MZES project director Dr. Sandra Morgenstern @snmorgenstern.bsky.social has been awarded this year’s prize from the Prof. Dr Anna and Prof. Dr Jörg Jiri Bojanovsky Foundation. The Foundation supports early-career researchers at the University of Mannheim in the field of empirical research... 1/5

Now in print 🙌 In prep we were told that the recruitment-scenario in our experiment was “naive or Global South specific”. But recent trafficking ( #Epstein-files ) revelations show: ▶️The question is not only “who would fall for this?” but under which conditions risky decisions become rational.

🚨 NEW REPORT! 🚨 What is the state of the UK academic job market in politics, and what does this mean for the field and #highered? In a new @psaecn.bsky.social report, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social @williamlallen.bsky.social and I find worrying trends in job adverts and HESA data from 2012-25 #PSA26

Explained emigration to 8–12 year olds at the Children’s University @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social 👩‍🏫 Big questions and lots of curiosity! 🌱✨ For kids in MA - spring lectures are fully booked but fall lectures will be online soon: www.uni-mannheim.de/studium/lebe...

This is a great new resource ⬇️🚨

Sociology Research Colloquium Who considers migrating as the climate changes? @snmorgenstern.bsky.social from @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social presents experimental findings on climate literacy, future orientation, and gendered migration aspirations. 📅March 4, 2026, 4:15–5:45 p.m. 📍UNIBE, vonRoll B202

Only 3 days left to apply 👩‍💻

❗️Early Career Women* Scholars 🏫 join us for the summer school in political methodology 📈 all payed 👩‍💻 See you in July (19-25) in Mannheim

🌍 What does the evidence say about international migration and economic development? Read the new @voxdev.bsky.social literature review on “International Migration" co-edited by NOVAFRICA Scientific Director and @NovaSBE Professor @catiabatista.bsky.social 👉 voxdev.org/voxdevlit/in...

📄 New paper out in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social with my amazing co-author @plutscher.bsky.social ! 💡 Ever wondered if authoritarian strongman messaging also works in democracies? We find that, yes, it did under Trump during the BLM protests in the U.S. in 2020. polisky csssky socsky commsky

Personal update: proud owner of the first pair of MZES merchandise socks. Being a staff representative @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social for four years was totally worth it! 💪😅

We're looking for a colleague (postdoc) 📢 @politikuhh.bsky.social 3+3 years Doing your own research while teaching 2.5 courses per semester Research agenda with links to our team (democracy, digital politics, political competition/behaviour) DL 🗓️ 05/01 stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/6...

Publication in Journal of Development Studies 💡 Rethinking vulnerability to international human trafficking in theoretical frame: agency instead of passive victimhood 🚻 No baseline gender gap—but: a gendered bystander effect, increasing men’s vulnerability, not women’s doi.org/10.1080/0022...

🚨New working paper: Compositional Effects, Internal Migration and Electoral Outcomes osf.io/preprints/so... #polisciresearch

Just published in @bjpols.bsky.social: @sergipardos.bsky.social and I show that inter-regional moves in pursuit of employment security reduce individual worries about immigration—a mobility pattern that, in the aggregate, reinforces spatial polarization in anti-immigration sentiment. cup.org/3XiB6yD

📣 Migrant*innen in Europa teilen demokratische Werte Meldung der @dpa.com zur Studie von MZES-Vorstandsmitglied Marc Helbling, @fguelzau.bsky.social ( @svrmigration.bsky.social ) und MZES-Fellow @snmorgenstern.bsky.social Pressemitteilung folgt. 👉 www.deutschlandfunk.de/migranten-in... 1/2

🆕 🗳️ Using surveys across 🇪🇺 & 🇩🇪 @fguelzau.bsky.social Marc Helbling & @snmorgenstern.bsky.social compare migrants from democratic vs. non-democratic countries to see whether support for #LiberaDemocratic values differs between migrants in Europe and non-migrants 📖

Deadline in about a month @ all postdocs! Hope to meet you in Mannheim soon next year :)

Hello Mannheim! I'm presenting tomorrow at the Centre for European Social Research. Come for all the empirical modelling you know all about, stay for all the stuff about oil in Northern Europe you know less about 🛢️🌊

Thank you so much for organising and curating these well-fitting research presentations on irregular #migration - @langlotzsarah.bsky.social @paul-michel.bsky.social and Sebastian @hwwi-economics.bsky.social

Wie unterscheiden sich die liberaldemokratischen Werte von Migranten und Nicht-Migranten in Europa? Dr. Gülzau, Prof. Helbling und Dr. Sandra Morgenstern veröffentlichen dazu einen Artikel im European Journal of Political Research 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

⚠️New publication @ssreditorial.bsky.social 📖 #ethics in the practical implementation of #migration information campaigns ➡️ Sender credibility and Anxiety-trigger both impactful for information provision ➡️ but via distinct paths: No double-down-effect 🛄 Multi-treatment RCT, N=2612 in Nigeria

📣 Attention, postdoctoral researchers! ❗ Apply now for our MZES Visiting Fellowships 😊 💡 Spend 2-4 weeks at the MZES to share ideas 💰 Funding for accommodation, travel, daily allowance 📆 Deadline: 28 November Full information: 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/deta...

🚨So happy to see this article finally out! I still think it’s among my best. Thank you, @breunig.bsky.social and @anselmhager.bsky.social, for your support throughout this crazy ride!

New📣 „Feelings of Guilt When Caring for Parents Across Borders“ by D. Schiefer, M. Nowicka (Integration Dept.) & S. Morgenstern @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social compares male & female residents in GER who provide #care to parents living abroad, with individuals whose parents also reside in GER. 🧵

❗❗ New #OpenAccess Publication ❗❗ 📃 Gender Attitudes, Inequality and Migration Decision-Making by @snmorgenstern.bsky.social and @cvar-sil.bsky.social 🌍 Survey data from young adults across South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the MENAT region. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... (1/4)

🚨Happy to see this published! ➡️ Different gender inequalities and how they influence migration decision-manking 👨‍🏫 together with @cvar-sil.bsky.social