Christian Breunig
Professor of Comparative Politics
University of Konstanz
- Tschö #7.
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- 🚨 Postdoctoral Position at the University of Konstanz 🚨 We’re hiring a post-doc for our @excinequality.bsky.social project on political elites and decision-making. 4-year position | Deadline: Feb. 20 | Start: Sept 2026 Please share widely 🙏 The ad is here stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f...
- Alleh dann #6.
- Can I upsell a mediocre paper that was written without AI as "artisinal craftsmanship"?
- Hat Spaß gemacht. Die Episode ist auf Deutsch. @abgeordnete.bsky.social @bundestag.de
- Reposted by Christian BreunigThis report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
- Der größte Bauer hat die dümmsten Kartoffeln.
- Reposted by Christian Breunigwe have 5 positions open at @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt - a 4,5 year postdoc in my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage - 2 postdoc & 2 PhD positions, 4 years, in a research group on Reconfiguration & Internalization of Social Structure www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...
- Reposted by Christian BreunigWe @uni-konstanz.de are hiring a full professor in machine learning for our MSc program in Social and Economic Data Science: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/6...
- Reposted by Christian Breunig🌟 PHD FELLOWSHIP ALERT! 🌟 I’m hiring 1 PhD fellow for my ERC project ECONENGAGE (@ Gothenburg 🇸🇪)! Starting 09/26! Great PhD community + int'l & supportive environment + FUN city. 💰for conferences + workshops! Lots of mentoring & career development opportunities! Deadline Jan 29th. Please apply!
- Reposted by Christian BreunigIn our research on socioeconomic background in academia, we ran a survey. Over 2,000 faculty members responded (thanks if you were one!) Social & cultural capital showed up time and again as key issues. A few findings you might be interested in...🧵
- ❓ What do people’s own words reveal about their economic decisions? A new JEL article by Ingar Haaland, Christopher Roth, Stefanie Stantcheva and Johannes Wohlfart shows how open-ended survey responses offer insights that standard surveys often miss. 🔎Read more here: www.nhh.no/en/research-...
- Reposted by Christian Breunig🚨 3-Year Postdoc in Political Science at Aarhus University 🚨 I’m seeking to recruit a postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu research project 𝑬𝑸𝑼𝑰𝑳𝑰𝑩𝑹𝑰𝑼𝑴 on state-citizen interactions. Link and more information in second post. Position Start: Fall 2026 Application Deadline: ‼️ February 5, 2026, 23:59 CET ‼️
- Reposted by Christian BreunigHappy to share that the German Research Foundation DFG funds my new project: “Countering Polarization: The Borda count as a basis for proportional representation”. I am recruiting 2 PhD candidates to join me in Hannover as of March 2026 or later! Feel free to reach out!
- Hej hej #5.
- Reposted by Christian BreunigJoin us! Die Abteilung für Innenpolitik & Politische Soziologie sucht zum 01.04. eine*n neue*n Kollegin*en. Wir bieten: volle Promotionsstelle (EG13) für drei Jahre (Verlängerung um 3 Jahre möglich), flexible Arbeitszeitregelungen, kollegiales & forschungsstarkes Team. Mehr Informationen hier👇
- pfiat di #4
- Reposted by Christian Breunig2️⃣4️⃣🎁🎄 Doing something new for Advent this year: one great data journalism piece per day until Dec 24. I’m teaching a data journalism course @hertieschool.bsky.social next semester, so this is partly selfish homework. But maybe interesting for others too.
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- Reposted by Christian Breunig🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨 We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social Any questions, please reach out to me 📣 Please share! 📣 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
- Reposted by Christian Breunig🔔Job Alert 🔔 Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?” We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
- Reposted by Christian Breunig🌟 JOB ALERT! 🌟 I’m hiring 1 postdoc for my ERC project ECONENGAGE (@ Gothenburg 🇸🇪)! Starting ca. Aug '26! Congenial colleagues + int'l & supportive environment. 💸 for conferences + workshops! Lots of professional networking opportunities with scholars! Deadline Jan 7th. Apply! (see more below 🧵)
- Reposted by Christian Breunig📣 We're hiring a postdoc in political science for our ReJust project @uni-konstanz.de! Project with Dirk Leuffen @leuffen.bsky.social and Urs Fischbacher 3-year position | Deadline: Dec. 15, 2025 | Start: April 2026 Please share widely 🙏
- Just realized that I will miss the Schwellköpp etc by a day. Not sure if this is a good or bad thing.
- Delighted to be invited. Looking forward to meeting people in Mainz.
- Greatly looking forward to @breunig.bsky.social speaking in our research seminar @powimz.bsky.social on Wednesday!
- Tot kijk #3
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- 'champagne strategists' 🍾 is a good spelling error.
- snippets from the daily browsing experience youtu.be/nHujh3yA3BE
- Reposted by Christian BreunigCorrelAid such Verstärkung fürs @civic-data-lab.bsky.social: Referent:in (80%) ab 1.1. ⏰ 31.10.2025 correlaid.org/jobs/referen...
- Reposted by Christian BreunigVery excited about the lineup for our #ComparativePolitics & #PoliticalEconomy colloquium in the winter @uni-konstanz.de !! ▶️Hannah Werner @ipz.bsky.social ▶️Fabio Franchino ▶️ @ashelshehawy.bsky.social ▶️Kevin Munger @eui-sps.bsky.social ▶️@rdassonneville.bsky.social ▶️@svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social
- The @zeit.de has 3 pages on one of our PolPop articles, led by @jacklucas.bsky.social, where politicians reflect on our finding that they perceive voters differently than voters perceive themselves. Would love to see this more often, where the subjects get a chance to reflect on the findings.
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- Reposted by Christian Breunig*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history * Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system * Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...
- Uf Wiederluege #2
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How do governments mobilise public opinion in times of uncertainty? Do they gauche public opinion systematically across policy domains or unevenly depending on the issue ?🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... - Reposted by Christian Breunig[Not loaded yet]
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- Reposted by Christian Breunig🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825
- Reposted by Christian Breunig### Full Professorship in Applied Economics - 1 week left to apply ### Succesful candidates will enjoy 3 positions at once - professorship at the UKonstanz, PI at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality” and the directorship of TWI! stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/a...
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- Doei! #1
- Wird eine Trainerentlassungsrekordsaision #bl
- Wird eine Trainerentlassungsrekordsaision #bl
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- Seems like all journal editors are back. Just received the fifth review request this week... and I am about to start my holidays.
- Reposted by Christian BreunigI am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637
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- Hey @katapultmagazin.bsky.social gerade über euren Text gestolpert. Unsere Studie in @apsrjournal.bsky.social sagt nicht, dass Politiker Wähler als dumm einschätzen. Sie haben andere Vorstellungen über ihr Wahlverhalten als Politiker. #youcandobetter
- Reposted by Christian BreunigThe @epssnet.bsky.social call for the 2026 conference in Belfast opened today! 😮 epssnet.org/belfast-2026... Deadline: 7 November 2025
- Reposted by Christian BreunigI'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage! I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.
- Just realized what has been missing in my conference presentations for a long time. But today I will be full of it.
- Reposted by Christian Breunig📣 Call for Applications 📣 3-year Postdoc position in Berlin 🚀 Join our Comparative Political Behavior Group at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & the @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social Great people, great projects, great city – come work with us! 🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025
- Reposted by Christian Breunig🏮NEW WORKING PAPER ALERT🏮 Scientists collectively spend tens of millions of hours peer reviewing each year, mostly for no $$. Why?? In new work w/ Charles Ayoubi and @innovation.bsky.social, we observe a private benefit for participating in evaluation: 💡💡Learning💡💡
- Let's call it 'summer school'.
- Heavy metal is a great remedy against this heat wave. youtu.be/YNpTFSiKUTA
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- Interrupting a regular talk for an urgent candid & unsettling update on Israel. Bravo @acavari.bsky.social
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- Road version of McKelvey–Schofield
- New publication with Breyer, Sterba, &Schwerdt @excinequality.bsky.social In an experiment, a 1/3 of respondents are able to identify the actual distribution of pensions according to the German pension regime. Politicians do a bit better. Citizens & politicians want more redistributive pensions.
- Reposted by Christian BreunigThe #UniKonstanz Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality @excinequality.bsky.social will continue to receive funding in the context of the German #ExcellenceStrategy @dfg.de @wissenschaftsrat.de. Details: t1p.de/ouhyj
- Reposted by Christian Breunig🚨 We're hiring! Join us at @LMU_Muenchen for the DFG-funded project "Democratic Persuasion: How to Make the Case for Democracy." Interested in making scholarly & societal impact? We’re looking for: 🔹 1 Postdoc (100%) 🔹 1 PhD researcher (70%) Starting: Oct 2025 | Apply by: July 8 More info ⬇️ (1/7)
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- Reposted by Christian BreunigHere it is! For anyone interested in cultural appropriation, or curious about what 2 political philosophers might have to say about Aladdin, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Victoria’s Secret or Kendall Jenner (all listed in the index)
- Misstrauensvorschuss
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- Reposted by Christian BreunigI AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social! German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf Please share
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- It's a great initiative. Apply.
- Applications for the 2025 EITM Summer Institute are now open! Program dates: Aug 4-15. Program location: University of Michigan. Deadline: April 15. eitminstitute.org/institute/20...
- Terrific lineup for our Comparative Politics & Political Economy series this summer,incl @clandwehr.bsky.social @finseraas.bsky.social @eunjikim.bsky.social @ccavaille.bsky.social @anewq.bsky.social & @valentimvicente.bsky.social . Thanks for organizing @tobiastober.bsky.social @na-wehl.bsky.social
- I was curious and looked at the dictionary file for the universities. Seems like four German departments are included: FU Berlin, Humboldt, LMU and Mannheim. Tough to make it to the top10 if you aren't included....
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- Reposted by Christian BreunigSure you don't want to work with us? We're clearly not an Ivy League institution, but we can offer a great work environment in a beautiful region. Lake and the Alps are included for free. In case it matters, egg prices are stable at around 30 cents apiece. stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/8...
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- Reposted by Christian Breunig🗣️ PEEP - Political Economy of Europe APSA Pre-Conference - is back this year in Vancouver (Sep 10). Submit your work by April 30: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Last year's program below (co-orgs: Maria Carreri, @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social, @awiedemann.bsky.social)
