It's also an opportunity to say thanks to my fantastic colleagues and friends at @politikuhh.bsky.social and elsewhere who have been welcoming, patient & encouraging throughout the last year. It takes a lot of support to manage work & parenthood (even with tenure) and I feel very blessed.🫶 3/

If you're around Hamburg and feel like joining, I'd be excited to see you: www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/forschung/ka...
I'll be talking about democracy and its challenges, at the citizen and party level, as well as why it is important to keep talking about democracy. 2/

After a year (already?!) at @politikuhh.bsky.social I'll give my Antrittsvorlesung 21/10🎉
I'm shy about my current research as I had a baby just weeks after joining UHH and the year has been exhausting with both start-up- & new-parent-tasks. But, that's just all the more reason to celebrate! 1/

For my new research unit Politics of Democracy at the Berlin Social Science Center @wzb.bsky.social, we have 3 open research positions.

2 postdocs: 4 + 2 years (100%)
1 doc: 2 years (75%)

Starting date: 1 March 2027 (negotiable)
Application deadline: 1 November

Postdoc position within my group 3 years (100% TVl-13):

stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/2...

⏱️ 06.11.2026

If you have questions: get in touch!

🚨🚨 New publication: 🚨🚨

Does affective polarization (AP) change citizens’ willingness to support democratic norms or participate?

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Full paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Quarto is a fix - there's things to be unhappy about with quarto (e.g. occasional problems in conversion to pdf if you stuff your slides like I often do for lectures) but speaker view works great quarto.org/docs/present...

On the train to Kraków for #ecprgc26 and #ecprms 🚂
After a longer conference break, I'm excited to see many colleagues again this week. 👋