Gibt es einen Generationenkonflikt am Arbeitsplatz? Was ist dran an den Klischees über Ältere und Jüngere und deren unterschiedlichen Vorstellungen vom Arbeitsleben? Marcel Knobloch, @llhipp.bsky.social und @sophiahunger.bsky.social haben nach altersbezogenen Stereotypen am Arbeitsplatz gefahndet.

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 We're hiring a six-year Postdoc @stawi-univie.bsky.social, starting in Oct 2026 (or thereafter). Research: political representation, party competition, institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields 📅 Deadline: 20 Aug 2026 Apply here: tinyurl.com/dyf9bt7h

Day 5 of our Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology! It’s been inspiring to see participants from across countries exchange ideas, build collaborations, and strengthen a supportive research community. Huge thanks to our fantastic speakers, organizing team, and supporters! 🙌 #PolMeth #WPM

📢 Job Ad: I am looking for one doctoral researcher (75%) in my newly funded DFG project on misperceptions and factual information on immigration from 1.10. or soon after! 📌 Location: MZES, University of Mannheim 💢 Application Deadline: 21st of July

💭 Looks like the heat wave has brought some attention to my study - enough that it got a mention in the New York Times 👉 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/w... It’s also a good example of how weather extremes can shift public attention toward climate change (without necessarily prompting policy change).

As Europe Sweats, Some Politicians Talk of Air-Conditioning, Not Climate Action

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Jessica Haak@haakjes.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📢 Very happy that my first single-authored paper found its home at @environmentalpol.bsky.social 🌱 I am beyond thankful to all the fantastic people who gave me feedback and supported me along the way! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (1/5)🧵

Are you a woman who has recently started a TT position in politics or a politics related field? Then @katharinalawall.bsky.social and me would like to warmly invite you to join a new network for early career women: WIPS: Women in Political Science.

Excited to share our new paper in @thejop.bsky.social with @krausewe.bsky.social! Parties polling just below an electoral threshold are far less likely to clear it: a self-fulfilling prophecy that diminishes when polls communicate uncertainty. 🗳️📊 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Werner Krause@krausewe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social (w/ @christinagahn.bsky.social) Do opinion polls shape election results? Using both cross-national data and a survey experiment, the answer we find is yes - though it depends on how we communicate polling results. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Hier könnt ihr einen Beitrag in den WZB-Mitteilungen zur Forschung von @tevoelker.bsky.social und MIka Bauer über die Medien und den Aufstieg der äußersten Rechten lesen.: bibliothek.wzb.eu/artikel/2025...

Kipppunkt Ost: Wie der Osten die Demokratie entscheidet@kipppunktost.bsky.social · 3mo ago

@julikatz.bsky.social fragt @tevoelker.bsky.social: Welche Verantwortung haben Journalist:innen für #noAfD Wahlerfolge und wie geht bessere Berichterstattung? @meisnerwerk.bsky.social analysiert mit @heikekleffner.bsky.social das OAZ-Geschäftsmodell. #KipppunktOst open.spotify.com/episode/0XPD...

Our dataset of local protests in Germany 2000–2020 based on our research @fgz-risc.bsky.social is now publicly available at Gesis. Here is the article describing the dataset: doi.org/10.1080/0964...

Protests in Germany 2000–2020. A dataset based on local protest event data in Bremen, Dresden, Leipzig, and Stuttgart

In exploring protest dynamics, Protest Event Analysis (PEA) has proven an indispensable analytical tool. Most existing PEA datasets, however, rely on national newspapers. This article introduces a ...

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I’m hiring 2 doctoral researchers in Politics of Climate Change at Heidelberg University 🌍 📊 Survey Research & Political Participation 🗣️ Qualitative Research & Group Formation Part of “The New Climate Divide” Deadline: 21 June 2026 Calls: www.ipw.uni-heidelberg.de/en/about-us/... Please share!

We're organising the workshop: Protest*Ethnography 🗓 8–9 October 2026 | University of Bremen (in person) to collectively reflect on ethnographic approaches to studying contentious politics & protest. All are welcome. Please register at ethnografie@dvpw.de until July 15, 2026.

🚨Stellenausschreibung🚨 Postdoc-Stelle im Bereich „Politisches System Deutschlands und der EU“ (100%, 3 Jahre), Uni Oldenburg Bewerbungsfrist: 9.6.2026 Bei Fragen gerne per E-Mail bei mir melden. Gerne teilen! 🙂 uol.de/job/wissensc...

❗Confrontational tactics like street blockades and food attacks on art hurt activists' image, but not their cause. 📄 New paper out in Political Behavior (@polbehavior.bsky.social) w/ @dasalgon.bsky.social @sophiahunger.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social. 🧵1/7

I am looking for a postdoc to join my team at the University of Bremen. 5-year-contract, top-up to 100% possible for most of the contract period. Apply by 04 May 2026. If you have questions about the position, send me an email! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

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Delighted our paper (with an amazing group of co-authors) is forthcoming in the APSR Takeaway for Labour and other centre-left parties: fixing public services is key to reducing support for the populist right 👇

Zach Dickson@zachdickson.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Thrilled that my paper (w/@sarahobolt.bsky.social,@catherinedevries.bsky.social,@simonecremaschi.bsky.social) was accepted at the American Political Science Review! We find that declining public services fuel support for the populist right — and show why the right benefits more than other parties 🧵

Welcome, @mierkezat.bsky.social! We are so lucky to have you @unibremen.bsky.social, thank you for your kind words - excited for what’s ahead ✨

Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki@mierkezat.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Some exciting news: I'm heading back to Europe! In April, I'll be starting a three-year fellowship at the University of Bremen. I will be hosted in the research group of the amazing @sophiahunger.bsky.social, working on wrapping up my first book on identity and writing my second on democracy.

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)

Some in the Iranian opposition, most prominently proponents of Pahlavi, have argued that military intervention is all that is left for Iranians to rise up and topple the regime. Now, with what looks like the most extensive strikes against Iran ever, would be time for them to prove their assertions.

Except hardly anyone cared to know about what 'populism' meant in the 2010s, not even academics (see article below) Its careless use has been key to the mainstreaming of far-right politics and, as expected, there is zero reflection about it www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 6mo ago

‘Populism’: we used to know what it meant. Now the defining word of our era has lost its meaning | Oliver Eagleton

Don't forget to apply until the end of the week! 🚨

Melanie Sauter@melinscribe.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨 7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers. Free of charge (limited travel support). Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org #methodsky #polisky

Das WZB-Projekt „Wirksam gegen Rechtsaußen" hat Strategien von zivilgesellschaftlichen Institutionen in der Auseinandersetzung mit #Rechtsextremismus untersucht und systematisiert. Den neuen Policy Brief dazu gibt es hier: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10... @chjncke.bsky.social @tevoelker.bsky.social

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨 7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers. Free of charge (limited travel support). Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org #methodsky #polisky

Ever wondered why Germany, in 2001 only the seventh country in the world after the Nordic ones and Netherlands to have more than 30% of MPs female, has since completed stagnated and been overtaken by 50-odd countries? In this newly published paper, @maarja.bsky.social and I try to explain that.

The myth of compensatory effects: How party organisation shapes women's representation in dual-candidacy mixed electoral systems

Electoral systems are widely recognised as important institutional determinants explaining women's political representation. Mixed-member proportional…

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Desinformation & KI: Dieser Zusammenhang sorgt für Unbehagen. Die Deepfake-Episode auf Grok unterstreicht es. Doch wie weit sind solche Inhalte verbreitet? Wie wirken sie? Dem geht der erste Schwerpunkt des Atlas: Wahrheit und Wissen im digitalen Wandel nach atlas.machine-vs-rage.net/ki-und-desin...

Desinformation und KI - toneshift

Immer häufiger wird KI für die Erzeugung und Verbreitung von Desinformation eingesetzt. Hier kondensieren wir aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse.

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📣 Call for Papers: 🗓️ 23-24 April 2026 at LSE Submit full papers: forms.office.com/e/9qVWeNTK0p Please share with colleagues & early-career researchers!

🚩INTERACTconversation 14 (hybrid), 26 Jan, 19:00 "Iran in Bewegung" mit Naika Foroutan @dezim-institut.de, @teraqerat.bsky.social @zfk-mr.bsky.social, Azadeh Zamirirad @swp-mea.bsky.social, Jannis Grimm @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social Mehr infos: www.interact.fu-berlin.de/News/convers...

Diese Studie ist eine Sensation: Heike Klüver hat 1.237 Regierungen in 57 Demokratien über 50 Jahre ausgewertet. Die Schlüsselfrage: Werden Rechtsextreme „entzaubert“, wenn sie mitregieren? Die Antwort – eindeutig: Nein. Sobald rechtsextreme Parteien an der Regierung sitzen, profitieren sie.

✨Deadline for abstract submission to COMPTEXT 2026: Friday January 16 ✨

Fabienne Lind@fabiennelind.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📢 Call for Abstracts — Deadline: January 16. COMPTEXT 2026 will again be a fantastic place to discover the latest computational methods, tools, datasets & to connect with scholars using AI across communication science, political science, history, sociology, IR, and more.

Das @manifestoproj.bsky.social analysiert seit vielen Jahren politische Texte - aber unser Datensatz ist voll mit Zahlen. In einem Artikel in den neuen WZB-Mitteilungen haben meine Kolleg:innen und ich anhand von sechs Zahlen beschrieben, was wir da eigentlich so machen. 🔍🖥️📄

Manifesto Project@manifestoproj.bsky.social · 7mo ago

What do 2 million, 286 and 1979 have to do with party manifestos? Shortly before Christmas, the new issue of the @wzb.bsky.social-Mitteilungen came out. This issue's topic: "Numbers".📊 We are happy to contribute an article on 50 years of manifesto research: bibliothek.wzb.eu/artikel/2025...

🚨🚨 job alert time 🚨🚨 @unibremen.bsky.social 3 PhD positions within the 3rd phase of the @sfb1342.bsky.social, with a focus on computational methods and/or on protest mobilization, specifically with a focus on Africa. Starting time: early 2026, deadline: 14th of January. more info below: