Deeply honored to receive the Raymond Boudon Award from the European Academy of Sociology. It means a lot to receive an award named after such an influential scholar and to be mentioned with the outstanding researchers who have received it before me. www.european-academy-sociology.eu/boudon-award

Conditions? Not bad.

Now with Volume and Issue Number: @ttichelbaecker.bsky.social, Lea Portmann, and I on "Electoral Discrimination, Party Rationale, and the Underrepresentation of Immigrant-Origin Politicians" in @ajpseditor.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

Talking about research beneath Monte Bianco. Every year a highlight!

Amazing news that our bid for a module in the ESS round 13 was successful! We - Conchita, Danny, Massimo, Rainer, and his fantastic colleagues in Basel - will investigate *𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 (𝗱𝗶𝘀)𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲* Please get in touch and share your thoughts and ideas!

The kind of work(out) that keeps on giving.

Great spring school in a great city, free of charge!

Great spring school in a great city, free of charge! nasp.eu/training/oth...

That proud feeling when your mentee goes to Harvard. Way to go, Alessandro!

There is something ironic or funny in the fact that the militant leader of the HTS in Syria constantly appears with the Jack Wolfskin brand (color type "mud") - worn by thousands of middle-aged men in central Europe. CNN calls it a "Western-style outfit"; others call it a crime against taste.

Real footage of a synthetic control model

On my way to Lausanne to present the massive health consequences of refugee allocation policy in Switzerland. Thanks for inivting me to LIVES and my alma mater, Michael and @aliciagsierra.bsky.social ! www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... (DM me if you can access the paper.)

In light of recent record-breaking global arms exports according to SIPRI (www.sipri.org/media/press-...), here is our analysis on some of the undesired consequences of dealing with arms: doi.org/10.1016/j.eu...

Looking forward to presenting recent work on Asparagus and Immigration Support in Aarhus @aarhusuni.bsky.social. This is joint work with Gloria Gennaro and Tiziano Rotesi. Latest version: trotesi.github.io/trotesi/JMP_... Thank you for the kind invitation, Kristina! @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social

The spring program of our SPS seminar at Collegio Carlo Alberto is online! Join us if you are in Torino!

Alp-Pop showed again what many other conferences are missing: skiing between fantastic presentations!

Happy New Year and here is a novel explanation of deep-lying societal racism, as Didier Ruedin and I argue in our latest publication in JEMS. doi.org/10.1080/1369... polsky

The fall-series of our SPS seminar at Collegio Carlo Alberto commenced with a great talk by Arndt Leininger. Next up is Gloria Gennaro, Oct 12. Join us if you are in Turin! The talks will also be streamed on Zoom. Don't hesitate to contact us for access.