Join us next week for an exciting grand opening w/ Max in the TADA.cool spring 🌱 speaker series on LLMs in survey research ⬇️
Very excited for the first session of our TADA spring speaker series on LLMs in survey research!
**Telephone Surveys Meet Conversational AI**
With Max Lang
Tuesday, 18 March 2026 | 17:00 CEST | Online
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Please join us this spring for this exciting series of talks!👇
🚨 TADA Speaker Series Spring 2026 schedule is here! 🚨
We've assembled a fantastic lineup of researchers exploring the future of survey research in the age of LLMs.
Mar 18 - May 27, online at 17:00 CEST. Join us!
More info & signup: tada.cool
Now in print (and open access):
What happens when voters learn their party disagrees with them?
I ran a pre-registered experiment with a representative sample of ~3,000 German voters to find out.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Interesting: "Findings suggest that the left-right political orientation of journalists affects the use of subjectivity in reporting and political party composition, but in the opposite direction [from what was expected]: [Left-leaning] journalists seem to overcompensate for their individual views."
🧑🤝🧑Do politicians consider the gender of leaders when selecting coalition partners?
➡️Using a conjoint on 979 Spanish mayors, @albahuidobro.bsky.social finds that mayors, especially those on the center and left, prefer coalitions with parties led by women www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
Connected_Politics Lab Seminars, Spring Trimester ⤵️
- 28 Jan: @jessicadicocco.bsky.social
– 11 Feb: Akitaka Matsuo
– 25 Feb: @malojan.bsky.social, @luissattelmayer.bsky.social, and Noémie Piolat
– 4 Mar: @vivifabrien.bsky.social
– 1 Apr: @elisaadamico.bsky.social
– 15 Apr: @miriamsorace.bsky.social
🍿 If you’re looking to understand what’s happening inside the Dutch far right, today is a great day to read this paper in
@epsrjournal.bsky.social on the evolution of populist radical right party organization in the Netherlands. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
🚨🎉 New Publication! 🎉🚨
This week, I'm joined by Rutger Bregman, Dutch historian and the guy who went viral telling Davos billionaires to pay their taxes.
We explore why so many of us feel stuck, unfulfilled, or disconnected from purpose, and how to redirect our talent toward what actually matters.
Episode 955✌🏼🌱
Last day to sign up! 👇
I posted it here before, but @favstats.eu and I wrote an entry about LLMs in the encyclopedia below 👇
Final version is out now at www.elgaronline.com/display/book...
Or read the preprint: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
Happening Tomorrow! 👇
Can really recommend this! @fabianhabersack.bsky.social is a fantastic JS host!
Happening this week! 👇
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Our next #TADA session is just around the corner! 🚨
We are absolutely delighted to welcome Ju Yeon (Julia) Park, who will present her paper: "Toward a framework for creating trustworthy measures with supervised machine learning for text."
📅 Wed., Dec. 10, 17:00-18:00 (Berlin)
More info: tada.cool
A big thank you to our paper presenters August de Mulder, @andreavik.bsky.social, @feliciarthm.bsky.social, @robinweisser.bsky.social, and our discussant @pieterdewilde.bsky.social🙏
And of course to our roundtable of experts: Suzanne Dovi, @elinesevers.bsky.social , and @petraguasti.bsky.social 👏
🚨📣Very excited to announce our Online INCONEX Kick-Off Workshop on December 12 from 13:45 to 17:45 (CET)!
We have a great line-up of paper presentations and a fantastic roundtable. Everyone is welcome!
👉 Sign up here: bit.ly/inconex_workshop
@erc.europa.eu #PoliticalScience #Representation
🚨Publication Alert!
My first first-author publication with @msaeltzer.bsky.social and @pluggedchris.bsky.social is out in @polbehavior.bsky.social, which began as my bachelor's thesis. We study how party polarization shapes affective polarization—with a particularly important role of the AfD. (1/7)🧵
🎙️ Listen now to the latest episode of our students' podcast, where they interviewed @lucykinski.bsky.social (project leader) and @clint0475.bsky.social (project assistant) about their INCONEX project funded by the @erc.europa.eu
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Podcast: buff.ly/Wui0qo9
Project website: buff.ly/ulzMTmf
Happy to have been part of this episode with @clint0475.bsky.social talking all things INCONEX, but also about the EU, what it means to be a political scientist these days, how AI will shape how we teach, and much more. Take a listen! 👂👇
🔔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!
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
🚨 Join us next Wednesday (🗓️ Nov 26, 🕔 5pm Berlin time) for an exciting session 🥳. @khaoulache.bsky.social will present co-authored work on "Beyond the Safety Bundle: Auditing the Helpful and Harmless Dataset".
If you'd like to join, please sign up for the mailing TADA.cool or send us a message.
New article out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Tabea Palmtag and @dpzollinger.bsky.social 📝
We use open-ended survey questions (in Germany) to assess how and among whom social status shifts are perceived. This tests cultural backlash narratives in voters' perceptions.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...
Happening Today! 👇
Happening this Wednesday!👇
To join, either sign up for our newsletter at tada.cool, join our Slack channel (#reading-group) for access to the paper and the Zoom link at join.slack.com/t/tadapolisc..., or shoot @nicolaiberk.bsky.social, @verenakunz.bsky.social, @cklamm.bsky.social or me a message.
