For the FES, I wrote a short brief about how mainstream party strategies have fueled far-right success. They move toward more anti-immigration positions to win voters back. This does not work, but shifts public opinion to the right. Parties then react to shifts in public opinion. A vicious cycle.

"Generell führt die politische Abkehr von Diversität, Anerkennung und Menschenrechten dazu, dass die Kombination von Autoritarismus, Antifeminismus und Pronatalismus nationalistisch und eugenisch aufgeladen wird" Christa Wichterich @blaetter.bsky.social www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...

Are visual strategies distinctive to populism? Francesco Melito & @mattiazulianello.bsky.social examine how political parties’ comms teams strategise, based on original interviews with professionals working directly with Italian parties. Read more: buff.ly/VNboEXh @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

🚨 So excited about our new paper in @bjpols.bsky.social : h7.cl/1iliZ! Together with @corinnakroeber.bsky.social, @lenastephan.bsky.social, @camilamontero.bsky.social, we analyze how gender shapes the extent to which ministers are scrutinized by parliament.

"analysis shows that yes, dissensus over liberal democracy is a line of conflict in the EP. However, conflicts over gender equality are, as ever, a litmus test of the contents and workings of that democracy" @jekantol.bsky.social @valentineb.bsky.social & Gaweda rdcu.be/e0cgB @compeurpol.bsky.social

I'm late to watch the second season of #Andor, but Senator Mothma's speech is not only impressive (and full of pathos), but also a scene in which fiction and current reality are so close together. In my opinion, it's well worth watching: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYnE...

DFG Fachkollegium 2035

#CallforAbstracts 📣 @mareikefenjabauer.bsky.social and I edit the special issue "Influence and Visibility in Gendered Public Spheres". #Deadline for abstracts is January 15th 2026. We are looking forward to your submissions! More information on the call: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "Wording Matters" @michaelhansenphd.bsky.social employs a survey experiment to test the effect of different frames on support for women's reproductive rights. 🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟 polisky gendersky buff.ly/8CmpDpK

I hereby nominate ”not just x… it’s y” as another telltale for AI boilerplate

🚨 Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion (2 years) We’re hiring a 100% Postdoc at the University of Greifswald. ✨ What makes this job special: Two full years to focus on research (no teaching, no admin overload) embedded into an International Research Training Group

"Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Stadtteile mit größeren sozioökonomischen Herausforderungen schlechter mit Kindertagesstätten versorgt sind." -> georeferenzierte Daten zu Kindertagesstätten aus 52 Städten in DE pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i... @mpifg.bsky.social discussion paper

It is almost 10 years since Hanspeter Kriesi published his seminal article on the politicization of European Integration @jcms-eu.bsky.social. A short thread on how things stand as of 2024, with @chesdata.bsky.social, looking at salience, clarity, and unity of party positions towards the EU 🧵:

#CallforAbstracts 📣 @mareikefenjabauer.bsky.social and I edit the special issue "Influence and Visibility in Gendered Public Spheres". #Deadline for abstracts is January 15th 2026. We are looking forward to your submissions! More information on the call: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

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...

In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps: /1

#AcademicLife Journal X: 2 reviews are in for your submitted manuscript Review 1: Major Revisions Review 2: Minor Revisions Editors: unfortunately, we have to reject your manuscript Getting under review and publishing is already tough, IMO but why making it even more challenging...

UPDATE: Americans who use YouTube 84% Facebook 71% Instagram 50% TikTok 37% WhatsApp 32% Reddit 26% Snapchat 25% X (Twitter) 21% Threads 8% Bluesky 4% Truth Social 3% Full Pew Research Center report: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/11/20/americans-social-media-use-2025/

A tiny minority of highly active users produce the majority of online political content, while most users consume content passively and remain largely silent. Toxic comments are more likely to be expressed, even though most people disagree with them, creating false norms. osf.io/preprints/so...

Recently did around 30 requests to ppl who'd published very similar papers to the one I needed reviews for. 3 declines, 25 no response. Please at least decline guys it slows stuff down so much otherwise.

What gets professors into the media? 📢 New open access publication in @europeansocreview.bsky.social together with Raphael Heiberger from @s7css.bsky.social and @bashofstra.bsky.social! 👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

@heikekluever.bsky.social in der heutigen SZ zur Brandmauer. Die Empirie spricht eine klare Sprache: Wenn die extreme Rechte mitregiert, wird sie größer und entzaubert sich nicht. Alles andere ist Wunschdenken und gefährliche politische Folklore.

„[Fantasy] sublimates a dread of being determined by society’s impersonal structures and a wish for our own choices and values to shape the world around us. It reflects a desire for control, power, and a transparent mechanism from individual choice to social effect.“

Absoluter Irrsinn.

Today, the conservatives (EPP) passed a major piece of EU legislation with the far-right groups in the EU Parliament, marking the breakdown of the cordon sanitaire. The EPP, under Weber, has decided to sacrifice long-term principles and stability for short-term political gains. Thread:

We are hiring PhDs and postdocs to work on the ERC project GETGOV, where I am the PI. We will investigate governing elites since 1789. I am sure that it will be a lot of fun and result in great research! Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... PhDs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

📢 Call for Papers and Panels: join our section on Gender, Sexuality and Political Careers at the #ECPG2026! We invite contributions on the gendered architecture of political careers across elected, appointed & informal roles - whether theoretical, empirical, critical, or methodological.

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/...

Da die Zustimmung zu einem egalitären Rollenbild konstant wuchs, galt das Thema Geschlechtergleichstellung vielen als Selbstläufer. Weshalb diese Gewissheit nun ins Schwanken geraten könnte, zeigt der aktuelle DIW Wochenbericht: www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c....

Excited to share that together with @malojan.bsky.social we’ve published a research note in #partypolitics introducing PartySOME, a comprehensive dataset on political parties’ social media activity. A thread 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Wir suchen für ein Drittmittelprojekt an der TU Chemnitz Verstärkung auf einer vollen Stelle. Analysiert werden Einstellungen von jungen Gewerkschaftsmitgliedern. Mehr Infos hier: www.tu-chemnitz.de/verwaltung/p...

We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure). You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented! #sociology More 👇 jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Endspurt für den #CfP zum zweiten Theoriekongress. Bis zum 6. November können noch Panels eingereicht werden.👇

Educational gap and pay gap in Europe.

Out in the European Economic Review after many years of datawork with @sbachtax.bsky.social and Theresa Neef: The distribution of national income in Germany, 1992-2019. We document 1) high income concentration at the top in Germany - similar to the US

"Academic practice is not only a search for truth, but also a form of struggle and intellectual self-defence within a structured field, governed by rules, hierarchies, and resources." Has academia become a professional sport? @swallaschek.bsky.social for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social

Thank you for sharing this and for the helpful recommendations👏 I would add that the rejection context matters. When one faces the end of a fixed-term contract while project proposals and manuscripts are also being rejected, “failing better” can be an especially difficult part of an academic career.

Joint conference of @europasoziologie.bsky.social & the Agendis project in April 2026 at #EUF #Flensburg on ‘Gender Equality Conflicts in Europe’ Abstract submissions until 31 October 2025. The #cfp can be accessed via @dgsoziologie.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy : soziologie.de/call-for-pap...

Calling all comparative legislative scholars! We’ve got a new dataset with committee memberships from 14 countries over 35 years, spanning almost 15,000 MPs in 260 parties! Grateful for my excellent coauthors! #polisky #gendersky

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

In the blog post below, I use this analogy to make sense of the current state of science with the constant competition, quantification and precarity.

„Ein gelungenes Stück soziologischer Aufklärung, das sich nicht scheut, politische Konsequenzen zu ziehen.“ – Claus Leggewie rezensiert „Exponentialgesellschaft. Vom Ende des Wachstums zur Stabilisierung der Welt“ von Emanuel @deutschmann.bsky.social: www.soziopolis.de/wird-doch-no... @suhrkamp.de

🚨 New article out today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social ! 📄 “Strategic Inclusion Without Transformation: How Populist Radical Right Parties Engage With Women’s Interests” With Bonnie Meguid, @hildecoffe.bsky.social & Miki Kittilson 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...

An often-overlooked aspect in discussions on EU enlargement? The role of welfare security💡. I address this in my latest contribution for @ecprtheloop.bsky.social. Thanks @vanghel.bsky.social for inviting me🇪🇺

„Familienunternehmen“ klingt nach Bäckerei oder Mittelstand. Recherchen des ARD-Magazins Panorama & @investigativ.greenpeace.de zeigen: Dahinter stehen Milliardärsfamilien & Konzerne wie Lidl, Bertelsmann, Rossmann. Von 123 Förderern waren nur 2 echte Mittelständler www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Start des Panels "Aktuelle Europasoziologische Forschungsprojekte" @europasoziologie.bsky.social mit vielen spannenden Beiträgen zu verschiedenen Aspekten der Europaforschung #dgs2025

Der #dgs2025 Mittwoch ist einfach zu eng getaktet. 14.15-17.00 Uhr Panelslot 17.00-18.00 Uhr author meets critics Veranstaltung Ab 18.15 Uhr Mitgliederversammlung Wo sind da die #Transitionen

Interested in gender & politics and working with exciting empirical methods? Want to critically discuss “quant” and “quali” research on gender, intersectionality & inequality? Join us at #ECPG26 for the section: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... 1/3

Meine Kollegin Renée Krug trägt zusammen mit mir am Mittwoch zu "Geschlechterpolitik in Transition – zwischen Fortschritt und Regression?" im Panel der @gender4dgs.bsky.social vor. Wir reden über Magnete, Freiheit, Kinder&Karriere und regressiven Fortschritt. Raum: MC 122; Start: 14.15 Uhr #dgs2025