Good news for old papers: After Google Scholar, older papers are represented on par with their overall frequency in the universe of science, experienced an uptick in their citations, and are cited beyond their own broad field

"Who Actually Governs? Gender Inequality and Political Representation in Rural India" "Drawing on an original survey in 320 Indian village councils...Women elected through gender quotas do not equally participate in decision-making processes within village councils" rachelbrule.com/wp-content/u...

"By ... campaign contributions, lobbying efforts, and media ownership, economic elites can influence political outcomes in ways that frequently marginalize the interests of the general populace." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

In Columbia, "a vicious circle emerges whereby policies that reduce inequality are less likely to be adopted and implemented in places with relatively high inequality." academic.oup.com/ooec/article...

Not too many of them, but its worth investigating, I suppose. www.emerald.com/ijpl/article...

"the first comprehensive academic study taking an in-depth look at white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other right-wing extremists leaving their home countries to join armed groups fighting in civil wars and other armed conflicts." www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

“We must take into account that at some point, as the low levels deepen, water intake in Warsaw will have to be reduced. In the long term, that is precisely the scenario..." notesfrompoland.com/2025/09/24/n...

PAP poll: trust in the armed forces is 94% trust in the European Union is 50% trust in the Church is 35% notesfrompoland.com/2025/09/17/p...

"Zelensky noted that, during one recent attack, Ukraine had faced 810 Russian drones and had shot down over 700 of them. By contrast, Poland “had I think 19 drones and they destroyed four”." notesfrompoland.com/2025/09/18/p...

"Intersectionality in Electoral Politics: A Mess Worth Making" - Wendy Smooth www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"The Structure of Intersectionality: A Comparative Politics of Gender" - @slweldon.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

They do discuss the obvious --those in the applicant pool may deliberately lower scores of others to raise their own chances of obtaining the grant. The authors call it "gaming the system," but it has another name: "Conflict of Interest". CoI must be dismissed from any process. Yet, DRP invites it.

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☀️ Vol 17.3 The impact of elite manipulation? 🤷 Nino Junius proposes a framework that analyses elite influences during the inpt, throughput and output stages of mini-publics to determine how 🇩🇪 & 🇧🇪 citizens are being targeted by powerful elites. buff.ly/dKDsa5v #OA

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"Based on official election results and insights from previous EP legislatures, the chapter compares political group positions and forecasts the potential impact of political group dynamics on EU gender policies" link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

The Center For Scientific Integrity, our parent nonprofit, is hiring! Two new positions: -- Editor, Medical Evidence Project -- Staff reporter, Retraction Watch and we're still recruiting for: -- Assistant researcher, Retraction Watch Database

Come to the Center for Jewish History @cjewishhistory.bsky.social if you're in New York, and browse their excellent book selection - especially since they've been so very kind to add some of our #JewishStudies titles to their display, too 🤩 Thank you for the opportunity!

Why I 🧡 the web. drawafish.com Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

✨ Just out: “Ideas vs Interests: Explaining Party Elites’ Support for Party Democratic Innovations” by @thomlegein.bsky.social, David Talukder, Rangoni & @emilievh.bsky.social. 🗞️ Dive into the article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Speaking politely to AI can be a conscious decision to resist the pressure to communicate like a machine. It is a way of saying that we value more than just efficiency, and that we are not machines ourselves."

#GlobalDialogue #Polish globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/uploads/imge...

One reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted. Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Intel announced the cancellation of planned investments in Poland and Germany. A semiconductor factory was to be built near Wrocław, which could have employed 2,000 people. www.polsatnews.pl/wiadomosc/20...

"progressive political organizations in the United States have frequently failed to achieve social change. Why? Rosino posits that it is because of the unwillingness of white progressives at the grassroots level to share power with progressives of color." uncpress.org/book/9781469...

Olga Li and I published an article: -- Future-orientation is modestly correlated with voting and NEP. -- Democracy level does not change the relationship, but higher levels of economic instability weakens it. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Maria Grasso & Marco Giugni chose not to cite my publications on quantitative analysis of intersectionality. I am sure they read them and I am sure that they were influenced by them (as many others have been). Their RQ and models are v. similar to my 2008 article. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"[Eurostat]: in May, the unemployment rate for people aged under 25 in Poland stood at 13.5%, up from 10.6% a year earlier." notesfrompoland.com/2025/07/21/p...

"We argue that backsliding, because it produces a sense of urgency, incentivizes opposition parties to shift some of their policy positions either towards or away from the incumbent’s – even on issues that are central to their political identity." journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Ukrainian parliament appoints Svyrydenko as PM

The machine web -- cyberspace built for AI only "publishers will want to feed their content directly to AI models to facilitate this and some may not bother putting that information on websites for human beings to read." www.bbc.com/future/artic...

🏆 Last week we awarded our annual £500 prize for the best Loop blog piece in the previous calendar year, as judged by an independent jury. 📝 Here, Managing Editor Kate Hawkins presents the longlisted pieces — and reveals the very special winner. ➡️ ow.ly/mii350W8Q0e

SHP & TREE marked 25 years of longitudinal research in🇨🇭 with a conference @unil.bsky.social on June 4–5. 100+ participants gathered to exchange on the value & future of long-term surveys. Great teamwork, rich discussions & shared commitment to key social questions. forscenter.ch/projects/swi...

"How do far-right actors perceive their agency in disseminating their worldviews? Normalization – the process by which ideas become accepted as standard – emerges as central to their attempts to shape public discourse." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Many studies have extensively scrutinized women's representation in politics, but emphasis tends to fall on exploring women in elected positions rather than in election management bodies." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Ukrainian refugees boosted the size of Poland’s economy by 2.7% last year while not increasing unemployment or pushing down wages, according to a report by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and accounting firm Deloitte." notesfrompoland.com/2025/06/12/u...

"Employers must disclose salary details in the job advertisement, or – if the position was not publicly advertised – before the job interview or, at the latest, prior to signing the employment contract." notesfrompoland.com/2025/06/05/p...

"Prime Minister Donald Tusk has announced a vote of confidence in his own government to demonstrate whether it still has the support of a parliamentary majority." #FutureSnapElections notesfrompoland.com/2025/06/02/t...

"We show that the Far Right and the Center Right have become alike regarding their positions on economic equality and equal rights." "Blurring lines. Economic equality and equal rights concepts of center- and far-right parties, 1970–2020" by Horn et al journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

With Poland's presidential election now settled, we have prepared eight charts showing where the contest was won and lost, including how Poles voted by age, gender and location, and how supporters of eliminated first-round candidates split in the run-off.

"the number of foreign students who can be enrolled at a Polish university is now capped at 50% of all students." "Prospective students will have to prove that their proficiency in the language of instruction is at least at B2 level." notesfrompoland.com/2025/06/02/p...

Well-known antisemite & MEP & Polish presidential candidate (got 6% of the vote!) Grzegorz Braun asked "whether the remaining two candidates would 'reject Jewish claims' against Poland, oppose abortion, and 'stop the Ukrainisation of Poland'." #scumbag notesfrompoland.com/2025/05/26/c...

AI & humans collaborating on the news. What could go wrong? "BBC World Service, which will run the new Polish section, says content will be a mix of original journalism and “AI-assisted translation of curated BBC reporting” from other parts of the corporation." notesfrompoland.com/2025/05/26/b...

"...in electoral autocracies, [low] accountability and [loose] political restrictions [led] people and opposition parties to [protest] during electoral seasons, whereas autocrats tried to discourage [protest] by well-timed, nuanced statistical tampering." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"This comparative case study of the Freedom Movement in Sweden and the Freedom Convoy in Canada provides insights into the processes of transnationalization involved in the (re)production of far-right narratives around the COVID-19 pandemic." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"We find that more protests lead to more attention; however, MPs respond most strongly to protests within the state they represent." ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

"The dress code requires employees at company-operated and licensed stores in the U.S. and Canada to wear a solid black shirt and khaki, black or blue denim bottoms. Starbucks said it would give two free black T-shirts to each employee when it announced the new dress code."

US companies are investing heavily in Poland. Google. Microsoft. And now a battery factory. notesfrompoland.com/2025/05/14/u...