Very much looking forward to present new joint work with @awaldendorf.bsky.social on the "Politics of Language" at #APSA2025 tomorrow morning (8am). Please reach out for a coffee during the conference :)

Female academics are much more affected by the birth of a child than are male academics. Academic mothers are much more likely to... ◾temporarily leave the labor force ◾and, if they return, shift away from tenure-track positions. scholar.harvard.edu/files/sdchen...

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

I am very much looking forward to tomorrow's talk by @mrooduijn.bsky.social on "Arts-based interventions and prejudice reductions" @ifpolms.bsky.social. Please join @danbischof.bsky.social, @elenaleuschner.bsky.social and me on Zoom (link below).

This Wednesday (12-1pm), we will launch our new speaker series on "Understanding Democracies" @ifpolms.bsky.social! We are delighted to host @dianebolet.bsky.social who will present joint work with @giorgiomalet.bsky.social on "The Electoral Consequences of Conditional Agricultural Subsidies".

Eine Analyse der prog. Positionen von Union und AfD zu den 37 Bund- und Landtagswahlen seit 2013 deutet darauf hin, dass eine Annäherung der Union an die Positionen der AfD eher mit einem höheren Stimmenanteil für die AfD verbunden ist. Ein Beitrag für den DVPW Blog. www.dvpw.de/blog/schwaec...