Nils Weidmann
@nilsweidmann.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science, University of Konstanz, Germany. https://www.polver.uni-konstanz.de/cnc/people/weidmann/
Today is the last day of the summer term at @uni-konstanz.de. The last weeks have been extremely exhausting, due to the fact that only very few rooms on campus have A/C. This was by far the worst summer in the history of our institution (see below). You wonder why teaching ends so late? So do I.
Gratulation zum Semesterende, @uni-konstanz.de! Die letzten Wochen waren echt zäh, oder? Dies war (mit deutlichem Abstand) das Sommersemester mit den meisten Hitzetagen in der Geschichte unserer Uni. Bitte lasst uns über die Semesterdaten sprechen. www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/06...
Volle Unterstützung für das Argument, das mein Kollege @nilsweidmann.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de macht: wir müssen die Semesterzeiten ändern, dh an international übliche Zeiten angleichen. Nebeneffekt: man muss im Sommer nicht bei 40° studieren / lehren! @regierungbw.bsky.social
Nils Weidmann@nilsweidmann.bsky.social · last mo.Heute bin ich in @jmwiarda.bsky.social's Blog zu Gast, mit einem Beitrag zur Hitze im Hörsaal und wie sie sich ganz einfach vermeiden liesse: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/06...
Hitzekollaps im Hörsaal Wer Studierende und Lehrende vor den immer häufigeren Hitzetagen schützen will, sollte die Semesterzeiten neu denken. Ein Gastbeitrag von Nils Weidmann. Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/06...
Heute bin ich in @jmwiarda.bsky.social's Blog zu Gast, mit einem Beitrag zur Hitze im Hörsaal und wie sie sich ganz einfach vermeiden liesse: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/06...
Hitzekollaps im Hörsaal
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This paper is now out! Can't believe I'm the first to skype it! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... It's a sad day if academics have to disseminate on linkedin, because no one sees them here or on twitter, for two very different reasons (there's few people here, and "shadow banning" there).
Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT)@pgmt.bsky.social · 2y ago📣 Online Talk Series (11): "Does the Community Understand the Community Guidelines?" - @friederikeq.bsky.social & @yannistheocharis.bsky.social will be speaking in the next session of our online talk series “Behind the Scenes”. 🗓️July 9, 2024 🕛1-2 pm (CET) 📍Online Event
Would be great to do something similar at the @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social.
Danbischof@danbischof.bsky.social · 2mo agoI like this @thejop.bsky.social : "We are now implementing a system in which the editorial team has the right to not consider submissions from authors who have failed to review for the journal three or more times, when invited to do so by the editorial team."
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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Today, I kicked off this year‘s #BikeAndTalk2026 trip through Switzerland together with @alexaisa.bsky.social . Thanks to @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and amazing colleagues for hosting us! Tomorrow, I’m off to Fribourg and then Bern (Wednesday).
Delighted to share a short blog post on the dark logic of visual "strongman" propaganda — drawing on survey experiments in Venezuela, Türkiye and the US!
The Loop@ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 3mo ago🌊 #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
That said, there are really interesting avenues for research on plausible expert biases using coder-level data. @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, @melinaplatas.bsky.social and @sarahbush.bsky.social have great work on this topic in different contexts... doi.org/10.1177/0010... doi.org/10.1177/0010...
How often do ethnic elites use grievance frames online? @frederikgremler.bsky.social, Lea Haiges, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & Christina Zuber examine 646k posts showing such frames are rare & track political, not economic, inequality. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/swifESz @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
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📢 New article 🌟 👥 Jens Jungblut @jjungblut.bsky.social (ISV), Nils B. Weidmann @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, & Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social (ISV) 👉 The politics behind political science: A cross-national perspective 📗 Open Access in European Political Science 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/s168...
I'm hiring a postdoc! @goetheuni.bsky.social Focus: CSS, political behavior, political communication & transforming information environments. 📍 Frankfurt | ⏳ 3 years | 📅 Deadline: 14 April 2026 Full job ad here: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen... (search for “political behavior” to find it)
Goethe-Universität — Zentrale Einrichtungen
Die Goethe-Universität ist eine forschungsstarke Hochschule in der europäischen Finanzmetropole Frankfurt. Lebendig, urban und weltoffen besitzt sie als Stiftungsuniversität ein einzigartiges Maß an E...
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How often do ethnic elites use grievance frames online? @frederikgremler.bsky.social, Lea Haiges, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & Christina Zuber examine 646k posts showing such frames are rare & track political, not economic, inequality. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/swifESz @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
🆕 Together with @krishogl.bsky.social, I’m excited to share several new outputs from our joint research project on the actors of electoral violence. 🧵 A thread... #polisky #conflictsky
❇️ FirstView -💼 Profession @jjungblut.bsky.social, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & @chknutsen.bsky.social examine political science departments at universities across the world to assess the extent to which they vary with regime type. 👉 buff.ly/qEIeGoB
In a new study (OA) in @epsjournal.bsky.social @nilsweidmann.bsky.social @chknutsen.bsky.social & I study the global distribution of polit. science depts. Political science is today a truly global discipline & we find few differences along the democracy–autocracy continuum: doi.org/10.1017/S168...
The politics behind political science: A cross-national perspective | European Political Science | Cambridge Core
The politics behind political science: A cross-national perspective
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 6mo ago#OpenAccess from @epsjournal.bsky.social - The politics behind political science: A cross-national perspective - https://cup.org/3ObeH5g - @jjungblut.bsky.social, Nils B. Weidmann & @chknutsen.bsky.social #FirstView
📣CfA for a Postdoctoral Fellow Position in political science (3-4 years) as part of the ERC project “Waging of War” (WOW) - PI Scott Gates. The application deadline is March 16th, 2026. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (295112) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (295112), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, March 16, 2026
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Good and bad news from @epssnet.bsky.social, if I could only figure out which ones of my submissions this is about...
🚨Job alert 🚨 I have an opening for a postdoc in my team at @ipz.bsky.social in the area of digital democracy starting Sep 1, 2026. If you are working on the impact of the digital transformation on politics, please apply by 🗓️ Mar 1, 2026. 📤 Please share widely! www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns...
Offene Stellen / Open Positions
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🚨 Postdoctoral Position at the University of Konstanz 🚨 We’re hiring a post-doc for our @excinequality.bsky.social project on political elites and decision-making. 4-year position | Deadline: Feb. 20 | Start: Sept 2026 Please share widely 🙏 The ad is here stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f...
Postdoctoral Position at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality”
Deadline: 20 February 2026, 12:00 pm CET
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“You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.” This speech is 🔥 and easily one of the most remarkable (and alarming) by a Canadian PM
In any somewhat functioning democracy this would lead to the removal of the leader
Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 7mo agomad king moment from the PBS Newshour correspondent
![NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreie7itpptx3xbxhpsnlaqmwk752h7pcrion5ija2apksljtax2adx4)
Large Language Models Are Democracy Coders with Attitudes @pspolisci.bsky.social @nilsweidmann.bsky.social Mats Faulborn @dgarcia.eu www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Large Language Models Are Democracy Coders with Attitudes | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core
Large Language Models Are Democracy Coders with Attitudes - Volume 59 Issue 1
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📅 Vortrag & Diskussion: Wie stehen Studierende zur Redefreiheit an Unis? In welchen Situationen wären sie bereit, Vorträge oder Personen auszuladen? Di, 13.01.2026 | 19:15 | A0701 @uni-konstanz.de & im Stream: t1p.de/ix7me Mit @cdiehl.bsky.social, Richard Traunmüller & @nilsweidmann.bsky.social
🚨Job alert! 🚨 I'm advertising a PhD position (66%) in Comparative Politics at HU Berlin. Ideal candidates combine a research interest in autocratic politics, conflict, and/or political violence with strong quantitative methods skills. ⏳ 4 (+2) years | 🗓 DL 16.01; Start March/April 26 More info:
Research fellow (m/f/d) in the field of “contentious politics/political violence/autocratic politics” - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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🧵 PhD position (75%) in Political Behavior / Political Communication / CSS 📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026 We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization
📝 How often do ethnic elites use grievance frames online? @frederikgremler.bsky.social, Haiges, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & Zuber examine 646k posts showing such frames are rare & track political, not economic, inequality. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/lC7RH6t @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #PSNotes
We @uni-konstanz.de are hiring a full professor in machine learning for our MSc program in Social and Economic Data Science: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/6...
Full Professorship (W3) in Machine Learning
Deadline: January 31, 2026
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