Happy to present my new book with @drmalligaoch.bsky.social and Farida Jalalzai at the @ecprgender.bsky.social conference in Newcastle, UK. Thanks to @cvxydias.bsky.social , @petrahrens.bsky.social, and Henriette Müller for discussing on our book launch panel!

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

Using original survey data from the Bundestag & German state assemblies, @sfranceschet.bsky.social and I find that institutional efforts to address the challenges of working as an elected representative while caregiving would likely be successful. Legislatures should try it! @bundestag.de #gendersky

#OpenAccess from @politicsgenderj.bsky.social - Parties, Gender, and Attitudes Toward Parenthood and Politics in Germany - https://cup.org/4elxZiO - @sfranceschet.bsky.social & @cvxydias.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

Daily pill can double survival time for world’s deadliest cancer, trial shows

Revolution's pancreatic cancer drug doubles survival, boosts quality of life reut.rs/439RlkD

I'd forgotten half of these.

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

Orbán turns out to be more of a democrat than the U.S. president and a nontrivial number of GOP candidates.

today’s a pretty momentous day for women and/in space, so I hope you will re-enjoy this song with me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTnQ...

Bucknell U's political science department is searching for two VAPs for next year ('26-'27) in IR & CP, respectively. Deadline is quite soon: 30 March. Please feel free to DM me with questions! bucknell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

So many old men like Sessions sending young men and women to die.

"Autocratization is now truly global. (...) In 2025, Western Europe and North America registers the most notable decline on both country- and population-weighted averages. This is primarily due to the recent developments in the US." V-Dem released its latest report. www.v-dem.net/documents/75...

I think it's great that the president put on his most solemnly branded baseball cap to receive the returning coffins of soldiers killed in the unnecessary war he launched to distract from his failing presidency and pedophilia scandal. Look at that gold-like letting. Classy as shit.

The White House has helped MAGA influencers escape the Middle East on a private jet while more than a million ordinary Americans are still trapped with no way out.

Yeah, well maybe you wouldn’t look like busted car upholstery if you threw a little bit of fuckin’ broccoli in the mix, chief.

I visited the Anne Frank house/museum when I was in the third grade. My parents bought me a copy of her diary at the museum gift shop -- I consumed it before we had returned home -- I lived in her head while I read, and, simultaneously, I trusted that it was not the world I lived in. Grief.

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1. [Survey of] Japanese Literature in Translation 2. Justice, Love, and the Ethics of Care 3. Chemical Structure 4. The German Middle Ages 5. Intensive Russian

Das passiert, wenn eine Partei glaubt, dass sie ihre wahre Gesinnung nicht mehr verstecken muss, weil sie trotz Verfassungsfeindlichkeit einfach nicht verboten wird: Ein AfD-Rat in Sulz soll erklärt haben, sich dafür einzusetzen, dass nicht mehr an Nicht-Christen & Nicht-Deutsche vermietet werde.

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

As we grieve for Alex Pretti and Renee Good in MN, please do not forget Victor Manuel Diaz, who died in ICE custody after being taken from here. And all others who have died in their custody.

"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?" A list of ideas!

Earlier today, Donald Trump’s ICE agents killed a U.S. citizen, born and raised in Colorado, in a horrific & unnecessary shooting.

This would be my mother’s mother, Vera 💕

”Read it,” she snaps (hear à la Sister Michael’s, “Shift it”) 😤

Providence Police just released this video of the person of interest in the mass shooting at Brown University today. Call police at 401-652-5767 if you recognize him. Live updates here: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/13/m...

Der endgültige Geschenk-Guide für Diktatoren

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city. We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.

I wrote a book about this; Beyond Left, Right, and Center. tupress.temple.edu/books/beyond...

President Donald Trump snapped, “Quiet, piggy!” at a female reporter who attempted to ask about the Jeffrey Epstein files during a gaggle aboard Air Force One.

Meanwhile, here's an example of the horrendous things found in Hillary Clinton's emails—the only story worth covering for any serious news outlet in 2016, apparently. This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.

get in bitch we're destroying the west

NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work. Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours. She was later released with NO CHARGE. A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”. You decide…

@reuters.com Japan is a democracy

I need a montage of famous cops in movies and TV shows flashing their badges and announcing their names, followed by a stream of masked ICE guys refusing to give theirs.

Anxiety: I know you haven’t slept well in a few days so here’s a dream about losing your R&R Me: Thanks. You shouldn’t have. Anxiety: I know. I am just thoughtful like that.

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

It seems painfully evident that we lacked legal, moral, or other justification for the killing of eleven individuals aboard a small boat in the Caribbean. It is also entirely clear that the Trump administration, having begun by obfuscating and lying, is now simply stonewalling. They fear the truth.

Pour one out for Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s clerks this Labor Day weekend

“End-run” “Pushing limits” “Unusual” “Redefining” “Challenging norms” “Boldly upending” Sounds heroic, muscular. Our English language already contains the word illegal. No need to craft misleading/laudatory synonyms for suspending our Constitution. In this dangerous moment, we must speak clearly.

Tom Clancy’s Flowers in the Attic

Tom Clancy’s Things Fall Apart

For the first time, catastrophic levels of hunger have been confirmed in the strip

If only there were a phrase to describe the <checks notes> extra-constitutional domestic takeover of the <checks notes again> administration of legal affairs by the <checks notes one last time> armed forces 🤔

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

Proper nomenclature for the constellation of agencies providing steroidal masked men to terrorize civilians is “Tate Force,” after Andrew Tate, the Trump-favored alleged rapist. Individual agents are correctly referred to as “Tater Tots.”