That's a wrap on #COMPTEXT2026! Huge thanks to lead organiser @chrisguarnold.bsky.social and IDAI/@unibirmingham.bsky.social team, plus all tutors, chairs, discussants & sponsors. Conference dinner at a world-renowned cricket stadium—what a treat. Safe travels home; see you at COMPTEXT 2027!
📣 Call for Papers!
Die Themengruppe Vergleichende Parlamentarismusforschung lädt zur Tagung am
🗓 1.–2. Oktober 2026
📍 in Greifswald (dieses Jahr bei uns vor Ort – ich freue mich sehr!)
Einreichungen bis 15. Mai 👇
Hier gehts zum Call for Papers shortlink.uk/1tdsI
What drives legislators' emotional engagement with climate issues? I explore the role of their age and party affiliation and over-time developments in a new research note in European Journal of Political Research. (a thread)
1/ New @Nature! We study how powerful institutions shape the information environment for LLMs. Commercial LLM training is opaque, so we trace a path from state-coordinated media -> training data -> model responses.
The COMPTEXT Association
Just gave a talk at the University of Western Ontario (work w/ @ankuepfer.bsky.social & @pluggedchris.bsky.social). Key finds: object prominence in images matters; GOP more often sidelines women in ads than Democrats; #AfD populism is scripted, not spontaneous. #ImageAsData #CSS
I just presented recent research (with @chrisguarnold.bsky.social) on the benefits of integrating workflow management systems in computational social science studies at @parliview.bsky.social workshop at UCD in Dublin!
#multimodaldata #replication #researchinfrastructure #CSS
shortlink.uk
NEW -
Who Do Parties Speak To? Introducing the PSoGA: A New Comprehensive Database of Parties’ Social Group Appeals https://cup.org/43fmXFj
- @alonadolinsky.com, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social & @rwillh11.bsky.social
#FirstView
🚨 Stellenausschreibung 🚨
Promotionsstelle zu Parteien in ländlich-peripheren Räumen (4 Jahre, 75 %)
Das Projekt verbindet qualitative Interviews, die Analyse lokaler Parteistrukturen und Inhaltsanalysen von Wahlprogrammen.
🗓️ Bewerbungsschluss: 31.05.2026
www.uni-greifswald.de/universitaet...
🚨 Job alert! 🚨
Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion/IR (3 yrs)
@unigreifswald.bsky.social
Work on democratic resilience in times of crisis using cross-national survey data.
flexible start (earliest possible)
deadline: 31 May 2026
🔗 www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...
The AfD's narratives have had a powerful impact on German policy debates.
New research shows the party's influence lies in the fundamentally different story it tells about what the German nation is or should be.
✍ Rachel Herring | Maximilian Tkocz blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
Julius Diener
New research shows the AfD’s influence lies in the fundamentally different story it tells about what the German nation is or should be.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
Stellenausschreibung des Interdisziplinären Forschungszentrum Ostseeraum (IFZO)
Andreas Kupfer bringing order and replicability to computational social science pipelines with snakemake with application to 30k parliamentary speech videos in Germany
@ankuepfer.bsky.social
