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🇪🇺 MEDem is on the ESFRI Roadmap 2026. Our new blog post takes a closer look at what this means for MEDem’s future and for the wider MEDem community. Thank you to everyone who has helped bring MEDem to this point. The work continues! 🤝 www.medem.eu/medem-on-the...

We often don't know which data, media sources or analytical tools already exist, let alone whether we can access, share the access, and thus make the data reusable. In our new open-access paper, we explain how @medem.bsky.social aims to change that. 🧵

Democracy thrives on curiosity & conversation! 💬 A big thank you to everyone who visited MEDem at the Austrian Ministry for Women, Science and Research’s Open Day – and to our hosts for bringing research closer to the public (@eviholz.bsky.social). We loved your questions, ideas & quiz enthusiasm! 🗳️

Democracy thrives on curiosity & conversation! 💬 A big thank you to everyone who visited MEDem at the Austrian Ministry for Women, Science and Research’s Open Day – and to our hosts for bringing research closer to the public (@eviholz.bsky.social). We loved your questions, ideas & quiz enthusiasm! 🗳️

I'm excited to share the dataset behind my book project: the Japanese Municipal Elections Dataset (JMED)! 👤 223,561 candidates 🗳️ 21,111 elections 🗾 2,027 municipalities 🗓️ 2005–2025 Explore the map or download the data: charlesmcclean.com/jmed/

What are we planning for the MEDem Service Center for Text and Multimedia Data? Our colleagues have laid out the vision, services, and challenges in a new open-access paper. 👇

What are we planning for the MEDem Service Center for Text and Multimedia Data? Our colleagues have laid out the vision, services, and challenges in a new open-access paper. 👇

🚨New article in Nature Scientific Data: The ParlLawSpeech Parliamentary Text Data Collection > 3 Million Parliamentary Bills, Laws, and Speeches from 8 Legislatures: doi.org/10.1038/s415... with @lukashetzer.eurosky.social @sopro.bsky.social @chrauh.bsky.social @miklossebok.bsky.social 1/6

📢 We’re hiring a Senior Scientist in Computational Communication Science at the University of Vienna! Come join our CCL Team and work on building a research infrastructure for #CSS @medem.bsky.social 🤓 📍 Vienna | 4-year position | full-time Apply via the University of Vienna job portal 👇

The WhoGov Project has a new webpage 🎉 It brings our datasets, publications, team, and news together in one home. We have big plans for expanding the dataset and building the project, and we'll keep it updated. Take a look (and join our mailing list): whogov.net

The Competence and Service Center for Interoperability (CSCI) within @medem.bsky.social develops conceptual mappings, harmonization protocols, validation diagnostics, and ATLAS-ready specifications that make heterogeneous democracy-related data jointly usable.

Feiert mit uns 50 Jahre @oegk.bsky.social & erfahrt mehr über unsere Arbeit zu politischem Vertrauen, Wissenschaftskommunikation, Online-Inzivilität, Medieneffekten auf Einstellungen zu Migration, Wohlfahrtsstaatswahrnehmungen, Debatten zur Energiewende & @medem.bsky.social! #KWT2026 Details👇

Yay infrastructure! 🧰 @marvins.bsky.social cial and @janabernhard.bsky.social present a first usecase between @medem.bsky.social l AmCAT instance and @iriscc.bsky.social sky.social climate reporting dataset. at #COMPTEXT2026

📢 Open data is not enough if it cannot be found, understood, linked, and reused. That is why MEDem welcomes the @dfg.de call to strengthen resilient research data infrastructures, especially for Democracy Research hat depends on linking diverse data across countries and time. 🔗 shorturl.at/VLdLC

📘 What can party manifestos tell us about party competition across democracies? Our latest MEDem Data Network Focus spotlights the @manifestoproj.bsky.social with insights from Pola Lehmann (@wzb.bsky.social) and Simon Franzmann (@uni-goettingen.de). Read more: www.medem.eu/medem-data-n...

Pre-announcement: Call for questions, Selects 2027 Contribute your questions to the Swiss electoral study during the 2027 federal elections. 📅 Call: end of April 2026 🗓 Deadline: end of June 2026 Selects 2023, including datasets, questionnaires & documentation www.swissubase.ch/en/catalogue...

🌍📊 From survey data quality to research infrastructures: The #CSDIWorkshop 2026 in Vienna brought together researchers and practitioners to discuss current challenges and innovations in comparative survey design and implementation. Read more in our latest #MEDemBlog: www.medem.eu/csdi-worksho...

Key takeaway from our panel at #CSDI with @jamoeberl.bsky.social, @paulbederke.bsky.social & @ggp.bsky.social on data linkage and interoperability: Better connected research communities 👉 better connected data 👉 more comparable research across countries and time!

Looking for ideas on how to secure funding for your next election survey?💡 📢 Attend the next #CNES Online Seminar on: “Fundraising Strategies: Experiences, Ideas and Practical Insights in a Challenging Era for Electoral Research” 📅 May 19th 15:00-16:00 Central European Time (UTC/GMT+2).

🌟 Comparative Survey Design and Implementation (CSDI) workshop kicks off in Vienna! Hosted by MEDem, it brings together researchers and practitioners to advance survey data linkage and harmonization. Looking forward to the discussions ahead, especially our panel tomorrow. Stay tuned!

The new V-Dem Democracy Report 2026 is out: “Unraveling the Democratic Era.” @vdeminstitute.bsky.social has all the facts.

We are happy and proud to participate in @medem.bsky.social , the #researchinfrastructure that will elevate European #democracy research 🚀 Thank you #MEDem for castingen the spotlight on us with this piece 👇

📢 Out Now! V-Dem Dataset v16 & the V-Dem Institute Democracy Report 2026 💾 The V-Dem Dataset: v-dem.net/data/the-v-d... 📰 The Report "Unraveling The Democratic Era?”: v-dem.net/publications... 📈 Explore the new data with the V-Dem Graphing tools: v-dem.net/graphing/gra... #PoliSky #PoliSciSky 1/3

How do we connect election studies across countries? The Consortium of National Election Studies links national election study teams and supports comparative research on elections and voting behaviour. On our blog, Olga Gyafarsova explains how the network started and what it offers. Read more 👇

There is still one month left to apply to the WhoGov Mini-Conference on Political Elites. The deadline is the 1st of April. It takes place in Oslo, August 20-21st, 2026. We welcome research on political elites broadly understood. Call is found here : bit.ly/whogovminico...

Having worked on MEDem since 2022, I am incredibly proud of how far we have come. This would not have been possible without the broad support of such committed #MEDemCommunity. If there is one thing I am absolutely convinced of, it is that #DemocracyResearch needs its own #ResearchInfrastructure. 🤞

MEDem attended the #ESFRIroadmap2026 hearings ✅ This crucial step was only possible thanks to our incredible community. Thank you for the continued trust and strong support! 🙌 But what does this milestone mean, and what comes next? Read more on our #MEDemBlog 👉 www.medem.eu/a-shared-ste...

Together, we deployed a new instance of AmCAT (amcat4.labs.vu.nl) for the @medem.bsky.social project in Vienna — strengthening infrastructure for open & reproducible computational content analysis.

⬇️Thrilled to join as an Inaugural Member of the Israel National Consortium MEDem @medem.bsky.social : Liron Lavi (BIU), @noamgidron.bsky.social (HUJI), Osnat Akirav (ISPSA), @yaelrkaplan.bsky.social (OU), @acavari.bsky.social & Asif Efrat (RU), @ayakter.bsky.social & @liranharsgor.bsky.social ✨

📅Thursday, reading tip day! 🌱Staying on theme with Clean Energy Day, today’s reading tip is: “Right-wing ideology reduces the effects of education on climate change beliefs in more developed countries.” 📄 Explore the full article 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #EVS #Climate #Europe #EVS2026

EVS 2026 is underway 🌍🚀 The 6th wave of the EVS combines its historic values ​​time series with a new framework on European Values, addressing democracy, rule of law, sustainability, and Europe in a changing world. Fieldwork started in Dec 2025 and continues across Europe in 2026. bit.ly/45T969x

As part of the PUSHBACKLASH project, @gesis.org 🇩🇪 have released the #European #Gender Attitudes Harmonized Database. This database includes our #data harmonised with three other major #surveys: Eurobarometer 🇪🇺, @evs-values.bsky.social and @isspsurvey.bsky.social.

The datasets from our @protestinstitut.bsky.social project ‘20 years of protest survey data’ are finally online for scientific re-use. We processed 30+ datasets, covering protests on peace, climate, trade, migration, equality & more. Now available @gesis.org 👇 search.gesis.org?source=%7B%2...

Please share - @pewresearch.org wants to hire a data archivist who will be an advocate for data users, helping to ensure that our datasets are easy to discover and reuse by researchers, journalists, and the public. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CenterExtern...

I realised I follow several journals and now I learn about new publications and interesting papers often here first - so I made a Starter Pack with journal accounts in case you wanted to as well. Let me know if I missed an important journal and I'll add it. go.bsky.app/L57tAru

Call for Co-Editor of @pdyearbook.bsky.social (PDY) - deadline 31st of January 2026. ✅ Are you passionate about data and analysis? ✅ Do you have a strong research background in political parties and governments in Europe and beyond? Find out how to apply - https://cup.org/4soRGLQ

The #EuropeanDemocracyShield is an important step toward coordinated, evidence-driven democratic resilience in the EU. Its focus on a protected information space, free and fair elections, and evidence-based policymaking aligns closely with MEDem’s mission. We fully support this initiative.

📢 New Thematic dataset: 𝐋𝐚𝐰𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 The #Demscore v6 update comes with a new thematic dataset on Laws and Liberties. Available for free at the Demscore website: www.demscore.se/data/themati... More info in 🧵1(3) #SocialScienceData #Polisky #PolDataSky #PoliSciSky #PoliticalScienceData

📢 Don’t miss the next #CNES Seminar, a deep dive into #migrant #electionstudies!

📣 Our Methods School winter programme is now LIVE #ecprms 📆 16 – 27 Feb 2026 💻 Online 🔓 Join the priority booking list by Wed 29 Oct buff.ly/gMBSzZ8 ✅ First pick of courses 🎓 Expert-led training on #quantitative, #qualitative, creative & mixed research methods

Just 2 weeks to go until our ODISSEI Annual Conference 2025! 🗓️ 4 November 2025 | 📍 Jaarbeurs, Utrecht | 🆓 FREE REGISTRATION Register 👉 odissei-data.nl/event/odisse...

🎓 Interested in #PoliticalBehavior, #SurveyData & #ComparativeResearch? @forsresearch.bsky.social & the University of Lausanne 🇨🇭 are hiring a PhD researcher in comparative political behavior — join a great team and contribute to #MEDem’s Service Center for Survey Data! 🗓️ Apply by 9 Nov! 👉

✨ From Data to Impact: The #MEDemConference recap is now online! Two days of exchange, reflection, and collaboration with inspiring voices from media, policy, and academia, innovative tools, & plenty of photo highlights showing the #MEDemCommunity in action 📸 👉 Read the full #MEDemBlog post here:

Do you have a degree in social sciences or a related field? And are you interested in becoming part of Europe's largest social science panel study? Then apply for the position of Survey Specialist as part of the German country team: share-eric.eu/news-events/...