📣 Check out the latest post on
@transformecon.bsky.social, a blog by @bertelsmannst.bsky.social. It's by researchers affiliated with Humboldt GovLab: @timwapps.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social & @antvalentim.bsky.social. 🎉

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📣 It’s official – we launched the Humboldt Governance Lab! 📣

We use innovative methods to deliver evidence-based insights for policy-makers, public admin, and civil society – tackling the key challenges facing democracy today.

🌐 hu-govlab.de
@humboldtuni.bsky.social

📣 Call for Applications 📣

3-year Postdoc position in Berlin 🚀

Join our Comparative Political Behavior Group at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & the @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social

Great people, great projects, great city – come work with us!

🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025

🪧 WORKING PAPER OUT 🪧

Do protests have a direct effect on bystanders?

We conducted a 3-wave field experiment in Berlin to find out.

This has been a crazy, nerve wrecking, joyful ride with a bunch of really smart people.

Check out our thread and let us know what you think!

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Does Mainstream Populism Work❓

I answer this question in a new paper officially out at @psrm.bsky.social❗

Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Key take-aways in the thread below 🧵⬇️:

🚨 New paper out at @jeppjournal.bsky.social. We show a growing youth gender gap in far-right support, driven by young men.

3 key findings in 🧵⬇️

w/ @zachdickson.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @heikekluever.bsky.social @theresakuhn.bsky.social @tonirodon.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/1350...

New working paper! In this research note, @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social, and I present the first systematic test that causally identifies the electoral consequences of state-sponsored homophobia:
osf.io/preprints/os...

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CfA for a 4 year PostDoc Position at our Research Group
at Humboldt University in Berlin. Great people, great job, great city! Come and join us!

📣 Calling prospective PhD Students!

We are holding an Online Info Session about applying to our PhD program @dynamics.bsky.social @hertieschool.bsky.social

📅 Dec 20
🕑 2pm CET
📝 Register: dynamics.admissions@hu-berlin.de

Come and join us!

📢Job Alert: We´re recruiting 10 Doctoral Researchers
@dynamics.bsky.social Program studying #DemographicChange, #DemocraticProcesses and #PublicPolicy @hertieschool.bsky.social and Humboldt-University Berlin.
Great Job, great city, vibrant research community! Come and join our team in Berlin!

⚠️Polisky WP: What are the political consequences of plant disease epidemics 🌱🦠? @catherinedevries.bsky.social, Nico Bariletto and I answer this question studying the outbreak of Xylella that exterminated olive groves in Puglia starting in 2013. What we find? See thread ⬇️ or: osf.io/preprints/os...

Absolutely excited that the DFG has just approved the renewal of @dynamics.bsky.social 🥳🍾 We are delighted to train 20 additional PhD students working on demography, democracy and public policy during the next 5 years at Humboldt University and @hertieschool.bsky.social! www.dfg.de/service/pres...

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