Alexander Wuttke
Digitalization & Pol Behavior LMU_Muenchen | Democracy and Populist Attitudes | Open Science | 🚵♂️🐶
- Reposted by Alexander Wuttke🎉 New paper out in Political Behavior (with @gijsschumacher.bsky.social & @mrooduijn.bsky.social) Why do some people feel stronger emotions about politics than others? 💡Not political knowledge, but interest and confidence-in-knowledge drive emotional engagement. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧵
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeUpdate: Offenbar sehen das auch viele meiner ärztlichen Kollegen ähnlich wie ich und wollen keine rechtsextremen Portale mitfinanzieren. Gut so.
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkePolitics Doesn’t Define How Most People See Themselves I’ve written a blog post just published by The Inquisitive Mind. Link: www.in-mind.org/blog/post/po... Very brief summary in the thread.
- Reposted by Alexander Wuttke🚀 dashboardr is out! An #rstats package for building interactive dashboards with tidyverse-style syntax. Launched with a fun hackathon at @ascor.bsky.social (🍕 included). 📦: favstats.github.io/dashboardr/ Big thanks to the dashboardr team, Digicomlab, and @vivifabrien.bsky.social for the logo 🎨
- Reposted by Alexander Wuttkeagents can hire humans now www.rentahuman.ai
- Reposted by Alexander Wuttke»Marco Bülow hätte sich sehr oft in seinem Leben entscheiden können, eine stille Karriere zu machen. Er entschied sich zuverlässig für den unbequemen Weg des Widerstands«, erinnert Ines Schwerdtner.
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeWelcome to #OpenScience Land expedition-open-science.org This is a lightweight, but very useful and accessible intro to key elements of Open Science (online and as a PDF). Seems particularly useful for introducing the topic to undergraduates @zbw-leibniz.bsky.social
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeAdvances in Statistical Analysis has a call for papers on the role of multiverse analysis in statistical modelling and applications: link.springer.com/journal/1018... Deadline is May 1st, so still plenty of time to put something together!>
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeThursday at 2 PM EST a webinar on anxiety and depression in this profession featuring experts who work in this space. Attendance is confidential and this will not be recorded, live viewing only. Register ahead of time here: politicalsciencenow.com/webinar-anxi...
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeI reviewed an earlier version of this paper. I think it's interesting, because you can tell by reading it that evolutionary psychology still lacks a loyal opposition and a healthy error culture. It's a defensive paper, targeted at people who believe evolution stops at the neck, YouTubers, _others_
- Out now and open access for four weeks as the editor's choice Topic in Focus in American Psychologist. Contrary to popular belief, evolutionary psychology hypotheses are testable and falsifiable. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
- Reposted by Alexander Wuttke🧵 New version of our paper (@bcegerod.bsky.social) is finally online: "How Many is Enough? Sample Size in Staggered Difference-in-Differences Designs" We show that even well-identified DiD studies are often underpowered; sample sizes needed are surprisingly large Paper: osf.io/preprints/os... 1/6
- Reposted by Alexander Wuttke🚨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...
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeIf you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeThis has all been public for a couple of decades. It's Thiel’s client Vance’s job to bring this to completion if Trump doesn't suffice. (2/2)
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkePeter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeSo much of classic political science research is woefully underpowered. I'm glad we're slowly coming to our senses.
- Reposted by Alexander Wuttke🚨🚨Striking but welcome development in Portugese politics: To stop the explosive growth of the ultranationalist #Chega party, Portugal’s leading conservatives are doing the previously unthinkable: endorsing the center-left candidate for president. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/port...
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeBig news: I started a new position as Professor for Computational Social Science (W1 tenure track) at the Center for Critical Computational Studies (C3S) at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main! www.c3s-frankfurt.de/who-we-are#m...
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeIn my updated paper, I introduce an R package, ididvar, that provides tools to easily identify the identifying variation in a regression: vincentbagilet.github.io/ididvar/ More information can be found on the package and project websites: vincentbagilet.github.io/causal_exaggeration/ididvar.html
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeDer langjährige AfD-Parteisprecher Christian Lüth sprach über die Möglichkeit des Erschießens oder Vergasens von Migranten - und wurde fristlos entlassen. Mittlerweile arbeitet er wieder für mehrere AfD-Abgeordnete. Wie kann das sein? www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...
- Reposted by Alexander Wuttke"Offensichtlich wollte Brüning die NSDAP nicht mit juristischen Repressionen stellen, sondern auf dem Feld der Politik schlagen."
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- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeDie Ächtung der AfD wirkt noch immer. Trotz der hohen Umfragewerte bekennen sich kaum Prominente zu ihr. Sie hat nur wenige kompetente oder charismatische und keine kompetenten und charismatischen Leute in ihren Reihen. Kaum ein*e Politiker*in wechselt zu ihr. Das ist viel wert. Also: Keep it up!
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeGreat review from @emilykubin.bsky.social and @vaparker.bsky.social on the challenges of researching what effectively reduces polarization - including knowing if and when reducing polarization should be something we want to do. www.researchgate.net/profile/Emil...
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeAcademics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeDemocracies are so strong that they allow people to criticize democracy. In fact, the ability to do so is an essential quality of democracy. Authoritarians are so weak they don't allow people to criticize authoritarians. Silencing dissent is an essential quality of authoritarian regimes.
- Reposted by Alexander Wuttkedie News von #MarcoBülow s Tod trifft mich sehr. Er war einer der aufrechtesten Politiker, die ich kannte. Uns verband die Vision einer Demokratie ohne gläserne Bürger, aber mit gläsernem Staat. 2015 war ich Gründungsmitglied seiner Initiative "Demokratie plus", die dafür kämpfte. R.I.P., Marco!
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeLooking for speeches from all German state parliaments? @cgnguyen.bsky.social , Eric Beltermann, Sabine Kropp & Antonios Souris have you covered. Introducing the StateParl Corpus. Now open access with PVS: doi.org/10.1007/s11615-025-00643-5
- The distinction between higher and lower tier Academic journals play a key role in the allocation of reputation and presumed value of a study. Yet, we know little about which journals actually publish more credible research than others. Thanks for highlighting and researching this, Ryan.
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeCan large language models stand in for human participants? Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. THREAD 🧵
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkePhD Student:in (m/w/x) (75%, Beginn zwischen März und Mai 2026, 3 Jahre) in München (LMU) im Projekt „DemocraGPT – Entwicklung eines KI-gestützten Gesprächstrainings zur Förderung demokratischen Austausches“ Deadline 31. Januar job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7...
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🎺 Call for proposals 🎺 1️⃣ replicate an existing experiment 2️⃣ run a novel experiment on repdata.com 3️⃣ coauthor with Mary McGrath and me to meta-analyze the replications and existing studies 4️⃣ publish your study details: alexandercoppock.com/replication_... applications open Feb 1 please repost! - Reposted by Alexander WuttkeJetzt verfügbar: Partielle #Kumulation des ZDF-Politbarometers Die #Politbarometer werden seit 1977 etwa monatlich von der #Forschungsgruppe #Wahlen für das Zweite Deutsche Fernsehen (#ZDF) durchgeführt. doi.org/10.4232/1.14611
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeWant to help make replications easier to find, share, and credit? Join us in Germany for a hackathon to do just that. Applications now open ⬇️
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeAmazed how after all these years, people still surprise me by coming up with new ways to express “association between X and Y, except slightly more causal, but not in the causal-effect-of-X-on-Y way.”
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeThe Iowa Gambling Task is an extreme example of Jingle Fallacy and schmeasurement. In 100 articles we found 244 different ways of scoring it, 177 were never reused. Correlations between them range -.99 to .99. At the same time, we show meta-analyses combine these results as if they’re equivalent.
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeAlso read this banger recently: "Statistical Control Requires Causal Justification". The title probably says it all really. Impressed with the ground covered without feeling overwhelming, as well as the clarity of the arguments. Highly recommend!
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeComparing registrations to published papers is essential to research integrity - and almost no one does it routinely because it's slow, messy, and time-demanding. RegCheck was built to help make this process easier. Today, we launch RegCheck V2. 🧵 regcheck.app
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeAm 23. Januar 1930 wird in #Thüringen erstmalig eine Landesregierung unter Beteiligung der NSDAP gebildet. Innenminister wird der später in Nürnberg verurteilte Kriegsverbrecher Wilhelm Frick. Hat ja super geklappt damals mit der "Entzauberung"!
- Reposted by Alexander Wuttke🤖 New update to the LLMs+R guide (ENG+SPA) 14 new pkgs plus reading materials * AI assistants in RStudio * Ralph Wiggum Coding in R * local model tools * auto-routing to the most cost-efficient model * manage prompts w/ external files * translations in the IDE #rstats luisdva.github.io/llmsr-book/
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeKinder & Jugendliche als "Generation Krise" zu labeln ist töricht und fatal. Daten zeigen, dass die überwiegende Mehrheit (ca. 88 - 85%) keine erheblich belastete psychische Gesundheit hat. Aus solche Zuschreibungen entstehen am Ende auch sich selbst erfüllende Prophezeihungen.
- Reposted by Alexander Wuttke🧵For authors preparing the replication packages that accompany their 2026 AEA Papers and Proceedings publication www.aeaweb.org/journals/pandp: Here are some notes on preparing your replication package (1/8)
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeRegression discontinuity design alert
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeGet that nice shiny "preregistered" badge while retaining full analytic flexibility with this one simple trick (preregistering your analysis plan as "we will analyze the effect of the IVs on the DVs") 🫠
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeThis is a belated post about our paper in @poqjournal.bsky.social. We analyzed 100 survey experiments fielded by TESS (tessexperiments.org), using only information from the proposals to identify intended hypotheses. Here are some of the things we learned:
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeJust out in Nature Communications: "Examining public support for Ukraine’s defense against autocratic aggression". With F. Haggerty and P. Thurner, we show that Western citizens back Ukraine’s fight, but moral and strategic concerns, as well as internal divisions, impose restraints. rdcu.be/eYKAr
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeResearch methods courses are unfortunately only taught at the University level. I truly believe that they should start around year 7 and be repeated every single year of education thereafter.
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeIf you’re not using the For you feed you’re missing out
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeI launched version 3.0 of my browser extension "Lazy Scholar", a free in-browser research assistant. It opens automatically when you load an academic article. See: lazyscholar.org/2026/01/10/l...
- Reposted by Alexander WuttkeThe datasets from our @protestinstitut.bsky.social project ‘20 years of protest survey data’ are finally online for scientific re-use. We processed 30+ datasets, covering protests on peace, climate, trade, migration, equality & more. Now available @gesis.org 👇 search.gesis.org?source=%7B%2...
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