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Isabela Zeberio @isazeberio.bsky.social · 16d

📢 Last week to apply!

Don't miss the "Political Identities in Europe" workshop at the Universiteit van Amsterdam - deadline September 26!

🧳 Limited travel funding available | Sponsored by Amsterdam Centre for European Studies & EUDENTIFY

Apply: lnkd.in/exAcQGYQ

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Armin Schaefer @arminschaefer.bsky.social · Aug 7

I am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word.
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637

stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de

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Isabela Zeberio @isazeberio.bsky.social · Aug 5

📢 Call for papers: "Political Identities in Europe" workshop, Nov 13-14, 2025
@uvahumanities.bsky.social @theresakuhn.bsky.social

How are political identities constructed across Europe?

Deadline: Sept 26, 2025.

🔗 Info & submission:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Interdisciplinary Workshop on Political Identities in Europe

We invite submissions for an interdisciplinary workshop on "Political Identities in Europe". The event will take place on November 13-14, 2025 at the University of Amsterdam. Political communities acr...

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Sarah Engler @saengler.bsky.social · Jul 28

My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years.

If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply!

shorturl.at/kcTbG

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · Jun 30

‼️ There are a few more days left to apply for the PhD positions in my group at KU Leuven. Make sure to send in applications by July 4! 👇

Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · Jun 3

I'm recruiting 2 PhD researchers to work with me on a project studying how social groups influence vote choices!

Info on the position and how to apply 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Please share with interested students who would like to move to beautiful Leuven!

2 PhD positions in Electoral behavior

2 PhD positions to research how social group memberships become connected to vote choices

www.kuleuven.be

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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · Jun 27

@wzb.bsky.social is searching for new director for the study of democracy

These are extraordinary senior positions; tenured wth funding to establish a new dept & pursue big agendas

www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire...

🚨Please share widely!

#Polisky @epssnet.bsky.social
@ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · Jun 25

We’ve had a great day at the workshop on culture at @iepolisci.bsky.social, co-organized with @emmylindstam.bsky.social and @ricarthuguet.bsky.social

Thank you everyone for coming and for the very constructive and engaging discussions!

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Lisa Zehnter @tiondelisa.bsky.social · Jun 16

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION! Who belongs to “the people” – and who does not?

What a great way to start the week. I’m really happy that my article on populist in- and outgroup references is now out in @polstudies.bsky.social #openaccess 🔓

doi.org/10.1177/0032...

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Screenshot of the abstract of the article.

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Markus Gastinger @markus-gastinger.eu · May 12

Happy to organize a workshop on LLMs and the study of IR in Salzburg at the @unisalzburg.bsky.social on Sept. 19 w/ @andduer.bsky.social @mcortinaescudero.bsky.social @yavuzmehmet.bsky.social Accommodation provided, financial support for travel possible. CfP here: markus-gastinger.eu/wp-content/u...

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · May 13

You've (probably) got mail! ✉️

Heading to #EPSA2025 in Madrid?

Consider signing up to our buddy/mentor scheme that the diversity committee has set up to help first-time attendees navigate Europe's biggest political science conference

Questions? Send them over to @alonadolinsky.com or me 🙂

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Christine Andrä @candrae.bsky.social · Mar 27

We are looking for a PhD student who wants to rethink Historical International Relations/the History of the Social Sciences from Latin America!

Fully funded position with an interdisciplinary supervisory team (Ian Merkel, Konstantin Mierau and myself): www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3505...

PhD position Latin America as an Alternative Starting Point

This fully-funded,

www.academictransfer.com

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Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social · Apr 1

My colleague, Jason Resnikoff, and I are excited to announce a call for a well-paid, four-year PhD position to work on an interdisciplinary project focused on the transnational role of unions in the modern democratic public sphere!

www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

Vacatures bij de RUG

www.rug.nl

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Jonathan Polk @jonathanpolk.bsky.social · Feb 21

I am looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher to work with me in a project on social cleavages and political party competition in Europe:
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Happy to answer any questions, and thanks in advance for circulating the call!

Postdoctoral fellow in political science: party competition in Europe

Are you our next postdoc with a focus on using expert surveys to examine political party competition around cleavage politics? The Department of Political Science invites applications for a 2-year pos

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Giovanni D’Agostino @gdagostino.bsky.social · Feb 18

📢 Call for Papers 📢
We welcome papers for our panel "Citizens’ attitudes towards democracy" at Poletmaal 2025 (June 12-13, Groningen)
🪑Chairs: @lindestals.bsky.social, Carmen van Alebeek and @gdagostino.bsky.social
📩 Submit here: politicologenetmaal.eu/call-for-pap...
⏳Deadline: March 31, 2025

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Dimiter Toshkov @dtoshkov.bsky.social · Nov 26

I have updated the interactive dashboard of #asylum #migration statistics with the Eurostat data for 2023.
anonyms.shinyapps.io/asylum/

You can use the dashboard to explore trends in asylum applications, decisions and recognition rates across the EU 🇪🇺 since 2011.

interactive dashboard of asylum migration statistics for the EU+ countries

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ARENA Centre for European Studies @unioslo-arena.bsky.social · Nov 19

Hi all new followers 👋

ARENA is a multidisciplinary research centre at the University of Oslo, studying the direction, dynamics and sustainability of the evolving European political order.

🔗 Read more about our research, projects, publications and upcoming events:

Home - ARENA Centre for European Studies

ARENA is a multidisciplinary centre of basic research at the University of Oslo studying the evolving European political order.

www.sv.uio.no

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Chloé Lavest @chlolv.bsky.social · Nov 19

📢 Call for Papers 📢

💡 @genoni.bsky.social @nellageurts.bsky.social and I are organizing a Workshop on the Integration Paradox

📃 We aim to discuss critical, innovative work on the IP

⏰ When: 18 June 2025

✒️ How: See tinyurl.com/yj8d9233

📍 Where: @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

Apply now!

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Gema García-Albacete @ggalbacete.bsky.social · Nov 17

CFA for a 3-year postdoc position in Madrid @UC3M
and @IC3JM. Great people, great job, great city! Come and join us! (Please share widely)

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · Jun 6

I am looking for a few early-stage PhD students studying migration in Europe (pretty much any topic in poli sci/econ/soc) to present early ideas to interested undergraduates in late July. No travel budget but small cash (~€100) honorarium available + friendly audience!

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · Mar 12

Are you interested in learning about computational social science *for free* and identifying new opportunities for interdisciplinary research? The Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science SICSS will run in >20 places around the world: sicss.io/locations

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · Jan 13

New blog post that's actually a book!

Learn how to take data from all over the internet, feed it into a {plumber} API, and display it *live* in a #QuartoPub document with Observable JS and #rstats www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2024/01...

I even cover how to log in with JWT tokens!

Image showing stuff from the internet going to Make.com, then to Google Sheets/Airtable, then to a plumber API, and finally to Quarto, R, Python, and Observable

Example dashboard that you can make if you follow the tutorial

Screenshot of the "Quarto and APIs" chapter of the tutorial

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Aleksandra Urman @aurman21.bsky.social · Jan 12

To my 🇨🇭colleagues: do you know a student interested in 🇨🇭 politics & LLMs who has computational skills (e.g., scraping)? We (with @dnvglr.bsky.social @fgilardi.bsky.social) are looking for an RA for a project on political bias in LLMs, funded by Digital Society Initiative jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

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Marga Torre @mtorre.bsky.social · Jan 3

Application period now open for the Master in Computational Social Sciences at University Carlos III of Madrid! The program is designed for students with a social sciences background (econ, soc, polsci, com).

More information about the program and the faculty here: ic3jm.es/en/postgradu...

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Fabienne Lind @fabiennelind.bsky.social · Jan 3

🌐🎓 New year, new job? A couple of days left to apply for a PhD position with the @compcommlab.bsky.social in Vienna

Fabienne Lind @fabiennelind.bsky.social · Dec 21

Join us in Vienna! 3-year PhD position on Climate Change Communication & Computational Methods. Exciting collaboration awaits in the H2020project CIDAPE! Apply until: January 9, 2024 Job starts: March 1, 2024 Questions welcome via email! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/75-PhD-p...

75% PhD position on Climate Change Communication & Computational Methods

jobs.univie.ac.at

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