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Alexander Wuttke
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Digitalization & Pol Behavior LMU_Muenchen | Democracy and Populist Attitudes | Open Science | 🚵‍♂️🐶

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Isabella Rebasso @isabellareb.bsky.social · 2d
🎉 New paper out in Political Behavior (with @gijsschumacher.bsky.social & @mrooduijn.bsky.social)

Why do some people feel stronger emotions about politics than others?
💡Not political knowledge, but interest and confidence-in-knowledge drive emotional engagement.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🧵
Disentangling the Sophistication-Emotion Link: Political Interest and Confidence-in-Knowledge, but not Knowledge, Drive Emotional Responses - Political Behavior
Why do some people feel stronger emotions about politics than others? Past work suggests that political sophistication, consisting of knowledge and interest, is related to feeling strong emotions abou...
link.springer.com

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Cihan Çelik @cihancelik.bsky.social · 3d
Update: Offenbar sehen das auch viele meiner ärztlichen Kollegen ähnlich wie ich und wollen keine rechtsextremen Portale mitfinanzieren. Gut so.

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 3d
🚀 dashboardr is out!

An #rstats package for building interactive dashboards with tidyverse-style syntax.

Launched with a fun hackathon at @ascor.bsky.social (🍕 included).

📦: favstats.github.io/dashboardr/

Big thanks to the dashboardr team, Digicomlab, and @vivifabrien.bsky.social for the logo 🎨

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Jakob Kasper @jakobkas.bsky.social · 3d
Politics Doesn’t Define How Most People See Themselves

I’ve written a blog post just published by The Inquisitive Mind.

Link: www.in-mind.org/blog/post/po...

Very brief summary in the thread.

Reposted by Alexander Wuttke, Johannes Breuer

Reposted by Alexander Wuttke, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft

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Ingo Rohlfing @ingorohlfing.bsky.social · 4d
Welcome to #OpenScience Land
expedition-open-science.org This is a lightweight, but very useful and accessible intro to key elements of Open Science (online and as a PDF). Seems particularly useful for introducing the topic to undergraduates @zbw-leibniz.bsky.social
A handdrawn of an imaginated open science land. It has as parts documentation, planning, dissemination, sea of myths and peninsula of dreams

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 4d
Favourable reading might bethat we have lived through the early phases of these subdisciplines where we needed to learn how certain new tools work, what community standards we establish for using them well, etc.
The time to use them for bigger questions has come now that this ground has been laid

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 4d
Advances in Statistical Analysis has a call for papers on the role of multiverse analysis in statistical modelling and applications: link.springer.com/journal/1018...

Deadline is May 1st, so still plenty of time to put something together!>
AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis
AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis is a quarterly journal that publishes original contributions on statistical methodology, applications, and review ...
link.springer.com

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Arica Schuett @aricaschuett.bsky.social · 4d
Thursday at 2 PM EST a webinar on anxiety and depression in this profession featuring experts who work in this space. Attendance is confidential and this will not be recorded, live viewing only. Register ahead of time here: politicalsciencenow.com/webinar-anxi...
APSA Webinar: Anxiety and Depression: Graduate School and Beyond | Thursday, February 5, 2026 -
“Anxiety and Depression: Graduate School and Beyond” Thursday, February 5, 2026 | 2:00 pm EST (11:00 am PST) Register Here In a recent APSA survey of political scientists, 43% of respondents reported experiencing anxiety, and [...]
politicalsciencenow.com

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Florian Hollenbach @fhollenbach.org · 5d
🧵 New version of our paper (@bcegerod.bsky.social) is finally online: "How Many is Enough? Sample Size in Staggered Difference-in-Differences Designs"
We show that even well-identified DiD studies are often underpowered; sample sizes needed are surprisingly large
Paper: osf.io/preprints/os... 1/6

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Jacobin Magazin @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social · 5d
»Marco Bülow hätte sich sehr oft in seinem Leben entscheiden können, eine stille Karriere zu machen. Er entschied sich zuverlässig für den unbequemen Weg des Widerstands«, erinnert Ines Schwerdtner.
Marco Bülow war ein Vorbild für uns alle
Marco Bülow, der letzte Woche viel zu früh gestorben ist, setzte sich wie kein anderer für soziale Gerechtigkeit ein. Ines Schwerdtner erinnert an einen Mensch, der sich stets für den aufrichtigen Weg entschied.
jacobin.de

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d
If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.
citizensnippy.bsky.social Citizen Snippy △ @citizensnippy.bsky.social · 5d
Yes, Peter decided that the continued existence of our democracies isn't compatible with his desired level of personal freedom.

An absolute enemy of humanity.
"I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." - Peter Thiel

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 5d
This has all been public for a couple of decades. It's Thiel’s client Vance’s job to bring this to completion if Trump doesn't suffice. (2/2)

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 5d
Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 5d
So much of classic political science research is woefully underpowered.

I'm glad we're slowly coming to our senses.

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 5d
also worked for our two submissions

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Lisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social · 5d
Big news: I started a new position as Professor for Computational Social Science (W1 tenure track) at the Center for Critical Computational Studies (C3S) at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main!

www.c3s-frankfurt.de/who-we-are#m...
Who we are - Center for critical computational studies
www.c3s-frankfurt.de

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 6d
🚨🚨Striking but welcome development in Portugese politics: To stop the explosive growth of the ultranationalist #Chega party, Portugal’s leading conservatives are doing the previously unthinkable: endorsing the center-left candidate for president. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/port...
Portugal’s conservatives back left-wing candidate to avoid a far-right president
Center-right leaders are taking pains to publicly reject the ultranationalist contender ahead of the country’s Feb. 8 vote.
www.politico.eu

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 6d
tolle Idee!

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Vincent Bagilet @vincentbagilet.bsky.social · 6d
In my updated paper, I introduce an R package, ididvar, that provides tools to easily identify the identifying variation in a regression: vincentbagilet.github.io/ididvar/



More information can be found on the package and project websites: vincentbagilet.github.io/causal_exaggeration/ididvar.html
Visualization of the set of observations contributing to identification in an example regression Visualization of the set of observations contributing to identification in an example regression Visualization of the distribution of identifying variation weights in an example regression

Reposted by Alexander Wuttke, Prokla Redaktion

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Anette Dowideit @antennedowideit.bsky.social · 6d
Sehr lesenswert und ohne Bezahlschranke: Wie preußische Beamte versuchten, die NSDAP zu verbieten.
Dieser Jurist kämpfte 1930 für ein NSDAP-Verbot. Die Geschichte eines Scheiterns
1930 trugen preußische Beamte um Robert Kempner Beweise für
www.geo.de

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 6d
Person: say, i am alive. Computer: I am alive. Person: oh my god.

Reposted by Alexander Wuttke

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Bijan Moini @bijanmoini.de · 7d
Die Ächtung der AfD wirkt noch immer. Trotz der hohen Umfragewerte bekennen sich kaum Prominente zu ihr. Sie hat nur wenige kompetente oder charismatische und keine kompetenten und charismatischen Leute in ihren Reihen. Kaum ein*e Politiker*in wechselt zu ihr.

Das ist viel wert.

Also: Keep it up!

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Karsten Donnay @karstendonnay.bsky.social · 7d
🚨Job alert 🚨

I have an opening for a postdoc in my team at @ipz.bsky.social in the area of digital democracy starting Sep 1, 2026.

If you are working on the impact of the digital transformation on politics, please apply by 🗓️ Mar 1, 2026.

📤 Please share widely!

www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns...
Offene Stellen / Open Positions
www.ipz.uzh.ch

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 7d
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

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julia kamin @juliakamin.bsky.social · 7d
Great review from @emilykubin.bsky.social and @vaparker.bsky.social on the challenges of researching what effectively reduces polarization - including knowing if and when reducing polarization should be something we want to do.
www.researchgate.net/profile/Emil...

Reposted by Alexander Wuttke, David Darmofal

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 7d
Democracies are so strong that they allow people to criticize democracy. In fact, the ability to do so is an essential quality of democracy. Authoritarians are so weak they don't allow people to criticize authoritarians. Silencing dissent is an essential quality of authoritarian regimes.

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Anke Domscheit-Berg @anke.domscheit-berg.de · 8d
die News von #MarcoBülow s Tod trifft mich sehr. Er war einer der aufrechtesten Politiker, die ich kannte. Uns verband die Vision einer Demokratie ohne gläserne Bürger, aber mit gläsernem Staat. 2015 war ich Gründungsmitglied seiner Initiative "Demokratie plus", die dafür kämpfte. R.I.P., Marco!

screenshot von der über uns Seite der Webseite Demokratie plus. Demokratie + MITTEILEN, MITGESTALTEN, MUTMACHEN Darunter ein Foto von der Webseite zur Gründung des Vereins. Man sieht (von links nach rechts) Gregor Hackmack, Anne Raabe, Jagoda Marinić, mich, Marco Bülow u Nicol Ljubic.

Reposted by Alexander Wuttke, Marc Debus

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Politische Vierteljahresschrift @pvs-journal.bsky.social · 9d
Looking for speeches from all German state parliaments?

@cgnguyen.bsky.social , Eric Beltermann, Sabine Kropp & Antonios Souris have you covered.

Introducing the StateParl Corpus. Now open access with PVS:

doi.org/10.1007/s11615-025-00643-5
Decoding German Politics with StateParl—A Text Corpus of Plenary Protocols in the 16 German Länder Parliaments - Politische Vierteljahresschrift
The availability of large amounts of machine-readable text data has enabled political scientists to explore a variety of novel and innovative research questions. In this context, parliamentary documen...
doi.org

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William Costello @williamcostello.bsky.social · 9d
Out now and open access for four weeks as the editor's choice Topic in Focus in American Psychologist.

Contrary to popular belief, evolutionary psychology hypotheses are testable and falsifiable.

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...