Welcome to Hamburg, @ttichelbaecker.bsky.social !

Thomas Tichelbaecker@ttichelbaecker.bsky.social · 4w ago

Happy to share that I've (re)joined @aleininger.bsky.social at @uni-hamburg.de as a postdoc! I'll continue my research on party organizations, building on my dissertation @princeton.edu. My first dissertation spin-off examines how far-right parties tap into rural communities. 1/5

We are looking for a colleague to fill a part-time (50%) teaching position in IR. Ability to teach in German is required, though courses may also be offered in English. Deadline: 3 July Ad (in German): tinyurl.com/ysnjcwwn Please share - and PM in case of questions @politikuhh.bsky.social

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❌ Hamburg sagt „Nein“ zu Olympia: Aber warum? Eine Befragung des Teams um Prof. @aleininger.bsky.social zeigt: Befürchtet wurden negative Auswirkungen auf die Lebensqualität sowie Umwelt- und Sicherheitsrisiken. Besonders entscheidend für die vielen Gegenstimmen war aber die Kostenfrage. Mehr Infos:

Wirtschaftliche Gründe sind entscheidend für Abstimmungsverhalten

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🚨🚨 Job: Please share 🙌 - what? PhD position in my DFG-funded project on how citizens understand their role in democracy. - when? Application deadline Jul 1, job start Sept 1 or soon thereafter - how? www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

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Die Hamburger Bevölkerung hat in einer Volksabstimmung mehrheitlich gegen eine #Olympia-Bewerbung gestimmt. Wie kam dieses Votum zustande? Unsere Kurzstudie (mit Nelly Buntfuß) beruht auf einer zweiwelligen Panelbefragung – Ende Februar/Anfang März und kurz vor der Abstimmung im Mai. 1/6

🚨 8 days left to apply! @svenhegewald.bsky.social and I a are happy to answer questions of prospective applicants.

Arndt Leininger@aleininger.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢 We're hiring for my project RESPOL on residential mobility & electoral realignment 📍 University of Hamburg 📅 4y, 75% FTE 🔍 pol behavior, comp politics, regional inequalities 📊 quant, administrative & survey data Please share with talented MA students! 🔗 www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

📢 We're hiring for my project RESPOL on residential mobility & electoral realignment 📍 University of Hamburg 📅 4y, 75% FTE 🔍 pol behavior, comp politics, regional inequalities 📊 quant, administrative & survey data Please share with talented MA students! 🔗 www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

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Willkommen an Bord! ⚓ Arndt Leininger (@aleininger.bsky.social) hat eine Professur für Politikwissenschaft (@politikuhh.bsky.social) an der UHH angetreten. Er versucht zu verstehen: Warum wählen Menschen so, wie sie wählen? Und warum entscheiden sich manche Menschen für rechtspopulistische Parteien?

„Methoden sind Werkzeuge, mit denen man relevante Fragen beantworten kann“

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Colleagues, @svenhegewald.bsky.social and I are looking for a student assistant (30-40h/month, remote work possible) in my ERC project RESPOL @politikuhh.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de. Please let your most talented students know. 😀🙏

Together with Arndt, I will also be moving to @uni-hamburg.de and I'm just as stoked! At the same time, I'm saying goodbye and thank you to TU Chemnitz, to all the colleagues who helped me get through the past three years (from feedback on my research to many travel expense forms) and to this city:

Arndt Leininger@aleininger.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Somehow I always take up new positions on April Fool's Day but this is no joke: as of today I am professor of political science, especially methods @uni-hamburg.de. Obviously I'm stoked to have landed a permanent position and look forward to working w/ great new colleagues @politikuhh.bsky.social

Somehow I always take up new positions on April Fool's Day but this is no joke: as of today I am professor of political science, especially methods @uni-hamburg.de. Obviously I'm stoked to have landed a permanent position and look forward to working w/ great new colleagues @politikuhh.bsky.social

Spread the word. Once we have enough testers together, google will generously allow making SciLove openly available through the App store.

Bastian Becker@beckerbastian.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I'm working to hard make SciLove available as a self-standing app. 📣 If you are an Android user, you can help out by becoming a tester. What's in it for you? Early access to a fully functional beta version. Simply join the group of test users and install the app: groups.google.com/g/scilove_be...

This also makes it a much better metaphor for media markets, where social fragmentation and privatized market consolidation go hand in hand.

M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray.bsky.social · 4mo ago

An underrated addendum to the Bowling Alone story is that North America's largest bowling operator (Bowlero) is a publicly traded company whose business model involves buying mom and pop alleys, shutting down the leagues, and trying to attract casual, higher paying, one-off players.

Warum sehen die Trikots der Nationalmannschaft aus als sei sie die Betriebssportgruppe des Konrad-Adenauer-Hauses?

Ich kann mich nicht erinnern wann zuletzt ein einziger Wal so viel Aufmerksamkeit auf sich gezogen hat. Fühle mit allen Walforscher:innen, die jetzt diesen Einzelfall erklären müssen.

We (@felixgruenewald.bsky.social and our RA Lina Zündorf) have once again updated our encyclopedia of polarization with some great new examples of polarization research and documentation of further measures. You can find the new entries on polarization.wiki and some examples listed below:

Berlin Halbmarathon, Ende Merz 2026

Landtagswahlen sind ein guter Moment um über (fehlende) Gleichstellung in Deutschland zu sprechen. In Deutschland gab es überhaupt nur 8 Ministerpräsidentinnen. 9 Bundesländer hatten noch nie eine Ministerpräsidentin. Maximal 4 gleichzeitig. Seit 1990 ca. 59 aus 576 BL-Jahren mit einer Frau.

Wenn heute in #RLP ein neuer Landtag gewählt wird, dürfen dort 16-und 17-Jährige nicht mit wählen, manche von Ihnen durften aber schon bei der Europawahl wählen. archive.ph/Tms58

Mit @br24.de sprach ich über das Für und Wider des Kumulieren und Panaschierens, wie es bei Kommunalwahlen in Bayern aber auch andernorts Anwendung findet. Auch im Beitrag, @danschindler.bsky.social vom @iparl.bsky.social. www.br.de/nachrichten/...

Bayerns Kommunalwahlrecht: Flexibilität trifft Fehlerteufel

Bei den Stadtrats- und Gemeinderatswahlen konnten die Bayern bis zu 80 Kreuze setzen. Wer die Möglichkeiten voll ausschöpfte, konnte leicht den Überblick verlieren. Was denkt Ihr: Ist das Wahlsystem s...

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We (@aleininger.bsky.social & our RA Lina Zündorf) have once again updated our encyclopedia of polarization with some great new examples of polarization research. You can find the new entries on polarization.wiki or listed below:

Welcome @svenhegewald.bsky.social Happy to welcome another smart head (that's what Nischel means) to the city. 😊

Sven Hegewald@svenhegewald.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Super happy to share that I started a PostDoc with @aleininger.bsky.social last month! 🎉 Joining the ERC project RESPOL, we’ll be investigating the political consequences of mobility over the next five years. So excited! And of course, a picture of the "Nischel" is mandatory when in Chemnitz.

Congrats, Dr. @ttichelbaecker.bsky.social !

Thomas Tichelbaecker@ttichelbaecker.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I’m thrilled to share that I defended my dissertation on Monday! It examines how local elites help new parties attract voters and build local branches, using a unique dataset of ~450,000 local candidates in Germany. It took not one but three villages to write this. A 🧵 1/6

This 👇 is not only a new, but also my first publication! 🎉 @asheinze.bsky.social and I investigate why #youngpeople support the AfD in eastern Germany. Read it here (#openaccess): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Growing Up Far Right? Youth Support for the AfD in Eastern Germany

The far right is gaining increasing traction among young voters – an age group that constitutes the future electorate. Yet, the underlying drivers of this trend remain insufficiently explored. This...

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Anna-Sophie Heinze@asheinze.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🎉 New publication 🎉 Why do #youngpeople vote for the #AfD? This question has kept our research project busy for quite some time, so I'm beyond excited that our first article - co-authored with @timonscheuer.bsky.social - is now out in #GermanPolitics! 🤩 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Looking forward to reading labor economists' papers in a few years on whether being cut off from ChatGPT increased or decreased productivity on 18 November 2025. #CloudflareOutage

Arndt Leininger@aleininger.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Talk about critical infrastructure and overreliance on a single service provider. I can't access a host of websites, nor download academic articles, etc., because #Cloudflare has technical issues.

Talk about critical infrastructure and overreliance on a single service provider. I can't access a host of websites, nor download academic articles, etc., because #Cloudflare has technical issues.

As I've heard the idea this week several times @epssnet.bsky.social #epss2026: There is no limit of being co-author only on two papers. No need to start strategically deleting names... epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

Zu diesen Debatten gehören auch immer jene, die sie weitertreiben, anspitzen und bewirtschaften. Vermutlich muss man neben der Politik auch mediale Akteure in Haftung nehmen, die an diesem Diskursgeklingel mehr Interesse haben als an sachbezogener Politik.

Robert Pausch@bertpsch.bsky.social · 9mo ago

War selten so froh über eine Zeile. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

Die, die am häufigsten im Stadtbild unterwegs sind, stimmen am wenigsten zu. 🤷 www.zdfheute.de/politik/deut...

CorrelAid such Verstärkung fürs @civic-data-lab.bsky.social: Referent:in (80%) ab 1.1. ⏰ 31.10.2025 correlaid.org/jobs/referen...