Melanie Sauter
@melinscribe.bsky.social
JProf at @UniMannheim, prev @ox.ac.uk, @statsvitenskap.bsky.social,
@eui-eu.bsky.social, Conflict Dynamics, Humanitarian Affairs, UN Peacekeeping, #firstgen 🇨🇭
melaniesauter.eu
@eui-eu.bsky.social, Conflict Dynamics, Humanitarian Affairs, UN Peacekeeping, #firstgen 🇨🇭
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🚨 Applications Now Open for the EUI PhD Programmes 2026-2027!
📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences
Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort!
Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd
#EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity
📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences
Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort!
Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd
#EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity
November 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
🚨 Applications Now Open for the EUI PhD Programmes 2026-2027!
📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences
Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort!
Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd
#EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity
📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences
Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort!
Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd
#EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity
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📣 Final Call for visiting fellowships for postdocs at the @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social! Great opportunity to spend 2-4 weeks in a fantastic academic environment! See 👇 for details!
📣 Attention, postdoctoral researchers!
❗ Apply now for our MZES Visiting Fellowships 😊
💡 Spend 2-4 weeks at the MZES to share ideas
💰 Funding for accommodation, travel, daily allowance
📆 Deadline: 28 November
Full information:
👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/deta...
❗ Apply now for our MZES Visiting Fellowships 😊
💡 Spend 2-4 weeks at the MZES to share ideas
💰 Funding for accommodation, travel, daily allowance
📆 Deadline: 28 November
Full information:
👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/deta...
November 24, 2025 at 7:54 AM
📣 Final Call for visiting fellowships for postdocs at the @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social! Great opportunity to spend 2-4 weeks in a fantastic academic environment! See 👇 for details!
join tomorrow when @acalacino.bsky.social is presenting joint work ✨
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
join tomorrow when @acalacino.bsky.social is presenting joint work ✨
Rumors say that the position comes with a delicious yearly Danish Christmas dinner 😋
One week left to apply for the postdoc position -- the deadline is on the 17th of November: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
(and two weeks left to apply for the PhD positions, the deadline is on the 24th of November: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...)
(and two weeks left to apply for the PhD positions, the deadline is on the 24th of November: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...)
November 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Rumors say that the position comes with a delicious yearly Danish Christmas dinner 😋
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Pretty extraordinary story here
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show - BBC News
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org
November 3, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Pretty extraordinary story here
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
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#OpenAccess from @jepsjournal.bsky.social -
Can Monuments to Victims Increase Tolerance? - https://cup.org/47G8gOG
- Ana Ruipérez Núñez & @melinscribe.bsky.social
#FirstView
Can Monuments to Victims Increase Tolerance? - https://cup.org/47G8gOG
- Ana Ruipérez Núñez & @melinscribe.bsky.social
#FirstView
October 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
#OpenAccess from @jepsjournal.bsky.social -
Can Monuments to Victims Increase Tolerance? - https://cup.org/47G8gOG
- Ana Ruipérez Núñez & @melinscribe.bsky.social
#FirstView
Can Monuments to Victims Increase Tolerance? - https://cup.org/47G8gOG
- Ana Ruipérez Núñez & @melinscribe.bsky.social
#FirstView
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Hello Mannheim! I'm presenting tomorrow at the Centre for European Social Research.
Come for all the empirical modelling you know all about, stay for all the stuff about oil in Northern Europe you know less about 🛢️🌊
Come for all the empirical modelling you know all about, stay for all the stuff about oil in Northern Europe you know less about 🛢️🌊
October 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Hello Mannheim! I'm presenting tomorrow at the Centre for European Social Research.
Come for all the empirical modelling you know all about, stay for all the stuff about oil in Northern Europe you know less about 🛢️🌊
Come for all the empirical modelling you know all about, stay for all the stuff about oil in Northern Europe you know less about 🛢️🌊
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Look, this "dramatic break" stuff is simply not true. Domestic politics & geopolitics have shaped economic policies for ~forever, even as, yes, the causal arrow goes both ways. People have written vast piles of books & articles about this. An entire field, called "international political economy" 🤷♂️
October 8, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Look, this "dramatic break" stuff is simply not true. Domestic politics & geopolitics have shaped economic policies for ~forever, even as, yes, the causal arrow goes both ways. People have written vast piles of books & articles about this. An entire field, called "international political economy" 🤷♂️
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JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91
Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
n.pr
October 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
Turns out, predicting crises isn’t about crystal balls, it’s about data. Enjoyed exploring the future of early warning data at the German Federal Foreign Office @diplo.de with colleagues across academia & practice.
September 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Turns out, predicting crises isn’t about crystal balls, it’s about data. Enjoyed exploring the future of early warning data at the German Federal Foreign Office @diplo.de with colleagues across academia & practice.
Free Speech in Schwyz: Nur für Männer. 🗣️👨
September 18, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Free Speech in Schwyz: Nur für Männer. 🗣️👨
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A reminder on World Humanitarian Day.
August 19, 2025 at 10:13 AM
A reminder on World Humanitarian Day.
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This article should have been published alongside the one it responds to. The original article finds that the authors' own (commercial) data outperforms the free UCDP data. Conflict of interest? Nah. But at least we know now that this conclusion is based on "a series of unfounded claims." 👇
My new article with Mert Can Yilmaz out in Research & Politics! An investigation into what does drive differences between UCDP and ACLED data and a response to a series of unfounded claims made by Clionadh Raleigh et al in a 2023 article. (1/4) Read it here doi.org/10.1177/2053...
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July 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
This article should have been published alongside the one it responds to. The original article finds that the authors' own (commercial) data outperforms the free UCDP data. Conflict of interest? Nah. But at least we know now that this conclusion is based on "a series of unfounded claims." 👇
ACLED locking researchers out feels less like data protection, more like damage control. Especially when the numbers already… don’t add up because they're sourced from people doing the fighting. 📉
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
July 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
ACLED locking researchers out feels less like data protection, more like damage control. Especially when the numbers already… don’t add up because they're sourced from people doing the fighting. 📉
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
👉
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Tuesday morning, @melinscribe.bsky.social covered Advanced Data visualization 🎨
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bsky.app/profile/meli...
July 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Tuesday morning, @melinscribe.bsky.social covered Advanced Data visualization 🎨
bsky.app/profile/meli...
bsky.app/profile/meli...
Just wrapped up a workshop on advanced graphics & data viz! 📊📈
Have a fantastic and inspiring rest of the week! ✨
Have a fantastic and inspiring rest of the week! ✨
What an inspiring first day at the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology here in Bremen yesterday! We were honored to be welcomed by the president of @unibremen.bsky.social, Prof. Jutta Günther, (1)
July 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Just wrapped up a workshop on advanced graphics & data viz! 📊📈
Have a fantastic and inspiring rest of the week! ✨
Have a fantastic and inspiring rest of the week! ✨
There is always at least one boomer in a quiet wagon 🚂 who is not quiet. 🤐
July 3, 2025 at 9:11 AM
There is always at least one boomer in a quiet wagon 🚂 who is not quiet. 🤐
Autofreie Quadrate & Bäume auf alle Parkplätze 💁♀️
Coolness! 😎
..aus der heißesten
Metropole Deutschlands🍨 🌴
Die Stadt Mannheim hat gerade eine interaktive Karte für Bürger zur Flächenentsiegelung online freigeschaltet.
Wärt ihr so nett und würdet das rege teilen? #Blueskymagie
mannheim-entsiegeln.de/machen-sie-m...
..aus der heißesten
Metropole Deutschlands🍨 🌴
Die Stadt Mannheim hat gerade eine interaktive Karte für Bürger zur Flächenentsiegelung online freigeschaltet.
Wärt ihr so nett und würdet das rege teilen? #Blueskymagie
mannheim-entsiegeln.de/machen-sie-m...
Machen Sie mit – Entsiegelungskonzept Mannheim
mannheim-entsiegeln.de
July 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Autofreie Quadrate & Bäume auf alle Parkplätze 💁♀️
If Dante wrote Inferno today, Circle 9 would be a heat dome and the sinners drive SUVs and run coal plants. 🔥🚗🏭
www.ft.com/content/5189...
www.ft.com/content/5189...
July 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
If Dante wrote Inferno today, Circle 9 would be a heat dome and the sinners drive SUVs and run coal plants. 🔥🚗🏭
www.ft.com/content/5189...
www.ft.com/content/5189...
I'm also presenting joint work with @acalacino.bsky.social in the same session. ✨
We argue that environmentalists are less likely to get killed during election cycles because the increased media attention could jeopardize FDI inflows.
We argue that environmentalists are less likely to get killed during election cycles because the increased media attention could jeopardize FDI inflows.
June 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I'm also presenting joint work with @acalacino.bsky.social in the same session. ✨
We argue that environmentalists are less likely to get killed during election cycles because the increased media attention could jeopardize FDI inflows.
We argue that environmentalists are less likely to get killed during election cycles because the increased media attention could jeopardize FDI inflows.
Is my research topic relevant, or is it just stalking me on holiday? Does that count as fieldwork? 🕵️♀️
June 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Is my research topic relevant, or is it just stalking me on holiday? Does that count as fieldwork? 🕵️♀️
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„KI verändert schon jetzt, wie wir denken"
Ein Experiment mit jungen Forschern an der Universität Mannheim zeigt, wie tiefgreifend ChatGPT & Co das wissenschaftliche Schreiben verändern – und dass das noch längst nicht alles ist.
Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/06...
Ein Experiment mit jungen Forschern an der Universität Mannheim zeigt, wie tiefgreifend ChatGPT & Co das wissenschaftliche Schreiben verändern – und dass das noch längst nicht alles ist.
Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/06...
June 23, 2025 at 10:29 AM
„KI verändert schon jetzt, wie wir denken"
Ein Experiment mit jungen Forschern an der Universität Mannheim zeigt, wie tiefgreifend ChatGPT & Co das wissenschaftliche Schreiben verändern – und dass das noch längst nicht alles ist.
Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/06...
Ein Experiment mit jungen Forschern an der Universität Mannheim zeigt, wie tiefgreifend ChatGPT & Co das wissenschaftliche Schreiben verändern – und dass das noch längst nicht alles ist.
Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/06...
New preprint! 🚨
We ran an experiment with early-career social scientists to test how ChatGPT helps with academic writing.
Spoiler: It boosts clarity and coherence, but not originality, methodological rigor, depth, or literature use.
We ran an experiment with early-career social scientists to test how ChatGPT helps with academic writing.
Spoiler: It boosts clarity and coherence, but not originality, methodological rigor, depth, or literature use.
❗ Hier das working paper zu diesem Thema von Marc Ratkovic, Thomas Gschwend, @wendering.bsky.social, Kevin Bauer, @annakurella.bsky.social, Oliver Rittmann, @melinscribe.bsky.social, @nschwitter.bsky.social:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Harnessing GPT for Enhanced Academic Writing: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Early-Career Researchers in the Social Sciences
PDF | Large Language Models (LLMs) bring both risk and opportunity to scholarly communication, yet their effects on expert‐level research remain... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on R...
www.researchgate.net
June 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
New preprint! 🚨
We ran an experiment with early-career social scientists to test how ChatGPT helps with academic writing.
Spoiler: It boosts clarity and coherence, but not originality, methodological rigor, depth, or literature use.
We ran an experiment with early-career social scientists to test how ChatGPT helps with academic writing.
Spoiler: It boosts clarity and coherence, but not originality, methodological rigor, depth, or literature use.
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❗ Hier das working paper zu diesem Thema von Marc Ratkovic, Thomas Gschwend, @wendering.bsky.social, Kevin Bauer, @annakurella.bsky.social, Oliver Rittmann, @melinscribe.bsky.social, @nschwitter.bsky.social:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Harnessing GPT for Enhanced Academic Writing: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Early-Career Researchers in the Social Sciences
PDF | Large Language Models (LLMs) bring both risk and opportunity to scholarly communication, yet their effects on expert‐level research remain... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on R...
www.researchgate.net
June 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
❗ Hier das working paper zu diesem Thema von Marc Ratkovic, Thomas Gschwend, @wendering.bsky.social, Kevin Bauer, @annakurella.bsky.social, Oliver Rittmann, @melinscribe.bsky.social, @nschwitter.bsky.social:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...