Marta Vukovic

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.

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I know the AI hype can drive anxiety about academic productivity, but please remember that an additional paper can have negative returns to both society and your reputation.

Congrats Lea!!

Congrats Tim! ☺️

Bad Bunny: TOGETHER WE ARE AMERICA

Shot from the stands of the Bad Bunny halftime show.

What a moment.

#DemocraticBacksliding: The erosion of US democracy under Trump is steeper than any recent precedent, including Hungary, Venezuela, Turkey, R//ZZ.l'a/nd

Source: Financial Times @jburnmurdoch.ft.com www.ft.com/content/b474...

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Major congrats, so well deserved! 🥳

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

Marta Vuković @martav.bsky.social @univie.ac.at shared insights from her work with Sylvia Kritzinger on how justifications shape citizens' support for party ban and ultimately for militant democracy.

📊 AUTHLIB has extensively studied voters' attitude to explore the societal base of illiberalism and their support for democracy. The presentations at our concluding conference show the many issues that can be studied through the data collected in the AUTHLIB project.

We (@stawi-univie.bsky.social) are hiring a PhD researcher:

- focus: representation, party competition, pol behavior, pol institutions, pol econ, or related
- 4 years, starting 1 Oct 26
- 30h/week, incl some teaching
- deadline: 28 Jan 26

jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

And more job opportunities: @univie.ac.at aims to fill 40 (!) doctoral positions in the social sciences, humanities and cultural studies

careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...

If you are in Budapest next week, don't miss our concluding conference! Register by January 4 and join us!

Our 32-country conjoint study on which societal characteristics citizens prioritize is now published at @bjpols.bsky.social

w. excellent @anjaneundorf.bsky.social @sirianned.bsky.social @aykutozturk.bsky.social

📣 AUTHLIB Final Conference

🗺️ Mapping the Illiberal Challenge: Patterns, Drivers, Consequences
📅 Jan 8–9, 2026
📍 @weareceu.bsky.social, Budapest

Two days on illiberalism, democracy & democratic responses.

👉 Register today to secure your spot: www.authlib.eu/authlib-fina...

🚨 New in Nature+Science!🚨
AI chatbots can shift voter attitudes on candidates & policies, often by 10+pp
🔹Exps in US Canada Poland & UK
🔹More “facts”→more persuasion (not psych tricks)
🔹Increasing persuasiveness reduces "fact" accuracy
🔹Right-leaning bots=more inaccurate

What happens when a minority decides for the majority?

On Sunday, Swiss citizens head to the polls again. But Switzerland remains one of the most exclusionary democracies in the OECD.

In highly cosmopolitan places like Basel-Stadt, only 50.5% of all residents were entitled to vote (as of 2024)

"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people," Westwood said in a press release. "With survey data tainted by bots, AI can poison the entire knowledge ecosystem.” www.404media.co/a-researcher...

A reminder of the day:

“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.”

Toni Morrison

🚨New paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1350...

@manuelwagner.bsky.social & I re-conceptualize class representation to take into account social mobility between classes and variation in how individuals enter politics.

I absolutely loooved reading this book! On top of what you said, I think it takes a topic that’s been written about so many times and still manages to find a really fresh, interesting angle. I haven’t read as many books as you have this year, but this one has been my fave so far :)

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”

RIP Jane Goodall

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New publication with @kgattermann.bsky.social :
“Does media framing of election results affect whether voters perceive parties as election winners or losers?”
@polstudies.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/0032...

A short 🧵:

🎉🎉🎉 Extremely proud of @manuelwagner.bsky.social who yesterday defended his excellent PhD thesis on the political representation of the working class.

Big thanks to co-supervisor Nick Carnes & committee members @noamlupu.bsky.social, @denisetraber.bsky.social & @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social)!

The Development of an Issue Public: Evidence from The Eras Tour | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

We have a JOP article about how swifties ~randomly denied tickets to the eras tour due to website allocation errors changed their views on related policies
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Trump post: Because of the fact that Rosie O'Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship. She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!

I think you should be able to say things the president doesn’t like and still be a citizen. Maybe we should write that down somewhere.

Serbia: Media freedom continues to decline at alarming speed, EU must take action The undersigned journalists and media freedom organisations are profoundly appalled by the new attacks against journalists across Serbia, many of which ...

‪European Federation of Journalists (EFJ)‬
#Serbia: We urge the EU to respond to the ongoing repression of journalists, students and civil societies, also being perpetrated by state representatives and law enforcement officers. Absolute indifference must stop. The EU must take action.