Mohamed Nasr

Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

🚀 New postdoc position for Platform Data & Computational Social Science
Join us to drive @gesis.org' efforts around the Digital Services Act (DSA) and conduct research with online platform data
💼 TV-L EG 14 | Location: Cologne
📌 Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/institute...
#DSA #CSS #DataScience

My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years.

If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply!

shorturl.at/kcTbG

Thinking about using #CSS methods to study #racism, #stereotypes or #hate speech in text? 📐

👉 Check out my first dissertation paper co-authored by @fabiennelind.bsky.social and @hajoboo.bsky.social just published in Annals of the ICA! @icahdq.bsky.social 🥳

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/annc...

Congratulations @jonadejong.bsky.social !

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🚨 A new kind of political science textbook has arrived—and it might just disrupt the entire textbook industry. It’s called A Political Science Experiment, and here’s why you should care. 👇
🔗 politicsexperiment.com

Abstract Do policy priorities that candidates emphasize during election campaigns predict their subsequent legislative activities? We study this question by assembling novel data on legislative leadership posts held by Japanese politicians and using a fine-tuned transformer-based machine learning model to classify policy areas in over 46,900 statements from 1270 candidate manifestos across five elections. We find that a higher emphasis on a policy issue increases the probability of securing a legislative post in the same area. This relationship remains consistent across multiple elections and persists even when accounting for candidates' previous legislative leadership roles. We also discover greater congruence in distributive policy areas. Our findings indicate that campaigns provide meaningful signals of policy priorities.

‘Campaign Communication and Legislative Leadership’ (with Naofumi Fujimura) appeared in the latest issue of Political Science Research and Methods.

Paper (open access): doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
@psrm.bsky.social

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New!

The *New Parties Data Set* by Stuart Bramwell and me.

2,434 parties in 22 countries since 1945, their score in 3 elections, and their mode of establishment.

Thanks to our 🇪🇺ERC Consolidator Grant project 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇯🇵🇭🇺🇲🇦🇺🇸🇮🇹🇿🇦🇳🇱team in 🇬🇧London @rhulpirp.bsky.social.

See
dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

❗Among their electoral potential, social democratic parties face very few strategic dilemmas. Left-progressive appeals resonate most strongly.

New study in @worldpolitics.bsky.social
with @tabouchadi.bsky.social , @indubioproreto.bsky.social, Nadja Mosimann, and @markuswagner.bsky.social

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CPDS update 1960-2023 is online 🤓 👇/with @dweisstanner.bsky.social @lucasleemann.bsky.social @klarabruhn.bsky.social

For a data collection we want to launch soon, we're looking for a German speaker who could translate our survey instrument to German. This should only take a few hours of work. Of course we are remunerating! Interested? Please reach out to @alexjabbour.bsky.social !

Abstract Peer review by experts is central to the evaluation of grant proposals, but little is known about how gender and disciplinary differences shape the content and tone of grant peer review reports. We analyzed 39,280 review reports submitted to the Swiss National Science Foundation between 2016 and 2023, covering 11,385 proposals for project funding across 21 disciplines from the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), Life Sciences (LS), and Mathematics, Informatics, Natural Sciences, and Technology (MINT). Using supervised machine learning, we classified over 1.3 million sentences by evaluation criteria and sentiment. Reviews in SSH were significantly longer and more critical, with less focus on the applicant’s track record, while those in MINT were more concise and positive, with a higher focus on the track record, as compared to those in LS. Compared to male reviewers, female reviewers write longer reviews that more closely align with the evaluation criteria and express more positive sentiments. Female applicants tend to receive reviews with slightly more positive sentiment than male applicants. Gender and disciplinary culture influence how grant proposals are reviewed–shaping the tone, length, and focus of peer review reports. These differences have important implications for fairness and consistency in research funding.

“Gender and Discipline Shape Length, Content and Tone of Grant Peer Review Reports”

Peer review affects funding, but how do gender and disciplinary differences shape how reviewers write their reports? We analysed 39,280 reviews submitted to the @snsf.ch.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.00103

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Your First Draft Is Supposed to Be Bad. Congratulations! Letting Go of Perfection So the Real Work Can Begin

In every writing process, there’s a time when nothing works.

When everything looks like a mess: No argument, no structure, no nothing.

If that’s where you’re, congratulations!

You’re doing it right.

👉 My latest Respect the Marble post: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/your-first...

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Does democratic satisfaction drive voter turnout, or does voting increase dem. satisfaction? Using 7 election panels, Lukas Linek, @jrovny.bsky.social, @skvrnami.bsky.social, and I find that—unlike in the West—both mechanisms may operate in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). 1/n @eui-sps.bsky.social

‼️ 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! 👇

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.

🔗 epssnet.org

Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.

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I look forward to meeting many of you soon in Madrid for EPSA 2025.

In case that’s helpful to anyone, here are some of my personal Madrid favorites:

🧵 Hiring 2 PhDs in political science!

Join my ERC project DEMO-LIES
@uantwerpen.be
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We study how politicians accuse each other of lying/disinfo — and how citizens react: Does it erode trust? Polarize? Mobilize? 🧠🗳️

💥 4-yr fully funded
📅 Start: Oct/Nov 2025
🗓️ Deadline: 21 Aug

Details + apply 👇

Most Literature Reviews Miss the Point. Don’t Let Yours Critically Engaging Past Work to Confidently Shape Your Own

Most literature reviews miss the point.

Not because they’re sloppy.

But because they treat the literature like a box to tick.

In my latest Respect the Marble Post, I carve out a 6-step process to writing a meaningful lit review:

catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/most-liter...

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Great advice (as always) by @catherinedevries.bsky.social here on the THE! Make sure to give it a read!

Mobilizing Europe’s citizens to take action on migration and climate change: behavioral evidence from 27 EU member states This paper investigates how two politicized issues – migration and climate change – mobilize citizens across European countries. Building on the concept of issue-specific mobilization potentials, w...

@heikogiebler.bsky.social, Johannes Giesecke, @macartan.bsky.social, Swen Hutter & @heikekluever.bsky.social investigate support for petitions on migration and climate change across the EU-27 in the context of the 2024 European Parliament elections 👇

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 New publication 🚨 : Happy to share that my paper, "Losing Touch: The Rhetorical Cost of Governing" is now forthcoming at @cpsjournal.bsky.social. Short 🧵 about the paper here 👇 1/10

Happy to see this paper finally out at @polcommjournal.bsky.social! We map party rhetoric on EU solidarity in the past decade using automated text analysis based on a new cross-country collection of party press releases.

doi.org/10.1080/1058...

💥Postdoc call 💥

Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University

🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension)

❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth

🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data)

Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD

The flyer shows the overview of the programme for the Text-as-Data Spring Term Speaker Series 2025, which usually takes place on Wednesdays at 5pm Berlin time.

The #TaDa Speaker Series is back for the spring 🎉 We're looking forward to an exciting line-up of talks by @prashantgarg.bsky.social, @miriamschirmer.bsky.social, @chdausgaard.bsky.social, @taniseceron.bsky.social, @lukashetzer.bsky.social, and Catarina Pereira! More infos at tada.cool & on Slack ⬇️

What future chancellor of #Germany Friedrich #Merz announced tonight regarding the #debt brake and new #spending is basically what current vice chancellor Robert #Habeck and the #Greens wanted and what Merz blocked and campaigned against just until 10 days ago.

CDU/CSU &SPD have just proposed a sea change in German fiscal policy:

- defence spending above 1% of GDP exempt from debt brake
- 10-year €500bn special fund for infrastructure
- looser debt rules for states
- further debt-brake reform in new Bundestag

Many congratulations, Zeynep! 🎉🎉

Postdoctoral fellow in political science: party competition in Europe Are you our next postdoc with a focus on using expert surveys to examine political party competition around cleavage politics? The Department of Political Science invites applications for a 2-year pos

I am looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher to work with me in a project on social cleavages and political party competition in Europe:
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Happy to answer any questions, and thanks in advance for circulating the call!

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Sankey diagram illustrating the patterns of vote switching across the parliamentary elections 2013, 2017, 2019, and 2024.

🎄🌟 Exciting news! 📊🎉

The AUTNES Online Panel Study 2017–2024 is here! 🎁🤩

Explore 23 survey waves to uncover the dynamics of voting behavior and public opinion in Austria. 🗳️🇦🇹

Access the data via #AUSSDA ➡️ doi.org/10.11587/HNU...

#AUTNES #ElectionStudies #Polisky #DataRelease #WeLoveData ❤️