Alona O. Dolinsky

🎉🚨New Publication 🚨🎉 Beyond thrilled this is finally out! First large-scale, cross-national database of parties' social group appeals — who they speak to, the stance they take towards the groups, and whether a policy is mentioned. 55 years, 8 European countries, fully public and available here:

So many takes on here making projections about the results and their consequences from people who seem to not understand how the electoral system works and/or the complexities of domestic politics in Israel 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

Yes. Yes I do. Winning against an entrenched incumbent, even in a completely free political system is difficult. Doing it this far along the path to competitive authoritarianism is even more so. I’ll take this result.

As of 6pm, voting rate is 66.7% compared to 57.7% in 2022. In raw numbers we’ve surpassed the entire 2021 vote. Likud asked the CEC to extend voting hours past 10pm although unclear on what grounds. Eisenkot obviously objects.

Turn out rates as of noon today; follow @avishaybsg.bsky.social for updates if you’re interested (and also generally, he is really good!)

In about 24 hours, poles will open here in Israel. In what is a strong contender for Israel’s most critical elections. The election pits Netanyahu’s extremely unpopular coalition against a non-coherent, but moderately more liberal, opposition. Here are some thoughts as we head into it.

10000% this. So much more to critique about the underlying premiss and other aspects of this “AI is better at doing reviews” paper but really - if I wanted to know what an LLM “thinks” of my paper, I’d prompt it. Just so tired of this stuff.

And in addition, the skill of doing ethical, constructive, and kind peer reviews is an important skill for academics to possess. Just outsourcing it to AIs risks de-skilling the phenomenon of academic critique, which certainly won't help scholar-authors in the long run.

Planning to submit to EPSS 2027 Copenhagen? Check out our section details for all the information you need for your abstract submission! epssnet.org/conferences/...

Hi all! I'm looking for people to try out my new collaborative writing platform. Think: Overleaf or GDocs for Mkdown LaTeX HTML Typst Quarto Free, open source, and full-featured. Many editors, chat, comments, track changes, history, AI, mobile, templates, etc Would ❤️ any feedback! librepaper.org

New research note out with Martin Haselmayer in @ejprjournal.bsky.social 🎉 When do parties invoke social groups to attack their rivals? 👇 doi.org/10.1017/S147...

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

For my new research unit Politics of Democracy at the Berlin Social Science Center @wzb.bsky.social, we have 3 open research positions. 2 postdocs: 4 + 2 years (100%) 1 doc: 2 years (75%) Starting date: 1 March 2027 (negotiable) Application deadline: 1 November

Our colleague and friend Philipp Köker has left us and i can't begin to order my thoughts. I hope I can express to his family the feeling of loss we can't beginn to understand, but attempt to share. rundblick-niedersachsen.de/politikwisse...

I'm shocked to read this. Still know Philipp frow his early career days. A big loss for our community 🖤

Excuse me - how about you - the companies that f****** train these models just stop. How hard is that? You intervene.

Finally, my belongings have arrived from Birmingham and the move is nearly done (only all the unpacking 😅) The best part? The movers left the box with the kettle at the very entrance to the room so I have it right away.

Just a random Tuesday in The Liberties

📢 The Call for Papers for EPSS 2027 is open! After a fantastic first conference in Belfast, we’re heading to Copenhagen 🇩🇰, 24–26 June 2027. ⏰ Deadline: 13 Nov 2026 👉 Call for papers: epssnet.org/2027-copenha... 1/2

📣 It's update time! The Manifesto Project Dataset 2026a & Manifesto Corpus 2026-1 are here! What's new? 🧵:

I am not a mathematician but this declaration goes beyond mathematics to touch on all academic fields. This I happily put my name to.

New #rstats 📦: mediacloud2 (happy about name recommendations). Since the exitsting R packages were stale and I needed data, I wrote a new package. MediaCloud is an amazing resource for getting news media data, especially if you rehydrate the articles (e.g., through paperboy).

The @psaireland.bsky.social annual conference is taking place in Cork over the weekend of 16-18 Oct. Reduced rate registration closes on 16 September. Be sure to register at www.eventbrite.com/e/psai-annua... The draft programme is also available at www.psai.ie/conferences/...

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Went to register with Irish Immigration but turned away bc I was missing a specific letter. No worries. What was much funnier is how shocked the person was when I told them I don’t have a UCD ID card. Them: “Then how do swipe into work in the morning”? Me: “I don’t… I just work” 😅

The official release date of ParliView EU is coming soon! Follow below for more updates about the project and sign up for early access at parliview.org @transparency-eu.bsky.social @ucdpolitics.bsky.social @strathpolir.bsky.social @strathplacelab.bsky.social

I am super happy to be back in Dublin and especially at UCD starting in a new position today 🥳 while I absolutely did not miss dealing with all immigration stuff nor navigating new healthcare again, I do love this view

The Rainbow Vote now has a cover & publication date. www.therainbowvote.com 🗳️🏳️‍🌈 Please consider pre-ordering, or asking your institution’s library to pre-order! Insufferable self-promotion to follow but I am dutifully celebrating every milestone along the way to publication day in February 😎

New paper with Yanna Krupnikov out in Political Communication! 🎉 We know moral-emotional content ("moral outrage") spreads fast on social media. But does that mean people actually want to see it? We tested whether people select this content when given the choice - turns out, not really.

Last night in Birmingham. I am leaving for a happy reason but I’m still sad to leave. I absolutely loved living here and working with the TWICEASGOOD team at UoB. I’m thankful for the friends I made and discovering that I love the theatre. I will miss my life here very much.

I absolutely loath moving. Even for good reason. Moving is just terrible.

Whoever thought it was a good idea to use the emergency boardcast system for this can f*** right off! Wild fires are dangerous and bad but (setting aside my personal sensitivities) is this a NATION-WIDE emergency?!

יום ראשון בבוקר קיץ - כמה בלאגן יהיה ברכבת אתם אומרים? נהריה לתל אביב 😅

🥳 New Paper with @jadevrielink.bsky.social and @skruikemeier.bsky.social: on how voters perceive the political ads they receive, and why that tailoring perception matters more than we usually assume. 🧵 1/3 📄 doi.org/10.1080/1369...