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Nils Weidmann

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Professor of Political Science, University of Konstanz, Germany. https://www.polver.uni-konstanz.de/cnc/people/weidmann/

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Nils Weidmann @nilsweidmann.bsky.social · Jun 21

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.

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 2d

Large Language Models Are Democracy Coders with Attitudes
@pspolisci.bsky.social
@nilsweidmann.bsky.social
Mats Faulborn
@dgarcia.eu

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Large Language Models Are Democracy Coders with Attitudes | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core

Large Language Models Are Democracy Coders with Attitudes - Volume 59 Issue 1

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The Politics of Inequality @excinequality.bsky.social · 3d

📅 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

Reposted by Jochen Müller, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Maarten Vink , and 2 more Jochen Müller, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Maarten Vink, Nils B. Weidmann, Jens Rydgren

Felix Haass @felixhaass.bsky.social · 5d

🚨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:

Research fellow (m/f/d) in the field of “contentious politics/political violence/autocratic politics” - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

www.hu-berlin.de

Reposted by David Lazer, Ruth Dassonneville, Nils B. Weidmann , and 3 more David Lazer, Ruth Dassonneville, Nils B. Weidmann, Ingo Rohlfing, Nazita Lajevardi, Matthijs Rooduijn

Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 5d

🧵 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

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 21d

📝 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

Reposted by Jochen Müller, Nils B. Weidmann, Christian Breunig , and 2 more Jochen Müller, Nils B. Weidmann, Christian Breunig, Simon Munzert, Christina Felfe

Peter Selb @pselb.bsky.social · 27d

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...

Full Professorship (W3) in Machine Learning

Deadline: January 31, 2026

stellen.uni-konstanz.de

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · Dec 12

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

Nils Weidmann @nilsweidmann.bsky.social · Dec 10

Spoiler: We find few of them, and the few that exist don’t align with economic — but with political — inequality. Thanks to @excinequality.bsky.social for funding this work!

Nils Weidmann @nilsweidmann.bsky.social · Dec 10

Inequality matters for ethnic conflict. But do group elites actually frame a situation as unjust? In a recent article (doi.org/10.1177/00323217251401758), @frederikgremler.bsky.social, Lea Haiges, Christina Zuber and I analyse “grievance frames” in social media posts of ethnic organisations.

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Reposted by Tim Bale, Stuart Elden, Nils B. Weidmann , and 4 more Tim Bale, Stuart Elden, Nils B. Weidmann, Jörg Oechssler, Brett Christophers, Todd Pugatch, Bartosz Bartkowski

Mark Fabian @markfabian.bsky.social · Nov 24

Recently did around 30 requests to ppl who'd published very similar papers to the one I needed reviews for. 3 declines, 25 no response. Please at least decline guys it slows stuff down so much otherwise.

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · Nov 24

I'm still relatively new to this journal associate editor business, but it already sucks… I've had a paper on my desk for more than a month now:

Reviewers invited: 12
Of those…
Declined: 5
No response: 7

Reposted by Nils B. Weidmann, Lucas Leemann, Jason Reifler , and 2 more Nils B. Weidmann, Lucas Leemann, Jason Reifler, Christian Breunig, Claudia Diehl

Aurélia Bardon @aureliabardon.bsky.social · Nov 24

📣 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 🙏

Postdoctoral Research Position

Deadline: 15.12.2025

stellen.uni-konstanz.de

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Nils Weidmann @nilsweidmann.bsky.social · Nov 20

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Nils Weidmann @nilsweidmann.bsky.social · Nov 5

Five papers from our group should already be submitted! Looking forward to the conference.

Nils Weidmann @nilsweidmann.bsky.social · Oct 29

This version is likely going to be the last release of this database, after more than 12 years of (slow) development.

Reposted by Alexander Wuttke

Nils Weidmann @nilsweidmann.bsky.social · Oct 29

Thanks to the great help by @rstrauch.bsky.social, Gabriele Spilker and the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" @excinequality.bsky.social, version 5.0 of the "Mass Mobilization in Autocracies Database" (coverage until 2022) is now available at mmadatabase.org!

Mass Mobilization in Autocracies Database

mmadatabase.org

Reposted by Nils B. Weidmann, Markus Krajewski

Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Oct 1

Auf der Suche nach einer Postdoc-Stelle im Bereich der empirischen Menschenrechtsforschung? An der @fau.de suchen wir eine*n Postdoc für 3+3 Jahre für unser Team. tinyurl.com/4d3w3th6

www.pol.phil.fau.de

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · Sep 25

#OpenAccess from the new issue of @psrm.bsky.social -

Intra-ethnic divisions and disagreement over self-determination demands in ethnic movements - https://cup.org/481UkPS

- @frederikgremler.bsky.social, Manuel Vogt & @nilsweidmann.bsky.social

PSRM abstract of a scholarly article discussing the challenges ethnic movements pose to state governments, analyzing variables like group income sources and internal divisions, and introducing the Ethnic Power Relations-Organizations dataset.

Nils Weidmann @nilsweidmann.bsky.social · Sep 24

Great news, Fabien! Congratulations.

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Friederike Quint @friederikeq.bsky.social · Sep 17

📄 Does the Community Understand the Community Guidelines?
with @yannistheocharis.bsky.social , @mianahrgang.bsky.social , @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & Molly Roberts

Nils Weidmann @nilsweidmann.bsky.social · Sep 9

This is an excellent special issue! Highly recommended.

Andrea Ruggeri @andrearuggeri.bsky.social · Sep 9

Thanks to @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social for giving us the possibility to guest edit a special issue on "Political violence in democracies". Ursula Daxecker, @neerajprsd.bsky.social and I wrote an open access introduction: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks to all authors of 14 articles!

Political violence in democracies: An Introduction - Andrea Ruggeri, Ursula Daxecker, Neeraj Prasad, 2025

It is well established that democracies experience less political violence than autocracies. Paradoxically, however, this widely accepted fact has led scholars ...

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Andrea Ruggeri @andrearuggeri.bsky.social · Sep 9

Political violence in democracies: An Introduction - Andrea Ruggeri, Ursula Daxecker, Neeraj Prasad, 2025

It is well established that democracies experience less political violence than autocracies. Paradoxically, however, this widely accepted fact has led scholars ...

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Nils Weidmann @nilsweidmann.bsky.social · Aug 13

Thanks for the endorsement, @kailmarkvart.bsky.social! This work was only possible because there's a large coding project with full transparency in its procedures and data, and with unrestricted access. Kudos (again) to the @vdeminstitute.bsky.social for providing this huge public good.

Kyle Marquardt @kailmarkvart.bsky.social · Aug 13

Now with page numbers! Really happy to already see excellent work applying these findings to similar projects regarding LLMs. For example: doi.org/10.1017/S104...

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Kyle Marquardt @kailmarkvart.bsky.social · Aug 13

Now with page numbers! Really happy to already see excellent work applying these findings to similar projects regarding LLMs. For example: doi.org/10.1017/S104...

Reposted by Anna O. Law, David M. Farrell, Maarten Vink , and 2 more Anna O. Law, David M. Farrell, Maarten Vink, Nils B. Weidmann, Naazneen H. Barma

Daniel Naujoks @danielnaujoks.bsky.social · Aug 9

Please share: by Sept 1, we solicit nominations for @isanet.bsky.social Karl Deutsch Award to recognize 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝟰𝟱, 𝗼𝗿 ≤𝟭𝟱 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 who have made significant contribution to the study of #𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 & #𝗣𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵
🔗 www.isanet.org/Programs/Awa...
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Karl Deutsch Award

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Reposted by Simon Hix, Will Jennings, Sara B. Hobolt , and 31 more Simon Hix, Will Jennings, Sara B. Hobolt, Ruth Dassonneville, Stefan Müller, Stefanie Walter, Jürgen Maier, Kai Arzheimer, Nils B. Weidmann, Alexander Wuttke, Lucas Leemann, Justin H. Kirkland, Guy Grossman, Andreas Dür, Robert Huber, Simon Weschle, Anand Menon, Jane Green, Ingo Rohlfing, Mirya R. Holman, Robert Klemmensen, Tom van der Meer, Thomas M. Meyer, Alessandro Nai, Sven‐Oliver Proksch, Stuart White, Eunji Kim, Federica Genovese, Bjørn Høyland, Stuart J. Turnbull‐Dugarte, Tom Louwerse, M Josep, Tarik Abou‐Chadi, Enzo Nussio

EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · Aug 7

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026.

😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.

👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.

A short 🧵

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PS: Political Science & Politics @pspolisci.bsky.social · Aug 4

Now online ft. @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & coauthors!

Large language models can help us assess the state of democracy for comparative research, but they do so with their own attitudes.

doi.org/10.1017/S104...

Nils Weidmann @nilsweidmann.bsky.social · Jul 30

This article should have been published alongside the one it responds to. The original article finds that the authors' own (commercial) data outperforms the free UCDP data. Conflict of interest? Nah. But at least we know now that this conclusion is based on "a series of unfounded claims." 👇

Magnus Öberg @magnusoberg.bsky.social · Jul 30

My new article with Mert Can Yilmaz out in Research & Politics! An investigation into what does drive differences between UCDP and ACLED data and a response to a series of unfounded claims made by Clionadh Raleigh et al in a 2023 article. (1/4) Read it here doi.org/10.1177/2053...

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Melanie Sauter @melinscribe.bsky.social · Jul 30

ACLED locking researchers out feels less like data protection, more like damage control. Especially when the numbers already… don’t add up because they're sourced from people doing the fighting. 📉

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Magnus Öberg @magnusoberg.bsky.social · Jul 30

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Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social · Jul 30

Very interesting on LLMs and democracy coding: Quite good at «easy» cases, but very problematic for tough ones:

«Some LLMs are too pessimistic and others [too optimistic] … it is difficult to replace human coders with LLMs because the extent and direction of these attitudes is not known a priori.»

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · Jul 30

#OpenAccess from @pspolisci.bsky.social -

Large Language Models Are Democracy Coders with Attitudes - cup.org/3H8EebY

- @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, Mats Faulborn & @dgarcia.eu

#FirstView #LLM

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