Alex Coppock

aecoppock.bsky.social

21 October 2026 14:47

New working paper with Matt Blyth, Marco Aviña, and @semrasevi.bsky.social ! paper: alexandercoppock.com/coppock_etal... shiny: anonymouspoliticalscientist.shinyapps.io/afcp-explorer/ Answer to the title question: effects of partisanship and policy are much bigger than demographics or experience

Alessandro Nai

alessandronai.bsky.social

20 October 2026 18:42

Need to rethink the system: - introduce (some) random allocations (if formal requirements met) - curb money magnets: previous grants get malus, not bonus, points - boost collaborative grants - cut down proposal writing costs - less/shorter is more - rolling-basis submissions, no submission windows

Petter Törnberg

pettertornberg.com

19 October 2026 16:11

It’s official! 🎉 Very happy to announce that I’ll be joining the University of Lucerne as Professor of Political Science! And even better, my wife Juliana is also taking up a position at Lucerne! 😊 Excited to return to Switzerland together, and meet all the wonderful new colleagues! ⛰️

European Consortium for Political Research

ecpr.bsky.social

17 October 2026 10:10

PhD Researcher (Democratic Persuasion and Emmy Noether Research Group) #ECPRMemberJobs 🎓 MA/MSc in Social Sciences, Psychology, Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or related 🏫 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München ⌛ Tuesday 20 October 🔗 buff.ly/htmWmya #PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky

Nils Steiner

nilssteiner.bsky.social

16 October 2026 17:34

Cool research note (says the handling editor)! “Don’t know” responses to left–right self-placement vary sharply by survey mode in the Eurobarometer. Broader lessons: (1) Be careful when comparing nonresponse across modes. (2) Making “don’t know” equally available and salient across modes is hard.