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Jochen Müller
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Professor of political science @unigreifswald.bsky.social. Mainly interested in political parties, parliaments and public opinion.

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Jochen Müller @jocmuel.bsky.social · 8d
This was circulating on Bluesky a few weeks ago. It makes essentially that argument: Scholar is mission-critical for academia but strategically irrelevant to Google: hannahshelley.neocities.org/blog/2025_08...

(Might even have been you who shared it.)
Google Scholar Is Doomed
Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?
hannahshelley.neocities.org

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Corinna Kroeber @corinnakroeber.bsky.social · 9d
🚨 Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion (2 years)

We’re hiring a 100% Postdoc at the University of Greifswald.

✨ What makes this job special: Two full years to focus on research (no teaching, no admin overload) embedded into an International Research Training Group
Postdoctoral Research Associate - International Research Training Group 2560 “Baltic Peripeties" 25/E19
Stellenausschreibung Institut für Politik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
www.uni-greifswald.de

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Peter Selb @pselb.bsky.social · 10d
We @uni-konstanz.de are hiring a full professor in machine learning for our MSc program in Social and Economic Data Science: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/6...
Full Professorship (W3) in Machine Learning
Deadline: January 31, 2026
stellen.uni-konstanz.de

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Jochen Müller @jocmuel.bsky.social · 11d
Spannende Parteifamilie! 🍺 🗳️

Erfolgreiches Beispiel ist die PPPP (3%, 16 Sitze) "which had begun as a joke party but which was later backed by a number of leading Polish businessmen" (Gallagher et al. 2011: 224).

Für Interessierte, hier ein vergleichendes Papier von 2021: doi.org/10.1353/reg....

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Jochen Müller @jocmuel.bsky.social · 14d
You are welcome. ✂️Also: If we had given the correct answer to this question, it would have meant (shared) first place.

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Jochen Müller @jocmuel.bsky.social · 15d
Side note: We'll soon be looking for a political science PostDoc researcher. Job ad coming shortly 📢

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Jochen Müller @jocmuel.bsky.social · 15d
Had a great time yesterday at the Christmas party of the Research Training Group @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social. Such a sharp and genuinely fun crowd to celebrate with ❄️✨ Bonus: my team managed to snag second place in the super-wintery Baltic quiz.

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Sophia Hunger @sophiahunger.bsky.social · 15d
🚨🚨 job alert time 🚨🚨 @unibremen.bsky.social

3 PhD positions within the 3rd phase of the @sfb1342.bsky.social, with a focus on computational methods and/or on protest mobilization, specifically with a focus on Africa.

Starting time: early 2026, deadline: 14th of January.

more info below:

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Florence So @floriso.bsky.social · 16d
🌟 PHD FELLOWSHIP ALERT! 🌟

I’m hiring 1 PhD fellow for my ERC project ECONENGAGE (@ Gothenburg 🇸🇪)! Starting 09/26! Great PhD community + int'l & supportive environment + FUN city. 💰for conferences + workshops! Lots of mentoring & career development opportunities! Deadline Jan 29th. Please apply!
Doctoral student in Political Science, specialization in political economy and political behavior
Doctoral position in Political Science, specialization in political economy and political behavior The Department of Political Science
web103.reachmee.com

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theresa gessler @gessler.bsky.social · 25d
We're looking for a colleague (postdoc) 📢 @politikuhh.bsky.social
3+3 years
Doing your own research while teaching 2.5 courses per semester
Research agenda with links to our team (democracy, digital politics, political competition/behaviour)
DL 🗓️ 05/01
stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/6...
Research Associate (Postdoc) Political Science § 28 Subsection 2 HmbHG
stellen.uni-hamburg.de

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Jochen Müller @jocmuel.bsky.social · 28d
Sehr einsichtsvoller und aktueller Überblick. Vielen Dank fürs Teilen.

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Florence So @floriso.bsky.social · Nov 25
🌟 JOB ALERT! 🌟

I’m hiring 1 postdoc for my ERC project ECONENGAGE (@ Gothenburg 🇸🇪)! Starting ca. Aug '26! Congenial colleagues + int'l & supportive environment. 💸 for conferences + workshops! Lots of professional networking opportunities with scholars! Deadline Jan 7th. Apply! (see more below 🧵)
Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science PAR 2025/838
The Department of Political Science is an international academic environment that welcomes students, researchers and
web103.reachmee.com

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Jochen Müller @jocmuel.bsky.social · Nov 20
Great paper! And what a data collection effort! Are you giving guided tours of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg yet? 🗺️🥾

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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · Nov 20
I‘m excited to take part in the
@zweitstimme.bsky.social Workshop on Elections, Public Opinion & Elite Behavior at the @hertieschool.bsky.social this week! I'll be presenting first results from a project with @klingelt.bsky.social on the Geography of Electioneering in Multi-Party Systems.

Reposted by Jochen Müller, Bonnie N. Field

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South European Society & Politics @sespjournal.bsky.social · Nov 13
📢NEW ARTICLE!📢 🔓 #Italy
The disproportional consequences of a proportional bargain: candidate selection within Italian electoral coalitions in 2022

Read the article by Gianni Del Panta, @mattiaguidi.bsky.social and @klingelt.bsky.social here #OpenAccess👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Christian Stecker @pluggedchris.bsky.social · Oct 28
Philip Manow mit pointierten Argumenten zum Thema "Die Brandmauer nützt nur der AfD" www.stern.de/politik/afd-...

Reposted by Jochen Müller, Robert Huber, Claudia Landwehr

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Marc Debus @marcdebus.bsky.social · Oct 23
Happy to serve as the editor-in-chief of the Politische Vierteljahresschrift/German Political Science Quarterly (PVS/GPSQ) link.springer.com/journal/11615 @dvpw.bsky.social from January 2026 onwards. Thanks to Eric Linhart for his great work in the last six years! 1/3

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Christian Stecker @pluggedchris.bsky.social · Oct 22
Ich habe mit der Magdeburger Volksstimme über eine doppelte Gefahr für die CDU nach der Landtagswahl gesprochen: "Mord" in blau-schwarzer Koalition oder "Selbstmord" in einer überdehnten Anti-AfD-Koalition mit Einigungszwang. Etwas Empirie im thread...

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Landeszentrale für politische Bildung MV @lpbmv.bsky.social · Oct 17
Lange Nacht des Wissens in #Schwerin am 18.10.: wir sind dabei in der Landesbibliothek #MV mit dem Demokratiebus und freuen uns dort um 16 Uhr auf @jocmuel.bsky.social, @unigreifswald.bsky.social mit einem Ausblick auf die Landtagswahl 2026 #ltwmv26. Alle Infos 👇 politik-mv.de/2025/10/09/n...
Nacht des Wissens mit der LpB
Zur Nacht des Wissens öffnet die Landesbibliothek Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Günther Uecker ihre Türen gemeinsam mit der Landeszentrale für politische Bildung. Am 18. Oktober geht's in Schwerin los.
politik-mv.de

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Marius Sältzer @msaeltzer.bsky.social · Oct 17
Job Alert! We are hiring two post-docs (full time, 4+ years) in our project SCEPTIC - Social, Computational and Ethical Premises of Trust and Informational Cohesion with @annanosthoff.bsky.social @guzoch.bsky.social and Prof. Andreas Peters (uol.de/informatik/s...)

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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · Sep 29
And if you want to learn more about how people make a career in dictatorship, pre-order the authors' (Christian Gläßel and @ascharpf.bsky.social) new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship":

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Benjamin Höhne @benjaminhoehne.bsky.social · Sep 15
Wir suchen Verstärkung auf einer halben Qualifikationsstelle am Institut für Politikwissenschaft der TU Chemnitz. Schwerpunkt: #Parteienforschung. Lehre: 2 SWS. Beginn: Mitte Oktober zum neuen Wintersemester.

www.tu-chemnitz.de/verwaltung/p...

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Jochen Müller @jocmuel.bsky.social · Sep 13
Great thread on our new paper 👇
@ankuepfer.bsky.social, @pluggedchris.bsky.social and I show how applause (and other reactions) in parliamentary debates can provide a new perspective on party competition - signaling unity, disagreement, and exclusion. 👏
ankuepfer.bsky.social Andreas Küpfer @ankuepfer.bsky.social · Sep 13
👏Applause offers a revealing lens on party competition! In a recent article @wepsocial.bsky.social (w/@jocmuel.bsky.social+@pluggedchris.bsky.social), we study how applause reflects party and coalition unity, ideological agreement, political exclusion, issue ownership, and the electoral cycle! (1/6)
Cover page of the article: "The sound of party competition: how applausereflects unity, disagreement, and the electoralcycle in parliamentsAndreas Küpfera , Jochen Müllerb and Christian Steckeraatechnical university of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany; buniversität Greifswald, Greifswald,GermanyABSTRACTThis article studies how applause reflects the dynamics of party competitionduring parliamentary debates. While legislative scholars often emphasise theselection of speakers and content of debates, spontaneous reactions from fel-low MPs remain understudied. Analysing 750,000 instances of applause in thedebates of the German Bundestag (1976–2020), it was found that applausepatterns, although largely spontaneous and immediate by nature, systemati-cally reflect incentives from party competition such as signalling party andcoalition unity, ideological (dis)agreement, and ostracising specific parties.Applause also indicates issue emphasis, especially near elections. The findingssuggest that applause can serve as a nuanced and abundant indicator in thestudy of party competition, complementing more static measures derived frommanifestos and expert judgements. By analysing applause patterns over fourdecades, this study opens new avenues to explore nonverbal reactions asmarkers of party competition in other parliaments."

Reposted by Jochen Müller, Robert Huber, Mirya R. Holman , and 1 more

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Andreas Küpfer @ankuepfer.bsky.social · Sep 13
👏Applause offers a revealing lens on party competition! In a recent article @wepsocial.bsky.social (w/@jocmuel.bsky.social+@pluggedchris.bsky.social), we study how applause reflects party and coalition unity, ideological agreement, political exclusion, issue ownership, and the electoral cycle! (1/6)
Cover page of the article: "The sound of party competition: how applausereflects unity, disagreement, and the electoralcycle in parliamentsAndreas Küpfera , Jochen Müllerb and Christian Steckeraatechnical university of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany; buniversität Greifswald, Greifswald,GermanyABSTRACTThis article studies how applause reflects the dynamics of party competitionduring parliamentary debates. While legislative scholars often emphasise theselection of speakers and content of debates, spontaneous reactions from fel-low MPs remain understudied. Analysing 750,000 instances of applause in thedebates of the German Bundestag (1976–2020), it was found that applausepatterns, although largely spontaneous and immediate by nature, systemati-cally reflect incentives from party competition such as signalling party andcoalition unity, ideological (dis)agreement, and ostracising specific parties.Applause also indicates issue emphasis, especially near elections. The findingssuggest that applause can serve as a nuanced and abundant indicator in thestudy of party competition, complementing more static measures derived frommanifestos and expert judgements. By analysing applause patterns over fourdecades, this study opens new avenues to explore nonverbal reactions asmarkers of party competition in other parliaments."

Reposted by Jochen Müller, Marc Debus, Robert Huber , and 2 more

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WEP Journal @wepsocial.bsky.social · Sep 12
💥Online first:

"The sound of party competition: how applause reflects unity, disagreement, and the electoral cycle in parliaments"

by @ankuepfer.bsky.social @jocmuel.bsky.social & @pluggedchris.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/0140...
Abstract of the research article "The sound of party competition: how applause reflects unity, disagreement, and the electoral cycle in parliaments" by Andreas Küpfer, Jochen Müller and Christian Stecker. Published online first in West European Politics. Figure 1, displaying the occurences of different types of reactions in the German Bundestag between 1976 and 2020. Figure 3, displaying the heatmap of predicted applause per 1000 words based on a Poission regression model. Figure 5, displaying expected applause for interaction terms government and opposition.

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Jochen Müller @jocmuel.bsky.social · Sep 1
Alter weißer Mann.
... das geht dann auch nicht mehr vorbei.

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Hanno Hilbig @hannohilbig.bsky.social · Aug 30
UC Davis Political Science is hiring an assistant professor in comparative politics. For more information, please see the description here: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07299

The deadline is September 15.
Department of Political Science - Comparative Politics
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucdavis.edu

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Elias Koch @eliaskoch.bsky.social · Aug 1
New paper out @wepsocial.bsky.social!

🥡 Key Take-Away: Opposition parties seek more conflict with the government when performing poorly in the polls – especially when falling below their previous election result.

Read full 🧵 below:

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Sarah Engler @saengler.bsky.social · Jul 28
My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years.

If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply!

shorturl.at/kcTbG

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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · Jul 25
I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage!
I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.