Nils-Christian Bormann and I explore the impact of ideological polarization and fragmentation on the democratic systems of interwar Europe: lnkd.in/erjJr9qF #polarization #democracy #data #history (1/4)

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Nils Blossey @nilsblossey.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Excited to share my first publication!

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Verena Reidinger @reidingerve.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Do men see gender parity in representation as detrimental to their interests? What about when women’s representation exceeds parity? And how do such shifts affect men’s fairness perceptions? I address these questions in my article, now published in PRQ. 1/9  doi.org/10.1177/1065...

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵

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Sven-Oliver Proksch @sopro.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

The Call for Papers for the 2026 EPSS annual conference in Belfast is now live! Looking forward to your submissions!! Check out all details in this thread 👇

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Sven-Oliver Proksch @sopro.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

📢 🇪🇺📘 Exciting news! The second edition of our textbook "Foundations of European Politics: A Comparative Approach" - with @catherinedevries.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social and @jbslapin.bsky.social - is out at Oxford UP! 🧵👇 1/5

Book cover of the second edition of Foundations of European Politics A Comparative Approach

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theresa gessler @gessler.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

We're organizing another round of the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology 🎉 summerschoolwpm.org Our super-cool speakers include msands.bsky.social @allisonwkoh.bsky.social @melinscribe.bsky.social @rebeccakittel.bsky.social @fabiennelind.bsky.social & @indiiigo.bsky.social 📆01/05

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Summer School for Women in Political Methodology

20 to 26 July 2025 at the University of Bremen

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Finally with a proper citation! Interested in how women MPs navigate parliamentary careers and adapt their behavior? Stay tuned for our followup project, where we look at how much power and prestige they attain as compared to men! #polisky #gendersky @jwaeckerle.bsky.social @bcastanho.bsky.social

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 19/03/2025

Who does Spiderman vote for? Who you vote for. In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

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Emma Turkenburg @turkenburgemma.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

How do complexity and simplicity in political communication shape citizens' reasoning and attitudes toward politicians? 💭 Read more about it in this new study, out now in Human Communication Research ⬇️🤩 academic.oup.com/hcr/advance-...

https://academic.oup.com/hcr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/hcr/hqaf002/8078028

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Christopher Klamm 🏔️ @cklamm.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

🚀 Excited to announce that I’ll be teaching a course on "Large Language Models - Tune and Train Your Own Models" @methodsnet.bsky.social in Vienna from July 14-18 🤖💡 If you’re interested in adjusting LLMs for your tasks, this is for you. Can’t wait for an exciting week.

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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

If you are interested in how to design survey experiments in the social sciences, I am teaching a course on exactly that @methodsnet.bsky.social Vienna summer school at CEU! Early bird discount applies through 26 March 👇. Looking forward to meeting you ☺️ methodsnet.org/course/d01-0...

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D01-01AM: Designing Survey Experiments – Methodsnet

Not a Member yet? Check out the long list of benefits here – Student Membership from only €33.00 and FREE for some locations! > Courses > D01-01AM: Design

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Fabienne Lind @fabiennelind.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Curious about mastering text analysis using computational methods? 🧑‍💻📊 This summer, I’m teaching an introductory course at the @methodsnet.bsky.social Summer School at @weareceu.bsky.social in Vienna. Would be nice to see you there!

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Jürgen Maier @maierjuergen.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

@Teilnehmer der TV-Duell-Studie: Bitte nicht vergessen; App nochmal öffnen & die Mini-Nachwahlbefragung ausfüllen. Info bitte teilen, um möglichst viele zu erreichen. Danke!

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Christian Breunig @breunig.eurosky.social · 25/02/2025

Come work with us! In my research group, we have two four-year PhD positions available in comparative politics. Happy to answer questions per email. Please share the ad. You can find the ad here: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/d...

job ad for PhD positions in Comparative Politics at the University of Konstanz

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Peter Luca Versteegen @versteegenluca.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

🚨To all (survey) researchers out there: do you know of any studies on how mood/affect/emotions/“feelings” shape response behavior? The best responses get happy smileys!

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Giovanni D’Agostino @gdagostino.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

📢 Call for Papers 📢 We welcome papers for our panel "Citizens’ attitudes towards democracy" at Poletmaal 2025 (June 12-13, Groningen) 🪑Chairs: @lindestals.bsky.social, Carmen van Alebeek and @gdagostino.bsky.social 📩 Submit here: politicologenetmaal.eu/call-for-pap... ⏳Deadline: March 31, 2025

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Lukas Hetzer @lukashetzer.eurosky.social · 17/02/2025

ParlLawSpeech also provides high-quality translations of speeches from the European Parliament 🇪🇺 and the Hungarian National Assembly 🇭🇺 into English. Learn more on our website at ParlLawSpeech.org/data and the respective GitHub page (github.com/ChRauh/OPTED...).

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Lea Kaftan @dielea.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Are you a PhD student or early career PostDoc researching how citizens and parties behave in democracies, what factors weaken democracies, and what factors strengthen them? Are you currently working on one of your first academic manuscripts? We are organizing a workshop just for you! Please share!

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Sven-Oliver Proksch @sopro.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Exciting news for legislative scholars! We're thrilled to announce the release of #ParlLawSpeech, featuring full texts of parliamentary speeches and corresponding bills & laws in 7 parliaments + in the EP. Access full texts via @gesis.org & check out www.parllawspeech.org for R tutorials. (1/2)

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Jan Schwalbach @janschwalbach.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

So happy to see #ParlLawSpeech out there after years of scraping, cleaning, validating... have a look at our website parllawspeech.org and keep us posted if you use the data (free access via @gesis.org here: doi.org/10.7802/2824)

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This website presents the ParlLawSpeech dataset, an interlinked collection of

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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky

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Hannah Decker @hannahdecker.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Ganz genau! 🫵Wir suchen für kommenden Sonntag (20:15 Uhr) Teilnehmende, die Lust haben während des TV-Duells (ARD/ZDF) die Kontrahenten zu bewerten. Einfach die App RealSmart herunterladen und mitmachen. 📲 www.rheinpfalz.de/politik_arti...

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TV-Duelle: Pfälzer Forscher suchen Teilnehmer für Studie - Bundestagswahl

Wer bekommt von den Zuschauern der TV-Duelle den meisten Zuspruch? Dieser Frage gehen Forscher der Technischen Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau ...

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Jasmin Rath @jasminrath.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Excited to start my research visit @uva.nl in Amsterdam. Many thanks to @gijsschumacher.bsky.social for hosting me at the Hot Politics Lab! I will be around until the end of February and happy to discuss research or meet for a coffee! ☕️☀️

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Coincidentally I’m en route to Cologne to present new research with @acalacino.bsky.social and @hayleypring.bsky.social that focuses precisely on oil spills in the midst of policy uncertainty during the Brexit negotiations. Thanks @chitbazoo.bsky.social for the invitation!

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

Excited to have @mirya.bsky.social visiting us in Cologne today, talking about how men and women politicians strategically convey emotions in their social media use. In addition to her research, our women working group got a live session of MHAWS career advice! Thanks for coming! Polisky gendersky

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DYNAMICS_PhD @dynamics.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

📢Job Alert: We´re recruiting 10 Doctoral Researchers @dynamics.bsky.social Program studying #DemographicChange, #DemocraticProcesses and #PublicPolicy @hertieschool.bsky.social and Humboldt-University Berlin. Great Job, great city, vibrant research community! Come and join our team in Berlin!

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Jan Schwalbach @janschwalbach.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

🚨New Publication in IPSR Interested in comparative legislative research in the age of large-scale computational text analysis? Have a look at our review article on current research agendas & data sources and their respective gaps: ➡️ doi.org/10.1177/0192...

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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

The Call for Papers for my favourite political science conference #EPSA2024 is now open! EPSA, July 4-6 2024, Cologne epsanet.org/epsa2024-gen...

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Alexia Katsanidou @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

My team at GESIS is looking for a new PhD student to work on a Horizon Europe project on delivering evidence based policy suggestions based on harmonized survey data. We are cool, and this is interesting: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge...

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Jan Schwalbach @janschwalbach.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

🚨New publication @Electoral Studies Interested in party message perception in multiparty systems? Have a look: authors.elsevier.com/a/1hvp2xRaZg... Main finding: Party effects are more nuanced than a pure in/out-group divide and trust in the medium matters for perceived credibility. 🧵 1/7

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Hauke Licht @haukelicht.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Do you want to analyze documents written in different languages, but you don't know what challenges you'll face and what solutions exist? Then @fabiennelind.bsky.social and I got you covered with our guide to multilingual text analysis in Comp Comm. Research. 👇👇 www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

https://www.aup-online.com/content/journals/10.5117/CCR2023.2.2.LICH

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