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

Hunderte Kinder & Jugendliche erlebten Gewalt durch ihre Fußballtrainer. @correctiv.org & @11freunde.de decken gravierendes Missbrauchsproblem im deutschen Fußball auf + DFB-Vizepräsidentin fordert weniger Hürden, um Vereine besser vor übergriffigen Trainern zu warnen. correctiv.org/aktuelles/ge...

🎯New publication out in @wepsocial.bsky.social 'Lipset and Rokkan meet data': a 🧵on our study (with Bruno Marino) on the electoral structuring of traditional cleavages (1870–1967) across 17 Western European countries 👇 Read the full article (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Great study by @laraminkus.bsky.social & Ruth Abramowski! Highly relevant research on the economic determinants of experiencing physical intimate partner violence, using #pairfam data. @plosone.org doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Gemeinsame Tagung der @europasoziologie.bsky.social & des Agendis-Projektes im April 2026 an der #EUF #Flensburg zu "Gender Equality Conflicts in Europe" Einreichungen von Abstracts bis 31.10.2025. Unser Call findet sich auch bei @soziopolis.bsky.social unter www.soziopolis.de/ausschreibun... #CfP

Join our team @fgz-risc.bsky.social in our comparative research project on local protests and social cohesion headed by Priska Daphi and Sebastian Haunss (@sehaunss.bsky.social). We are offering a full post-doc position for 3.5 years.

"highlights the organized&persistent nature of online harassment, orchestrated through online forums or by influential anti-feminist social media profiles. These profiles attack targets to create viral content&attract followers, while monetizing the harassment" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Ein neuer UN-Bericht zeigt, wie prekär es um reproduktive Rechte steht. akkuhnt.bsky.social, HENRIKE VON SCHELIHA und danavalentiner.bsky.social erklären das Konzept "reproductive justice" anhand von drei Baustellen in Deutschland – und fordern ein Umdenken. verfassungsblog.de/reproduktive...

It always reminds me of the satirical song by Deichkind & Clueso "Auch im Bentley wird geweint" with the following refrain: "Auch im Bentley wird geweint (Rich) Auch im Learjet fließen Tränen Ich bin nur ein Mensch Was guckst du? So weit oben in den Wolken Kann es niemand sehen"

Im tollen Podcast von @kicker.de "Verboten gut": Frauenfußball verdient mehr Aufmerksamkeit und Anerkennung. Auch Kicker: Die letzten 3(!) Seiten im neuen Bundesliga-Heft (ca. 230 Seiten) zur neuen Saison der Frauen-Bundesliga - 1 Seite Bericht und 2 Seiten schlichte Teamauflistung Bravo!😑

Fundstück beim manuellen Kodieren einer BT-Debatte 09/2014: C. Reimann: "...Zeitkonflikte von Familien beschränken sich nicht auf die Zeit, wenn Kinder klein und niedlich sind. ([...] Eckhard Pols [CDU/CSU]: Große sind auch niedlich! – Iris Gleicke, Parl. Staatssekretärin: Das wächst sich aus!)" 😅

highly interesting special issue on "Contemporary and Future LGBTQ+ Scholarship in Political Science" @pspolisci.bsky.social Looking forward to read more about this in the included articles that cover so many different aspects of LGBTQ+ scholarship www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

@deeesharp.bsky.social & I are looking for a collaborator on a project w/ @offenegesellschaft.bsky.social on empathy-based interventions against affective polarization @uni-hamburg.de j0b.de/veca 75% PhD position, 1st yr project funded & can be converted to a position w/ teaching afterwards 📆31/08

The CHES EU team has published a new research note in @electoralstudies.bsky.social describing some trends across the 25 years now covered by our trend file and exploring two new items included in the 2024 wave of the survey: doi.org/10.1016/j.el... Here’s a summary thread: 1/

Hier nochmal die Grafik als tatsächlich lesbares Diskursnetzwerk #meaculpa

Der Umgang mit Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf zeigt exemplarisch, wie risikohaft es für Wissenschaftlerinnen ist, ihre Expertise in politische Debatten einzubringen und dann für ein Amt zu kandidieren. Versuch eines Threads, um auf zwei Aspekte aus meiner Sicht hinzuweisen. 1/ 🧵

I am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637

We built the simplest possible social media platform. No algorithms. No ads. Just LLM agents posting and following. It still became a polarization machine. Then we tried six interventions to fix social media. The results were… not what we expected. arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385

"While prominence influences US male and female politicians’ probability to receive uncivil tweets the same way, women in our European sample receive incivility regardless of their status." fascinating study by @maarja.bsky.social et al in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S174...

In "The 2024 European Parliament Elections – A Turn to the Right in the Shadow of War", I co-authored a chapter with @swallaschek.bsky.social, Renée Krug and Wiebke Vendt on Gendered Representation of Lead Candidates on Instagram. Read the chapter: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Even in times of sociocultural conflict, a progressive left electorate is more averse to sociocultural *and* socioeconomic inequalities than (far) right voters. New paper with @siljahausermann.bsky.social Palmtag @tabouchadi.bsky.social @stefwalter.bsky.social Berkinshaw tinyurl.com/d42wyb79 1/n

good piece by former colleague Kavyanjali Kaushik @ic3jm.bsky.social : "Spain’s blackout was a preview of a darker future, one where the vulnerabilities of the digital public sphere convert every disaster into a socio-political war." blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2... @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social

🚀 Apply now for the #CAISFellowship 2026/27! You're researching #DigitalTransformation? Get funding, space & community in Bochum, Germany. + Special call on Industry 5.0 & a human-centered future 🌟 🗓 Apply by July 31, 2025 👉 Details: www.cais-research.de/en/cais-coll... #CAIScollege #Bochum

#Spain recently equalised #ParentalLeave, so that paternity and maternity leave are now both 16 weeks. But did fathers take advantage of the new policy? The answer is a resounding yes. #Policy design matters for #GenderEquality. @lsebr.bsky.social @cep-lse.bsky.social

How does geography shape value orientations in Europe? In our new paper, using #ValCon data, @mverbalyte.bsky.social , Monika Eigmüller & I show that country context matters most -> cosmopolitan & emancipatory values follow different patterns. Article is #OA: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

✨NEW PAPER OUT✨ “Far-right challenges to liberal democratic press norms: ‘indexing by proxy’ in a German immigration debate” together with Lance Bennett & @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social. Why do far-right issues keep making the news? 🧵⤵️ academic.oup.com/joc/advance-...

Our Element is out! 🎉 Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms? www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Happy to share my new publication in @sfjournal.bsky.social!📣 Why is household equality so hard? Unequal scripts mean that equality takes work—often falling to women, even when men say they want it. Paradoxically, for women, doing less still means more work. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

Excited to kick off #EPSA2025 on Day 1, Panel 1! 🎉 I’ll present my co-authored research with @michaelimre.bsky.social on 50 years of gender representation in political science publications. We analyze nearly 100,000 articles across 72 journals to uncover long-term trends. 🔍 @epsanet.bsky.social

David Begrich wieder mal mit einem klugen Text in den @blaetter.bsky.social: "Alle derzeit erfolgreichen rechtsextremen Social-Media-Formate sind vielmehr ein Echo der Normalisierung rechtsextremer Deutungen in Politik und Lebenswelt der vergangenen Jahrzehnte." www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...

How do structural incentives, such as job scarcity and metric-based evaluation, shape the questions scholars ask, the methods they use to answer them, and the outlets they prioritize to publish their work? We have an updated draft answering these questions: osf.io/preprints/os...

Ein 🧵 zu den Hauptthesen meines Buches »Die Exponentialgesellschaft« (shrk.vg/Exponential-B ): 1. In mehreren Gesellschaftsbereichen (Wirtschaft, Ökologie, pandemische Krise, Mobilität, Technologie, Demografie, Ungleichheit) haben sich in den letzten Jahr(zehnte)n exponentielle Trends zugespitzt.

Considering the strong politicization of the right to a legal abortion in recent years, it is somewhat astonishing to me how stable the public views on abortion have remained over time in the US. www.pewresearch.org/religion/fac... #WoPo

🔟 more days to send us your abstract❗ The following website has published our call: soziologie.de/call-for-pap... If you have questions, do not hesitate to contact us!

Timely news article for this week's #WoPo seminar on 'abortion policies': "Fueled by the current U.S. administration’s ongoing war against abortion rights and the rise of far-right governments in Europe, abortion providers have recently come under increasing threat."

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 "Contesting Gender Equality in Europe" We invite contributions on actors, structures, discourses & public opinion in ongoing gender struggles. 📝 Abstract deadline: June 20, 2025 📚 Peer-reviewed, open access journal 📄 Full CfP below 👇 #polisky #gendersky #cfp

How did parties and politicians communicate during the 🇩🇪 federal election 25? Together with @dpzberlin.bsky.social & @bertelsmannst.bsky.social we analyzed 18,000+ videos on #Instagram & #TikTok focusing on how they addressed younger voters. spoiler: there is room for improvement 🧵👇

🚨Publication Alert🚨 New update to the ManifestoVault repository is available! Included: cleaned, content-verified manifesto texts at the natural-sentence level of the 2025 German general election. Full coverage: Ireland, UK, Germany 1970-2025 @rwillh11.bsky.social, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social

🚨 We're hiring! Join us at @LMU_Muenchen for the DFG-funded project "Democratic Persuasion: How to Make the Case for Democracy." Interested in making scholarly & societal impact? We’re looking for: 🔹 1 Postdoc (100%) 🔹 1 PhD researcher (70%) Starting: Oct 2025 | Apply by: July 8 More info ⬇️ (1/7)

Ever thought of seeing governments as networks? With the new German cabinet now in place, I visualized all federal governments since 1991. Nodes = ministers + chancellors (larger = more cabinet memberships) Node color = party Edges = shared cabinet membership Edge color = cabinet term (1991–2025)

🆕 Introducing the ✨PolComm ECR Club✨ – a new monthly online forum for early career researchers in political communication! Organized by @olgaeisele.bsky.social & @alenakluknavska.bsky.social, this initiative is open to PhD students & postdocs (≤4 yrs post-PhD) in the ECPR or ECREA polcom sections!

Next German gov. male-dominated on EU: Friedrich Merz, chancellor Michael Clauss, Europe advisor Jacob Schrot, NSC coordinator Johann Wadephul, foreign minister Gunther Krichbaum, EU state minister Lars Klingbeil, finance minister Katherina Reiche, economy minister Boris Pistorius, defence minister

🗳️ Populism is a warning sign. English local elections show it again: People feel abandoned & look scapegoats. Drawing on own research & others, I argue 👇🏽 💡 To counter populism: We need to reinvest in citizens, e.g. housing, health & dignity. Short 🧵 📖 www.socialeurope.eu/to-counter-p...

🚨 Very excited that our paper on *Rulers on the Road* has been cond. accepted at the AJPS @ajpseditor.bsky.social. We analyze emperors' strategies of itinerant rule in the Holy Roman Empire 919-1519. Fun working with @claranw.bsky.social, @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social & Jørgen Møller shorturl.at/Spm7z

Thrilled to see this piece with Douglas Page & Sam Whitt) published in PRQ! We examine how LGBT+ activists can counter backlash by discrediting anti-LGBT+ messengers. Huge thanks to the PRQ editors and reviewers for their thoughtful feedback. 🔗 Read it here: 🧵 (1/4)

In our latest #WoPo seminar, we analyzed Chair & Vice-Chair roles in @europarl.europa.eu committees - looking at women’s representation and how appointments differ across political groups, gendered policy fields & regional background. Thanks to the students, happy to share the results ⬇️⬇️ #GenderSky

Together with @norawaitkus.bsky.social, I have a new paper on the question: How do Germany’s super-rich talk about being 💰💰💰? By analyzig media interviews, we show that they blend business with family success and tie past, present, and future into one seamless narrative. ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

highly recommended article on "Intersectional power struggles in feminist movements" - theoretically as well as empirically very insightful and I learnt a lot from reading the article, written by @marinampuig.bsky.social 👍 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #GenderSky

I’m fine with desk rejections - this happens. What I don’t get is why journals require extensive formatting - so I spend hours tweaking styles for a paper no one reviews because editors reject it. That’s frustrating... #AcademiaLife #AcademicWork

Man kann an Saskia Esken, wie an allen Politiker:innen, eine ganze Menge kritisieren. Aber mit welcher Vehemenz sie als die renitente Nervkuh abgewertet wird, ist misogyn. Wäre sie ein Mann, wäre das Bild "durchsetzungsstark" so halt "nervig".