If journal editorial is of interest to you - replace me at @jeppjournal.bsky.social as Associate Editor. I've loved working with JEPP. The team, papers, and reviewers have been awesome. Happy to answer questions if you have any. editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

Associate Editor needed for Journal of European Public Policy

Associate Editor needed for Journal of European Public Policy

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Thrilled 2 share this co-authored article in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications w/ @jenny-oser.bsky.social & @ashoshan.bsky.social where we trace the evolution of scholarship at the intersection of social media and social movements in the age of datafication www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Social movements and social media: the evolution of scholarship in the age of datafication - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Social movements and social media: the evolution of scholarship in the age of datafication

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Why do arguments often change people’s beliefs without changing their attitudes? In a new APSR with @scottclifford.bsky.social and @patrickpliu.bsky.social, we point to belief relevance: arguments are more persuasive when they grapple with the idiosyncratic reasons people hold their political views.

↗️ #PoliticalTrust can shape the trajectory of democracy, writes @mkolczynska.bsky.social. 📊 Its effects, however, are conditional and uneven – and increases in trust may sometimes even be conducive to democratic decline, rather than renewal. 👉️ bit.ly/4tweCbd

Does political trust strengthen democracy?

Political trust can shape the trajectory of democracy writes Marta Kołczyńska, but its effects are conditional, uneven, and increases in trust may sometimes even be conducive to democratic decline rat...

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We're hiring 2 postdocs at @uio.no on my ERC-Cog project on how authoritarian regimes shape scientific knowledge. 3–4 years, U. of Oslo. Deadline: 10 Sept 2026. Great dept., terms, well funded, bustling & green Scandi capital. Apply! 👉 jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/303060/postdoctoral-fello

Postdoctoral Fellow  (303060) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow  (303060), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Thursday, September 10, 2026

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⬇️Thanks for the feedback opportunity - and for the shout-out! The paper co-authored with the fabulous Julia Schulte-Cloos @jschultecloos.bsky.social & Hahrie Han, and Julia will be joining the talk ✨

PSA Political Psychology Specialist Group@psapolpsychology.bsky.social · 3mo ago

TOMORROW at 13:00 we are hosting a fascinating talk by @jenny-oser.bsky.social on how to motivate citizens to participate in non-electoral politics. Register to attend: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/a3c4d4...

For my Horizon Project EDGE I am looking for a senior researcher from October 1st. This is a 3-year position on inequalities and democracy support. All information on the job and application process is here: gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2639403?...

Post Doctoral Researcher (SDC-28) | Jobs at GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

GESIS is one of the world's leading social science infrastructure facilities, supporting researchers at all levels of their research projects with expertise and infrastructure services. We help ensure...

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📢 Webinar invitation: May 20 on "AI & Politics" with Semra Sevi (University of Toronto) @semrasevi.bsky.social and Don Green (Columbia University)! Start time: 9:30 ET, 14:30 London, 15:30 CET, 16:30 Israel. For zoom link & additional info: www.prd-erc.eu/events

#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - How does affective polarization feel? A comparative description - https://cup.org/3QwjcZj - @katharinalawall.bsky.social, @versteegenluca.bsky.social & @mtsakiris.bsky.social #FirstView

8/8 🎉 Super proud of this computational social science work out of our lab at @bengurionuniv.bsky.social ! Huge thanks to my co-authors Itay Razumenko and Arnon Sturm. Read the full paper at arxiv.org/abs/2604.18041 If you're attending ACL, come say hi 👋 #NLProc #ACL2026 #LegalTech

JudgeMeNot: Personalizing Large Language Models to Emulate Judicial Reasoning in Hebrew

Despite significant advances in large language models, personalizing them for individual decision-makers remains an open problem. Here, we introduce a synthetic-organic supervision pipeline that trans...

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🚨 Excited to share our new paper to appear in the Findings of ACL 2026! "JudgeMeNot" asks: Can LLMs learn the specific reasoning signature of an individual judge? We tackle this in the low-resource setting of Hebrew case law. 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2604.18041 🧵👇

🚨 Western democracies are often described as polarized. @katharinalawall.bsky.social, @mtsakiris.bsky.social + I study how polarization actually feels. Now published in @ejprjournal.bsky.social, we asked citizens in 5 European countries to report their emotions ⬇️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Excited to share that our paper on emigration and protest, co-authored with @fcastrog.bsky.social, has been accepted at JOP.

Francisca Castro@fcastrog.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Really happy that our paper with @profejacevedo.bsky.social , "The Mobilizing Potential of Mass Emigration: Experimental Evidence from Honduras" received its final acceptance at the Journal of Politics 🎉 . You can check the accepted version here francisca-castro.com/research/art...

Really happy that our paper with @profejacevedo.bsky.social , "The Mobilizing Potential of Mass Emigration: Experimental Evidence from Honduras" received its final acceptance at the Journal of Politics 🎉 . You can check the accepted version here francisca-castro.com/research/art...

🚨 EPSS 2026 Conference updates 🚨 The programme is now live. You can access the programme here: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/75765/... 🧵

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. 😀🙏

👇 Based on @polbehavior.bsky.social research.

The Loop@ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🪧 Politically active people are better represented than inactive citizens, write @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social, @jenny-oser.bsky.social, @rdassonneville.bsky.social, @professormpersson.bsky.social & A Sundell. 📊 But do they affect policy outcomes any better than inactive people? 👉️ bit.ly/41lkPep

New blog post in @ecprtheloop.bsky.social summarizing our @polbehavior.bsky.social paper in which we ask whether the politically active are better represented? 🔗 to the full paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Are the Politically Active Better Represented? - Political Behavior

Political participation is considered an important path for people to influence politics. However, whether those who participate actually see more of their preferred policies implemented remains an op...

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The Loop@ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🪧 Politically active people are better represented than inactive citizens, write @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social, @jenny-oser.bsky.social, @rdassonneville.bsky.social, @professormpersson.bsky.social & A Sundell. 📊 But do they affect policy outcomes any better than inactive people? 👉️ bit.ly/41lkPep

We wrote a blog post about our recent paper in @polbehavior.bsky.social, where we discuss whether political participation is associated with better policy representation #polisky

The Loop@ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🪧 Politically active people are better represented than inactive citizens, write @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social, @jenny-oser.bsky.social, @rdassonneville.bsky.social, @professormpersson.bsky.social & A Sundell. 📊 But do they affect policy outcomes any better than inactive people? 👉️ bit.ly/41lkPep

🪧 Politically active people are better represented than inactive citizens, write @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social, @jenny-oser.bsky.social, @rdassonneville.bsky.social, @professormpersson.bsky.social & A Sundell. 📊 But do they affect policy outcomes any better than inactive people? 👉️ bit.ly/41lkPep

Politically active people are better represented than inactive ones

Politically active people — including protesters and those engaging outside elections — are better represented than inactive citizens, write Jesper Lindqvist, Jennifer Oser, Ruth Dassonneville, Mikael...

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And if you are interested in belief in conspiracy theories in Israel, check this paper out: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Conspiracy thinking and belief in partisan conspiracy theories: A moderating effect of partisan congruence?

Various studies have shown that people's predisposition to believe in conspiracy theories, commonly referred to as “conspiracy thinking,” strongly predicts belief in a myriad of conspiracy theories. ...

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Interested in recent public opinion in Israel? Here is a 🧵, based on online surveys fielded by Reichman's U.'s Institute for Liberty & Responsibility: (1) What is Israel's current situation? (entire sample + Coalition/Opposition) [An increase in "good" responses over the last year] >>>

I still can’t quite believe it – yesterday I was awarded the 2026 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize by the DFG! ✨✨✨ I am immensely grateful for the support of all the colleagues and mentors who have accompanied and supported me on my academic journey so far! 🙏

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft@dfg.de · 5mo ago

Anerkennung als Ansporn: Dafür steht der Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis - die wichtigste Auszeichnung in der frühen Karrierephase. 10 DFG-geförderte Wissenschaftler*innen haben besondere Exzellenz und Originalität bewiesen und verdienen mit dem #HML2026 ebendiese volle Anerkennung der DFG! sohub.io/y4t5

📢Please share widely! 📢 Do you do research with Eurobarometer data? Then submit your abstract for the Eurobarometer Symposium at GESIS Cologne on March 11 and 12, 2027: www.gesis.org/en/eurobarom...

📢 Call for Proposals | APSA Political Communication Pre-Conference 2026 🗓️ Pre-conference: Sept 2, 2026 (Boston University) ⏰ Deadline: April 20, 2026 Full Call for Papers with subission details: politicalcommunication.org/apsa-pre-con...

🔔 Happy to share our new paper in npj Climate Action on the effects of major climate protests on politically interested bystanders, co-authored with David Schieferdecker, @jacobsenjannes.bsky.social, @swenhutter.bsky.social, and Jule Specht. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The effects of turnout at major climate protests on politically-interested bystanders: a survey field experiment - npj Climate Action

npj Climate Action - The effects of turnout at major climate protests on politically-interested bystanders: a survey field experiment

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NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 "Street mobilisation during election campaigns in multilevel systems: a supply–demand analysis" with @leonhardschmidt.bsky.social — now out in @wepsocial.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2026.2634027 1/6

🆕 But are they learning? 🧑‍🎓 @lcjacobs89.bsky.social, @jokematthieu.bsky.social & Stefaan Walgrave use a randomised experiment in Belgium to see whether VAAs are improving young people's political literacy, aligning #Policy and choice, and even equalising ideological knowledge buff.ly/doPYaEK

Vote advice applications increase young users’ ideological knowledge | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Vote advice applications increase young users’ ideological knowledge

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🚨 Important news from EPSS, we are inviting proposals for pre-conference workshops. Proposals should be submitted via the form on the EPPS website by 2 April 2026. Applicants will be notified of decisions by 10 April 2026. Please find more information here: epssnet.org/pre-conferen...

‼️ There are not 1 but 2 CSES Awards now! Have you used CSES data in recent work or seen great work using the data? Nominate published work for the GESIS Klingemann Prize and conference papers for the brand new David Howell Award! And don't be shy to self-nominate!!

Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES)@cses.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢 Call for Nominations: 2026 #CSES Awards 📢 Recognizing outstanding scholarship using CSES data: 🏆 GESIS Klingemann Prize 📄 David Howell Award We welcome nominations across regions, methods, & career stages. ⌛️Learn more & submit by April 22: cses.org/2026/03/06/2...