Bernd Schlipphak

“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.

Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪

Climate cooperation, devolution, and the difficulties for left-behind places around climate policy - UK in a changing Europe Patrick Bayer and Federica Genovese argue that while communities exposed to climate mitigation are afraid of net zero, some might be more interested in international climate cooperation than you think...

"It is important to understand whether people in left-behind regions– such as former coal communities – feel that the transition is something done with them rather than to them."

@patrickbayer.bsky.social & @fgenovese.bsky.social
on climate cooperation and devolution

ukandeu.ac.uk/climate-coop...

Agree with much of what Cyrus says in his blog post and the comments below.

I'd add that some of the best recent work in poli sci is mixed methods, and uses a combo of observational data, experiments/quasi-experiments, and in-depth interviews/case studies to answer a puzzle from multiple angles.

A blog post giving a more thorough take on survey experiments and the credibility revolution: cyrussamii.com?p=4168

It has been a while since @flavioazevedo.bsky.social asked me to take over the Reversals project at @forrt.bsky.social...

It has since evolved beyond my wildest dreams, mostly thanks to @aufdroeseler.bsky.social & @lukaswallrich.bsky.social.

We are very proud of the Replication Hub & Database ♥️

⏰ I’m happy to share that a major paper from my dissertation was published today (🔗 doi.org/10.1017/pan....) in Political Analysis. In the paper, Clemens Lechner and I conduct an extensive validation study on how to measure politicians’ public personality traits using computational text analysis!

It was our pleasure having you, @fialalenka.bsky.social & @i4replication.bsky.social here @uni-muenster.de - great to see many people from several disciplines working together to improve (social) science!

Thanks also @aufdroeseler.bsky.social #MüCOS & Katrin & Oliver #CDSC for making co-orga fun!

@andreadis.bsky.social and I are happy to announce the #ecprjs26 Workshop 'Linking Euroscepticism and Populism' 7 – 10 April, University of Innsbruck, Austria. We look forward to your papers!
Submit by 10 Dec
#Polisky #CallforPapers #Euroscepticism #populism #democracy #EUPopLink

Susanne Menzel-Riedl wird am 1. Oktober 2026 neue Rektorin Die Präsidentin der Universität Osnabrück, Prof. Dr. Susanne Menzel Riedl, wird zum 1. Oktober 2026 neue Rektorin der Universität Münster. Sie tritt damit die Nachfolge von Prof. Dr. Johannes Wessels ...

Die Präsidentin der Universität Osnabrück, Prof. Dr. Susanne Menzel Riedl, wird zum 1. Oktober 2026 neue Rektorin der Universität Münster. Sie tritt damit die Nachfolge von Prof. Dr. Johannes Wessels an, der seit 2016 im Amt ist.

We are very looking forward to having you, @fialalenka.bsky.social, and hosting the event @uni-muenster.de jointly with #MüCOS and #CDSC! The (unexpectedly) high number of participants once again confirms that #reproducibility and #openscience really matters.

Nicht vergessen, dass Du als Politische Theoretikerin am besten in Orangerien arbeiten und diskutieren solltest (citing @svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social here). Dafür ist die Gegend rund um Rostock mit Gutshäusern und schönen Parks ideal. Enjoy!

After a long time in development, {traktok} #rstats is now finally on CRAN!

Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered

jbgruber.github.io/traktok/

🔔Job Alert 🔔
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!

🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨

We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social

Any questions, please reach out to me

📣 Please share! 📣

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Beside listening to the podcast, you should really read the full paper - the environmental costs are only one of the paper's punchlines. Plus: it is written in a very accessible way. Kudos to the authors, @seanhp.bsky.social, @isaacbravo.bsky.social & @clint0475.bsky.social!

osf.io/download/vwb5h

BJPolS abstract on the impact of environmental protests on public support, using evidence from surveys and experiments in the Netherlands, discussing media coverage and its effects on public perceptions.

NEW -

Public Support for Pro-environment and Environment-Critical Movements - https://cup.org/3XzCAEJ

- @dirckdekleer.bsky.social, @catherinedevries.bsky.social & @simonvanteutem.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

The current historical moment - esp. embodied by the return of President Trump - has let pundits push a need for so-called "Climate Realism".

@jeffcolgan.bsky.social & I are pleased @iojournal.bsky.social let us write our thoughts on this and subsequent trends in global climate politics. 🧵 below:

On Wednesday, @riazsascha.bsky.social will join us in Münster to present phenomenal work on regime loyalty during the Nazi regime! joint work w De Juan, @felixhaass.bsky.social + @juvoss.bsky.social

As always, you can join us via zoom!
organized w @danbischof.bsky.social + @mwegemann.bsky.social

Very happy that my paper on the future of US trade policy, co-authored with Alessia Invernizzi, is part of this special issue

My 9yo told me he’d done his homework at the daycare. I told him this was impossible. He showed me his finished work. I told him the problem was conceptual not empirical. Now he’s annoyed at me.

Just published in @bjpols.bsky.social: @sergipardos.bsky.social and I show that inter-regional moves in pursuit of employment security reduce individual worries about immigration—a mobility pattern that, in the aggregate, reinforces spatial polarization in anti-immigration sentiment. cup.org/3XiB6yD

Cool paper, Denis! Do you know Andreas Wimmer (Columbia University, not yet on bluesky)? His most recent paper makes a somewhat similar argument, but from the side of those staying (or: not moving / rootedness). Your paper will surely be of interest to him!

🚨 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...

1/4 🧵

Democratic Backsliding and Endogenous Polarization - Political Behavior Leading accounts of contemporary democratic decline emphasize the role of polarization in enabling incumbent governments to dismantle democracy from within. This study offers a fuller portrait of this...

Our article with Erica Frantz, Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Joe Wright is out in Political Behavior (open access). We show that polarization is not just a driver of democratic backsliding; it is endogenous to backsliding. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🎓 We’re hiring!
Two researcher / PhD positions in the ERC project DANCE – Dark Nerd Communities at the University of Münster 🇪🇺
🧮 Quantitative: survey, lab + field experiments
🎙️ Qualitative: ethnography, focus groups, interviews
Apply by 28 Nov 2025 👇
#AcademicJobs #ERC #PhD #CommunicationResearch

As the programme director of the Münster side, I handed over a present to my UT counterpart, Veronica Junjan: a German apple tree, to be planted in Dutch soil on the UT campus, symbolizing our commitment to continuing the fruitful collaboration in the future (kudos to my wife for the decoration!)

After the @uni-muenster.de's minibus had safely brought us to Enschede, the delegation of @ifpolms.bsky.social couldn't resist and used the UT photo frame to snap a little group pic

"Academic" is just a fancy job title for Elsevier's content creators.

Quantitative political science shouldn’t favour tools over meaning - Impact of Social Sciences Has the fetishization of quantitative tools obscured the wider context and meaning of in political science?

Methods don’t make meaning. Theory does.

Better methods won’t eradicate the slot machine.

Put the tools to the use of theory.

Thanks to @lseimpactblog.bsky.social for featuring my post.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

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𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 - how can we make sense of complex data on democratic innovations?

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