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Political Science | Postdoc Uni Saarland | http://acteu.org
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Alex Hartland @alexhartland.bsky.social · May 26
🛎️ New Publication 🛎️

How did public and party priorities interact during the 2024 European Parliament elections?

In our new @wepsocial.bsky.social article, Daniela Braun, @giucarny.bsky.social @rosanavarrete.bsky.social @annreinl.bsky.social and I find some connections

tinyurl.com/yhc4ae8m

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The role of key European issues in the 2024 election campaign
International crises and Euroscepticism have made European issues prominent in citizens’ lives. This article studies the role of three key European issues – migration, the environment, and EU integ...
www.tandfonline.com
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danjdevine.bsky.social
Although not yet available to read (January 2026!), very happy to see our book on political trust online. Co-edited with @mfair.bsky.social and available open access, we think it'll be a useful addition to the field.

www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/a-r...
October 20, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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silkegoubin.bsky.social
Shout-out to all #PoliticalTrust researchers interested in attending the first @epssnet.bsky.social conference in #Belfast

@annakern.bsky.social, @danjdevine.bsky.social, @cvalebeek.bsky.social, @hannesbey.bsky.social and I are coordinating 3 trust panels!
October 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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cerifowler.bsky.social
Very pleased to say my new article is out @polstudies.bsky.social ! In it I compare single individuals to those with partners with different past vote choices/party identifications and demonstrate that this is associated with an individual's own vote choice. doi.org/10.1177/0032...
Partner Effects and Gender Gaps in Vote Choice in the United Kingdom: Brexit and Subsequent Elections - Ceri Fowler, 2025
This article explores differences in voting behaviour between those that were single and those that had a Eurosceptic or Europhile partner at the United Kingdom...
doi.org
October 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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taniseceron.bsky.social
📣 New Preprint!
Have you ever wondered what the political content in LLM's training data is? What are the political opinions expressed? What is the proportion of left- vs right-leaning documents in the pre- and post-training data? Do they correlate with the political biases reflected in models?
September 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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politicsunisaar.bsky.social
We are looking for a project manager for our large-scale project SOUNDS!

Learn more: bit.ly/SOUNDS-Manager

#compsocsci #PoliSky #PoliSci #hiring #JobAlert
September 16, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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i2sc.net
Their lecture was followed by @giucarny.bsky.social and @alexhartland.bsky.social, who continued the discussion by presenting further perspectives and examples on assessing polarization and analyzing the sentiment and topics of political posts.
September 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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manifestoproj.bsky.social
More than 20 new elections ❗️
Albania 2017, 2021
Bosnia-Herzegovina 2022
Canada 2021
France 2022
Germany 2025
Greece 2023 May
Hungary 2022
Israel 2022
Japan 2021
Latvia 2022
Malta 2003, 2008, 2013, 2017, 2022
Portugal 2022
Serbia 2023
Spain 2023
United Kingdom 2024
United States 2024
September 5, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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mauritsmeijers.bsky.social
🚨📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Computational Political Science at the University of Antwerp!

💻 Focus: NLP + ML + political text analysis
🗳️ Project: ERC DEMO-LIES (disinformation in democracies)
🌍 Location: Antwerp, 🇧🇪
📅 Deadline: 16 Oct 2025

www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...
Postdoctoral scholarship holder in computational political science | University of Antwerp
YUFE vacancies
www.uantwerpen.be
September 9, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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stefanmueller.bsky.social
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
September 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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protemo.bsky.social
💡📚 Passionate about emotions, gender & migration?
We’re hiring a Research Associate for the #PROTEMO project at @uni-saarland.de! 🌍

Focus: migrant women’s experiences of domestic violence & how emotions, security & politics intersect.

📝 Apply by 10 Sept 2025
👉 www.protemo.eu/news-post/we...
September 3, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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politicsunisaar.bsky.social
The amount of data available is greater than ever, yet remains mostly unused by social scientists & #PoliSci researchers. The Societal Observatory Using Novel Data Sources (SOUNDS) aims to change that - and receives 29 million Euro in funding from Saarland's state gov!🎉

Read more: bit.ly/SoundsPM
Project analysing society and the economy with new data sources garners millions in state funding
Satellite images, social media and barcode scanners in shops offer a wealth of data that has so far been little used in the social sciences. New AI-supported methods are helping with the evaluation, b...
www.uni-saarland.de
August 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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movadek.bsky.social
I have a new paper out in @wepsocial.bsky.social looking at immigration rulings in the UK (doi.org/10.1080/0140...). It's a short read, but the two main findings are:

1) the success of an immigration appeal depends a lot on who the deciding judge is

2) BAME women are (surprisingly) strict judges
Judicial diversity and immigration appeals: evidence from the United Kingdom
Almost all studies of judicial behaviour and diversity conceptualise judges’ race and gender as independent, additive variables. Specifically, black and female judges are often seen as more liberal...
doi.org
July 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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annerasmussen.bsky.social
🚨 New paper in Science Advances @science.org

Can changing how we argue about politics online improve the quality of replies we get?

T HeideJorgensen, @gregoryeady.bsky.social & I use an LLM to manipulate counter-arguments to see how people respond to different approaches to arguments

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July 28, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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tepsa.bsky.social
How is #polarisation reflected on social media❓ @uni-saarland.de's @alexhartland.bsky.social responded to this question in his presentation at the #ActEU mid-term conference 🎓

Check it out on YouTube 👉 youtu.be/3l9XQFZAlQU
Studying polarisation with social media data | Alex Hartland | #ActEU Mid-Term Conference
YouTube video by Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA)
youtu.be
July 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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ingmarweber.de
🚨Job Alert
W2 (TT W3) Professorship in Computer Science "AI for People & Society"
@saarland-informatics-campus.de/@uni-saarland.de is looking to appoint an outstanding individual in the field of AI for people and society who has made significant contributions in one or more of the following areas:
July 18, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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indiiigo.bsky.social
Do LLMs represent the people they're supposed simulate or provide personalized assistance to?

We review the current literature in our #ACL2025 Findings paper and investigating what researchers conclude about the demographic representativeness of LLMs:
osf.io/preprints/so...

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Screenshot of our paper "Missing the Margins: A Systematic Literature Review on the Demographic Representativeness of LLMs" Details about what we annotated in our systematic review
July 21, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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ralphscott.bsky.social
📣 NEW PAPER ALERT! 🚨

"School subject choices in adolescence affect political party support"

Just published in @wepsocial.bsky.social with @nspmartin.bsky.social and @rolandkappe.bsky.social.

doi.org/10.1080/0140...

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Article abstract, which says: The educational cleavage is restructuring electoral competition in many democracies, yet there has been insufficient attention on how variation in educational content affects this. In order to address this, this article combines English administrative school records with a unique representative panel of adolescents to estimate the within-individual effect of studying different subjects at school on political party preference. This analysis finds that studying arts and humanities subjects leads to greater support for socially liberal parties, whilst studying business and economics increases support for economically right-wing parties. Students who study technical subjects become more likely to support socially conservative and economically right-wing parties. These relationships between particular subjects and party support also persist into adulthood. As such, this article provides new evidence on the importance of subjects taken in secondary school for political socialisation, during the impressionable years of adolescence.
July 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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divyamani.bsky.social
I am happy to share that our work titled "Exploring LLMs for Automated Generation and Adaptation of Questionnaires" has been accepted to the ACM Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) Conference 2025.

Check our work: doi.org/10.1145/3719...

@cui.acm.org #CUI2025 #ACM
Exploring LLMs for Automated Generation and Adaptation of Questionnaires | Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces
doi.org
July 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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o3pol.bsky.social
🤖💬 Can AI tell the difference between toxic speech and emotionally charged political debate?

Liliia Mairova and Ariq Suryo Hadi P. provide some interesting insights in the next blogpost of the Observatory:

politics.i2sc.net/blogposts/to...
Observatory of Online Politics - Toxicity_1
01.07.2025 In times of political tension, the way people speak online, especially on social media, can become a reflection of deeper divides in society. Just like elections reveal what people really ...
politics.i2sc.net
July 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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hummlerteresa.bsky.social
Extremely happy to see my first single-authored paper published! Check it out in @ersjournal.com 👇
emppolitikwiss.bsky.social Empirical Political Science #Duisburg @emppolitikwiss.bsky.social · Jul 4
How does the social climate in a neighborhood influence political trust among immigrants?
In her new paper, @hummlerteresa.bsky.social presents new insights based on LiV data:
👉 Perceived discrimination reduces political trust among immigrants. (1/2)
July 4, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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kennrushworth.bsky.social
In doing so we find that the UK's registration difficulty level is closer to that of countries transition in and out of democracy, as opposed to other electoral democracies (according to V-Dem's categorization)
July 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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kennrushworth.bsky.social
Mine and @profsob.bsky.social paper
Comparing registration systems using the International Difficulty of Registration Index (IDORI). How difficult is electoral registration in the UK?
has been published. Please read it here,
url: academic.oup.com/pa/article/d...
Comparing registration systems using the International Difficulty of Registration Index (IDORI). How difficult is electoral registration in the UK?
Abstract. Electoral registration in the UK is often critiqued for making it hard for voters to participate in elections. However, without a tool for a syst
academic.oup.com
July 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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politicsunisaar.bsky.social
Our new #PoliSci collected volume on border regions as laboratories of European research is finally here. Check it out (in German): www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/9...
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July 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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silkegoubin.bsky.social
A key function of the state is to ensure the #welfare of its citizens. But do more generous welfare policies also foster more #political #trust?

🎉 Our paper, co-authored with Matthijs Gillissen and Anna Ruelens, was accepted ‪@polstudies.bsky.social‬!

@vd-researchgroup.bsky.social‬ #HIVA
June 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM