🎄🌟 Exciting news! 📊🎉
The AUTNES Online Panel Study 2017–2024 is here! 🎁🤩
Explore 23 survey waves to uncover the dynamics of voting behavior and public opinion in Austria. 🗳️🇦🇹
Access the data via #AUSSDA ➡️ doi.org/10.11587/HNU...#AUTNES#ElectionStudies#Polisky#DataRelease#WeLoveData ❤️
#unisretten Die Uni brennt und trotzdem will der Staat weiter kürzen. Im Namen der Austerität wird beim Sozialen - bei Bildung, Kultur und Wissenschaft - gekürzt und von unten nach oben verteilt. Nicht mit uns!
Meine Studis sind heute nach dem Kurs freiwillig im Labor geblieben um ihren Beitrag zu #uniretten zu basteln.
@eviholz.bsky.social@markusmarterbauer.bsky.social die Studierenden verdienen gute Studienbedingungen. Lehrende und Forschende verdienen gute Rahmenbedingungen.
🔴 Tausende Student:innen, Lehrende und solidarische Menschen demonstrieren heute in Wien gegen geplante Kürzungen! Sie sagen #AlarmstufeRot und fordern: #Unisretten!
Wir brauchen auf jeden Fall dringend mehr Ideen, wie das Milliardenloch im Uni-Budget doch noch geschlossen werden kann. #unisrettendietagespresse.com/um-endlich-m...
Heute um 15:00 Uhr am Karlsplatz (TU Wien): Noch einmal gemeinsam laut sein gegen die massiven Kürzungen des Unibudgets! ✊ Es geht um die Zukunft unserer Bildung und Forschung – jede Stimme zählt. Für die Unis, für uns alle! #UnisRetten
Kind of fascinating that both Google and OpenAI are claiming credit for their AI tools discovering (apparently independently) the massive, scary PHP vulnerability that is taking down sites across the internet today.
cloud.google.com/blog/product...openai.com/index/coordi...
No Cuts – weder durch Staat noch Rektorat!
Gemeinsam gegen die Kürzungen und verkrustete Unihierarchien. Kurien stürzen statt Unis kürzen!
22.10., 15:00 Karlsplatz
Für ein starkes gemeinsames Zeichen des Mittelbaus. ✊
www.oeh.ac.at/veranstaltun...#NoCuts#unisretten
Ein Klappbett im Keller statt des eigenen WG-Zimmers: Für viele Studierenden beginnt das Studium in einer Notunterkunft. youtu.be/4x7-T-G9ipE#bildungbrennt#unibrennt
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned against complacency over the dangers posed by Russia, saying that Putin is seeking to not only defeat Ukraine, but to also undermine democracy in Europe
„Rund zehn Prozent des wissenschaftlichen und allgemeinen Personals – also rund 6800 Stellen – müssten die Unis in den kommenden Jahren abbauen.“ www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
🚨Open Position!
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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 👇
📢 Donnerstag, 22. Oktober, 15 Uhr, Wien
Großdemo gegen den Kahlschlag an Universitäten.
Wir können diese massiven Kürzungen nicht einfach hinnehmen. Die Zukunft lässt sich nicht einsparen!
Kommt mit uns auf die Straße!
www.ots.at/presseaussen...#ichBinHanna#BildungBrennt
Sagt uns Ministerin Holzleitner grad durch die Blume, dass alle anderen Unis wesentlich mehr als 10% sparen werden müssen, damit wir die Inflation für die Ärzt*innen Gehälter abfedern? Dieses lasst die Unis gegeneinander uns Budget kämpfen - wer zuletzt steht, kriegt mehr, ist nur grauslich! #zib2
Hinter Worten wie „Personalabbau“ stehen Menschen wie ich. Ich halte mich im Moment mit zwei Lehraufträgen an der Uni Wien gerade mal so über Wasser. Mal schauen, wie lang das noch gut geht.
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
The president of Brazil has won a court case against Meta, after accusing them of restricting his posts and algorithmically favoring his opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro
www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...
NORTH CAROLINA A&T STUDENTS MARCH TO VOTE AFTER CAMPUS POLLING LOCATION REMOVED
Students at North Carolina A&T State University took to the streets in Greensboro on Thursday, marching to cast their ballots on the first day of early voting in North Carolina.
📢 We're hiring!
3-year postdoc position, starting Feb/March 2027
We're looking for someone with:
- research agenda on political representation, party competition, institutions, political economy, political behavior or related fields
- ability to teach Austrian politics
Please share widely!
🚨Open Position!
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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 👇
I hadn't noticed earlier but our "Bioweapon" paper is finally out in print. We really worked hard on this, so if you haven't read it when it cam out online, give it a try now!
Old detailed thread linked below.
Full open access paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Ich freue mich, am Sonntag im Rahmen der #Demokratiewoche 2026 bei der Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema „Demokratie im Gespräch: Was bedeutet Demokratie heute?“ in Gänserndorf dabei zu sein!
buendnis2025.at/veranstaltun...
Auch sonst gibt es viele weitere spannende Veranstaltungen, schaut ins Programm!
Perhaps an interesting dataset to explore! 👀
Flash Eurobarometer on the impact of screen time and social media on mental health of young people – youth plus parent survey.
#eurobarometer#eu
Check out:
👉 Flash EB 579 "Impact of Excessive Screen Time and Social Media on Young People’s Mental Health"
🔗 t1p.de/Flash_579
The data set contains a parent survey and an independently sampled youth survey.
@europarl.europa.eueuropa.eu/eurobarome...
Happy to share a new working paper: "Machine Learning Models Trained on a Longitudinal Survey Dataset Poorly Predict Hundreds of Life Outcomes" arxiv.org/abs/2610.17115 You can hear Emily Cantrell present it Thursday Oct 15 at Oxford: metrics-and-models.github.io (online participation possible)
I will start a new group at @wuvienna.bsky.social next spring and am recruiting.
- Assistant Professor (non-tenure track) Social Data Science tinyurl.com/ykfsctp8
- Research and Teaching Associate (PhD candidate) Survey Method/Social Data Science tinyurl.com/4k7sandh
Deadline: Nov. 4
young men (18-29) who spend >5 hours a day on social media are more likely to agree that advancing women’s and girls’ rights has gone too far than those who don’t use social media as much. no difference detected among young women.
@eurcorrespond.bsky.social
🚨Job alert! 🚨
Come work with us on the British Election Study!
We are looking for a postdoc to join the new BES team: 5 year contract, starting in Jan 2027.
Happy to chat if you've got any questions.
Applications close 12 Nov, for details see: jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Hundreds of French supermarkets hit by a cyberattack that turned up the heat in refrigeration systems
Hundreds of French supermarkets saw their refrigeration systems defrosted, spoiling tons of frozen food. The unprecedented attack has raised serious questions about food security across Europe.
📢 Call for abstracts!
#ESRA2027 meets #WAPOR in Paris, 19–23 July 2027!
We are co-organizing a session on "Advances and Innovations in Online Panel Research" and welcome contributions!
🗓️ Deadline: 12 January 2027
🔗 www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conf2027/ses...
Der ukrainische Journalist Mykhailo Tkach, der Ende September 2026 in Oslo mit dem #FreeMediaAward ausgezeichnet wurde, ist gestern mit Kameramann in Wien brutal verhaftet worden. #ReporterOhneGrenzen fordert sofortige Aufklärung, rechtsstaatliche Transparenz und den Schutz journalistischer Arbeit.
❗ There's a permanent, research and teaching lectureship over at the University of Surrey in the broad area of behaviour, attitudes, parties, etc.
jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
I'm having de ja vu from when CEU tried to get around right wing Hungarian politics by hiring at least half Hungarians.
The solution is the same. Microsoft should move its headquarters to Vienna. Or Vancouver if there's a highspeed rail connection to Seattle (IDK).
Terrible news for higher education. This will effectively kill OPT, which is major incentive for international students. $70k fee university must pay. Seems like game over for OPT.
Will go into effect after 30 day public comment and 60 day implementation delay.
Trump admin's new rule adding prohibitively expensive new fees for "OPT"—temporary work authorization program for international students and new grads in the United States—is out.
Would require colleges to pay $70,000 for year one. $30,000 for years two and three combined for STEM fields.
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