Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it. 
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures. 
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do. 👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette... 🧵

Prof @catherinedevries.bsky.social: „Demonstrate that the state can efficiently serve its citizens“ Truly the best keynote I’ve ever had the privilege of listening to, incredibly powerful &inspiring. It invited so many fields into a conversation we urgently need: how to design a state that delivers

The topic is serious and the exchange is intense. For two days, 100 researchers gather at the WZB to discuss the "Future of Democracy?" at the 1st Annual Interdisciplinary WZB Conference. Thanks to all the participants for the lively debate.

La cuna como factor principal de la desigualdad: elpais.com/economia/202...

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

"You can be English with roots that stretch back a 1,000 years, but you can also be English and look like me". About time. Need much more of this, and need the PM to come out and say it and challenge the politicians and media who've brought us here - not just Musk www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Zehn Jahre nach dem Sommer der Migration: Von Solidarität zur Normalität der Gewalt" - ein aktueller Gastbeitrag von @valeriahaensel.bsky.social und mir in der Frankfurter Rundschau. @medico2.bsky.social

@irenepaneda.bsky.social's analysis shows: Understanding how gender inequality influences female migration is crucial for formulating migration and development policies as well as gender equality initiatives in both origin and destination countries.

Yet, the role of GBV, one of the most severe forms of gender inequality, remains underexplored at the individual level in shaping women’s migration intentions, as @irenepaneda.bsky.social has shown in her recent article for the WZB-Mitteilungen. bibliothek.wzb.eu/artikel/2025...

#Migration research has long been influenced by a male-centric perspective. Recent evidence explores a “feminization of migration”, with more women migrating as primary movers driven by complex factors — among them, gender inequality and gender-based violence (GBV).

📢 *Call for Applications* / 📢 *Convocatoria abierta* Join our project on Prejudice & Discrimination at the Spanish National Research Council (Madrid 🇪🇸) Open to junior scholars at different stages (postdocs, predocs, or MSc grads considering a PhD) 🔗 ⬇️ www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zrur0...

But here’s the hard part: When ideas are new, interdisciplinary, different, how we say them often matters as much as what we say. That’s when the ‘voice tax’ kicks in: our voice struggles to be heard because it doesn’t sound familiar. Not just due to novelty, but due to gender, class or race. 4/

Voice is one of the most talked-about, and least explained, aspects of academic writing. We’re told to “find it,” but rarely taught how to build it. I wrote up some reflections here: 👉 open.substack.com/pub/catherin... A 🧵 about why so much academic writing feels voiceless & what to do about it.

Was bringt Menschen dazu, ihr Land zu verlassen? Welche Erfahrungen machen sie dabei? Und wie reagieren die aufnehmenden Gesellschaften? Das neue Heft der WZB-Mitteilungen blickt aus verschiedenen Perspektiven auf #Migration. Zum Heft: wzb.eu/de/migration

Today is a sad day for African literature. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...

I wrote about research, translation and conjecture, knowledge and delusion; about Linear Elamite, Rumi, economics, and our own @andreamatranga.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/rottenan...

❗Diez lecciones que nos deja Pepe Mujica www.eldiario.es/internaciona...

This from Joseph Brodsky’s Nobel lecture caught my eye yrs ago. The social scientist in me has toyed with the idea of designing a study to test causality here. Even if I don’t think it’s actually true, I wish it was in these times of rampant authoritarianism. #WorldBookDay #DiadelLibro #SantJordi 🌹

Great advice on academic writing by @catherinedevries.bsky.social👇 "I am a first generation scholar, suffer from dyslexia, write in a foreign language and often feel like a outsider in my profession — where let’s face for many being an academic is like being part of family business." Worth reading.

Launch event 🚀 The project report "Transnational Perspectives on Migration and Integration" combines rich qualitative and quantitative data and methods to investigate #migration and #integration from a transnational perspective. 📆Tuesday 11.03., 2pm📍hybrid Sign up here: go.dezim-institut.de/3z

Saw "El maestro que prometió el mar" (Spain, 2023) yesterday. Beautiful movie, based on the life and death of anti-authoritarian (Freinet) teacher Antoni Benaiges in pre-civil war Spain, also dealing with the culture of (non-)remembrance in post-Franco Spain. #vivalarepública ❤️💛💜

This thread is a cool embodiment of what economists and sociologists can achieve if we talked to each other

It seems that there was no Sociology Journals starter pack, so we created one: go.bsky.app/93ta3Gs -- do let us know which journals we missed!

Join us for a keynote by Halvard Buhaug, Research Director at PRIO and Professor at NTNU, on the climate-conflict-migration nexus. 🗓️ Date: November 27, 2024 🕔 Time: 5:00 - 6:15 PM 📍 Location: WZB Berlin Social Science Center 🔗 Register here: events.wzb.eu/madconf24/ 2/2🧵

Together with @irenepaneda.bsky.social and Daniel Meierrieks, I’m co-organizing the 10th WZB Annual Conference on Migration and Diversity focusing on "Migration, Conflict, and Climate Change" between November 27-29, 2024, at WZB in Berlin! ▶️ tinyurl.com/24drnhj8 1/2🧵

Happy to share a new working paper with my WZB colleague Daniel Meierrieks on how climate disasters shape the formation of migration aspirations in West Africa. It turns out, disaster type matters quite a bit 👇 www.econstor.eu/handle/10419...