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Robert A. Huber
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Professor of Political Science Methods at @unisalzburg.bsky.social‬ • Editor at @ejprjournal.bsky.social • Studies Populism and Climate Politics • Previously University of Reading and ETH Zurich • More info: www.robertahuber.com .. more

Robert Huber is a German biochemist and Nobel laureate. known for his work crystallizing an intramembrane protein important in photosynthesis and subsequently applying X-ray crystallography to elucidate the protein's structure. .. more

Environmental science 40%
Biology 18%
💥 Last year ended with super exciting news 💥 “𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴’ 𝘐𝘥𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴: 𝘌𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘉𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘈𝘥𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘴” with the amazing @fabianhabersack.bsky.social was published in 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 📚✨ (1/4)

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Parties’ Ideological Cores and Peripheries: Examining How Parties Balance Adaptation and Continuity in Their Manifestos | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Parties’ Ideological Cores and Peripheries: Examining How Parties Balance Adaptation and Continuity in Their Manifestos - Volume 55
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Why do some #Extremist groups get banned whilst others don’t? 🤔

Michael C. Zeller looks at Germany’s 🇩🇪 “militant democracy” & shows that bans are driven less by principle and more by visibility, strategy, and politics. 🔗
Pragmatic rather than principled – organisational bans in democracies | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Pragmatic rather than principled – organisational bans in democracies
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📣Thrilled to share our new article with @beckerbastian.bsky.social in JESP on attitude polarization around UBI. We show that despite high aggregate support for UBI, attitude polarization over policy design strongly shapes its political feasibility.
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New job: I’ve just started as a Senior Researcher at the @mpimmg.bsky.social (new name and focus on politics & society coming). I will lead a research area on “Social and Political Conflicts”, looking at the social bases of political divides, class politics, climate and more. Get in touch if...
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After 8️⃣ years as Social Media Editor of @wepsocial.bsky.social I am very happy to announce that @chdausgaard.bsky.social takes over from 1 January 2026 on. 🥳

It was a great pleasure to be part of @wepsocial.bsky.social journey & I thank the editors for the trust they have placed in me. 😊
New year, new (job) opportunities: Full professorship in Digital Society and Democracy.

What: excellent conditions, start-up and transition packages, interdisciplinary and supportive environment, wonderful colleagues.

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DIAS Professorship in Digital Society and Democracy
Application deadline: March 15, 2026, 11.59 PM/23.59 CET/CEST.
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🚨 We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Political Science

⏰ Deadline 4th January 2026

🙋‍♀️ Any questions, please reach out

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🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨

We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social

Any questions, please reach out to me

📣 Please share! 📣

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4 years in Salzburg — many challenges, many successes, and a written, submitted & defended #PhD thesis 🎓🎉
As this exciting period of my life ended in September, I’d like to share some impressions & learnings from my 4 year PhD journey with you. 🧵
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Every election these days seems to be between an authoritarian, corrupt, and terrible person, who runs on security issues and anti-immigration, versus a seemingly nice, but somewhat boring person lacking visions. And then it is 50:50 who wins.
New position at @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social, dont’t hesitate to apply if you study ecological transitions👇👇👇

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Fear, anger, and populism on Twitter/X 😡

Using machine learning on 1M UK tweets, @giulianoformisano.bsky.social, Jörg Friedrichs, Florian S. Schaffner & Niklas Stoehr seperate #Populist from #Governmentalist rhetoric and track how emotions drive #PoliticalCommunication
Populism and governmentalism as thin-centered ideologies: Emotions and frames on social media | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Populism and governmentalism as thin-centered ideologies: Emotions and frames on social media
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As the year wraps up 🎁 EJPR is taking a short winter break 🎄

Warm wishes for a restful holiday season to our authors, reviewers, and readers!

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🍊 Fresh out!

@shimmelroos.bsky.social, Maija Jäske & Maija Setälä examine how information regarding the design features of an advisory mini-public affect the wider public's trust in the mini-public - based on the Finnish Citizens' Jury on Climate Actions organised in 2021.

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🎉 Excited to share that our article “Adopting restriction: how coalition governments respond to radical right parties” (with @fabioellger.bsky.social) has won the Gordon Smith & Vincent Wright Memorial Prize 2025 from @wepsocial.bsky.social 🏆
#OpenAccess from @epsrjournal.bsky.social -

Stable or variable distrust? Disentangling the relationship between political trust and electoral behavior - https://cup.org/4afqJn4

- @cvalebeek.bsky.social, @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social & @hakhverdian.bsky.social

#FirstView

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🍊 Fresh out!

Felix Bitterer & @simonkuehne.bsky.social examine why police officers in Germany hold more conservative political attitudes and how self-selection into the police force plays an important role.

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🥗 What do politicians think voters believe about #ClimatePolicy?

Ingrid Faleide & @astanordo.bsky.social show that citizens, elected officials, and public administrators all underestimate #PublicSupport for meat-free days, with elected elites misreading voters the most
Second-order beliefs among citizens, elected political elites, and unelected political elites: Insights from Norwegian climate policy | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Second-order beliefs among citizens, elected political elites, and unelected political elites: Insights from Norwegian climate policy
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we have 5 positions open at @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt
- a 4,5 year postdoc in my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage
- 2 postdoc & 2 PhD positions, 4 years, in a research group on Reconfiguration & Internalization of Social Structure

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Goethe-Universität — FB03 - Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Die Goethe-Universität ist eine forschungsstarke Hochschule in der europäischen Finanzmetropole Frankfurt. Lebendig, urban und weltoffen besitzt sie als Stiftungsuniversität ein einzigartiges Maß an E...
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🚨 Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion (2 years)

We’re hiring a 100% Postdoc at the University of Greifswald.

✨ What makes this job special: Two full years to focus on research (no teaching, no admin overload) embedded into an International Research Training Group
Postdoctoral Research Associate - International Research Training Group 2560 “Baltic Peripeties" 25/E19
Stellenausschreibung Institut für Politik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
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🎉 The Gordon Smith & Vincent Wright Memorial Prizes 2025 have been awarded to @fabioellger.bsky.social & @heikekluever.bsky.social and Marie Kübler!

The full announcement can be found here:
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The Gordon Smith and Vincent Wright Memorial Prizes
Explore the article collection: The Gordon Smith and Vincent Wright Memorial Prizes. Published in West European Politics.
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🗳️ Does negative #Campaigning work?

British 🇬🇧 experiment by Alan Duggan, Caitlin Milazzo, Harry Applestein & John Barry Ryan shows that attacks on personal traits, even if paired with positive messaging, can backfire and hurt how #Voters view the sponsor
Personal attacks or policy debates? How voters respond to negative campaign messaging | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Personal attacks or policy debates? How voters respond to negative campaign messaging
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📢 Reminder: Submit your panel & paper proposals to the DARTS network's section at the 2026 ECPR General Conference at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, 8-11 September 2026 #ecprgc26

🎯 S09: “Challenges to Representation and Democracy in a Transnational Space”: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
Challenges to Representation and Democracy in a Transnational Space
European Consortium for Political Research
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This is a brilliant piece on the restructuring of political competition in Western Europe and goes far beyond the question of populism. Great also for teaching.
The 1️⃣article of our 5️⃣0️⃣Anniversary Special Issue "Debating European Politics: Advances and Perspectives" is out!🎉

"The rise of populism and the new cleavage" by Hanspeter Kriesi, describing contemporary populism is likely to be a temporary phenomen.

🔗https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2025.2591874
Happy to share that @ecprtheloop.bsky.social has published a blogpost summarising the key findings from my paper @wepsocial.bsky.social on how opposition party strategies relate to their performance in election polls.

Paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Blog post: shorturl.at/lLPgm
How election polls shape government-opposition conflict
Elias Koch finds that opposition parties become more confrontational towards the government when losing in the polls, and particularly when their support drops below the previous election result. But ...
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📢♀️ 'Resilience in Action: A Toolkit for Feminist Strategies in Times of Backlash' is out now!

🧰⚒️ Free to use and share. May this support many of you in pushing back against backlash.

💯⚡Proud of the Push*Back*Lash team @aissr.bsky.social

⬇️👇Download here #Toolkit2
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Push Back Lash - Dissemination
Cartoons You can browse and download each episode of our Cartoon Series: Let’s Design Equality Together here. Cartoons and supporting materials are available in English and an additional language depe...
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From October 2025 -

Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization - cup.org/47ifc4B

"we show that educational divides are diminished in the presence of countervailing networks"

- @davidattewell6.bsky.social & @dpzollinger.bsky.social

#OpenAccess
🚨 3-Year Postdoc in Political Science at Aarhus University 🚨

I’m seeking to recruit a postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu research project 𝑬𝑸𝑼𝑰𝑳𝑰𝑩𝑹𝑰𝑼𝑴 on state-citizen interactions.

Link and more information in second post.

Position Start: Fall 2026
Application Deadline: ‼️ February 5, 2026, 23:59 CET ‼️
I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator Grant! I’m extremely grateful to my colleagues and collaborators for their support and help, and very excited to start this new adventure. Looking forward to all the collaborations ahead! #ERCCoG 1/2
DIE ZEIT @zeit.de · Dec 9
Die Bundesregierung ist unbeliebt, doch die AfD profitiert davon nicht: In Umfragen bewegen sich ihre Beliebtheitswerte kaum. Hat sie ihr Wählerpotenzial ausgeschöpft?
Wählerschaft der AfD: Die AfD ist vorerst am Limit
Die Bundesregierung ist unbeliebt, doch die AfD profitiert davon nicht: In Umfragen bewegen sich ihre Beliebtheitswerte kaum. Hat sie ihr Wählerpotenzial ausgeschöpft?
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🚨Jobs!🚨

3-year PostDoc positions (aka Research Officers) at @lsegovernment.bsky.social to work with me on the local consequences of border change. Please reach out for questions and apply by Jan 4th to join the team and department: I’d love to hear from you!

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Research Officer
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