Tim Wappenhans

📣 It’s official – we launched the Humboldt Governance Lab! 📣

We use innovative methods to deliver evidence-based insights for policy-makers, public admin, and civil society – tackling the key challenges facing democracy today.

🌐 hu-govlab.de
@humboldtuni.bsky.social

16.07.2025 19:28 — 👍 30    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 1

📣 Call for Applications 📣

3-year Postdoc position in Berlin 🚀

Join our Comparative Political Behavior Group at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & the @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social

Great people, great projects, great city – come work with us!

🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025

09.07.2025 16:41 — 👍 97    🔁 79    💬 2    📌 5

🪧 WORKING PAPER OUT 🪧

Do protests have a direct effect on bystanders?

We conducted a 3-wave field experiment in Berlin to find out.

This has been a crazy, nerve wrecking, joyful ride with a bunch of really smart people.

Check out our thread and let us know what you think!

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23.06.2025 13:17 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Does Mainstream Populism Work❓

I answer this question in a new paper officially out at @psrm.bsky.social❗

Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Key take-aways in the thread below 🧵⬇️:

25.03.2025 12:29 — 👍 156    🔁 55    💬 4    📌 4

🚨 New paper out at @jeppjournal.bsky.social. We show a growing youth gender gap in far-right support, driven by young men.

3 key findings in 🧵⬇️

w/ @zachdickson.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @heikekluever.bsky.social @theresakuhn.bsky.social @tonirodon.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/1350...

24.03.2025 14:51 — 👍 150    🔁 74    💬 6    📌 11

New working paper! In this research note, @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social, and I present the first systematic test that causally identifies the electoral consequences of state-sponsored homophobia:
osf.io/preprints/os...

🧵Thread

27.02.2025 14:05 — 👍 154    🔁 60    💬 3    📌 5

CfA for a 4 year PostDoc Position at our Research Group
at Humboldt University in Berlin. Great people, great job, great city! Come and join us!

15.12.2023 09:47 — 👍 33    🔁 28    💬 0    📌 2

📣 Calling prospective PhD Students!

We are holding an Online Info Session about applying to our PhD program @dynamics.bsky.social @hertieschool.bsky.social

📅 Dec 20
🕑 2pm CET
📝 Register: dynamics.admissions@hu-berlin.de

Come and join us!

15.12.2023 11:43 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

📢Job Alert: We´re recruiting 10 Doctoral Researchers
@dynamics.bsky.social Program studying #DemographicChange, #DemocraticProcesses and #PublicPolicy @hertieschool.bsky.social and Humboldt-University Berlin.
Great Job, great city, vibrant research community! Come and join our team in Berlin!

11.12.2023 15:31 — 👍 36    🔁 33    💬 1    📌 5

⚠️Polisky WP: What are the political consequences of plant disease epidemics 🌱🦠? @catherinedevries.bsky.social, Nico Bariletto and I answer this question studying the outbreak of Xylella that exterminated olive groves in Puglia starting in 2013. What we find? See thread ⬇️ or: osf.io/preprints/os...

06.12.2023 14:17 — 👍 39    🔁 18    💬 2    📌 3

DFG fördert zwölf neue Graduiertenkollegs Weiterlesen

Absolutely excited that the DFG has just approved the renewal of @dynamics.bsky.social 🥳🍾 We are delighted to train 20 additional PhD students working on demography, democracy and public policy during the next 5 years at Humboldt University and @hertieschool.bsky.social! www.dfg.de/service/pres...

09.11.2023 08:17 — 👍 116    🔁 20    💬 5    📌 2

What’s got two thumbs, one eye and just submitted their first article?

11.10.2023 13:42 — 👍 18    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0