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Tadeas Cely
@celytadeas.bsky.social
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Postdoc in political science (Aarhus‬ University)
Working on ideology, polarization, and how to save democracy from ourselves
https://tadeascely.github.io/
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isoldehegemann.bsky.social
I ran a simulated social media experiment with 1450 Republicans to test different fact-checking interventions.

AI produced the largest decrease in engagement with Trump misinformation, outperforming independent fact-checkers and doing so far more consistently than Community Notes.
October 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
celytadeas.bsky.social
⚠️New paper fothcoming in POQ! ⚠️
With @marcjacob.bsky.social and @seanjwestwood.bsky.social, we worried about norm-violating local politicians rising to higher office. We tested when voters defect from such politicians in local, state and federal races.
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Preprint: Levels of Office and Voter Accountability for Democratic Norm Violations
October 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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prl.bsky.social
Job 🚨! PRL is looking for a postdoc based at Dartmouth College for next year. Candidates should bring advanced data skills and enjoy writing. Read more about our work at polarizationresearchlab.org and apply through Interfolio by February 15, 2026: apply.interfolio.com/175722
Polarization Research Lab
Research on the origins, effects, limits and solutions to polarization
polarizationresearchlab.org
October 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
celytadeas.bsky.social
🇨🇿 Today’s Czech vote went little differently than polls suggested — centrist populism dominates, extremists underperformed. The next coalition is uncertain, but a minority ANO government backed by the radical right looks likely. Now all depends on coalition talks and what they can secure in return.
October 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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eepgworkshop.bsky.social
🎉 We're excited to share our Fall/Winter 2025-26 schedule! We have a stellar lineup of research highlighting cases from Central Europe to Central Asia🎉

Workshops are on Fridays 5pmCET/11amET/8amPST with links+papers shared on our list-serv the week before.
Sign up here⤵️
eepg-workshop.github.io
October 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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New in PNAS with @seanjwestwood.bsky.social and @ylelkes.bsky.social: Why depolarization is hard: Evaluating attempts to decrease partisan animosity in America

@prl.bsky.social @pnas.org

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September 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
celytadeas.bsky.social
Now it has also been published in an issue! But I’m curious—and increasingly worried—about how this will look in a year or two.
ejprjournal.bsky.social European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · Sep 16
📘 64.4

@celytadeas.bsky.social looks to 🧭 left-wing partisans in Europe and their alignment across cultural & economic dimensions; the right’s views are more diverse? Implications for polarization are wide-ranging.

#OA #PoliticalScience
One more constrained than the other: Asymmetrical ideological alignment and its implications for polarization
TADEAS CELY
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September 16, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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👉Check out our new publication in @electoralstudies.bsky.social (with Toth & Chytilek)! Using eye-tracking and surveys, we test whether framing political issues in moral terms attracts more attention than presenting them with facts. Surprisingly, facts hold a slight advantage doi.org/10.1016/j.el...
Redirecting
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September 15, 2025 at 7:14 AM
celytadeas.bsky.social
In real time, we can observe very different approaches to the Kirk assassination. Cox (R) places the blame on the attacker, while Trump does not hesitate to politicize it. We have a parallel in 🇸🇰, continuing for months. Politicization can easily succeed. A paper on this topic is in progress.
celytadeas.bsky.social Tadeas Cely @celytadeas.bsky.social · Mar 13
In May 2024, a lone shooter attacked the Slovak prime minister. Despite calls for unity, governing officials blamed the opposition for inciting violence. Ten months later, we still observe its effects on people's attitudes and support for political violence. A 🧵 based on a new survey.
BBC article describing how the Slovak prime minister blames the shooting on the opposition's 'hatred.'
September 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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karelkouba.bsky.social
A job opening for comparativists!
era-areas.bsky.social ERA Chair in Multidisciplinary Area Studies Project @era-areas.bsky.social · Sep 4
We are hiring! Join @ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz as a 👉 Postdoctoral Researcher in Comparative Area Studies and take part in building the future 🌏 Center for Multidisciplinary Area Studies (CenMAS).

Based in Prague – details here: bit.ly/CenMASpostdoc

@millanos.bsky.social @karelkouba.bsky.social
September 6, 2025 at 10:28 AM
celytadeas.bsky.social
📊We collected data from the public and from political scientists in 🇨🇿 to assess the state of the field. We now provide a dashboard of results. 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞? With traditional centers strained, CEE could expand the academic labor market, attract foreign talent, and integrate into the global community.
August 18, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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eepgworkshop.bsky.social
🚨CFP - DEADLINE AUG 7!🚨
Apply to present at the Fall/Winter 2025-26 Series of our monthly online East European Politics Workshop for grad students!

Submit your abstract BEFORE AUG 7: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... & sign up to our mailing list: eepg-workshop.github.io
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August 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
celytadeas.bsky.social
Slovensko je případ, který světová politologie málokdy reflektuje, i když by to leckdy stálo za to. Tak jsme se na to vrhli my :)
July 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
celytadeas.bsky.social
𝟒𝟑% 𝐨𝐟 🇨🇿 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐬 in our recent survey (N = 118, RR = 46%). IMO, this reflects gaps in methodological training and academic writing rather than systemic bias—but this can isolate CEE scholars from the global community. 1/3
July 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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gesis.org
#MethodsHub #Study #helpwanted
Invitation to participate: Study on method reproducibility

The Methods Hub team at GESIS is conducting a study as part of the Tier2 project on how easily researchers can reproduce results from computational methods.
July 9, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
If people think American scientists are somehow going to land in Europe, I've got news for you about the difference between millions and billions.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Bar chart titled "Matters of Scale" comparing proposed US research budget cuts to the European Union's €500-million (US$571-million) "Choose Europe" fund. The chart shows: * National Institutes of Health (NIH): $8 billion in cancelled grants and $18 billion in proposed cuts by 2026 (long orange bar). * National Science Foundation (NSF): $5.1 billion in proposed cuts by 2026 (shorter orange bar). * EU's Choose Europe fund: $571 million (very short blue bar). The graphic highlights that the EU fund is much smaller in scale compared to the US budget cuts. Text above the chart explains the EU’s intention to attract US researchers in response to policy decisions by the convicted felon and rapist Donald Trump.
July 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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ejprjournal.bsky.social
🆕 EJPR NEWS 📰

Find us here on Bluesky 🦋 @ejprjournal.bsky.social for original, peer-reviewed research on comparative European politics. Stay informed, stay connected. #PoliticalScience #EJPR #PoliSky
July 2, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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epssnet.bsky.social
1.3K followers & counting. Thank you all for your incredible support!

The EPSS journey is just getting started & we couldn’t do it without you.

Thank you for so many of you who already joined EPSS! If you haven't already, please join: epssnet.org/sign-up/#join

Let’s do this together.
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June 29, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Congrats to Matěj! Follow @matejjung.bsky.social for deep insights on Central and Eastern Europe and more.
eui-sps.bsky.social EUI Department of Political and Social Sciences @eui-sps.bsky.social · Jun 24
The SPS Department is pleased to announce that @matejjung.bsky.social - @polisciatnu.bsky.social has been awarded the Jacques Rupnik Prize 2025 for his paper:
“Thinking About Going Back Home in War”, presented at the EUI Workshop on Political Behaviour in CEE.

Congratulations!

#EUI #RupnikPrize
June 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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psrm.bsky.social
🧠Can affective polarization erode democratic support without strong party ties?

➡️Using a survey experiment in Chile’s 2022 plebiscite, L. Cox, P. Cubillos & @carmenlef.bsky.social show that subtle polarization cues reduce democratic commitment www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
June 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
celytadeas.bsky.social
Big moments lately: became a dad and defended my PhD. Huge thanks to @andrewroberts.bsky.social and committee members @noamgidron.bsky.social, @filipkostelka.bsky.social, and @ylelkes.bsky.social for their thoughtful feedback. Looking forward to the next chapter at Aarhus with @suthank.bsky.social!
June 16, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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rebeccasear.bsky.social
“The gender-equality paradox entails that countries with more equality have larger gender differences in behavior. Positive associations between equality & gender differences disappear or reverse when accounting for cultural clusters of countries. The paradox appears to be a methodological artifact”
Simpson’s gender-equality paradox | PNAS
Several cross-country examinations have found larger gender differences in Western countries. More recently, it has been argued, from an evolutiona...
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June 11, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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rdassonneville.bsky.social
New paper out in IJPOR! We (w Ian McAllister) use @ess-survey.bsky.social and other survey data to examine East/West differences in the use and meaning of left-right.

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The Direction and Meaning of Left-Right in Postcommunist Societies
Abstract. Positioning on the left-right scale is often regarded as a heuristic that enables citizens to reduce the information costs involved in navigating
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June 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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bjpols.bsky.social
NEW -

Beyond Observational Relationships: Evidence from a Ten-Country Experiment that Policy Disputes Cause Affective Polarization - cup.org/3Zvgchx

- @noamgidron.bsky.social, James Adams, @rwillh11.bsky.social & @ttichelbaecker.bsky.social

#OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract discussing scholars' investigation into polarization and logical comparisons across party entities, cultural priming in economic discussions, and the effect of cultural debates on political discourse.
May 30, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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dbroockman.bsky.social
🚨NEW PAPER: Why are Members of Congress so extreme?

We conducted a 4-wave panel of thousands of voters in 27 districts during last year’s primary AND general elections to trace polarization’s roots

The results challenge conventional wisdom… and suggest lessons for parties🧵👇
May 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM