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Volle Unterstützung für das Argument, das mein Kollege @nilsweidmann.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de macht: wir müssen die Semesterzeiten ändern, dh an international übliche Zeiten angleichen. Nebeneffekt: man muss im Sommer nicht bei 40° studieren / lehren! @regierungbw.bsky.social

Hitzekollaps im Hörsaal Wer Studierende und Lehrende vor den immer häufigeren Hitzetagen schützen will, sollte die Semesterzeiten neu denken. Ein Gastbeitrag von Nils Weidmann. Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/06...

This paper is now out! Can't believe I'm the first to skype it! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... It's a sad day if academics have to disseminate on linkedin, because no one sees them here or on twitter, for two very different reasons (there's few people here, and "shadow banning" there).

We're hiring 2 postdocs at @uio.no on my ERC-Cog project on how authoritarian regimes shape scientific knowledge. 3–4 years, U. of Oslo. Deadline: 10 Sept 2026. Great dept., terms, well funded, bustling & green Scandi capital. Apply! 👉 jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/303060/postdoctoral-fello

Postdoctoral Fellow  (303060) | University of OsloJob title: Postdoctoral Fellow  (303060), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Thursday, September 10, 2026jobbnorge.no

Delighted to share a short blog post on the dark logic of visual "strongman" propaganda — drawing on survey experiments in Venezuela, Türkiye and the US!

That said, there are really interesting avenues for research on plausible expert biases using coder-level data. @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, @melinaplatas.bsky.social and @sarahbush.bsky.social have great work on this topic in different contexts... doi.org/10.1177/0010... doi.org/10.1177/0010...

How often do ethnic elites use grievance frames online? @frederikgremler.bsky.social, Lea Haiges, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & Christina Zuber examine 646k posts showing such frames are rare & track political, not economic, inequality. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/swifESz @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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📢 New article 🌟 👥 Jens Jungblut @jjungblut.bsky.social (ISV), Nils B. Weidmann @nilsweidmann.bsky.social, & Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social (ISV) 👉 The politics behind political science: A cross-national perspective 📗 Open Access in European Political Science 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/s168...

I'm hiring a postdoc! @goetheuni.bsky.social Focus: CSS, political behavior, political communication & transforming information environments. 📍 Frankfurt | ⏳ 3 years | 📅 Deadline: 14 April 2026 Full job ad here: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen... (search for “political behavior” to find it)

How often do ethnic elites use grievance frames online? @frederikgremler.bsky.social, Lea Haiges, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & Christina Zuber examine 646k posts showing such frames are rare & track political, not economic, inequality. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/swifESz @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

🆕 Together with @krishogl.bsky.social, I’m excited to share several new outputs from our joint research project on the actors of electoral violence. 🧵 A thread... #polisky #conflictsky

❇️ FirstView -💼 Profession @jjungblut.bsky.social, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social & @chknutsen.bsky.social examine political science departments at universities across the world to assess the extent to which they vary with regime type. 👉 buff.ly/qEIeGoB

In a new study (OA) in @epsjournal.bsky.social @nilsweidmann.bsky.social @chknutsen.bsky.social & I study the global distribution of polit. science depts. Political science is today a truly global discipline & we find few differences along the democracy–autocracy continuum: doi.org/10.1017/S168...

📣CfA for a Postdoctoral Fellow Position in political science (3-4 years) as part of the ERC project “Waging of War” (WOW) - PI Scott Gates. The application deadline is March 16th, 2026. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (295112) | University of OsloJob title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (295112), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, March 16, 2026www.jobbnorge.no

🚨Job alert 🚨 I have an opening for a postdoc in my team at @ipz.bsky.social in the area of digital democracy starting Sep 1, 2026. If you are working on the impact of the digital transformation on politics, please apply by 🗓️ Mar 1, 2026. 📤 Please share widely! www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns...

Offene Stellen / Open Positionswww.ipz.uzh.ch

🚨 Postdoctoral Position at the University of Konstanz 🚨 We’re hiring a post-doc for our @excinequality.bsky.social project on political elites and decision-making. 4-year position | Deadline: Feb. 20 | Start: Sept 2026 Please share widely 🙏 The ad is here stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f...

Postdoctoral Position at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality”Deadline: 20 February 2026, 12:00 pm CETstellen.uni-konstanz.de

“You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.” This speech is 🔥 and easily one of the most remarkable (and alarming) by a Canadian PM

In any somewhat functioning democracy this would lead to the removal of the leader

Large Language Models Are Democracy Coders with Attitudes @pspolisci.bsky.social @nilsweidmann.bsky.social Mats Faulborn @dgarcia.eu www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📅 Vortrag & Diskussion: Wie stehen Studierende zur Redefreiheit an Unis? In welchen Situationen wären sie bereit, Vorträge oder Personen auszuladen? Di, 13.01.2026 | 19:15 | A0701 @uni-konstanz.de & im Stream: t1p.de/ix7me Mit @cdiehl.bsky.social, Richard Traunmüller & @nilsweidmann.bsky.social