@haasvioleta
Research Fellow at @iast.fr, Toulouse School of Economics. Prev. DYNAMICS/Humboldt-Uni. Research on pol. behavior & CP: discrimination, crime, party competition, social norms & protest. https://violeta-haas.github.io/
Who produces hate speech? And how does that matter for content moderation?
We show that across different countries and platforms, a relatively small share of users are responsible for a very large share of hate - overall, 5% write 83-100% of hateful content.
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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...
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😯 Happening this week!
📆 Be sure to join us and share with your peers
🚨 A reminder! 🚨
The call for our Spring/Summer 2026 series is due THIS Friday, March 6 @ 11:59PST.
Presenters only need an abstract to submit:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
📢 Call for papers!
We are organizing the 6th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 14-15 May 2026 at King’s College London!
Keynote: Shanker Satyanath (NYU)
No fee, travel grants might become available!
Submit at: tinyurl.com/qpe2026
EPSS Travel Grants for 2026 Belfast conference:
PhD students & junior scholars @ institutions in European countries that are often underrepresented, can apply for full fee waiver & £500 stipend
Apply: lnkd.in/ehXjhCgf
Deadline: March 8, 11:59pm GMT.
More details: lnkd.in/eZTP5sWR
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!
Excited to visit @lsegovernment.bsky.social next week for this fantastic workshop👇
Thanks to @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @florianfoos.bsky.social, and @thchau.bsky.social for the invitation and for organizing everything!
📢 JOB ALERT! Fully funded 3-year PhD in Climate & Comparative Politics at @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social. Starting in September.
The project is on the political consequences of climate policies in carbon-intensive communities across Europe.
🗓 Deadline: May 17
www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
Well... Apparently this is happening in three days. If you're in Barcelona and feel like hearing a bit about political behaviour, see you Friday at 11.00 am at UPF 🎉
🚨📄 New paper (conditional accepted at @thejop.bsky.social):
We test whether social desirability bias actually distorts answers in online surveys.
Short version:
It mostly doesn’t.
w. @timallinger.bsky.social @kristianvsf.bsky.social @morganlcj.bsky.social
URL: osf.io/preprints/os...
Using these micro-level measures, we’ll be able to study the underlying dynamics of conflict, integration, and discrimination in ways that weren't possible before.
Really excited to get to work on this project! 🎉 [3/3]
In this project, we will leverage multimodal LLMs, along with fine-grained geographic and textual data, to develop new measures of segregation and mixing across ethnic, gender, and linguistic groups in space. [2/3]
Yaaay! ✨ Thrilled to share that our project with @giacomolem.bsky.social , "Measuring Group Segregation and Contact in Space Through Names, Symbols, and Pictures," has been awarded an @theihs.org AI Accelerator Grant!
Read more about the core idea in the thread below 🧵👇 [1/3]
Happening tomorrow!
📢 Seminar CP-UB | Feb 5, 14:30 @cpoliticaub.bsky.social
🎤 Violeta Haas @haasvioleta.bsky.social (Toulouse - IAST @iast.fr) presents
📄 The Police as Gatekeepers of Information: Immigration Salience and Selective Crime Reporting
📍UB, Edifici Nou, Sala de Juntes Maria Soteras
Heading to Barcelona to present joint work with @ashelshehawy.bsky.social, Arun Frey, @riazsascha.bsky.social & @tobiasroemer.bsky.social at Universitat de Barcelona. Thanks to @pauvallprat.bsky.social for the invitation. If you’re around and want to grab a coffee, let me know ☀️
We‘re very excited for the next edition of the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim! ✨
Join us and apply until 1 March!
More info in @melinscribe.bsky.social‘s thread below and here: summerschoolwpm.org
Application form: sosci.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/wpm/
📢 #CallForPapers for the 11th Monash-Paris-Warwick-Zurich-CEPR Text-As-Data #Workshop!
Papers using text, audio, images, or other unstructured data are welcome.
Organisers: @elliottash.bsky.social @essobecker.bsky.social & Philine Widmer
Deadline: 13 March
cepr.org/events/11th-...
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This was hands down the best summer school I’ve attended! Highly recommended👇
Congrats, Lisa!!!! 🫶
🚨Job alert 🚨
I have an opening for a postdoc in my team at @ipz.bsky.social in the area of digital democracy starting Sep 1, 2026.
If you are working on the impact of the digital transformation on politics, please apply by 🗓️ Mar 1, 2026.
📤 Please share widely!
www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns...
February 5th Angelia Wagner & Joanna Everitt w/ Mireille Lalancette & Karen Bird University of Alberta & University of New Brunswick To Queer or not to Queer? 2SLGBTQI+ Candidates’ Use of Instagram During the 2021 Canadian Election 9am PT/12pm ET/5pm GMT Online seminar on zoom Logo of the Queer Politics Seminar consisting of the different colours of the pride rainbow as interwoven stripes
🌈 We are very happy to announce the first session of 2026!
Next week, on February 5, @angeliawagner.bsky.social and @joannaeveritt.bsky.social will present their amazing work on queer Canadian candidates and social media.
📆 Be sure to join us!
Job 🚨: The European Institute (@lse-ei.bsky.social) at LSE is hiring an assistant prof in International Migration. I'm not in the hiring committee but happy to answer Qs about the department, LSE or this bloody weather that is actually pretty pretty today.
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
🚨Assistant Professor in International Migration at @lse-ei.bsky.social
I am not in the search committee but very happy to answer questions. Please share widely!
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Happy that my article just published in PSRM! In "Inclusion to Exclude“, I show that when politicians invoke women's rights to justify anti-immigration positions, it shifts citizens' policy preferences - but differently so depending on their prior views. doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
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🚨Happy to finally see this out in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social (with @leonardocarella.bsky.social)
⁉️ Does growing up when immigration is salient make people vote for parties they agree with on immigration *for the rest of their lives*?
doi.org/10.1017/S147...
Thrilled to share our new paper with amazing Agus.
We show that non-traditional families, especially open and age-gap couples, face substantial prejudice. Even LGB couples encounter bias, highlighting persistent inequalities in societies often seen as tolerant.
Had a great time teaching a guest lecture on LLMs in Social Science Research with an applied example on text classification at @heikekluever.bsky.social seminar today! Thanks for the invite 💫
If you’re interested, you can check out the materials in my GitHub repo: github.com/violeta-haas...
Abstract of the paper, it reads: How widespread is sexual liberalism in tolerant societies? Theoretical and descriptive evidence suggests an overall liberalization in societal views on topics such as women’s rights and homosexuality. Yet, relying on sexual norms theory, this study unveils persistent sexual prejudice. We differentiate between “normalized” sexual issues, like same-gender marriage, which have gained mainstream acceptance, and “nonnormalized” issues, such as nontraditional sexual practices and relationships, which remain stigmatized. Through a conjoint experiment in Catalonia, Spain, we investigate public attitudes toward adoptive parents with varying sexual orientations, relationship types, and age differences, confirming that discriminatory preferences are prevalent in contexts with low social desirability. By highlighting the continued prejudice against both normative and nonnormative sexual issues, this research contributes to our understanding of the dynamics of sexual attitudes and the challenges facing LGBTQ+ politics and rights.
❗My first publication is out!
Using a conjoint experiment with adoption solicitations, @bertous.bsky.social and I demonstrate that modern societies still exhibit prejudice against non-traditional relationships, including same-sex, open and age-gap couples
More below and in @poqjournal.bsky.social