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theresa gessler
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👩‍🏫Professor of democratic political decision making @politikuhh.bsky.social‬
🔍democracy | parties | gender | CEE🇭🇺 🇵🇱
🛠️TextasData & digital methods
www.theresagessler.eu/ | former @th_ges
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theresa gessler @gessler.bsky.social · Sep 22
Some professional news as I took my oath of office today:
On September 1st, I joined the University of Hamburg as a full professor of democratic political decision making👋

I'm very excited about this job & the chance to continue researching democracy, party competition and digitalization here
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jeppjournal.bsky.social
🤔 Illiberal policy frames? Turns out it’s fear-mongering, not crisis-driven

👥 @miklossebok.bsky.social, @buzogany.bsky.social, @juliafleischer.bsky.social, @gessler.bsky.social, Anna Takács, @seanmtheriault.bsky.social & Ákos Holányi

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Crisis-exploitation or fear-mongering? A research agenda for the comparative study of policy crises and illiberal policy frames
The pervasive and growing illiberal movement is, perhaps, the greatest global challenge to liberal democracy today. Scholars argue that domestic and international crises have played an important ro...
www.tandfonline.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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denis-cohen.bsky.social
Just published in @bjpols.bsky.social: @sergipardos.bsky.social and I show that inter-regional moves in pursuit of employment security reduce individual worries about immigration—a mobility pattern that, in the aggregate, reinforces spatial polarization in anti-immigration sentiment. cup.org/3XiB6yD
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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sarahobolt.bsky.social
‼️Last chance to submit your paper or panel proposal to EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is TODAY!

Don’t miss out - it will be full of great political science and fun social events! 👩‍🏫🥳

epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
sarahobolt.bsky.social Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 24d
🚨 EPSS Belfast 2026 Call for Papers - One week to go! 🚨

Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference
Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.
epssnet.org
November 7, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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denis-cohen.bsky.social
🚨 CfP: SekMethoden 2026
🗓️ March 12-13, 2026
🗺️ Hannover, Germany
⏰ DL Dec 07, 2025

👉 Apply here: sosci.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/sekmethoden2...

👥 @gessler.bsky.social, @lukrudolph.bsky.social, @donyhu.bsky.social, Jona Baumert, Morten Harmening and I look forward to your submissions!
A screenshot of the CfP for SekMethoden 2026
November 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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lukasbrunner.bsky.social
Am kommenden Dienstag gebe ich im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung zur Klimakrise an der @uni-hamburg.de einen Vortrag zu den physikalischen Grundlagen der Klimakrise. Der Vortrag ist öffentlich, also gerne vorbeikommen!

Freue mich auf den Austausch! #climatecomms

www.zfw.uni-hamburg.de/oeffentliche...
Physikalischen Grundlagen
www.zfw.uni-hamburg.de
October 17, 2025 at 8:51 AM
gessler.bsky.social
Some professional news as I took my oath of office today:
On September 1st, I joined the University of Hamburg as a full professor of democratic political decision making👋

I'm very excited about this job & the chance to continue researching democracy, party competition and digitalization here
1/2
September 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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gessler.bsky.social
@deeesharp.bsky.social & I are looking for a collaborator on a project w/ @offenegesellschaft.bsky.social on empathy-based interventions against affective polarization @uni-hamburg.de
j0b.de/veca

75% PhD position, 1st yr project funded & can be converted to a position w/ teaching afterwards
📆31/08
Ausschreibung
www.uni-hamburg.de
August 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
gessler.bsky.social
Noch (fast) eine Woche / One week left ⤵️
Wir beantworten gerne Fragen und freuen uns übers Teilen👋
#polscijobs #PoliSky
gessler.bsky.social theresa gessler @gessler.bsky.social · Aug 14
@deeesharp.bsky.social & I are looking for a collaborator on a project w/ @offenegesellschaft.bsky.social on empathy-based interventions against affective polarization @uni-hamburg.de
j0b.de/veca

75% PhD position, 1st yr project funded & can be converted to a position w/ teaching afterwards
📆31/08
Ausschreibung
www.uni-hamburg.de
August 25, 2025 at 5:56 AM
gessler.bsky.social
@deeesharp.bsky.social & I are looking for a collaborator on a project w/ @offenegesellschaft.bsky.social on empathy-based interventions against affective polarization @uni-hamburg.de
j0b.de/veca

75% PhD position, 1st yr project funded & can be converted to a position w/ teaching afterwards
📆31/08
Ausschreibung
www.uni-hamburg.de
August 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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epssnet.bsky.social
The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference!

📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast

🗓️ June 18–20, 2026

📍 ICC Belfast

📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025

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August 1, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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saengler.bsky.social
My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years.

If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply!

shorturl.at/kcTbG
July 28, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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haakjes.bsky.social
It's not easy being a female researcher. But this week, I felt the power of brilliant women* coming together: mutual support, inspiring conversations & lots of code!👩‍💻 We tackled it all: Web scraping, LLMs & data viz. Many thanks to @sophiahunger.bsky.social @gessler.bsky.social, Jelena & Sophia #wpm
July 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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allisonwkoh.bsky.social
I had the best time getting ✨multilingual✨ in R and Python at the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology 🤗

Couldn’t ask for a more supportive group; very important when several hours of live-coding is involved 🙈
gessler.bsky.social theresa gessler @gessler.bsky.social · Jul 24
On Monday @allisonwkoh.bsky.social talked about Functions & Programming in R in the morning, continuing with an Intro to Python after lunch 🐍
Seminar room Allison Koh
July 25, 2025 at 9:16 AM
gessler.bsky.social
Today, we wrapped up the first part of the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology at @unibremen.bsky.social with a hackathon 👩‍💻
#WomeninPolMeth #PolMeth #wpm

So far, we've had a great week thanks to our fantastic participants and instructors 🧵⏬
sophiahunger.bsky.social Sophia Hunger @sophiahunger.bsky.social · Jul 21
What an inspiring first day at the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology here in Bremen yesterday! We were honored to be welcomed by the president of @unibremen.bsky.social‬, Prof. Jutta Günther, (1)
July 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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sophiahunger.bsky.social
What an inspiring first day at the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology here in Bremen yesterday! We were honored to be welcomed by the president of @unibremen.bsky.social‬, Prof. Jutta Günther, (1)
July 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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mtplk.bsky.social
on my way to Bremen with spezi and the most beautiful booklet I’ve ever seen 🥹

(there is a even list of specialty coffee locations!)
July 20, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social
🇵🇱🇩🇪 During the first day of Polish border checks on the DE-PL border, Polish law enforcement stopped almost 700 vehicles, controlled nearly 4400 people, and denied entry to 1 (one) person. That's some ROI there.
July 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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gefjonoff.bsky.social
Our Element is out! 🎉

Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms?

www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies
Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies
www.cambridge.org
July 2, 2025 at 8:27 AM
gessler.bsky.social
#showyourstripes Hamburg, Germany

Human caused climate change is noticeable everywhere:
showyourstripes.info
June 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social
🇵🇱⚖️🗳️ The rule of law repair process in Poland just got incredibly more difficult. I expect President Nawrocki to be even less cooperative than Duda, as Nawrocki will work hard for a PiS parliamentary election victory. Tough times ahead. 1/
June 2, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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cairosofie.bsky.social
🚨 New WP! 📄 "Publish or Procreate: The Effect of Motherhood on Research Performance" (w/ @valentinatartari.bsky.social
👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 We investigate how parenthood affects scientific productivity and impact — and find that the impact is far from equal for mothers and fathers.
May 22, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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feliciarthm.bsky.social
Thrilled to see my 1st PhD paper out in #PartyPolitics! Based on ~15000 posts by 86 German subnat. parties (2015-2019), Simon Franzmann & I show that dominant & challenger parties differ in the use of policy-based vs symbolic & positive vs negative appeals.

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doi.org/10.1177/1354...
Abstract Social group appeals are a crucial but often overlooked aspect of party competition. Challenger parties differ from dominant parties not only in their issue entrepreneurship and anti-establishment rhetoric, but also in how they approach social groups. Whereas dominant parties can and must use their policy record when appealing to groups rhetorically, challenger parties compensate for their lack of policy influence and long-lasting group ties by using more symbolic groupbased appeals, creating affective affiliations with voters while avoiding accountability or dividing their potential base. Similarly, they are more inclined to use negative group-based appeals. Using a most-similar-systems design and a new dataset of 15,460 tweets from German subnational parties, our main finding is that dominant parties, particularly those having held the prime minister’s office, favour policy-based group appeals, while challengers rely more on symbolic appeals. However, differences in appeal strategies diminish during campaign times. Our findings underline the importance of groupbased appeals for mainstream-challenger competition.
May 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
gessler.bsky.social
The Hungarian government 🇭🇺 further cracks down on its civil sector. The bill proposes forcing those leading civil orgs to disclose their private assets and defunding orgs that 'harm sovereignty' e.g. by criticizing the gov as undemocratic or advocating LGBTQ rights

summary: telex.hu/english/2025...
May 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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needhibhalla.bsky.social
"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.

Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
davidmalakoff.bsky.social David Malakoff @davidmalakoff.bsky.social · May 13
Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF
Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress
www.science.org
May 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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anneroth.bsky.social
Die ARD lässt die afd live aus dem Bundestag kommentieren, wie es nach der gescheiterten Merz-Wahl weitergeht. Ganz normal.
May 6, 2025 at 8:38 AM