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Sol Messing @solmg.bsky.social · 28d

TODAY Aug 28 - "Politics in 60 Seconds: Short-Form Video, TikTok, and Political Communication" at #APSA2025 -

2 PM, VCC West Ballroom B

Chair: @eunjikim.bsky.social. Discussant: @mollyeroberts.bsky.social

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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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Markus Kollberg @markuskollberg.bsky.social · Sep 3

Returning from vacation and looking for a late summer read? @ivobantel.bsky.social and I got you covered!

In our new @wepsocial.bsky.social paper, we assess how mainstream parties rhetorically create an affect-based "common front" against the radical right.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · Sep 1

NEW -

Detecting Group Mentions in Political Rhetoric A Supervised Learning Approach - cup.org/45WZppQ

- @haukelicht.bsky.social & @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

BJPolS Abstract discussing a social science research method that uses text analysis for understanding group language patterns and political leanings, mentioning the use of British articles and generating new empirical insights.

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Thomas Zeitzoff @zeitzoff.bsky.social · Aug 11

If you want to understand the timing of Trump’s authoritarian political theater around DC policing, check out @janzilinsky.bsky.social in @goodauth.bsky.social.

He shows how critical coverage of Trump and Epstein spiked with both liberal & conservative media

goodauthority.org/news/the-eps...

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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · Jul 7

New preprint commentary from me, @malte.the100.ci, and @ianhussey.mmmdata.io.

Cognitive dissonance in large language models is neither cognitive nor dissonant.

THREAD BELOW 🧵

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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osf.io

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Thomas Zeitzoff @zeitzoff.bsky.social · Aug 1

We're hiring!

The @au-spa.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor specializing in political violence and terrorism.

Deadline: September 22nd.

Feel free to reach out if you have questions!

See below for the job ad and application.

american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-...

Job Description:

The Department of Justice, Law & Criminology in the School of Public Affairs at American University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position beginning in Academic Year 2026-2027. The position will be at the rank of Assistant Professor. For this position, the department is seeking a scholar with substantive expertise in political violence and terrorism. The search is open regarding specialty, but the Department is especially interested in a scholar whose research and teaching interests include terrorism, political violence, radicalization, extremism, or cybersecurity.

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Silja Häusermann @siljahausermann.bsky.social · Jul 7

❗The segmentation of the right field is eroding, especially among young voters❗

New article out by @simonbornschier.bsky.social @dpzollinger.bsky.social
@mrsteenbergen.bsky.social and myself
@ipz.bsky.social ‬ @wepsocial.bsky.social

tinyurl.com/ycxfx2aj

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Felix M. Simon @felixsimon.bsky.social · Jul 7

How harmful is GenAI around elections? Will it trigger a misinformation apocalypse and upend elections?

I am happy to finally be able to share @sachaltay.bsky.social & my answers to these and other questions on which we have been working for a year and which is now out via @knightcolumbia.org

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Karsten Donnay @karstendonnay.bsky.social · Jul 2

🔗: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Counterspeech encouraging users to adopt the perspective of minority groups reduces hate speech and its amplification on social media - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Counterspeech encouraging users to adopt the perspective of minority groups reduces hate speech and its amplification on social media

doi.org

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Karsten Donnay @karstendonnay.bsky.social · Jul 2

📄 New paper out in Scientific Reports with our amazing team of collaborators ETH, UZH & UCL lead by @gloriagennaro.bsky.social & Dominik Hangartner!

💡 We find that counterspeech using perspective-based messages can both reduce hate speech and its amplification online.

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Gloria Gennaro @gloriagennaro.bsky.social · Jul 2

📢 In a new online field experiment, we find that #counterspeech with perspective-based messages can reduce online hate speech, and its 🌟amplification🌟

with a large research team across #ETHZurich @ipz.bsky.social @uclspp.bsky.social and beyond

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Counterspeech encouraging users to adopt the perspective of minority groups reduces hate speech and its amplification on social media - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Counterspeech encouraging users to adopt the perspective of minority groups reduces hate speech and its amplification on social media

www.nature.com

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Karsten Donnay @karstendonnay.bsky.social · Jun 6

Congratulations @maelkubli.bsky.social, very well done and so well deserved! 🎉

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · Jun 4

📣 Jobs, jobs, jobs!

Aarhus University’s Department of Political Science is hiring:

🔹 Assistant Professor
🗓 Deadline: 25 August
🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

🔹 Associate Professor
🗓 Deadline: 8 September
🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

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Patrick* Neithard @patrickneithard.bsky.social · May 24

USE & RT
OPT OUT of META's (Facebook, Instagram) AI training be4 deadline May 26 2025
Insta link help.instagram.com/contact/2339...
Facebook link www.facebook.com/help/contact...

Source: via german WDR, recently reminded by National Council @meretschneider.bsky.social
www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/...

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Karsten Donnay @karstendonnay.bsky.social · May 24

👀 Very timely and relevant work by @henryhenryhenry.com on how (online) communities radicalize!

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Viktor Burgi @vikburgi.bsky.social · Nov 18

Our latest episode is out, recorded just last week! 🎙️🤩 We spoke to Silja Häusermann about the crisis of social democratic parties and a little bit about the German national elections at the very end.
Give it a listen - and we're happy to receive suggestions for future guests/topics btw!

Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · Nov 18

Podcast Alert! 🚨In the sixth episode of our podcast
@vikburgi.bsky.social and I talk to Silja Häusermann
about the crisis of the social democratic parties, its origins and what strategies these parties might adopt to get out of it. 🧵👇
open.spotify.com/episode/2XAD...

Episode 6: Silja Häusermann on the Crisis of Social Democratic Parties

Political Science? No problem et al.! · Episode

open.spotify.com

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Karsten Donnay @karstendonnay.bsky.social · May 9

PhD opportunity in my team!

📢 Fully funded PhD position (3+1 years)
🏫 University of Zurich / Zurich University of Applied Sciences
📅 Start of the position: September 1, 2025
⏳ Application deadline: May 31, 2025

Job ad: www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns...
Project Info: www.dizh.uzh.ch/en/2025/04/1...

PhD position job ad available as PDF at https://www.ipz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:77dfe94b-ae4d-4b61-9e4a-2da1ad38ca25/05_PhD_Donnay.pdf

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Oliver Strijbis @ostrijbis.bsky.social · May 6

People, this was supposed to be funny. Please share widely! thx! @bertous.bsky.social @stefwalter.bsky.social @fgilardi.bsky.social @indubioproreto.bsky.social @istad.bsky.social @karstendonnay.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social @lucasleemann.bsky.social @gessler.bsky.social @reidingerve.bsky.social

Oliver Strijbis @ostrijbis.bsky.social · May 5

🎓 Want to do a PhD at an American university in a stable democracy?

📍 Join me at Franklin University Switzerland!
🧠 4-year fully-funded PhD position in my SNF project DIVIDE
🔬 At least 80% working time on research
💰 Salary: 47k–50k CHF annually

👉 More infos here:
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

Franklin University Switzerland hiring PhD Student (2 positions) in Sorengo, Ticino, Switzerland | LinkedIn

Posted 7:08:23 AM. Franklin University Switzerland…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

www.linkedin.com

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · Apr 30

Today marks the final day of the DISINTEGRATION project, a project on the mass politics of disintegration generously funded by the @erc.europa.eu .

We celebrate with a thread on all we have done and found:

1/20

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · Apr 25

If you know me, you know I am obsessed with building dashboards. 😅

Well, I am excited to share that @ernesto-deleon.com, Max Paulus, & I were awarded a small grant to build an #rstats package to make them accessible to other researchers.

And we’re hiring a Research Assistant to help us do that!

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Ernesto de León 🟥 @ernesto-deleon.com · Apr 25

We are looking for a research assistant to help us develop tools to make dashboards easier for social scientists to create 🤩

If you are really into R and passionate about data and science communication, please apply!

Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · Apr 25

If you know me, you know I am obsessed with building dashboards. 😅

Well, I am excited to share that @ernesto-deleon.com, Max Paulus, & I were awarded a small grant to build an #rstats package to make them accessible to other researchers.

And we’re hiring a Research Assistant to help us do that!

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The COMPTEXT Association @comptext.bsky.social · Apr 25

The biggest ever COMPTEXT conference at the @univie.ac.at is officially under way! Registration has opened and the first panels—on ideological estimation, misinformation, climate discourse, global economic narratives, and digital content influence—are now taking place. #COMPTEXT2025

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Fabrizio Gilardi @fgilardi.bsky.social · Apr 16

Call for Papers!

📢 6th Annual Digital Democracy Workshop
🏫 University of Zurich
📅 13-14 November 2025
⏳ Deadline to submit paper abstracts: 31 May 2025

democracy.dsi.uzh.ch/app/uploads/...

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Karsten Donnay @karstendonnay.bsky.social · Apr 10

Application deadline is May 15, 2025. Please visit our application portal for the full job ad and instructions how to apply.:
www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns/offene-stellen/

For informal inquiries, please contact me at [email protected]

2025 - Senior Lecturer

www.ipz.uzh.ch