"Left behind" and an undemocratic mind? Happy to see that my article on the link between perceived marginalization and democratic orientations is now out in @ejprjournal.bsky.social 🧵👇 Read the article here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨🚨 Job: Please share 🙌 - what? PhD position in my DFG-funded project on how citizens understand their role in democracy. - when? Application deadline Jul 1, job start Sept 1 or soon thereafter - how? www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

Job advertisement

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📢 I’m hiring 2 three-year postdocs at Dept of Political Science, @au.dk! Come work with me on The Politics of Shaming and Shamelessness — a new project on elite rhetoric, emotions, norms, hostility and political violence. Deadline: 31 August 2026 Start: Dec 2026–Feb 2027 Please share widely! 🙏

2 three-year postdocs in political communication and political psychology at Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

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Mijn reactie op het stuk op de Correspondent over mijn boek De Symfonie van Onvrede. Over complexe onvrede, de opkomst van radicaal-rechts, en waarom degelijk onderzoek meer vraagt dan snelle heranalyses of monocausale verklaringen. Link: stukroodvlees.nl/jesse-freder...

Jesse Frederik gaat te kort door de bocht: Waarom complexe maatschappelijke onvrede niet in één verklaring past - StukRoodVlees

Vorige week verscheen op De Correspondent een stuk waarin Jesse Frederik mijn boek De Symfonie van Onvrede aangreep voor een polemiek over de oorzaken van het succes van radicaal-rechts en de manier w...

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4 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 (𝐏𝐡𝐝, 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜, 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫) 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐃𝐂!!! 😯🤩 The DDC is expanding its team with *4* new opportunities for researchers passionate about the intersection of AI, media, democracy, & society. Deadline: 📅 Feb 15 for 3 of these roles! The Professorship deadline follows in March.🧵👇

Postdoc position(s) at The Digital Democracy Centre

Application deadline: February 15th, 2026, 23:59 CET/CEST.

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Cool PhD Position in an amazing project 🚀

Alexander Wuttke@kunkakom.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🧵 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

🚨 We have a cool new ESRC PhD studentship opportunity on the topic of political persuasion for someone interested in campaigning, field experiments and/or computational methods @lsegovernment.bsky.social, in collaboration with @campaign-lab.bsky.social. All info 👇 www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Campaign Lab

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Campaign Lab

lse.ac.uk

For those on the #polcomm academic job market this year, I am sharing the job market material folder that I put together a few years back. drive.google.com/drive/folder...

🚀 New postdoc position for Platform Data & Computational Social Science Join us to drive @gesis.org' efforts around the Digital Services Act (DSA) and conduct research with online platform data 💼 TV-L EG 14 | Location: Cologne 📌 Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/institute... #DSA #CSS #DataScience

My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years. If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply! shorturl.at/kcTbG

This is big and super harmful. YouTube increased the threshold for takedowns: videos can now contain 50% (formerly 25%) misinformation or hate and still stay up if deemed “public interest.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/t...

YouTube Loosens Rules Guiding the Moderation of Videos

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PhD opportunity! ASCoR is looking for a motivated PhD candidate for the project “Visual Politics and the Emergence of Angry Publics.” This four-year PhD track will be supervised by @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social, @lindabos.bsky.social, and @alessandronai.bsky.social DL: June 4 shorturl.at/YeXpf

Vacancy — PhD Position "Visual Politics and the Emergence of Angry Publics"

Are you curious about how images, videos, and memes transform political communication? Are you passionate about digital technology and the future of democracy? Then apply for this PhD project focused ...

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Wir haben das AfD-Gutachten des Verfassungsschutzes digitalisiert und machen die Zitate durchsuchbar, die das BfV als Belege für die Bestrebungen der Partei gegen die freiheitliche demokratische Grundordnung heranzieht: www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

When politicians use simple language, citizens understand more and see them as less elite. New paper with @danbischof.bsky.social out in @thejop.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1086/736693

Can Simple Language Affect Voters' Political Knowledge and Their Beliefs About Politicians? | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

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Canceling research on misinformation is not only an attack on science and academic freedom. It is also a democracy, safety, and security threat. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/b...

Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation

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Glad this one is out at @poqjournal.bsky.social, w @lindabos.bsky.social and P van Erkel The attack against far-right Baudet 🇳🇱 slightly increased support for #violence among people who dislike his party & experience partisan #Schadenfreude Open paper: tinyurl.com/4d7dx2fv Open data: osf.io/6cpbg/

We're organizing another round of the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology 🎉 summerschoolwpm.org Our super-cool speakers include msands.bsky.social @allisonwkoh.bsky.social @melinscribe.bsky.social @rebeccakittel.bsky.social @fabiennelind.bsky.social & @indiiigo.bsky.social 📆01/05

Summer School for Women in Political Methodology

20 to 26 July 2025 at the University of Bremen

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Sophia Hunger@sophiahunger.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Bremen 🚨 Open to PhD students and early career scholars Fully-funded places available for applicants, deadline 1st of May 📅 summerschoolwpm.org

People don't usually do two PhDs in a row, with these kind of projects that's hard not to.... Amazing topic + stellar supervision team!!

Linda Bos 🟥@lindabos.bsky.social · last yr.

We are hiring a new PhD candidate on Democracy by Design: "How App Characteristics Shape Youth Political Worldviews" Please share with your most talented students! Deadline: April 10 Link: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Lots of talk about ‘left behind’ places & far-right’s rise. How do industrial decline, economic hardship, & resentment actually fuel far-right support? In new @apsrjournal.bsky.social paper exploring Xylella epidemic that devastated centuries-old 🫒 groves in 🇮🇹, we find out shorturl.at/xgeho

#Germany's federal criminal police office, not exactly known for over-counting such things, reports that at least 41,000 crimes with a right-wing extremist motive were committed in 2024, a 1/3 increase compared to 2023. 2023, with a 23% increase on 2022, had already marked an all-time high #farright

Rekord rechtsextremer Straftaten: „Erschreckender Aufwärtstrend“

Rechtsextreme Straftaten erreichen neuen Höchststand: mehr als 40.000 Delikte. Das zeigt eine Anfrage von Bundestagsvizepräsidentin Petra Pau (Linke).

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How do we justify studying the US in these times (asking for a friend who's writing the RD section of their paper)?

In Antwerpen today attending an event on digital political campaigning from a practitioners perspective :) (with @philippmendoza.bsky.social)

Ine Goovaerts@inegoovaerts.bsky.social · 2y ago

🗓️Save the date! On 5 December, the Political Communication & Persuasive Communication divisions from NeFCA are organizing a Practitioners' Event on Political Campaigning in the Digital Context, in Antwerp. All information, line-up and registration option below👇👇

2) More anti-immigrant positions do not weaken the radical right Our research shows that when established parties move to the right on immigration this does not weaken the radical right but if anything strengthens them. It contributes to their normalization and legitimation doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Why do voters often not mind negative or uncivil campaigns—is it for a lack of better electoral alternatives? 🧵 In my PhD study “The Fleeting Allure of Dark Campaigns” (w/ @lindabos.bsky.social & @alessandronai.bsky.social) we test this idea: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #polcom #commsky

The Fleeting Allure of Dark Campaigns: Backlash from Negative and Uncivil Campaigning in the Presence of (Better) Alternatives

More aggressive campaigning styles focusing on criticizing opponents (negativity) or using inappropriate language to vilify opponents (incivility) tend to be disliked by voters, and remain thus ris...

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Devastating news for our @mundusjournalism community this morning, with the 7-year prison sentence for alumna Gwyneth Ho. Gwyneth is a true example and teaches us that (press) freedom should never be taken for granted. We think of Gwyneth today and in the difficult time to come.

Emily Feng@emilyzfeng.bsky.social · 2y ago

Powerful statement from journalist turned activist Gwyneth Ho on her FB, published after she was sentenced to 7 years in prison by a Hong Kong court today: "we rose above fear and emerged as a genuine civil society."

Shazam 🎉 I'm super excited to share that the first paper of my PhD dissertation (together with @alessandronai.bsky.social and @lindabos.bsky.social) is now openly accessible 🔓 online. www.tandfonline.com/doi/metrics/... Stay tuned for a short summary thread 🍿

*** Assistant Professorship in Political Communication with Tenure Track *** Our department (IKMZ - University of Zurich) is hiring! More info: jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell... Thank you for spreading the word and/or applying!

UZH: Assistant Professorship with Tenure Track in Political Communication

The University of Zurich invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in political communication to begin on 1 February 2025. After two three-year appointments, promotion to a perma...

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Missing Tweetdeck as much as I am? Just discovered @deck.blue 🥳

Excited to share on 🟦 as well: My project on Multidimensional Polarization received a 4-year grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation 🎉 🚨 Please help me share the ad for the PhD position on the project! jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell... polisky PSJMinfo