Fabrizio Gilardi
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👉🏽 Section chairs: @fgilardi.bsky.social & @asmusletholsen.bsky.social
📢 Our section welcomes research that addresses today’s most pressing issues in public policy and public administration. >>>
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, I’m chairing the section on these topics for the first @epssnet.bsky.social conference, in Belfast, 18–20 June 2026. Send us your best work: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
by Tarik Abou‐Chadi — Reposted by: Fabrizio Gilardi, Simon Hix, Sara B. Hobolt , and 22 more Fabrizio Gilardi, Simon Hix, Sara B. Hobolt, Ruth Dassonneville, Stefan Müller, Stefanie Walter, Jürgen Maier, Catherine E. De Vries, Alexander Wuttke, Lucas Leemann, Justin H. Kirkland, Hanna Bäck, Andreas Dür, Damien Bol, Janne Tukiainen, Mirya R. Holman, Alessandro Nai, Sven‐Oliver Proksch, Werner Krause, Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Federica Genovese, Bjørn Høyland, Tom Louwerse, Alexandra Cirone, Anita Gohdes
📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast
🗓️ June 18–20, 2026
📍 ICC Belfast
📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025
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📢 6th Annual Digital Democracy Workshop
🏫 University of Zurich
📅 13-14 November 2025
⏳ Deadline to submit paper abstracts: 31 May 2025
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The moon mission was unpopular
Novel reading was frowned upon
The Walkman was anti-social
The Bicycle 'corrupted' women
After all, why would anyone have thought the good old days were bad? newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/most-ameri...
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We show that web-browsing GPT and LLaMA models can infer social media user demographics with reasonable accuracy—using only usernames.
This opens new possibilities for social media research in the post-API era but raises important privacy concerns.
15yo: isn’t he the actor who played Obelix?
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We’re looking for a computer scientist interested in LLMs, social media, and politics
Offer a lot of freedom and an exciting environment!
Please share!
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
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with a large research team across #ETHZurich @ipz.bsky.social @uclspp.bsky.social and beyond
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Organized under our new not-for-profit model.
➡️ epssnet.org/belfast-2026/
More details soon, so watch this space.
See you all in Belfast! 🇬🇧☘️
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1. Who formed EPSS?
EPSS was founded by a supermajority vote of the EPSA Council, made up of 3 EPSAL shareholders & 9 elected, appointed, or ex officio members.
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by Cas Mudde — Reposted by: Fabrizio Gilardi, Simon Hix, Olga Onuch , and 34 more Fabrizio Gilardi, Simon Hix, Olga Onuch, Axel Dreher, Sara B. Hobolt, Ruth Dassonneville, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Stefan Müller, Stefanie Walter, Anne Rasmussen, Nils B. Weidmann, Alexander Wuttke, Justin H. Kirkland, Colombia, Andreas Dür, Mark Hallerberg, Simon Weschle, Miriam A. Golden, Ingo Rohlfing, Lisa Dellmuth, Markus Wagner, Thomas M. Meyer, Sven‐Oliver Proksch, Thomas Hegghammer, Christian Flachsland, Toni Rodón, Damian Trilling, Christian Rauh, Heike Klüver, Tom Louwerse, Noam Lupu, Pepper D. Culpepper, Lynette H. Ong, Jani Erola, Roman Senninger, Kathrin Ackermann, Anita Gohdes
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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CS-only teams account for a growing share of work on fairness, safety, and other societal concerns in AI. What does this mean for AI governance and the role of SSH?
New working paper, feedback welcome!
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08738
Reposted by: Fabrizio Gilardi, Diána Ürge-Vorsatz
PDF: fabriziogilardi.org/resources/pa...
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📍 Join me at Franklin University Switzerland!
🧠 4-year fully-funded PhD position in my SNF project DIVIDE
🔬 At least 80% working time on research
💰 Salary: 47k–50k CHF annually
👉 More infos here:
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...
@emmahoes.bsky.social and I find that people are far more concerned about AI’s immediate harms than about speculative existential risks. Doomsday talk raises concern about catastrophic outcomes but doesn’t reduce worry about today’s risks
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Existential AI risks do **not** distract from immediate harms. In our study (n = 10,800), people consistently prioritize current threats - bias, misinformation, job loss - over sci-fi doom!
💥👉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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