Sophia Hunger

A bit late to post, but last week was too good not to celebrate! Immensely grateful to the organizers and everyone who made it such a supportive space – so much learning, coding, and laughing! 💻✨ #wpm

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!

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It's been a busy July so far!

☀️ It was great to first attend the Barcelona School of Economics Summer School, where I learned lots about Statistical Machine Learning for Large and Unstructured Data 👩‍💻

It's not easy being a female researcher. But this week, I felt the power of brilliant women* coming together: mutual support, inspiring conversations & lots of code!👩‍💻 We tackled it all: Web scraping, LLMs & data viz. Many thanks to @sophiahunger.bsky.social @gessler.bsky.social, Jelena & Sophia #wpm

🚞 Now I'm on my way home from the fantastic #WomenInPolMeth Summer school in Bremen. Learned lots and met awesome like-minded folks 🫶 From web scraping to LLMs, we covered it all!

Many thanks to the organizers @gessler.bsky.social, @sophiahunger.bsky.social and bsky-less Sophia and Jelena!

Made a tiny pit stop between conferences to teach at the summer school for women* in #polmeth [http://summerschoolwpm.org/]. And I'm glad, because I got to meet all the talented participants! Thanks to @sophiahunger.bsky.social and @gessler.bsky.social for organizing and for having me!

Happy to be part of this great initiative this year! 😊

Today, we wrapped up the first part of the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology at @unibremen.bsky.social with a hackathon 👩‍💻
#WomeninPolMeth #PolMeth #wpm

So far, we've had a great week thanks to our fantastic participants and instructors 🧵⏬

📫 Latest special issue: Europe's Changing Protest Landscape, edited by ‪@sophiahunger.bsky.social and Swen Hutter.

In their introductory article, they sketch Europe's ‘new contentious politics’ landscape and preview the issue's articles 👇

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Grateful to be part of this unique and inspiring summer school. Looking forward to the days ahead and the opportunity to learn from both the outstanding speakers and fellow participants. A heartfelt thank-you already for the excellent organization! #wpm

Just wrapped up a workshop on advanced graphics & data viz! 📊📈
Have a fantastic and inspiring rest of the week! ✨

and to hear an insightful keynote from @msands.bsky.social‬ on political methodology. It’s fantastic to see so many brilliant women* coming together to learn, connect, and support each other in the field. Excited for a week full of new ideas and collaborations! (2)
#WomenInPolMeth #Bremen #wpm

What an inspiring first day at the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology here in Bremen yesterday! We were honored to be welcomed by the president of @unibremen.bsky.social‬, Prof. Jutta Günther, (1)

on my way to Bremen with spezi and the most beautiful booklet I’ve ever seen 🥹

(there is a even list of specialty coffee locations!)

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📣 Postdoc (75 %, 3 yrs) at @unigreifswald.bsky.social — start autumn 2025 on perhaps Germany’s most beautiful campus. Know someone with a PhD (or nearly done) in Political Science? ⬇️ #PolSci #Postdoc

Proportion of Papers by Year and Team Type

Excited to kick off #EPSA2025 on Day 1, Panel 1! 🎉

I’ll present my co-authored research with @michaelimre.bsky.social on 50 years of gender representation in political science publications. We analyze nearly 100,000 articles across 72 journals to uncover long-term trends. 🔍

@epsanet.bsky.social

❗ The 𝘞𝘡𝘉 𝘉𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘯 (@wzb.bsky.social‬) establishes a 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 for the 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 and is looking for its future 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 ❗

📣 Let all the excellent democracy researchers out there know! ⁣
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wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire... ⁣

#Polisky
@epsanet.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social

Die deutsche Zivilgesellschaft diskutiert permanent über Strategie - zum Beispiel gegen die extreme Rechte. In unserem Forschungsprojekt haben wir 192 Handreichungen und Leitfäden von zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen - darunter sicherlich einige die sich als "links" verstehen - gesammelt.

Screenshot of the abstract of the article.

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION! Who belongs to “the people” – and who does not?

What a great way to start the week. I’m really happy that my article on populist in- and outgroup references is now out in @polstudies.bsky.social #openaccess 🔓

doi.org/10.1177/0032...

🧵 1/10

🚨 New WP! 📄 "Publish or Procreate: The Effect of Motherhood on Research Performance" (w/ @valentinatartari.bsky.social
👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 We investigate how parenthood affects scientific productivity and impact — and find that the impact is far from equal for mothers and fathers.

🚨 New publication 🚨 : Happy to share that my paper, "Losing Touch: The Rhetorical Cost of Governing" is now forthcoming at @cpsjournal.bsky.social. Short 🧵 about the paper here 👇 1/10

The Hungarian government 🇭🇺 further cracks down on its civil sector. The bill proposes forcing those leading civil orgs to disclose their private assets and defunding orgs that 'harm sovereignty' e.g. by criticizing the gov as undemocratic or advocating LGBTQ rights

summary: telex.hu/english/2025...

Why accommodate? How niche pressure and intra-party divisions shape mainstream party strategies Research demonstrates that mainstream parties often take up the issues and positions of emerging Eurosceptic and anti-immigration parties. Yet, these accommodative strategies generally do not pay o...

To complete the X migration, I am happy to share my recent article, now open access in @jeppjournal.bsky.social.
The argument: Intra-party divisions are one important reason why mainstream parties take on the issues and positions of Eurosceptic and anti-immigration parties.
doi.org/10.1080/1350...

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

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e-Extreme Archive European Consortium for Political Research

We are delighted to present the latest edition of our @ecpr-ead.bsky.social e-Extreme Newsletter, courtesy of our wonderful editorial team: @audreygagnon.bsky.social, @lazaroskaravasilis.bsky.social and @sabinedvolk.bsky.social. You can download it via our website: ecpr.eu/news/news/de...

Organized by myself, Sophia Roppertz, @gessler.bsky.social @denisetraber.bsky.social, supported by @unibremen.bsky.social BIGSSS @dsc-ub.bsky.social

Please share widely & reach out to us via if you have questions!

@womenalsoknowstuff.bsky.social
@ecpr.bsky.social

#methodsky #polisky