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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · Aug 7

Please share this thread. It is important that political scientists, in Europe and across the world, understand why EPSS exists and why we are encouraging people to attend our inaugural conference, in Belfast next June.

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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Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · Jul 31

The @epssnet.bsky.social call for the 2026 conference in Belfast opened today! 😮

epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

Deadline: 7 November 2025

Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference

Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.

epssnet.org

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Franziska Wagner @franziskawagner.bsky.social · Jul 1

🚀 I’ve recently joined Centro Nacional de IA as a postdoc and will soon be relocating to 🇨🇱 to start this exciting journey.
I’ll be working on the role of propaganda in elections, combining political communication and computational methods. If you're working on related issues, I’d be glad to connect.

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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · Jun 17

Our Digital News Report 2025 is out!

📊48 markets
🌏Almost 100K respondents
📰Key headline: Audiences lean into video news and influencers, raising misinformation concerns and new dilemmas for publishers

📱Explore now buff.ly/xLP67Tg
🧵Findings in thread #DNR25

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Franziska Wagner @franziskawagner.bsky.social · Jun 16

I believe it takes a village to do a PhD and I am greatly indebted to everyone who has been with me throughout these years.

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Franziska Wagner @franziskawagner.bsky.social · Jun 16

I am extremely happy to announce that I have successfully defended my PhD dissertation. This would not have been possible without the years of supervision by @zsolt.bsky.social.
I am also very grateful for my panel @marikenvelden.bsky.social, Gábor Simonovits & @andrasbozoki.bsky.social

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AUTHLIB @authlibeu.bsky.social · Apr 6

⚠️ New AUTHLIB journal article - open access ⚠️

❓How do illiberal far right parties influence discourse on immigration?

Franziska Wagner (CEU), Dean Schafer (@mississippistate.bsky.social, @ceudeminst.bsky.social) Mehmet Yavuz (CEU, Uni Salzburg) have the answers.

www.authlib.eu/journal-arti...

Journal Article: How Illiberal Parties Shape Immigration Discourse and Party Competition

How does far right parties' parliamentary and governmental participation influence both their discourse and that of mainstream parties?

www.authlib.eu

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Franziska Wagner @franziskawagner.bsky.social · Apr 2

In the context of recent 🇩🇪 elections, but also negotiations in the 🇪🇺 parliament, we should remind ourselves that accommodation has never worked.

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Franziska Wagner @franziskawagner.bsky.social · Apr 2

💡 Conservative mainstream parties often adopt far-right immigration rhetoric.
💡 Far-right parties soften their stance slightly in government but revert to radical positions afterward.
💡 This dynamic shifts the entire party system further to the right on immigration.

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Franziska Wagner @franziskawagner.bsky.social · Apr 2

With a combination of word embeddings and dictionaries we create a liberal-illiberal scale and analyse 67 parties across eight European countries over 15 years.

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Franziska Wagner @franziskawagner.bsky.social · Apr 2

We analyse how parliamentary and governmental participation of far-right parties influence both their own discourse and that of mainstream parties regarding immigration.

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Franziska Wagner @franziskawagner.bsky.social · Apr 2

🚀 Publication Alert
Thrilled to share my latest article with @schaferd.bsky.social & @yavuzmehmet.bsky.social examining the impact of far-right parties on parliamentary discourse!
shorturl.at/s4t8P

Opposition to Government and Back: How Illiberal Parties Shape Immigration Discourse and Party Competition | Article | Politics and Governance

Franziska Wagner, Dean Schafer, Mehmet Yavuz

shorturl.at

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Sabine Volk @sabinedvolk.bsky.social · Mar 6

New blog for @crexuio.bsky.social on the German election with a focus on the far right: I highlight AfD's successes throughout Germany, the country's declining east-west divide, and the reasons behind AfD's rise to second force in the German parliament:
www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

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Franziska Wagner @franziskawagner.bsky.social · Feb 25

If you're looking to dive into CSS—whether you're just starting out or want to deepen your knowledge—this is an amazing opportunity! I highly recommend it. I took part a few years ago at @wzb.bsky.social and had an absolute blast! 🚀

Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · Feb 24

Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations

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Audrey Alejandro @audreyalejandro.bsky.social · Feb 12

📢 Call for papers 📢 Workshop "Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research" that I organise with colleague @dandekadt.bsky.social at LSE in November 2025.

Anyone interested please send us a 250-word abstract by 26 March 2025 !

Learn more➡️ buff.ly/3CCijaY

@lsemethodology.bsky.social

focus group overlayered with algorythmic code

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Franziska Wagner @franziskawagner.bsky.social · Feb 3

Keep on having the same experiences. I feel like it regressed immensely for coding in the last years.

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Marvin Stecker @marvins.bsky.social · Jan 27

First ever publication alert!
Do you credit all the software you use in your research?👀

In a new article in Computational Communication Research, we investigate when software gets mentioned in research articles and what makes a tool more likely to be cited.

Read it here: doi.org/10.5117/CCR2...

Tools of the Trade – When Are Software Tools Mentioned in Computational Text Analysis Research? | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online

The use of computational methods for text analysis has been rapidly gaining a foothold in computational social science. Yet, little is known about the reporting practices of the software tools utilise...

doi.org

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Carlos Meléndez @eljorobado.bsky.social · Jan 23

Very happy to co-organize with @dafnoukos.bsky.social the 2nd Democratic Expeditions Workshop this September in Budapest at CEU-Democracy Institute

We’re looking for comparative studies of the far-right in Latin America and Europe

Proposals welcome here: democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/CfP...

Call for Papers “Contesting the Far Right, Safeguarding Democracy: Comparative Insights from Europe and Latin America” | CEU Democracy Institute

democracyinstitute.ceu.edu

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Fabienne Lind @fabiennelind.bsky.social · Jan 10

6 days to submit your abstract for #COMPTEXT2025 🙌

Setting expectations:
- 👾conversations about the latest computational methods across the social sciences and beyond
-🎡☕️💚🦜🏃🏽‍♀️ (Social Programme preview)

The COMPTEXT Association @comptext.bsky.social · Jan 6

Submission for #COMPTEXT2025 is still open until January 15! We are looking forward to receiving your proposals for papers, panels, and data presentations! We also appreciate it if you can spread the word and circulate shorturl.at/AmocX! See you at the University of Vienna on 24-26 April!

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Silja Häusermann @siljahausermann.bsky.social · Jan 8

Recently, our book on the Transformation of the Left in Europe came out

Open access tinyurl.com/ahuxx6d6

A few interviews that summarize key findings:
🔉 Polisci No problem et al. podcast: tinyurl.com/54tvx3md
🔉 Swiss SD party podcast: tinyurl.com/ds4maabc
📖 SamPol Magazine: tinyurl.com/y93nd6cm

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Jo(sephine) Lukito @jolukito.bsky.social · Dec 9

🚨 List of journalism, #polcomm and #css (computational social science/NLP) conferences in 2025 (last updated 2024-12-09).

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

This is a living document, so if there are updates or if you would like to mention conferences to be added, please let me know!

Conferences, 2025

docs.google.com

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Franziska Wagner @franziskawagner.bsky.social · Dec 4

📽️ If you wanna know more about our work on 🇪🇺 far right parties, Russia, and their mutual legitimation check out this panel. It also has great research and insights by Dorka Takácsy and @shekhovtsov.bsky.social. Many thanks to @gmfus.bsky.social and @danielhegedus.bsky.social for organising it. ⬇️

AUTHLIB @authlibeu.bsky.social · Dec 4

📽️ AUTHLIB Discussion

🔗 How does the Kremlin use ties to illiberal parties like Fidesz & FPÖ to promote its positions?

🗣️ Bálint Mikola, @franziskawagner.bsky.social, @shekhovtsov.bsky.social (CEU), Dorka Takácsy, @danielhegedus.bsky.social (GMF, @gmfus.bsky.social)

www.authlib.eu/russias-illi...

Russia’s Illiberal Networks - Event Video Online

Russia's illiberal network in Europe spreads the Kremlin's propaganda and also legitimizes the Russian narrative. AUTHLIB researchers show how.

www.authlib.eu

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Franziska Wagner @franziskawagner.bsky.social · Nov 29

When you're presenting your third PhD paper at a conference, the end of PhD is (hopefully) close. Heartfelt thanks to @mtplk.bsky.social for organising the best panel with super interesting presentations of the conference and @robert-a-huber.bsky.social for being an amazing discussant.

aytalina @aytalina.bsky.social · Nov 29

@franziskawagner.bsky.social is presenting a study on blame attribution after the 2021 Ahrtal floods in Germany

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Franziska Wagner @franziskawagner.bsky.social · Nov 25

📢 Join us next week to discuss the role of mutual legitimation among Russia and the European far right. 👇

Daniel Hegedus @danielhegedus.bsky.social · Nov 25

Interested in the techniques of mutual enforcement between the #Kremlin & European #illiberals?
Join our #AUTHLIB panel with #GMF's @Dorka Takacsy &
#CEU's Mikola Bálint @franziskawagner.bsky.social @shekhovtsov.bsky.social & yours truly.
📆December 2, 3:00 pm CET
RSVP👇
authlib.eu/russias-illi...

Russia’s Illiberal Networks: From Cross-Border Propaganda to Mutual Legitimation

Register our discussion on Dec 2 exploring how Russia and radical right parties in the EU use the same narratives for mutual legitimization.

authlib.eu

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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · Nov 14

Rise and shine, scholars! ☀️ The #COMPTEXT2025 Call for Papers, Panels, and Data Presentations is open! 📣 Submit by January 15 and join us in Vienna @univie.ac.at this April. We can’t wait to see what you’ll bring! shorturl.at/AmocX
#css #commsky #polisky

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