Sophie Mainz
@sophiemainz.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Political Science at Uppsala University.
Gender & Politics • Political Psychology • Group Identities • Experiments • Computational Methods • Digital Communication
Gender & Politics • Political Psychology • Group Identities • Experiments • Computational Methods • Digital Communication
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Sophie Mainz
@sophiemainz.bsky.social
· Jul 9
Sophie Mainz has been awarded the John Sullivan Award for the best paper by a graduate student presented at any of the panels organized by the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior section at last year’s APSA conference. Congratulations to @sophiemainz.bsky.social !
:)
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Yesterday, I had a lovely opportunity to present co-authored work on how to counter femonationalism at
@mzesunimannheim.bsky.social . Engaged audience and great feedback! Thanks to @wurthmann.bsky.social for the invite!
@katharinalawall.bsky.social, @sophiemainz.bsky.social, @turnbulldugarte.com
@mzesunimannheim.bsky.social . Engaged audience and great feedback! Thanks to @wurthmann.bsky.social for the invite!
@katharinalawall.bsky.social, @sophiemainz.bsky.social, @turnbulldugarte.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Yesterday, I had a lovely opportunity to present co-authored work on how to counter femonationalism at
@mzesunimannheim.bsky.social . Engaged audience and great feedback! Thanks to @wurthmann.bsky.social for the invite!
@katharinalawall.bsky.social, @sophiemainz.bsky.social, @turnbulldugarte.com
@mzesunimannheim.bsky.social . Engaged audience and great feedback! Thanks to @wurthmann.bsky.social for the invite!
@katharinalawall.bsky.social, @sophiemainz.bsky.social, @turnbulldugarte.com
This honor means so much to me. I'm immensely grateful to @epovb.bsky.social, the award committee, @debraleiter.bsky.social, @joshuadarr.bsky.social and last year's recipient @mikecowburn.bsky.social. And thank you, Stuart @turnbulldugarte.com for the nomination and for seeing me and my work. :)
Delighted to see @melissamichelson.bsky.social announce @sophiemainz.bsky.social as this year's recipient of the @epovb.bsky.social John Sullivan Award for her fantastic experimental work on femonationalism from APSA 2024 🏆
Sophie will be on the job market soon & any uni. would be luck to have her!
Sophie will be on the job market soon & any uni. would be luck to have her!
September 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
This honor means so much to me. I'm immensely grateful to @epovb.bsky.social, the award committee, @debraleiter.bsky.social, @joshuadarr.bsky.social and last year's recipient @mikecowburn.bsky.social. And thank you, Stuart @turnbulldugarte.com for the nomination and for seeing me and my work. :)
Big thanks to @matildecer.bsky.social, @mtplk.bsky.social, and @nzwiener-collins.bsky.social for the invite and for bringing together such lovely people! Really loved my time in Munich, grateful to have been part of it!
We (@matildecer.bsky.social @nzwiener-collins.bsky.social and I) pulled off our small but mighty workshop, bridging boundaries between gender x politics subfield and quantitative methods 👧🏻📊
So grateful to @lmumuenchen.bsky.social and Fritz Thyssen Stiftung for making it possible 🤓
So grateful to @lmumuenchen.bsky.social and Fritz Thyssen Stiftung for making it possible 🤓
August 4, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Big thanks to @matildecer.bsky.social, @mtplk.bsky.social, and @nzwiener-collins.bsky.social for the invite and for bringing together such lovely people! Really loved my time in Munich, grateful to have been part of it!
:)
Sophie Mainz has been awarded the John Sullivan Award for the best paper by a graduate student presented at any of the panels organized by the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior section at last year’s APSA conference. Congratulations to @sophiemainz.bsky.social !
July 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
:)
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Our Element is out! 🎉
Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms?
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms?
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies
Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies
www.cambridge.org
July 2, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Our Element is out! 🎉
Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms?
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms?
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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🧵1/ Are primaries bad for political diversity? Conventional wisdom says yes—but our article in @wepsocial.bsky.social shows that candidate selection modes are not necessarily a bottleneck for representation, at least when it comes to demand. 🗳️👥 @sandrahkansson.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
June 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
🧵1/ Are primaries bad for political diversity? Conventional wisdom says yes—but our article in @wepsocial.bsky.social shows that candidate selection modes are not necessarily a bottleneck for representation, at least when it comes to demand. 🗳️👥 @sandrahkansson.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐝𝐨 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭? 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞? Before yesterday's election and amid rising interest in the Church's ideological stance, Michal Grahn @grahn.bsky.social and l surveyed 1,500 US adults asking them to evaluate different hypothetical papal profiles.
🧵 What kind of POPE do AMERICANS want?📸
Before the Conclave, @sophiemainz.bsky.social and I asked 1,500 U.S. adults to choose among hypothetical papal candidates.
Results: Americans prefer a liberal and *non-political* Pope. The latter might be challenging for Leo XIV.
Results ⬇️
Polisky Datasky
Before the Conclave, @sophiemainz.bsky.social and I asked 1,500 U.S. adults to choose among hypothetical papal candidates.
Results: Americans prefer a liberal and *non-political* Pope. The latter might be challenging for Leo XIV.
Results ⬇️
Polisky Datasky
May 9, 2025 at 11:58 AM
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐝𝐨 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭? 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞? Before yesterday's election and amid rising interest in the Church's ideological stance, Michal Grahn @grahn.bsky.social and l surveyed 1,500 US adults asking them to evaluate different hypothetical papal profiles.
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Sharing our new preprint "An Image is Worth K Topics: A Visual Structural Topic Model with Image Embeddings" with @mansmag.bsky.social @matmagnani.bsky.social Alexandra Segerberg and Nataša Sladoje. Available on ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2504.10004
April 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Sharing our new preprint "An Image is Worth K Topics: A Visual Structural Topic Model with Image Embeddings" with @mansmag.bsky.social @matmagnani.bsky.social Alexandra Segerberg and Nataša Sladoje. Available on ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2504.10004
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🚨 Talking about harassment in politics hurts your political career.
Yes, even in 🇸🇪. And, yes, for both women & men.
Here’s what me and @sandrahkansson.bsky.social found in our Political Behavior paper using both experimental and descriptive approaches: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 👇
Yes, even in 🇸🇪. And, yes, for both women & men.
Here’s what me and @sandrahkansson.bsky.social found in our Political Behavior paper using both experimental and descriptive approaches: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 👇
The Cost of Debating Harassment Against Politicians: Are Women and Men Affected Equally? - Political Behavior
Harassment of politicians is a growing global phenomenon, which threatens to erode the quality of democracy and descriptive representation. Past research has examined gender patterns of this violence ...
link.springer.com
April 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🚨 Talking about harassment in politics hurts your political career.
Yes, even in 🇸🇪. And, yes, for both women & men.
Here’s what me and @sandrahkansson.bsky.social found in our Political Behavior paper using both experimental and descriptive approaches: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 👇
Yes, even in 🇸🇪. And, yes, for both women & men.
Here’s what me and @sandrahkansson.bsky.social found in our Political Behavior paper using both experimental and descriptive approaches: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 👇
Congratulations to my talented colleague @grahn.bsky.social!
Happy to find out that my paper Still proud at the polls belongs to #EJPR 's best cited papers of 2023. For those who missed out on the paper, I show that high levels of LGB voter mobilization do not disappear after the enactment of major LGBT+ rights. doi.org/10.1111/1475...
March 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Congratulations to my talented colleague @grahn.bsky.social!
What a month - I presented my paper at APSA and at my mid-term seminar and received such encouraging feedback especially from @sergipardos and @GrahnMichal. This phd journey just keeps getting better :
February 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
What a month - I presented my paper at APSA and at my mid-term seminar and received such encouraging feedback especially from @sergipardos and @GrahnMichal. This phd journey just keeps getting better :
Humbled to present my work on elite femonationalism and selective (il)liberal preferences tomorrow morning at #ECPG2024. With me will be a fantastic panel consisting of @Jess_Smith1534 @bertous @LenkaHrbkov and Juliette Corbi. @ECPR
February 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Humbled to present my work on elite femonationalism and selective (il)liberal preferences tomorrow morning at #ECPG2024. With me will be a fantastic panel consisting of @Jess_Smith1534 @bertous @LenkaHrbkov and Juliette Corbi. @ECPR
February 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The second podcast is out now, this time presenting the research project PolarVis in an interview with our collegue @Luca_Rossi_LR :
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February 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The second podcast is out now, this time presenting the research project PolarVis in an interview with our collegue @Luca_Rossi_LR :
x.com/polarvisprojec…
x.com/polarvisprojec…
February 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
My supervisor Alexandra Segerberg and our collegues @matmagnani @dvladek are hiring a new PhD candidate on desinformation and security. I can wholeheartedly recommend joining this team :
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February 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
My supervisor Alexandra Segerberg and our collegues @matmagnani @dvladek are hiring a new PhD candidate on desinformation and security. I can wholeheartedly recommend joining this team :
x.com/uuinfolab/stat…
x.com/uuinfolab/stat…
One of the research projects I am affiliated with just launched its first podcast on climate communication and visuals. The episode hosts Andreas Szeles head of communication of @greenpeaceHU (16 min on Spotify) 🎙️📻
x.com/polarvisprojec… open.spotify.com/episode/5Ro86I…
x.com/polarvisprojec… open.spotify.com/episode/5Ro86I…
How to make environmental questions visible to the public? The (visual) communication by Greenpeace Hungary
PolarVis Podcast · Episode
open.spotify.com
February 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
One of the research projects I am affiliated with just launched its first podcast on climate communication and visuals. The episode hosts Andreas Szeles head of communication of @greenpeaceHU (16 min on Spotify) 🎙️📻
x.com/polarvisprojec… open.spotify.com/episode/5Ro86I…
x.com/polarvisprojec… open.spotify.com/episode/5Ro86I…
Rounding off our first Swedish CSS conference #sc2s2 by brainstorming the future. Thanks for a great week @uucsslab and everyone who participated!
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February 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Rounding off our first Swedish CSS conference #sc2s2 by brainstorming the future. Thanks for a great week @uucsslab and everyone who participated!
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Come work with us! We are hiring at least three new PhD students, fully funded.
www.statsvet.uu.se/education/ph...
www.statsvet.uu.se/education/ph...
PhD Programme - Department of Government - Uppsala University, Sweden
PhD Programme
www.statsvet.uu.se
December 6, 2023 at 1:34 PM
Come work with us! We are hiring at least three new PhD students, fully funded.
www.statsvet.uu.se/education/ph...
www.statsvet.uu.se/education/ph...
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Repost if you’ve participated in a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science. Let’s get #SICSS Bluesky going!
October 8, 2023 at 7:49 PM
Repost if you’ve participated in a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science. Let’s get #SICSS Bluesky going!
Came across a great thread today! I, too, learned R by teaching myself with online material for my master thesis. Later, I added summer school courses and am now teaching R at @UU_University. I can only stress that it is such a versatile and empowering tool to know.
x.com/ErinnDuprey/st…
x.com/ErinnDuprey/st…
February 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Came across a great thread today! I, too, learned R by teaching myself with online material for my master thesis. Later, I added summer school courses and am now teaching R at @UU_University. I can only stress that it is such a versatile and empowering tool to know.
x.com/ErinnDuprey/st…
x.com/ErinnDuprey/st…
Returning home after three beautiful days in Gothenburg at the annual @wasp_hs conference with a bunch of creative and impressive minds. Tack till alla inblandade!
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February 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Returning home after three beautiful days in Gothenburg at the annual @wasp_hs conference with a bunch of creative and impressive minds. Tack till alla inblandade!
x.com/wasp_hs/status…
x.com/wasp_hs/status…