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Max Grömping @maxgroemping.bsky.social · 21d

Please share widely! Great #PostDoc opportunity at one of Australia's top #PoliticalScience departments, on a #FutureFellowship on electoral resilience. 3yrs, great pay, and a workplace practically next to the Great Barrier Reef!
Closing date is 1 Oct 2025
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Grade 1

Company Description: Every institution values excellence. What matters most is why. Griffith was created to be a different type of university. You’ll find we’re about leading research, academic excel...

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Max Grömping @maxgroemping.bsky.social · Jul 1

Great work on democratic resilience by my @larslott.bsky.social & Aurel Croissant

Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · Jul 1

Why are some democracies more resilient than others? How can their resilience be improved? Together with Aurel Croissant, I’ve developed a conceptualization of democratic resilience as resilience performance and resilience capacity.
Read the full article here (Open Access): doi.org/10.1177/0032...

Democratic Resilience in the Twenty-First Century: Search for an Analytical Framework and Explorative Analysis - Aurel Croissant, Lars Lott, 2025

Why are some democracies more resilient than others? How can their resilience be improved? Answering these questions requires valid conceptualization and reliab...

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Max Grömping @maxgroemping.bsky.social · Jun 30

Wow, Princeton UP got bamboozled into this like a travel vlogger.

Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · Jun 30

This is just an incredible story. A leadership team from Princeton University Press went on a propaganda tour in Xinjiang (strangely, in a subsequent public statement the press described some of the basic mechanics of a propaganda tour when defending its actions).

Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · Jun 28

not looking good for Princeton University Press is it @princetonupress.bsky.social
the video can be found on Facebook
www.facebook.com/share/v/16Rv...

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Jun 27

🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face.
www.cato.org/policy-analy...

The Misleading Panic over Misinformation

People can’t agree on how to define misinformation and its related terms, making regulation nearly impossible. Instead, free expression serves as a better tool for discovering truth.

www.cato.org

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Frederik Thieme @frederikthieme.bsky.social · Jun 26

Are tailored ads in political campaigns as persuasive as conventional wisdom holds? 📢

In joint work w/ @heikekluever.bsky.social we present evidence from a field experiment with the German Greens ahead of the 2024 European Elections calling this into question 🤔
#epsa2025

⏰: Friday, 16:50
📍: 0A.10

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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · Jun 17

🚨In PNAS🚨
The right often accuses fact-checkers of political bias
But we analyzed Community Notes on Musk's X and found posts flagged as "misleading" are 2.3x more likely to be written by Reps than Dems!
The issue is Reps sharing misinformation, not fact-checker bias...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Max Grömping @maxgroemping.bsky.social · Jun 18

Huge! Massive congratulations Sofia.

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Max Grömping @maxgroemping.bsky.social · Jun 18

Check out this great work by @griffith.edu.au colleague @ammassarisofia.bsky.social on women's party engagement on the radical right.

Sofia Ammassari @ammassarisofia.bsky.social · Jun 17

Thrilled that my article on women's activism in PRR parties has been published open access today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 💫

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This is my favourite article from my PhD thesis. I love the topic, its findings, and the literature it draws on.

A quick 🧵:

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Max Grömping @maxgroemping.bsky.social · Jun 14

Friends in Germany interested in #deliberative #democracy, this is THE event for you. "Can citizen councils strengthen representative democracy?".
I wish I could make it to Berlin for this one.

Sebastian Ziaja @sziaja.bsky.social · Jun 11

Können Bürgerräte die repräsentative Demokratie stärken?
Wir diskutieren Ergebnisse aus vier praxisnahen Forschungsprojekten auf einem Roundtable mit
@polenz.bsky.social,
@kliesenberg.bsky.social,
Felix Arndt, Stabstelle Bürgerräte @bundestag.de
und @heikekluever.bsky.social
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Will Allen @williamlallen.bsky.social · Jun 12

Re-upping this as I continue to find it helpful for normalizing rejection: I need to remember it’s the modal outcome! Plus didn’t @mirya.bsky.social have a thing about rewarding X number of rejections, as a way of marking how much you’re putting your work out there?

Jason Reifler @jasonreifler.bsky.social · Jun 12

The most popular thing I did on the old site was telling people about my rejections. Failure and rejection is a big part of academic life. It happens to all of us -- well, at least everyone I know. This thread lists mine and is founded on the hope it helps other people cope better with their own.

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · May 13

Here's me saying it like it is regarding Elon Musk and X as a propaganda tool that is increasingly biased towards the far right.

The article is in French - in this thread are some auto-translated excerpts from my comments. Shout out to @markandrejevic.bsky.social

www.rtbf.be/article/comm...

Comment Elon Musk utilise son réseau X pour faire monter l'extrême droite en Europe - RTBF Actus

Voici un extrait du compte X (anciennement Twitter) de Dries Van Langenhove, ex-député Vlaams Belang condamné en 2024 à...

www.rtbf.be

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Max Grömping @maxgroemping.bsky.social · May 2

Two in three Australians say they have encountered misinformation in the lead up to the election. How concerned should we be? Read about the results of our recent survey w @acarson.bsky.social theconversation.com/fake-news-an...

Fake news and the election campaign - how worried should voters be?

New research reveals a growing number of Australians are encountering political misinformation and disinformation in the election campaign and are worried about it.

theconversation.com

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Max Grömping @maxgroemping.bsky.social · May 1

Congrats, Roman!

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · May 1

🚨 New book alert!

Policy Preparation Inside the European Commission is out with OUP @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

It’s about the behind-the-scenes stage of EU policymaking that shapes everything—yet rarely gets the spotlight: how the Commission prepares its proposals.

Link: doi.org/10.1093/9780...

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Max Grömping @maxgroemping.bsky.social · Apr 24

What a well-argued thread about the benefits of semi parliamentarism.

Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · Apr 24

Some thoughts on institutional reform in the UK, spurred by the upcoming Australian elections. Australia has traditionally been classified, with Britain other former colonies, as a "Westminster democracy" - characterised by a majoritarian system and fusion of legislative and executive powers. 🧵

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Max Grömping @maxgroemping.bsky.social · Apr 23

It's exactly like the real time diaries of people witnessing the Nazi takeover in '33... as he says in the first post.
Trying make sense of the madness as ot unfolds.

Max Grömping @maxgroemping.bsky.social · Apr 23

I highly recommend following @adamprz.bsky.social's substack.

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · Apr 23

"I am stuck with the prediction that the Trump historical episode will end in costly, probably violent, conflict."

From @adamprz.bsky.social, the US's leading scholar on democracy/elections, and far from an alarmist.

adamprzeworski.substack.com/p/week-10

WEEK 10

adamprzeworski.substack.com

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Jason Reifler @jasonreifler.bsky.social · Apr 20

My department at Southampton is offering a 2 day summer school June 23-24 on “Declining democratic health: Methods for diagnosis, treatment and recovery.” Not only is this free to attend, but travel support may be available. Spots are limited.

www.southampton.ac.uk/politics/new...

PAIR Methods Summer School 2025

www.southampton.ac.uk

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Max Grömping @maxgroemping.bsky.social · Apr 14

Congrats, @breznaunate.bsky.social @emrinke.bsky.social @kunkakom.bsky.social and team. Taking part in this project was not only eye-opening in terms of #metascience but also great fun. Even with shared data and code, reproducibility is not a given. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Max Grömping @maxgroemping.bsky.social · Apr 6

What a fantastic opportunity to talk with Alex Fischer and Selen Ercan about the role of research for democratic practice. I learned about communicating democracy research for better impact + suggested we listen to scholars of #authoritarianism to address the current moment @deldemucan.bsky.social

Centre for Deliberative Democracy @deldemucan.bsky.social · Apr 4

This week we welcomed Alex Fischer (Australian Department of Home Affairs) and @maxgroemping.bsky.social from
@griffith.edu.au to our Centre for a rich and insightful discussion on the relevance of democracy research for practice, expertly moderated by Selen Ercan.

Recording will be available soon!

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Max Grömping @maxgroemping.bsky.social · Mar 13

Chris Stokel-Walker @stokel.bsky.social · Mar 13

🚨 @newscientist.com SCOOP: I've exclusively obtained Peter Kyle's interactions with ChatGPT using FOI laws - in what I believe may be a world-first transparency release. The chatbot said "Lack of Government or Institutional Support" slowed UK AI adoption www.newscientist.com/article/2472...

Revealed: How the UK tech secretary uses ChatGPT for policy advice

New Scientist has used freedom of information laws to obtain the ChatGPT records of Peter Kyle, the UK's technology secretary, in what is believed to be a world-first use of such legislation

www.newscientist.com

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Jakob-Moritz Eberl @jamoeberl.bsky.social · Mar 12

Exhibit #1099: The most dangerous disinformation isn’t spread by anonymous accounts on the internet—it’s the disinformation crafted & amplified by elites through legacy media. When those in power distort facts, they shape public perception & influence policy on a scale no anonymous troll ever could.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Mar 12

RFK Jr on the measles vaccine: "There are adverse events from the vaccine. It does cause deaths every year. It causes all the illnesses that measles itself cause."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Mar 9

New, from me: you were told that the threats to free speech came from wokeness. Some compared it to Maoist China.

Now we are witnessing government power being used to silence dissent and censor ideas. Now we know what real society-wide chilling effects look like. 🧵
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Real chilling effects

A extraordinary pattern of government censorship and threats to speech

open.substack.com

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Max Grömping @maxgroemping.bsky.social · Feb 26

!!
"you can’t fact check your way to a win in this kind of frame game. You have create alternative frames, support people in telling stories that resonate with those frames, and make sure those stories are heard"

Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · Feb 26

The right’s “waste and fraud” frame is a replay of the same participatory propaganda games they played w/ “voter fraud” in 2020, “censorship” in 2022, and any number of anti-immigration frames in 2024. Set the frame, inspire the generation of “evidence” to fit it, amplify that evidence, and repeat.

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · Feb 25

When the autocratic past becomes frighteningly relevant: Vera Kempe, one our panelists at today's workshop on Science under Autocracy www.scibeh.org/events/works... has recorded her experiences in USSR and East Germany here: substack.com/home/post/p-.... She offers some recommendations, too.

I want to paint a picture of what scholarship is like when autocracy has taken hold, based on experiences from the 20th century. Specifically, I want to map the spectrum of choices—ethical, professional, and intellectual—available to scholars under autocracy. First, a disclaimer: I am not a historian, not even a historian of science. I am a cognitive psychologist. But I was born in the Soviet Union, grew up in East Germany, studied Psychology at Moscow State University and then did my PhD and worked at Humboldt University in East Berlin. That makes me one of a vanishing breed of those who remember what academia was like under the 20th-century autocracies behind the Iron Curtain.

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