Eva Krejcova
Junior Lecturer at IDHEAP, @unil.bsky.social
Previously Max Weber Fellow at @eui-eu.bsky.social, PhD from Cambridge
https://eva-krejcova.github.io
I study political attitudes and behaviour using experiments, spatial analysis & computational methods
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaNew and open access, in @psrm.bsky.social: What happens when we make politicians draw distributions? Nic Dias, @jacklucas.bsky.social and I explore whether the large errors politicians make about public opinion are artificially inflated by how researchers ask them to estimate it /1 cup.org/4kltoyE
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaWilliam Buckland, responsible for naming Megalosaurus. Below communicating the need for women to not attend academic lectures in Oxford, where he was a lecturer (and relied on his wife to transcribe, illustrate his own papers, and curate geological collections)
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaAre female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaFew people are aware of how costly DiD is in terms of power. It can be a cool way to study certain topics, but if you don't have the data, or the variables you're interested in don't vary in that way, well... 🤷
- 🧵 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 Eva KrejcovaDHS will soon be offering to hand out stolen art from deportees’ homes.
- Reposted by Eva Krejcova(1/10) New paper at PNAS: what predicts Ukrainian refugees’ destination choice? We experimentally study the drivers of location choice in a conjoint design: we find that job opportunities, wages and networks are most important, much more so than welfare benefits.
- Reposted by Eva Krejcova📈 TODAY is the last day to answer our short survey on interpreting research graphs! supsy.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... ... we are now looking for people with some spare time to read our paper draft... please send us a message if this might be you 🤗
- Reposted by Eva Krejcova🚨🚨 NEW BLOGPOST 🚨🚨 The right wing should be worried about young men. Unlike Europe and the US, British young men are swinging wildly behind progressive parties. Some thoughts on why, and why most of the right are ignoring it. open.substack.com/pub/joxleywr...
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaMéchants sondages, méchants...
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaThe world’s 3,000+ billionaires increased their collective fortune by $2.5tn in 2025 – a sum that could eradicate extreme poverty 26 times over. Is it now clear that extreme wealth concentration is undemocratic? @cabrowns.bsky.social @oxfaminternational.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaThis is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
- Grateful for people of both talent and personal integrity
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaNEW PAPER ALERT! My paper, with @bjornhoyland.bsky.social , on how “policy loss” shapes support for the EU has just been published in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. Check it out! 1/
- Reposted by Eva Krejcova🚨 NEW — Statement from the family of Alex Pretti: "We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital... 1/
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaI cant emphasize enough how much this is an omnipresent experience among people in communities hit by frequent extreme weather events in the Global South. I have a whole project on this that led my team to climate affected communities in Brazil and Indonesia. This is a common story from our future.
- Reposted by Eva Krejcova🚨 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...
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaIf confirmed, this really is a new low, where a state agency is altering image of real events with an intent to deceive the public.
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaWe have a new paper in Science today on how malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy. AI systems can already coordinate autonomously, infiltrate communities, and fabricate social consensus. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Led by @kunstjonas.bsky.social & @daniel-thilo.bsky.social!
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaIn my opinion, the president shouldn't use his office to make at least $1.4 billion.
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaVacancy with Lukas Fesenfeld and the Einstein School of Public Policy at ETH Zürich: Postdoc position, Political Economy of Low-Carbon Technologies jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaEpstein lured potential victims using the promise of access to "elite" universities. Which says a great deal about the culture of those institutions and the problems with allowing them to play such a big role in determining who can get ahead In our society. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
- Reposted by Eva Krejcova🚨We have a set of very nice PhD scholarships available at King’s College London’s Department of Political Economy 👨🎓 👩🏫 Candidates free to develop their own proposal within political science, communication, Econ etc. ⁉️Questions welcome Happy if you have the option to share the call 🙏
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaA cartoon by Joseph Mirachi, from 1974. #NewYorkerCartoons
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaCool border city and transnational community things: There’s an El Paso and Juárez 10k that includes time in the US and Mexico, crossing one international bridge, and ending on another international bridge. Pictures from the event today are fun.
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaMore than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaPortugal is having a presidential election tomorrow (Sunday). It is a fairly unusual one, which is representative of how much the political landscape has changed in the country. Here is some quick context about it, in case that is of interest: 1/9
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaCRIS at the Sciences Po, Paris is seeking a post-doctoral researcher to join the Research Team led by Prof. Mirna Safi working on “The Discrimination-Inequality Cycle: Bridging Unequal Treatment and Unequal Outcomes across Countries, Regions and Workplaces” Apply: www.sciencespo.fr/cris/files/J...
- Reposted by Eva Krejcova🌟 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 Eva KrejcovaCopenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now. Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations. Source: dr.dk
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaAs a grad student, I loved being part of this PhD workshop at @uclspp.bsky.social! Great feedback, people, city... PhD students, apply by Feb 15! www.conflictandchange.org/phdworkshop2...
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaCurrently in FirstView: In “Survey Professionalism: New Evidence from Web Browsing Data,” Bernhard Clemm von Hohenberg, @tiagoventura.bsky.social, Tiago Ventura, @jonathannagler.bsky.social, @ericka.bric.digital, & Magdalena Wojcieszak provide evidence on survey professionalism across three samples.
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaWe’re organizing a workshop at Aarhus University. Please share and consider submitting! 🗓️ 13–14 April 2026 | 📝 Deadline: Mon, 16 Feb 2026 (extended abstract) — junior scholars prioritized 🎤 Keynotes: @stefwalter.bsky.social (Univ. of Zurich) & @hhuang.bsky.social (Ohio State)
- Reposted by Eva Krejcova✖️Who produces most online hate speech and how effective is counterspeech? ➡️ @gloriagennaro.bsky.social et al. find that hate speech is concentrated among a few users and that counterspeech on X mostly fails to curb prolific offenders www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaThe far right keeps pushing immigration as the issue, and mainstream parties often follow their lead. But when voters are asked in their own words, the top concern is clear: 𝐛𝐮𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 & 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬. This cuts across the entire political spectrum 🇨🇭 www.tagesanzeiger.ch/schweiz-umfr...
- Reposted by Eva Krejcova🚨New publication on cleavages in party competition in Central and Eastern Europe 🚨 CEE party systems are famously volatile, but does that mean that they are unstructured? ❓I ask whether competition has become programmatically organized around enduring cleavages 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1354... Thread 👇
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaThe U.S. is spending $37.5B on ICE this year—more than Canada’s entire military budget. That’s double the EPA, FDA, and OSHA combined. It costs every household $300/yr for ICE to terrorize their neighbors. Even if ICE meets its cruel goal of 1M deportations, that’s $37.5K per person. For what?
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaThis beautifully written piece by my pal @adambonica.bsky.social is worth your time today. A bit of light amid the darkness. open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...
- Reposted by Eva Krejcova“These findings provide clear evidence that data collected on MTurk simply cannot be trusted.”
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaAn ICE officer fatally shooting a woman in Minneapolis is not the first time federal agents involved in immigration have shot a person this year. Here are two shootings, including another fatal one, during the recent Chicago blitz.
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaExperimental participants to us
- Three preregistered experiments with prolific participants (N = 2,254) found no evidence for experimenter demand effects osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Eva Krejcova🚨Job alert! 🚨 I'm advertising a PhD position (66%) in Comparative Politics at HU Berlin. Ideal candidates combine a research interest in autocratic politics, conflict, and/or political violence with strong quantitative methods skills. ⏳ 4 (+2) years | 🗓 DL 16.01; Start March/April 26 More info:
- Reposted by Eva Krejcova💔🙏Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers are celebrating Christmas today in the trenches while holding the line against Russian aggression They're doing it for their nation's survival & for Europe's security Merry Christmas to all of them & their families. May they reunite soon
- Reposted by Eva Krejcova🇪🇺🇩🇪 Published Today in @bjpols.bsky.social 🇮🇹🇫🇷 How a voting advice application affected voting behavior in three large-scale field experiments: shorturl.at/2ekBj TLDR of our study (with @simonhix.bsky.social & @rlachat.bsky.social) below 👇 1/14
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaI ended up blogging on this paper. People who know more about Friedrichshain and Niederschöneweide, pipe up! www.chrishanretty.co.uk/posts/rent_c...
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaOnce again, marginal income, capital gains, & wealth tax rates are too low & this poses an existential threat to the Republic
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaIn 2017, during a visit to Point du Non-Retour, Swiss federal minister Leuthard said:“I'm glad that Switzerland was never involved in slavery or colonialism” Now, remarkably, the govt published an official report examining🇨🇭’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social
- «Wenn der Bundesrat das wirklich ernst meint, ist das ein epochaler Durchbruch.» In einer Antwort auf Fragen von @cedricwermuth.bsky.social zum Sklavinnen:handel nutzt die Regierung ein Wort, das sie sehr lange vermieden hatte: «Wiedergutmachung» Von @ralbisser.bsky.social
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaCan Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) extract features of urban neighborhoods from street-view images? New with Paige Bollen (OSU) and @joehigton.bsky.social (NYU): Sometimes, but the models better recover national assessments that local ones, even w/additional prompting (which can make things worse!)
- Currently in FirstView: In “Nationally Representative, Locally Misaligned: The Biases of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Neighborhood Perception,” Paige Bollen, @joehigton.bsky.social, and @msands.bsky.social test which populations Generative AI is most representative of.
- Reposted by Eva KrejcovaThe estimated median net worth of who’s running the country: House: $1.0M – $1.5M Senate: $1.7M – $2.5M Supreme Court: $4M – $6M White House Cabinet: $15M – $50M President: $5.1B – $7.1B
- Reposted by Eva Krejcova🚨 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 Eva KrejcovaI still think UBI is potentially a good idea, but these null results are challenging our understanding of the relationship between income and life outcomes. At minimum, we need to do some hard thinking in political economy so we can better predict the resutls of these kinds of interventions.
- Reposted by Eva Krejcovamy great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing. they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors. their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen. their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
