Postdoc in Digital Governance, Content Moderation, Platform Governance, and AI Governance at Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich in Germany

King's College London is advertising a PhD opportunity in computational approaches for mapping political polarisation in the age of AI . The project sits at the intersection of political science , computational social science , computer science , statistics , and related quantitative fields, with a focus on understanding what political polarisation means, how it can be measured, and how AI and social media may shape it. The project is intentionally broad and is expected to evolve around the inte...

Postdoc opening in Climate Adaptation using Computational Social Science methods at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, Germany . The project asks a timely question: how can we tell whether cities are actually implementing the climate adaptation measures they promise? The research will combine NLP , machine learning , and data mining to analyse urban climate adaptation plans, monitoring reports, and public procurement records, with the aim of tracking adaptation pro...

The Research School Imaginamics: Practices and Dynamics of Social Imagining at Friedrich Schiller University Jena invites applicants to a doctoral programme embedded in the Cluster of Excellence “Imaginamics: Practices and Dynamics of Social Imagining.” The research focus is on how shared ideas, narratives, and images are formed, circulated, and sustained in societies. The programme treats these processes as social imagining and examines the practices, dynamics, and historical developments throu...

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is recruiting a Postdoc / Research Scientist (m/f/d) for the Kinship Inequalities Research Group in Rostock, Germany . This is a full-time, 3-year research position focused on kinship demography , with interdisciplinary links to demography, sociology, anthropology, mathematics, statistics, computer science, and biology . The group, led by Diego Alburez-Gutierrez , works on kin availability, kin loss, family composition, generational overl...

The Department of Criminology at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for the project Short-Term Mindsets and Crime: Testing and Validating the Theory . The position sits within the institute’s broader Short-Term Mindsets research program, which aims to explain crime through the temporal focus of individuals on immediate versus long-term outcomes. The successful candidate will join an international, interdisciplinary team in Fr...