📢 Webinar invitation: May 20 on "AI & Politics" with Semra Sevi (University of Toronto) @semrasevi.bsky.social and Don Green (Columbia University)!
Start time: 9:30 ET, 14:30 London, 15:30 CET, 16:30 Israel.
For zoom link & additional info: www.prd-erc.eu/events
8/8 🎉 Super proud of this computational social science work out of our lab at @bengurionuniv.bsky.social ! Huge thanks to my co-authors Itay Razumenko and Arnon Sturm. Read the full paper at arxiv.org/abs/2604.18041 If you're attending ACL, come say hi 👋 #NLProc #ACL2026 #LegalTech
🚨 Excited to share our new paper to appear in the Findings of ACL 2026!
"JudgeMeNot" asks: Can LLMs learn the specific reasoning signature of an individual judge? We tackle this in the low-resource setting of Hebrew case law.
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2604.18041 🧵👇
Excited to share that our paper on emigration and protest, co-authored with @fcastrog.bsky.social, has been accepted at JOP.
Despite significant advances in large language models, personalizing them for individual decision-makers remains an open problem. Here, we introduce a synthetic-organic supervision pipeline that trans...arxiv.org
Really happy that our paper with @profejacevedo.bsky.social , "The Mobilizing Potential of Mass Emigration: Experimental Evidence from Honduras" received its final acceptance at the Journal of Politics 🎉 .
You can check the accepted version here francisca-castro.com/research/art...
⬇️Thanks for the feedback opportunity - and for the shout-out! The paper co-authored with the fabulous Julia Schulte-Cloos @jschultecloos.bsky.social & Hahrie Han, and Julia will be joining the talk ✨
#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social -
How does affective polarization feel? A comparative description - https://cup.org/3QwjcZj
- @katharinalawall.bsky.social, @versteegenluca.bsky.social & @mtsakiris.bsky.social
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↗️ #PoliticalTrust can shape the trajectory of democracy, writes @mkolczynska.bsky.social.
📊 Its effects, however, are conditional and uneven – and increases in trust may sometimes even be conducive to democratic decline, rather than renewal.
👉️ bit.ly/4tweCbd
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Francisca Castro
Jennifer Oser
🚨 Western democracies are often described as polarized. @katharinalawall.bsky.social, @mtsakiris.bsky.social + I study how polarization actually feels.
Now published in @ejprjournal.bsky.social, we asked citizens in 5 European countries to report their emotions ⬇️
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We're hiring 2 postdocs at @uio.no on my ERC-Cog project on how authoritarian regimes shape scientific knowledge. 3–4 years, U. of Oslo. Deadline: 10 Sept 2026. Great dept., terms, well funded, bustling & green Scandi capital. Apply!
👉 jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/303060/postdoctoral-fello
For my Horizon Project EDGE I am looking for a senior researcher from October 1st. This is a 3-year position on inequalities and democracy support. All information on the job and application process is here: gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2639403?...
Political trust can shape the trajectory of democracy writes Marta Kołczyńska, but its effects are conditional, uneven, and increases in trust may sometimes even be conducive to democratic decline rat...
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow (303060), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Thursday, September 10, 2026
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GESIS is one of the world's leading social science infrastructure facilities, supporting researchers at all levels of their research projects with expertise and infrastructure services. We help ensure...
TOMORROW at 13:00 we are hosting a fascinating talk by
@jenny-oser.bsky.social on how to motivate citizens to participate in non-electoral politics.
Register to attend: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/a3c4d4...
Tore Wig
Peter Luca Versteegen
Alexia Katsanidou
*PSA EVENTS*
How to ‘Get Out the Participation’? Testing the Efficacy of Policy-Oriented vs Social-Relational Recruitment Approaches
🧠 Online Political Psychology Spring Seminar by @psapolpsychology.bsky.social
📆 27 May, 1 - 2pm
➡️ Free and open to all
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How to ‘Get Out the Participation’? Testing the Efficacy of Policy-Oriented versus Social-Relational Recruitment Approaches Julia Schulte-Cloos (Marburg), Jennifer Oser (Ben-Gurion University of the…
