A new study by @kunkakom.bsky.social, Jungherr and Rauchfleisch put this to the test. The idea: when a public agency hands a task to an algorithm, it is delegating. And every delegation comes with a leash question. 🦮 2/🧵

Es ist endlich da! 😍 Unser (@cerpintaxt.bsky.social & @donyhu.bsky.social) Buch "Empirische Kommunalpolitikforschung: Eine Einführung" (@springer.springernature.com) 💡Eine empirisch-vergleichende, politikwissenschaftliche Einführung in die Kommunalpolitik 🔗 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Empirische Kommunalpolitikforschung

Dieses Lehrbuch bietet Lehrenden und Studierenden eine kompakte Einführung in die empirische Kommunalpolitikforschung.

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I was not reviewer 2. But I am so annoyed by Americans pretending the whole open science movement is funded by John Arnold. His investments are absolutely dwarfed by what the European Union and European science funders have invested in Open science. Only incredibly biased people would ignore this.

Jeff Lockhart@jwlockhart.bsky.social · 5d ago

I wrote about science funding, science reform, and anti-science agendas. scatter.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/s...

🖥️ Proliferation of AI use in government meets the principal-agent theory 🧾 @kunkakom.bsky.social, @ajungherr.bsky.social & @adrauc.bsky.social run a survey experiment to test citizens' perceived control 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New paper with @adrauc.bsky.social and @ajungherr.bsky.social, published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: How does the use of AI in government affect citizens’ sense of democratic control? Experimental evidence: greater efficiency can come with hidden legitimacy costs.

Just an enormous difference in Russian support for the war when comparing direct question estimates with experiments from list experiments. Also, peep those CIs! sensitivity bias has to be HUGE (which it apparently is in this case) to be detected with Direct - List

Georgy Tarasenko@tarasenkogeorgy.bsky.social · last wk.

Every wave after that splits. Direct support holds at ~75%. Indirect support drops to 44–58%. The gap runs from 16 to 30 percentage points.

Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology 2026☀️ so many exciting projects and ideas! We discussed how to measure and validate various highly relevant but complex constructs with dictionaries an LLMs 💻

Melanie Sauter@melinscribe.bsky.social · 2w ago

On day 4, @fabiennelind.bsky.social had a full day for Introduction to Text-as-Data as well as Word Embeddings.

Grün-rot-rot kommt laut Forsa inzwischen bundesweit auf 40 Prozent (Grüne 16, Linke 12, SPD 12). Wenn der Trend anhält, könnten sie bei den nächsten Wahlen die Regierung stellen.

77 Menschen – viele von ihnen Jugendliche, die sich im Sommerlager der sozialdemokratischen Jugendorganisation für eine offene, demokratische Gesellschaft engagierten. 1/10

RegCheck is going straight into the editorial triage workflow for testing at EBT www.tandfonline.com/journals/teb...

Evidence-Based Toxicology

An open science journal publishing evidence-based research in the toxicological and human environmental health sciences, investigating how environmental exposur

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Jamie Cummins@jamiecummins.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Comparing registrations to published papers is essential to research integrity - and almost no one does it routinely because it's slow, messy, and time-demanding. RegCheck was built to help make this process easier. Today, we launch RegCheck V2. 🧵 regcheck.app

Experts discover how anti-democracy beliefs spread like a disease www.psypost.org/anti-democra...

Anti-democratic attitudes are highly contagious, new psychology study finds

The rise of anti-democratic sentiments might be driven by social contagion. Researchers have discovered that citizens often adapt their personal support for authoritarian rule to align with the politi...

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Support for authoritarian leaders can spread socially among citizens in democracies. Exposing people to peers with varying political views tended to adjust their own preference for strongman rule to match the attitudes of those around them. www.psypost.org/anti-democra...

Anti-democratic attitudes are highly contagious, new psychology study finds

The rise of anti-democratic sentiments might be driven by social contagion. Researchers have discovered that citizens often adapt their personal support for authoritarian rule to align with the politi...

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Meine Annahme: Spahn wird sich - nun frei von einem disziplinierenden Amt, in das er gerade mit 86 Prozent gewählt wurde - als Rechtsaußen-Unruheherd der Fraktion positionieren und von dort versuchen, die CDU/CSU in die Arme der AfD zu treiben.

ntv Nachrichtensender@ntvde.bsky.social · 3w ago

All those surprised by this should remember that, back in 2020, Politico already included Götz Kubitschek and Viktor Orbán among its "Dreamers" in its “Class of 2020“, an annual ranking of “the people shaping European politics and policy“.

C🅰️S Ⓜ️UDDE@casmudde.bsky.social · 3w ago

Axel Springer is a German media giant — with Bild & Welt — which has become a major international player — with Politico & Business Insider. Its leadership is a prime example of radicalization of the mainstream right and of the enabling of the far right. Their newest award winner: Peter Thiel.

Linke bundesweit vor der SPD. Let that sink in.

Wahlrecht.de@wahlrecht.de · 3w ago

Sonntagsfrage zur Bundestagswahl • Forschungsgruppe Wahlen / ZDF (Projektion): AfD 27 % | CDU/CSU 23 % | GRÜNE 14 % | DIE LINKE 13 % | SPD 12 % | FDP 4 % | Sonstige 7 % ➤ Übersicht: wahlrecht.de/umfragen/ ➤ Verlauf: wahlrecht.de/umfragen/pol...

Axel Springer is a German media giant — with Bild & Welt — which has become a major international player — with Politico & Business Insider. Its leadership is a prime example of radicalization of the mainstream right and of the enabling of the far right. Their newest award winner: Peter Thiel.

Peter Thiel erhält den Axel Springer Award 2026

Auszeichnung für einen Unternehmer, Investor und Vordenker, der die digitale Transformation maßgeblich geprägt hat

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New paper! Values such as openness, transparency, collaboration, clarity about conflict of interests have been promoted by women for *decades*, and now we have reframed this around the branding of 'open science' that we start to take them seriously. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Women as the First Open Scientists: Five Stories of the Neglected Contributions of Women in (Social) Science Reform History - Madeleine Pownall, 2026

Recent years have seen growing emphasis on “Open Science,” a movement to enhance research transparency, robustness, and accountability. Prompted by concerns ove...

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Interesting paper on how publication metrics distort research effort. The author exploits a reform in Thailand in 2019, which nudges researchers to publish in Q1 rank journals. Bunching at the cutoff shows that researchers follow incentives, at the expense of quality docs.iza.org/dp18680.pdf

We are doing it again: thanks to @aufdroeseler.bsky.social and #CDSC, there will be a 2nd round of reproduction games in Münster. These will also see the reproduction of PolSci papers, hence: don't hesitate to register, #PolSci / #SocSci scholars from Münster and beyond!

Lukas Röseler@aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 3w ago

Register now for the 2nd Münster Reproduction Games at indico.uni-muenster.de/e/rg2 > join a one day event to reproduce results from published articles > get support from experts from multiple disciplines > turn your report into an independent, publishable manuscript

@jamiecummins.bsky.social has made RegCheck even sleeker! Try it out and let us know what you think!

Jamie Cummins@jamiecummins.bsky.social · 3w ago

Today we launch the first stable release of RegCheck: v1.0.0. RegCheck makes it easier and quicker to compare study registrations to published papers for consistency - something we know is important in principle, but rarely done in practice. A 🧵 on what's new: regcheck.app

Today we launch the first stable release of RegCheck: v1.0.0. RegCheck makes it easier and quicker to compare study registrations to published papers for consistency - something we know is important in principle, but rarely done in practice. A 🧵 on what's new: regcheck.app

RegCheck

RegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.

regcheck.app

„In München wurde im vergangenen Jahr ein Heim eröffnet, das ausschließlich für wohnungslose Männer bestimmt ist, die berufstätig sind. Dort leben Lager- und Fabrikarbeiter, Lieferfahrer, Wachleute, Bauarbeiter, Verkäufer.“ Was für eine unglaublich wichtige Recherche www.zeit.de/2026/30/wohn...

Wohnungslosigkeit in Bonn: Vollzeit, fest angestellt, unbefristet – und trotzdem wohnungslos

Sie verdienen Geld, zahlen Steuern und Sozialabgaben. Doch ein Zuhause finden sie nicht. Micha Neumeier ist einer von vielen, die im Obdachlosenheim leben müssen.

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Great to see that the future for Regcheck is bright. The tool uses LLMs to compare PAP with published study

Jamie Cummins@jamiecummins.bsky.social · 4w ago

WE ARE HIRING! Come work with us (me + @malte.the100.ci) on developing and validating RegCheck. PhD or postdoc applications welcome. Folk with backgrounds in meta-science, psychology, (pre)clinical trials, and/or economics are especially invited to apply. jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...

Genuinely interested in your views: What is the future of teaching statistical programming language for data science in the age of AI? Will we even still teach programming R or Python?

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD@jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 4w ago

The number of students admitted to top Ph.D. programs this fall dropped 15% from the previous year, after dropping 11% the previous year. The current administration is creating complete chaos for grant funding that is damaging a generation of new scientific talent. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u...

If you have any questions about this job, let me know! It is a great opportunity and very important work!

APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions@polcomm.bsky.social · last mo.

📢 Opportunity Alert! Political Communication is hiring a Data Editor to work with the editors-in-chief on ensuring reproducibility and advancing Open Science standards at the journal. 🗓️ Start date: January 1, 2027 Full details at: tinyurl.com/call-dataedi...

AWS says Mechanical Turk will no longer accept new customers and that it is placing the crowdsourcing service in maintenance, signaling its future retirement (Simon Sharwood/The Register) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

People who are hostile online are also hostile offline -> these people are higher in status-seeking needs This was observed in 30 countries (N=15,202). It suggests that online hostility is a form of status seeking. Keep this in mind when someone is trolling you online www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 New preprint out! 🚨 We’ve spent years assuming liberals and conservatives prioritize fundamentally different moral values—and designing persuasive messages based on that assumption. Our data suggest there's more to the story, and that making that assumption can backfire.

Scientific progress is improving research practices. Preregistered large scale studies are now the highest quality evidence we can get in empirical research. So we should work hard on best practices for them (Red Teams, Methodological Review Boards, etc). We will always need to keep improving!

Ingo Rohlfing@ingorohlfing.bsky.social · last mo.

The emerging disenchantment with retrospective meta-analysis www.nature.com/articles/s41... Retrospective meta analysis lacks prior unobservability of data, hence all problems known from empirical research apply. Multilab preregistered studies are seen as best alternative.