Universität Konstanz @uni-konstanz.de Welcome to the official account of the University of Konstanz.
Website: https://www.uni-konstanz.de
Impressum: https://www.uni-konstanz.de/impressum
Carolin Kienel @ckienel.bsky.social Into computational social science, networks, data viz. Well, obviously this is public. --- github.com/khakisnetworks
Regime Mechanics: The Authoritarian Playbook @regimemechanics.bsky.social Political scientist specializing in hybrid regimes and democratic backsliding. PhD, postdoc at University of Cologne, — writing at Regime Mechanics. https://regimemechanics.substack.com/
Stephan Maurer @stephanmaurer.bsky.social Economist by day, historian by night. UPF-BSM and CEP. Author of "Die Schlacht von Gettysburg": amzn.eu/d/epEJdVz
Personal webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/stephanernstmaurer/
Ludwig Schulze @ludwigschulze.bsky.social PhD from EUI. (Historical) Political Economy of Authoritarianism. First Generation.
Bastian Herre @bastianherre.bsky.social Politics & Society Lead @ourworldindata.org. I make research on democracy, human rights, and conflict easier to access and understand. he/him
Check out my work: https://ourworldindata.org/team/bastian-herre
James Hollway @jhollway.bsky.social Co-Director Global Governance Centre, Professor of International Relations/Political Science, Geneva Graduate Institute, and President, Global Governance Research Centre Consortium
Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd Assistant professor at Georgetown University in Qatar (formerly GSU, BYU). Study NGOs, human rights, international politics, causal inference, and stats. 6 kids.
#rstats forever.
andrewheiss.com
Signal: andrewheiss.01
Joris Frese @fresejoris.bsky.social Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Politics at Oxford.
Interested in: Political Behavior, Quantitative Methods, Metascience.
https://www.jorisfrese.com/
Thomas Widmer @thowipz.bsky.social Professor @IPZ @UZH
Sven Hegewald @svenhegewald.bsky.social Postdoc in Political Science @politikuhh.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de | PhD, ETH Zurich | Political behavior; European politics; Political geography | https://svenhegewald.github.io
Lennart Schürmann @lennartschuermann.bsky.social Max Weber Fellow at European University Institute
PRIME Fellow at FU Berlin/WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Protest | political participation | representation | European politics | computational social science
More:
schuermannl.github.io
@mcsteinwand.bsky.social @mcsteinwand.bsky.social
Journal of Global Security Studies @journalofgss.bsky.social A journal of the International Studies Association (ISA). Publishes cutting-edge research on global security and global aspects of debates in security studies.
Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social Stein Rokkan Chair in Comparative Politics, EUI. President of @epssnet.bsky.social. FBA, FRSA. Democracy, parties, elections, electoral systems etc. Live music. COYI
Mehmet Erdem Arslan @mehmeterdemarslan.bsky.social Lecturer in GCGA, Türkiye | PhD in Government, University of Essex | MA in Security Studies, TOBB ETÜ | Bsc Turkish Military Academy | CT Veteran
Annette Idler @annetteidler.bsky.social Associate Professor @UniofOxford, Director @GS_Oxford, former Visiting Scholar @Harvard, #globalsecurity #armedconflict #illiciteconomy author #BorderlandBattles http://tinyurl.com/y2q www.annetteidler.com
The Politics of Inequality @excinequality.bsky.social Cluster of Excellence @uni-konstanz.de. We study how people perceive inequality, how this leads to collective mobilization, and how political actors respond to it.
Thomas Richter @thomaserichter.bsky.social Lead Research Fellow @giga-hamburg.de
Head of GIGA's Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"
Honorary Professory @leuphana.bsky.social
Co-Speaker @dvpw-vergleich.bsky.social
Andreu Casas @andreucasas.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Communication and Computational Social Sciences at Royal Holloway University of London. Director of the London Social Media Observatory. UKRI Future Leader Fellow.
Will Lowe @conjugateprior.org Señor Research Scientist, NPC at the Hertie School in Berlin 🇩🇪 via Princeton, Mannheim, Edinburgh and a bunch of other ivory towers that will probably be billiard balls and decorative boxes by the end of the decade.
Rome Statute appreciator.
Swen Hutter @swenhutter.bsky.social Political sociology at Freie Universität Berlin and WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Anja Neundorf @anjaneundorf.bsky.social Professor of Politics, University of Glasgow | DEMED project @ERC_Research | Fellow of the @acadsocsciences.bsky.social | Main interest: Democracy and Autocracy, Public Opinion, Civic Education, Higher Ed. #FirstGen
Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social Professor, LSE | Head of the Department of Government | Exec Council of EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social | Chair of EES @eesresearch.bsky.social | Co-Director of POAL @poalab.bsky.social | Fellow of the British Academy | Author of Tribal Politics (OUP)
Katerina Tertytchnaya @ktertytchnaya.bsky.social Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at Oxford studying authoritarianism. https://katerinatertytchnaya.com
Karoline Wiesner @karowiesner.bsky.social Prof of Complexity Science and Physics University of Potsdam | head of @complexityup.bsky.social | Ext faculty @csh.ac.at Complexity Science Hub Vienna
EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social The European Political Science Society: the not-for-profit professional association for political science in Europe and beyond
https://epssnet.org/
Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social 💼 Assistant Prof. for Participation Research @uniheidelberg.bsky.social
🧐 PI, The New Climate Divide (Emmy Noether)
🧳 Guest @wzb.bsky.social
🔬 Parties • Movements • Participation • Climate Politics
📈 Quant Methods
🇪🇺 Western, Central & Eastern EU
⛰️🚴♀️🏃
Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social Prof at KU Leuven
CRC in Electoral Democracy at Université de Montréal
https://ruthdassonneville.netlify.app/
Emilio Ferrara @emilioferrara.bsky.social Prof of Computer Science at USC
AI, social media, society, networks, data, and
HUMANS LABS http://www.emilio.ferrara.name
REGULARITY AI www.emilioferrara.ai- M Max Pellert @maxpe.bsky.social @max@maxpe.todon.de
Principal Investigator at Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Stefanie Bailer @stefaniebailer.bsky.social
Alejandro Aísa @alexaisa.bsky.social PhD candidate at @UniKonstanz | Protests and contentious politics | Computational Social Sciences
https://alejandroaisam.github.io
Mark Lutter @marklutter345.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, University of Wuppertal
Lukas Rudolph @lukrudolph.bsky.social Assistant Professor for Political Behavior @uni-konstanz.de || previously @lmu.de and @ethz.ch || https://www.lukas-rudolph.com
Dario Landwehr @darioland.bsky.social
Manuel Tonneau @manueltonneau.bsky.social PhD candidate @oiioxford.bsky.social NLP, Computational Social Science @WorldBank
manueltonneau.com
Jens Jungblut @jjungblut.bsky.social Professor, Dept. of Political Science, University of Oslo;
tweets about research, politics and football (Nur die SGE);
https://www.sv.uio.no/isv/english/people/aca/jens-jungblut/index.html
Department of Government, Essex @uniessexgov.bsky.social 2nd in UK for research outputs (REF 2021)
Top 5 in Europe for citations and journal impact (Barceló et al 2025)
Top 9 IR and Top 12 Politics (Guardian Uni Guide 2026)
https://linktr.ee/UniEssexGov
Department of Government, Uppsala University @uu-polisci.bsky.social Statsvetenskapliga institutionen vid Uppsala universitet.
Political Science in Uppsala — Est. 1622 🏛️
Cutting-edge research & education at Sweden’s oldest polisci dept. 📚
Proud home of @skytteprize.bsky.social 🏆
https://www.uu.se/en/department/government
Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social Cornell Assistant Professor specializing in security sector reform, policing, peacekeeping, and gender. Director of the Gender and Security Sector Lab sabrinamkarim.com
Michael Weintraub @miweintraub83.bsky.social Associate Professor at Universidad de los Andes. Director of the Center for the Study of Security and Drugs (CESED).
I write about how to reduce crime and violence in Latin America. I like to randomize things.
www.miweintraub.com
Andreas Jungherr @ajungherr.bsky.social Making sense of digital technology - the changes it brings, the opportunities it provides, and the challenges it presents. Professor, University of Bamberg. Director at Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt).
David Garcia @dgarcia.eu Professor for Social and Behavioral Data Science at the University of Konstanz. Also at CSH Vienna, ETH Zurich and TU Graz.
@stinahogbladh.bsky.social @stinahogbladh.bsky.social
Andy Halterman @ahalterman.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at MSU. NLP, text, and conflict.
Andreas Forø Tollefsen (UiO & PRIO) @andriiish.bsky.social Associate Professor Human Geography @UiO & Senior Researcher @PRIO
Conflict, migration, institutions, spatial analysis. Occasionally fit academic with preference for running regressions.
See https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Bfy0azAAAAAJ&hl=en
WarEffects @wareffectserc.bsky.social WarEffects is an @erc.europa.eu funded research project focusing on the impact of wars and insecurity on social cohesion, gender dynamics, and politics led by @carlokoos.bsky.social.
www.wareffects.eu
Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social danbischof.com
Political Scientist: studying democracy with experiments & data
Professor | University of Münster
Associate Professor | Aarhus University
(he/him | "Sie" als Anrede brauche ich nicht)
DVPW @dvpw.bsky.social Offizieller Account der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW) e.V. | official account of the German Political Science Association (GPSA)
https://www.dvpw.de/ | https://meine.dvpw.de/
Journal of Peace Research @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social The Journal of Peace Research is an interdisciplinary and international bimonthly journal, covering scholarly work in peace research.
https://www.prio.org/journals/JPR
https://academic.oup.com/jpr
Aina Gallego @ainagallego.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science at Universitat de Barcelona. I am interested in AI & Politics
http://www.ainagallego.org/
Kristine Helskog @kristinehelskog.bsky.social Political scientist working as a research assistant at Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Currently working on Peace Science Infrastructure in the PRIO-GRID v3 team and the EdAttack project.
Roberto Valli @robertovalli.bsky.social Political scientist @Princeton | PhD from @ETHZurich.
@gates99.bsky.social @gates99.bsky.social
Kathleen Cunningham @kgcunnin.bsky.social Professor, Gov & Politics, University of Maryland
Julio Zambrano @juliozambrano.bsky.social Assistant Professor
Jun.-Prof.Dr. (Public Management & Administration)
@unikonstanz.bsky.social
Crecí en 🇪🇨, completed my academic studies in 🇺🇸, und 🇩🇪 ist jetzt meine Heimat.
Alemañol household 🧑🧑🧒🧒
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social Professor of Social Statistics, Dept of Social Statistics, University of Manchester
Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis • Cathie Marsh Institute
https://www.philipleifeld.com • https://leifeld-lab.github.io
Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social Political scientist & part-time farmer. Books: 'On Revolutions' (2022), 'Civil Resistance' (2021), & 'The Politics of Terror' (2019). Coming soon: 'Bread & Roses' & 'The End of People Power.' https://www.ericachenoweth.com. What a time to be alive.
Julia Grauvogel @grauvogelj.bsky.social Senior research fellow
@GIGA_Institute, interested in sanctions, authoritarianism, African politics, feminist & food lover
Paola Vesco @paolavesco.bsky.social Forecasting armed conflict @VIEWS. Love thinking about uncertainty. Only personal views here.
Matthias Revers @drfell.bsky.social Assoc. Prof @LeedsUniMedia, Interim Prof @unihamburg, working dad, metalhead, coffee lover, reluctant social media user.
Political Analysis @polanalysis.bsky.social Official Journal of the Society for Political Methodology
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/political-analysis
Ingo Rohlfing @ingorohlfing.bsky.social I am here for all interesting and funny posts on the social sciences, broadly understood and including open science and meta science, academia, teaching and research. https://linktr.ee/ingorohlfing
Andrea Ruggeri @andrearuggeri.bsky.social Social scientist and teacher, University of Milan
www.aruggeri.eu
David Weisstanner @dweisstanner.bsky.social Assistant professor of health and social policy @University of Lucerne
Lee Morgenbesser @lmorgenbesser.bsky.social Political Scientist, Griffith University | Fellow, Australian Research Council | Authoritarian politics, democratization, dictators, election observation, Southeast Asian politics.
Javier Osorio @javierosorio.bsky.social Associate Professor @UArizona.
I study political and organized criminal violence using Computational Social Science tools, experiments, and quasi-experiments.
Please say Hi to your dog :)
https://javierosorio.net/
Views are my own.
Rex "garbage in" Douglass @rexdouglass.bsky.social Applied Scientist in Industry. Previously UCSD. Princeton PhD.
Follow me for recreational methods trash talk.
www.rexdouglass.com
Evan Lieberman @evlieb.bsky.social Political science professor, Director of MIT Center for International Studies and Global Diversity Lab. I study democratic governance, climate policy, ethnic politics, mostly in Africa.- D Daniel Bochsler @dbchslr.bsky.social Political Scientist, working on elections, democracy, ethnic politics/nationalism, Central & Eastern Europe, Swiss politics.
Central European University (CEU) & University of Belgrade
Tweets = multilingual
www.bochsler.eu
Allard Duursma @allardduursma.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Conflict Management and International Relations at ETH Zurich, working on mediation & peacekeeping. Editor-in-Chief of International Peacekeeping
Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social Associate Professor for Government @univie.ac.at, works on political representation & behavior, public opinion, populism & the EU - usual disclaimers
Luis L. Schenoni @llschenoni.bsky.social Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, Univeristy College London. Director of UCL’s Security Studies Programme. Author of “Bringing War Back In” (CUP, 2024) http://bit.ly/4fXYtVv War/State Formation/Nation Building
Anna Fruhstorfer @annakfruhstorfer.bsky.social Political scientist @FU Berlin and @WZB.bsky.social |
PI ERC research group LOOPS | Studying autocracies through protest, legal norms, and elite conflict | fruhstorfer.me
Book on Constitutional Change under Autocracy: fruhstorfer.me/book
@sebnagel.bsky.social @sebnagel.bsky.social
Vincenzo Bove @vincenzobove.bsky.social Professor of Economics IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca | Honorary Professor University of Warwick | Conflict, defense, migration & terrorism | Former Navy officer | Father of four | #ERCAdG
Cameron Thies @cameronthies.bsky.social Dean and MSU Research Foundation Distinguished Professor at James Madison College, Michigan State University.
Fabien Cottier @fabiencottier.bsky.social Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Geneva. Environmental change, migration and conflict. www.fabiencottier.net
Evelyne Hübscher @evehubscher.bsky.social 🇨🇭in 🇦🇹, political scientist, working on party politics, austerity, welfare state; Prof @CEU Vienna, alumna @EuropeanUni, #FirstGen
Lucas Leemann @lucasleemann.bsky.social Professor University of Zurich @ipz.bsky.social — interested in comparative politics & data science — representation, participation, direct democracy — @leewas.bsky.social — @bjpols.bsky.social — DigDemLab — Co-founder of
https://leewas.ch/
Frederik Hjorth @fghjorth.bsky.social Associate Prof, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen
Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social Associate Professor in Political Behaviour at the LSE. I like campaigns and do experiments. http://www.florianfoos.net
Erica De Bruin @edebruin.bsky.social Associate Professor, Hamilton College. Studying civil-military relations, civil war, policing. Author of HOW TO PREVENT COUPS (Cornell UP). www.ericadebruin.com.
Susanna Campbell @susannacampbell.bsky.social Assoc. Professor @AU_SIS. Director @ripil_au, http://ripilab.com. Policy-engaged research and learning. Former UN/INGO/think tanker. Studying conflict and peace.
www.susannacampbell.com
Joakim Kreutz @joakimkreutz.bsky.social Associate professor at Department of Government, Uppsala University. Scholarly interests include armed conflict onset, dynamics, and termination; repression and peacemaking, sanctions and trust. Other interests include football, food, travel, and more.
Michael Grossniklaus @zaskar9.bsky.social ⭐️unfathomable well of useless knowledge⭐️ Professor of Computer Science at University of Konstanz. My views are my own.
Patrick M Kuhn @pmkuhn.bsky.social Political Scientist and Senior Program Manager at the ETH Zurich's Einstein School of Public Policy working at the intersection of science and policymaking
Matt Fuhrmann @mcfuhrmann.bsky.social Political science professor at Texas A&M. International relations, nuclear weapons, alliances, interstate conflict.
Kris-Stella Trump @kstrump.bsky.social Political scientist at Johns Hopkins University: democracy, inequality, political psychology, public opinion, behavioral everything. No relation. American by way of Estonia, Sweden, and England.
Andrew Shaver @andrewcshaver.bsky.social Focused on the causes, consequences, and measurement of political violence globally; research on forcible displacement; security consequences of a changing global climate; and how news media reporting (mis)shapes our understanding of these issues.
Dani Gilbert @danigilbert.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Northwestern, studying hostage taking in international security. Director with Bridging the Gap, contributor to Good Authority. She/her. Hiking, biking, mostly plants 🌱 #COYS
Alex Braithwaite @thebraith.bsky.social Political scientist, School of Government & Public Policy, University of Arizona. Research on concentration camps, refugees and forced migration, violent and nonviolent conflict.
Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social Senior Fellow at Peterson Institute. Sustainability, security, and political economy. Heart masquerading as head since 1977.
You may not believe in climate change, but your insurance company does.
Brian J. Phillips @brianjphillips.bsky.social Terrorism, conflict, crime. @uniessexgov.bsky.social. Via Ohio, Camp Lejeune, PGH, CDMX. Co-authored book: "Insurgent Terrorism." https://sites.google.com/site/brianjphillips/home
Ida Rudolfsen @idarudolfsen.bsky.social Senior researcher at Peace Research Institute Oslo, desk editor at Journal of Peace Research. Mass mobilization, state repression, societal organizations, food insecurity, causal inference.
Corinna Jentzsch @corinnajentzsch.com Political Violence, Civil War, African Politics, Security Studies, Fieldwork Ethics, Gender | Political Scientist @Leiden University | Author of "Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique" (https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108936026)
Hanna Pfeifer @hannapfeifer.bsky.social Head of Research Area "Societal Peace and Internal Security" at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg @ifshhamburg.bsky.social
abbey steele @abbeyst.bsky.social I research & teach about displacement, civil wars, state-building and Colombia at the University of Amsterdam. AMS / CLE / BOG
abbeysteele.net
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1126-9235
Oliver Kaplan @oliverkaplan.bsky.social Prof @JosefKorbelSchool.bsky.social @UofDenver
📚Books:
RESISTING WAR (2017)
SPEAKING SCIENCE TO POWER (2024) Nonviolent action | Research + Policymaking Ethics | @KorbelAsylum ⛷️🚵♂️🖖
linktr.ee/oliverkaplan