Carlo Knotz
@carloknotz.bsky.social
More info on what I do: https://cknotz.github.io
🚀From theory to practice in political science! Our UiS political science students just ran an experiment to test whether party cues shape young people’s political opinions in Norway. 🔍Their question: Do voters support reforms more when the proposal comes from a party they like? ✅Result: They do!
*Hiring!* My department is hiring a PhD student for a project on health care digitalization and its social and political impacts. For more information and to apply, please see: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
PhD Fellowship in Digital Health Services and Service Innovation (297114) | University of Stavanger
Job title: PhD Fellowship in Digital Health Services and Service Innovation (297114), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Thursday, April 30, 2026
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Giuliano Bonoli, Mia Gandenberger & @carloknotz.bsky.social: Who deserves the spot? Attitudes towards priorities in access to subsidised childcare 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New paper out! We (Florencia Antia, Cecilia Rossel, Herwig Immervoll, and I) compare how cash benefit programs in the OECD and Latin America use conditionality, from job‑search rules in unemployment benefits to the requirements built into Latin American CCTs. doi.org/10.1177/1468...
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* New Publication*: Across Western democracies, higher education is under pressure, from budget cuts to restrictions on immigrant students. Our new study dives into a critical but overlooked question: When do people think immigrant students deserve financial aid?
Who deserves student finance? Results from a survey experiment in six advanced capitalist economies
Higher-education policy is increasingly politicised across advanced western democracies, one important point of contention being the treatment of immigrant students, who are often portrayed as a ‘b...
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Job! Two assistant/associate professors in educational sociology with a quantitative methods focus based either in Copenhagen or Aarhus dpu.au.dk/om-dpu/ledig...
oops the Anxious Gen Z Workplace Trend Tone button on my keyboard got stuck and now I need to go take a microvacation www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
A Day in the Life of the Gen Z Worker
Are you sure these are new workplace trends? Are you sure you aren’t just describing a routine phenomenon in an alarmed way?
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**New working paper** AI is reshaping how we work. This makes some people more productive - but exposes others to job and income loss. I explore how this affects people's political attitudes and preferences using data from the @ess-survey.bsky.social and indicators of AI exposure & complementarity.
“In all my discussions with scientists across every sector, exactly zero think the journal system works well.” Some will disagree with aspects of Seemay’s analysis but this point is undoubtedly true open.substack.com/pub/asterain...?
Scientific Publishing: Enough is Enough
Why we're no longer funding journal publications
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Does the movie end when she abseils off the end of her rope and dies? I guess no one taught her that stopper knots save lives... 😅 #abseiling #rappelling #rockclimbing #jurassicworld
Cuts to #Dutch education and research, limitation for international students, universities butchering departments but also “hey, here some money to attract top researchers from US, universities should also add some” because “we don’t care about your passport”. #FacePalm #AcademicSky
Remco Breuker 🟥@remcobreuker.bsky.social · last yr.Hier wetenschappers ontslaan en dan vervangen door Amerikanen: academische omvolking (en Hollandse spruitjeskneuterigheid want dit gaat van geld voor inflatiecorrectie af) Onderwijsminister trekt 25 miljoen euro uit om wetenschappers naar Nederland te halen www.nu.nl/algemeen/635...
🚨 Call for papers! 🚨 Excited to co-chair the ESPAnet Milan 2025 stream “New Social Risks 2.0? Social vulnerability in the age of AI, populism, and the cost-of-living crisis” 🌍🤖📉. 📅 Deadline: April 14 @carloknotz.bsky.social
ESPANET 2025
University of Milan, 27th-29th August 2025
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My department is *hiring a PhD* student (3 years, fully funded) for a research project on the social and political effects of AI-related technological change. *Deadline: May 4, '25*. See here for more information & to apply: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... #PoliSky #Sociology #AcademicSky
PhD Fellowship in Politics & Social Sciences (266956) | University of Stavanger
Job title: PhD Fellowship in Politics & Social Sciences (266956), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Sunday, May 4, 2025
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IN NEW ISSUE: What drives opposition to social rights for immigrants? @carloknotz.bsky.social, Alyssa Taylor, Mia Gandenberger & @julianachueri.bsky.social examine the role of psychological predispositions. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/xMCkbbY @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social
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IMO, #academics treat out value and role in society as self-evident. Clearly, it ain't. Let's get better about discussing the value of education, enlightenment, discovery, etc #AcademicSky
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · last yr.“American universities did not cause the onslaught that the second Trump administration is unleashing upon them,” Nicholas B. Dirks writes. But they'd “be in a much stronger position today if they had made a proactive case to the public for their own importance.”
📢 CfA: Doing research on social vulnerability and risks? Submit to our stream on New Social Risks in the age of AI, populism, and the cost-of-living crisis at this year’s ESPAnet conference in Milan! Details: www.espanetmilano2025.it/en-US/stream...
ESPANET 2025
University of Milan, 27th-29th August 2025
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Ukraine is not alone. Germany together with our European allies stands united alongside #Ukraine - and against the Russian aggression. Ukraine can build on unwavering support from Germany, Europe and beyond. Their defence of democracy & their quest for peace & security is ours.
IN NEW ISSUE: What drives opposition to social rights for immigrants? @carloknotz.bsky.social, A Taylor, M Gandenberger & @julianachueri.bsky.social examine the role of psychological predispositions. Read OPEN ACCESS: https://buff.ly/40QAbqv @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social
The falsehood came from the right. How (radical/ extreme) right shares mis/ disinformation more online. Good to see @uva.nl colleagues @pettertornberg.bsky.social and @julianachueri.bsky.social’s research featured in @theguardian.com #polisky www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study
Amplifying misinformation is now part of radical right strategy, says Dutch study of tweets by MPs in 26 countries
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dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · 2y agoWIRED is tracking numerous reports of Musk-related shenanigans across the federal govt. We're looking for fed employees open to discussing the activity they're seeing or to help confirm other reports. Anonymity offered. Please use @signal.org (contact dell.3030). Do not use work networks/devices.
Quite many higher-educated workers now feel at risk of losing their jobs to technology. My new article on how this affects their party preference, based on OECD Risks that Matter data, is now out in the European Political Science Review (doi.org/10.1017/S175...). @valeriefrey.bsky.social #PoliSky
Technological vulnerability among the higher-educated: implications for party preferences | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Technological vulnerability among the higher-educated: implications for party preferences
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#polisky Increasingly thinking that this is exactly the type of “hard financial” argument we in political science need to make more forcefully in light of all the funding cuts (real or looming): www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Impoverished authors are told they should do it for the love. Try saying that to a dentist | Gareth Rubin
The average income for a writer is now £7,000. For our sake and the country’s, we need financial assistance
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Did you see this experiment my colleague Kristina conducted not just at my university but *in my department*? She and the male instructor assumed eachothers’ names for an online course: and the difference in feedback they received was horrifying.
Student Evaluations Can’t Be Used to Assess Professors. They’re Discriminatory.
And that means they’re illegal.
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Access to childcare is a problem in many places. In a new article in JEPP, Giuliano Bonoli, Mia Gandenberger, and I study how the public would allocate limited childcare slots (tl;dr: poorer families are higher up in the list, immigrants are further down): doi.org/10.1080/1350... #polisky
Who deserves the spot? Attitudes towards priorities in access to subsidised childcare
Research on perceptions of deservingness has so far mainly focused on cash benefits. We correct this imbalance by studying public attitudes towards access to social investment services, specificall...
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