💥Viktor Orbán’s media doxxed 200,000 opposition supporters by publishing stolen personal data, including names & addresses – unprecedented in Hungarian politics. Recovering from this, opposition leader Péter Magyar held a rally in Győr, saying they are the majority — and they’re not afraid of Orbán.

🇵🇱🇮🇪 See, this is what happens when you ask Poles "how are you?" a few times too many.

My productivity has never been as high as it has been since they began streaming the International Chopin Competition live from Warsaw. And I even do not like Chopin that much www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4eR...

📣 Workshop: Race, Racialisation, and Racism in the European Context: Crossdisciplinary Perspectives 25–26 Sept 2025 Department of Philosophy, Free University of Berlin. www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we01/institu...

We shouldn't understand the gig economy as merely the product of technological disruption. It is deeply entangled with the welfare institutions — and the broader transformation of work, security, and social protection.

Are you also moving countries while preparing next semester teaching, writing funding applications and papers? Asking for a friend...

#ERSNew 🐣🔓“Don’t complain. Adapt. Be successful.” How do highly educated, middle-class Germans with a migration background respond to racism? Interviewees emphasise having the 'upper hand', the importance of hard work & education. Article @piwoni.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2529413

Remember when people said Western democracy failed in the East because the Eastern Europe was "so different"? Well it's been failing in the West too—because the crisis of liberal capitalism is global. Glad @ambpressman.bsky.social avoids that tired East-West trope. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

It was so good to have you with us in Ukraine at our conference with @associationruta.bsky.social on imagination, new visions and connections and close the event with the bang that was our panel on dissent, with a transregional critique of leftist campism, selective anti-imperialism and solidarity

#ERSNew 🐣🔓 New research on racism in #Germany shows that antiracist action can coexist with racism denial—potentially reinforcing racism. Article by Tae Jun Kim & Elias Steinhilper: doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2508392

I understand the urge but... immigrants are not only valuable because of contributions to the economy. This is damaging coz: 1. Contributes to commodification of immigrants 2. Makes migrants disposable & deportable when labour is no longer needed (esp periods of high unemployment & austerity)

Kindly reminder, when you look at the results of the election and grunt "wtf, Poland" do have in the back of your head that the difference in votes was 369,591 (1,78%), the smallest difference in the presidential election post-1989. Divided we are, yes. But give some of us a break, we tried.

One week to go before the launch of "Migration and Race: CEE perspectives" edited by Kasia Narkowicz, annagawlewicz.bsky.social & Konrad Pędziwiatr, in which I explore how CEE domestic workers navigate their privileged yet precarious position amidst colonial legacies of labour in Belgium & Germany

My partner Radost has created fantastic visualizations of yesterday's Polish presidential election results — mapped by both population (~half of Poles live in cities) and territory. Explore all the maps here: radostw.github.io/election_202...

We are founding a new interdisciplinary Institute for Slavic and Eastern European Studies (ISOS) at the University of Zurich. Please apply to our Inaugural Conference "Eastern Europe's Invisibilities: Politics, Epistmics, Arts" at the University of Zurich, May 6-8, 2026.

Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK. Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽 www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

Linking public service deprivation to immigration rather than to cuts & administrative burdens is a POLITICAL CHOICE My research shows that “immigrants cutting the cue" framing was key part of far right’s rise in Europe 👇🏽 🇬🇧: ap.lc/jwBBV 🇮🇹: ap.lc/WRePJ Yet another form of far right normalization

Republikaner: Kinder(nacht)arbeit in Floridas Niedriglohnsektoren erlauben, wenn weniger undokumentierte Arbeiter:innen da sind wegen Abschiebepolitik. Super Idee.

Oh noes, Americans get to drink bourbon and Zinfandel while the beleaguered Europeans will be forced back on armagnac and Sancerre, the lights are going out all over Europe.

Poland’s bill suspending the right to asylum has just passed the Senate (the upper chamber of the Parliament) without amendments. Now it’s only a matter of days before the President signs it into law. I break down why this is unprecedented for the EU in @euobserver.com euobserver.com/migration/ar...

The mayor of a Polish town on the German border has announced he will complain to the EU about Germany’s reintroduction of border checks, which he says effectively amount to the suspension of the Schengen Agreement and are causing significant disruption.

We truly are stronger together. One of the best ways of persisting in these difficult times of imperial threats, genocidal violence and far right alliances, is via the building of resisting, supportive and transregional communities. If you’re looking for one, join us in @associationruta.bsky.social

Was soll dieser Titel, @Zeit.de ? Warum wird so getan, als ginge es um „Hilfe für die 🇺🇦“? Es geht um uns ffs. Es geht darum, was wir für die Ukraine tun müssen, damit sie uns weiter Zeit erkauft. Teuer erkauft. @efdavies.bsky.social @de-ua-gesellschaft.bsky.social @ostausschuss.bsky.social

The things nobodies know…

🔍New Collaborative Online Workshop🔍 "The silence around “race” in the discourse of equality and inclusion in the labour market" Join us for a workshop hosted by WEI and IMISCOE 📅Friday 28th March 🕐1-3pm GMT | 2-4pm CET 🎟️https://bit.ly/4gWW5Pa

🇺🇦 Three years ago, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. EPD network stands in solidarity with the Ukrainian people, who continue to fight for their fundamental rights and their freedom. Explore how the EPD’s community supports Ukraine 🖇️ epd.eu/epd-members-... #StandForUkraine

The young vote in Germany, by gender. 😳

If you need help coming up with a 'hypotheses' you shouldn't be a scientist. Every scientist I know has 100 project ideas and lack time to get to them. No on is sitting around twiddling thumbs without an interesting question to ask. We are in the dumbest timeline.

Nur kommen sollen sie nicht. LoL

Morning Bluesky. More than 100,000 people have rallied in Slovakia against the Pro-Putin regime of Robert Fico. The streets of Bratislava were packed with crowds chanting pro-European, pro-Ukrainian, and anti-Russian slogans. You can fix elections but you can’t fix the people.

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 I’m looking for a postdoc to join my Emmy Noether project on the New Climate Divide! 🌍 🔍 It is a 3-year position with a likely extension for another 3 years & no teaching obligations 📄 Check out the job call: uni-heidelberg.de/md/politik/p... Thanks for sharing! 🤝

🚨Job alert 🚨 I am looking for two PhD students to work on (comparative) economic inequalities, broadly defined 💰📈💸 The positions are fully funded (E13, 100%), 4 years (with possibility of a 1y extension), and in beautiful Heidelberg! 🏰 adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD... Deadline is Feb 28!

As a migrant, is it time to panic and flee Germany yet?

Why do people who seem otherwise intelligent and competent keep suggesting GenerativeAI as a solution to problems that require accurate information when the one thing it can’t deliver is…accurate information?

Finally arrived, it took the place it should 📕 The Politics of Unpaid Labour’ says that to understand the entrenchment of unpaid labour we must shift from viewing precarity as an isolated economic condition to recognizing it as a process shaped by systemic power imbalances&class-based inequalities

In this chapter, I challenged usual takes on right-wing populism, which focus on its differences from the mainstream. Using PL as a case study, I instead highlighted continuities between illiberal populist and liberal democratic policies. Recent developments in PL prove my point tinyurl.com/ef4mzkr6

Summer School: "Contestations of Citizenship in Times of Global Democratic Backsliding" 7–11 July 2025, Central European University, Budapest #polisky summeruniversity.ceu.edu/courses/2025...

Personal feelings of injustice in domestic work have a structural, postcolonial dimension. Care workers resent the profit made by brokering agencies from their labor. They sometimes express this resentment mentioning the historical debt that, according to them, Germans have towards them. More here ⤵️

NEU: "Antisemitismus, Rassismus und Imperium: Vergangenheit und Gegenwart" - ein spannender Kommentar von @terezahendl.bsky.social, @annaziel.bsky.social und Yudit Namer zur aktuellen RfM-Debatte zum institutionellen Antisemitismus. 👉 rat-fuer-migration.de/2025/01/16/a...

Excited to share that 'Migration and Race: Central and Eastern European Perspectives' is out! My chapter explores how CEE domestic workers in Belgium & Germany navigate their privileged yet precarious position amidst the colonial legacies of the Belgian and German labour markets tinyurl.com/b8btkf3j

‼️ Hiring ‼️ Two (!) positions in my group at @ipz.bsky.social in Zurich 📣 1 postdoc position (3+3 years) 📣 1 PhD position (3,5 years) Application deadline in early March. Job ads & details: tinyurl.com/3p6yhptk We are an international and friendly department with excellent working conditions

I seem to have lots of good ideas in my head, but when it comes to transforming them into papers or projects and the like, it feels like I'm wading through treacle, trying to jump over barbed wire fences and fighting headwinds. Anyone else or am I broken?

2-yr postdoc position at Johns Hopkins in global politics of mobility and American world power. Application due Feb 1 apply.interfolio.com/157861

Daniel James, Tereza Hendl, and I have just published our paper on the lack of racial/ethnic data collection in the German microcensus. We discuss the category ‘migration background’ and why it contributes to white ignorance. #philsci #philsky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"Germany's "Russia-complex" is linked to an uncritical adulation of Russian literature. The colonial mindset expressed in many Russian classics is too often overlooked."

📢New #PAG20 Critical Perspectives📢 @brownphdgirl.bsky.social , @drorlysiow.bsky.social , @mjstrawbridge.bsky.social and co-authors introduce a critical perspectives on intersectionality and centering the margins in political science research polisky gendersky https://buff.ly/3CdTDoP

So, when Bruno Retailleau, current Interior Minister in France, will deploy all the tricks in trade to ban Muslim students from wearing headscarf in university, show us the gusto of solidarity/resistance. Antiracism isn’t ‘white ignorance’ (Mills) of how lives are adversely impacted.

I study public policy and migration in Eastern and Western Europe. I examined the 'migrantization' of Europe's care workforce, the challenges of formalizing paid domestic work, and social policy in Eastern Europe. I am now researching migrants' access to welfare, and transnational labour markets.