Job announcement: Junior Professorship in Computational Social Science at the University of Konstanz. Join us at the Center for Data and Methods! Feel free to reach out if you have questions. stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2af…

New study: An analysis of 400 occupations found that taxi and ambulance drivers had the lowest proportion of deaths from Alzheimer’s—raising the possibility that constant stimulation of the hippocampus, used for navigational and spatial processing, might be protective

🚀 Just launched the {metatargetr} 📦 website with exciting updates! Now you can retrieve historical targeting & report data from the Meta Ad Library 📊 powered by an archive I built since Meta only provides recent data. Check it out here: favstats.github.io/metatargetr/ #rstats

From our new issue: "Who Gets Hired? Political Patronage and Bureaucratic Favoritism" by Mai Hassan (Mai Hassan), Horacio Larreguy, and Stuart Russell. #ASPRNewIssue. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for a FAPESP fellowship as part of a research project in partnership with KU Leuven. Project "Street-level bureaucrats in the eye of the populist storm? Lessons from Municipal Transitions of Power." More info: neburocracia.wordpress.com/wp-content/upl…

Very happy to co-organize with Prof. Daphne Halikiopoulou and FES Democracy of the Future the Democratic Expeditions Workshop this September in Budapest at CEU Democracy Institute We’re looking for comparative studies of the far-right in Latin America and Europe Proposals welcome here: democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/CfP-d…

📚 The volume co-edited by our Global Forum conveners Kirk A. Hawkins and Levente Littvay provides a series of specific predictions about the distinct impact of populist ideas. Details: 👉 tinyurl.com/3buw5wr8

🚨 Happy to see one of my PhD papers out at JEPOP 📚 I examine whether MPs' attention to local issues in parliamentary activities affects their re-election chances in party-centred contexts tandfonline.com/eprint/G2HVG3I… Ungated version here: eavigano.github.io/papers/jepop1.…

🚨🚨Hiring! One postdoctoral position in my ERC Consolidator in Madrid. Application deadline: end of February. Job ad & details: tinyurl.com/3dwm96kb Come and join me and my team in sunny Madrid for 5 years of intensive research and lots of publications and fun.

📢New issue of #PAG20 is out!📢 Brian Hamel & Nichole Bauer investigate the link between gendered issue types and successful credit claiming in "Gender, Issue Stereotypes, and the Electoral Returns to Distributive Politics in the United States" buff.ly/40RBbvI

1/5 Thrilled to share my first PhD research publication in Governance Journal! I propose 'hybrid appointments' framework challenging merit-patronage dichotomy + first empirical study of Kurdistan Regional Government top civil servants: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/go…

📢Call for Special Issue Proposals 2025📢👇

🚨 LSE Postdoc Fellow in Political Behaviour 🚨 We're hiring a 2-3 year postdoc fellow at the LSE to join our great team LSE Government! Please spread the word and reach out with questions! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/68…

Post-Doctoral Position in Quantitative Political Science Methods #ECPRMemberJobs 🎓 Degree in political science or similar discipline required ⏰ 24-month contract 🇩🇪 Leibniz University Hannover ⌛ Saturday 15 February uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/759…

🚨my new paper is out in East European Politics on #TISZA, 🇭🇺 #Hungary's new centrist anti-establishment opposition party, currently leading the polls 📊 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

💡Now temporarily #FREE: 'Elite defection and opposition realignment in #Hungary: Respect and Freedom Party (#TISZA) in the 2024 European Parliamentary elections' by Daniel Kovarek (The Robert Schuman Centre) doi.org/10.1080/215991… - Adam Fagan Petr Kopecky Lenka Bustikova Andrea Pirro

Bayesian causal survival analysis has never been so easy! Check out Han Ji’s (Brown Biostatistics) paper & package, in press Observational Studies. Convenient syntax, S3 classes & methods, help files, & efficient MCMC via Stan. arxiv.org/pdf/2310.12358 github.com/RuBBiT-hj/caus…