Nils Weidmann

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@jjungblut.bsky.social, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & @chknutsen.bsky.social examine political science departments at universities across the world to assess the extent to which they vary with regime type.

👉 buff.ly/qEIeGoB

In a new study (OA) in @epsjournal.bsky.social
@nilsweidmann.bsky.social
@chknutsen.bsky.social & I study the global distribution of polit. science depts.
Political science is today a truly global discipline & we find few differences along the democracy–autocracy continuum:
doi.org/10.1017/S168...

Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (295112) | University of Oslo Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (295112), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, March 16, 2026

📣CfA for a Postdoctoral Fellow Position in political science (3-4 years) as part of the ERC project “Waging of War” (WOW) - PI Scott Gates. The application deadline is March 16th, 2026.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Thanks to @simonhix.bsky.social for helping me figure this out so quickly! All good on my end, and I look forward to seeing many of you in Belfast at the {{panel title}} panel on {{date}} at {{time}} in room {{room number}}! This is going to be a {{expected panel quality}} panel.

I guess this is because our panel proposals were rearranged in some way (?) and no longer seem to exist in the system.

Good and bad news from @epssnet.bsky.social, if I could only figure out which ones of my submissions this is about...

Offene Stellen / Open Positions

🚨Job alert 🚨

I have an opening for a postdoc in my team at @ipz.bsky.social in the area of digital democracy starting Sep 1, 2026.

If you are working on the impact of the digital transformation on politics, please apply by 🗓️ Mar 1, 2026.

📤 Please share widely!

www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns...

Postdoctoral Position at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality” Deadline: 20 February 2026, 12:00 pm CET

🚨 Postdoctoral Position at the University of Konstanz 🚨

We’re hiring a post-doc for our @excinequality.bsky.social project on political elites and decision-making.

4-year position | Deadline: Feb. 20 | Start: Sept 2026

Please share widely 🙏

The ad is here stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f...

“You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.”

This speech is 🔥 and easily one of the most remarkable (and alarming) by a Canadian PM

In any somewhat functioning democracy this would lead to the removal of the leader

Large Language Models Are Democracy Coders with Attitudes
@pspolisci.bsky.social
@nilsweidmann.bsky.social
Mats Faulborn
@dgarcia.eu

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📅 Vortrag & Diskussion: Wie stehen Studierende zur Redefreiheit an Unis? In welchen Situationen wären sie bereit, Vorträge oder Personen auszuladen?
Di, 13.01.2026 | 19:15 | A0701 @uni-konstanz.de & im Stream: t1p.de/ix7me
Mit @cdiehl.bsky.social, Richard Traunmüller & @nilsweidmann.bsky.social

🚨Job alert! 🚨

I'm advertising a PhD position (66%) in Comparative Politics at HU Berlin. Ideal candidates combine a research interest in autocratic politics, conflict, and/or political violence with strong quantitative methods skills.

⏳ 4 (+2) years | 🗓 DL 16.01; Start March/April 26

More info:

🧵 PhD position (75%) in Political Behavior / Political Communication / CSS
📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026

We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization

📝 How often do ethnic elites use grievance frames online? @frederikgremler.bsky.social, Haiges, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & Zuber examine 646k posts showing such frames are rare & track political, not economic, inequality. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/lC7RH6t

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #PSNotes

Full Professorship (W3) in Machine Learning Deadline: January 31, 2026

We @uni-konstanz.de are hiring a full professor in machine learning for our MSc program in Social and Economic Data Science: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/6...

How often do ethnic elites use grievance frames online? @frederikgremler.bsky.social, Lea Haiges, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & Christina Zuber examine 646k posts showing such frames are rare & track political, not economic, inequality. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/lC7RH6t

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

Spoiler: We find few of them, and the few that exist don’t align with economic — but with political — inequality. Thanks to @excinequality.bsky.social for funding this work!

Inequality matters for ethnic conflict. But do group elites actually frame a situation as unjust? In a recent article (doi.org/10.1177/00323217251401758), @frederikgremler.bsky.social, Lea Haiges, Christina Zuber and I analyse “grievance frames” in social media posts of ethnic organisations.

If you get asked to review... please respond!!! And if you agree to review, please turn in the review. If it's a little late, that's ok, but let the journal know.

Postdoctoral Research Position Deadline: 15.12.2025

📣 We're hiring a postdoc in political science for our ReJust project @uni-konstanz.de!

Project with Dirk Leuffen @leuffen.bsky.social and Urs Fischbacher

3-year position | Deadline: Dec. 15, 2025 | Start: April 2026

Please share widely 🙏

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Five papers from our group should already be submitted! Looking forward to the conference.

This version is likely going to be the last release of this database, after more than 12 years of (slow) development.

Thanks to the great help by @rstrauch.bsky.social, Gabriele Spilker and the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" @excinequality.bsky.social, version 5.0 of the "Mass Mobilization in Autocracies Database" (coverage until 2022) is now available at mmadatabase.org!

Auf der Suche nach einer Postdoc-Stelle im Bereich der empirischen Menschenrechtsforschung? An der @fau.de suchen wir eine*n Postdoc für 3+3 Jahre für unser Team. tinyurl.com/4d3w3th6

PSRM abstract of a scholarly article discussing the challenges ethnic movements pose to state governments, analyzing variables like group income sources and internal divisions, and introducing the Ethnic Power Relations-Organizations dataset.

#OpenAccess from the new issue of @psrm.bsky.social -

Intra-ethnic divisions and disagreement over self-determination demands in ethnic movements - https://cup.org/481UkPS

- @frederikgremler.bsky.social, Manuel Vogt & @nilsweidmann.bsky.social

Great news, Fabien! Congratulations.

📄 Does the Community Understand the Community Guidelines?
with @yannistheocharis.bsky.social , @mianahrgang.bsky.social , @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & Molly Roberts

This is an excellent special issue! Highly recommended.