📢 🇪🇺📘 Exciting news! The second edition of our textbook "Foundations of European Politics: A Comparative Approach" - with @catherinedevries.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social and @jbslapin.bsky.social - is out at Oxford UP! 🧵👇 1/5

We're organizing another round of the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology 🎉
summerschoolwpm.org

Our super-cool speakers include msands.bsky.social @allisonwkoh.bsky.social @melinscribe.bsky.social @rebeccakittel.bsky.social @fabiennelind.bsky.social & @indiiigo.bsky.social

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🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky

📣Reminder: 7 more days to apply to our 'Methods of Political Science' Conference in Mannheim in March 2025.📣

sosci.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/mzes-dvpw-me...

#polisky

Do private interests influence politicians' rhetoric? Check out this outstanding open-access article by my colleagues @stefanmueller.bsky.social and @jihedncib.bsky.social on housing policy in Ireland. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🚨Publication Alert🚨

An update to the ManifestoVault repository is now available!

Included: cleaned, content-verified manifesto texts at the natural-sentence level of the 2024 Irish and UK general elections. Full details in Release Note.

@rwillh11.bsky.social, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social

We’re hiring a Team Lead at the GESIS Computational Social Science department 🌐
Passionate about open science & innovative methods for digital behavioral data? Join us to shape the future of CSS! 💻📊

❓ Questions? Contact me via DM or mail
👉 Job ad: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge...

I'm very excited for this conference we're organising with the dvpw methods section. 🎉
Plus: there'll be a conference dinner and travel stipends are available.

More info & links for application 👇

@aaron.bsky.team Officially moving to Bluesky :)

Great to see so many journalists transitioning to BlueSky.

I’ve tried adding Irish journalists to the Starter Pack on Irish Politics. Let me know if you’d like to be included.
➡️ go.bsky.app/QezocFF

Dashboard of Irish Party Manifestos

Our website contains over 85 manifestos from General, Local, and EP Elections.
You can read/download the documents or search for specific terms.

We’ll add more #GE24 manifestos as soon as they get published.

➡️ irishpoliticsdata.shinyapps.io/manifestoexp...

BlueSky Starter Pack on Irish Politics and Political Science

I have compiled an initial list of researchers and journalists working on Irish politics, as well as Irish political scientists abroad and political scientists based in Ireland.
Who’s missing? 👋
➡️ bsky.app/starter-pack...

I did my first TV interviews yesterday, talking to rbb's 'Abendschau' and 'Brandenburg aktuell' about the current protests.
It's so difficult to be short when talking research - but maybe that's a take-away for teaching as well?🤫

www.rbb-online.de/abendschau/v...

www.rbb-online.de/brandenburga...

How do voters react to different women's representation trajectories, and what does this tell us about progressive mobilization and backlash dynamics?

I tackle this question in a paper that was part of my PhD and is now out in CPS:
doi.org/10.1177/0010...
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