21/11/2025 Two Talks on Free Speech Yesterday, I gave an invited talk on “Free Speech and Self-Censorship in the Context of the Israel-Palestine Conflict” as part of a lecture series organized by the Student Union (ASTA) of the University of Mannheim. Last Tuesday, I gave an invited talk on “What is the state of free speech... View Article
14/11/2025 Parrhesia Politics Lab: “Quantitative Antisemitism Research in Germany” In today’s workshop, the Parrhesia Politics Lab brings together a group of quantitative researchers who work on the sensitive and controversial topic of antisemitism.
07/11/2025 Talk and Discussion on Free Speech at Berlin Law Policy Conference Today, I gave a talk and was part of an expert panel on free speech regulation at the 19. Berliner Rechtspolitische Konferenz of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Berlin.
23/10/2025 Talk on Subjective Free Speech and Social Media Regulation Today, I will give a talk on “Subjective Free Speech and Social Media Regulation” in St. Leon-Rot organized by the local group of the Green party.
21/10/2025 Article accepted at PNAS! The result of our adversarial collaboration on cancel culture in academia “Students’ motives for restricting academic freedom: Viewpoint discrimination and pro-social concerns.” (with C. Diehl, M. Revers, N. Weidmann, and A. Wuttke) has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)!
14/10/2025 Talk on the Cost of Speaking Freely Yesterday, I gave a talk on “The Cost of Speaking Freely in a Liberal Democracy” in the E866 Research Seminar in Economic Policy at the University of Mannheim. Thanks for organizing, Hans!
09/10/2025 Talk on Cancel Culture at the AS 2025 Conference Tomorrow, I will present the results of our adversarial collaboration on “Student motives for restricting academic freedom: Viewpoint discrimination, academic standards and pro-social concerns” at the AS 2025 Conference in Mainz (together with Claudia Diehl).
26/09/2025 Best Article Award! Our article Helbling, M., Maxwell, R., & Traunmüller, R. (2024). “Numbers, selectivity, and rights: the conditional nature of immigration policy preferences,” Comparative Political Studies, 57(2), 254-286. won the 2005 Best Article Award from the APSA Section on Migration and Citizenship!
19/09/2025 Conditional accept at PSRM! Our paper “Improving Studies of Sensitive Topics Using Prior Evidence: A Unified Bayesian Framework for List Experiments.” (with Xiao Lu) has just been conditionally accepted at Political Science Research and Methods.
09/09/2025 Three talks at Peking University! Next week, I will travel to Beijing to give three talks under the framework of the “Overseas Eminent Scholars Lecture Program” of Peking University: 1. Bayesian Analysis for Political Science. 2. What’s Troubling German Democracy? 3. Experimental Evidence on Political Extremism in Germany. Thank you for the kind and generous... View Article