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Jule Kegel
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Political scientist, doctoral candidate at the University of Vienna and part of the MSCA IP-PAD network. Hannover & Cologne alum. Working on politician-citizen contact #firstgen
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How do adolescents form their political views, and are they really so different from adults?

Next Friday (Nov 7), the IP-PAD Doctoral Network and @hotpoliticslab.bsky.social host a conference in Amsterdam on adolescents and politics (attached program).

DM or email j.kasper@uva.nl to join.
October 31, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Open Letter by scientists to the Council:
"Climate Neutrality Is Europe’s Greatest Economic Opportunity”.
Ahead of the European Council meeting on 23.10.2025,
2,178 scientists urge EU Heads of States & Governments to take ambitious decisions for the 2040 targets.
zenodo.org/records/1739...
October 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I wrote a short article this summer while working with the brilliant people at Public First in London, who kindly allowed me to ask some questions in their UK omnibus survey. 🧵

pfdatablog.com/blog/lsd7usd...
Better politics starts with conversations only few are having — Public First - Data
When asked about their views on politicians, the British public does not hold back. Eight in ten Britons agree that the gap between ordinary people and politicians is wider than the differences among ...
pfdatablog.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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🔍How does young people's anxiety about the future relate to their political attitudes?

Find out in my first PhD paper, just published in the special issue "The Psychology of Pushback" at advances.in/psychology/1...
Facing a dark future: Young people’s future anxiety and political attitudes in the UK and Greece
Study finds future anxiety linked to more conservative views among young men, but not young women, in the UK and Greece.
advances.in
October 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I spent the past few months in London on secondment at a non-academic company as part of my MSCA doctoral training, which was a wonderful and eye-opening experience. Here is a blog post reflecting on one of the main things I learned: www.ippad.eu/post/jule-ke...
Jule Kegel on her secondment experience at Public First
Finding common ground: Scientific standards across sectorsMy name is Jule Kegel, and I am currently an IP-PAD doctoral candidate at the University of Vienna. Over the past three months, I was the seco...
www.ippad.eu
October 1, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Ah yes… my finest work: “,”
September 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Awards, awards, awards! 🏆✨

At the 11th Annual @oegpw.bsky.social Conference, three members of the Department of Government @univie.ac.at were among the awardees:

🎓 Best PhD – @christinagahn.bsky.social
📘 Best MA – Benjamin Riesch
📗 Best BA – Luca Conte

👏 Huge congrats to all! 🎉

#PoliSky 🧪
September 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Ah yes, my finest work "PaperTitle"
September 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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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) ⤵️
Petition unterschreiben
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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Since I have made this post I have gathered a bunch of observational studies with null results since then. Here is a quick thread:
What are some good examples of political science papers using observational data published with null results?
January 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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We are happy to announce that PhD student Belén Abdala successfully defended her thesis "From Voting to Candidacy: An Analysis of Individuals’ Motivations to Participate in Politics" on 12th of March!

Congratulations, Belén! Wishing you all the best in your future endeavors!

#PhDone
March 18, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Wir haben ein neues Sharepic :-)

@friedrichbohn.bsky.social macht aber sicherlich auch noch gerne Sharepics für 10.000, ... 🙂

www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/s4f/de/top/o...
March 14, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Btw it never made it. I’m trying to channel my inner Downs and telling myself my vote doesn’t matter anyway. Not sure it’s working very well
Just Auslandsdeutsche things: explicitly sent my ballot back with a tracking option just to see that it hasn’t moved at all in 4 days
February 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Just Auslandsdeutsche things: explicitly sent my ballot back with a tracking option just to see that it hasn’t moved at all in 4 days
February 19, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Reminder that these protests work:

- Evidence from Greece:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

- Evidence from Italy: academic.oup.com/poq/article-...

- Evidence from France: academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a...
February 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Der Forschungsstand ist klar: Wenn demokratische Parteien rechtspopulistische Erzählungen/Politik übernehmen/nachzuahmen versuchen, hilft das nur rechtspopulistischen Parteien. Expert*innen warnen deswegen seit JAHREN. Niemand kann sagen, man hätte es ja nicht gewusst.
January 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Hi everyone 😊 good to see a lot of my old Twitter (will never call it X) network is on here as well
January 30, 2025 at 10:46 AM