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Alexander Wuttke

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Reposted by: Alexander Wuttke, Cas Mudde, Ruth Dassonneville , and 4 more

alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social
Great paper on the state of political science osf.io/preprints/os... by @guygrossman.bsky.social et. al. We have become more diverse, more quantitative, and more collaborative.
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by Andreas Jungherr — Reposted by: Alexander Wuttke, Sebastian Stier

ajungherr.bsky.social
🧵 New publication: How do people feel about regulating #AI in election campaigns? 🧵

In a new article, @adrauc.bsky.social, @kunkakom.bsky.social, and I examine when and why people support stronger AI regulation in political competition.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Explaining public preferences for regulating Artificial Intelligence in election campaigns: Evidence from the U.S. and Taiwan
The increasing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in election campaigns, such as AI-generated political ads, automated messaging, and the widespread …
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by Ruth Dassonneville — Reposted by: Alexander Wuttke, Robert Huber, Robert C. Richards , and 1 more

rdassonneville.bsky.social
Really excited that after several years of working on it, revising, and getting lots of rejections, our paper (w/ Rune Stubager & Mads Thau) on citizens’ responses to group appeals is *finally* out @ejprjournal.bsky.social

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A 🧵 on our findings...
How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions
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Reposted by: Alexander Wuttke

mariafarrell.bsky.social
7 years ago Tim Cook told the European Parliament:

“We're responsible for recognizing that the devices we make and platforms we build have real…lasting…even permanent effects on individuals and communities who use them

We must never stop asking ourselves What kind of world do we want to live in?"
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by Alexander Wuttke — Reposted by: Jana Lasser, Johannes Breuer

kunkakom.bsky.social
Open Science Professor ship at HU Berlin
www.academics.de/jobs/w2-prof...
W2-Professur "Open Science" an der Philosophischen Fakultät - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin bietet Stelle als W2-Professur "Open Science" an der Philosophischen Fakultät in Berlin - jetzt bewerben!
www.academics.de
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Reposted by: Alexander Wuttke, Kurt Vandaele

dmwoodruff.bsky.social
RIP Claus Offe. He built his own monument in his work; here’s something great.
www.hwiesenthal.de/publik/hw/2l...
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Reposted by: Alexander Wuttke, Jan W. Mueller, Robert Falkner , and 12 more

hertieschool.bsky.social
The Hertie School mourns the passing of Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Claus Offe, Professor Emeritus of Political Sociology, an extraordinary scholar, teacher and colleague.

We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and all who had the privilege to know him.
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alexanderhorn.bsky.social
The—AI-related—stigmatization of the em dash makes it even harder to squeze my very German thoughts into english words.
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by Alexander Wuttke

kunkakom.bsky.social
Congratulations 🎉
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Reposted by: Alexander Wuttke, Joanna Bryson, Markus Wagner , and 1 more

jochemvanagt.bsky.social
🚨 New publication out @jeppjournal.bsky.social w/ Katrin Praprotnik @luanarusso.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social

We show that coalition signals from the mainstream right to the radical right shift, rather than reduce, existing political divisions.

Open-access article: doi.org/10.1080/1350...
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Reposted by: Alexander Wuttke, Mark J. Brandt, Robert Huber , and 1 more

jeppjournal.bsky.social
🤝 @jochemvanagt.bsky.social, Katrin Praprotnik, @luanarusso.bsky.social, and @markuswagner.bsky.social show that when the mainstream right signals openness to govern with the far right, it eases tensions on the right but amplifies antipathy on the left 👇

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Partisan affect and political tolerance in the context of shifting norms: the effect of coalition signals towards the radical right
Mainstream political actors in many countries face the challenging decision of how to engage with radical-right parties. While some systematically exclude them from power, others accept them as coa...
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Reposted by: Alexander Wuttke, Simon Hix, Sara B. Hobolt , and 2 more

zeynsom.bsky.social
Still confused about EPSA vs. EPSS? Which conference should you go to? Here is a link to clarify things: epssnet.org/uncategorize... TL;DR: "EPSA" community will be in Belfast. Same community, new organisation, bigger mission; slightly new name; and a very different foundation @epssnet.bsky.social
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ALT: a man with glasses says look can 't you see it 's obvious netflix
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by Alexander Wuttke

kunkakom.bsky.social
oder Jan Dul (2016) — Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA): Logic and Methodology of “Necessary but Not Sufficient” Causality,
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by Alexander Wuttke

kunkakom.bsky.social
LLM sagt: Bear F. Braumoeller & Gary Goertz (2000) The Methodology of Necessary Conditions, AJPS. oder Gary Goertz (2006) Assessing the Trivialness, Relevance, and Relative Importance of Necessary or Sufficient Conditions in Social Science
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nicolaiberk.bsky.social
I had the pleasure to teach a 3-day crash course on #LLMs for PhD students.

We covered:

1️⃣ Text Representation and Embeddings
2️⃣ Machine Learning & Transformer Architecture
3️⃣ Generative Models for Social Sciences

The 6 slide sets and 10 notebooks are available on github: github.com/nicolaiberk/...
GitHub - nicolaiberk/llm_ws: Materials for my Workshop on LLMs
Materials for my Workshop on LLMs. Contribute to nicolaiberk/llm_ws development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
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by Andreas Jungherr — Reposted by: Alexander Wuttke, David M. Farrell

ajungherr.bsky.social
📢 New Journal Article: AI & Deliberation 📢

What impact does #AI have on democratic deliberation? Together with @adrauc.bsky.social, I explore this question in a new article in Government Information Quarterly. Findings in the thread 🧵👇

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Artificial Intelligence in deliberation: The AI penalty and the emergence of a new deliberative divide
Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) promise help for democratic deliberation, such as processing information, moderating discussion, and fact-che…
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Reposted by: Alexander Wuttke, Hajo G. Boomgaarden, Johannes Breuer , and 1 more

medem.bsky.social
They say: once there’s a paper 📝, it’s real…
🎉 #MEDem in #EPS @ecpr.bsky.social

The paper outlines how MEDem will strengthen #OpenScience by making data #FAIR in #DemocracyResearch – and how scholars across Europe are joining forces to build a truly open #ResearchInfrastructure ⚙️
Screenshot of the article “Open science in democracy research: the research infrastructure ‘Monitoring Electoral Democracy’ (MEDem)” published in European Political Science. The header shows the journal name, DOI link, and the label “DEBATE.” Below, the title is followed by the author list: Hajo Boomgaarden, Alexia Katsanidou, Sylvia Kritzinger, Georg Lutz, Johanna Willmann, and Jakob-Moritz Eberl. The abstract explains the aims of MEDem as a European research infrastructure to make democracy research data FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable). Keywords listed include open science, FAIR data, ESFRI roadmap, research infrastructure, democracy research, data harmonization, data linking, and data set search. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-025-00534-8
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kunkakom.bsky.social
That assumes replication studies are easy to publish and often cited. In reality, neither holds, with some exceptions
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kunkakom.bsky.social
Agreed. I overemphasized benefits. I meant only to argue that AI in Science can assist with routine research tasks, not that it is necessary good for big ideas.
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kunkakom.bsky.social
Good point

by Alexander Wuttke — Reposted by: Alexander Wuttke, Ingo Rohlfing

kunkakom.bsky.social
LMU Professors from various disciplines share their perspectives on the role of AI in science
www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
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by Brendan Nyhan — Reposted by: Alexander Wuttke, Norbert Schwarz, David Lazer , and 18 more

brendannyhan.bsky.social
Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Reposted by: Alexander Wuttke, Mark J. Brandt

bxjaeger.bsky.social
This review suggests that the average effectiveness of choice architecture interventions on behaviour is smaller than often reported and that there is substantial heterogeneity in their effects
@szaszibarnabas.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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by Ingo Rohlfing — Reposted by: Alexander Wuttke

ingorohlfing.bsky.social
Tidy simulation: Designing robust, reproducible, and scalable Monte Carlo simulations #StatsSky
arxiv.org/abs/2509.11741
It is not formally linked to the {tidyverse}, bit affinity is obvious.
The paper does a solid job in describing the simulation workflow, could be useful for intros to simulation
Figure 2 from preprint illustrating simulation workflow. From left to right, it goes from simulation grid, to generation function, to analysis function, to results table
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by Pippa Norris — Reposted by: Alexander Wuttke

by Ruth Dassonneville — Reposted by: Alexander Wuttke, Stuart J. Turnbull‐Dugarte, Maria Sobolewska

rdassonneville.bsky.social
We're looking forward to putting together a *fantastic* Electoral and Voting Behaviour section for the @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 meeting in Belfast!

‼️ Make sure to submit your papers by 7 November 2025!
epssnet.bsky.social
EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 20d
👉🏽 Section chairs: @siljahausermann.bsky.social @rdassonneville.bsky.social

📢 Our section welcomes work on elections, referenda & political decision-making, from participation & opinion formation to social cleavages, mobilization, institutional effects & more.

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Reposted by: Alexander Wuttke, Ruth Dassonneville, Robert Huber

psrm.bsky.social
📊 Are populist attitudes evenly spread across the ideological spectrum?

➡️ Using CSES data from 43 countries, E Tamaki &
@drjungphd.bsky.social find a non-linear relationship: populism is strongest at the ideological extremes, forming a U-shape pattern www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
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