polarization in the context of climate change and will touch both on theoretical as well as on methodological aspects. We'll have more to share after each workshop but for now we're all happy to book tickets to Bochum! @nicolemilmandoerr.bsky.social @uuinfolab.bsky.social @anniewald.bsky.social

#PleaseShare PhD position on Human-Computer Interaction, AI, and Disinformation: Develop AI tools for fact-checking & media literacy, tackle disinformation & create open science resources Start: April 1, 2026. Deadline March 1, 2026 👉 stellenangebote.cais-research.de/de?id=0bb246 @hheuer.bsky.social

we wrapped up the first of our meetings at @cais-research.bsky.social for our post-polarvis initiative. Despite the rocky start (between people falling sick and delayed trains) it was a very productive 2 days. We managed to make real progress. More to come in the next meeting.

#computationalsocialscience Our work on using VLLMs for semantic visual clustering is out on SSCR: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... There is a lot happening in the space of computational analysis of visual content as we acknowledge more and more the visual nature of contemporary communication.

Abstracts are already pouring in, and we are looking forward to more of them: if you work on queer topics, are interested in aspects of in/visibility, and have always wanted to come and see Heidelberg, please consider submitting an abstract for our interdisciplinary meeting in September 2026!

Promotionsstelle (100%, E13) am Sprachlabor der Universität zu Köln bei Axel Bohmann, in den Bereichen Mehrsprachigkeit, English as a Medium of Instruction und Digital Literacy:

Such an important special issue on oligarchic republics coauthored by Federico Rossi and with Jonas Wolff and other important pieces and contributors : forum.lasaweb.org/issues/vol56...

📄DDC PUBLICATION UPDATE📄 Our former PhD & current Postdoc @emilbakke.bsky.social is first author on this important study on visual expressions in protest movements! Together with @nicolemilmandoerr.bsky.social and @mathiaswullum.bsky.social in @actasociologica.bsky.social ! Great work Emil et al.!

My huge: Congratulations, to Emil Bakkensen, first author and Mattias Wullum Nielsen, staring as co-authors thinking together writing and theorizing this actor networks STS visual sociological piece on momentary symbols and the Hong Kong pro democracy [email protected] read

Out now in @actasociologica.bsky.social: “Momentary symbols: Tracing the visual expressions of collectives” with @nicolemilmandoerr.bsky.social & @mathiaswullum.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... A🧵 on our approach and findings:

Uni Siegen is looking for at a postdoc or a PhD candidate who want to work with me on migration, qualitative research and mobilization. lnkd.in/eZzBnj4m Thanks for sharing Nicole 🐬

Die @dgsoziologie.bsky.social hat sich übrigens klar gegen die Maßnahme positioniert.

Join the IPB social movement conference at Bremen in October and consider submit a paper to the panel on democracy and the climate organized by Sabrina Zajak, Antje Daniel and me, cfp/deadline submission, see more here protestinstitut.eu/veranstaltun...

Looking forward to teaching Visual Qualitative Methods at the Lund Social Sciences Methods Center! Thanks very much, @Alison Gerber and 🐬 colleagues for having me. www.sam.lu.se/en/calendar/... Visual Methods in the Social Sciences

Watch the video Online book panel/Flexible Authoritarianism (OUP), with author Anna Schwenck, prof Soc. i.V.Siegen U Kristina Stoeckl, prof, Socio., LUISS, Rome, Dr. Piotr Kocyba, EFBI, Leipzig U, Dr. Maria Brock, Södertörn U Host: Nicole Milman-Doerr, UCPH CoMMonS youtu.be/MbL4nJFRDlE?...

@polarvis @commonscph.bsky.social join Tomorrow’s KU Sociology Department seminar: speaker Dr. Antje Daniel, University of Vienna, presenting her new research on "Global Flows of Decolonial Thought: Students activism of Rhodes Must and its Decolonial Impart" 12.00, CSS 16.2.55. public. Share widely🌸

Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Out today in Salon: The art of resistance: Trump’s attack on humanities triggers a blowback movement -- The rise of resistance to Trump takes root in rural America By Michèle Lamont - Daniel B. Cornfield www.salon.com/2025/04/21/t...

Early contender for a defining image of this era.

@UCPH next week May 1 campus lecture: Book presentation: Hendrik Simon, A Century of Anarchy? War, Normativity, and the Birth of Modern International Order, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2024.  Location: University of Copenhagen CSS, room 1.1.18 10am Open Access academic.oup.com/book/56279

Commons Online book panel: academic.oup.com/book/55262 Flexible Authoritarianism/OUP April 29, 14.30@UCPH Speakers: Anna Schwenck, UniSiegen, Kristina Stöckl, LUISS/Rome, Piotr Kocyba, Uni Leipzig, Maria Brock, U/Södertörn, Flexible Authoritarianism, ASA MaryDouglasPrize☀️

Online book panel: academic.oup.com/book/55262 Flexible Authoritarianism/OUP @CoMMonS@UCPH April 29, 14.30 Copenhagen Speakers: Anna Schwenck, author, UniSiegen, Kristina Stöckl, LUISS/Rome, Piotr Kocyba, EFBI/Uni Leipzig, Maria Brock, U/Södertörn, Flexible Authoritarianism, ASA MaryDouglasPrize☀️

Highly Recommended Marie Curie workshop with Dr. Noa Milman@Grade/Goethe Uni, Frankfurt-Young Career www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

N-TV - Richter wehren sich gegen Trumps' Abschiebeflüge: www.n-tv.de/25659360

It will be hard to return the favor after @zeinmurib.bsky.social's fantastic talk at UCL, but I will tryFor those close to Fordham on April 9, please stop by!

Visual Methods PhD course organized by Brady Wagoner & Sarah Awad, specialists @AAU. Exciting class and joyful to be coteaching phdcourses.dk: phdcourses.dk/Course/128267

Watch the PolarVis video: Europe& Trump/liberal democracy faced with far right government @CoMMonS@ucph with Ruth Wodak, Anja Wehler-Schöck (Tagesspiegel), Jens Steffek, ManèsWeisskircher and Sabrina Zajak👉🏼 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te9z...

Join "Liberal democracy/far right government: Europe& Trump II." Feb 17, 2pm, @CoMMonS@UCPH online debate with Ruth Wodak, AnjaWehler-Schöck (Der Tagesspiegel), Jens Steffek, ManèsWeisskircher, and SabrinaZajak Host: Nicole Milman Dörr, UCPH). ucph-ku.zoom.us/j/67530872816 Meeting ID: 675 3087 2816

📣 The PhD Open Call 2025 is now open! Get in touch with us to apply for a PhD with NERDS in beautiful Copenhagen. Deadline: Feb 24th nerds.itu.dk/2025/01/31/p...

🇺🇸 Haben Sie gestern Abend Trumps Amtseinführung geschaut? Und sich gefragt: Und was kommt jetzt? 🎤 Dann seien Sie live mit dabei beim heutigen Expertentalk des @tagesspiegel.de um 12 Uhr. ➡️ Mit @jschaeuble.bsky.social, Julius van de Laar & Laura von Daniels Alle Details 👇 tinyurl.com/high-noon-21...

@anjaws.bsky.social @manesweisskircher.bsky.social

Note the date: Feb 17, 2pm, @CoMMonS@UCPH research: online panel "Liberal democracy in the face of far right government:Europe& Trump II. With Ruth Wodak, AnjaWehler-Schöck (Der Tagesspiegel), Jens Steffek, ManèsWeisskircher, and SabrinaZajak Host: Nicole Milman Dörr, CoMMonS

@anjaws.bsky.social @manesweisskircher.bsky.social

Note the date: Feb 17, 2pm, @CoMMonS@UCPH research: online panel "Liberal democracy in the face of far right government:Europe& Trump II. With Ruth Wodak, AnjaWehler-Schöck (Der Tagesspiegel), Jens Steffek, ManèsWeisskircher, and SabrinaZajak Host: Nicole Milman Dörr, CoMMonS

New blog post! In light of the recent U.S. election, Tina Askanius highlights that gender and misogyny have taken centre stage in the world of politics and conservative thinking, and discusses what this might imply for scholars of extremism. www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

⏰️⏰️⏰️ Just two weeks left to apply for this postdoc position to research the European wave of climate assemblies: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... More details about the project and team here: i4i-project.com

Swedish readers, @sannabjorling.bsky.social’s terrific piece on the state of democracy & violence on the US, based on interviews w me over a few months, is out this morning. A couple brief translated highlights: “It feels as if the violence vibrates beneath the surface” 1/ www.dn.se/kultur/cynth...

The contributions show that world ordering from the margins needs to be analyzed in its own terms & not just in relation to the ‘centre’, since it is a generative space for diverse politics & dynamics, while at the same time being cautious not to romanticize/fetishize the “alternative” conceptions.

We propose 3 perspectives to study and research world ordering from the margins: positionality, methodology & strategy. Examining world order from these perspectives leads to a nuanced picture of a multitude of positions of marginality, emanating from different experiences, perceptions & discourses.

SI on “World Ordering from the margins” coedited with Patricia Rinck, Christine Unrau & Sigrid Quack is out now 👇🏽 Lot of thought provoking articles examining world-ordering practices by a variety of actors across the Global North and the Global South.

Critical new research, highly recommended..

Highly recommended special issue on climate activism worldwide eds Antje Daniels and colleagues at Vienna University. The introduction and some articles are open access. Global South and north comparisons👉🏼https://mattersburgerkreis.at/site/de/shop/jepartikel/shop.item/2086.html

Read this paper on digital images translating climate justice online to inspire transformative ecological visions of world order from the margins: doi.org/10.1093/isag...