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News from Poland. Apparently the Americans have started circulating form letters nominating Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize - all the nation in question has to do is sign it. The Speaker of the Sejm told them to fuck off and the US Ambassador has had a meltdown.

No progress in Poland to ease the strict abortion ban because of anti-choice politics or reluctance in the gov't - but five years after Poland's top court gutted abortion rights, access to legal abortion has expanded a bit – only for women who learned to work within a system designed to say ‘no’.

⚡️ Poland is sending a new military aid package to Ukraine.

The US has cut all contact with the speaker of Poland's parliament because of his "outrageous insults" against President Trump. In response, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk told the US ambassador that "allies should respect, not lecture, each other".

Poland to investigate Epstein files for potential Polish victims

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A majority in Poland believe that the US is no longer a reliable ally, according to a new poll. It follows a number of other recent surveys indicating that Poles - normally among the most pro-American Europeans - have much more negative views of the US since Donald Trump's return to the White House

“Doing nothing is often cowardice that we’ve dressed up to look like discretion.” Craig D. Lounsbrough

The Polish government is sending 379 power generators from its strategic reserves to Ukraine, where Russian attacks have left many without heat and power. Meanwhile, the city of Warsaw is providing an additional 90 generators and a public appeal has raised €1.6 million to buy more equipment.

🇵🇱🇺🇸 Nawrocki faces his first, major, entirely self-inflicted conundrum: should he join a thing that Putin and Lukashenka were invited to? If he says "yes", Tusk gets a free penalty kick that he won't miss; if he says "no", what if he loses his coveted "Trump whisperer" status?

Join us 12 February for the next FemQuant seminar when we will be joined by @honoratabogusz.bsky.social who will present her paper on Deroutinization of Labor and Second Birth in West Germany: The Moderating Role of Childcare. Full details and link to sign up: femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...

🇩🇪🐻🇷🇺 Berlin is a city full of mysteries and puzzles, such as: why is this place still allowed to operate?

Santa can keep the toys… What we really want for Christmas: people before algorithms.

📌JOB OFFER 🚨 Postdoc position at the University of Bologna (12-month) in the project “The inequality of Uncertainty and fertility decisions” co-funded by ERC projects GENPOP and POPCLIMA, and Statistical Science Department. Deadline: October 14, 2024 Call website: bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/asse...

“Low birth rates are not the end: they are the catalyst for a more humane, sustainable world – one where all the people live richer, fuller lives”

Happy to announce that I have received an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator grant for the project "Authoritarian Threats to Scientific Knowledge". AutoKnow will study how authoritarian regimes and politics affect scientific progress, contents and topics in different fields. www.sv.uio.no/isv/english/...

My latest article is now up on ASR. In it, we argue that the U.S. LGBTQ movement is in the midst of a widespread, conflictual process of generational turnover—with important implications for the future of the movement. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Peaches: ‘We need lube to smooth out the friction of the world’

State research agency CBOS has found its highest-ever level of support in Poland for the introduction of same-sex civil partnerships. Over 62% are now in favour, up from 52% last year and just 25% in 2011, when the question was first asked.

passed my viva with distinction yesterday 💖

Today is Poland’s Independence Day 🇵🇱 I’m incredibly proud of Poles for persisting despite centuries of imperial oppression. Thinking of Ukrainians and Palestinians whose struggles for self-determination continue.

❗️Now starting: DIW 100 Lecture with Noble Prize Laureate Claudia Goldin, followed by a panel discussion with IAB director Bernd Fitzenberger and DIW gender economics expert Katharina Wrohlich. 📺Join the audience on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/dQC6HkG...

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

Anti-LGBTQ resolutions aka "LGBT-free zones" in Poland have increased residents’ intentions to migrate, both within the country and abroad. Together with @paweladrjan.bsky.social, we use unique data on all clicks on the global job site Indeed. Link: docs.iza.org/dp18217.pdf Main findings ⬇️ 1/7

song of the month if not year youtu.be/htQBS2Ikz6c?...

Global sequence analysis (1995–2023) of LGB+ rights across 193 countries identifies six distinct paths and suggests that first democratic transition is associated with when and how rights spread - by @lisadevries.bsky.social & @annakarmann.bsky.social 🔗 genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Happy to present our work on motherhood penalties at the Humboldt Award Winners' forum in Bonn :) preprint: doi.org/10.48550/arX... @humboldt-foundation.de @honoratabogusz.bsky.social

Great piece on the absurdity of brute force multiverse analyses. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Andrzej Poczobut, a journalist and leader of the Polish minority in Belarus who has been imprisoned since 2021, has won the Sakharov Prize, the EU’s highest human rights award. He "shines as a beacon for all who refuse to be silenced", says European Parliament President Roberta Metsola.

Why do rustbelts vote radical right? Studying the German Ruhr area, @nilsblossey.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social and I show: it’s not just about deindustrialization, but also about the original industrialization. Where coal is buried deeper and mining started later, the AfD is stronger today 1/12

Poland’s ruling coalition has presented a bill that would allow unmarried partners, including same-sex couples, to sign an agreement granting them certain rights. The proposal is a compromise intended to be acceptable to both liberals and conservatives.

🔥 The never-ending narrative… This week, I’ve once again heard prominent climate researchers dismiss individual action as either irrelevant or a distraction instigated by the fossil fuel industry. Here’s a 🧵 on why this argument frustrates me to no end and why I think it misses the bigger picture.

Total fertility rates with immediate and very long run zero population growth implications for European countries My new paper (last?) aims to enhance understanding of the relationships between TFR, immigration, emigration and zero population growth genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....

New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social. It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼💰👩‍💼 are by studying many local labour markets. Thread 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A new exhibition on “Ten Centuries of Polish Russophobia” has opened in Moscow, organised by a state historical society. The display presents the Kremlin's revisionist view of history, including downplaying Soviet responsibility for the Katyn massacre.

New evidence from Poland shows fertility fell with education after 1989, but women with strong cultural capital rebounded—highlighting the hidden role of class and culture in family patterns. 👉 New paper by Krzysztof Tymicki! 🔗 genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....

🚨 Now out in Journal of Human Resources: ⛪️ Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes? Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education w/ @benjaminarold.bsky.social & Larissa Zierow 👉 Religious education in school affects adult lives 🔗 jhr.uwpress.org/content/earl... A 🧵 1/6

A bill that would provide free contraception for women aged 18-25 had been submitted by one of the parties in Poland's ruling coalition. “Conscious motherhood and equal access to contraception are the foundation of a modern and responsible state,” says Polska 2050.

The far-right Confederation party has submitted a resolution to Poland’s parliament condemning Israel’s “genocidal actions” in Gaza, as well as the “criminal terrorist attacks by Hamas”. It has called on other parties to adopt the resolution in a vote.

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving." Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

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Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell ‘infested with bedbugs’

Very excited to announce that @srhayford.bsky.social, @lesja.bsky.social, and I will be guest-editing a special volume of @prpr-journal.bsky.social on "Contemporary Pronatalism in Demographic Context"! Submissions due March 1, 2026. link.springer.com/collections/...

“This Special Issue will provide an opportunity for population scientists to contribute to the conversations about pronatalism throughout the world. We welcome critical, theoretical, descriptive, and empirical submissions that explicitly focus on some aspect of pronatalism”

👉Systematic review finds same-sex & different-sex parents show similar mental health, parenting stress & relationship quality. Same-sex parents face more stress related to discrimination and less family help. @yuxuanjin.bsky.social @denimazrekaj.bsky.social 🔗 genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Poland has launched a nationwide deposit-refund system for plastic and metal drinks containers, with the aim of increasing recycling. A deposit will be added to the cost of such products, with the money paid back when the consumer returns the packaging.

New WP: We study how minimum wage increases affect poverty and food hardship in the U.S from 1981-2019. Different from recent work, we study the Supplemental Poverty Measure + two measures of food hardship, factor in cost-of-living differences, and more. www.iza.org/publications...