Had I known I’d be wearing braces again at my PhD defense, I’d have chosen an easier to pronounce main concept. Because “Transnationalization” is... tricky. And "Transnationalisierung" is just another level.

The project: We aim to develop a depolarization toolkit to be used in social contexts like schools or sports clubs. For this, we're collaborating with @offenegesellschaft.bsky.social to organize local events in Germany. Longer 🇩🇪 description ➡️ j0b.de/veca

📖 Amazing to see Radicalising the Mainstream in Western Europe is finally out open access: tinyurl.com/2s37s6y2 In our chapter with Liriam Sponholz ✨, we discuss how #far-right actors engage in platformed #mainstreaming, through hyperlink #network analysis based on +120,000 #Facebook page posts. 📊

Politik von unten ("Politics from Below") colloquium is back! If you are interested in presenting your work-in-progress research in the Fall 2025 series, please send an email with a short description (in English or German) to [email protected] by June 15th. protestinstitut.eu/kolloquium/

📢Call for Papers: “Visibility, Surveillance, and Policing” Bilingual (DE/EN) workshop by the AK Soziale Bewegungen und Polizei @TU Chemnitz - 28 Nov 2025 Submit 300-word abstracts to [email protected] by 15 July 2025 🔗 protestinstitut.eu/event/ipb-wo...

Serbian students are running against the regime! Join us on May 19th for a talk on the student-led mobilization in Serbia as we explore, among other things, the role of sports in their protest repertoire. Register by May 18th via [email protected] More info: protestinstitut.eu/en/event/ipb...

Join us online for a conversation about the current student-led mobilization in Serbia on May 19th! Jelena Cupać, Aida Kapetanović, and Filip Balunović will share their insights on the ongoing protests. protestinstitut.eu/event/ipb-de... Register by May 18th via [email protected]

Must watch video of a Fulbright scholar with a legal visa being taken abruptly by masked agents — who don’t even show an ID. There is no claim she committed any crimes. She co-wrote an op-ed in a student newspaper. They could have just served notice to her to leave the country.

CfP Protests and Social Movements between Innovation and Tradition. 1 & 2 October 2025. This year the ipb annual conference addresses the tension between tradition and innovation in protests and social movements. CfP and details available at: protestinstitut.eu/veranstaltun...

An incredible photo from Berlin this evening. An estimated 100,000 have been on the streets in the German capital today to protest against the Far Right and fascism in Europe. #Resist (📸 Ricarda Lang)

Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin (Collaboration with @politicalbeauty.bsky.social )

Should you have missed our INTERACT conversation#5 with Donatella Della Porta on Moral Panic-the Contentious Politics of Antisemitism and the Repression of Palestine solidarity in Germany, you can now rewatch it on our Youtube channel: youtu.be/o94QrBMnbuQ

Fantastic to see so many members of various social/political science communities arriving here. If you're interested in research on the #farright/#radicalright in Europe, may I suggest you follow my clunky little @rrresrobot.bsky.social#farright#radicalright It's definitely the a 🤖 you want on your TL

Drinking an entire bottle of Club Mate around 23:30 with the intention of having a productive night session reviewing my network dataset one last (?) time was a great idea. UNTIL my STATA license expired at midnight. I believe I've now officially run out of excuses not to fully switch to R.

Yes, there will be growing pains for Blue, including the need to invest in costly cloud infrastructure, content moderation and transparency reporting. So, let’s enjoy this ad-free environment while we can. 😅

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1.368.603!

Happy to be back at the DeZIM Institut in Berlin for the #RaMi symposium! Today and tomorrow, we will discuss how the far-right is being normalized and becoming more mainstream, mainly through the paths created by those in the center, or in other words, the #RadicalizedMainstream.

>4500 codes distributed! Please spread the word amongst clinicians, scientists, researchers, technicians, academics, and other scholars who would like to join: forms.gle/f3k65vC1JwgY... 🩺 🧪