Alexander Wuttke

@kunkakom.bsky.social

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Digitalization & Pol Behavior LMU_Muenchen | Democracy and Populist Attitudes | Open Science | 🚵‍♂️🐶

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 23h

interesting

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Jula Luehring @julaluehring.bsky.social · 1d

Misinformation research has a causality problem: lab experiments are limited; observational studies confounded.

We used causal inference on 9.9M tweets, quantifying effects in the wild while blocking backdoor paths.

Does misinfo get higher engagement? Are following discussions more emotional? 🧵

OSF

osf.io

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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 1d

Very happy to update the {traktok} #rstats readme. After 1.5 years, you can finally search TikTok again without access to the Research API. It's slow and a bit clunky, but it works! Thanks, @michaelgoodier.bsky.social for the crucial hint!

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Jane Green @profjanegreen.bsky.social · 4d

If my network is anything to go by, the first EPSS conference is going to be a massive, enthusiastic success!

Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 4d

‼️Last chance to submit your paper or panel proposal to EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is TODAY!

Don’t miss out - it will be full of great political science and fun social events! 👩‍🏫🥳

epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 11d

🚨 EPSS Belfast 2026 Call for Papers - One week to go! 🚨

Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

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German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) @gles.bsky.social · 5d

📢 The Fall Wave (Wave 33) of the GLES Panel is now in the field!
From November 4 to November 17, we are conducting up to 13,000 interviews on a wide range of political topics 🗳️📊
Download the questionnaire (DE/EN) here: 👉 www.gesis.org/en/gles/over...

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 5d

I strongly recommend @hugoreasoning.bsky.social's book "Not Born Yesterday" if you've been exposed to too much social psychology about irrationality in your youth. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 5d

I did not receive a confirmation email either (But didn`t expect one)

Reposted by Cas Mudde, Alexander Wuttke, Melanie C. Green , and 5 more Cas Mudde, Alexander Wuttke, Melanie C. Green, Markus Wagner, Eric Hehman, Marcus Credé, Juan Ramón, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 6d

Ouch

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 6d

Almost last minute is not last minute

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Alex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · 7d

Maybe your texts tell you to "BE A VOTER" like mine.

It all started because of a PNAS paper that claimed that the noun form it increased voter turnout (relative to the verb form ) by 11 to 14 percentage points.

It keeps not replicating, obviously.

Most recently doi.org/10.1017/bpp....

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 8d

Not so nice: In Chrome, I failed to edit a project description. Weirdly, it did work in Firefox cc @cos.io

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 8d

But, visually, it is more appealing. That's nice.

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 8d

I agree. Unfortunately, the OSF re-design isn't a big step forward. Took me quite a while today until I understood where to find the pre-registrations in my project

Timo B. Roettger @timoroettger.bsky.social · 8d

I'm sorry OSF, but did you involve a UX designer when overhauling your user interface? 🤦

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Timo B. Roettger @timoroettger.bsky.social · 8d

I'm sorry OSF, but did you involve a UX designer when overhauling your user interface? 🤦

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Kristina Bakkær Simonsen @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social · 8d

Final days to submit your abstract to the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social conference! Deadline Nov 7 - epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

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Reposted by Stefanie Walter, Catherine E. De Vries, Alexander Wuttke , and 7 more Stefanie Walter, Catherine E. De Vries, Alexander Wuttke, Ingo Rohlfing, Tom van der Meer, Nazita Lajevardi, Sven‐Oliver Proksch, Stephen A. Meserve, Karsten Mäuse, Anita Gohdes

Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 10d

Better get your paper submissions in for the @epssnet.bsky.social conference in June 2026, as the deadline is 7 November, and we have no intention of extended that (given the submission numbers)!
epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference

Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.

epssnet.org

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Magnus Karlsson-Good @mkgood.bsky.social · 10d

Really enjoyed this clear and concise presentation of the problem with studies that throw 10 different covariates into a multiple regression and interpret them causally. So obvious in hindsight that this is problematic, but I have definetly been guilty of this.

bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/...

Factors associated with: problems of using exploratory multivariable regression to identify causal risk factors

Many medical and epidemiological studies use multivariable regression to test whether several independent variables (exposures) are causal determinants of a health outcome. Where mutually adjusted reg...

bmjmedicine.bmj.com

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Valentin Lang @valentinlang.bsky.social · 12d

Happy to share that our paper on the ideological biases of international organizations is now out in the current issue of the AJPS (@ajpseditor.bsky.social):

dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

@the-peio.bsky.social @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social @akentikelenis.bsky.social

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Daniel Kubiak @danielkubiak.bsky.social · 12d

Dortmund stabil!

Man sieht ein riesiges Plakat mit einem Bauarbeiter der ein Hakenkreuz wegwirft

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Anne Scheel @annemscheel.bsky.social · 12d

There still seems to be a lot of confusion about significance testing in psych. No, p-values *don’t* become useless at large N. This flawed point also used to be framed as "too much power". But power isn't the problem – it's 1) unbalanced error rates and 2) the (lack of a) SESOI. 1/ >

Aaron Fisher @aaronjfisher.bsky.social · 12d

But here's, the thing, p values and significance become useless at such large sample sizes. When you're dividing the coefficient by the SE and the sample size is in the tens of thousands, EVERYTHING IS SIGNIFICANT. All you're testing is whether the coefficient is different than zero.

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 12d

Cc @robert-a-huber.bsky.social @annikaschuster.bsky.social

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Aaron Fisher @aaronjfisher.bsky.social · 12d

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Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social · 12d

Check out or new article — published today in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social — where we discuss and provide guidelines for the construction and use of datasets.

We draw on our lessons from three major data collection efforts on education policies and systems 👇

Perspectives on Politics @poppublicsphere.bsky.social · 12d

NOW OUT ON FV!!

Enhancing #Transparency & #Replicability in #Data #Collection: Lessons from the Construction of 3 #Education #Datasets

By @adridelrio.bsky.social, Woseeok Kim, @chknutsen.bsky.social, @anjaneundorf.bsky.social, Agustina S. Paglayan & @eugenian.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1017/S153...

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CSS Lab, LMU Munich @css-lmu.bsky.social · 12d

This week, we have @lorenzspreen.bsky.social visiting our lab. He presented his work on disinformation classification and toxicity in group discussions on Reddit. He also has a new CSS group, check it out: css-synosys.github.io

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Federico Trastulli @fedetrastulli.bsky.social · 13d

🆕 Latest article out @electoralstudies.bsky.social! Left parties' higher salience on cultural issues associated w/ higher support from working-class voters. Social democrats much more sensitive to different strategies, should pursue more left/salient economics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Left parties’ strategies and working-class vote in contemporary Western Europe (2002–2020)

What should the left do strategically to retain workers' vote? This paper provides extensive empirical evidence on the relationship between left parti…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Reposted by Alexander Wuttke, Andreas Wagner, Caroline T. Schroeder , and 2 more Alexander Wuttke, Andreas Wagner, Caroline T. Schroeder, Tuomo Hiippala, Frank Fischer

Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 13d

As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that.

So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more.

Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort!

bit.ly/ach-anthology

Screenshot that reads:

Introducing the Anthology for Computers and the Humanities

Taylor Arnold, Maria Antoniak, Miguel Escobar Varela, Marie Puren, Mila Oiva , Amanda Regan, Lauren Tilton, and Melanie Walsh

1 Data Science and Statistics, University of Richmond, U.S.A.
2 Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder, U.S.A.
3 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore
4 Laboratoire de Recherche de l'EPITA, Paris, France
5 History and Archaeology, University of Turku, Finland
6 History and Geography, Clemson University, U.S.A.
7 Rhetoric and Communication Studies, University of Richmond, U.S.A.
8 Information School, University of Washington, U.S.A.

Permanent Link: https://doi.org/10.63744/HHsQG7hNWyxG

Published: 25 September 2025

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Valerie Hase @valeriehase.bsky.social · 13d

Interested in understanding #bias in #CSS?

✨Here's our Special Issue editorial in Communication Methods and Measures:

"Critical, but constructive: defining, detecting, and addressing bias in Computational Social Science"

👉 doi.org/10.1080/1931... (with @bachl.bsky.social & Nathan TeBlunthuis)

Screenshot of Abstract describing the Special Issue on Bias in Computational Social Science in the Journal Communication Methods and Measures

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Nils Weidmann @nilsweidmann.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks to the great help by @rstrauch.bsky.social, Gabriele Spilker and the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" @excinequality.bsky.social, version 5.0 of the "Mass Mobilization in Autocracies Database" (coverage until 2022) is now available at mmadatabase.org!

Mass Mobilization in Autocracies Database

mmadatabase.org

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Reposted by Jürgen Maier, Alexander Wuttke, Efrén O. Pérez , and 1 more Jürgen Maier, Alexander Wuttke, Efrén O. Pérez, Mirya R. Holman

Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 14d

🚨 New piece out at @thejop.bsky.social w awesome @cvargiu.bsky.social & D Garzia

If incivility means breaking norms, & norms are person- and context-dependent, *does incivility even exist*?

In the stage-2 registered report we investigate what drives perceptions of incivility

tinyurl.com/4h5u4y8y

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Reposted by Brady T. West, Alexander Wuttke, Magnus Johansson , and 2 more Brady T. West, Alexander Wuttke, Magnus Johansson, Eric Hehman, Elina Takola

Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 14d

🎉 @rpsychologist.com 's PowerLMM.js is the online statistics application of the year 2025 🎉

powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com

- Calculate power (etc) for multilevel models
- Examine effects of dropout and other important parameters
- Fast! (Instant results)

Screenshot of https://powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com/

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