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Save the Date: Girls’ Day am 25. April! Am 25. April habt ihr die Chance, in die faszinierende Welt von Robotik, Mathematik oder KI einzutauchen!
zwei Hände halten ein Schild, auf dem steht your vote counts
Studentische Wahlen im FSS 2024
Die Studierenden sind vom 14. bis 16. Mai zur Wahl aufgerufen. Die Wahl erfolgt ausschließlich elektronisch.
Ausfall Authentifizierungsdienst
Am Donnerstag, 18.4.24, 15–17 Uhr, finden Wartungsarbeiten am Authentifizierungsdienst statt.
CfP: International Perspectives on Educational Data Literacy
Please submit the chapter proposal no later than 31 May 2024 as a single PDF document, including all required information via e-mail (clara.schumacher@uni-potsdam.de). 
Apply for academic year 2024/2025!
See more about the application period for academic year 2024/2025!
Studia paedagogica: Learning Analytics to Study and Support Self-regulated Learning
New special issue published in Studia Paedagogica with a focus on Self-regulated Learning and Learning Analytics.
CELDA 2024
The CELDA Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age) conference will take place in Zagreb, Croatia from 25 – 28 October 2024.
Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft (m/w/d) ab Juni 2024 gesucht
An den Steuerlehrstühlen der Area Accounting & Taxation sind ab Juni 2024 mehrere Stellen als wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft (m/w/d) zu besetzen.
Westflügel des Schlosses der Universität Mannheim.
QS-Ranking: Universität Mannheim erneut beste deutsche Universität in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Im weltweiten Vergleich des „QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024” erreicht die Universität Mannheim in der Kategorie „Social Sciences and Management“ Rang 136. Im Teilbereich „Accounting and Finance“ belegt sie deutschlandweit erneut Platz 1, in „Business and Management Studies“ sowie ...
Workshop “Fragile Commitments: Stress-testing support for human rights”
From 10–12 April 2024 we are holding a workshop at the MZES as part of our DFG-funded project on support for human rights. At this workshop the project team (Sabine Carey (University of Mannheim), Katrin Paula (TUM), Rob Johns (University of Southampton), Nadine O’Shea (TUM) ) presents the research ...
Exam date

The exam of the BA lecture “Ausgewählte Themen der Vergleichenden Regierungslehre: Authoritarian Politics” held by Professor Traunmüller will take place on Wednesday, 11. June 2025.

The retake of the exam is planned to be on Saturday, 23 August 2025.

26/01/2022 Conditional Accept at PSRM!

Our paper “Computing quantities of interest and their uncertainty using Bayesian simulation” has just been conditionally accepted at Political Science Research & Methods (with Andi Murr and Jeff Gill).

14/12/2021 Invited Talk at WZB

Tomorrow, I will give a talk on “Free Speech and Self-Censorship at the University: Testing the ‘Campus Cancel Culture’ Hypothesis” in the MaD Colloquium at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB).

24/11/2021 Pre-registered Study In-Principle-Accepted!

Our pre-registered study for the GLES Open Science Challenge “Subjective Freedom of Speech: Why Do Citizens Think They Cannot Speak Freely?” (with Jan Menzner) has been in-principle-accepted for publication in Politische Vierteljahresschrift.

06/07/2020 Our Survey Items on Covid-19 are included in ESS Round 10!

Our (Marc Helbling, Rahsaan Maxwell and myself) survey items on Covid-19 were chosen to be included in the next round of the European Social Survey, due to be fielded across Europe from September 2020. The survey items on government authority and legitimacy in the age of a pandemic will focus on attitudes... 

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17/08/2020 Conditional Accept at KZfSS!

Our paper “Is Free Speech in Danger on University Campus? Evidence from a Most Likely Case” (with Matthias Revers) has just been conditionally accepted for publication in the Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie!

17/08/2020 Accept at PA!

What a day: Our paper “Eliciting Beliefs as Distributions in Online Surveys” (with Lucas Leemann and Lukas Stoetzer) has just been accepted for publication in Political Analysis!