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Gijs Schumacher @gijsschumacher.bsky.social · 12d

Wrapping up the week

- Posted two new (tt) Assistant Professorship position in my department: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... ... I am chairing this committee, so let me know if you have questions

Vacancy — Assistant Professor in Political Science

The Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam invites applications for one and possibly two tenure-track Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent) positions in Political Science w...

werkenbij.uva.nl

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Dr. Anne-Kathrin Kreft @annekreft.bsky.social · Aug 29

Wir würden uns sehr freuen, wenn ihr uns mit einer Teilnahme unterstützen könntet 😊

Keinerlei persönliche Erfahrung mit politischem Engagement ist erforderlich!

Dr. Anne-Kathrin Kreft @annekreft.bsky.social · Aug 28

🚨Teilnehmer*innen für eine kurze Online-Befragung gesucht

Thema: Wie nehmen Menschen politisches Engagement und die mediale Berichterstattung darüber wahr?

Wenn ihr ein paar Minuten habt, freuen wir uns über eure Teilnahme.

Teilen erwünscht!

www.soscisurvey.de/surveyKFN/

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Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · Aug 17

❗️Our next workshop will be on August 28th, 6 pm CEST, on Efficient R by @selina-b.bsky.social
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

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Leanne C. Powner @leannecpowner.bsky.social · Aug 8

PLEASE GIVE ME MORE WACKY DATA! Crazy questions make memorable examples! My students will thank you!

buff.ly/a3hUOBA

Speeding tickets! Cookie consumption! Feeling thermometers about cats and dogs and people who eat anchovies straight from the tin!

More Random Data!

More random data questions for student analysis - focusing on continuous/numerical variables this time.

buff.ly

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Eric Falquero @ericfalquero.bsky.social · Aug 10

LAST DAY 🚨: a simple repost of the post I'm quoting here will increase money donated to my organization. Please take the time to click and amplify it! 🙏🏼

So will follows, detailed below.

Russ generously offered to donate $1 to @51st.news "through this weekend" for every repost his offer receives.

Russ Frankenstein (no relation) @russ41.bsky.social · Aug 7

Now through this weekend, I'll donate $1 to @51st.news for each:
- person who reposts this post
- new follower @51st.news ws gets
- new follower @maustermuhle.bsky.social gets
- new follower @christurdisani.bsky.social gets
- new follower I get

And tag/DM me your donation = I'll match it 1:1.

The 51st @51st.news · Aug 6

Three days remain to hit the goal in our campaign to hire @maustermuhle.bsky.social full-time.

We know there's a ways to go, but with less than half left to raise...we could reach it easy peasy if each person who donated asked one friend to give too. givebutter.com/SsQ8CG

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European Parliament @europarl.europa.eu · Aug 8

The European Media Freedom Act is here.

From today, 8 August, new EU rules will apply to better protect journalists and make media more free and independent.

Hear from Vice-President Sabine Verheyen on what today means for EU journalists and media outlets ↓

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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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Sebastian Stier @sebstier.bsky.social · Jul 29

🚀 New postdoc position for Platform Data & Computational Social Science
Join us to drive @gesis.org' efforts around the Digital Services Act (DSA) and conduct research with online platform data
💼 TV-L EG 14 | Location: Cologne
📌 Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/institute...
#DSA #CSS #DataScience

Details

GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

www.gesis.org

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Will Allen @williamlallen.bsky.social · Jul 25

I've been tracking my peer review activity over the years (like @alessandronai.bsky.social @turnbulldugarte.com) ad wanted to share some of that for transparency, manage expectations, and reflect on what it suggests for early-career researchers' development, esp. in #polisky #commsky #policom 1/n

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Maike Luhmann @maikeluhmann.bsky.social · Jul 2

New job at LONELY-EU! Our consortium member Cristiano Vezzoni (University of Milan, Italy) is looking for a postdoc to work on #loneliness, social isolation and political behavior.

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

@lonely-eu.bsky.social

📢 Now hiring! One Research Contract (post-doc) on Loneliness, Social… | Cristiano Vezzoni

📢 Now hiring! One Research Contract (post-doc) on Loneliness, Social Isolation and Political Behaviour 👥 Join the LONELY-EU project, which explores social isolation and loneliness (SIL) across Euro...

www.linkedin.com

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Jul 2

New EU rules adopted today mean better access for qualified researchers to online data gathered by very large online platforms & search engines.

This is important for investigations into systemic risks (e.g illegal content or disinformation).

See 👉 europa.eu/!XHYdGN

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Jun 26

Want to easily scrape data from news media sites?

There's an R package for that!

paperboy

"paperboy offers writers of web scrap[ers] a clear path to publish their code & earn co-authorship on the package, while deliver[ing] news media data from many websites in a consistent format."

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · Jun 26

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.

🔗 epssnet.org

Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.

🧵

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Hannes Cools @hannescools.bsky.social · Jun 12

ICA 2025 is on 🔥
PhD-student Floriane van Alphen just kicked off a preconference on environmental communication. She presented her second study on the audience perspective of climate advocacy journalism 🙏
@christelvaneck.bsky.social @christianburgers.bsky.social @ascor.bsky.social

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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · Jun 14

Lots of cool things in this #ica25 panel, including my two tool demos of #rstats {traktok} (for getting TikTok data) and {paperboy} (for getting news data)!

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Alena Kluknavska @alenakluknavska.bsky.social · Jun 11

Come and join us! It is going to be great! Martina Paulenova from @medjourmuni.bsky.social will talk about political memes in a polarized environment!

ecpr - SG Political Communication @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social · Jun 11

🚨 New #PolComm ECR Club Session coming up! 🙌

🕺 Join us tomorrow (12 June) at 🕰️ 1pm for a discussion of 🎇 Memes during the Czech Elections 🗳️

w/ ✨ Martina Paulenova, Ofra Klein & Ana Langer. ✨

🖥️ Check events.ecpr.eu/Events/Event... for more details and registration/zoom link! 🔗

@ecpr.bsky.social

Memeing the Candidates: Exploring Polarization and Incivility in Commenters’ Responses to Anti-Populist Memes during the 2023 Czech Presidential Elections

European Consortium for Political Research

events.ecpr.eu

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ecpr - SG Political Communication @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social · Jun 11

🚨 New #PolComm ECR Club Session coming up! 🙌

🕺 Join us tomorrow (12 June) at 🕰️ 1pm for a discussion of 🎇 Memes during the Czech Elections 🗳️

w/ ✨ Martina Paulenova, Ofra Klein & Ana Langer. ✨

🖥️ Check events.ecpr.eu/Events/Event... for more details and registration/zoom link! 🔗

@ecpr.bsky.social

Memeing the Candidates: Exploring Polarization and Incivility in Commenters’ Responses to Anti-Populist Memes during the 2023 Czech Presidential Elections

European Consortium for Political Research

events.ecpr.eu

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Resul Umit @resulumit.bsky.social · Jun 2

I've received funding to improve my UK General Elections dataset (1832–2024)!

We will validate existing variables and add new ones — e.g. registered voters, campaign spending, candidate gender, IDs for matching with other datasets.

Current version:

doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...

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Dr. Anne-Kathrin Kreft @annekreft.bsky.social · Jun 2

Hier gibt es das Factsheet mit ersten Ergebnissen unserer Studie zu Aggressionen und Gewalt gegen Politiker*innen in Deutschland: kfn.de/wp-content/u...

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Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies (SCEUS) @sceus.bsky.social · Jun 2

🎓 Apply now for our FINAL round of applications!

After two very successful rounds, we are now opening our last call to join our MA programme in #EU Studies. Do not miss out on the #opportunity!

❗ Apply by 1 July 2025 ❗

More info: buff.ly/feChQeD

#EUsky #EurSky

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ecpr - SG Political Communication @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social · May 5

📅 1st session: May 22, 13:00 (online, no signup needed!)
🔗LINK WILL FOLLOW!

Presenter: Muhammad Noor Fakhruzzaman (U Vienna): "Media Intergroup Bias in Indonesian Online News"
Discussant: @kenzalamot.bsky.social (VU Amsterdam)

Let’s build a supportive PolCom ECR community—see you May 22!

Muhammad Noor Fakhruzzaman

tinyurl.com

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Katjana Gattermann @kgattermann.bsky.social · May 14

This is an exciting opportunity for early career researchers in Political Communication @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social ! Thanks so much for this excellent initiative @olgaeisele.bsky.social & @alenakluknavska.bsky.social ⬇️

Olga Eisele @olgaeisele.bsky.social · May 5

🤩 Proud to announce the launch of our new @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social Early Career Researcher Club!!

📅 First (online) session scheduled for 22 May, 1pm

📱Check the post below for details, especially the Qualtrics survey to express your interest in joining!

@alenakluknavska.bsky.social

ecpr - SG Political Communication @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social · May 5

🆕 Introducing the ✨PolComm ECR Club✨ – a new monthly online forum for early career researchers in political communication!

Organized by @olgaeisele.bsky.social & @alenakluknavska.bsky.social, this initiative is open to PhD students & postdocs (≤4 yrs post-PhD) in the ECPR or ECREA polcom sections!

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Julia Partheymüller @schnizzl.bsky.social · May 12

Nächste Woche gehts los: Pint of Science – das Wissenschaftsfestival! 🧠🍺

Vom 19. bis 21. Mai präsentieren Wissenschaftler:innen ihre Forschung in 6 österreichischen Städten – Wien ist mit besonders vielen spannenden Events dabei. Hier ein Überblick!

🎟 pintofscience.at/events/wien
#pint25 #pint25AT

Startseite des Pint of Science Festivals 2025 für Wien. Links die Überschrift „Wien Veranstaltungen“ mit Stadtauswahl-Menü, rechts eine interaktive Karte mit Veranstaltungsorten in Wien.

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Alena Kluknavska @alenakluknavska.bsky.social · May 7

Come and join us! So exciting to launch this Club!

Olga Eisele @olgaeisele.bsky.social · May 5

🤩 Proud to announce the launch of our new @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social Early Career Researcher Club!!

📅 First (online) session scheduled for 22 May, 1pm

📱Check the post below for details, especially the Qualtrics survey to express your interest in joining!

@alenakluknavska.bsky.social

ecpr - SG Political Communication @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social · May 5

🆕 Introducing the ✨PolComm ECR Club✨ – a new monthly online forum for early career researchers in political communication!

Organized by @olgaeisele.bsky.social & @alenakluknavska.bsky.social, this initiative is open to PhD students & postdocs (≤4 yrs post-PhD) in the ECPR or ECREA polcom sections!

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