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Roman Senninger
@rsenninger.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Aarhus University

I study political elites, institutions, and public opinion in Europe, using experiments and computational methods.

https://romansenninger.github.io/

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 24d
We’re organizing a workshop at Aarhus University. Please share and consider submitting!

🗓️ 13–14 April 2026 | 📝 Deadline: Mon, 16 Feb 2026 (extended abstract) — junior scholars prioritized

🎤 Keynotes: @stefwalter.bsky.social (Univ. of Zurich) & @hhuang.bsky.social (Ohio State)

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 4d
Join us in Aarhus this April! 👇
rsenninger.bsky.social Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 24d
We’re organizing a workshop at Aarhus University. Please share and consider submitting!

🗓️ 13–14 April 2026 | 📝 Deadline: Mon, 16 Feb 2026 (extended abstract) — junior scholars prioritized

🎤 Keynotes: @stefwalter.bsky.social (Univ. of Zurich) & @hhuang.bsky.social (Ohio State)

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Florian Hollenbach @fhollenbach.org · 5d
🧵 New version of our paper (@bcegerod.bsky.social) is finally online: "How Many is Enough? Sample Size in Staggered Difference-in-Differences Designs"
We show that even well-identified DiD studies are often underpowered; sample sizes needed are surprisingly large
Paper: osf.io/preprints/os... 1/6

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 5d
Fantastic paper! 👇 Congrats!
liorsheffer.bsky.social Lior Sheffer @liorsheffer.bsky.social · 5d
New and open access, in @psrm.bsky.social: What happens when we make politicians draw distributions? Nic Dias, @jacklucas.bsky.social and I explore whether the large errors politicians make about public opinion are artificially inflated by how researchers ask them to estimate it /1
cup.org/4kltoyE

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Lior Sheffer @liorsheffer.bsky.social · 5d
New and open access, in @psrm.bsky.social: What happens when we make politicians draw distributions? Nic Dias, @jacklucas.bsky.social and I explore whether the large errors politicians make about public opinion are artificially inflated by how researchers ask them to estimate it /1
cup.org/4kltoyE

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 6d
Ein klares Zeichen, dass Deutschland am Sand ist: Lifestyle Teilzeit wird jetzt diskutiert, in Österreich war das schon letzten Juli Thema und dort passiert normalerweise alles zehn Jahre später.

Reposted by Anne Rasmussen, Robert Huber, Markus Wagner , and 8 more

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Melanie Sauter @melinscribe.bsky.social · 6d
🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨

7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers.
Free of charge (limited travel support).

Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org
#methodsky #polisky

Reposted by Justin H. Kirkland, Roman Senninger

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Kristian Frederiksen @kristianvsf.bsky.social · 7d
Great to see "The Way Back After Backsliding: Public Opinion and the Restoration of Democracy" with @robbwiller.bsky.social and @m-b-petersen.bsky.social out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The Way Back After Backsliding: Public Opinion and the Restoration of Democracy - Kristian Frederiksen, Robb Willer, Michael Bang Petersen, 2026
Abundant prior research has analyzed the mass public’s role in democratic backsliding. Comparatively little research has studied democratic restoration, the reh...
journals.sagepub.com

Reposted by Nicholas A. Christakis, Joshua A. Tucker, Dave O’Brien , and 9 more

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Karsten Donnay @karstendonnay.bsky.social · 7d
🚨Job alert 🚨

I have an opening for a postdoc in my team at @ipz.bsky.social in the area of digital democracy starting Sep 1, 2026.

If you are working on the impact of the digital transformation on politics, please apply by 🗓️ Mar 1, 2026.

📤 Please share widely!

www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns...
Offene Stellen / Open Positions
www.ipz.uzh.ch

Reposted by C. Kirabo Jackson, Étienne Ollion, Roman Senninger

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 8d
Very interesting research paper that shows that using AI with programming can significantly reduce mastery over topics. Perhaps unsurprising, but the lack of significant speed gains in this exercise are remarkable

www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

Reposted by Simon Weschle, Federica Genovese, Roman Senninger

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Miguel Pereira @miguelpereira.bsky.social · 9d
PEEP is back this year🤌 ! The 4th Political Economy of Europe APSA Pre-Conference will be hosted at Harvard on Sept 2, the day before APSA.

We welcome observational, experimental and formal theory work focused on Europe. Deadline: March 1st.

forms.gle/V6NEy4AfnSs7...
PEEP 2026 - Submission
Please complete this form if you would like to attend the 2026 Political Economy of Europe APSA Pre-Conference. The pre-conference will be held on Wednesday September 2, 2026 (the day before APSA) at ...
forms.gle

Reposted by Justin H. Kirkland, Bonnie N. Field, Nathan P. Kalmoe , and 1 more

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Rachel Bernhard @rivb.bsky.social · 9d
In the midst of chaos, excited to share a new publication with @aeggers.bsky.social and Marko Klašnja, dx.doi.org/10.1111/lsq..... As usual, I write an embarrassing thread about my wonderful coauthors-- 🧵 (1/)
A Rich Woman's World? Wealth and Gendered Paths to Office
We introduce and seek to explain a new and surprising fact about members of the US Congress: since at least the 1980s, Congresswomen have been substantially wealthier than Congressmen serving in the ....
dx.doi.org

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Andreas Dür @andduer.bsky.social · 9d
Call for Papers for a workshop on Contesting the Liberal International Order: Elites and Public Opinion" at the University of Salzburg, Austria, September 21-22, 2026.

Call: drive.google.com/file/d/1LB67...

Paper submission: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Call for Papers_Geotrade2.pdf
drive.google.com

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 10d
The public tends to view AI as labor-replacing rather than labor-creating.

And this perception erodes trust in democracy and political engagement with technology.

This could be a major problem facing many countries as AI scales--if it replaces jobs.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Reposted by Anne Rasmussen, Catherine E. De Vries, Patrick Präg , and 2 more

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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 10d
My colleague Kevin Munger asked me and a bunch of editors to sit and think through AI and peer review. Our take:

osf.io/9sxnc/files/...

We envision an increased (!) involvement of humans in the evaluation of social science.

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Alexander Wuttke, Justin H. Kirkland , and 5 more

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Alex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · 11d
🎺 Call for proposals 🎺

1️⃣ replicate an existing experiment
2️⃣ run a novel experiment

on repdata.com

3️⃣ coauthor with Mary McGrath and me to meta-analyze the replications and existing studies
4️⃣ publish your study

details: alexandercoppock.com/replication_...
applications open Feb 1

please repost!
Call for Proposals: Data Collection for Replication+Novel Political Science Survey Experiments Alexander Coppock and Mary McGrath January 27, 2026 We invite proposals for a survey experiment replication+novel design competition. Se- lected replication+novel design survey experiments will be conducted on large samples of American respondents, quota sampled to match U.S. Census margins and filtered for quality and attention by the survey sample provider Rep Data (repdata.com). Each proposal consists of two parts: (1) a replication study of an existing, previously published survey experiment, and (2) a novel experimental design on a topic of the authors’ choosing. The replication studies and reanalyses of the existing studies will be combined into a meta-paper to be co-authored by all authors of accepted proposals along with the princi- pal investigators (Coppock and McGrath). As a condition for acceptance, authors commit to sharing the data and producing a write-up of the findings from their novel design for submission to a scholarly journal, and public posting of a working paper pre-publication.

Reposted by Elias Dinas, Aina Gallego, Roman Senninger

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Max Schaub @maxschaub.bsky.social · 12d
Why did antisemitism rise in Germany during the Covid pandemic? And why was this increase concentrated among political centrists, rather than on the fringes?

doi.org/10.1017/S153...

@kanol.bsky.social @wzb.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de @politikuhh.bsky.social @socfub.bsky.social
Cultural Roots of Prejudice: Cultural Scripts and the Reactivation of Antisemitism in Germany | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
Cultural Roots of Prejudice: Cultural Scripts and the Reactivation of Antisemitism in Germany
doi.org

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 12d
A life in peer review.

stuartjames1990.github.io/peer-review/

Reposted by Steve Peers, Andrew Watt, Carl Henrik Knutsen , and 11 more

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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 13d
NEW PAPER ALERT! My paper, with @bjornhoyland.bsky.social , on how “policy loss” shapes support for the EU has just been published in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. Check it out!
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Reposted by Stuart Soroka, Mark J. Brandt, Stefan Müller , and 11 more

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Christian Breunig @breunig.bsky.social · 16d
🚨 Postdoctoral Position at the University of Konstanz 🚨

We’re hiring a post-doc for our @excinequality.bsky.social project on political elites and decision-making.

4-year position | Deadline: Feb. 20 | Start: Sept 2026

Please share widely 🙏

The ad is here stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f...
Postdoctoral Position at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality”
Deadline: 20 February 2026, 12:00 pm CET
stellen.uni-konstanz.de

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Jesper Asring Hansen @jesperasring.bsky.social · 17d
I'm hiring two three-year postdocs and an RA for my project on how police presence affects perceived safety.

I'm looking for candidates who can contribute to the theoretical development and who have strong expertise in causal inference.

Deadline: March 1.

www.stillinger.aau.dk/videnskabeli...
Two three-year postdocs in quasi- or survey-experimental social science.
The Department of Society and Politics at Aalborg University (Faculty of Social Sciences) is recruiting two full-time postdoctoral researchers to work on the...
www.stillinger.aau.dk

Reposted by Stefan C. Aykut, Roman Senninger

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Oliver Nachtwey @onachtwey.bsky.social · 17d
The real threat to academic freedom.
US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains
A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.
www.nature.com

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 18d
Thanks for sharing, Vicente! Much appreciated.

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 19d
📄 New WP version out: revised text, tightened argument, and new analysis.

The Politics of Evidence Selection (w/ @jesperasring.bsky.social)

Grateful for the helpful comments and presentation opportunities. Further feedback welcome!

🔗 osf.io/preprints/so...

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 21d
Big fail: they announced today that the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen, regarded as the most important award for services to European unification, goes to Mario Draghi. Trump would deserve it more.

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 22d
Thanks for your interest. That’s too bad. We’ll keep the workshop in person, since hybrid does not allow the same level of engagement. We really want to prioritize discussion and active participation throughout.

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 28d
I don’t know who needs to hear this but once a Paper, Book, Article, Poster or Teaching Award is announced, it cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others. The decision is final and stands for all time.

Reposted by Carl Henrik Knutsen, Victor Asal, Jens Rydgren , and 2 more

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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · Jan 9
We are happy to announce the call for papers for the third WhoGov Mini-Conference on Political Elites!

It will be held on August 20-21st, 2026 in Oslo. We welcome research on political elites broadly understood and not just papers using WhoGov.

You can find the call here: bit.ly/whogovminico...

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Hugo Mercier @hugoreasoning.bsky.social · Jan 7
Interesting megastudy on the (in)effectiveness of climate messaging: tiny effects on attitudes, no effects on donation www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Persuasiveness varied little across party lines", another win for Persuasion in Parallel @aecoppock.bsky.social
A registered report megastudy on the persuasiveness of the most-cited climate messages - Nature Climate Change
How to effectively communicate climate change to the public has long been studied and debated. Through a registered report megastudy, researchers tested the ten most-cited climate change messaging str...
www.nature.com