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Eva Thomann
@evathomann.bsky.social
Professor @unikonstanz.bsky.social, Public Administration & Policy, QCA, EU customization, KOMEX academic convenor @komex.bsky.social. Book: http://tinyurl.com/tmjapbq . All typos are my own
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Dates & preliminary courses for the 2026 Konstanz Methods Excellence Workshops #KOMEX2026 just out!

👉 Short courses: Feb 19-20, 2026
👉 Compact and main courses: Feb 23-27, 2026

Registration starts Aug 15 here:

afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/komex/kon...

@komex.bsky.social @methodsnet.bsky.social
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Curious about how data science and social science intersect?
Join Dr. Rafiazka Hilman for Introduction to Computational Social Science at #komex2026!

🧠 5 days of Python, networks, spatial & text analysis
🗓 Feb 23–27 | 💻 Online | 4 ECTS

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September 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Want to rethink your stats approach?
Join our online Bayesian Stats course with Dr. Scott Kunkel, @uni-konstanz.de

Fit real models in R, compare Bayesian & frequentist logic, and gain new insights.

📅 23–25 Feb, 2026
1 ECTS | €270 early bird

🧠🔗 afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/komex/mc-...
September 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Ready to integrate ChatGPT and open-source LLMs into your research?

Join Dr. @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social for our online course on AI-assisted Text Analysis.
- Full hands-on setup
- Reproducible workflows in R
- Critical reflection on ethics

📅 23-25 Feb, 2026

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September 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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🧑‍💻 New to NVivo? Learn how to analyze interviews, docs, & media with Reflexive + Codebook Thematic Analysis in this 2-day online course at #KOMEX2026.

🗓️ Feb 19–20 | 💶 €180
👩‍🏫 Taught by Dr. Anka Kekez Koštro

Register: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...
September 30, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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📣 New course at #KOMEX2026:

Diff-in-Diff Methods with Lena Janys
📍 In-person @uni-konstanz.de
🗓 23–25 Feb

Master causal inference. Learn modern DiD techniques, from heterogeneous treatment effects to violations of parallel trends. Includes labs + feedback!

👉 afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/komex/mc-...
October 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Cannot wait to run this gig again in Feb 2026!

Methods are literately 🔑 for solid data collection. How to do ethnography ethically and creatively?

Happy to share my fieldwork in Rwanda & new thoughts on creative art approach as I am still on the learning curve 🧗🏻‍♀️🗻

Msg if you got any questions 🙋🏻‍♀️
Interested in authoritarian, post-conflict, or surveilled settings?

📍 Join “Doing Fieldwork in Challenging Contexts” #KOMEX2026 online course by @catherineowen.bsky.social & @xiananj.bsky.social.

Learn creative, experimental, and decolonial ethnogr. methods: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...
October 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Looking to level up your systematic review skills?

Join our #KOMEX2026 course by Dr Liliana Abreu @uni-konstanz.de and learn to formulate review Qs, appraise quality, and use ASreview for AI-supported screening.

📅 19–20 Feb
💻 Online
€180 early bird
Sign up: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...
October 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Looking to add QCA to your methods toolkit?

Join the #KOMEX2026 Introduction to QCA using R
📅 23–27 Feb 2026 | 💻 Online | 💶 €440 early bird | 🎓 4 ECTS

Learn how to model causal complexity w/ @nenaoana.bsky.social & Barbora Valik.

afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...

@methodsnet.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Learn how to analyze panel & repeated cross-sectional data w/ @na-wehl.bsky.social at #KOMEX2026.

Join “Hands-on Intro to Longitudinal & Panel Data Analysis”. Apply fixed/random effects & hybrid models using your own data.

📍Konstanz | 🗓️ 23–27 Feb
💻 R & Stata

afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...
October 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Designing your case study the smart way?
Join @evathomann.bsky.social in @uni-konstanz.de for a deep dive into Comparative Case Study Design.

📅 23–27 Feb
💶 €440
Learn the art of casing, comparing, and making valid inferences in small-N research.

🔗 Register: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...
October 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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I'm hiring!
Post-doctoral researcher-KOMEX director
Wanted: talent in social science research methodology/ methods-versed inequality researcher, interest in global knowledge production!

@excinequality.bsky.social @komex.bsky.social @methodsnet.bsky.social

stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2...
Post-doctoral researcher – KOMEX director
Deadline: October 31, 2025
stellen.uni-konstanz.de
October 9, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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🛎️ Early view

How do #Accountability relations between #Intermediaries #Regulators & #RegulatoryTargets shape intermediaries’ decision to report targets to regulators❓

@evathomann.bsky.social points to intermediaries’ (non-)compliance as a problem of accountability 👇

doi.org/10.1093/pols...
October 13, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Now #openaccess in Policy & Society @policysociety.bsky.social:

Why do intermediaries (not) comply with their regulatory tasks? It's about accountability, studid!

Theory: Accountability Regimes Framework
Case: UK #Prevent duty
Methods: interviews, #QCA & survey experiment

doi.org/10.1093/pols...
Explaining regulatory intermediaries’ compliance through the accountability regimes framework
Abstract . This article assesses how accountability relations between intermediaries, regulators, and regulatory targets affect intermediary non-compliance
doi.org
October 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I'm hiring!
Post-doctoral researcher-KOMEX director
Wanted: talent in social science research methodology/ methods-versed inequality researcher, interest in global knowledge production!

@excinequality.bsky.social @komex.bsky.social @methodsnet.bsky.social

stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2...
Post-doctoral researcher – KOMEX director
Deadline: October 31, 2025
stellen.uni-konstanz.de
October 9, 2025 at 7:32 AM
When you're a public administration scholar, it really does not help being unable to type the word bureacuracy correctly. Sorry, bureuacracy. Argh.
September 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Unpopular opinion: academic publishing would be considerably faster if editors, reviewers and authors spent less time writing blogs and social media posts, and more time on their respective tasks.
September 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Proud to share that #KOMEX2026 Qual & Case-Oriented Techniques track is taught entirely by women researchers from across Europe and beyond! 🌍

✔️ Rigorous training in fieldwork, process tracing, NVivo & more
📅 February 2026, @uni-konstanz.de & online

Join: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/view/kome...
September 8, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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join #KOMEX2026 and learn R with me next February! 👨🏻‍💻📊
📊 The Quant & Observational Techniques track at #KOMEX2026 offers:

• Survey Experiments
• DiD
• Longitudinal models
• SNA & data viz in R

Learn causal inference, modeling, and design taught by experts.

🌍 Online or in @uni-konstanz.de
🗓️ Feb 2026
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September 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Interested in uncovering complex causal patterns?

The Set-Theoretic Track at #KOMEX2026 helps you ask new kinds of questions with QCA.

✨Learn from the leading experts in the field.

🌐 Online only
📅 Feb 2026
🔗 Register: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/view/kome...

@methodsnet.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de
September 11, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Learn. Connect. Grow. 🌱
#KOMEX2026 brings world-class methods workshops to @uni-konstanz.de & online.

📅Feb, 2026
🔗Join now: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/view/kome...

@methodsnet.bsky.social @excinequality.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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🚨 Last Day to Register !! Registration Closes TODAY (21 August)!
The 2nd MethodsNET Conference is almost here!📢🤩
Join us in-person in Belgium or remotely for selected hybrid sessions.
👉 Register here: bit.ly/4lhIip5
➡️ Conference schedule available: bit.ly/4m3WXUX
August 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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📊 The Quant & Observational Techniques track at #KOMEX2026 offers:

• Survey Experiments
• DiD
• Longitudinal models
• SNA & data viz in R

Learn causal inference, modeling, and design taught by experts.

🌍 Online or in @uni-konstanz.de
🗓️ Feb 2026
🔗 afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/view/kome...
September 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I teach Comparative Case Study Design at @komex.bsky.social 23-27.2.!
The course explores how& why to compare cases, with practical tools for designing methodologically sound qualitative studies.

Register here: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/komex-com...
@excinequality.bsky.social @methodsnet.bsky.social
komex: Comparative Case Study Design | Academy of Advanced Studies at the University of Konstanz
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September 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Want to bring code + methods together?

The Computational Track at #KOMEX2026 includes:
🤖 Python
📈 ML for prediction
🧠 LLMs + AI text analysis
🌐 Online, not-for-profit, ECTS-ready
February 2026

🔗Register and learn more: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/view/kome...
@uni-konstanz.de @methodsnet.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Ready to strengthen your methods skills?
Registration is NOW OPEN for #KOMEX2026 Konstanz Methods Excellence Workshops (komex & ekomex) 2026; affordable PhD-level training, in Konstanz or online.

🗓️ Feb 2026

Register ➡️: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/komex/kon...
@komex.bsky.social

#komex #methodsnet
August 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM