Lukas Hetzer

Beschäftige mich schon lange mit Spionage-Apps, auch mit ihrem Einsatz als Werkzeug für Partnerschaftsgewalt. Aber es ist etwas anderes, zur technischen Seite von Stalking zu recherchieren als jemandem zuzuhören, der es erlebt hat. Unsere Motivation, dieser Geschichte gerecht zu werden, war groß.

"Er wusste meine intimsten Gedanken, er wusste immer genau, wo ich war."

Wir haben jemanden gesprochen, der über Jahre von einem Ex-Partner verfolgt wurde. Er hatte dafür auch eine Spionage-App auf ihrem Telefon installiert. Ob im Kino oder im Zug, er fing sie ab.

netzpolitik.org/2026/digital...

Screenshot of the start of the paper. Title (Political knowledge and perceptions of minority governments in Europe), authors (Jens Wäckerle and Sven-Oliver Proksch) and journal (European Journal of Political Research)

New from @erc.europa.eu project #MINORITYRULE with @sopro.bsky.social: We study voters’ knowledge about and perceptions of minority governments in 🇩🇰, 🇩🇪 and 🇸🇪.

Link: doi.org/10.1017/S147...

When survey researchers or politicians talk about minority governments, what do voters understand? ⬇️

Join us in 3 hours (at 17:00 Berlin time) to discuss replication problems of language models and recommendations for research!
🚨 for those from a different time zone: Germany already switched back clocks last weekend, so depending on where you are the time difference might be an hour off from usual

Petition unterschreiben Keine WiSo ohne PoWi! Für eine starke Politikwissenschaft im Bachelor & Master

The University of Cologne plans drastic cuts to its Political Science department, potentially abolishing the MSc in Political Science and eliminating the professorships in IR and Comparative Politics. This would severely weaken the social sciences at @unicologne.bsky.social.
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I feel overwhelmed and incredibly honoured to announce that I have been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant for my project “VisibleQueers”, fully titled as “Making the Queers Visible: Partisanship and Support among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Eastern and Western Europe”.
#ERCStG

Congrats again, Constantin! 🥳 So well deserved!

🚨 Very excited to share that the call for papers for the EPSS annual conference in Belfast 2026 is live.

🔝 Lots of innovation to enrich the way we exchange ideas in political science in Europe.

🙏🏼 Sharing is caring!

The Call for Papers for the 2026 EPSS annual conference in Belfast is now live!

Looking forward to your submissions!! Check out all details in this thread 👇

So, European and EU politics folks, this 👇 is where we need your newest work to be submitted and discussed next year @epssnet.bsky.social first conference in Belfast!

I am happy to co-chair the section with Bjorn Hoyland, and looking 👀 forward to your submissions.

The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference!

📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast

🗓️ June 18–20, 2026

📍 ICC Belfast

📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025

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Seoul novelty hats as political science concepts. A thread.

1. Quantitative methods

🤔 The #EU 🇪🇺 aspires to be a global actor 🌍 — but do other states recognize it as such?

My new study in @intlinteractions.bsky.social develops targeted #NLP / #TextAsData tools to analyze 50 years of foreign policy discourse in the annual #UN General Debate (1970–2020).

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Swiss universities to release multilingual AI programme This summer researchers at Swiss universities will make available a large language model (LLM), an AI programme trained on vast amounts of data, developed on public infrastructure.

This sounds promising (👋🇪🇺...)
www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-ai...

📣 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

So Schengen. Much Freedom. Very Movement.

Print from sign up page for epss showing a list of social networks a user can indicate their profile from, including Yelp

Signing up for @epssnet.bsky.social and it's time to learn who the truly nasty reviewers are

Yesterday EPSS was founded, today we answer members’ questions.

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1. Who formed EPSS?

EPSS was founded by a supermajority vote of the EPSA Council, made up of 3 EPSAL shareholders & 9 elected, appointed, or ex officio members.

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🚨 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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Foundations of European Politics - OUP textbook

Delighted to see the 2nd edition of Foundations of European Politics 🇪🇺 in print! @catherinedevries.bsky.social @sopro.bsky.social @jbslapin.bsky.social

If you teach EU or European politics, you can order an inspection copy here: global.oup.com/ushe/product...

Screenshot of the abstract of the article.

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION! Who belongs to “the people” – and who does not?

What a great way to start the week. I’m really happy that my article on populist in- and outgroup references is now out in @polstudies.bsky.social #openaccess 🔓

doi.org/10.1177/0032...

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Closing the publishing gender gap in economics and political science: Does a critical mass matter? Using novel data on publications and citations by researchers in economics and political science in top 50 universities globally, we analyze the relationship between female representation and the gend...

Wow!

"The average female researcher in departments with more women publishes more and receives more citations than the average female researcher in universities with a lower share of female faculty"

‪@egenpolisci.bsky.social‬
@sotonpolitics.bsky.social

dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Super happy to see this paper now in print! We show that parties which do not enter coalitions, but have formal (written) support agreements with minority cabinets- such as Tidö Agreement in Sweden - are likely to be punished at the next elections, similarly to junior coalition partners.

Always have a healthy dose of scepticism on Eurobarometer polls. But they are very good comparable between themselves, and it is remarkable to see the EU back to levels of trust from before the many crises of the 2010s and 2020s hit Europe.

🇪🇺🇦🇫 Published Today in CPS 🇪🇺🇦🇫

“Stand by those who share our values” – how refugees fleeing the Taliban improved European attitudes toward immigration

Article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/os...

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The real story isn’t young men supposedly voting far right. It’s what young women are up to | Cas Mudde There is an opportunity staring centre-left parties in the face – if they reject the male gaze distorting our politics, says political scientist Cas Mudde

From Bluesky to the Guardian!

In my new op-Ed, I argue that the “male glaze” of media and politics is empirically, normative, and politically wrong and that progressives should focus more on the left turn of young women.

Far‐Right Illiberalism in the European Parliament | Article | Politics and Governance Larissa Böckmann, Sarah L. de Lange, Nathalie Brack, Matthijs Rooduijn

Very excited to share this publication in Politics & Governance together with @sldelange.bsky.social @nathaliebrack.bsky.social @mrooduijn.bsky.social
We study the embrace of illiberalism in far-right discourse in the European Parliament between 1999 and 2019
www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

This obsession is with “young men turning to the right” is everything that is wrong with the discussion about the far right.

It is not just an inadequate read of what is happening, and a bias towards the male norm, but it also normalizes the far right and obscures support for inclusive politics. 🧵

Rethinking political space in Europe: the modernisation and globalisation dimensions This study challenges the conventional conceptualisation of political space in European countries as a two-dimensional socio-economic and socio-cultural structure. Utilising data from the 2024 Euro...

Fresh from the press: "Rethinking political space in Europe: the modernisation and globalisation dimensions" together with @nilsjungmann.bsky.social We challenge dominant assumptions about the structure of political conflict. a 🧵1/ x