Melanie Sauter

This article should have been published alongside the one it responds to. The original article finds that the authors' own (commercial) data outperforms the free UCDP data. Conflict of interest? Nah. But at least we know now that this conclusion is based on "a series of unfounded claims." 👇

ACLED locking researchers out feels less like data protection, more like damage control. Especially when the numbers already… don’t add up because they're sourced from people doing the fighting. 📉

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Tuesday morning, @melinscribe.bsky.social covered Advanced Data visualization 🎨

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Just wrapped up a workshop on advanced graphics & data viz! 📊📈
Have a fantastic and inspiring rest of the week! ✨

They be like "Rules are fine for other people. I, however, have personal freedom and a deeply held belief in being inconvenient."

There is always at least one boomer in a quiet wagon 🚂 who is not quiet. 🤐

Autofreie Quadrate & Bäume auf alle Parkplätze 💁‍♀️

If Dante wrote Inferno today, Circle 9 would be a heat dome and the sinners drive SUVs and run coal plants. 🔥🚗🏭

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I'm also presenting joint work with @acalacino.bsky.social in the same session. ✨

We argue that environmentalists are less likely to get killed during election cycles because the increased media attention could jeopardize FDI inflows.

Is my research topic relevant, or is it just stalking me on holiday? Does that count as fieldwork? 🕵️‍♀️

„KI verändert schon jetzt, wie wir denken"

Ein Experiment mit jungen Forschern an der Universität Mannheim zeigt, wie tiefgreifend ChatGPT & Co das wissenschaftliche Schreiben verändern – und dass das noch längst nicht alles ist.

Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/06...

New preprint! 🚨

We ran an experiment with early-career social scientists to test how ChatGPT helps with academic writing.

Spoiler: It boosts clarity and coherence, but not originality, methodological rigor, depth, or literature use.

(PDF) Harnessing GPT for Enhanced Academic Writing: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Early-Career Researchers in the Social Sciences PDF | Large Language Models (LLMs) bring both risk and opportunity to scholarly communication, yet their effects on expert‐level research remain... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on R...

❗ Hier das working paper zu diesem Thema von Marc Ratkovic, Thomas Gschwend, @wendering.bsky.social, Kevin Bauer, @annakurella.bsky.social, Oliver Rittmann, @melinscribe.bsky.social, @nschwitter.bsky.social:

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Totally out of office 🐴

Very excited to expand our research on attacks against healthcare and other civilian infrastructure as part of this project ✨ congrats @scott gates 🥳

It's a great day in history.

So viel Luft für nix!

10 years abroad. Countless supermarkets. Endless heartbreak. And then today … the Zweifel Paprika chips appeared in Germany. This is my redemption arc. 🙂

Forschung zu Klima und Konflikten: Mannheimer Politikwissenschaftlerin erhält Förderung | Juniorprofessorin Dr. Melanie Sauter von der Universität Mannheim wird in das renommierte Margarete von Wrangell Juniorprofessorinnen-Programm des Landes Baden-Württemberg aufgenommen. Das Programm un...

🎉 Thrilled to share that Kristina Petrova and I have been awarded a 3-year grant through the Margarete von Wrangell Juniorprofessorinnen-Programm to work on climate conflict, migration, and humanitarian aid dynamics. She’ll be joining us in Mannheim as a postdoc. www.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/?tx_...

Screenshot from a message saying "Ciao Melanie, Many thanks again for the lovely stay! It was my favorite visiting position ever. Last year, I stayed at Yale but Mannheim beats it on all fronts"

🚨 A new program for postdocs who are affected by growing constraints on academic freedom (e.g., in the United States).
1. Postdoc stipends for 24 months
2. Research groups for 3+3 years

Thinking of escaping? Mannheim’s calling. My last visitor said it best 😎:

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Make your last rejection a useful datapoint for science 👇📈

🚨Last days to apply!🎉
summerschoolwpm.org

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (m/f/d) - Comparative politics with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa The GIGA seeks to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (m/f/d) in Comparative politics with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. Applications are invited for a full-time position, with an initial contract...

🚨 Job offer: We seek to appoint a #PostdoctoralResearchFellow (m/f/d) in comparative politics, focusing on #SubSaharanAfrica with a doctoral degree in #SocialSciences. Applications are invited for a full-time position, 3 years of contract.

➡️ More info: www.giga-hamburg.de/en/career/po...

Oh hey ACLED user,
Turns out inter and interaction codes quietly shapeshifted into group name strings.

Better fix your code before it fixes you. 🙃
#ACLED #DataSurprise

So excited to be back – this time as an instructor! I’ll be teaching data viz at this year’s Summer School for Women* in PoliSci Methods. Come join! ✨

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

Open to PhD students and early career scholars Fully-funded places available for applicants, deadline 1st of May 📅 summerschoolwpm.org

I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social!

German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf
English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf

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Come join us in Mannheim as Professor for Survey Methodology! ✨ #academicsky #polisci
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Come be my colleague in one of the best post-doc positions in German academia (imo)!

Lovely people, excellent infrastructure, great conditions. Feel free to contact me for questions.

#polisky #polscijobs

Political elites are important. Some, for example, post classified info on Signal.

If you do research on political elites, and want to go to Oslo on September 1-2, 2025, we have the workshop for you. Deadline is in one week!

Find the call for papers here: bit.ly/WhoGovWorksh...