Jule Kegel

Sharing my LinkedIn post here too. Political science lost a great researcher and I lost a wonderful friend and one of the people that brought me to where I am now. Rest easy, Philipp 🕊️🤍

Special surprise in yesterday’s Austrian Politics lecture: While @mkaltenegger.bsky.social talked about Austria’s Federal President, President Van der Bellen personally stopped by to share his firsthand experiences with our students. An amazing (and delightful) exchange! 🙌💬

🚨Open Position! . We are looking for a University Assistant Postdoc (40h/week) to join us at the Department of Government! Start: 1 Feb 2027 Application deadline: 16 Nov 2026 Find the full job advertisement here 👇

Since I first set foot into academia as a student research assistant, Philipp was there. Encouraging, supporting, sharing his brilliant thoughts alongside the funniest memes. He was one of the most genuinely kindhearted people I know, passionate about democracy, enthusiastic in all of his projects.

Devastating news.... Philipp was one of the first persons I met at a conference as PhD student (he shared so many advices with me about how this conferencing and PhD'ing works) and we shared the enthusiasm about Central and Eastern European Politics.

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 was NOT prepared for the amount of spam emails you get as soon as you have your first publication out...

Die #Mitgliederzahlen der Parteien Ende 2025 (und die Entwicklung zum Vorjahr) aus der jährlichen Studie von Oskar Niedermayer. Die Entwicklung in früheren Jahren: bsky.app/profile/wahl...

How do school visits by politicians effect students' attitudes towards politicians and democracy? 🏫 A recent pre-post survey finds significant improvements in their image of politicians, internal/external efficacy, as well as knowledge and interest. 📈 Read the study recap:

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...

Excited to share our new paper in @thejop.bsky.social with @krausewe.bsky.social! Parties polling just below an electoral threshold are far less likely to clear it: a self-fulfilling prophecy that diminishes when polls communicate uncertainty. 🗳️📊 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

🎯 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

🚨 New Article in Politics and Governance When Populists Win but Are Excluded From Power: Explaining Post‐Electoral Dynamics of Democratic Satisfaction By @schnizzl.bsky.social and S. Kritzinger 🔗 Open access: doi.org/10.17645/pag... 🧵 1/6 #Polisky

Friendly reminder! We already have a lot of participants (thanks to everyone who did!) but every single one strengthens our findings, so if you haven't participated yet please consider 😊

I’d especially like to encourage women to apply. We’re a fantastic department with excellent scholars, in beautiful Vienna. Data shows that women are less likely to apply for positions than equally qualified men (Muriel Niederle & Lise Vesterlund 2011), so if you’re considering it, please go for it!

New blog post ✒️ Who gets emotional about politics and what impact do knowledge, interest, and confidence-in-knowledge have? Find out more about the sophistication-emotion link in our latest blogpost:

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!

Im Rahmen eines repräsentativen Surveys im Vorfeld der Wahl in Baden-Württemberg haben wir u.a. danach gefragt, ob die Partei mit den meisten Wählerstimmen den Ministerpräsidenten stellen sollte. Dieser Aussage stimmten rund drei Viertel der CDU-Wählerinnen und -Wähler „voll“ oder „eher“ zu /1

🚨 Job Alert! We are looking for a Senior Scientist (40h/week) to develop, establish, and organize the research network “Democracy and Human Rights”. Start: March 1, 2026 Application deadline: February 2, 2026 Find out more👇 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...

Just political science things: Trying to write an opening paragraph for a paper that says "authoritarian populism is on the rise and this can be very harmful for democracy" in a way that it hasn't already been phrased in one of the other gazillion opening paragraphs on this topic 🥲

How do adolescents form their political views, and are they really so different from adults? Next Friday (Nov 7), the IP-PAD Doctoral Network and @hotpoliticslab.bsky.social host a conference in Amsterdam on adolescents and politics (attached program). DM or email j.kasper@uva.nl to join.

Open Letter by scientists to the Council: "Climate Neutrality Is Europe’s Greatest Economic Opportunity”. Ahead of the European Council meeting on 23.10.2025, 2,178 scientists urge EU Heads of States & Governments to take ambitious decisions for the 2040 targets. zenodo.org/records/1739...

🔍How does young people's anxiety about the future relate to their political attitudes? Find out in my first PhD paper, just published in the special issue "The Psychology of Pushback" at advances.in/psychology/1...

I spent the past few months in London on secondment at a non-academic company as part of my MSCA doctoral training, which was a wonderful and eye-opening experience. Here is a blog post reflecting on one of the main things I learned: www.ippad.eu/post/jule-ke...

Awards, awards, awards! 🏆✨ At the 11th Annual @oegpw.bsky.social Conference, three members of the Department of Government @univie.ac.at were among the awardees: 🎓 Best PhD – @christinagahn.bsky.social 📘 Best MA – Benjamin Riesch 📗 Best BA – Luca Conte 👏 Huge congrats to all! 🎉 #PoliSky 🧪

Ah yes, my finest work "PaperTitle"

The University of Cologne plans drastic cuts to its Political Science department, potentially abolishing the MSc in Political Science and eliminating the professorships in IR and Comparative Politics. This would severely weaken the social sciences at @unicologne.bsky.social. Petition (de/en) ⤵️

Since I have made this post I have gathered a bunch of observational studies with null results since then. Here is a quick thread:

We are happy to announce that PhD student Belén Abdala successfully defended her thesis "From Voting to Candidacy: An Analysis of Individuals’ Motivations to Participate in Politics" on 12th of March! Congratulations, Belén! Wishing you all the best in your future endeavors! #PhDone

Wir haben ein neues Sharepic :-) @friedrichbohn.bsky.social macht aber sicherlich auch noch gerne Sharepics für 10.000, ... 🙂 www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/s4f/de/top/o...

Btw it never made it. I’m trying to channel my inner Downs and telling myself my vote doesn’t matter anyway. Not sure it’s working very well

Just Auslandsdeutsche things: explicitly sent my ballot back with a tracking option just to see that it hasn’t moved at all in 4 days

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Reminder that these protests work: - Evidence from Greece: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... - Evidence from Italy: academic.oup.com/poq/article-... - Evidence from France: academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a...

Der Forschungsstand ist klar: Wenn demokratische Parteien rechtspopulistische Erzählungen/Politik übernehmen/nachzuahmen versuchen, hilft das nur rechtspopulistischen Parteien. Expert*innen warnen deswegen seit JAHREN. Niemand kann sagen, man hätte es ja nicht gewusst.

Hi everyone 😊 good to see a lot of my old Twitter (will never call it X) network is on here as well