*Call for Abstracts*
The abstract submission is now open for our (w/ @asheinze.bsky.social) special issue:
Party Youth Wings Across Europe: Organisation, Influence, and the Future of Party Democracy
We still have a few spots open (e.g. several countries in Southern Europe and CEE or the UK) 😊
An image of the schedule with speaker images. You can find the full schedule on tada.cool.
🚨 TADA Speaker Series Spring 2026 schedule is here! 🚨
We've assembled a fantastic lineup of researchers exploring the future of survey research in the age of LLMs.
Mar 18 - May 27, online at 17:00 CEST. Join us!
More info & signup: tada.cool
Interested in learning more advanced approaches to text analysis, machine learning or network analysis this summer? The University of Strathclyde @strathpolir.bsky.social is offering successive methods classes this June.
@eckhardschumacher.bsky.social: Eine medizinische Erinnerung daran, was das DFB-Pokalfinale mit der Arminia körperlich angerichtet hat.
Bemerkenswert:
- AfD und SPD rücken näher zusammen (10%, Sept. '25: 19%). => Zuspitzung mit den Nebenwirkungen für "die Kleinen" (hier: Grüne und BSW) wie bei anderen LTWs?
- Nur 37 % kennen den CDU-Spitzenkandidaten.
- BSW-Wählerschaft deutlich näher an SPD (und Schwesig!) als an der AfD.
Neue Umfrage, acht Monate vor der Landtagswahl. Zu Gast im NDR Vorpommernstudio zur Einordnung und zu den Erwartungen für die nächsten Monate.
📣 Call for Papers:
🗓️ 23-24 April 2026 at LSE
Submit full papers: forms.office.com/e/9qVWeNTK0p
Please share with colleagues & early-career researchers!
Ganz herzlichen Glückwunsch, Andreas!
Diskussion zur Brandmauer @taz.de mit @tbiebricher.bsky.social und @pluggedchris.bsky.social
Congratulations! 🥂
We (@stawi-univie.bsky.social) are hiring a PhD researcher:
- focus: representation, party competition, pol behavior, pol institutions, pol econ, or related
- 4 years, starting 1 Oct 26
- 30h/week, incl some teaching
- deadline: 28 Jan 26
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
🚨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:
This was circulating on Bluesky a few weeks ago. It makes essentially that argument: Scholar is mission-critical for academia but strategically irrelevant to Google: hannahshelley.neocities.org/blog/2025_08...
(Might even have been you who shared it.)
🚨 Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion (2 years)
We’re hiring a 100% Postdoc at the University of Greifswald.
✨ What makes this job special: Two full years to focus on research (no teaching, no admin overload) embedded into an International Research Training Group
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...
Spannende Parteifamilie! 🍺 🗳️
Erfolgreiches Beispiel ist die PPPP (3%, 16 Sitze) "which had begun as a joke party but which was later backed by a number of leading Polish businessmen" (Gallagher et al. 2011: 224).
Für Interessierte, hier ein vergleichendes Papier von 2021: doi.org/10.1353/reg....
You are welcome. ✂️Also: If we had given the correct answer to this question, it would have meant (shared) first place.
Side note: We'll soon be looking for a political science PostDoc researcher. Job ad coming shortly 📢
Had a great time yesterday at the Christmas party of the Research Training Group @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social. Such a sharp and genuinely fun crowd to celebrate with ❄️✨ Bonus: my team managed to snag second place in the super-wintery Baltic quiz.
🚨🚨 job alert time 🚨🚨 @unibremen.bsky.social
3 PhD positions within the 3rd phase of the @sfb1342.bsky.social, with a focus on computational methods and/or on protest mobilization, specifically with a focus on Africa.
Starting time: early 2026, deadline: 14th of January.
more info below:
🌟 PHD FELLOWSHIP ALERT! 🌟
I’m hiring 1 PhD fellow for my ERC project ECONENGAGE (@ Gothenburg 🇸🇪)! Starting 09/26! Great PhD community + int'l & supportive environment + FUN city. 💰for conferences + workshops! Lots of mentoring & career development opportunities! Deadline Jan 29th. Please apply!
We're looking for a colleague (postdoc) 📢 @politikuhh.bsky.social
3+3 years
Doing your own research while teaching 2.5 courses per semester
Research agenda with links to our team (democracy, digital politics, political competition/behaviour)
DL 🗓️ 05/01
stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/6...
Sehr einsichtsvoller und aktueller Überblick. Vielen Dank fürs Teilen.
🌟 JOB ALERT! 🌟
I’m hiring 1 postdoc for my ERC project ECONENGAGE (@ Gothenburg 🇸🇪)! Starting ca. Aug '26! Congenial colleagues + int'l & supportive environment. 💸 for conferences + workshops! Lots of professional networking opportunities with scholars! Deadline Jan 7th. Apply! (see more below 🧵)
Great paper! And what a data collection effort! Are you giving guided tours of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg yet? 🗺️🥾
I‘m excited to take part in the
@zweitstimme.bsky.social Workshop on Elections, Public Opinion & Elite Behavior at the @hertieschool.bsky.social this week! I'll be presenting first results from a project with @klingelt.bsky.social on the Geography of Electioneering in Multi-Party Systems.
Scholars have long paid attention to disproportionality between parties’ votes and seats emerging from the electoral system. In @sespjournal.bsky.social, Gianni Del Panta, @mattiaguidi.bsky.social, and I show that disproportionality can also be a by-product of pre-electoral coalition formation.🧵
Philip Manow mit pointierten Argumenten zum Thema "Die Brandmauer nützt nur der AfD" www.stern.de/politik/afd-...
Happy to serve as the editor-in-chief of the Politische Vierteljahresschrift/German Political Science Quarterly (PVS/GPSQ) link.springer.com/journal/11615 @dvpw.bsky.social from January 2026 onwards. Thanks to Eric Linhart for his great work in the last six years! 1/3
Ich habe mit der Magdeburger Volksstimme über eine doppelte Gefahr für die CDU nach der Landtagswahl gesprochen: "Mord" in blau-schwarzer Koalition oder "Selbstmord" in einer überdehnten Anti-AfD-Koalition mit Einigungszwang. Etwas Empirie im thread...
