At BIGSSS we are currently looking for two PhD students (four years of DAAD funding) in our program Contentious Politics in the Digital Age (CoPoDi). Apply until 27 October 2025, more information here: www.bigsss-bremen.de/static/uploa...

Finally out: Revisiting the Exit from Nuclear Energy in Germany with NLP (DOI: 10.3262/ZFD2402218, www.researchgate.net/publication/...): How far can we replicate manual discourse annotation with NLP tools?

Application deadline is 1 October. Any questions, please contact priska.daphi(AT)uni-giessen.de. More details here: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/453...
Please share with anyone you think may be interested.

Join our team @fgz-risc.bsky.social in our comparative research project on local protests and social cohesion headed by Priska Daphi and Sebastian Haunss (@sehaunss.bsky.social). We are offering a full post-doc position for 3.5 years.

Die Töchter einiger NSU-Mordopfern haben eine Petition gestartet.

Grund: NSU-Terroristin #BeateZschäpe darf auf eigenen Wunsch in ein Nazi-Aussteigerprogramm - obwohl sie nie Reue zeigte, nie bei der Aufklärung half, noch Kontakt zur rechten Szene hat. Sie erhofft sich davon eine kürzere Haft.

The conference program for the @protestinstitut.bsky.social ipb conference @unibremen.bsky.social is out: protestinstitut.eu/ipb-conferen...
Come to Bremen on 1 & 2 October for an exiting program with more than 80 presentations.

🗣️Do you want to automate the classification of protest events and political event data?

➡️@sehaunss.bsky.social, P.Daphi, J.M.Dollbaum, L.Hristova, P.Susánszky & E.Steinhilper introduce PAPEA, a new pipeline that uses fine-tuned LLMs to analyze event data www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

📢Call for Papers: “Visibility, Surveillance, and Policing”

Bilingual (DE/EN) workshop by the AK Soziale Bewegungen und Polizei @TU Chemnitz - 28 Nov 2025

Submit 300-word abstracts to [email protected] by 15 July 2025

🔗 protestinstitut.eu/event/ipb-wo...

Finally out! Our PRSM article introducing a A modular pipeline for the automation of protest event analysis (PAPEA). Open Access at: doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Reminder: @protestinstitut.bsky.social Conference Protests and Social Movements between Innovation and Tradition. 1 & 2 October 202 in Bremen.
Deadline for paper submissions is 31 May.
CfP and details available at: protestinstitut.eu/veranstaltun...

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Bremen 🚨

Open to PhD students and early career scholars Fully-funded places available for applicants, deadline 1st of May 📅 summerschoolwpm.org

At this year's @protestinstitut.bsky.social conference Priska Daphi, Larissa Meier, Pál Susánszky and I will organize a panel on Protest and Civil Society under Far-right Dominance. The call is here: cloud.freiheitswolke.org/s/jCxKBZJSjk.... Please circulate it and consider submitting a paper.

CfP Protests and Social Movements between Innovation and Tradition. 1 & 2 October 2025.
This year the ipb annual conference addresses the tension between tradition and innovation in protests and social movements.
CfP and details available at: protestinstitut.eu/veranstaltun...

📊 Neue Studie
Wo die AfD stark ist, sind Abwertungen und Spaltungen innerhalb der Gesellschaft ausgeprägt - und zwar in der gesamten Bevölkerung, nicht nur bei AfD-Wähler:innen. Basis: Repräsentative Befragung von 15.000 Menschen.
Mehr im Datenmonitor ⬇️
fgzrisc.hypotheses.org/5568
#Gesellschaft

Very nice post that helped me answer a journalists question about their effects of anti-far-right protests: www.butenunbinnen.de/nachrichten/...

Life Sciences: Das betrifft uns! Wir reden längst nicht mehr (nur) über Gender Studies. Unsere internationalen Kooperationspartner*innen ohne Gehalt, unsere Datengrundlagen bei der CDC abgeschaltet, unsere Submissions blockiert.

Für mein DFG Projekt „Expertise and Politicization in COVID discourse (EPIC)“ suche ich ein:e wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter:in, 75% TV-L 13, 36 Monate, ab 1.5.2025. Sozialwissenschaftler:in mit Kenntnissen im Bereich (quantitative) Textanalyse (+ R oder Python) unihb.eu/epic. Bewerbungsfrist 6.1.25.

Für mein DFG Projekt „Expertise and Politicization in COVID discourse (EPIC)“ suche ich ein:e wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter:in, 75% TV-L 13, 36 Monate, ab 1.5.2025. Sozialwissenschaftler:in mit Kenntnissen im Bereich (quantitative) Textanalyse (+ R oder Python) unihb.eu/epic. Bewerbungsfrist 6.1.25.

Very interesting. How much change is in the dispersion? How many neighborhoods have changed their rank?

Für unser EU Horizon Projekt „ProTest: Protest Culture under Transformation and as a Transformative Power“ suchen @sophiahunger.bsky.social und ich eine/n Doktorand*in (65%, E13 TVL, 3 Jahre) an der Universität Bremen. Mehr Infos hier: www.forschungsstelle.uni-bremen.de/de/7/2011060...

🔊Wir suchen spätestens ab Februar 2025 eine/n neue/n Geschäftsführer/in (m/w/d)! 🗓️Minijob (6-7 Std./Woche, 6 Wochen Urlaub), flexibles Homeoffice. Promovierende willkommen! Aufgaben: Mitgliederverwaltung, Netzwerkkoordination & Öffentlichkeitsarbeit. Interesse? Weitere Infos gern auf Anfrage!👋

PhD opportunity at Uni Bremen & the Research Center for East European Studies with @SophiaHunger and @sehaunss in a project on "ProTest - Protest as a
Democracy Test: Protest Culture under Transformation and as a Transformative Power": www.forschungsstelle.uni-bremen.de/de/7/2011060...

Analyzing reports about protests in local newspapers suggests that the diagnosed shift towards mores cultural protest issues should be questioned (doi.org/10.1080/0140...)