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Christian Rauh
@chrauh.bsky.social

Amongst other things dad (P+J), political scientist (WZB Berlin & University of Potsdam), bike nerd (n+1), and music addict (Kick, Snare, Kick Kick, Snare).

http://www.christian-rauh.eu

Political science 59%
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🤔 The #EU 🇪🇺 aspires to be a global actor 🌍 — but do other states recognize it as such?

My new study in @intlinteractions.bsky.social develops targeted #NLP / #TextAsData tools to analyze 50 years of foreign policy discourse in the annual #UN General Debate (1970–2020).

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“Indeed”
Academic tip: sometimes you have to write "Importantly," to get a sentence started and then you can go back and delete it.
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com

Just in time for my EU politicization class - that will be useful, cheers!
For my course on Conflict and Representation in the EU, I made an interactive Shiny app that plots CHES party positions, for all countries, years (1999-2024) and (most) dimensions in the dataset. Enjoy!
dimiter.shinyapps.io/ches/

#polsci #Polisky #EUsky #Comparativesky #polbehaviorsky
In the internet of things, no one can hear you stream.

Except this chap, apparently: codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day...

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Die Umfrage hierzu entstand am Donnerstag, nachdem Merz seine Aussagen am Mittwoch präzisiert hatte. Die genaue Frage lautete so:
Die Umfrage hierzu entstand am Donnerstag, nachdem Merz seine Aussagen am Mittwoch präzisiert hatte. Die genaue Frage lautete so:
1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.

There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

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➡️ Predoctoral Research Fellow / PhD Candidate
👉 75%, 3 years, @wzb.bsky.social
👉 Focus: Quantitative text analysis ( #NLP | #CSS | #TextAsData ) on global crisis perceptions and dissertation research
👉 Full job call: www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/pred...
Predoctoral Research Fellow – PhD candidate (f/m/x) (ID 364)
For its VARICRIS project at the research department Global Governance, the WZB Berlin Social Science Center is looking for A Predoctoral Research Fellow – PhD candidate (f/m/x) to be employed...
www.wzb.eu

➡️ Postdoctoral Research Fellow
👉 100%, 3 years, FSU Jena
👉 Focus: Qualitative field work at international organizations, theory building
👉 Full job call: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/e...
Postdoctoral research fellow
jobs.uni-jena.de
@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris).
We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵:

#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
Welcome! – VARICRIS
VARICRIS research project
bit.ly

Noch ist nicht aller Tage Abend 😃
New data for legislative scholars! Committee Membership Dataset with @bcastanho.bsky.social, @dmpullan.bsky.social and Firuze Taner:

Committee assignments for all MPs (Wikidata IDs!) in 14 countries
Harmonized roles/policy areas

Data: doi.org/10.7802/2940
Working paper: tinyurl.com/vf54r78p

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GESIS-Suche
doi.org
🚨 New(ish) Publication Alert! Delighted to see my article Credit Claiming in the EU @thejop.bsky.social I explore a classic question for accountability in Europe: when and why do govs claim credit for the work of the EU and shift blame onto Brussels to avoid responsibility? doi.org/10.1086/732970
Credit Claiming in the European Union | The Journal of Politics: Vol 87, No 3
Incumbents in multilevel systems are assumed to exploit uncertainty of responsibility by claiming credit and shifting blame, yet little is known about when and how they engage in these rhetorical stra...
doi.org
New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

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Hochaktuell sind die neuen WZB-Mitteilungen zum Thema Weltordnung, denn die Regeln, nach denen das globale Zusammenleben über Jahrzehnte funktionierte, gelten nicht mehr. Ein Heft über Krieg & Frieden, über Demokratie, Profit & Wissenschaft, über China, Amerika und die EU.
www.wzb.eu/de/publikati...

Little Simz 🔥
You have work on politics in Europe, European integration or the EU?

Submit it to next year's @epssnet.bsky.social conference section on "European and EU Politics“ 👇

@bjornhoyland.bsky.social & I are open to diverse proposals with a European dimension.

😆 "Why everyone hates Excel", evidence item No. 23589887715264589966212...

Thank you! It's pulled from a csv and a couple of R functions glue each list entry together before markdown takes over. The code is open (and I built on John Helveston's ideas in this regard, linked in the ReadMe): github.com/ChRauh/ChRau...
GitHub - ChRauh/ChRauh.github.io: Personal Website Christian Rauh
Personal Website Christian Rauh. Contribute to ChRauh/ChRauh.github.io development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com

Personal website revamped & refreshed 👉 christian-rauh.eu

➡️ A full, linked overview of my research portfolio and outputs in one place
➡️ Built with Quarto + GitHub Pages 👌

Take a look — I’d be glad to hear what you think (or spot any errors 🫣)!
Prof. Dr. Christian Rauh – Christian Rauh
Website - Christian Rauh
christian-rauh.eu
And we are delighted to announce that @valentimvicente.bsky.social will be honored with the A.SK Bright Mind Award for his work on how social norms influence behavior. 🎉Congratulations!
Mehr Sozialstaat und eine "antifaschistische Wirtschaftspolitik" werden häufig als Mittel gegen den AfD-Erfolg genannt. Doch was ist dran an der These & welche Sozialpolitik wünschen sich die AfD-Wähler tatsächlich? Eine Datenanalyse von @schieritz.bsky.social und mir.

www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
Sozialpolitik: Wer wenig hat, ist in ihren Augen selbst schuld
Mehr Sozialstaat könnte den Aufstieg der Rechtspopulisten bremsen, heißt es oft. Umfragen zeigen aber: Die Wähler der AfD verstehen unter Gerechtigkeit etwas anderes.
www.zeit.de

Deadline for the position as Full Professor at our dept is coming closer: Great position, great colleagues & very positive working atmosphere. Please contact @danbischof.bsky.social if you have any questions.

And thanks for asking - yes, the pic shows today's view from the position's office.

Sometimes students just blow you away ... conducted a masters defense today where both examiners - a political theorist and an empirical EU scholar - agree that text, presentation and discussion came very close to PhD level. Chapeau!
The University of Cologne plans drastic cuts to its Political Science department, potentially abolishing the MSc in Political Science and eliminating the professorships in IR and Comparative Politics. This would severely weaken the social sciences at @unicologne.bsky.social.
Petition (de/en) ⤵️
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Keine WiSo ohne PoWi! Für eine starke Politikwissenschaft im Bachelor & Master
https://www.change.org/p/keine-wiso-ohne-powi-für-eine-starke-politikwissenschaft-im-bachelor-master

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Das eine funktionierende der beiden Bordbistros bleibt auch in Frankfurt 😜

Das ist neu: Auf halber Strecke wird auch der Zug halbiert, ich bin in dem ICE-Teil der dann in Frankfurt bleibt. 13. Reise mit der Deutschen Bahn in diesem Jahr und wirklich keine ohne größere Probleme 🤯