Surreal to do an interview with BBC World Service in the middle of last night discussing how the world’s first trillionaire is also the world’s most prominent Far Right agitator.

➡️ ➡️ Complete Themed Section on #InterpretiveProcessTracing now #OpenAcces ⬅️ ⬅️ Four papers, one goal: thinking through and advancing PT for interpretive research (post with a tribute to Raúl Pacheco-Vega fellow PT and methods enthusiast). 1/

Love this piece, “You have this hold over me”, by @anthonyhurd.bsky.social. Happy pride 🏳️‍🌈

📢 Call for papers! Who speaks for the poor in social policy? For the upcoming ESPANET conference (August 26-28) in Lisbon, Sigrid Leitner and I are organizing a stream examining the political representation of people experiencing poverty. www.iseg.ulisboa.pt/event/24th-e...

Some of my favorite electronic artists of all time. A gorgeous composition and a blessing to have them back with new material: "But that's always been the Boards of Canada way: they make what might read as overly earnest feel profound, universal and utterly essential. " de.ra.co/reviews/36346

Noch nie hat eine Partei so stumm um ihr Überleben gekämpft. Aber wird denn überhaupt gekämpft? Oder ist "kämpfen" für die SPD auch nur noch ein anderes Wort für weiter regieren?

On World Social Work Day, we call for better pay, more staff and stronger public investment in #SocialWork. Social workers hold communities together - Europe must back them with decent work, safe staffing, protection and collective bargaining. Read our statement 👇 www.epsu.org/article/worl...

Das Projekt „Straßennachlass“ will Wohnungslosen helfen, ihre letzten Wünsche zu sichern. 🔗 taz.de/!6161678

According to NYT, Pentagon officials told Congress that the first 6 days of the war had cost the U.S. at least $11.3 billion. But we can't seem to expand nutritional assistance programs to help families avoid food insecurity, which is worse today than it was in 2019!!!

🎉 Ecstatic that my new article, “How social reporting put poverty on the agenda in Germany: an interpretive process tracing analysis”, is now published open access in @policy-politics.bsky.social bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

So glad to see this one published: academic.oup.com/bjsw/advance... In this new article (open access!), we argue for the importance of collective actors in social work policy practice by drawing on research on welfare associations in Germany.

Soziale Einrichtungen haben oft kein Geld, um sich an die Folgen der Erderhitzung anzupassen. Förderung vom Bund bekommen sie aber auch nicht mehr.

So glad to see this one published: academic.oup.com/bjsw/advance... In this new article (open access!), we argue for the importance of collective actors in social work policy practice by drawing on research on welfare associations in Germany.

Die neue Grundsicherung erhöht unnötig den Druck auf Betroffene, sagt Arnold. Der Berliner war wegen Depressionen früher selbst „Totalverweigerer“.

📢 Call for papers! Who speaks for the poor in social policy? For the upcoming ESPANET conference (August 26-28) in Lisbon, Sigrid Leitner and I are organizing a stream examining the political representation of people experiencing poverty. www.iseg.ulisboa.pt/event/24th-e...

⚠️ Wir haben gemeinsam mit anderen Wohlfahrtsverbänden bei sozialen Einrichtungen und Organisationen nachgefragt, welche Auswirkungen aktuelle Kürzungen und Kostensteigerungen haben: Die Zahlen sind alarmierend!

Ob #Bürgergeld, #Rente, #Pflege, #Bildung, #Kinder oder #Wohnen – der #Sozialstaat in Deutschland spielt für jeden Menschen eine wichtige Rolle. Trotzdem steht er fortwährend in der Kritik. Unsere Studien räumen mit Mythen auf. 💥 Unsere Forschung zum Sozialstaat: www.boeckler.de/de/auf-einen...

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky url: academic.oup.com/icb/article-...

Proud to have a chapter published (in German) alongside so many incredible people - looking at the successful role of employee buyouts in building union power. Yes, this is an attempt to push German unions in that direction. Happy to give 30% discounts for those interested in a copy. ✊🏻

According to ECB data, Germany has the highest wealth inequality of all EU countries. The top 10% own 67% of total wealth, while the bottom half own 1.3%. The countries ranking next in wealth inequality are Spain, Ireland, Estonia, France, and Austria.

Ich fasse es nicht...

The last time he started talking like this, his allies minimized the risks and we ended up with January 6. This time we must take him literally and seriously. These comments are a five-alarm fire for democracy. In a functioning republic, he would be impeached and removed from office today.

Ich freue mich über mein Interview in der SZ @szde.bsky.social! Die Ungleichheit bei den Vermögen in Deutschland ist extrem hoch. Das hat strukturelle Gründe, vor allem Unternehmensbesitz am oberen Ende. Daraus folgen höhere Renditen der Reichen, was die Ungleichheit weiter treibt sz.de/li.3372503

‘This is what fascism looks like’: terror in Minneapolis reminiscent of civil war

I don’t know how the narrative of American democracy can survive this. The country voted to give the nuclear codes to a mental toddler who’s going to start a war because he didn’t get a participation trophy.

(1/2) Der #Verteilungsbericht unseres WSI Düsseldorf zeigt: In Deutschland haben #Ungleichheit und #Armut spürbar zugenommen. Im Podcast #Systemrelevant wird die #Einkommensverteilung und deren gesellschaftlichen Konsequenzen analysiert. 📲 Hier reinhören: www.boeckler.de/de/p...

This week: we execute a U.S. citizen. Next week: we take over elections to stop “fraud.” It's so transparent what's going on here.

The destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.

Ich verurteile den bewaffneten Angriff der USA auf Venezuela. Dieser Angriff stellt eine schwere Verletzung des Gewaltverbots der UNO-Charta dar. Es ist eine Frage unserer Glaubwürdigkeit, dies auch klar zu benennen. Wir müssen die Flagge der internationalen Rechtsstaatlichkeit hochhalten.

You’re telling me the FIFA Peace Prize-winning US President is attacking another sovereign country and practicing regime change?

🚨Job alert: We are looking for a PhD Researcher at Bielefeld University ✨Research on policy learning, and work-family policies in Mexico & Germany, within the @sfb1342.bsky.social on global dynamics of social policy Applications until 12.1.26, details at: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/473...

Legitimationsprobleme der parlamentarischen Demokratie

⬇️Februari 2026⬇️ Taking a hands-on approach, this five-day online course introduces you to the essentials of Process Tracing and develops both the theoretical understanding and the practical skills to set-up and conduct a full-fledged PT-study. Early bird registration still possible.

Aha. (Quelle: @zeit.de)

Die Bundesregierung will das Bürgergeld reformieren: Sanktionen sollen verschärft und die Karenzzeit für Unterkunftskosten gestrichen werden. NARIN ARSLAN erinnert an die verfassungsrechtlichen Maßstäbe und konstatiert einen beunruhigenden Systemwechsel. verfassungsblog.de/burgergeld-e...

Lower-income people are less likely to vote than higher-income people, across racial groups - and that gap has been growing. That’s a real problem for the future of US democracy. It’s not apathy or ignorance - for many, it’s a sense that politics is not for or about them. In a report out in Jan +

Seit 2018 haben #Ungleichheit & #Armut in Deutschland nochmal spürbar zugenommen und zuletzt einen Höchststand erreicht. Das zeigt der neue Verteilungsbericht unseres @wsiinstitut.bsky.social. Der Anteil armer Menschen stieg von 14,4 (2010) auf 17,7 % (2022). 🧵👇 📲 www.boeckler.de/de/pressemit...

Wie kann das über lange Zeit gewachsene Institutionengefüge des deutschen Sozialstaats in systematische Verbindung zur Umwelt- und Klimapolitik gebracht werden und Sozialpolitik im Idealfall sogar eine positive ökologische Wirkung erzielen? Dazu die neuen WSI-Mitteilungen www.wsi.de/de/wsi-mitte...

Gregory Crewdson, Redemption Center, 2018/9. Kunstmuseum Bonn.

Der 1. Teil unserer Jobcenter-Serie: Der Staat investiert Milliarden in Maßnahmen, die helfen sollen, Menschen wieder in Arbeit zu bringen. Doch zu oft fließt das Geld in eine kaum kontrollierte Weiterbildungsindustrie, in der Beschäftigung simuliert wird und Qualität Zufall zu sein scheint.

I think about this post every day 🧪

“The novel’s prescience lies not in foretelling specific events but in diagnosing a culture where power enjoys impunity and cruelty rubs out its traces — a society run by careless people.” www.ft.com/content/dd6f...

🚨New paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1350... @manuelwagner.bsky.social & I re-conceptualize class representation to take into account social mobility between classes and variation in how individuals enter politics.

What a brilliant discussion about narrative form and how we necessarily and constantly use it to (re)interpret, (re)define, and legitimize history. Highly recommended. radioopensource.org/shattered-dr...

Houston, we have a problem. And probably plenty of other American cities. And this is before SNAP payments end.

A fantastic episode. The art of talking about a big, complex book is perfected, by host and author, to an unbelievable degree.

In a new study, Christopher Hoy (World Bank) reveals that people tend to dramatically underestimate wage inequality. What’s more, when confronted with the actual data, far right voters alter their views about redistribution the most. #LSEInequalitiesBlog buff.ly/99zYlGH

⚡New blog post just landed!⚡ 'A systematic review of the Narrative Policy Framework: a future research agenda' policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/10/01/a... @gbsong.bsky.social @jo-kuenzler.bsky.social