Thrilled to announce that our article “Protest and digital adaptation” is now available Research & Politics journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20… @nils_weidmann and I show that citizens in autocracies adapt digitally to protest events on the ground by relying on the Tor encrypting network.

Together with @nils_weidmann Nicolas Zahn @kpaula__ and Ahmed Maati I'll talk about Internet control @TUMThinkTank HfPMuenchen on November 16! For more info and registration see eventbrite.de/e/who-controls…

New research note published WEP Journal today! Johannes and I present insights from our protest event data set of the Pegida movement. Paper is open access; check it out: doi.org/10.1080/014023…

To what degree are news websites in autocracies resilient to online censorship? I explore this question in Egypt. A short 🧵 on this study that is now #FirstView and #OpenAccess in the British Journal of Political Science cambridge.org/core/journals/…

I participated in 2018 and it was a great experience! I highly recommend applying!

📚 New paper out in Research & Politics! The paper describes protest dynamics during the #COVID19 pandemic and explores cross-country variation in protest issues. Check it out; it's open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20… WZB Democracy Uni Konstanz Department of Politics & Public Admіn

Ich durfte mit dem Deutschlandfunk Deutschlandfunk über unsere Studie zur Internet-Infrastruktur in Autokratien und Demokratien sprechen. Universität Konstanz Uni Konstanz Department of Politics & Public Admіn deutschlandfunk.de/autokratische-…

🚨 4-year postdoc position in computational social science at University of Zurich. Come work with me and Fabrizio Gilardi (inactive) at IPZ - Political Science UZH! This is part of an #SNF project together with Dominik Hangartner and Gloria Gennaro. Application deadline is June 30. Job ad & details: ⬇️ ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns/o…

How do European publics perceive autocratic hosts of sport events? New study PLOS One w/ Johannes Gerschewski, Heiko Giebler, Sebastian Hellmeier & Michael Zürn. ➡️ doi.org/10.1371/journa… Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS) Uni Konstanz Department of Politics & Public Admіn Universität Konstanz

New paper forthcoming in Political Analysis, w/ @nils_weidmann, ZacharyST, Eda Keremoğlu and Bastian Goldlücke! We propose a method that makes image classification more transparent by identifying which objects on the image are related to the outcome. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2407.03786

Together \w Janina Beiser-McGrath, I wrote a blog post for The Loop. A Political Science Blog from @ECPR on women in autocratic cabinets and how dictators treat their political elites. theloop.ecpr.eu/autocracies-ar…

Sportliche Großereignisse bieten autoritären Regimen die Möglichkeit, sich gegenüber der Bevölkerung anderer Staaten als fortschrittlich und offen zu präsentieren. Neue Studie unter Beteiligung der #UniKonstanz Politikwissenschaftlerin Eda Keremoğlu 👉 t1p.de/w5vmb

Now in FirstView: “Improving Computer Vision Interpretability: Transparent Two-Level Classification for Complex Scenes.” Stefan Scholz, @nils_weidmann, ZacharyST, Eda Keremoğlu, and Bastian Goldlücke propose a two-level method for image classification.