@mzesunimannheim
Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (Mannheim Centre for European Social Research, MZES) - interdisciplinary research institute, University of Mannheim https://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de
❗ Lecture by @marcratkovic.bsky.social TONIGHT
⌚ 7 pm
📍 SN 169, U of Mannheim
Topics include the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), social unrest, and the policies of the Trump administration.
Organized by the General Student Committee (AStA)
👉 www.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/news/talk-at...
🔥 POSTDOC POSITIONS ON CHILDREN'S POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION 🔥
Wanna understand young people's beliefs about political leadership, politics, and power? Then this is your chance! I'm looking for two 2-year postdocs to join my ERC-funded research project @au.dk
international.au.dk/about/profil...
Join us tomorrow for this exciting talk by @ankuepfer.bsky.social in the MZES Social Science Data Lab!
Details and Zoom link ⬇️
Reminder 👇🙂
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📢 Promotionsstelle zum 01.07.2026 bei GESIS
- Standort: Mannheim
- Team: GESIS Panel
- Aufgabenprofil: survey-methodisch, facettenreich, innovativ & team-orientiert
- Vertragslänge: 4 Jahre
- Gehaltseingruppierung: TVL 13, 75%
- Bewerbungsfrist: 12.04.2026
- gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2553179?...
❓ Ständig im Krisenmodus?
❗ Wie wir als Gemeinschaft Krisen bewältigen
📆 Mi., 11.3., 17:30
📍 Aula im Mannheimer Schloss
Öffentliche Podiumsdiskussion mit den MZES-Forschern Marc Helbling, @valentinlang.bsky.social und Kolleg*innen verschiedener Disziplinen:
👉 www.uni-mannheim.de/newsroom/pre...
Very happy to share that our paper "Political socialization and immigrants' support for progressive politics: the case of green parties" with @antvalentim.bsky.social is now published in @psrm.bsky.social!
Link to paper: doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
Short summary in 🧵below:
(1/5)
📣 Call for Papers | DeZIM-Konferenz „Die umkämpfte Normalität der Migration“
Wie prägen globale Krisen, transnationale Verflechtungen, nationale Diskurse & lokale Erfahrungen langfristige Verschiebungen von Solidarität, Exklusion und Demokratie?
Alle Infos ➡️ www.dezim-institut.de/veranstaltun...
❗️📅 For a continuously updated overview of all events please see
👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/events
🔗 Zoom link can be requested at
mzes-speaker-series@uni-mannheim.de
2/2
❗️ Tue, Mar 10, 13:45-15:15 CET
📍 A 231 and ZOOM
MZES Speaker Series
with
@rahsaanmax.bsky.social
"Beyond Cosmopolitanism: Public Support for Immigration"
👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even...
1/2
❗️📅 For a continuously updated overview of all events please see
👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/events
🔗 Zoom link can be requested at
mzes-speaker-series@uni-mannheim.de
2/2
❗️ Tue, Mar 10, 12:15-13:30 CET
📍 A 231 and ZOOM
MZES Speaker Series
with
Kåre Vernby ( @stockholm-uni.bsky.social )
"The Local Roots of the Nationalization of Politics"
👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even...
1/2
7 Doctoral Positions at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality” @uni-konstanz.de #Deadline 15 April 2026 www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/ungleichheit... @mbusemeyer.bsky.social @ecib-dvpw.bsky.social @dvpw-ipe.bsky.social @dvpw-regieren.bsky.social @dvpw.bsky.social
Rechtzeitig zur #Landtagswahl: eine neue Version von „Immigration and Nationalism in the Long Run“
(mit schneiderst.de/)
-> Die historischen Erfahrungen mit Einwanderung wirken sich dort bis heute auf die Wahlergebnisse der #AfD aus. <-
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Sehr schöne Visualisierung der programmatischen Positionen der Parteien in den deutschen Bundesländern durch die @zeit.de, basierend auf dem pwib-Datensatz (link.springer.com/book/10.1007...) von Thomas Bräuninger, @jocmuel.bsky.social, @pluggedchris.bsky.social und mir 👇
Manuel Hagel hat eben in den Tagesthemen den "Länder Survey" erwähnt mit Blick auf mögliche (schwierige) Koalitionsverhandlungen. Das hier war damit vermutlich gemeint: www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.koali...
Glückwunsch @drphilphil.bsky.social @marcdebus.bsky.social für die gute Arbeit
Was für ein irrer Wahlabend? Was wird das für ein Landtag? Und woran lags denn nun? Erste Analysen mit @steffenwurzel.bsky.social @thielko.bsky.social @marcdebus.bsky.social in #Deutschlandfunk #DERTAG
über die Landtagswahl in BaWü
share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothe...
Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of attending the workshop “Fostering European Identity Through Mobility” at @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social. Many thanks to @nschwitter.bsky.social & A. Wenz for organizing this great event and for inviting me to participate in the panel discussion on Thursday.
Ja, so ist es. Die Unterschiede in der Aufmerksamkeit sind der Studie zufolge war nicht riesig, aber eindeutig und systematisch.
Zur Pressemitteilung:
www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/deta...
Zur Studie (leider nicht open access):
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
❗ "Wechsel oder weiter so? – Baden-Württemberg wählt"
📆 Fr., 6.3., 17:05
📣 SWR Kultur
Mit @marcdebus.bsky.social u.a.
Manuel Hagel (CDU) und Cem Özdemir (Grüne) wollen Ministerpräsident in BW werden. Wer wird das Rennen machen und welche Themen bestimmen die Wahl?
👉 www.swr.de/kultur/gesel...
🚨 Content alert 🚨
New recording and workshop materials published!
➡️ When Events Change Samples: Disentangling Causal Effects from Compositional Bias in Quasi-Experimental Designs
👤
@klaramueller.bsky.social
(Uni Mannheim)
📺 youtu.be/kYdDGgaI95w
🗒️ github.com/SocialScienc...
![2026-03-11 | Input talk | Andreas Küpfer (TU Darmstadt & University of Birmingham)
Politics in Action: Studying Multimodal Data from Local Meetings to National Parliaments
Hybrid event [A5, 6, Room A231 + Zoom]
März 11, 2026, 13:45-15:15
Abstract
The analysis of multimodal political communication enables political scientists to study how politicians and parties behave in previously untapped ways. While large volumes of audiovisual data are increasingly available, these data are typically unstructured and vary substantially in quality, requiring robust and carefully designed processing pipelines. This talk guides through the challenges and opportunities of analysing political video data across institutional contexts. Analysing videos from local political meetings, including US school boards and state supreme courts, allows the generation of features such as transcriptions, gendered speech shares, and agenda items. However, the often semi-professional production quality of such recordings limits the systematic use of visual information. By contrast, legislative debate recordings are typically standardised and post-edited, enabling the leverage of visual features such as eye contact seeking to study the emergence of dominant behaviour during parliamentary speech. Scaling multimodal processing and feature extraction workflows across heterogeneous institutional contexts is, therefore, crucial. It enables the systematic study of political communication across levels of government and over longer time periods.
Presenter
Andreas Küpfer is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the DFG-funded project "Analysing Legislative Politics with Aligned Text, Audio and Image Data" at the Institute for Political Science of the Technical University of Darmstadt, holding a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Mannheim. He works at the intersection of Data Science and Political Science. His research focuses on (multimodal) political communication, combining computational with tradi…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oizrkjzyr6vekl76tjctghcl/bafkreiawvyqdytqoc4essm7llpzps33qsxpv6spg6i4fi5fk7qy33p63ye)
2026-03-11 | Input talk | Andreas Küpfer (TU Darmstadt & University of Birmingham) Politics in Action: Studying Multimodal Data from Local Meetings to National Parliaments Hybrid event [A5, 6, Room A231 + Zoom] März 11, 2026, 13:45-15:15 Abstract The analysis of multimodal political communication enables political scientists to study how politicians and parties behave in previously untapped ways. While large volumes of audiovisual data are increasingly available, these data are typically unstructured and vary substantially in quality, requiring robust and carefully designed processing pipelines. This talk guides through the challenges and opportunities of analysing political video data across institutional contexts. Analysing videos from local political meetings, including US school boards and state supreme courts, allows the generation of features such as transcriptions, gendered speech shares, and agenda items. However, the often semi-professional production quality of such recordings limits the systematic use of visual information. By contrast, legislative debate recordings are typically standardised and post-edited, enabling the leverage of visual features such as eye contact seeking to study the emergence of dominant behaviour during parliamentary speech. Scaling multimodal processing and feature extraction workflows across heterogeneous institutional contexts is, therefore, crucial. It enables the systematic study of political communication across levels of government and over longer time periods. Presenter Andreas Küpfer is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the DFG-funded project "Analysing Legislative Politics with Aligned Text, Audio and Image Data" at the Institute for Political Science of the Technical University of Darmstadt, holding a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Mannheim. He works at the intersection of Data Science and Political Science. His research focuses on (multimodal) political communication, combining computational with tradi…
🚨 Upcoming: "Politics in Action: Studying Multimodal Data from Local Meetings to National Parliaments"
👤 @ankuepfer.bsky.social (TU Darmstadt & University of Birmingham)
🗓️ Wed, March 11, 13:45-15:15 CET
📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #ComputationalSocialScience
Pursue your scientific career at GESIS!
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We offer a job as a Doctoral Researcher in Computational Social Science
(Salary group 13 TV-L, working time 100 %, limited until 31.03.2029):
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❗️ Tue, Mar 03, 12:15-13:30 CET
📍 A 231 and ZOOM
www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even...
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was wir bieten Beratung zu quantitativer Methodik, Konzeptionalisierung, Datenerhebung und -auswertung Bereitstellung von wissenschaftlich geprüften Erhebungsinstrumenten Expertise in Integrations-, Migrations- und Rassismusforschung Für eine fundierte Beratung benötigen wir eine präzise Fragestellung und kurze Projektinformationen.
unser Angebot richtet sich an: Mitglieder*innen von Hochschulen, Außeruniversitäre Forschungseinrichtungen, Ressortforschungseinrichtungen des Bundes, … und sonstige Vertreter*innen der Wissenschaft
Sie forschen zu #Migration oder #Integration und benötigen Unterstützung bei methodischen Fragen?
➡️ Die kostenlose #Methodenberatung des DeZIM-Instituts unterstützt bei den ersten Schritten und gibt praktische Hilfestellungen bei der Datenerhebung.
Interesse? 📧 methodenberatung@dezim-institut.de
Reminder 👇🙂
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‼️Es ist soweit! Die Wahl des #RatSWD läuft vom 2.-29.3., die Einladung zur online-Wahl ging heute raus.
Für die #Politikwissenschaft kandidieren
@ackermannk.bsky.social,
@wahlforschung.thorstenfaas.de und
Lars Rinsdorf
👉 www.konsortswd.de/ueber-uns/ra...
#PoWi #DVPW #DGfP #DGPuK
Sad to be leaving Mannheim on Wednesday! ☀️
I’ve had a fantastic 3 weeks as a Visiting Fellow at @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social. Huge thanks to folks at MZES for the warm welcome, the feedback, and the steady supply of coffee and of course Pretzels 🥨
See you soon, Mannheim!