@alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social
Political Scientist: democratic crises and political behaviour Head of Survey Data Curation at @gesisorg.bsky.social Professor of Empirical Social Research at the University of Cologne
Really? I mean, really?
25.07.2025 20:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you have any questions for this post, @markusquandt.bsky.social and myself are happy to respond.
24.07.2025 07:39 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Job offer: You love international electoral studies? If you'd like to lead the CSES data processing team at GESIS in Cologne, Germany, and be part of the CSES Secretariat, apply here before August 15th:
www.gesis.org/en/institute...
🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!
Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14
Make survey methodology cool again?
21.07.2025 07:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Make America Sick Again: Apparently science on the impact of saturated fats on heart disease stopped in the 1970s and was all wrong anyway. Go eat your Big Mac and deep fried onion rings without a second thought.
18.07.2025 12:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Short piece about our @nature.com paper on the immigrant-native pay gap in The Conversation! Also broad coverage in (so far) German, Dutch, and Spanish central news outlets today!
17.07.2025 09:14 — 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
🎤 Powerful keynote by @milleridriss.bsky.social from @perilresearch.bsky.social at the #iRex Institute opening in Tübingen. Miller-Idriss exposed how antidemocratic movements exploit gender to polarize, elevate “strong men,” and sell a fantasy of male supremacy. Research we urgently need right now!
16.07.2025 18:09 — 👍 56 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1
The history of data infrastructures go back a full century! History lessons at #ESRA conference. 🌍
16.07.2025 12:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 We're hiring!
Join our CSES Team @gesis.org Cologne as a Senior Researcher. If you’re into comparative electoral research and love diving into data, this is your moment.
Come shape global democracy with us! 🌍📊
www.gesis.org/en/institute...
If #ESRA then have a stob by the @gesis.org stand. See you there!
15.07.2025 15:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We invite paper submissions to our workshop on Earth Observation Data in the Social Sciences @gesis.org
⏳November 26-28, 2025
🎓Keynotes Prof. Dr. Monika Kuffer (University of Twente)
Dr. Ana Andries (University of Surrey).
⏱️Deadline August 6th
✉️abstracts (max. 500 words) to dennis.abel@gesis.org
Well, here it starts. Reality is better than film
11.07.2025 07:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I am waiting for the next Bond Film using Elon Musk as the blueprint for the Bond villain. Is Hollywood listening?
10.07.2025 13:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Final statement: "Descriptive research is important and it is a pity that the general obsession with causal estimates disincentivizes researchers from attempting to publish careful and detailed description." Thank you.
09.07.2025 16:15 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
#Forschungsinfrastruktur #mitGESISindieZukunft
GESIS ist mit dem Konzept #RIDLOP auf der Shortlist für das nationale Priorisierungsverfahren für Forschungsinfrastrukturen!
Ziel: Datenzugang zu großen Online-Plattformen für die Wissenschaft ermöglichen.
Mehr zum Projekt: www.gesis.org/ridlop
The German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space announced their shortlist for their prioritization process for large research infrastructures - and we are on it! So keeping fingers crossed that we can build RIDLOP - Research Infrastructure for Data from Large Online Platforms soon.
08.07.2025 22:15 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Amazing news! Our @gesis.org concept "Research Infrastructure for Data from Large Online Platforms (RIDLOP)" for new research infrastructures in Germany was shortlisted by the Federal Ministry of research. Fantastic news and Congrats 🎉 to the amazing @kwelle.bsky.social and @sebstier.bsky.social 💥
09.07.2025 09:34 — 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0Change your gender, you changes everything 😂
09.07.2025 08:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In case you missed it: Clear statement from a senior advisor at the US State Department calling for regime change in Europe because "Europe has devolved into a hotbed of digital censorship, mass migration, restrictions on religious freedom, and numerous other assaults on democratic self-governance."
09.07.2025 06:33 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0We welcome papers bridging social & Earth system science—both methodological & substantive. Especially keen on innovative methods & experimental designs using Earth observation data for social science research, if linked with surveys, even better! Broad topics & approaches welcome!
09.07.2025 06:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We invite paper submissions to our workshop on Earth Observation Data in the Social Sciences @gesis.org
⏳November 26-28, 2025
🎓Keynotes Prof. Dr. Monika Kuffer (University of Twente)
Dr. Ana Andries (University of Surrey).
⏱️Deadline August 6th
✉️abstracts (max. 500 words) to dennis.abel@gesis.org
Cologne is a great place to live, as 1,1 Million people celebrate #pride on the #csd parade and the local police makes a statement about how happy they are, that all went well, thanks everyone for their good spirits and states a heartfelt "see you next year".
08.07.2025 07:38 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
▶️ Cross-country between-subject approach:
We identify the causal effect of subtitling in a difference-in-differences specification that compares
1⃣ English to math skills (1st diff)
2⃣ in European countries that do & do not use subtitles (2nd diff)
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The data you get for your research have a history, and people are behind them. Here one of the data managers story, from the 1980s to today. www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-...
07.07.2025 07:12 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
27% of French see the US now as an adversary. (16% in Germany, 18% in the UK)
Most still think the US is a necessary partner - but no longer an ally
Poll instituteforglobalaffairs.org/wp-content/u...
Our Element is out! 🎉
Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms?
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
‼️ There are a few more days left to apply for the PhD positions in my group at KU Leuven. Make sure to send in applications by July 4! 👇
30.06.2025 06:57 — 👍 50 🔁 46 💬 0 📌 3
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
New episode in Sexism and the Vote, the one on deep gender bias.
24.06.2025 12:11 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
