Daniel Kovarek

🚨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

🌟 JOB ALERT! 🌟

I’m hiring 1 postdoc for my ERC project ECONENGAGE (@ Gothenburg 🇸🇪)! Starting ca. Aug '26! Congenial colleagues + int'l & supportive environment. 💸 for conferences + workshops! Lots of professional networking opportunities with scholars! Deadline Jan 7th. Apply! (see more below 🧵)

Congrats!!

rent might be higher in Budapest than in Florence, and croissants cost more than in Vienna –– but you can still get a high-quality, nationally representative probability sample via CAPI in Hungary for under 3,000 EUR

a group picture of scholars from 8 different institutions, with frescos depicting the successful campaign of Cosimo I against Siena above their heads

today marks the end of our RADAR 📡 consortium meeting! Our @eui-stg.bsky.social team was delighted to host partners from @hertieschool.bsky.social @io-pgi-kuleuven.bsky.social @qoginstitute.bsky.social @ditpgouv.bsky.social Radboud, SNSPA & TalTech 🙌

Start of the consortium meeting of the Horizon RADAR project theradarproject.eu on democratic anchorage of public administration reforms.
Some universities have better ceilings than others.

📣 this is a super exciting opportunity for anyone methods-minded!!

Unequal Political Representation of Core and Periphery: How Regions That Don’t Matter Vote for Parties That Don’t Bother Geographical orientation of political party families in the Netherlands, 2017-2021.

Publication Alert: @evertmeijers.bsky.social and I examined the spatial orientation of MPs in NL. We studied whether MPs' region of origin matters and the parties' electoral consequences. We show a paradox: peripheral places don't reward parties that pay attention to them doi.org/10.1111/tesg...

tmap vs. ggplot2 for mapping – Geospatial Stuff For me at least the choice between ggplot2 and tmap is an ongoing question. Here are my latest thoughts on the subject (with code).

tmap or ggplot2 for maps? 🗺️

David O’Sullivan breaks down the trade-offs in a blog post.

URL: dosull.github.io/posts/2024-1...

#RStats #RSpatial #Maps #tmap #ggplot2

Work on #transnational #illiberalism? Consider submitting a paper for my workshop at ecpr.bsky.social joint sessions! Seeking papers on #illiberal #parties, #socialmovements, #transnationalism and trans-regionalism. Deadline 3 December! Event details here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project

You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna!

⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025

wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...

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Tomorrow from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., we at the Italian Center for Electoral Studies will host a webinar with @sldelange.bsky.social to analyze the evolution of the Dutch party system after the recent 2025 election!

Info and link to join here: scienzepolitiche.luiss.it/research-sem...

Four three-year postdoctoral positions in the project Slow-Motion Democracy - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

Four (!) three-year postdoc positions available at @au.dk: international.au.dk/about/profil...

Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy.

Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs

🖥️ New to R? Our 2-day online intro course at #KOMEX2026 covers coding basics, data wrangling, visualizations, & regression – no prior experience needed.

📅 Feb 19–20 | €180 early bird | 1 ECTS
👨‍🏫 Taught by @kovarek.bsky.social @ @eui-eu.bsky.social

🔗 afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...

Sadly I’ll have to miss the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social conference, as two of my best friends are tying the knot that same weekend 👰‍♀️🤵 For anyone not drowning in 30-somethings hunting for rings and last names, this is definitely the one to apply for!👇

Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (288628) | University of Oslo Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (288628), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, November 17, 2025

We are hiring PhDs and postdocs to work on the ERC project GETGOV, where I am the PI.

We will investigate governing elites since 1789. I am sure that it will be a lot of fun and result in great research!

Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

PhDs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Putin comes to Budapest so often, even pest control companies plan around his visits –– this one promises to be on time, even when he's in town

NEW! The public opinion effects of antisemitic elite cues: a survey experiment on the Hungarian Soros campaign in @eepolitics.bsky.social w/ @bencehamrak.bsky.social @erinjenne.bsky.social G.Simonovits. Soros cues worked through partisan motivated reasoning & not antisemitism doi.org/10.1080/2159...

📢 Call open!
We are hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher for the EU-funded project TaCT-FoRSED, which studies how conspiracy theories affect democratic attitudes.

ℹ️ Info: tauler.seu-e.cat/detall?idEns...

🔗 Application: seleccio.uab.cat/seleccio/log...

super happy to receive a BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant with my friend @dasilvapp.bsky.social to field survey experiments in 🇭🇺 Hungary (and hopefully also bring him to @eui-eu.bsky.social to visit once we have results!) 🎉 #Polisky

Whoa—my book is up for pre-order!

𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭 & 𝐌𝐋 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 #Rstats 𝐚𝐧𝐝 #PyData

The book presents an ultra-simple and powerful workflow to make sense of ± any model you fit

The web version will stay free forever and my proceeds go to charity.

tinyurl.com/4fk56fc8

Congrats!!

Constituency references in social media: MPs' usage and voters' reaction OLIVER HUWYLER, NATHALIE GIGER, STEFANIE BAILER, TOMAS TURNER-ZWINKELS, SILVAN HELLER

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🔥 MPs often invoke local cues in Tweets, especially during campaign periods, but these authors study finds no clear electoral reward. Local references don’t boost voters’ support or preference votes. 📊

#PoliSky #VotingBehaviour #OA

Exploring {ggplot2}’s Geoms and Stats – Stat’s What It’s All About

New blog post!

Ever wonder what geom_histogram is actually doing? How about geom_boxplot?

In celebration of the release of #ggplot2 4.0.0 (ggplot8?), I explore the relationships between the “geoms” and “stats” offered by the core {ggplot2} functions.

#rstats

Bridging Boundaries: The State of the Art in Empirical Gender and Politics Research European Consortium for Political Research

Interested in gender & politics and working with exciting empirical methods?
Want to critically discuss “quant” and “quali” research on gender, intersectionality & inequality?

Join us at #ECPG26 for the section:

ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

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🚨📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Computational Political Science at the University of Antwerp!

💻 Focus: NLP + ML + political text analysis
🗳️ Project: ERC DEMO-LIES (disinformation in democracies)
🌍 Location: Antwerp, 🇧🇪
📅 Deadline: 16 Oct 2025

www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...