Over the last decades, tertiary education has expanded rapidly - especially for women. They have overtaken men in all EU countries and the gaps keep growing in many of them. In four countries, the gender gap is larger than 20 percentage points. Are we ready for any egalitarian policies?

This headline is incredibly satisfying: "The Ministry of Education wants to improve boys' education. It will appoint a representative." After four years of my academic and public activity, the Ministry of Education now acknowledges a problem they denied as recently as 16 months ago.

1/ New paper out in Electoral Studies with @heikekluever.bsky.social and @cornelius-erfort.bsky.social We show that nuclear power plants reduce electoral support for Green parties in Germany. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... A thread on the paper:

90% of unaccompanied minors applying for asylum in the EU are boys.

People are more likely to accept gender inequality if it is men who are worse off. A new paper with experiments on 35k Americans shows that when men are worse off people are: - more likely to attribute the inequality to a difference in effort - less likely to support pro-equality policies.

New article out in World Politcs. We analyze how different groups react to varying programs of social democratic parties. We find less trade-offs than often assumed. Generally, more left-progressive programs increase support among social democratic potentials muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

❗Among their electoral potential, social democratic parties face very few strategic dilemmas. Left-progressive appeals resonate most strongly. New study in @worldpolitics.bsky.social with @tabouchadi.bsky.social , @indubioproreto.bsky.social, Nadja Mosimann, and @markuswagner.bsky.social Thread👇

Are more women elected in proportional elections than in majoritarian ones? @gulczynski.bsky.social, @monikaturyna.bsky.social & @jkantorowicz.bsky.social examine local Polish elections and find little evidence of that. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/UH5PdOR @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @sagepub.com

Yesterday EPSS was founded, today we answer members’ questions. A 🧵 1. Who formed EPSS? EPSS was founded by a supermajority vote of the EPSA Council, made up of 3 EPSAL shareholders & 9 elected, appointed, or ex officio members. 1/

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

And here it is: introducing the European Political Science Society EPSS! 🎉🎉🎉 Follow @epssnet.bsky.social on bsky, visit its website www.epssnet.org, and become a member!

As always, only a few scholars from Central and Eastern Europe come to the European Political Science Association conference. @epsanet.bsky.social #EPSA2025

How do parties tailor their campaign ads to women? 🗳️👩 Excited to share that my paper on how parties adapt their ads is out now at @thejop.bsky.social! 📖 Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... A quick breakdown of the findings ⬇️🧵

I recently spoke at the Women in Tech summit in Warsaw, reportedly attended by 14k people. We discussed men's issues in front of over 100 women. I am grateful to the organizers for the opportunity. You can now watch watch the debate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_C-... (Foto: Marcin Runowski)

What a suitable place for a lecture on the Church and state formation by @annagbusse.bsky.social!

It's nice to be cited in a World Bank report.

Much of the gender gap in life expectancy isn’t natural. Men shouldn’t have to die 6, 8, or 10 years earlier than women. In many countries, the gender gap is only 3-4 years. We could have more grandpas and fewer widows if we start taking men’s health seriously.

Why has the right-wing candidate won the presidential election in Poland? "The ruling, progressive-liberal side has let go of young men and this is something that cost the victory," - Dr Michał Kotnarowski said last night in the main liberal TVN24. 1/6🧵

Are more women elected in proportional elections than in majoritarian ones? @gulczynski.bsky.social, @monikaturyna.bsky.social & @jkantorowicz.bsky.social examine local Polish elections and find little evidence of that. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/UH5PdOR @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @sagepub.com

I just got a certificate from Wiley: my paper on sex-selective rural-urban migration is among the 10% of most-viewed papers published by #PDRjournal in 2023!* Have a look! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Yesterday I gave two long lectures for law students at the Nova School of Law in Lisbon. We covered "as many research methods as possible" from discourse analysis to quasi-experiments and quantitative text analysis. Teaching people from another discipline is a very useful challenge!

I've presented the early results of my research on education gender gaps at the @cep-lse.bsky.social. It was possible thanks to @mobarakhossain.net, @sandramcnally.bsky.social and the @civica.bsky.social short visits programme.

🚨Congrats to @nenaoana.bsky.social and Alexandru D. Moise for new joint book at @cambridgeup.bsky.social @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social on the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine public preferences for the European Union.

Nowy wywiad z @gulczynski.bsky.social w Momentach - o najważniejszych problemach mężczyzn, Januszu Palikocie, zbyt słabo płatnych zawodach, kto broni chłopcom się uczyć i o czym będziemy rozmawiać na Kongresie Mężczyzn. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljoM...

Dzisiaj wieczorem @gulczynski.bsky.social wystąpi w Polsat News Polityka przy okazji Dnia Mężczyzn!

🚨Working paper alert🚨 This was the first project I started in my PhD, blessed with amazing co-authors! Glad to finally share our findings. Long story short: even largely symbolic and declarative state-sponsored homophobia can translate into real political behavior 👇

This stereotype isn't just held by far-right voters—it’s widespread, including among politically liberal citizens. Also, there are no differences between LGBTQ+ and cisheterosexuals. All stereotype Muslims to the same degree.

📢 Call for papers! We are organizing the 5th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 19-21 May 2025 at King’s College London! Keynotes: Sonia Bhalotra (Warwick) and Peter van der Windt (NYU-Abu Dhabi). No fee, travel grants available! Submit at: tinyurl.com/qpeearly

Które dyscypliny przechodzą „genderową rewolucję”? Gdzie występuje „przestrzelenie równości”? Czy są dyscypliny tradycyjnie sfeminizowane, lecz wśród młodych jeszcze bardziej? Analizę proporcji płci w polskiej nauce przeprowadził @gulczynski.bsky.social ⬇️ forumakademickie.pl/zycie-akadem...

Are more women elected in proportional elections than in majoritarian ones? @gulczynski.bsky.social, @monikaturyna.bsky.social & @jkantorowicz.bsky.social examine local Polish elections and find little evidence of that. Read more: https://buff.ly/4gh5cJU (OPEN ACCESS) @uoypolitics.bsky.social

The Minister for Equality presented the priorities of the Polish presidency today in the 🇪🇺Parliament. She repeated: "We will also put on the table one more topic: the topic of men's and boy's rights." See my paper on how the EU includes men in gender policies: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Are more women elected in proportional elections than in majoritarian ones? @gulczynski.bsky.social, @monikaturyna.bsky.social & @jkantorowicz.bsky.social examine local Polish elections and find little evidence of that. Read more: https://buff.ly/4gh5cJU (OPEN ACCESS) @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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I’ve shown here that systems with later tracking do better at exposing students from disadvantaged backgrounds to high achieving peers journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

If you are outside Spain and would like to come to Barcelona for a postdoc, the Beatriu de Pinós call is out. Check the conditions and contact us if you want to come to the UAB! agaur.gencat.cat/ca/beques-i-...

Are young men and women in Europe becoming more polarized in their political ideologies? It depends. Across 32 countries: 14 show no meaningful gender gap 7 have a stable small to medium gap with women leaning more left 11 show widening modern gender gaps osf.io/preprints/os...

Our paper is among the most shared in political science this week. @jkantorowicz.bsky.social @monikaturyna.bsky.social

We find that the share of women has been consistently growing in almost all kinds of elections in Poland, even though the electoral systems have changed several times. The systems seem to be less relevant than cultural changes. 4/4

🚨NEW PAPER in Political Studies with @monikaturyna.bsky.social and @jkantorowicz.bsky.social! Are more women elected in proportional elections than in majoritarian ones? This has been long believed to be true. We test it for 🇵🇱 using the regression discontinuity design. doi.org/10.1177/0032... 1/4

🚨 The second round for #PAPERSS Seminars is here! 🥊 Early-career researchers in political science, sociology, and applied economics are invited to submit proposals for the Spring series by January 1st, 2025, through our online portal ⬇️. Let’s keep the momentum going! 📚✨

At an OECD conference in Warsaw, I asked the Estonian minister of education: why is the gender gap in PISA results much smaller in Estonia than in Finland? She answered with two hypotheses: 🧵 www.youtube.com/live/N-QNxIg...

"Boys who report feeling seen as “very feminine” are 3.5 times more likely to be bullied than their “very masculine” peers. By contrast, girls’ rates are roughly constant across the gender expression spectrum." Truly fascinating study by @joeljm.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Today, feeling close to cosmopolitans or feminists separates voters of the left from right voters who identify with people who are down to earth and hard working. Yet, these identities do have structural roots, just like class identities did. Our short CUP book on cleavage formation is out in OA.

Very nice piece by Herman here. Like Herman, I’m a big fan of causal identification. But causal identification is NOT equal to causality - with any rigorous & coherent philosophical definition of causality. The goal should be understanding causality not causal identification alone.

My new blog on substack. Avoiding the causality trap. substack.com/home/post/p-...

🚨 New @apsrjournal.bsky.social Paper! 🚨 In “When Migrants Mobilize against Labor Exploitation: Evidence from the Italian Farmlands,” I study how empowering undocumented migrants can reduce labor exploitation and even weaken organized crime. Thread : 🧵

New Gender Update out in @ejpgjournal.bsky.social. With data from the new wave of the EES, I show a strong increase in support for the far right among young voters. Especially the share of young men who consider voting for the far right has exploded. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Are starter packs still a thing? With all the European University Institute newcomers today I made a list of institutional and personal accounts I found so far. (Happy to update with new suggestions) Reply, share, and like to facilitate connections! 🙏 go.bsky.app/KGSw4gL

Just published on APSR First View: "White, Male, and Angry: A Reputation-Based Rationale for Backlash" by Stephane Wolton. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/white-male-and-angry-a-reputationbased-rationale-for-backlash/BEB3DADCC3F7CCC1A7DB49ECDA6787CF