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Manès Weisskircher
@manesweisskircher.bsky.social
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Head of the Research Group REXKLIMA at TU Dresden & Visiting Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University | Researching far-right politics, social movements, political parties, climate politics & democracy
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2025 open acces {#tbp|#ThrowBackPaper): The Radical Right Research Robot: a model for political science comms on splintered social media #radicalright @rrresrobot.bsky.social 🤖
Automating awareness, digitizing dissemination: the radical right research robot as a template for (political) science communication in a fragmented social media landscape
Over the last 15 years, social media have become an integral part of the science infrastructure. The emergence of ‘Science Twitter’, the collective of scholars active on the platform now known as ‘...
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February 13, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.
It must be very hard to publish null results Publication practices in the social sciences act as a filter that favors statistically significant results over null findings. While the problem of selection on significance (SoS) is well-known in theory, it has been difficult to measure its scope empirically, and it has been challenging to determine how selection varies across contexts. In this article, we use large language models to extract granular and validated data on about 100,000 articles published in over 150 political science journals from 2010 to 2024. We show that fewer than 2% of articles that rely on statistical methods report null-only findings in their abstracts, while over 90% of papers highlight significant results. To put these findings in perspective, we develop and calibrate a simple model of publication bias. Across a range of plausible assumptions, we find that statistically significant results are estimated to be one to two orders of magnitude more likely to enter the published record than null results. Leveraging metadata extracted from individual articles, we show that the pattern of strong SoS holds across subfields, journals, methods, and time periods. However, a few factors such as pre-registration and randomized experiments correlate with greater acceptance of null results. We conclude by discussing implications for the field and the potential of our new dataset for investigating other questions about political science.
February 11, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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dernaro.bsky.social
🖤

Wie traurig, Heinz Wassermann ist tot.

Er war ein feiner Mensch und toller Lehrender/Diplomarbeitsbetreuer. Ohne ihn wäre meine Karriere und mein Leben wohl anders verlaufen.

Danke für alles, Heinz. Möge dir die Erde leicht sein!

🖤

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Nachruf: Politikforscher Heinz Wassermann verstorben
Der gebürtige Kärntner war gefragter Politikanalyst und lehrte an der FH Joanneum.
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February 10, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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rrresrobot.bsky.social
Are you interested in the #AfD? M. Weisskircher. “The Strength of Far-Right AfD in Eastern Germany: The East-West Divide and the Multiple Causes behind `Populism'”. In: The Political Quarterly 91.3 (2020), pp. 614-622. dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.12859.
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February 11, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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wzb.bsky.social
Das WZB-Projekt „Wirksam gegen Rechtsaußen" hat Strategien von zivilgesellschaftlichen Institutionen in der Auseinandersetzung mit #Rechtsextremismus untersucht und systematisiert. Den neuen Policy Brief dazu gibt es hier: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...
@chjncke.bsky.social @tevoelker.bsky.social
Bildbeschreibung Policy Brief Wirksam gegen RechtsauBen Eine systematische Analyse zivilgesellschaftlicher Strategien gegen die extreme Rechte Christin Janicke Hans Jonas Gunzelmann Teresa Volker Swen Hutter Zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen spielen in der Auseinandersetzung mit Rechts extremismus eine zentrale Rolle. Sie setzen auf eine Vielzahl von Strategien, die von unterschiedlichsten Organisationen genutzt werden - von Gewerkschaften iiber Sport- vereine und Kultureinrichtungen bis zu Feuerwehren und Naturschutzverbénden. Das Projekt ,Wirksam gegen RechtsauBen" hat diese Strategien auf Basis von 191 Praxis- Handreichungen und 56 wissenschaftlichen Studien analysiert und fiinf iibergeord- nete Typen identifiziert: 1. organisationale Strategien, 2. Netzwerkarbeit, 3. politische Bildung, 4. Proteste und 5. Offentlichkeitsarbeit. Doch wihrend das Praxiswissen um- fangreich ist, bleibt die wissenschaftliche Evidenz zur Wirkung der Strategien be- grenzt. Daher braucht es einen systematischen Wissenstransfer zwischen zivilgesell- schaftlichen Handlungsfeldern, eine praxisnahe Forschung, Kooperationen zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis sowie eine langfristige finanzielle und politische Unterstützung- zung für zivilgesellschaftliche Akteur*innen.
February 9, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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Take a look at Ramona Coman, @nathaliebrack.bsky.social & @miscoiu.bsky.social special issue

"Liberal Democracy under Debate: Dissensus and Competing Conceptions in the European Parliament". With @manesweisskircher.bsky.social @alvarooleart.bsky.social and more.

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Liberal Democracy under Debate: Dissensus and Competing Conceptions in the European Parliament
This Special Issue examines how democracy is being redefined and contested across the European Union. Moving beyond narratives of democratic backsliding, it ...
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February 9, 2026 at 3:25 PM
manesweisskircher.bsky.social
I'm delighted to have started as a Visiting Scholar at @harvard.edu, at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies! Here, I will research the far right as well as climate and environmental politics. So far, it’s been great days here in #Winter #Wonderland!

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February 3, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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ausjpolsci.bsky.social
Do followers of populist radical right parties across the globe talk about the same things online? @fravittonetto.bsky.social analyses the emergence of transnational publics of the populist radical right in this new article in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Transnational publics of the populist radical right: patterns of topic convergence across Europe and the United States
In recent years, populist radical right parties (PRRPs) have constructed a shared transnational discourse around issues like immigration and culture wars. However, we do not know how their publics ...
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February 1, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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swenhutter.bsky.social
Two new articles in Party Politics

With
@gessler.bsky.social

Measuring party positions and issue salience with mass media and manifesto data"
doi.org/10.1177/1354...

With Hanspeter Kriesi
"Restructuring party systems in Northwestern Europe"
doi.org/10.1177/1354...

Feedback very welcome!
February 2, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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jamoeberl.bsky.social
Unpopuläre Meinung: Expert:inneninterviews mit Wissenschafter:innen im Rahmen von BA-Arbeiten gehören abgeschafft. Interviews binden erhebliche Zeitressourcen für ein „Expert:innenwissen“, das in unseren Publikationen öffentlich zugänglich ist – dann doch lieber Literaturarbeit.
February 2, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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marcdebus.bsky.social
Während sich die Grünen in Baden-Württemberg zwischen 2021 und 2026 deutlich in Richtung der Mitte des Policy-Raums bewegen, bleiben sie in Rheinland-Pfalz weiter bei ihrer klar linken Position in wirtschafts- und gesellschaftspolitischen Fragen. /1
January 30, 2026 at 1:13 PM
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rrresrobot.bsky.social
Published in 2023: S. Volk and M. Weisskircher. “Defending Democracy Against the 'Corona Dictatorship'? Far-Right PEGIDA During the COVID-19 Pandemic”. In: Social Movement Studies online first (2023), pp. 1-19. dx.doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2023.2171385.
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January 28, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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dziblatt.bsky.social
Thrilled to announce the great group of visiting scholars for Spring 2026 at the Center for European Studies. Some are here all year and 11 new fellows for the spring semester. Here they are :

ces.fas.harvard.edu/visiting-sch...
Visiting Scholars 2025-2026
The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) welcomes 19 Visiting Scholars who will be in residence during the 2025-2026 academic year. In…
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January 26, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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martingross.bsky.social
💥 New publication w/ @svenjakrauss.bsky.social in German Politics:

"Asset or Liability? The Effect of National Approval Ratings on Regional Election Results"
Abstract of the article "Asset or Liability? The Effect of National Approval Ratings on Regional Election Results" by Martin Gross and Svenja Krauss. Published online first in German Politics.
January 26, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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jakubw.bsky.social
Top-notch research from top-notch researchers
January 23, 2026 at 8:55 AM
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manesweisskircher.bsky.social
Our first joint article with the PhD researchers of my research group @rexklima.bsky.social has just been published! 🎉

"Explaining Attitudes Towards #Climate #Action in Germany: AfD vs. the Greens, the East vs. the West, Wind vs. Solar Energy" is now out.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (1/4)
Explaining Attitudes Towards Climate Action in Germany: AfD vs. the Greens, the East vs. the West, Wind vs. Solar Energy
This article analyses the drivers of individual-level support for – and opposition to – renewable energy in general, as well as wind and solar power specifically. We focus on the crucial case of Ge...
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January 23, 2026 at 8:48 AM
manesweisskircher.bsky.social
Our first joint article with the PhD researchers of my research group @rexklima.bsky.social has just been published! 🎉

"Explaining Attitudes Towards #Climate #Action in Germany: AfD vs. the Greens, the East vs. the West, Wind vs. Solar Energy" is now out.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (1/4)
Explaining Attitudes Towards Climate Action in Germany: AfD vs. the Greens, the East vs. the West, Wind vs. Solar Energy
This article analyses the drivers of individual-level support for – and opposition to – renewable energy in general, as well as wind and solar power specifically. We focus on the crucial case of Ge...
www.tandfonline.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:48 AM
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evehubscher.bsky.social
Very happy that our review article (with the @annualreviews.bsky.social) on „Austerity and Populism“ is now available as preprint: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... - with @sattlersthomas.bsky.social
Austerity and Populism
A large literature explains the rise of populist parties with the economic insecurities stemming from globalization and technological change. But despite the long-standing focus of the comparative and...
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January 22, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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dienerjulius.bsky.social
I am happy to announce that I have joined the team of Politische Vierteljahresschrift / German Political Science Quarterly @pvs-journal.bsky.social as Managing Editor alongside the new Editor-in-Chief Marc Debus. I will assist Marc and the team of Associate Editors in managing this great journal.
January 22, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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wi-rex.bsky.social
Nachreichen möchten wir außerdem einen Beitrag von @manesweisskircher.bsky.social aus dem letzten Jahr, in dem er die historische Entwicklung und fortschreitende Normalisierung der rechtsextremen FPÖ beleuchtet, vor allem vor dem Hintergrund ihres Wahlergebnisses 2024: doi.org/10.1111/1467...
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January 22, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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jakubw.bsky.social
📢 New publication! Luke March and I analyse how European radical left parties politicise the Israel–Palestine and Russia–Ukraine wars, comparing positions across 25 parties. Free access (for a limited time) with this link
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Comparing radical left parties’ positions on Ukraine and Israel: between Russophilia and anti-Semitism?
We provide a comparative analysis of how European radical left parties (RLPs) politicise the Israel – Palestine and Russia – Ukraine conflicts. Examining the positions of 25 RLPs, we test four hypo...
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January 19, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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sehaunss.bsky.social
20 years of protest survey data now available!
In the last 20 years, the @protestinstitut.bsky.social has conducted more than 30 protest surveys at demonstrations. We have made this huge dataset now publicly available at @gesis.org.
Details it the blog post: protestinstitut.eu/20-jahre-pro...
20 Jahre Protestbefragungen: ipb macht Daten zugänglich – ipb – Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung
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January 6, 2026 at 9:54 AM
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Looking forward to this 👇

On 13 Jan 2026, MIDEM hosts @leberntzen.bsky.social (@universitetsmuseet.bsky.social) on affective polarization & political violence.

🤝 Jointly organized at MIDEM (in Dresden) w/ @rexklima.bsky.social led by @manesweisskircher.bsky.social
January 7, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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thomasmmeyer.bsky.social
And more job opportunities: @univie.ac.at aims to fill 40 (!) doctoral positions in the social sciences, humanities and cultural studies

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January 7, 2026 at 9:44 AM
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laurenzennser.bsky.social
We (@stawi-univie.bsky.social) are hiring a PhD researcher:

- focus: representation, party competition, pol behavior, pol institutions, pol econ, or related
- 4 years, starting 1 Oct 26
- 30h/week, incl some teaching
- deadline: 28 Jan 26

jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
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January 7, 2026 at 9:26 AM