Daniel Thiele

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A drizzle, not a storm: Polarisation around climate change in dutch political and media debates European Consortium for Political Research

🌍 A drizzle, not a storm: Polarisation around climate change in dutch political and media debates.

Join us at the next ECR Club session with Edwin Jans (Wageningen University). #polcom #ecpr

🗓 Tue, 10 Feb 2026
🕚 11:00–11:45 GMT
🎤 Chair: Mariken van der Velden

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Don't miss our exciting first @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social X @ecreaeu.bsky.social #ECR session of the year!

Tue, Jan 13, 12:00 CET
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An Emotional Reaction: Analyzing The Publics Response to Communication Tactics Used by Political Leaders in Norway During the COVID-19 Pandemic European Consortium for Political Research

Join our ECR Club session on 9 Dec, 12:00: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

Exciting research on emotional responses to elite communication by Roy Aulie Jacobsen. Also, particularly happy to have wonderful @pjost.bsky.social on board as discussant!

#ecpr #polcom

🚨 Call for Papers!

The Polcomm Section invites submissions for #APSA2026, taking place September 3–6.

Next year’s theme is “Democracy Under Threat: How to Understand, Protect & Rebuild.”

👉 Submit now: buff.ly/PRvg2Wq

Now out in Party Politics 🎉

Our study (@jbpilet.bsky.social)suggests that when a mainstream right-wing party signals willingness to rule with the radical right, support for the radical right rises — while the mainstream gains nothing.
👉 A legitimisation effect.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Development status is still fresh and a little bit experimental. I am happy to hear about your #experiences across different OS and from CPU-only users. And please, be patient in case of issues -- my primary role is being a researcher :)

The package takes care of (most of) the backend installations🦾, sentence tokenization ✂️, text cleaning 🪥, language detection, and translation 👅.
It uses your CUDA GPU if available!
Let me know about your experiences and use github for troubleshooting: github.com/thieled/easi...

GitHub - thieled/easieRnmt: R wrapper around the EasyNMT python library, providing "Easy to use, state-of-the-art Neural Machine Translation for 100+ languages" locally. R wrapper around the EasyNMT python library, providing "Easy to use, state-of-the-art Neural Machine Translation for 100+ languages" locally. - thieled/easieRnmt

Are you an R-user looking for a ✨reproducible and free✨ solution to use #machine-translation in your #text-as-data project? Try out my new #rstats package #easieRnmt that wraps around the EasyNMT py-library for local machine tranlsation: github.com/thieled/easi...

We hope you enjoyed Day 1 of #ecprgc25 as much as we did! 🙌

We’re excited to continue on Day 2 our #PolCom section “Bridging Gaps: Political Communication’s Role in Reducing Democratic Erosion” with another strong line-up of panels:👇🧵 [1/x]

Good morning, Thessaloniki! Kicking off our #polcom section at #ecprgc25🎉

Day 1 panels:

📌 The Role of Social Media in Political Discourse — Tue 08:30–10:15
📌 Framing and Political Persuasion Strategies — Tue 10:45–12:30

All panels in Polytech. S., Fl. 2, W. B 1(301)

Excited to see you there!

🏃 #ica25 public service announcement:

#RunningWithPresidents Round 1

🗓️ Friday 06.30 in front of Hyatt Regency.

⏰ Yes early, but #BeatTheHeat #jetlag etc.

📍 App 5k, gentle pace.

🌇 Route scouted by @dscheykopp.bsky.social

Let folks know. Everyone is welcome 🎽

I'm really sad but won't have enough time on day1 -- are there plans for day2 yet?

Don't miss out signaling your interest as presenter or discussant here:
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We, @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social are super excited to launch a new virtual format for early career researchers in political communication (ECPR or ECREA members) for discussing their drafts!

Thanks @olgaeisele.bsky.social and @alenakluknavska.bsky.social for organizing & ECREA for joining forces!

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

📆01/05

🏆 Think your best PolCom article in the past year was better than others' best article? Let's find out!
10 days to submit to the Kaid-Sanders Award for the Best Political Communication Article of the Year: 📬 c.baden@mail.huji.ac.il
Details: www.facebook.com/share/p/1EKe...

A mirror selfie of a fully--yet efficiently packed--conference traveller / cyclist.

Same guy in the train. unmounted bike transformed into a neatly stored piece of bulky luggage in the background.

Best way of conference traveling: Bring a bike 🚲!
Omw (with a 🐰 detour) to Vienna for @comptext.bsky.social and to grab my PhD certificate in efficient packing. 😏🧳

Still cannot believe it, but it's a wrap: I successfully defended my PhD yesterday at @univie.ac.at 🍾🎓✨

Thank you to my wonderful reviewers @lindabos.bsky.social & Nina Springer; to my supervisor Birgit Sauer; and @fabiennelind.bsky.social for the organizaion 🪄! Vienna treated me so well. 💖

Visiting @univie.ac.at this week for @thieled.bsky.social’s defense. If anyone is up for a meeting, let me know! Always happy to chat with junior scholars specifically.

awesome, congratulations Christina!

Any #trailrunners 🏃‍♂️🏞️ traveling to #ica25 who want to team up against team grizzly? 🐻🐾

count me in! 🙌

It is so interesting to see how fast things are moving suddenly in the world of social media & #journalism. Such as increasing adaption of #bluesky sharing on newspaper sites ⬇️. I really would not have expected this a few weeks ago… #commsky

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When you've done so many
#ica reviews that you can easily plot them. I call it #ica2025 #wrapped 👀✨
#rstats #commsky #polcom

📢 APSA POLCOMM SECTION: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS🗳️
The American Political Science Association Political Communication Section is now accepting nominations for leadership positions for the 2024-2025 term! 📅
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