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Assistant Professor in Political Science - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

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But EPSS is more than political science research - we are also coming together as a community. So come for the science and stay for the social part – from big receptions 🥂 and a diversity lunch 🏳️‍🌈, over walking tours 🏰, a morning run 🏃‍♂️‍➡️🏃‍♀️‍➡️ , and whiskey tastings 🥃, to a late-night after party 💃🕺.

🎉🎉🎉 The inaugural EPSS Conference in Belfast is just around the corner! Join us in Belfast from 18th to 20th of June, 2026 🎉🎉 🎉

Come and join us for our 2nd Zurich Population Research Conference from February 1-2 2027! The call for abstracts is now open. www.prc.uzh.ch/en/conferenc... @populationeu.bsky.social @karstendonnay.bsky.social @melindacmills.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social

New in Nature: LLMs give "the party line" in the languages of authoritarian regimes. This works when they control the media, which feeds pretraining data. We show more state control over the media means less critical LLMs. 6 studies spanning 38 languages & 13 models. Details ↓

Excited to contribute to the teaching at @ecpr.bsky.social this year, with a short course on Causal Inference for Observational Data ✨ Do you hesitate to reach out if you may be interested, have questions, or want to chat about research in this space

European Consortium for Political Research@ecpr.bsky.social · 3mo ago

✅️ Learn to draw credible causal conclusions from observational data using design-based approaches at our 🔥 NEW 🚀 #ecprms course 📆 8-11 Sep, Jagiellonian University & 14–15 Sep, Online. 👨‍🏫 @gloriagennaro.bsky.social 🔐 FREE observer access to #ecprgc26 🐦️ Save £55 by 2 Jun 💰️ Funding open until 13 May

In June, Switzerland will vote on what is so far the most radical far-right popular initiative launched by the Swiss People‘s Party SVP: capping the population at 10M (currently ≈9.1M). In this thread, I’ll break down what it’s about and how it fits into broader findings on Swiss direct democracy

What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12 Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...

Excited to be teaching this one! Come with a rough research idea and leave with a complete, ready-to-field Pre-Analysis Plan. Five half-days, fully applied, no frontal lecturing — just you, your RQ, and a solid experimental design. See you in Krakow 🎉

European Consortium for Political Research@ecpr.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Are you looking to turn a rough research idea into a fully designed, publishable study? 🔥 Join our NEW 🚀#ecprms course 📆 8-11 Sep, Jagiellonian University & 14–15 Sep, Online 👨‍🏫 @emmahoes.bsky.social 🔐 Get FREE observer access to #ecprgc26 🐦️ Save £55 by 2 Jun 💰️ Funding open until 13 May

I love SciDraw. Excited to check out the other resources as well!

Stephen Turner@stephenturner.us · 3mo ago

Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations doi.org/10.59350/5zt... 🧪

The new support for pre-filled searches might interest you: bsky.app/profile/ortu...

Or Tuttnauer@ortuttnauer.com · 3mo ago

Version 1.whatever of my #academicsky Citation Compare, with the following improvements: 1) Added OpenAlex’s citations and percentiles 🧐 2) The site now works with pre-entered searches. 🔎 3) There’s a favicon now 😀 Get it here: ortutt.github.io/citation-compare/ More info on the additions below 👇

What's your actual #academicsky impact? It's tricky to say if you want to impress a selection committee, a grant panel, or any group of people from different (sub)fields. Journal impact factor is fine, but are your citations a lot or too few? I have a tool to compare any article to its peers 1/2

🌊 #Illiberal Wave No.46 💪 @plutscher.bsky.social, @draege.bsky.social, @karstendonnay.bsky.social & @chknutsen.bsky.social draw on 3 experiments across Venezuela, Türkiye + the US to show that visual strongman #Propaganda can deter opposition movements + mobilise supporters. 👉️ bit.ly/48vkRV3

🌊 The dark logic of visual strongman propaganda

Philipp Lutscher, Jonas Bergan Dræge, Carl Henrik Knutsen and Karsten Donnay draw on three survey experiments across Venezuela, Turkey and the United States to show that visual strongman propaganda ca...

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🚨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!

Data Science Lab - Hertie School@hertiedatascience.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Would you like to tackle major societal challenges through cutting-edge data science? Then join our team as a Postdoctoral Researcher – Data Science for Public Policy (gn). We're hiring! 🚀 Apply 👉 hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs... #Data4Good #WeAreHiring

This is great! Municipal population change 1961 - 2024 in 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮, courtesy of @correctiv.org @fridathurm.bsky.social @adahomolova.bsky.social

Half of Europe’s towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago

A data analysis by CORRECTIV.Europe reveals for the first time that even as Europe’s overall population grows, half of its municipalities are losing inhabitants.

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📚 Book Talk am Bodensee 🗓 Do, 23.04.2026 🕖 19:15–20:45 📍 Zeppelin Universität Für alle, die sich für Politik, Geschichte & Autokratien interessieren. Ich freue mich auf den Austausch! Vielen Dank an @debremaria.bsky.social & @steffenhurka.bsky.social für die Einladung. Mehr Infos & Anmeldung: 👇

Book Talk | Making a Career in Dictatorship | Zeppelin Universität

The Secret Logic Behind Repression And Coups: Book Talk with Prof Dr Adam Scharpf, University of Copenhagen

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📢 Call for Papers: first Annual Digital Publics Conference 📅 21–23 October 2026 | Digital Society Initiative, University of Zurich 👉 To submit: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/BxVnAMyxNh ❗Deadline for abstract submissions is 31 May 2026❗Acceptance notifications will be sent by early july.

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

(1/8) New Open Access paper out today in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1017/S147... "The effects of government propaganda in electoral authoritarian regimes: Evidence from Turkey" with @draege.bsky.social & @chknutsen.bsky.social #polisky #socsky #commsky #dictatorsky #OA

📣 New job at Oxford's Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM)! 📣 The Departments of Politics & IR (DPIR) and Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI) are hiring an Associate Professor of Causal and Experimental Methods. Come work with me and amazing Oxford peeps! Deadline NOON April 27th.

Looking at the consequences of the US/Israeli war against Iran in cyberspace apparently shows similar patterns of low-tech retaliation cyberattacks as documented in my study on the consequences of US sanctioning events: academic.oup.com/jogss/articl... - www.radware.com/security/thr...

Digital Retaliation? Denial-of-Service Attacks after Sanction Events

Abstract. Conventional wisdom expects to see a rise in cyber activities around aggressive foreign policy events. In this article, I test this claim by inve

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Die Hintermänner von Glassworm wollen Wallets ausrauben, suchen aber auch nach Informationen zu System-Zugängen.

Der "Glassworm" treibt immer mehr Unwesen

Vor allem Entwickler werden durch manipulierte Pakete und Extensions auf Github und anderen Repositories gefährdet.

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Who produces hate speech? And how does that matter for content moderation? We show that across different countries and platforms, a relatively small share of users are responsible for a very large share of hate - overall, 5% write 83-100% of hateful content. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

EPSS Travel Grants for 2026 Belfast conference: PhD students & junior scholars @ institutions in European countries that are often underrepresented, can apply for full fee waiver & £500 stipend Apply: lnkd.in/ehXjhCgf Deadline: March 8, 11:59pm GMT. More details: lnkd.in/eZTP5sWR

🚨 Very insightful thread on a fundamental issue/misunderstanding when we are engaging with LLMs!

M.J. Crockett@mjcrockett.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I'm a cognitive scientist with an interest in epistemic vigilance, and this essay that's been going around gave me pause. I don't think it's straightforward to apply the concept of epistemic vigilance to interactions with LLMs, as this essay does. 🧵/ sbgeoaiphd.github.io/rotating_the...

This is a heart wrenching read.

I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous

Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see

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Quick PSA for all mid-career academics and above: people may be citing articles with your name on them that don't exist.

Can feed algorithms shape what people think about politics? Our paper "The Political Effects of X's Feed Algorithm" is out today in Nature and answers "Yes." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

12 neue Projekte werden im 5. Projekt-Call gefördert: von der Intensivstation über das Klassenzimmer bis ins Forensische Institut, von antiken Inschriften bis zu Deepfake-Stimmen. Der 6. Projekt-Call entfällt, die Mittel wurden vorgezogen. Mehr Informationen: www.dizh.uzh.ch/2026/02/18/f...