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Roman Senninger
@rsenninger.bsky.social

Associate Professor of Political Science, Aarhus University

I study political elites, institutions, and public opinion in Europe, using experiments and computational methods.

https://romansenninger.github.io/

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We’re organizing a workshop at Aarhus University. Please share and consider submitting!

🗓️ 13–14 April 2026 | 📝 Deadline: Mon, 16 Feb 2026 (extended abstract) — junior scholars prioritized

🎤 Keynotes: @stefwalter.bsky.social (Univ. of Zurich) & @hhuang.bsky.social (Ohio State)
🚨 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...
Postdoctoral Position at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality”
Deadline: 20 February 2026, 12:00 pm CET
stellen.uni-konstanz.de

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I'm hiring two three-year postdocs and an RA for my project on how police presence affects perceived safety.

I'm looking for candidates who can contribute to the theoretical development and who have strong expertise in causal inference.

Deadline: March 1.

www.stillinger.aau.dk/videnskabeli...
Two three-year postdocs in quasi- or survey-experimental social science.
The Department of Society and Politics at Aalborg University (Faculty of Social Sciences) is recruiting two full-time postdoctoral researchers to work on the...
www.stillinger.aau.dk

Thanks for sharing, Vicente! Much appreciated.

📄 New WP version out: revised text, tightened argument, and new analysis.

The Politics of Evidence Selection (w/ @jesperasring.bsky.social)

Grateful for the helpful comments and presentation opportunities. Further feedback welcome!

🔗 osf.io/preprints/so...

Big fail: they announced today that the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen, regarded as the most important award for services to European unification, goes to Mario Draghi. Trump would deserve it more.

Thanks for your interest. That’s too bad. We’ll keep the workshop in person, since hybrid does not allow the same level of engagement. We really want to prioritize discussion and active participation throughout.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but once a Paper, Book, Article, Poster or Teaching Award is announced, it cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others. The decision is final and stands for all time.

We are happy to announce the call for papers for the third WhoGov Mini-Conference on Political Elites!

It will be held on August 20-21st, 2026 in Oslo. We welcome research on political elites broadly understood and not just papers using WhoGov.

You can find the call here: bit.ly/whogovminico...

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Interesting megastudy on the (in)effectiveness of climate messaging: tiny effects on attitudes, no effects on donation www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Persuasiveness varied little across party lines", another win for Persuasion in Parallel @aecoppock.bsky.social
A registered report megastudy on the persuasiveness of the most-cited climate messages - Nature Climate Change
How to effectively communicate climate change to the public has long been studied and debated. Through a registered report megastudy, researchers tested the ten most-cited climate change messaging str...
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I guess StackOverflow is done.

This is exactly right. No Europe, less U.S. global influence. 👇

„But Europe’s greatest value to its transatlantic ally is as a legitimacy engine. (…) With Europe in tow, American preferences were transmuted into those of “the West”, or indeed into global norms.

economist.com/europe/2025/...
Why America still needs Europe
Without European “followership”, America ceases to be a leader
economist.com

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Research rarely surprises, and that is not a failure. Its value lies in carefully (dis)confirming, qualifying, or bounding what we already think we know.
DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.
DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.

Hey PSRM! It looks like you tagged the other Mathias Rask. An understandable mistake given the Mathias density at the department 😄 We struggle with this from time to time as well. The correct Mathias Rask Jeppensen doesn’t seem to be on Bluesky.
Happy to see my article with @joostvanspanje.bsky.social on the short-term political consequences of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy announcement published in @psrm.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Glückwunsch und Guten Start!
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

www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...
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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The Christmas prepping was prepping, and I almost forgot to tell you that @miguelpereira.bsky.social is coming all the way to Münster to present work on politicians' ability to use evidence in policy making!

This Wednesday, find the Zoom link below 👇
@danbischof.bsky.social @mwegemann.bsky.social
It's out!!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Big thank you to my coauthors @small-schulz.bsky.social and @lorenzspreen.bsky.social, and to all participants who discussed 20 political issues over 4 weeks in 6 subreddit, 3 experimental conditions and let us observe.
It is almost 10 years since Hanspeter Kriesi published his seminal article on the politicization of European Integration @jcms-eu.bsky.social.

A short thread on how things stand as of 2024, with @chesdata.bsky.social, looking at salience, clarity, and unity of party positions towards the EU 🧵:

The EU 🇪🇺 now adopts fewer legal acts per year, but the regulatory load inside them keeps growing 📈

A new @jeppjournal.bsky.social article by Brandsma et al. measures regulation by counting actual regulatory statements (“Companies shall…”).

I plotted their data: fewer acts, more obligations.

Cool! Congrats, Tore!
Paper out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com:

1) those groups (women, African Americans, lower SES, rural) that are underrepresented in science have been less trusting of science.

2) If you improve representation in science, you improve trust among those groups.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Representation in science and trust in scientists in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour
Druckman et al. document gaps in trust in scientists in the USA. People from groups less represented among scientists (for example, women and those with lower economic status) are less trusting. Incre...
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Tillykke!