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🚨Job Alert 🚨 4 year pre-/post-doc position available at Erfurt, German required - IR/int. security (different specializations possible: intelligence, surveillance, migration, West Asia, North Africa, humanitarianism): jobs.uni-erfurt.de/jobposting/0...

Wunderbare Splitter und Zusammenfassungen für diejenigen, die nicht vor Ort sein konnten. Danke @soziopolis.bsky.social Die Auszeichnung der @dgsoziologie.bsky.social wurde alle Ehre gemacht!

Immensely helpful post by @toteraltermann.bsky.social for anyone who is looking into submitting an application with the German DFG.

🔔 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 Konferenz 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙀𝙪𝙧𝙤 – 𝙒𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝 𝙒𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙? 📅 18.–19. März 2026 📍 Goethe-Universität Frankfurt 🗣️ Keynotes halten Prof. Dr. Peter Bofinger ( @uni-wuerzburg.de) und Dr. @c-westermeier.bsky.social ( @mpifg.bsky.social).

Obgleich ich etwas befangen bin: Niemand kann bezweifeln, welch Erfolg @soziopolis.bsky.social ist, wieviel Arbeit die Kolleg:innen investieren und welche Bedeutung eine solche Plattform für die Soziologie in Deutschland noch haben könnte. Hoffentlich geht es nach 2028 weiter. Glückwunsch!

It was a real pleasure to be part of this event and to chair a session on geoeconomics. It's truly one of the great privileges of my job to discuss current affairs with such a talented and thoughtful group of you women. Thank you to the organizers @palmapolyak.bsky.social & @dustinvoss.bsky.social

*new article* We bring the Frankfurt School into the Spotify age — and it was a fun one to write! 😎 'From Adorno to 50 Cent: Financialized platform capitalism, Spotify, and the culture industry in the twenty-first century' in @finandsoc.bsky.social Check it out here: doi.org/10.1017/fas....

Attending the #dgskongress2025 at @unidue.bsky.social? Stop by our booth (University Library, Building LK) to explore our latest research and learn more about career paths at the MPIfG!

⏳Beyond thrilled to co-launch the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy next week — with this *incredible* lineup of female talent 🙌 @dustinvoss.bsky.social @mpifg.bsky.social

Really excited to be part of this summer school and to meet the participants next week. Thank you so much @palmapolyak.bsky.social and @dustinvoss.bsky.social for bringing this together

This is a super helpful resource if you're trying to figure out public finance, geoeconomics, and international financial institutions. Open access and well assembled by @bsrbarab.bsky.social @c-westermeier.bsky.social and Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Thank you @felixanderl.bsky.social! We hope that this collection is a helpful resource beyond scholars of finance in a world in which economics, politics and social politics are closely linked.

❓ What is security in an age of catastrophic climate change? 📖 Our special issue "Critical Climate Security" in Geoforum provides new concepts, approaches, and methodologies for rethinking the climate-security nexus from a critical perspective. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

New #CfP for a Special Issue from @sciasculture.bsky.social: "Co-creating Low-Carbon Transitions" edited by Sophie Nyborg, Julia Kirch Kirkegaard, Thomas Berker, Tomas Moe Skjølsvold & Gisle Solbu #sustainability #STS #lowcarbon #transitions #cocreation think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

W3 Professur für Allgemeine Soziologie an der @tu-dortmund.bsky.social. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 01.10.2025. #Stellenausschreibung #Professur tudberufung.hr4you.org/job/view/731/universitaetsprofessur-w3-allgemeine-soziologie?page_lang=de

PayPal-Ausfall: Wird der digitale Euro die Antwort Europas auf unsere Abhängigkeit von US-Konzernen? 🇪🇺 🎙️ Wir haben erste mögliche Antworten auf diese Fragen in unserer neuen Podcastfolge mit Carola Westermeier @c-westermeier.bsky.social 🔗 Jetzt reinhören: open.spotify.com/episode/6Kx4...

📢📢 Job Alert In dem Projekt "Embracing Capital" im Rahmen des #Sfb294-tpl ist eine Stelle als Post-Doc ausgeschrieben. Untersucht werden soll die Ausbreitung und die veränderten Strukturen von Kapitalgesellschaften von 1948 bis heute anhand von Registerdaten. www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/stellenaussc...

Very pleased to announce the full programme for this year's Finance and Society conference, which will take place on 11-12 September at Copenhagen Business School. Registration now open to the public. Come join us! @finandsoc.bsky.social financeandsocietynetwork.org/prog-finands...

Max Planck Institutes increasingly advertise research group leader roles as tenure-track alternatives to professorships in Germany. In plain terms that's W2-salary and status (similar to Bundesbeamte) without university teaching duties—focus is on supervising PhDs & postdocs.

The Department ‘Anthropology of Politics and Governance’ invites applications for one: Senior Scientist (m/f/d) in the field of Social Anthropology as Max Planck Research Group Leader (W2 level, tenure track) Deadline: 15 October 2025 recruitingapp-5034.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/51...

WZB Berlin Social Science Center are establishing a new department for the study of democracy and are looking to appoint its first director. wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire...

Im September erscheint ein von @huhnholz.bsky.social, @aaronsahr.bsky.social und Eva Weiler herausgegebener Sonderband zur Politischen Theorie öffentlicher Finanzen. Es geht darum, ökonomische, geldpolitische und fiskalische Fragen endlich wieder zum Gegenstand politischen Denkens zu machen.

Finally managed to turn this into a real blog post: Whatever happened to the Bielefeld School of STS? Where did Karin Knorr Cetina come from? Why did she go to Bielefeld of all places? And where did Bielefeld disappear to? wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/whatever-h...

From the piece, a pair of paragraphs about money and banking as close to perfection as you’ll ever see. Shot:

Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.

In our new article, Jens Beckert and I ask how "Capital and the Family" interconnect in contemporary capitalism. We argue that they come together in owning relations - and are crucial to today's economy. Read more in @bjsociology.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

As @andrewleyshon.bsky.social and I show in our forthcoming book, JPMorgan Chase has been competing against, partnering with, investing in, and buying up FinTech startups since at least 2014. They have long been leveraging their monopoly position in US banking to shape FinTech economies

Die Sektion Politische Soziologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS) veranstaltet am 26.-27. Februar 2026 eine Tagung unter dem Titel Politische Ontologie(n). Spielarten – Anwendungen – Kritiken. Die Tagung widmet sich dem derzeit... https://www.theorieblog.de/?p=29924

„Ein fundamentaler Kurswechsel findet statt: Stablecoins werden von einer technologischen Innovation zum verlängerten Arm der US-Schuldenpolitik.“ Prägnanter Kommentar zur Verbindung von US- Staatsschulden und Dollarisierung via Stablecoins paymentandbanking.com/monetaere-ma...

Central banks face dilemma over rise of dollar-backed stablecoins Some context on why stable coins are a bigger challenge for central banks than cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. Dollar backed stable coins could lead to rampant dollarisation, see quote below 👇 on.ft.com/4eYCBdl

'Just because so many central banks are working on a digital currency doesn’t make it automatically right for America, but it’s far from clear that Congress understands the perils lurking behind this fundamentally different strategy.' On how the US crypto bills favors private stable coins over CBDC

There is some really fabulous early career scholarship out there right now. It’s always the case but it’s especially important in context of the situation in universities (& in the world). Please consider submitting a paper to the @econsocjournal.bsky.social early career paper prize. Deadline 15 Dec

Mit dem österreichischen Fernsehen ORF1 habe ich über den Zusammenhang von Geopolitik und Zahlungsinfrastrukturen gesprochen und die Abhängigkeiten der Europäer*innen & UK thematisiert, die im Zusammenhang mit dem Austritt der USA aus dem Iran Deal 2018 deutlich wurden. on.orf.at/video/142838...

+++SAVE THE DATE+++ Adorno-Vorlesungen 2025 Katharian Pistor (Columbia Law School, New York): In guter Verfassung? Zur Neuordnung des Geldwesens 22. bis 24. Oktober 2025, 18.30 Uhr Campus Bockenheim, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

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Willkommen im Katalog und Bestand der MPIfG-Bibliothek @c-westermeier.bsky.social Welcome to the library📕📖📚📖📗

We have a great job opportunity for an economic analyst focused on fiscal in our Brussels office BUT so far hardly any women have applied. Pls help us changed that and spread the word! Job posting: dezernatzukunft-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...

A book with the title 'Mastering Machine Learning' is full of nonexistent and error-prone citations, likely generated by LLMs like ChatGPT. Welcome to the new era of academic publishing.

Just had my weirdest night stroll ever in Budapest—chatting about whether tomorrow’s 🏳️‍🌈 Pride march will or won’t get violent We all hope the march will be huge, it will go ahead in peace, and Orbán will have his ass handed to him. He won’t ban Pride our city But there are sinister forces at play 🧵

We are very happy to announce the publication of our edited volume ‘State, Capitalism & Finance in Emerging Markets: Between Subordination and Statecraft’ (/w Andreas Nölke) with @brisunipress.bsky.social! 🥳 Check out the book here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollbook/b... 1/

Some news: In 2026-27, I'll be visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, leading the theme seminar on ‘𝘌𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘺‘ There's no place quite like the IAS to think, together, about big questions. Please share—applications are open 𝚗̲̲𝚘̲̲𝚠̲.

Are you an Early Career Researcher in #IPE and would like to get feedback on a draft, a book proposal or on how the publishing process works? Then consider applying👇 w/ @johannespetry.bsky.social @silviaweko.bsky.social @florencedafe.bsky.social

Zusammen mit @davidhengsbach.bsky.social haben wir einen Beitrag zu den Konfliktlinien sowie der Rekonfiguration öffentlich-privaten Beziehungen im digitalen Euro beigesteuert. Ich freue mich auf die Lektüre des gesamten Bandes mit vielen spannenden Beiträgen

Together with @roxanaehlke.bsky.social and @timsalzer.bsky.social we contributed a chapter on 'Increasing State Capacity through Central Bank Digital Currencies: A Comparative Account of the Digital Yuan and the Digital Rouble' with some insights into the respective domestic debates of each case.

New collection expertly edited by @johannespetry.bsky.social out with @brisunipress.bsky.social. I wrote an essay on Political Economy of International Financial Subordination: From Genesis to Varieties of Financial Statecraft bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollbook/b... @campolis.bsky.social

Zusammen mit @davidhengsbach.bsky.social haben wir einen Beitrag zu den Konfliktlinien sowie der Rekonfiguration öffentlich-privaten Beziehungen im digitalen Euro beigesteuert. Ich freue mich auf die Lektüre des gesamten Bandes mit vielen spannenden Beiträgen

'Sondervermögen' eigener Art vormerken: Leviathan-Sonderband 2025 POLITISCHE THEORIEN ÖFFENTLICHER FINANZEN. ZUR (DE-)POLITISIERUNG VON GELD, EIGENTUM UND STEUERN, hrsg. mit Aaron Sahr & Eva Weiler und mit vielen tollen Beiträgen u.a. von…

📢📢 Finally this position is posted: In our Capital's shadow project we are looking for a sociologist (doctoral researcher), interested in conducting a comparative ethnography of the strat up scenes in Berlin and Paris. Apply by July 11th: www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/stellenaussc...

Proud to be on the advisory board of this important @erc.europa.eu project. Gefeliciteerd Marieke!