Nils Weidmann

After 26 days, 2424 kilometers, 16 talks and only two flat tires, #BikeAndTalk2024 from Konstanz to Oslo is over! It was a fantastic trip, and I’m so grateful for meeting so many great colleagues along the way. Hope to do another iteration of this format next year.

📣 Reminder: Open-panel paper proposals for @dvpwkongress.bsky.social #dvpw2027 in Leipzig, are due Oct 31, 2026. SekMethoden organizes three panels; four more are affiliated with the section ⬇️ ▶️ Submit your proposals: meine.dvpw.de/einreichungen/ @gessler.bsky.social @lukrudolph.bsky.social

Five days left to submit!

What are the ethical challenges when using computer vision for social science research? Read our (open access) article here: doi.org/10.1007/s436... - a joint effort with Thomas Schincariol, @alexaisa.bsky.social, @belengonzalez.bsky.social and @cvonsoest.bsky.social!

How should we measure democracy in an increasingly contested political environment? I'm putting together a panel on democracy measurement for the #DVPW Annual Conference 2027 in Leipzig. It's an "open panel" and open for submissions: www.dvpw.de/dvpw2027/en/... (search for "Panel 993")!

Does the Community Understand the Community Guidelines? In our paper with @yannistheocharis.bsky.social , @mianahrgang.bsky.social , @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & Molly Roberts, out in Policy & Internet, we ask: Do Community Guidelines help users understand and consistently apply platform policies?

The Call for Papers for #EPSS 2027 in Copenhagen is now open! Join the @epssnet.bsky.social community for exciting new research, great discussions, and a lot of fun. Deadline for paper submissions: 13 November 2026 epssnet.org/2027-copenha...

📢 Want to guest edit JPR’s 2028 Special Issue? One month left to submit your proposal!

We have a 2-year postdoc position available in a new SNSF/DFG-funded project on nationalist mobilization. More details here: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/5.... Please share widely!

How should we measure democracy in an increasingly contested political environment? I'm putting together a panel on democracy measurement for the #DVPW Annual Conference 2027 in Leipzig. It's an "open panel" and open for submissions: www.dvpw.de/dvpw2027/en/... (search for "Panel 993")!

☀️ June Issue 💼 Profession @jjungblut.bsky.social @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & @chknutsen.bsky.social examine political science departments at universities across the world to assess the extent to which they vary with regime type. 👉 buff.ly/qEIeGoB

Today is the last day of the summer term at @uni-konstanz.de. The last weeks have been extremely exhausting, due to the fact that only very few rooms on campus have A/C. This was by far the worst summer in the history of our institution (see below). You wonder why teaching ends so late? So do I.

Gratulation zum Semesterende, @uni-konstanz.de! Die letzten Wochen waren echt zäh, oder? Dies war (mit deutlichem Abstand) das Sommersemester mit den meisten Hitzetagen in der Geschichte unserer Uni. Bitte lasst uns über die Semesterdaten sprechen. www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/06...

Hitzekollaps im Hörsaal Wer Studierende und Lehrende vor den immer häufigeren Hitzetagen schützen will, sollte die Semesterzeiten neu denken. Ein Gastbeitrag von Nils Weidmann. Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/06...

This paper is now out! Can't believe I'm the first to skype it! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... It's a sad day if academics have to disseminate on linkedin, because no one sees them here or on twitter, for two very different reasons (there's few people here, and "shadow banning" there).

Would be great to do something similar at the @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social.

We're hiring 2 postdocs at @uio.no on my ERC-Cog project on how authoritarian regimes shape scientific knowledge. 3–4 years, U. of Oslo. Deadline: 10 Sept 2026. Great dept., terms, well funded, bustling & green Scandi capital. Apply! 👉 jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/303060/postdoctoral-fello

Today, I kicked off this year‘s #BikeAndTalk2026 trip through Switzerland together with @alexaisa.bsky.social . Thanks to @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and amazing colleagues for hosting us! Tomorrow, I’m off to Fribourg and then Bern (Wednesday).

Delighted to share a short blog post on the dark logic of visual "strongman" propaganda — drawing on survey experiments in Venezuela, Türkiye and the US!

That said, there are really interesting avenues for research on plausible expert biases using coder-level data. @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, @melinaplatas.bsky.social and @sarahbush.bsky.social have great work on this topic in different contexts... doi.org/10.1177/0010... doi.org/10.1177/0010...

How often do ethnic elites use grievance frames online? @frederikgremler.bsky.social, Lea Haiges, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & Christina Zuber examine 646k posts showing such frames are rare & track political, not economic, inequality. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/swifESz @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

📢 New article 🌟 👥 Jens Jungblut @jjungblut.bsky.social (ISV), Nils B. Weidmann @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, & Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social (ISV) 👉 The politics behind political science: A cross-national perspective 📗 Open Access in European Political Science 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/s168...

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)

How often do ethnic elites use grievance frames online? @frederikgremler.bsky.social, Lea Haiges, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & Christina Zuber examine 646k posts showing such frames are rare & track political, not economic, inequality. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/swifESz @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

🆕 Together with @krishogl.bsky.social, I’m excited to share several new outputs from our joint research project on the actors of electoral violence. 🧵 A thread... #polisky #conflictsky

❇️ FirstView -💼 Profession @jjungblut.bsky.social, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & @chknutsen.bsky.social examine political science departments at universities across the world to assess the extent to which they vary with regime type. 👉 buff.ly/qEIeGoB

In a new study (OA) in @epsjournal.bsky.social @nilsweidmann.bsky.social @chknutsen.bsky.social & I study the global distribution of polit. science depts. Political science is today a truly global discipline & we find few differences along the democracy–autocracy continuum: doi.org/10.1017/S168...

📣CfA for a Postdoctoral Fellow Position in political science (3-4 years) as part of the ERC project “Waging of War” (WOW) - PI Scott Gates. The application deadline is March 16th, 2026. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

🚨Job alert 🚨 I have an opening for a postdoc in my team at @ipz.bsky.social in the area of digital democracy starting Sep 1, 2026. If you are working on the impact of the digital transformation on politics, please apply by 🗓️ Mar 1, 2026. 📤 Please share widely! www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns...

🚨 Postdoctoral Position at the University of Konstanz 🚨 We’re hiring a post-doc for our @excinequality.bsky.social project on political elites and decision-making. 4-year position | Deadline: Feb. 20 | Start: Sept 2026 Please share widely 🙏 The ad is here stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f...

“You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.” This speech is 🔥 and easily one of the most remarkable (and alarming) by a Canadian PM

In any somewhat functioning democracy this would lead to the removal of the leader

Large Language Models Are Democracy Coders with Attitudes @pspolisci.bsky.social @nilsweidmann.bsky.social Mats Faulborn @dgarcia.eu www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📅 Vortrag & Diskussion: Wie stehen Studierende zur Redefreiheit an Unis? In welchen Situationen wären sie bereit, Vorträge oder Personen auszuladen? Di, 13.01.2026 | 19:15 | A0701 @uni-konstanz.de & im Stream: t1p.de/ix7me Mit @cdiehl.bsky.social, Richard Traunmüller & @nilsweidmann.bsky.social

🚨Job alert! 🚨 I'm advertising a PhD position (66%) in Comparative Politics at HU Berlin. Ideal candidates combine a research interest in autocratic politics, conflict, and/or political violence with strong quantitative methods skills. ⏳ 4 (+2) years | 🗓 DL 16.01; Start March/April 26 More info:

🧵 PhD position (75%) in Political Behavior / Political Communication / CSS 📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026 We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization

📝 How often do ethnic elites use grievance frames online? @frederikgremler.bsky.social, Haiges, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & Zuber examine 646k posts showing such frames are rare & track political, not economic, inequality. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/lC7RH6t @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #PSNotes

We @uni-konstanz.de are hiring a full professor in machine learning for our MSc program in Social and Economic Data Science: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/6...

How often do ethnic elites use grievance frames online? @frederikgremler.bsky.social, Lea Haiges, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & Christina Zuber examine 646k posts showing such frames are rare & track political, not economic, inequality. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/lC7RH6t @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

If you get asked to review... please respond!!! And if you agree to review, please turn in the review. If it's a little late, that's ok, but let the journal know.

📣 We're hiring a postdoc in political science for our ReJust project @uni-konstanz.de! Project with Dirk Leuffen @leuffen.bsky.social and Urs Fischbacher 3-year position | Deadline: Dec. 15, 2025 | Start: April 2026 Please share widely 🙏

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