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Eva Thomann
@evathomann.bsky.social

Professor @unikonstanz.bsky.social, Public Administration & Policy, QCA, EU customization, KOMEX academic convenor @komex.bsky.social. Book: http://tinyurl.com/tmjapbq . All typos are my own

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Dates & preliminary courses for the 2026 Konstanz Methods Excellence Workshops #KOMEX2026 just out!

👉 Short courses: Feb 19-20, 2026
👉 Compact and main courses: Feb 23-27, 2026

Registration starts Aug 15 here:

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@komex.bsky.social @methodsnet.bsky.social

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Ready to push QCA past the basics?

Enhanced standard analysis, principled counterfactuals, robustness/sensitivity, clustering, theory evaluation + QCA×ProcessTracing. In R with modern toolchains.

👩‍🏫 @nenaoana.bsky.social

Online | 23–27 Feb, 2026| €440

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🔍 Through a federalism lens, balancing self-rule and shared rule, @egheidbreder.bsky.social examines how recent fiscal integration reshapes power distribution in the EU. 👇

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🔍How do you prove what happened in between cause and outcome?

Join our 5-day online Intro to Causal Process Tracing and learn to design a mechanism-based case study at #KOMEX2026.

Instructor: @hildevanmeegdenburg.com
23–27 Feb 2026
€440 early bird

🔗 Register: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...

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🐍 Want to learn Python from scratch?

Join our Intro to Python course at #KOMEX2026, designed for newbies.

📅 Feb 19–20 (online)
🧪 Learn Jupyter, web scraping, pandas, visualizations & more
🎓 1 ECTS | 💰 180 EUR (early-bird rate)
👩‍🏫 Taught by Rebeka O'Szabo

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Want to run causal experiments… with surveys?
Learn factorial designs, conjoint, vignettes + R programming in the Survey Experiments course at #KOMEX2026 w/ Dr Mozer & Prof. Hinz.

📅 Feb 23–27, 2026
📍 @uni-konstanz.de, Germany
🎓 4 ECTS

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@methodsnet.bsky.social

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Humbled & honored to take the stage in a completely sold-out prime-time event location in my hometown to discuss the future of democracy.

Just deeply grateful for this experience & to the editor-in-chief @cellmob.bsky.social for the kind invite.

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👥🔗 Ready to see the invisible connections in your data?

Join us at #KOMEX2026 for Social Network Analysis in R with @termehs.bsky.social. Learn to analyze & model networks using R, from centrality & clusters to ERGMs & models.

📍 @uni-konstanz.de
🗓️ Feb 23–27

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📋 Want to design better surveys?
Our Introduction to Survey Design course (Feb 19–20) covers sampling, bias, and questionnaire design, from theory to application.

👩‍🏫 Taught by @nenaoana.bsky.social
💻 Online | €180 early bird

Register: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...
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🖥️ New to R? Our 2-day online intro course at #KOMEX2026 covers coding basics, data wrangling, visualizations, & regression – no prior experience needed.

📅 Feb 19–20 | €180 early bird | 1 ECTS
👨‍🏫 Taught by @kovarek.bsky.social @ @eui-eu.bsky.social

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🚉 Thinking of a winter methods retreat?

Join #KOMEX2026 in-person in Konstanz this February:

🌊 Learn, grow, and network by the shores of Lake Constance at @uni-konstanz.de

🧠 4 ECTS | 💸 €440 early bird | 🏛️ In-person

Learn more & join: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/view/kome...

@methodsnet.bsky.social

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💬 What does it mean to think interpretively?

Explore meaning-making, subjectivity, and context in our #komex2026 Interpretive Methods course (23–27 Feb).

💻 Online | €440 early bird

Taught by @mathildececchini.bsky.social & @amalietrangbaek.bsky.social

Join: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...

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Want to make your data speak?

Join us online for Learning Data Viz in R! A 2-day #komex course on mastering ggplot2.

📈 Hands-on, research-focused, taught by Massimiliano Canzi from @uni-konstanz.de
📊 Turn tables into insight.

19–20 Feb 2026
€180 early bird

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Learn how to use #Rstats to estimate treatment effects & forecast outcomes using ML w/ @causalhuber.bsky.social at #KOMEX2026.

📍 Online | 🗓 19–20 February 2026
🎓 Earn 1 ECTS | 💶 250 EUR (180 EUR early bird)

Register: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...

@methodsnet.bsky.social

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Learn how to analyze panel & repeated cross-sectional data w/ @na-wehl.bsky.social at #KOMEX2026.

Join “Hands-on Intro to Longitudinal & Panel Data Analysis”. Apply fixed/random effects & hybrid models using your own data.

📍Konstanz | 🗓️ 23–27 Feb
💻 R & Stata

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Looking to add QCA to your methods toolkit?

Join the #KOMEX2026 Introduction to QCA using R
📅 23–27 Feb 2026 | 💻 Online | 💶 €440 early bird | 🎓 4 ECTS

Learn how to model causal complexity w/ @nenaoana.bsky.social & Barbora Valik.

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Looking to level up your systematic review skills?

Join our #KOMEX2026 course by Dr Liliana Abreu @uni-konstanz.de and learn to formulate review Qs, appraise quality, and use ASreview for AI-supported screening.

📅 19–20 Feb
💻 Online
€180 early bird
Sign up: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...

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Interested in authoritarian, post-conflict, or surveilled settings?

📍 Join “Doing Fieldwork in Challenging Contexts” #KOMEX2026 online course by @catherineowen.bsky.social & @xiananj.bsky.social.

Learn creative, experimental, and decolonial ethnogr. methods: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...

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Designing your case study the smart way?
Join @evathomann.bsky.social in @uni-konstanz.de for a deep dive into Comparative Case Study Design.

📅 23–27 Feb
💶 €440
Learn the art of casing, comparing, and making valid inferences in small-N research.

🔗 Register: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...

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🛎️ Early view

How do #Accountability relations between #Intermediaries #Regulators & #RegulatoryTargets shape intermediaries’ decision to report targets to regulators❓

@evathomann.bsky.social points to intermediaries’ (non-)compliance as a problem of accountability 👇

doi.org/10.1093/pols...
Now #openaccess in Policy & Society @policysociety.bsky.social:

Why do intermediaries (not) comply with their regulatory tasks? It's about accountability, studid!

Theory: Accountability Regimes Framework
Case: UK #Prevent duty
Methods: interviews, #QCA & survey experiment

doi.org/10.1093/pols...
Explaining regulatory intermediaries’ compliance through the accountability regimes framework
Abstract . This article assesses how accountability relations between intermediaries, regulators, and regulatory targets affect intermediary non-compliance
doi.org

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📣 New course at #KOMEX2026:

Diff-in-Diff Methods with Lena Janys
📍 In-person @uni-konstanz.de
🗓 23–25 Feb

Master causal inference. Learn modern DiD techniques, from heterogeneous treatment effects to violations of parallel trends. Includes labs + feedback!

👉 afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/komex/mc-...

I'm hiring!
Post-doctoral researcher-KOMEX director
Wanted: talent in social science research methodology/ methods-versed inequality researcher, interest in global knowledge production!

@excinequality.bsky.social @komex.bsky.social @methodsnet.bsky.social

stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2...
Post-doctoral researcher – KOMEX director
Deadline: October 31, 2025
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🧑‍💻 New to NVivo? Learn how to analyze interviews, docs, & media with Reflexive + Codebook Thematic Analysis in this 2-day online course at #KOMEX2026.

🗓️ Feb 19–20 | 💶 €180
👩‍🏫 Taught by Dr. Anka Kekez Koštro

Register: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...

When you're a public administration scholar, it really does not help being unable to type the word bureacuracy correctly. Sorry, bureuacracy. Argh.

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Ready to integrate ChatGPT and open-source LLMs into your research?

Join Dr. @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social for our online course on AI-assisted Text Analysis.
- Full hands-on setup
- Reproducible workflows in R
- Critical reflection on ethics

📅 23-25 Feb, 2026

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Want to rethink your stats approach?
Join our online Bayesian Stats course with Dr. Scott Kunkel, @uni-konstanz.de

Fit real models in R, compare Bayesian & frequentist logic, and gain new insights.

📅 23–25 Feb, 2026
1 ECTS | €270 early bird

🧠🔗 afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/komex/mc-...

I hear you. And while things clearly are not ok, I'm still sending transatlantic hugs. Haven't got much useful to say...

My above opinion neither refers to what people choose to do in their free time, nor to those who make up for it fair and square. 😀

Deffo not advocating overwork. Though speaking of it, unpaid blog writing and posting might add to that load. In practice reviewing, writing, editing usually happens during paid work hours, at least so it should IMHO

Disagree. Unlike a dedicated peer reviewer, I typically lack the specialized knowledge to assess a preprint's quality. Peer review is a key mechanism to secure the scientific validity of academic work IF done professionally. 95% of my work got better & errors were corrected thanks to peer review.