Sophia Hunger
sophiahunger.bsky.social
Sophia Hunger
@sophiahunger.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of Computational Social Science Uni Bremen
guest fellow WZB Berlin | PhD EUI | interested in protest, party competition, populism #FirstGen
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I'm very excited, extremely grateful and deeply honoured to receive the Best Dissertation Award from the German Political Science Association(DVPW)!
🏆 Der #DVPW #Dissertationspreis 2025 wird geteilt und geht an Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social und Julian Michel @julianpolsci.bsky.social!

Beide Arbeiten leisten einen herausragenden Beitrag zur Erforschung der #Stabilität von #Demokratie.

Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 🥳
October 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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🏆 Der #DVPW #Dissertationspreis 2025 wird geteilt und geht an Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social und Julian Michel @julianpolsci.bsky.social!

Beide Arbeiten leisten einen herausragenden Beitrag zur Erforschung der #Stabilität von #Demokratie.

Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 🥳
October 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris).
We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵:

#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
Welcome! – VARICRIS
VARICRIS research project
bit.ly
October 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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𝗔𝗰𝗵𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝗴𝗮𝗯𝗲 𝘃𝗼𝗻 𝑴𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝑨𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒂𝒈𝒆 (𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲-𝗠𝗮𝗴𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗻 𝗳ü𝗿 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗞𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗹𝗶𝗸𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗻𝗴) 𝗵𝗲𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗻. Was erwartet Euch in dieser Ausgabe? 1|4

machine-vs-rage.net/ausgabe-8/
Machine Against the Rage - Ausgabe 8
Ausgabe 8 | Machine Against the Rage | Noting in the Name of Truth? Community Notes und der politische Streit um Fakten | Spätjahr 2025.
machine-vs-rage.net
October 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Great write-up of an important study by @tevoelker.bsky.social and @dasalgon.bsky.social. Far-right actors have been very successful in setting the political agenda. Many in politics and media still ignore this. They argue "immigration is important to people, hence we need to talk about immigration"
October 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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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...)
October 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Morgen erscheint die neue Ausgabe von 𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝐴𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑎𝑔𝑒. Doch schon heute berichtet @spiegel.de exklusiv über die Ergebnisse unserer Studie zu Community Notes, die wir vorab zugänglich gemacht haben. 1|2
(S+) Exklusive Daten: Wie gut funktioniert das Faktencheck-System auf X?
Nach der Übernahme von Twitter durch Elon Musk sollten Community-Notes die bessere Alternative zu klassischen Faktenchecks sein. Forscher zeigen nun, wo die Schwierigkeiten des Systems liegen.
www.spiegel.de
October 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Die AfD Sachsen-Anhalt fragt gezielt nach Listen postkolonialer Seminare und Lehrstühle. Wie die Universitäten beginnen, sich gegen die Angriffe zu wappnen.
AfD hetzt gegen Hochschulen: Angriff auf die Freiheit der Wissenschaft
Die AfD Sachsen-Anhalt fragt gezielt nach Listen postkolonialer Seminare und Lehrstühle. Wie die Universitäten beginnen, sich gegen die Angriffe zu wappnen.
taz.de
October 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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How do populists define “the people”? @tiondelisa.bsky.social examines how right-wing populists construct ingroup identity through opposition. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/sGDTDQV

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky #polsci #ECRs
October 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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At BIGSSS we are currently looking for two PhD students (four years of DAAD funding) in our program Contentious Politics in the Digital Age (CoPoDi). Apply until 27 October 2025, more information here: www.bigsss-bremen.de/static/uploa...
www.bigsss-bremen.de
October 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵
October 7, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Out now @socmovstudies.bsky.social: we introduce the concept of a "protest script" & demonstrate how video-enhanced protest event analysis (vPEA) helps trace a common script of the Italian and German anti-containment protests.

doi.org/10.1080/1474...
Understanding protest scripts: the anti-containment protests in Germany and Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic
The pandemic did not bring protest politics to a halt. Instead, it sparked diverse and divergent forms of contention. This study compares the development and characteristics of anti-containment pro...
doi.org
September 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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As I am fairly new to Bluesky, this comes a bit late, but it is still worth checking out:

Our #oa introduction to the @jeppjournal.bsky.social special issue on "Europe’s Changing Protest Landscape"
with @sophiahunger.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3...
Journal of European Public Policy
Special Issue: Europe's Changing Protest Landscape. Guest Editors: Sophia Hunger & Swen Hutter. Volume 32, Issue 8 of Journal of European Public Policy
www.tandfonline.com
September 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Seit dem Hamas-Angriff auf Israel hat sich die Diskussionskultur an deutschen Hochschulen massiv verändert. In einer Umfrage berichten Forschende nun
von Selbstzensur, Anfeindung und einer bedrohten Wissenschaftsfreiheit.

Im Tagesspiegel und Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/09...
September 15, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Three weeks left to apply 👇
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
September 11, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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📣 Manifesto Project Data & Corpus Update 2025 is here! What's new? 🧵:
September 5, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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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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Hotline gegen Hass

Wie der Scicomm-Support angefeindeten Wissenschaftler:innen hilft: Teresa Völker und Matthias Fejes über Drohungen, Schutzstrukturen und den Mut, in der Öffentlichkeit weiter für Wissenschaft einzustehen.

Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/08...
August 25, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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"Wissenschaftskommunikation ist Teil meiner Arbeit und nicht mein Privatvergnügen."

Genau deshalb muss der Umgang mit Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit systematisch erfolgen und darf nicht an Individuen hängenbleiben. Auch wenn gerade bei kommunizierenden Forscherinnen die "Kritik" ad personam erfolgt.
Hotline gegen Hass

Wie der Scicomm-Support angefeindeten Wissenschaftler:innen hilft: Teresa Völker und Matthias Fejes über Drohungen, Schutzstrukturen und den Mut, in der Öffentlichkeit weiter für Wissenschaft einzustehen.

Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/08...
August 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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@deeesharp.bsky.social & I are looking for a collaborator on a project w/ @offenegesellschaft.bsky.social on empathy-based interventions against affective polarization @uni-hamburg.de
j0b.de/veca

75% PhD position, 1st yr project funded & can be converted to a position w/ teaching afterwards
📆31/08
Ausschreibung
www.uni-hamburg.de
August 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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📢 Europe's Changing Protest Landscape
Protests have grown more fragmented in recent years. New actors, claims, and tactics have emerged. A special issue @jeppjournal.bsky.social ‪with an introduction by Swen Hutter & @sophiahunger.bsky.social provides insights.
www.wzb.eu/en/news/euro...
Europe's Changing Protest Landscape
Europe’s protest arena has grown more unpredictable and fragmented in recent years, with new actors, claims, and tactics emerging that do not fit the established left-libertarian dominance. How...
www.wzb.eu
August 6, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Why do parties do what they do? Excited to share my 2nd dissertation paper, just published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social
In the paper, I argue that parties seek internal unity and try to keep the team together: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

1/11 🧵
August 1, 2025 at 7:52 AM