Daniel Kovarek

‼️If you are an early career researcher interested in CPE and related field and focus on Eastern Europe, the great team around @dorobohle.bsky.social at the Department of Political Science @univie.ac.at is looking for a postdoc 📣 Deadline 27.02. 📯Details here👇 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Workshop on LLMs and Access to Political Information May 12, 2026 | University College Dublin Hosted by ParliView We invite submissions for a one-day in-person workshop on building and studying AI… ... Workshop on LLMs and Access to Political Information May 12, 2026 | University College Dublin Hosted by ParliView We invite submissions for a one-day in-person workshop on building and studying AI s...

Are you doing work on LLMs or conversational AI? Do you study questions related to political information and/or transparency? If so, please consider applying to this workshop, hosted by our lovely @parliview.bsky.social team members over @ucddublin.bsky.social. More info here - tinyurl.com/yc6m4mfk

our study w/ @ztruchlewski.bsky.social and @joeganderson.bsky.social using survey data by the wonderful @eui-eu.bsky.social ❤️ @yougov.co.uk collab is out in JCMS! 🤗

Postdoctoral Position at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality” Deadline: 20 February 2026, 12:00 pm CET

🚨 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...

📢CfP: The Cultural Evolution of Migration and Diversity conference @wzb.bsky.social

We want to bring together cultural evolution scholars & social
scientists to explore how evolutionary perspectives can contribute to empirical research on migration & diversity.

Keynote by @michael.muthukrishna.com

Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity

Intergenerational mobility, measuring the ability to achieve economic success regardless of family background, is a critical reflection of a society’s commitment to equality of opportunity. Rising income inequality has raised concerns about the potential erosion of upward mobility. While education has traditionally been viewed as the path to mobility, its transformative power is facing challenges in a rapidly evolving job market. This project reorients the focus of intergenerational mobility research by highlighting the labor market as an arena for the reproduction of advantage. It employs a comparative approach, using administrative data from four countries: Sweden, Austria, England, and the United States. It also incorporates evidence from a broader set of nations through cross-national surveys, longitudinal household surveys, labor force surveys, secondary data, and digital trace data. The project employs cutting-edge empirical methods, including quasi- experimental designs, event studies, within-family comparisons, decomposition analyses, counterfactual simulations, and diagnostic checks to rigorously assess the extent of inequalities in the labor market. The research investigates how family background influences the sorting of individuals to employers and workplaces, accounting for education and occupation, and explores variations in career progression within and between employers. It comprehensively catalogues and assesses mechanisms shaping workplace inequality, contributing to the development of social closure theory. Additionally, the project evaluates intervention strategies, encompassing both employer practices and government actions, to promote fair opportunity in the labor market.

JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project.

Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months.

Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.

📣 Call for Papers:
🗓️ 23-24 April 2026 at LSE

Submit full papers: forms.office.com/e/9qVWeNTK0p

Please share with colleagues & early-career researchers!

We’re organizing a workshop at Aarhus University. Please share and consider submitting!

🗓️ 13–14 April 2026 | 📝 Deadline: Mon, 16 Feb 2026 (extended abstract) — junior scholars prioritized

🎤 Keynotes: @stefwalter.bsky.social (Univ. of Zurich) & @hhuang.bsky.social (Ohio State)

🚀 Registration is OPEN for #MethodsNET2026 Summer School with CEU!

3 weeks of expert-led training in the heart of Europe & Online.

✅ ECTS Credits
✅ Expert Faculty
📉 Early Bird until Feb 25.

Register now: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#AcademicSky #Methodology #Research

It’s kind of wild that timeline wise, we are probably closer to France using its nuclear deterrent to protect European countries against the United States than we are to France using its nuclear deterrent to protect European countries against Russia

What do people in England think about their local area? In this short report I take a look at surveys we conducted with @yougov.co.uk in 2022, 2024 and 2025 to gain some insights...

Some key findings...

Espresso Embassy ❤️

CRIS @sciencespo.bsky.social @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social is hiring! Recruiting postdoc to join the research team led by Prof. Mirna Safi @msafi.bsky.social on the ERC project “The Discrimination-Inequality Cycle (DISEQUAL)." Deadline 8 February 2026. Apply, share!

www.sciencespo.fr/cris/files/J...

📝 (8) Women’s substantive representation under the Meloni government. Insights from a new dataset on parliamentary attention in Italy

by Cavalieri & @edegiorgi.bsky.social

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

✨ Between the holidays and the new year is often a good moment to think about what skills you’d like to build next.

We’ll be sharing more about #KOMEX2026 courses over the coming days. Whenever you feel like taking a look, you can find the full list here: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/view/kome...

Not exactly a Xmas merrymaking post, but I wrote something on the changing environment for international academics in the Netherlands and how it has changed over the last 10 years: open.substack.com/pub/alexandr...

Unequal Solidarity: Club Rules and Crisis Support in the European Polity Is European solidarity during crises due to common or close identities? Or do Europeans punish rule-breaking countries by showing them less solidarity? Research on the determinants of European solida...

this way to our OA article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

very happy to see this 🔓 paper w/ the great @ztruchlewski.bsky.social & @joeganderson.bsky.social out @jcms-eu.bsky.social just before ERC SOLID officially ends 🎉 we study how preferences for solidarity are conditional on 🇪🇺EU member state behavior: breaking common rules (market, RoL, burden-sharing)

I am hiring a post-doctoral fellow (2 years) to work on all things political finance in Africa. There are no teaching obligations, and lots of opportunities for fieldwork. A PhD in Political Science is a requirement. Please spread the word! Happy to answer questions - send them to my LSE email.

🚨 Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion (2 years)

We’re hiring a 100% Postdoc at the University of Greifswald.

✨ What makes this job special: Two full years to focus on research (no teaching, no admin overload) embedded into an International Research Training Group

🚀 MethodsNET Summer School 2026: The Course List is Now Live!

We are thrilled to announce the course list for the MethodsNET Summer School 2026, held in partnership with @weareceu.bsky.social in Vienna.

Full Course Details: methodsnet.org/course-list/

#ResearchMethods #MethodsNET #CEUVienna

a post on X from Donald Tusk saying "Either Budapest or prison" and a news article about Mayor Karácsony potentially going to jail for organizing Budapest Pride

@donald-tusk.bsky.social famously suggested that the illiberal #Polish ex-minister who used spyware against political rivals has two options: #Budapest or prison. The #Hungarian liberal mayor is not that lucky: he may not have this choice

@komex.bsky.social is super affordable & sustainable! Register and take my Intro to R class, or one of 20 other excellent courses in 19–27 February! 👩‍💻📊 afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...

New Publication!
Opposition often fails to coordinate. Why?
@draege.bsky.social and @maryhenjimenez.bsky.social find two overlooked drivers (⁠resource asymmetry and extraordinary times as stress-tests) in their deep comparative analysis of Venezuela and Turkey journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨 3-Year Postdoc in Political Science at Aarhus University 🚨

I’m seeking to recruit a postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu research project 𝑬𝑸𝑼𝑰𝑳𝑰𝑩𝑹𝑰𝑼𝑴 on state-citizen interactions.

Link and more information in second post.

Position Start: Fall 2026
Application Deadline: ‼️ February 5, 2026, 23:59 CET ‼️

🚨Jobs!🚨

3-year PostDoc positions (aka Research Officers) at @lsegovernment.bsky.social to work with me on the local consequences of border change. Please reach out for questions and apply by Jan 4th to join the team and department: I’d love to hear from you!

Job ad: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Call for Papers for the LoPaPol 2026 workshop in Darmstadt, 24-25 March 2026.

Abstract proposals should be sent until January 11 to Christina-Marie Juen or Martin Gross.

LoPaPol is back! 💥

Come join us in Darmstadt for the 3️⃣ edition of the Local Party Politics workshop!

⏰ 24-25 March 2026

🚧 Organizers: @christinajuen.bsky.social Björn Egner @pluggedchris.bsky.social & myself with the help of LoPaPol legends @simonotjes.bsky.social & @rafreuse.bsky.social

Mayor Karácsony and his supporters protest with torches in front of the Prime Minister's office (Photo by Huszti István / Telex)

if you want to understand why #Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony (@europeangreens.eu) is protesting w/ flaming torches rn in front of PM #Orbán 's office & why the 🇭🇺 capital might go bankrupt very soon, I have an OA 🔓 article published at @cjres.bsky.social for you: academic.oup.com/cjres/articl...

@sonjapriebus.bsky.social Aleksandra Maatsch& me are organizing a workshop on 'Opposing challenges to democracy across contexts' in Frankfurt (Oder) 26-27 March 2026.

Do you have a paper that might fit? ➡️Call for Papers (📆Deadline: 05/12)
www.dvpw.de/informatione...

🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨
Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3