Bernd Schlipphak

Kathrin Ackermann u ich kandidieren für den RatSWD u freuen uns über die Unterstützung der Politikwissenschaft (u darüber hinaus :) ). Bis Montag (16.2.) können sich alle Promovierten registrieren, um dann an der Wahl im März teilnehmen zu können.

Registrieren:
www.konsortswd.de/ueber-uns/ra...

🚨📄 New paper (conditional accepted at @thejop.bsky.social):

We test whether social desirability bias actually distorts answers in online surveys.

Short version:
It mostly doesn’t.

w. @timallinger.bsky.social @kristianvsf.bsky.social @morganlcj.bsky.social

URL: osf.io/preprints/os...

3rd MethodsNET Conference 2026 – MethodsNET 3rd MethodsNET Conference 2026 The global hub for research methods innovations, excellence and smart use . 28-30 October 2026, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Th

The methodology evolution is coming.

On Feb 11th, #MethodsNET opens the Call for Proposals for our next conference. We’re looking for innovative takes on qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods.

Check out the conference details here: methodsnet.org/conference/3...

#AcademicSky #MethodsNET

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨

7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers.
Free of charge (limited travel support).

Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org
#methodsky #polisky

Starting a new thread to collect critical perspectives on AI, as they are articulated dozens of times every day and appear repeatedly on my timeline. I can't read everything right away, but if, like me, you want to stay up to date, then this might help a bit:

Decoding German Politics with StateParl—A Text Corpus of Plenary Protocols in the 16 German Länder Parliaments - Politische Vierteljahresschrift The availability of large amounts of machine-readable text data has enabled political scientists to explore a variety of novel and innovative research questions. In this context, parliamentary documen...

Looking for speeches from all German state parliaments?

@cgnguyen.bsky.social , Eric Beltermann, Sabine Kropp & Antonios Souris have you covered.

Introducing the StateParl Corpus. Now open access with PVS:

doi.org/10.1007/s11615-025-00643-5

Join us for the LOVE REPLICATIONS WEEK from March 2 - 6 with talks on reproductions, replications, how to find them, how to conduct them, how to have them conducted on your study, where to publish them, and much more!

Trump wants our attention. Let’s stop falling for his geopolitical clickbait | Catherine De Vries Whether he’s targeting Greenland, tariffs or Iran, Trump’s agenda is to distract – because a Europe that is always reacting is never planning, says political scientist Catherine De Vries

Today in @theguardian.com, I argue that Donald Trump’s foreign-policy playbook is increasingly about attention capture, or what I call geopolitical clickbait.

Plus I outline why this matters for Europe & what to do about it.

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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Geopolitics is now also a battle for attention. Europe should stop feeding the spectacle, and start playing the long game.

/end

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...

When two years of academic work [using ChatGPT] vanished with a single click
www.nature.com/articles/d41... "these tools were not developed with academic standards of reliability and accountability in mind". I don't to express Schadenfreude here bc I don't feel it, but this was clear from the 1/

⏳ 5 days left to apply!

4-year PhD position @stawi-univie.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
in a collegial & supportive department.

Focus: representation, party competition, political behavior, political institutions, political economy, or related.

Deadline: 28 Jan 26

jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Austerity and Populism A large literature explains the rise of populist parties with the economic insecurities stemming from globalization and technological change. But despite the long-standing focus of the comparative and...

Very happy that our review article (with the @annualreviews.bsky.social) on „Austerity and Populism“ is now available as preprint: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... - with @sattlersthomas.bsky.social

what do we want meme

@posit.co this fundamentally undermines me using your products as a teaching tool. Will this be in posit cloud too? If so, instructors need to be able to switch this off in module workspaces.

This sounds like a fantastic project and workshop - congrats, @rsenninger.bsky.social!

Asking for a friend who has to teach on Mondays: Any chance that some parts may take place in a hybrid fomat?

🟡 At Incite-Dem, we believe that a data-driven approach is crucial for tackling the democratic crises of our times.

⬇️

We are happy to release the Paths to Power Dashboard. It is the perfect tool for politics nerds!

You can find it here: ptp.isv.sv.uio.no/ptp/

It allows you to explore governments from 1966-2021 using the PtP and WhoGov datasets. See examples below.

The app has been programmed by Stuart Bramwell.

Check out our new paper in the European Journal of Political Research (@ejprjournal.bsky.social):

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us what happens when AI automates "normal science"?

I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts.
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...

📘 Presenting my new book project “How Democracies Can Survive” at the University of Hamburg

Come join us if you’re around! 👋

📅 Wednesday, 14 January 2026
⏰ 17:15–18:45
📍 VMP9, Room B130

👉 Many thanks to the HPS³ team for the invitation — looking forward to the discussion!

This is really interesting for (members of) a university discussing whether or not some publishers may be causing problematic developments in the science community.

@aufdroeseler.bsky.social - also relevant for the work of #MüCOS, I guess.

We are very looking forward to the excellent comments of @sofiemarien.bsky.social and bluesky-less Jean-Benoit Pilet, and of course to your questions & comments! Seats are limited in the EP, so make sure to register asap and join the other sessions as well. For further info, send me a DM.

In the final session of the final INCITE DEM event (12.30pm), @olivertreib.bsky.social, @canersimsek.bsky.social & I will present findings on dimensions of #inclusiveness that make people more/less willing to participate in & accepting the results of #democraticinnovations. 1/2

Do #governments use int' organizations to avoid #blame for policies that are unpopular domestically? 🌐😡

In our contribution to #RIO @the-peio.bsky.social, @tommccraehunter.bsky.social, @sujeongshim.bsky.social & I explore this question in the case of the #IMF: lnkd.in/d6kyAxKj

🚨 We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Political Science

⏰ Deadline 4th January 2026

🙋‍♀️ Any questions, please reach out

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Why do citizens who say they support democracy tolerate leaders who dismantle it? Delighted to share my paper “Framing Democracy: How Elite Discourse Shapes Citizens' Understandings of Democracy and Enables Backsliding” is forthcoming in World Politics...(1/5, link at the end)

Congrats, Martin! Be aware that you may encounter much less rational actors than most PA approaches will assume.

Image of me holding a huge gavel, which is AI-generated. In the background an abstract painting with lines and small squares and rectangles in yellow, red and blue yellow on a white canvas.

Very happy to share that the Faculty Board has appointed me as the new Head of our Public Administration department, starting in January. I’m really looking forward to this new role, above all because our group is made up of a bunch of fantastic colleagues.