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Fabian Pawelczyk @fpawel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Our research group under the supervision of Kevin Munger is starting a presentation series at EUI called PING (Politics and the INternet Group). We’re accepting applications for the fall term. Come present and hang out in Florence! I will link the website and call in the comments. Pls share widely

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Sebastian Ziaja @sziaja.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Geo-coded electoral data offers immense potential for understanding democratic processes. @dielea.bsky.social, Stefan Jünger, and I will build a research data infrastructure to support the global research community using such data with our DFG-funded project "Electoral Spaces". We are hiring!

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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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Data Science Lab - Hertie School @hertiedatascience.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Ahead of three closely watched state elections, a research team including Prof. Simon Munzert @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social uses statistical modeling to assess how likely different election outcomes really are. ➡️ www.hertie-school.org/en/news/allc...

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Modelling Germany’s most-watched elections

Several German state elections are approaching, and the one in Saxony-Anhalt is drawing media attention amid fears that the far-right AfD could win an absolute majority. Ahead of the September electio...

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andyguess @andyguess.com · 25/08/2026

Glad to finally be able to post about this long-in-the-works paper, led by the amazing @crobertson500.bsky.social and @small-schulz.bsky.social! "Everyone knows" that social media gives a distorted view of public opinion (...right?). 1/8

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Anselm Hager @anselmhager.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

EuroWEPS 14 is here! We'll meet in Berlin @wzb.bsky.social and discuss designs/papers focusing on causal inference. No presentations, just constructive discussions. Early career scholars especially welcome to apply! Deadline is Sept 11.

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Simon Munzert @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Great position, great people. Apply!

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Simon Munzert @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Teaching note: orthographic projections are underrated, as I argued in class 🌍 Slides: raw.githack.com/data-journal... Tutorial: raw.githack.com/data-journal...

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Data Journalism

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Simon Munzert @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The piece was inspired by a wonderful visual story by Gregor Aisch @driven-by-data.net and Zacharias Zacharakis @zacys.bsky.social in Die Zeit on how the Middle East war reshaped Europe–Asia air traffic (using different data though). www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...

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Lufthansa • Z+ Empfehlung: Wie kommt man jetzt noch nach Bangkok?

Die Flugkorridore von Europa nach Asien sind durch die beiden Kriege in der Ukraine und im Iran extrem verengt. Es gibt jedoch eine Airline, die davon profitiert – noch.

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Simon Munzert @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Here's another piece you should check out: In "The Caucasus Corridor," Luca Vellage maps how Europe's flights to Asia got squeezed into a narrow new path after Russia closed its airspace. lucavellage.github.io/caucasus-cor...

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Regional conflicts have funneled the world's busiest air corridor into a single narrow passage. Nearly all flights between Europe and Asia now thread through the Caucasus - a geographic chokepoint located between war zones.

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Simon Munzert @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Congrats to everyone involved - this is fantastic news!!

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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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Data Science Lab - Hertie School @hertiedatascience.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

This spring, students in the #DataJournalism course traded the seminar room for the newsroom. The Data Dispatch brings reporting from Prof @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social Munzert's Data Journalism course, where students take a story from raw data to publication 👉 www.hertie-school.org/en/news/deta...

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Hertie School students put data journalism into practice

The Data Dispatch brings together reporting from Simon Munzert's Data Journalism course, where students take a story from raw data to publication.

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

Over the next days I'll highlight a few pieces I found especially inspiring. In the meantime, dive in: data-journalism-26.github.io

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The Data Dispatch

Student projects from the Data Journalism course at the Hertie School, Berlin.

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

This class was such a joy to teach. I learned a ton from the students. Already looking forward to running it again next year.

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

For instance, in "The Quiet record", Elena Dreyer follows a European radar satellite passing over Ukraine every 12 days. Over 4 years of war, its signals built a record of Russia's strikes on Ukraine's power grid. A stunning piece of satellite journalism. elenaivadreyer.github.io/final-project/

Screenshot of a map of Ukraine, highlighting Russian air strikes targeting energy infrastructure.

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

This spring I taught Data Journalism at the Hertie School. The Data Dispatch gathers the students' work. Some of you might think: "student work, can't be that great." Well, just check out the pieces.

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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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Werner Krause @krausewe.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social (w/ @christinagahn.bsky.social) Do opinion polls shape election results? Using both cross-national data and a survey experiment, the answer we find is yes - though it depends on how we communicate polling results. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Image showing the abstract of the paper "Self-Fulfilling Prophecies at the Voting Booth" by Werner Krause and Christina Gahn, published in the Journal of Politics. The abstract describes a quasi-experimental study across 25 countries finding that parties polling just below electoral thresholds are approximately 45 percentage points less likely to clear them, and that this effect diminishes when voters are informed about polling uncertainty.

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Hendrik Heuer @hheuer.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

📢 Reminder: Submit to our #MuC2026 workshop, “Human-Centered Content Moderation: Expertise, Context, and Evaluation” (Aug 30, Duisburg, Germany). We welcome position papers and reflection essays. 📅 Deadline: June 24, 2026 👉 workshop26.content-moderation.org

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Fabian Pawelczyk @fpawel.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Last monday we published our paper on AI Labels and a potential spillover effect on unlabeled posts on platforms such as Instagram in the ICWSM proceedings. If you are interested in our work you can now find it here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC... Huge thanks to my co-authors @ddimmery.com and Pu Yan!

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Implied Authenticity Effect? The Impact of Explicit Labels on AI-Generated Content | Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

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Data Science Lab - Hertie School @hertiedatascience.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

We are excited to feature the following keynote speakers at the Visions in Methodology Conference in Berlin: @adelineylo.bsky.social Adeline Lo, @uwmadison.bsky.social @tara-slough.bsky.social Tara Slough, Associate Professor, New York University 👉 vim2026.com #VIM2026

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Konstantin Bogatyrev @bogatyrev.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

New paper w/ @lstoetze.bsky.social "Estimating Treatment Effects on Proportions with Synthetic Controls" out in @polanalysis.bsky.social 👀 When your outcomes are compositional (such as vote shares), applying synthetic controls separately to each part can break the math. We show how to fix it: 🧵

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Simon Munzert @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Opa, wenn er zu Heinos Rock-Platte wippt

ZEIT-Artikel über Ulf Poschardt „Ich sehe mich in der Tradition des Punk“

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Centre for International Security - Hertie School @hertiesecurity.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Proud to share: our postdoctoral researcher Christian Gläßel and @ascharpf.bsky.social's new book, Making a Career in Dictatorship, has been featured in The New York Times. 📰 Read more about their feature here: lnkd.in/d2SNAfFC @hertieschool.bsky.social

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Simon Munzert @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

🗓️ May 19, 3–4pm BST: I'm presenting at the DEMED webinar series on social media as a research tool, organized by @anjaneundorf.bsky.social & @aykutozturk.bsky.social I'll speak about geographic targeting using social media ads and why it matters. Sign up here: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

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University of Glasgow - Research - Research units A-Z - Project DEMED - Data and Methods - Social Media as a Research Tool - Webinar Series

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Simon Munzert @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Wow, feels like one of those papers that becomes an instant classic. That AI output isn't politically neutral is not new, but it's great to see this being demonstrated in detail - with the language-dependent effect, and the laundering mechanism through training data. Congrats to everyone involved!

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

Congrats to Sebastian and Roman on pulling this off! This was one of Sebastian’s PhD papers, and the trend I’m seeing is that 100% of people doing their PhD with me get an NHB paper out of it 🤔

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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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Data Science Lab - Hertie School @hertiedatascience.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

In his recent talk at the Inside Data Journalism series at the Hertie School Data Science Lab, @lennybronner.com Lenny Bronner shared his journey as a data scientist at The @washingtonpost.com, working at the intersection of data science and journalism 👉 www.hertie-school.org/en/datascien...

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Simon Munzert @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Whoa, that sounds like an exciting and relevant project! The games industry is so understudied from a poli-sci/quant lens.

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Data Science Lab - Hertie School @hertiedatascience.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Join us tomorrow for a Brown Bag Talk with @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social Simon Munzert, Professor of Data Science and Public Policy at Hertie School. 📅 5 May 2026 ⏲️ 12–1 PM (CEST) 📍 Maker Space, the Hertie School Register 👉 www.hertie-school.org/en/datascien...

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Simon Munzert @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

📆 One more week to apply! Do reach out if you have any questions about the position.

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Simon Munzert @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

👇That, and the opportunity to be part of a research community featuring rockstar colleagues inlcuding Drew, Asya Magazinnik, Lynn Kaack, Will Lowe, and more great people at @hertieschool.bsky.social!

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Jochen Müller @jocmuel.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

🚨 Job alert! 🚨 Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion/IR (3 yrs) @unigreifswald.bsky.social Work on democratic resilience in times of crisis using cross-national survey data. flexible start (earliest possible) deadline: 31 May 2026 🔗 www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate - Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research (IFZO) 26/E08

Stellenausschreibung des Interdisziplinären Forschungszentrum Ostseeraum (IFZO)

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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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Lisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

New publication 📄 "Little change in a changing landscape: Tracking exposure to untrustworthy news in Germany from 2017 to 2024". So far, my shortest paper - and the first with @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social! Read our brief description of news web browsing @journalqd.bsky.social

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Little change in a changing landscape: Tracking exposure to untrustworthy news in Germany from 2017 to 2024. | Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media

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Christian Traxler @chtraxler.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Delighted to see "Swiftness & delay of punishment" (joint w/ @libordusekeu.bsky.social) published online @theeconjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a... Open access 👉 www.hertie-school.org/fileadmin/5_... Longer thread with summary👇

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Swiftness and delay of punishment

Abstract. We study how the swiftness and delay of punishment affect behaviour in the context of speeding offences. Using rich administrative data from auto

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Gregor Aisch @driven-by-data.net · 04/03/2026

I made an animated map of ship movements in the Straights of Hormuz using data from marinetraffic.com. Ship track frames rendered using #ggplot, base map created using #gdal, video editing using #ffmpeg, video player written in #svelte. 🎁 www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...

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Straße von Hormus: So legt der Krieg die Straße von Hormus lahm

Seit Samstag droht der Iran damit, Schiffe anzugreifen, die die Straße von Hormus passieren. Sehen Sie hier, welche Folgen das für den Verkehr in der Meerenge hat.

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and identify new research partners across academic fields? Apply to one of the 2026 Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (described in yellow in the attached map) here: sicss.io/locations

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Simon Munzert @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Ich durfte in der @taz.de ein bisschen was zu Umfragen erzählen, und was soll ich sagen - Berichte über den Tod von Umfragen sind stark übertrieben...

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Simon Munzert @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Nochmal Glückwunsch, lieber Joff! Auf zu neuen Ufern! Füße aber besser nicht in den Neckar stecken.

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Simon Munzert @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Always a pleasure chatting with students who ask sharp questions 😊 Thanks to The Governance Post for having me - and yes, I stand by the autopilot line.

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Simon Munzert @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

School council election. Also running: the class clown. Annoying to all, impossible to ignore. Kid 1: “I’ll vote for him. He’s in my class.” Kid 2: “Nice poster! He'll get my vote.” Kid 1: “Also, he promised better school lunches.” Political scientist in me: slowly nodding, checking off the 2020s

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a man in a black shirt is making a funny face while sitting at a table .

Alt: Guy at table trying to say something, gives up

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Data Science Lab - Hertie School @hertiedatascience.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Flashback to last year’s Data4Good Hackathon challenges! 🏛 Municipal Innovation (with @bertelsmannst.bsky.social): > Participants tackled the Wegweiser Kommune dataset, using 400+ indicators to map out the future of German municipalities.

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Data Science Lab - Hertie School @hertiedatascience.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

This is the week we’ve been waiting for: The Data4Good Festival 2026! We are excited to host 70+ students from across Europe at the Hertie School for a weekend of data-driven innovation and creativity in the heart of Berlin.

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