iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Lukas Stoetzer @lstoetze.bsky.social · 12h

Ever wondered what attributes are relevant in your conjoint experiment? And what assumptions you need to estimate it? Asya and I got you covered. In a new working paper we propose the APNS: the probability that an attribute's level change is necessary and sufficient for the selection of a profile.

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Marcos Echevarria-Eirea @marcoseche.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Announcing Round 1 of the 𝐌𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐤𝐓𝐨𝐤 (𝐌𝐏𝐏𝐓𝐢𝐤𝐓𝐨𝐤) dataset! It provides manually collected TikTok handles for MPs and parties in 17 Western democracies (elected as of December 2025). Dataset: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/mp... Preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf... 1/3

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 03/09/2026

New preprint w/ Jian Gao, @yianyin.bsky.social & @dashunwang.bsky.social. We link campaign finance, faculty rosters, voter files, a ~7,000-scientist survey & bibliometrics to ask if scientists' politics show up in the science that gets made & used. 🧵 osf.io/preprints/so...

party composition of donors from 1980-2022

voter registration (E) and partisan self identification from a survey (F)

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 27/08/2026

Psychological Science special issue call 📣 Ever had your research denigrated bc it's "only descriptive", "what's the mechanism though?" and "but what are the theoretical implications?" Now has come your time to shine. Send your best descriptive work! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Psychological Science invites submissions that advance psychological science through careful description of psychological phenomena. Psychological research often focuses on explaining and predicting phenomena before we have a sufficiently detailed understanding of them. It can be difficult to build strong theories on incomplete empirical foundations of the phenomena themselves. Careful descriptive research helps establish shared empirical reference points developed around well-characterized phenomena. As such, descriptive research contributes to psychological science both by improving our understanding of the phenomena themselves and by providing a stronger foundation for future theory-building, explanation, and prediction.

We are interested in manuscripts that:

Deepen our understanding of psychological phenomena, including what they look like, how they vary, and how they unfold;
Draw on a variety of sources of evidence and methods, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches; research conducted in naturalistic settings; intensive, longitudinal, or small-sample designs; and open or large-scale datasets;
Provide necessary context for interpreting what is being described, including who is represented in the data, the settings and circumstances in which phenomena occur, and the broader social contexts in which they are situated; and/or
Make a substantive contribution to psychological science through the quality, depth, or significance of the description provided.
The deadline for submitting regular manuscripts is April 15, 2027. Registered Reports will also be considered. The deadline for submitting Stage 1 Registered Reports is November 15, 2026. Authors should indicate in the “Comments to Editor” box during submission that the manuscript is intended for the “Descriptive Research in Psychological Science” special issue.

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Chris Arnold @chrisguarnold.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

VideoParl is live: videoparl.github.io — our #DFG project with @ankuepfer.bsky.social and @pluggedchris.bsky.social on #multimodal analysis of parliamentary debate. 30,000+ hours of video, all 16 Länder plus the Bundestag, 2005–2023. Pitch, face, gesture and text at the speech level.

videoparl.github.io

VideoParl — Analysis of Parliamentary Debates Using Multimodal Data

VideoParl is a DFG-funded research project analyzing text, audio and video from German parliamentary debates.

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 gets studies from everywhere. But how can she sniff out what's reliable evidence? When in doubt she trusts what comes from her own backyard, Wilma thinks 👃 Turns out many governments run on the opposite instinct when citing research. 1/🧵

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Does losing an election affect politicians' democratic attitudes? A large literature documents a winner–loser gap among voters, but evidence on political elites was long scarce. A series of recent studies has narrowed this gap. A thread on the state of the evidence. 🧵

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Tobias Widmann @twidmann.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Only 3 more weeks left to apply! Please share widely 🙏

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Where do governments turn for policy knowledge? In 185 countries, evidence cited in policy documents is dominated by a few Global North countries, with the 🇺🇸 at the centre. Our paper (w/ @seramirezruiz.bsky.social ) is now out in the July issue of @nathumbehav.nature.com. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Four-panel figure: world maps showing that the US and UK dominate both government-to-government citations (H-index) and cited academic authorship; a table of the top 20 countries, led by the USA (H-index 44; 43% of cited papers); and distribution plots showing that across all world regions, most foreign citations go to sources from developed economies.

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Lisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Very happy to see this out! Our new paper, "Boosting Media Literacy Using Lateral Reading and Online Search Interventions," is now published in Psychological Science.

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Simon Munzert @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Stop! 🛑 Scroll no further - this is the coolest thing you'll see today. Presenting The Data Dispatch: data journalism made by my students at the Hertie School 👇 data-journalism-26.github.io

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Korinna Lindemann @korinlind.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

📢 Job Ad: I am looking for one doctoral researcher (75%) in my newly funded DFG project on misperceptions and factual information on immigration from 1.10. or soon after! 📌 Location: MZES, University of Mannheim 💢 Application Deadline: 21st of July

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American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

From our FirstView: Heterogeneous Treatment Effects and Causal Mechanisms by JIAWEI FU and @tara-slough.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

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Data Science Lab - Hertie School @hertiedatascience.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

#JobAlert: Lead Teaching Assistant - Natural Language Processing (#NLP) Passionate about Python, machine learning, and teaching? We're looking for a Lead Teaching Assistant to support our NLP course. More details👉 hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs...

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Joris Frese @fresejoris.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This is a great study and (one of?) the first of its kind! A note of caution from a human contributor though: given the slow academic publishing process, the findings should primarily be interpreted as a snapshot of AI capabilities (and the capabilities of researchers using AI) in 2024. (1/4)

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Yusaku Horiuchi @yusakuhoriuchi.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Bluesky I made a public guide for preparing social science replication packages 📦 yhoriuchi.github.io/replication-... Please repost if this might help researchers preparing replication materials.

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Hannah Waight @hwaight.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I’m excited to share a new paper in Nature that shows how large language models launder the strategic rhetoric of authoritarian states. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... A thread.

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State media control influences large language models - Nature

Government-controlled media influences the output of large language models via their training data, and models queried in the languages of countries with lower media freedom show a stronger ...

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Data Science Lab - Hertie School @hertiedatascience.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

A new study published in @nature.com Nature Human Behaviour, by @seramirezruiz.bsky.social, @hertieschool.bsky.social & @rsenninger.bsky.social, @au.dk reveals how power shapes not just politics but the very knowledge that informs it. Read 👉 www.hertie-school.org/en/news/allc...

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Eva Vivalt @evavivalt.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Pretty cool project!

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Simon Munzert @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

One of the most impressive examples of research happening at @hertiedatascience.bsky.social. Evidence production is a massive soft power and some governments are currently shooting themselves in the foot by attacking the very institutions that nurture it.

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Charlotte Payne @libertyruth.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I'm so happy to see this paper published with us @nathumbehav.nature.com ! Check out the thread below (and the paper itself) for new insights into the global relationship between science and policy

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Sebastian Ramirez-Ruiz @seramirezruiz.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

You can also check out @rsenninger.bsky.social thread on the paper! bsky.app/profile/rsen...

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Sebastian Ramirez-Ruiz @seramirezruiz.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

A special thanks to @libertyruth.bsky.social and the whole editorial team at @nathumbehav.nature.com. This has been by far one of my best and most constructive publishing experiences 🙏

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Sebastian Ramirez-Ruiz @seramirezruiz.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

This project would not have been possible without many people. A huge thank you to everyone who contributed along the way. 🙏 Thanks to @rsenninger.bsky.social, the folk at @hertiedatascience.bsky.social, and @carlsbergfondet.dk

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Sebastian Ramirez-Ruiz @seramirezruiz.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

This also speaks to (and was inspired by) exciting work happening on the other side of the Atlantic by great scholars like @alexanderfurnas.com, @timlapira.bsky.social, @dashunwang.bsky.social, @leahrosenstiel.bsky.social, @evavivalt.bsky.social, and @charlesgomez.bsky.social (to name but a few) 🤝

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Sebastian Ramirez-Ruiz @seramirezruiz.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

To study this, I look for clues in places people don't usually check... the traces governments, elites, and institutions leave behind in what they publish, store, and share online. Doing quite some work on this end, since arriving at @eui-sps.bsky.social

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Sebastian Ramirez-Ruiz @seramirezruiz.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

This paper is part of the broader question I keep coming back to (and guides much of my research): does the stuff we do and the knowledge we produce actually reach the people making big decisions? And when it does, how does it shape what they do?

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Sebastian Ramirez-Ruiz @seramirezruiz.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

These findings go beyond bibliometric curiosities. They signal what counts as legitimate knowledge, whose voices get a platform, and how "credible evidence" is shaped by who can produce, preserve, and digitally share it. These knowledge systems are fragile (and politically contingent) ⚠️

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Sebastian Ramirez-Ruiz @seramirezruiz.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The patterns... not surprising 🌍 Global South governments rely heavily on foreign evidence; high-income countries draw more on domestic sources. 🇺🇸, 🇬🇧, and 🇪🇺 dominate both policy and academic knowledge cited worldwide. 📚 Domains vary in evidence use, but their geographic concentration does not.

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Sebastian Ramirez-Ruiz @seramirezruiz.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

We built a database of 1.2M policy documents from 185 countries, linking them to 3.5M scholarly citations and 740K policy source citations. We try to map and describe the documented, accessible, and digitally visible layer of evidence that circulates in the global policy arena.

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Sebastian Ramirez-Ruiz @seramirezruiz.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Our paper is out in Nature Human Behaviour! @rsenninger.bsky.social and I asked a simple, underexplored, question: when governments write policy documents, whose knowledge do they actually cite? 👉 rdcu.be/fhngy 🔓 seramirezruiz.github.io/papers/ramir... DOI: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇

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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

We're hiring a Post-Doc (3 years) at the @hertieschool.bsky.social for a @scripts-berlin.eu project on authoritarian influence in the video games industry (I am soooo excited about this project)! More details here (deadline 31 May): hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs...

hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com

Postdoctoral Researcher - Narrative, Power, and Control (gn) full-time (40 hours/week)

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Drew Dimmery @ddimmery.com · 29/04/2026

The Hertie School Data Science Lab is hiring a postdoc. This is an appealing position with fairly low teaching/admin responsibilities and a lot of freedom to develop your research agenda. Feel free to reach out if you want to know more! hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs...

hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com

Postdoctoral Researcher – Data Science for Public Policy (gn) full-time (40 hours/week)

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 22/04/2026

I've got a paper "Bipartisan-cited science is rare, unevenly distributed, and disproportionately influential" published today at @pnas.org with @dashunwang.bsky.social. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Bipartisan-cited science is rare, unevenly distributed, and disproportionately influential
Alexander C. Furnas https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8006-7798 and Dashun Wang

Abstract
This study offers a systematic analysis of scientific papers cited in both Republican and Democratic policy documents. Using data from Overton and Dimensions, we examine congressional reports, hearings, and think tank publications. We find that bipartisan citations, while rare, highlight papers of exceptional scientific influence. Policy documents citing these papers also receive more citations, amplifying their policy impact. Yet, bipartisan-cited science is unevenly distributed—concentrated in monetary policy and healthcare, but notably absent in climate, inequality, and race and gender. These results show that bipartisan engagement, though limited, marks a uniquely influential core of science in both research and policy.

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Simon Munzert @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

🚨CfA🚨 We're looking for a postdoc joining us in summer in Berlin. 3-year position @hertieschool.bsky.social @hertiedatascience.bsky.social. Pursue your own research agenda in data science for public policy - ML/AI, causal inference, computational methods. Questions? Don't hesitate to reach out!

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

🚨 New WP 📄 (w/ @muzhou-zhang.bsky.social and @winniexia.bsky.social ) We ask which countries people in 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇩🇪🇩🇰🇮🇹🇷🇴 think their governments should learn from and show: 1) Citizens have clear favorites (Nordics top) 2) Performance info shifts what they prefer and how they explain it Comments welcome!

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Verena Kunz @verenakunz.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

We're looking for a new postdoc to join our team! Do you enjoy conceptualizing, improving, and rethinking empirical methods training for social scientists? Then this job might be for you 😊 Feel free to share among your network and to reach out if you have any questions!

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Lisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I'm hiring a postdoc! @goetheuni.bsky.social Focus: CSS, political behavior, political communication & transforming information environments. 📍 Frankfurt | ⏳ 3 years | 📅 Deadline: 14 April 2026 Full job ad here: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen... (search for “political behavior” to find it)

uni-frankfurt.de

Goethe-Universität — Zentrale Einrichtungen

Die Goethe-Universität ist eine forschungsstarke Hochschule in der europäischen Finanzmetropole Frankfurt. Lebendig, urban und weltoffen besitzt sie als Stiftungsuniversität ein einzigartiges Maß an E...

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Bastian Becker @beckerbastian.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Also finding it hard to keep up with new research? I built something to fix this. SciLove — swipe through recent papers in your field. The feed learns from your saves. Also matches you with researchers saving your work back (opt-out if you prefer). www.scilove.app 3,000+ journals, updated daily

scilove.app

SciLove — Discover new research on the go

A personalized feed of the latest peer-reviewed papers — swipe to save, skip, and make connections in minutes a day.

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Moritz Marbach @moritz-marbach.com · 27/02/2026

🧺 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. 🧵👇

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Join us in Aarhus this April! 👇

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Lisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Big news: I started a new position as Professor for Computational Social Science (W1 tenure track) at the Center for Critical Computational Studies (C3S) at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main! www.c3s-frankfurt.de/who-we-are#m...

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Who we are - Center for critical computational studies

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Lukas Warode @lwarode.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

partycoloR is now on CRAN! Started as a simple idea 6 years ago, now it's a full-featured package. Extract party colors and logos from Wikipedia with one line of code. It's already powering ParlGov Dashboard. install.packages("partycoloR")

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Jesper Asring Hansen @jesperasring.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I'm hiring two three-year postdocs and an RA for my project on how police presence affects perceived safety. I'm looking for candidates who can contribute to the theoretical development and who have strong expertise in causal inference. Deadline: March 1. www.stillinger.aau.dk/videnskabeli...

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Two three-year postdocs in quasi- or survey-experimental social science.

The Department of Society and Politics at Aalborg University (Faculty of Social Sciences) is recruiting two full-time postdoctoral researchers to work on the...

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

We’re organizing a workshop at Aarhus University. Please share and consider submitting! 🗓️ 13–14 April 2026 | 📝 Deadline: Mon, 16 Feb 2026 (extended abstract) — junior scholars prioritized 🎤 Keynotes: @stefwalter.bsky.social (Univ. of Zurich) & @hhuang.bsky.social (Ohio State)

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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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Joris Frese @fresejoris.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

🇪🇺🇩🇪 Published Today in @bjpols.bsky.social 🇮🇹🇫🇷 How a voting advice application affected voting behavior in three large-scale field experiments: shorturl.at/2ekBj TLDR of our study (with @simonhix.bsky.social & @rlachat.bsky.social) below 👇 1/14

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Lisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

It's out!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Big thank you to my coauthors @small-schulz.bsky.social and @lorenzspreen.bsky.social, and to all participants who discussed 20 political issues over 4 weeks in 6 subreddit, 3 experimental conditions and let us observe.

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