Dylan Paltra

🚨Publication Alert! My first first-author publication with @msaeltzer.bsky.social and @pluggedchris.bsky.social is out in @polbehavior.bsky.social, which began as my bachelor's thesis. We study how party polarization shapes affective polarization—with a particularly important role of the AfD. (1/7)🧵

Between this and the Serbian result just so happy. All the stupid neofeudalists who bet on some machismo Vibe Shift sweeping away democratic power learning they were wrong, they have not won yet and may never do so. Praise be to God and the people!

📢 One week to go for submissions to @haakjes.bsky.social's and my panel on Climate Change Communication on Social Media at #dvpw2027 @dvpw.bsky.social. All info below ⬇️ and in the call on www.dvpw.de/dvpw2027/en. Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions!

Platforms increasingly rely on users to flag harmful content. But who actually reports content? 💻 In our paper, "Bystanders and Reporters: Who Acts Against Illegal Online Content?", published in @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social, we investigate who reports, how they differ, and what motivates them. 🧵

In meiner Abteilung werden bald 2 PostDoc-Stellen frei, eine im Projekt INFRADEM zu Macht, Demokratie + digitalen Infrastrukturen, die andere im Feld Critical Data/ Platform Studies/ Ethics and Digital Cultural Studies. Deadline: 24.10.; Details + English version below – freue mich über Bewerbungen!

I couldn't have found any better words. Goodbye, Philipp. You will be deeply missed.

Do you know graduates looking for a PhD position? The interdisciplinary IRTG “Baltic Peripeties” studies political and social change around the Baltic Sea—escalating crises, shifting expectations, and competing narratives. Please share shorturl.at/7nIrZ

Thrilled to share that I have received an ERC Starting Grant for my project HIDDENPOL: The Hidden Politics of Everyday Media. 🎈 @erc.europa.eu

The German Local Manifesto Project (GLMP) is now online! 🇩🇪 GLMP provides a systematically documented & reproducible corpus of local manifestos & related political programmes from municipalities across Germany. Browse & download the data: localmanifestoproject.de @christinajuen.bsky.social

📢 First paper from my PhD dissertation now out in JEPOP! Parties don’t just campaign on policies. They also try to convince voters they’re competent, trustworthy and capable of governing. But do valence appeals actually relate to polling gains during election campaigns? 📄 doi.org/10.1080/1745...

🥳 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...

An der @unigreifswald.bsky.social sind zwei unbefristete Vollzeitstellen ausgeschrieben: eine für Politikwissenschaftler:innen, eine für Soziolog:innen. Bewerbungsfrist: 31. August 2026. Teilen ausdrücklich erwünscht. Die Ausschreibungen folgen im nächsten Post. Fragen gerne per DM.

I'm very happy to share that my first dissertation paper is now online in Party Politics (🔓)! I examine how political appointments (patronage) relate to coalition support in multiparty presidential systems, using roll-call data from Brazil's Chamber of Deputies (2003-2018). doi.org/10.1177/1354...

Excellent! Who is next? No place for Palantir and Thiel in Europe.

💭 Looks like the heat wave has brought some attention to my study - enough that it got a mention in the New York Times 👉 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/w... It’s also a good example of how weather extremes can shift public attention toward climate change (without necessarily prompting policy change).

📢 PhD position in Political Science Join the ERC-funded #DEMOLAW project, studying the design, creation and survival of democratic laws across the US, UK and EU using computational methods. 📍 Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen 📅 Apply by 12 July 2026 #PhD #PoliticalScience #AcademicJobs

🆕 An emotional #Climate 🌳 🫩 @dienerjulius.bsky.social argues that the emotional investment in #ClimateIssues is on the up, particularly among young MPs or MPs from #Green and progressive parties, by looking at who was most emotionally engaged during German speeches from 2011-2020

📢 Open positions! I’m recruiting 2 postdocs + 3 PhD positions at C³S, @goetheuni.bsky.social in #ClimateJustice, environmental inequality, #Demography & #ComputationalSocialScience 🌍📊💻 3–4 years + strong support for training🎒 Deadline: 23 June 2026 More: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen...

Officially finished my PhD and defended on Friday, May 22 🎉🎓 It’s been years of balancing teaching, research, work, and mental health – with plenty of challenges and growth along the way. This means a lot, and I still can’t believe that it’s done.

Coming to @ecprgender.bsky.social #ECPG2026 and working with quant methods or curious about using them in gender & politics research? Come along & meet other researchers at the @strathplacelab.bsky.social pre-conference social 🍻 📍 Two by Two Brewery 🕡 18:30, 14 June RSVP here: bit.ly/4dPyr8F

🎉🚨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:

🎯 New paper alert! It includes the main theoretical & empirical contribution of my dissertation: disentangling targeting and tailoring in political social media advertising. Really happy @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social and I found such a great home for it 🏠 Open Access 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1369... 1/4

🚨Stellenausschreibung🚨 Postdoc-Stelle im Bereich „Politisches System Deutschlands und der EU“ (100%, 3 Jahre), Uni Oldenburg Bewerbungsfrist: 9.6.2026 Bei Fragen gerne per E-Mail bei mir melden. Gerne teilen! 🙂 uol.de/job/wissensc...

My first paper is out! Co-authored with @falkscheidig.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/pa/g...

New Job! Started as a Postdoc at the Uni of Oldenburg 🪩🥳 Within the SCEPTIC project, we examine how online information environments are reshaping trust and social cohesion. Excited to work with @msaeltzer.bsky.social @annanosthoff.bsky.social @guzoch.bsky.social Sebastian Block, Andreas Peter

What drives legislators' emotional engagement with climate issues? I explore the role of their age and party affiliation and over-time developments in a new research note in European Journal of Political Research. (a thread)

Soo, since yesterday I am officially PhDone! 😮🎓✨🥂 I’m incredibly grateful to my supervisors Sylvia Kritzinger & @markuswagner.bsky.social for their guidance & support in this journey, and to my wonderful committee @gessler.bsky.social & @chrisclaassen.bsky.social for the thoughtful discussion. 1/2

Does anyone else have issues accessing the @manifestoproj.bsky.social website? I tried several times since yesterday, but I always get 503 error.

I am looking for a postdoc to join my team at the University of Bremen. 5-year-contract, top-up to 100% possible for most of the contract period. Apply by 04 May 2026. If you have questions about the position, send me an email! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

Still in 2025, some political scientists argued that we should not misinterpret Trump's illiberal policies as undemocratic. Some continue to say the same about the European far right. It's time to understand that racism, misogynie, anti-queerness are building blocks of authoritarianism. 1/

🚨 New paper with great co-authors (@oguzhan-alkan.bsky.social @rdassonneville.bsky.social @zeynsom.bsky.social) in Political Behavior! How well do citizens perceive where parties stand? 🤔 Open access: rdcu.be/fb83Z

📢 Are women MPs better at estimating their party voters’ preferences on women’s issues? In our new paper (with @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and @breunig.eurosky.social), we analyze whether and under which conditions women MPs assess these preferences more accurately. doi.org/10.1017/S147...

Neue Professur "Politisches Verhalten und Repräsentation" Univ.-Prof. Dr. Constantin Wurthmann tritt zum 1.4.2026 die neue Professur "Politisches Verhalten und Repräsentation" am Institut für Politikwissenschaft an. Wir begrüßen Herrn Wurthmann und seine Mitarbeiterin, Frau Wiegmann, herzlich.

Are you a policymaker, teacher, practitioner, academic in political science, psychology, education or related field? We’re inviting experts to complete a short survey on youth political participation: tinyurl.com/ywnseae3 For every completion, we’ll donate €1.20 to UNICEF. Please share!

I'm hiring a postdoc! @goetheuni.bsky.social Focus: CSS, political behavior, political communication & transforming information environments. 📍 Frankfurt | ⏳ 3 years | 📅 Deadline: 14 April 2026 Full job ad here: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen... (search for “political behavior” to find it)

Die Forschungsministerin freut sich auf Insta darüber, dass jetzt "Porträts" von Frauen der Geschichte in ihrem Haus hängen. Nur: Die sind mit KI erstellt. Und schleifen die Gesichter der Frauen gemäß moderner westlicher Schönheitsideale glatt. Was für ein irres Projekt Z.B.

This creep's entire line of thought here is eugenicist trash. People are PEOPLE. You don't measure their value by energy consumption. They have inherent value as HUMAN BEINGS. A fucking LLM has no inherent human value. You cannot compare them.

Wir gedenken: Gökhan Gültekin Sedat Gürbüz Said Nesar Hashemi Mercedes Kierpacz Hamza Kurtović Vili Viorel Păun Fatih Saraçoğlu Ferhat Unvar Kaloyan Velkov Ermordet vor 6 Jahren, am 19. Februar 2020, beim rassistischen Anschlag von #Hanau. Wir gedenken Ibrahim Akkuş, verstorben an den Spätfolgen.

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨 7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers. Free of charge (limited travel support). Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org #methodsky #polisky

I am happy to announce that I have joined the team of Politische Vierteljahresschrift / German Political Science Quarterly @pvs-journal.bsky.social as Managing Editor alongside the new Editor-in-Chief Marc Debus. I will assist Marc and the team of Associate Editors in managing this great journal.

NEW - Gender Bias in Legislative Oversight: Do Parliamentarians Control Women Ministers More Tightly than Men Ministers? - https://cup.org/45Rm9Z6 - @corinnakroeber.bsky.social, @lenastephan.bsky.social, @sarahdingler.bsky.social & @camilamontero.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Diese Studie ist eine Sensation: Heike Klüver hat 1.237 Regierungen in 57 Demokratien über 50 Jahre ausgewertet. Die Schlüsselfrage: Werden Rechtsextreme „entzaubert“, wenn sie mitregieren? Die Antwort – eindeutig: Nein. Sobald rechtsextreme Parteien an der Regierung sitzen, profitieren sie.

🎊 I successfully defended my PhD at the University of Mannheim yesterday! Huge thanks to my fantastic supervisors, Christian Stecker (@pluggedchris.bsky.social) and Chris Arnold (@chrisguarnold.bsky.social), for guiding and supporting me every step of the way! #multimodaldata #politicalbehaviour

📄 New paper out in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social with my amazing co-author @plutscher.bsky.social ! 💡 Ever wondered if authoritarian strongman messaging also works in democracies? We find that, yes, it did under Trump during the BLM protests in the U.S. in 2020. polisky csssky socsky commsky