Danbischof
@danbischof.bsky.social
danbischof.com
Political Scientist: studying democracy with experiments & data
Professor | University of Münster
Associate Professor | Aarhus University
(he/him | "Sie" als Anrede brauche ich nicht)
Political Scientist: studying democracy with experiments & data
Professor | University of Münster
Associate Professor | Aarhus University
(he/him | "Sie" als Anrede brauche ich nicht)
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LeMonde said, not on our watch
December 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
LeMonde said, not on our watch
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Yes, but no problem if you're an MP who was sent to prison for beating up his girlfriend.
December 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Yes, but no problem if you're an MP who was sent to prison for beating up his girlfriend.
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As a man of the people, I will always defend trail hunting, which I know is a top priority for all my working class constituents who own horses and enjoy simple pleasures like ripping foxes apart for laughs.
December 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
As a man of the people, I will always defend trail hunting, which I know is a top priority for all my working class constituents who own horses and enjoy simple pleasures like ripping foxes apart for laughs.
Alcohol?
The 29-year-old woman who created the “MyBoyfriendIsAI” community on Reddit — which has grown exponentially this year — isn’t dating (or sexting) her A.I. boyfriend anymore. She says she found something more fulfilling.
She Fell in Love With ChatGPT. Then She Ghosted It.
The 29-year-old woman who created the “MyBoyfriendIsAI” community on Reddit isn’t dating (or sexting) her A.I. boyfriend anymore. She found something more fulfilling.
nyti.ms
December 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Alcohol?
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Our 32-country conjoint study on which societal characteristics citizens prioritize is now published at @bjpols.bsky.social
w. excellent @anjaneundorf.bsky.social @sirianned.bsky.social @aykutozturk.bsky.social
w. excellent @anjaneundorf.bsky.social @sirianned.bsky.social @aykutozturk.bsky.social
NEW -
Elections Without Constraints? The Appeal of Electoral Autocracy Across the World - https://cup.org/49auQPf
- @anjaneundorf.bsky.social, @sirianned.bsky.social, Kristian Vrede Skaaning Frederiksen & @aykutozturk.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
Elections Without Constraints? The Appeal of Electoral Autocracy Across the World - https://cup.org/49auQPf
- @anjaneundorf.bsky.social, @sirianned.bsky.social, Kristian Vrede Skaaning Frederiksen & @aykutozturk.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
December 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Our 32-country conjoint study on which societal characteristics citizens prioritize is now published at @bjpols.bsky.social
w. excellent @anjaneundorf.bsky.social @sirianned.bsky.social @aykutozturk.bsky.social
w. excellent @anjaneundorf.bsky.social @sirianned.bsky.social @aykutozturk.bsky.social
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📢 UK-based early career researchers — looking for a strong way to kick off 2026?
The Fellows in LSE’s Department of Government are organising an Early Career Workshop in late January. Submit your abstract now!
🗓️ Deadline: 28 December 2025
👉 Submit here: forms.gle/QukzsYDSM2Do...
The Fellows in LSE’s Department of Government are organising an Early Career Workshop in late January. Submit your abstract now!
🗓️ Deadline: 28 December 2025
👉 Submit here: forms.gle/QukzsYDSM2Do...
LSE - Political Economy and Political Science Early Career Workshop
We invite submissions for the LSE Political Economy and Political Science Early Career Workshop. This workshop is designed to support the development of early-career scholars’ research, including PhD,...
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December 22, 2025 at 10:46 AM
📢 UK-based early career researchers — looking for a strong way to kick off 2026?
The Fellows in LSE’s Department of Government are organising an Early Career Workshop in late January. Submit your abstract now!
🗓️ Deadline: 28 December 2025
👉 Submit here: forms.gle/QukzsYDSM2Do...
The Fellows in LSE’s Department of Government are organising an Early Career Workshop in late January. Submit your abstract now!
🗓️ Deadline: 28 December 2025
👉 Submit here: forms.gle/QukzsYDSM2Do...
Ein fatales Dauerzeichen der Regierung: Schuld an der Krise seid ihr, die Bürger - und nicht wir, die Politik, die 20 Jahre lang keine Ideen entwickelt und nichts reformiert hat.
December 22, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Ein fatales Dauerzeichen der Regierung: Schuld an der Krise seid ihr, die Bürger - und nicht wir, die Politik, die 20 Jahre lang keine Ideen entwickelt und nichts reformiert hat.
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New position at @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social, dont’t hesitate to apply if you study ecological transitions👇👇👇
Come and join us at the CEE - Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée: we are looking for a new assistant professor in political science working on ecological transitions.
www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
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Recruitment - Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Political Science 2026
Recruitment 2026 - Sciences Po is recruiting two Assistant Professors (tenure track) in Political Science / Politics and Policy in/of Europe and the European Union
www.sciencespo.fr
December 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
New position at @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social, dont’t hesitate to apply if you study ecological transitions👇👇👇
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December 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Clear evidence that at universities conservatives don't face higher obstacles than liberals to establish student groups + invite outside speakers.
"These results fail to offer support for the view that conservative students encounter more difficulty in efforts to access campus resources."
"These results fail to offer support for the view that conservative students encounter more difficulty in efforts to access campus resources."
December 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Clear evidence that at universities conservatives don't face higher obstacles than liberals to establish student groups + invite outside speakers.
"These results fail to offer support for the view that conservative students encounter more difficulty in efforts to access campus resources."
"These results fail to offer support for the view that conservative students encounter more difficulty in efforts to access campus resources."
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📄 New paper out in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social with my amazing co-author @plutscher.bsky.social !
💡 Ever wondered if authoritarian strongman messaging also works in democracies? We find that, yes, it did under Trump during the BLM protests in the U.S. in 2020.
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💡 Ever wondered if authoritarian strongman messaging also works in democracies? We find that, yes, it did under Trump during the BLM protests in the U.S. in 2020.
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December 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
📄 New paper out in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social with my amazing co-author @plutscher.bsky.social !
💡 Ever wondered if authoritarian strongman messaging also works in democracies? We find that, yes, it did under Trump during the BLM protests in the U.S. in 2020.
polisky csssky socsky commsky
💡 Ever wondered if authoritarian strongman messaging also works in democracies? We find that, yes, it did under Trump during the BLM protests in the U.S. in 2020.
polisky csssky socsky commsky
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This smells distinctly like collider bias and/or selection bias and/or regression to the mean... You simply can't select teen prodigies, and world class athletes rom databases, and go run regressions without serious consideration of the selection process!
"Most top achievers (Nobel laureates and world-class musicians, athletes, chess players) demonstrated lower performance than many peers during their early years. Across the highest adult performance, peak performance is negatively correlated with early performance" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance
Scientists have long debated the origins of exceptional human achievements. This literature review summarizes recent evidence from multiple domains on the acquisition of world-class performance. We re...
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December 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This smells distinctly like collider bias and/or selection bias and/or regression to the mean... You simply can't select teen prodigies, and world class athletes rom databases, and go run regressions without serious consideration of the selection process!
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Collider bias: the gift that keeps giving.
"Across the highest adult performance, peak performance is negatively correlated with early performance" Is uite literally what you'd see if coliderbias:
December 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Collider bias: the gift that keeps giving.
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love Kumail
A WORD (two words) FOR MY HATERS. Watch #NightThoughts on Hulu.
December 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
love Kumail
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🚨 History buffs of the Holy Roman Empire: We built an app to visualize rulers' itineraries between 919 and 1519 based on the Regesta Imperii. Thank you @albertwendsjo.bsky.social for all the help!
Explore here: carlmc.shinyapps.io/hre-itinerar...
Please let us know of any issues and feedback!
Explore here: carlmc.shinyapps.io/hre-itinerar...
Please let us know of any issues and feedback!
December 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
🚨 History buffs of the Holy Roman Empire: We built an app to visualize rulers' itineraries between 919 and 1519 based on the Regesta Imperii. Thank you @albertwendsjo.bsky.social for all the help!
Explore here: carlmc.shinyapps.io/hre-itinerar...
Please let us know of any issues and feedback!
Explore here: carlmc.shinyapps.io/hre-itinerar...
Please let us know of any issues and feedback!
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we have 5 positions open at @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt
- a 4,5 year postdoc in my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage
- 2 postdoc & 2 PhD positions, 4 years, in a research group on Reconfiguration & Internalization of Social Structure
www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...
- a 4,5 year postdoc in my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage
- 2 postdoc & 2 PhD positions, 4 years, in a research group on Reconfiguration & Internalization of Social Structure
www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...
Goethe-Universität — FB03 - Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Die Goethe-Universität ist eine forschungsstarke Hochschule in der europäischen Finanzmetropole Frankfurt. Lebendig, urban und weltoffen besitzt sie als Stiftungsuniversität ein einzigartiges Maß an E...
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December 17, 2025 at 10:43 AM
we have 5 positions open at @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt
- a 4,5 year postdoc in my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage
- 2 postdoc & 2 PhD positions, 4 years, in a research group on Reconfiguration & Internalization of Social Structure
www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...
- a 4,5 year postdoc in my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage
- 2 postdoc & 2 PhD positions, 4 years, in a research group on Reconfiguration & Internalization of Social Structure
www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...
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We are (re-)learning that intelligence is a much more complicated and multi-dimensional concept than just "can solve problems"
December 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
We are (re-)learning that intelligence is a much more complicated and multi-dimensional concept than just "can solve problems"
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📣📣📣 GREAT, time-sensitive opportunity for senior/mid-career scholars to join us in Madrid at UC3M´s social sciences department (UC3M-ATRAE Program 2026) on an attractive pay+research funds package 📣📣📣
This does NOT happen everyday.
THREAD below if this is of interest 1/n
This does NOT happen everyday.
THREAD below if this is of interest 1/n
December 16, 2025 at 10:53 AM
📣📣📣 GREAT, time-sensitive opportunity for senior/mid-career scholars to join us in Madrid at UC3M´s social sciences department (UC3M-ATRAE Program 2026) on an attractive pay+research funds package 📣📣📣
This does NOT happen everyday.
THREAD below if this is of interest 1/n
This does NOT happen everyday.
THREAD below if this is of interest 1/n
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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
December 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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...
For my causal inference intro course I'm looking for a paper with a simple survey experimental approach: treatment vs. control. Nothing else.
But on a timely topic. Any suggestions, ideas?
I find it hard to find "simple survey" experiments these days.
But on a timely topic. Any suggestions, ideas?
I find it hard to find "simple survey" experiments these days.
December 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
For my causal inference intro course I'm looking for a paper with a simple survey experimental approach: treatment vs. control. Nothing else.
But on a timely topic. Any suggestions, ideas?
I find it hard to find "simple survey" experiments these days.
But on a timely topic. Any suggestions, ideas?
I find it hard to find "simple survey" experiments these days.
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🌟 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 🧵)
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
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November 25, 2025 at 7:06 AM
🌟 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 🧵)
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 🧵)
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A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the release of Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance” and the advent of the late-2000s electro-pop era, which both appeared around the same year, 2008.
A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the invention of smartphones and the advent of social media, which both appeared around the same year, 2008.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
December 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the release of Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance” and the advent of the late-2000s electro-pop era, which both appeared around the same year, 2008.
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The Christmas prepping was prepping, and I almost forgot to tell you that @miguelpereira.bsky.social is coming all the way to Münster to present work on politicians' ability to use evidence in policy making!
This Wednesday, find the Zoom link below 👇
@danbischof.bsky.social @mwegemann.bsky.social
This Wednesday, find the Zoom link below 👇
@danbischof.bsky.social @mwegemann.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 9:08 AM
The Christmas prepping was prepping, and I almost forgot to tell you that @miguelpereira.bsky.social is coming all the way to Münster to present work on politicians' ability to use evidence in policy making!
This Wednesday, find the Zoom link below 👇
@danbischof.bsky.social @mwegemann.bsky.social
This Wednesday, find the Zoom link below 👇
@danbischof.bsky.social @mwegemann.bsky.social
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Horrormeldungen noch und nöcher
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Die Universität Köln kürzt „Disability Studies“ - Studierende protestieren
An der Universität Köln soll der Arbeitsbereich „Disability Studies“ gestrichen werden. Die Studierenden wollen protestieren.
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December 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Horrormeldungen noch und nöcher
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