Bernd Schlipphak

Happening Today! 👇

Mittwoch: #Forschungswerkstatt Wir freuen uns auf unsere Kolleg:innen Claudia Landwehr, Leonhard Häfner und Lea Stallbaum und auf einen spannenden Vortrag zum Thema "Demokratiekonzeptionen von Bürgerinnen und Bürgern und politischen Eliten in Deutschland und den USA". Alle sind herzlich willkommen!

💙 Final course in our Quantitative & Observational Techniques track! 🎉 Research Design in the Quantitative Social Sciences with Peter Selb at KOMEX! 💙 📅 22–24 Feb 2027 ✨ 🔗 afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred... @excinequality.bsky.social · @methodsnet.bsky.social

Oh wow, nerd alert! Where do I sign?

Five days left to submit!

📢 CfP #dvpw2027 @bschlipphak.bsky.social and I organize a panel on “Linking Data to Study Democratic Challenges” at the @dvpw.bsky.social Convention 2027. We will discuss the opportunities and challenges of linking data for democracy research. 📅 Deadline: Oct 31, 2026 www.dvpw.de/dvpw2027/en/...

Claude, make me a map of the most visited cities in Europe

Time for some shameless self-promotion: my new book “Compliance Promotion in the European Union”, co-authored with my dear colleagues and friends Ellen Mastenbroek and Esther Versluis, has just been published by @oxunipress.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1093/9780... 🧵

Trump is literally waving at imaginary people now. On his way to another hate rally in Kansas, he suddenly stopped and started waving and saluting at people who weren’t there. Yes, this is real. And thank you for that perfect finale zoom-out, Mr. Nice Cameraman.

📢 We're very excited that our own Christopher Klamm (University of Mannheim; LMU Munich) will present: “Blind Spots: What AI Benchmarks Don't Tell Us About Social Science Tasks” at the next session of the TaDa Fall Speaker Series Sign up for our newsletter🗞️at tada.cool for the Zoom link!

Jean Monnet Fellowships #ECPRMemberJobs 📝 PhD awarded before 1 September 2022 🏫 European University Institute ⌛ Friday 23 October 🔗 buff.ly/vJjQeW4 #PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky

Veranstaltungstipp: Morgen findet die Antrittsvorlesung von @gessler.bsky.social (Professur für Politikwissenschaft, insbesondere demokratisches politisches Entscheiden) statt. 🕐17:00–19:00 Uhr📍Hörsaal VMP9. Kommt gerne vorbei! Weitere Informationen 👉 www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/forschung/ka...

The QuantMeth position is meant to be a position teaching QuantMeth (in German language!). When it comes to research, I am looking for candidates doing exciting research in PolComm, PolPsych or IR (based, ofc, on sounds methods). Please contact me if you have any questions re the position!

#GESISblog #blog Sociodemographic variables such as age, gender, education, or income are often collected using different survey questions, response options, or coding schemes. As a result, data from different survey studies cannot easily be combined or compared.

The QuantMeth position is meant to be a position teaching QuantMeth (in German language!). When it comes to research, I am looking for candidates doing exciting research in PolComm, PolPsych or IR (based, ofc, on sounds methods). Please contact me if you have any questions re the position!

We're hiring across Political Science at the department of political science @uni-muenster.de : 3 postdocs, a doctoral position and a research associate position, spanning methods, democracy and sustainability. Details and deadlines below. Please share widely; questions welcome!

Our large-scale study of phone bans just came out in Science. We randomized phone-free classrooms for 16,000+ students across 10 institutions in Odisha, India. Students deposited phones in a box at the start of each class, for a full semester.

#VendrediLecture 📚 Does populist anti-climate rhetoric reduce support for climate policy? Testing socio-cultural and economic frames through a survey experiment in the 🇬🇧, @dianebolet.bsky.social and co-authors show it is indeed the case. Open Access in @environmentalpol.bsky.social ⤵️

Im Wintersemester beleuchten Forscherinnen und Forscher der Universität Münster Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln. Die öffentliche Ringvorlesung beginnt am 20. Oktober.

📢New paper in @thejop.bsky.social on the reciprocal nature of citizens’ support for democratic transgressions. Together with Hannah Werner & @annakern.bsky.social , we show that when confronted with violations by political opponents, citizens’ support for transgressions by their own side doubles!

Our panel (w/ @gessler.bsky.social) “Text as Data in the Age of Generative AI” asks: How do LLMs compare to dictionaries, supervised classifiers & topic models? Which new research designs become possible, and what do we lose in reproducibility and transparency?

Welt im Umbruch. Politikwissenschaft auch? 🌍 Text-as-data approaches definitely are: LLMs now code, classify and summarize political texts at a scale unimaginable a decade ago, albeit often without the validation standards we built over 25 years. #dvpw2027 @dvpw.bsky.social

Our Speaker Series is back, and we welcome @hornungerik.bsky.social, presenting "Strikes and the Social Contract: Elite Response to Labor Mobilization". Wednesday at 12.00: lnkd.in/epU7biMp co-organized w @danbischof.bsky.social, @mwegemann.bsky.social, @thiloalbers.bsky.social, Andreas Stegmann

Ever wondered what attributes are relevant in your conjoint experiment? And what assumptions you need to estimate it? Asya and I got you covered. In a new working paper we propose the APNS: the probability that an attribute's level change is necessary and sufficient for the selection of a profile.

Very happy to see our review of what we know about the contestation of IOs out in print. It was quite impressive to see how much research there is on this topic! And what a privilege to work on figuring out the bigger picture with my two great co-authors @jonastallberg.bsky.social & Michael Zürn.

4 X Postdoctoral Fellowships #ECPRMemberJobs 🎓 A doctoral degree granted between 30 September 2024 and 1 October 2026 🏫 Universität Konstanz ⌛ Monday 12 October 🔗 buff.ly/3lEtlIN #PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky

Looking for a postdoc for our research project on Negational Social Identities!

After a year (already?!) at @politikuhh.bsky.social I'll give my Antrittsvorlesung 21/10🎉 I'm shy about my current research as I had a baby just weeks after joining UHH and the year has been exhausting with both start-up- & new-parent-tasks. But, that's just all the more reason to celebrate! 1/

6 KOMEX Fellowships for doctoral & postdoctoral researchers from the Global South & Horizon Europe Widening countries. 🎉🌍🖤 2 courses + mentoring + KOMEX fellows’ community. ✈️ 3 Full · up to €3,000 💻 3 Basic · up to €620 ⏳ Apply by 15 Oct @methodsnet.bsky.social @excinequality.bsky.social

Why do green parties struggle electorally despite widespread support for climate action? My new (first 😱) paper explores why green parties remain uniquely challenged in economic crisis & that the mechanism is not only about sociotropic concerns, but also voters’ pocketbooks 🧵 doi.org/10.1017/S147...

Postdoc position within my group 3 years (100% TVl-13): stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/2... ⏱️ 06.11.2026 If you have questions: get in touch!

Have you ever wondered about what we know about the broad patterns, the causes, and the consequences of contestation of IOs? We – @jonastallberg.bsky.social, Michael Zürn and I – did and therefore set out to take stock of the state of the art. Our review is out now in @iojournal.bsky.social.

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

Welcome to Cologne! #Methodentagung2026 hast begun. We are looking forward to two days with 48 presentations on computational opportunities & challenges in the measurement of media use and effects and general trends in methods research in communication research. @dgpuk-meth.bsky.social

I also find this fascinating: "More broadly, our AI respondents didn’t like to admit to uncertainty. Across all the questions on our three surveys where a 'not sure' option was offered, human panelists were around four times as likely as the AI model to choose it."

AI polls can lean on racial or partisan stereotypes, a new @pewresearch.org study shows. An experimental AI poll found that 97% of Hispanic adults in the US were likely to follow the World Cup. The actual figure – based on human respondents – was 43%. www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

📢 The new programme for the In_equality Colloquium is out! With the start of the winter semester, we‘re happy to present this term’s programme. Starting on 13 Oct 2026, we are looking forward to a new series of talks on #inequality ➡️ t1p.de/zibdb Join us online or in person, Y213 @uni-konstanz.de

Today, @malojan.bsky.social and I are launching the PartySOME website at partysome.org, an open, interactive platform for exploring how much political parties communicate online and what they talk about 🎤💻📊

It was again a great pleasure having you, but the huge thanks for locally organizing everything need to go only to @aufdroeseler.bsky.social and Katrin & Oliver from #CDSC @uni-muenster.de!

quallmer 0.5.0 is now on CRAN: the R package Seraphine Maerz and I are building for LLM-assisted qualitative coding. This release adds robustness, more models, and multimodal input. 🧵 quallmer.github.io/quallmer/ #rstats

Not my democracy 🪧 @bschlipphak.bsky.social, @canersimsek.bsky.social & @olivertreib.bsky.social look at whether democratic expectations shape satisfaction with democracy using ESS Round 10 data buff.ly/HqOx7UH

We're hiring at School of Social Sciences at Univ of Mannheim Full Professorship (W-3) in Social Data Science and Social Science Methodology Apply by Oct 22 2026 www.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/en/about/job... @methodsnet.bsky.social

Come and join us @sriucl.bsky.social We’re looking for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science with a research agenda on the environment and/or climate change, and expertise in causal inference. See full details and apply 👉🏼 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

The deadline to apply for this PhD position in our new project is fast approaching⏰

Our School of Politics and International Relations at @ucddublin.bsky.social is hiring two permanent (!) Assistant Professors in any field of political science, international relations, political theory, or development. Deadline: 9 November Start date: 30 August 2027 my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

Damn I am tired of people laughing about Deutsche Bahn. Travel in many other places in Europe and you will discover Germany is trying to do many things right with its railways. A quick blog post / rant from me: jonworth.eu/your-deutsche-… #CrossBorderRail

It's of course not important to #PolSci scholars, but the 2027 convention will take place in cool & beautiful Leipzig (Sept 7 to 10), the city of Bach (you know, J.S.) and the Peaceful Revolution. And yes, the party and side events are legendary. So, join us for a great panel at a great location!

#OpenAccess from @epsrjournal.bsky.social - Not my democracy: conceptions, discontent, and participation in Europe - https://cup.org/4dDWlU3 - @bschlipphak.bsky.social, Caner Simsek & @olivertreib.bsky.social #FirstView