How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality?
Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):
07.10.2025 18:49 — 👍 111 🔁 45 💬 4 📌 4
LSE Collaborative Studentship with Campaign Lab
LSE Collaborative Studentship with Campaign Lab
🚨 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...
06.10.2025 10:57 — 👍 31 🔁 29 💬 1 📌 2
Abstract
New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵
07.10.2025 07:14 — 👍 356 🔁 168 💬 5 📌 9
Jesus.
06.10.2025 18:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Politiktest.de
Bereits über 5.500 User:innen habe ihre Daten in meinem Populismus-Selbsttest für die Forschung gespendet - danke! 🙏
Zudem habe ich wertvolle Anregungen erhalten und einige Ergänzungen zum Einschätzung des Ergebnisses und zur Anzahl der zugestimmten Statement aufgenommen.
👉 politiktest.de
05.10.2025 12:26 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Am Wochenende kommen alle arschlöcher vom Land in die Stadt, nicht?
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🚨 Why do people protest against authoritarian regimes even when facing extreme danger? 🚨
In our new paper on Romania's 1989 Revolution, we find that communities exposed to the communist Gulag showed 5x higher dissent levels.
doi.org/10.1177/0010...
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27.09.2025 10:36 — 👍 28 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 1
California vows to ‘instantly’ cut funding to universities that cave to Trump ‘compact’
Governor Gavin Newsom urges schools not to sign ‘radical agreement’ to cuts to departments, students and speech
Newsom: "If any California university signs this radical agreement, they’ll lose billions in state funding – including Cal Grants – instantly. California will not bankroll schools that sell out their students, professors, researchers, and surrender academic freedom"
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So happy to see this out! We caution against excessive optimism that the opposition will restore countries back to their democratic trajectories after electoral victory. Weakened institutions and the memory of repression makes it tempting to continue rather than buck the trend of autocratization.
01.10.2025 17:27 — 👍 52 🔁 28 💬 2 📌 0
Congrats. I only believe it if your change your bsky description… 🎽🎉😂
01.10.2025 15:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
„Die Exzellenzstrategie hat sich überlebt.“
CSU-Politiker Robert Brannekämper fordert im Interview mehr Tempo beim Hochschulbau, eine echte BAföG-Reform und weniger Drittmittelzirkus.
Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/10...
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Congrats. 🎈
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🚨🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨🚨
We have 3 lines open in CP, IR and IPE — all tenure-track.
We offer competitive salaries, a 2:1 teaching load, in a friendly (and fully in English) environment, at one of Europe’s most sought-after cities.
05.09.2025 14:57 — 👍 44 🔁 46 💬 2 📌 9
GitHub - nicolaiberk/llm_ws: Materials for my Workshop on LLMs
Materials for my Workshop on LLMs. Contribute to nicolaiberk/llm_ws development by creating an account on GitHub.
I had the pleasure to teach a 3-day crash course on #LLMs for PhD students.
We covered:
1️⃣ Text Representation and Embeddings
2️⃣ Machine Learning & Transformer Architecture
3️⃣ Generative Models for Social Sciences
The 6 slide sets and 10 notebooks are available on github: github.com/nicolaiberk/...
29.09.2025 13:38 — 👍 63 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 0
⚠️ Ein Thread 🧵
Ich möchte noch einmal den Gedanken des sehr geschätzten Christian Bangel aufgreifen. Denn in mir gärt es. Ich leide sehr darunter, dass seit vielen Jahren in Deutschland eine völlige Umkehr in der Wahrnehmung als auch in der Bewertung stattfindet. Insbesondere bei Themen,...
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🚨🚨🚨 Deadline is today to apply for our Professorship in International Sustainability. 🚨🚨🚨
**We have a broad reading of the topics being covered by this professorship.**
Apply!
stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/c...
26.09.2025 08:38 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"history books, by offering regime-critical frames of reference, may serve as an outlet for expressing dissent in a repressive authoritarian regime" nvasilenok.github.io/pdfs/papers/...
25.09.2025 18:06 — 👍 28 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Made my day.
Söder ist nun auch international ne Witzwurst.
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*Tarik
25.09.2025 14:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wenn natürlich die Mittelschicht das Backbone der AfD ist (meine Prediction) dann sind natürlich Wirtschaftspolitiken für ganz unten wenig hilfreich.
Wobei ich eh Tareks Leseart teile: Die AfDler*innen wollen aufgrund von Privilegien (und wenn es nur der Pass ist) abgesichert sein. Basta.
25.09.2025 14:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Sozialpolitik: Wer wenig hat, ist in ihren Augen selbst schuld
Mehr Sozialstaat könnte den Aufstieg der Rechtspopulisten bremsen, heißt es oft. Umfragen zeigen aber: Die Wähler der AfD verstehen unter Gerechtigkeit etwas anderes.
Mehr Sozialstaat und eine "antifaschistische Wirtschaftspolitik" werden häufig als Mittel gegen den AfD-Erfolg genannt. Doch was ist dran an der These & welche Sozialpolitik wünschen sich die AfD-Wähler tatsächlich? Eine Datenanalyse von @schieritz.bsky.social und mir.
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
16.09.2025 08:05 — 👍 93 🔁 29 💬 11 📌 7
Nice.
Könntet ihr aus dem GLES nicht auch nachvollziehen wie die AfD Supporter dort subjektive ihre Schicht einordnen und wo sie objektiv stehen? Gegen Ende des Artikels hin, hätte ich das noch erwartet.
25.09.2025 13:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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.
25.09.2025 11:38 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
It's time again for a new episode - episode 6 - of my series on "Great colleagues @ifpolms.bsky.social doing exciting (and enviable) research": If you are not yet following @mwegemann.bsky.social, please hurry to do so!
23.09.2025 13:49 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Pritzer gets the mechanics of authoritarianism – systemic intimidation, seizing control of elections, etc. – in a way others in national democratic leadership don't or won't say out loud.
23.09.2025 15:58 — 👍 2997 🔁 821 💬 49 📌 23
We - @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social, @kgattermann.bsky.social @sebstier.bsky.social, @sziaja.bsky.social & I - are very excited to start the work of the RN on #DataLinkage!
If you are interested in why, when & how to link data formats in PolSci research, do not hesitate to join our Network!
23.09.2025 10:05 — 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
Steile These. ;)
23.09.2025 10:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Fussball ist ein Sport der Genies, die kooperieren."
Wie wild kreativ mann bei Sport wird. So eine überhebliche Grütze.
23.09.2025 10:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
My hottest take of the day for the survey methods & immigration crowd:
Conjoint experiments on immigrant profile choice are not a good way to know whether refugees are more popular than economic immigrants (or any other descriptive Q about immigration policy preferences).
19.09.2025 18:53 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 2
Explore groundbreaking news and research from PNAS, one of the world's most-cited scientific journals. Discover its sibling journal, @pnasnexus.org, both official journals of the National Academy of Sciences. Visit www.pnas.org for more info.
Political scientist @FU Berlin and @WZB.bsky.social | PI ERC research group LOOPS | Studying autocracies through protest, legal norms, and elite conflict | fruhstorfer.me
Political Scientist and Postdoc at WZB Berlin
I study crime, far-right extremism, immigration, and political behavior in Europe.
jeyhunalizade.com
The KU Leuven Voting and Democracy Research Group studies electoral democracies, public opinion, voting behaviour, political participation, political parties, and democratic institutions.
https://research.kuleuven.be/portal/en/unit/58127343?hl=en&lang=en
Doctoral researcher in Quantitative Political Science at Goethe University Frankfurt || MA, Mannheim Uni ||Studying how political actors and violence influence identity, intergroup relations & social conflict.
Website: https://osmansuntay.com/
• er/ihm
• Polizist • Kriminalhauptkommissar
• Antifaschist lebenslang
• Sachbuchautor • Videos: https://t1p.de/vD
• Antirassismus • Fehlerkultur • FCKNZS
• https://www.von-dobrowolski.de • 📍Berlin-Lichterfelde
• spricht für @betterpolice.de
Assistant Professor @GWU | Formerly: PostDoc @Stanford Polarization Research Lab | PoliSci PhD @UCLA | Local Politics/Representation | #rstats | Trail Runner | PNW Expat | #YNWA | #SeaUsRise
www.derekholliday.com
Political scientist @gesis.org
www.ziaja.xyz
Associate Professor of Political Science and Deputy Director of CISE, Luiss, Rome. Author for Routledge and Palgrave. Cleavages, elections, new parties, party system change, technocracy, party competition, and voting behavior. Personal views only.
Political Scientist @leiden.
PI of ERC MIDEBT project studying opinions on public debt (midebt.org), AI, and security.
Assc. Editor ISR.
Co-founder REALdegrees.ai
Professor of Political Science, University of Muenster | passionate about researching democracy, political conflict, radical right parties, EU politics, public policy - and about baking bread
We are an interdisciplinary research group using political psychology and adjacent fields to explain salient socio-political themes | #HotPoliticsLab
Die grüne politische Stiftung mit über 100 Partnerprojekten in 60 Ländern. Impressum: http://boell.de/impressum
Supporting experimental research on governance innovations. egap.org
PhD Candidate @Harvard Gov. Political Economist researching on the politics of opportunity. Credit Access, Education, and Labor Market policy in US, Germany, and Japan + affects on global financial stability. On the market.
https://www.danieltroberts.com/
Historian of modern Britain, singer and political nerd. Author of "Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum & Seventies Britain". "A jaw-dislocating page turner"(Andrew Marr). Deputy-director @mileendinstitute.bsky.social, Reader @QMHistory
Dr. Simon Strick
University of Potsdam
Cultural Studies/Media Studies/Far Right
Author at Panzerkreuzer Rotkäppchen
https://linktr.ee/simonstrick
Political sociology at Freie Universität Berlin and WZB Berlin Social Science Center