❓ How did Covid-19 and the Russian attack on Ukraine affect public debates about the 🇪🇺? In a new JEPP article Michal Parizek and I study whether such large exogenous and symmetrical shocks let public EU debates converge across EU member states: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Come and join us Universität zu Köln as a post-doc in computational social science! Apply by May 10! The COMPTEXT Association OPTED_H2020

We have some exciting news to announce: preparations are under way for the launch this Fall of The COMPTEXT Association, a learned society to further text/image/video as data research in the social sciences and beyond. Please sign up for updates at shorturl.at/xyJZ7!

⁉️How did the #EU agree on a supranational labour migration directive with barely anyone noticing? By successfully depoliticizing the issue, as I argue in my paper on the Intra Corporate Transferee Directive, now out #oa in @jei_publication! ⬇️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

For #ManifestoMonday and given the recent expulsion of German AfD from the Identity & Democracy group in the EP, I looked at how strongly EP parties actually differ in their (national) policy positions. More in this thread 👇

Next Wednesday (🗓️ June 5) at 17:00, the last Text-as-Data Speaker Series talk for this spring term will take place feat. @Jwaeckerle! Join us to learn more about the genderedness of parliamentary discourse and legislative power in a comparative perspective 🌟

Deutschland hat gewählt. Wie lassen sich die Ergebnisse erklären & wo gewinnen welche Parteien dazu? Ich habe dafür Strukturdaten und Wahlergebnisse aller Europawahlen seit 1994 zusammengetragen und ein paar statistische Modelle gerechnet. Ein Thread. 🧵👇

Excited for this paper to be officially online AJPS! If you’re interested in this line of research, come find me at EPSA or ECPR this summer to hear about our next work in progress! Thanks to coauthors Bruno Castanho Silva (@bcastanho.bsky.social), @Jwaeckerle and Comp Pol Cologne & Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies!

🚨New article EJPR journal with my amazing co-authors Jan Schwalbach & @NoamHimmelrath: "Location matters! Geospatial dynamics of MP responses to Covid-19 protests in multilevel systems" 🔓Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/1475-6…  🧵A thread 1/6

After Kamala Harris' nomination, I talked to a bunch of journalists about our meta-analysis on race/gender in candidate experiments. With the exception of 1 brave journalist, everyone called me off. I've never been called off by so many journalists. A 🧵on why I think that is.

🚨New publication Research & Politics If you apply quantitative text analysis to legislative text data, you might be interested in my new article "Mind the context! The role of theoretical concepts for analyzing legislative text data" 🔓Open Access: doi.org/10.1177/205316…

📢New publication: "Dynamics of #protest #mobilisation in the European #polycrisis" - OA in JEPP, co-authored with H. Kriesi and A. Altiparmakis. This has been out for a tiny bit but very happy to write now the intro tweet. doi.org/10.1080/135017…

CfA for a 4 year PostDoc Position Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Great people, great job, great city! Come and join us!

We are pleased to announce that #COMPTEXT2025 will take place at the University of Vienna on 24-26 April 2025. With the great organising team Computational Communication Science Lab (UNIVIE) IPKW – Department of Communication, UNIVIE, we will soon release the Call for Papers, Panels and Data Presentations! Stay tuned!

Come and join us as a Doctoral researcher DYNAMICS PhD. Great programme, great people and great city!

I'm spending a few weeks at Universität München! Special thanks to Klaus Goetz and @LucasSchramm91 for hosting me at Geschwister-Scholl-Institut f. Politikwissenschaft! Drop me a message if you are up for a Cappuccino, Bier, or a walk through Englischer Garten! ☕️🍻🌳🏄

We finally dropped #ParlLawSpeech! 🥳 Excited to see how this data and especially the links between documents will be used in the future! Check out ParlLawSpeech.org and keep us posted if you use the data!