This is not only incredibly weak, its false equivalence between Farage and Polanski is dangerous. One of them is a threat to liberal democracy, the other one is not. The text is a prime example of how radical centrism and the profound arrogance of self-declared liberals legitimize the far right
Guy Parmelin exclut les sciences humaines des fonds de recherche nationaux
www.tdg.ch/parmelin-les...
Calls grow for suicides linked to domestic abuse to be treated as potential homicides
Abstract of the paper: In response to rising immigration flows and the fear of Islamic radicalization, several Western countries have enacted policies to restrict religious expression and emphasize secularism and Western values. Despite intense public debate, there is little systematic evidence on how such policies influence the behavior of the religious minorities they target. In this paper, we use rich quantitative and qualitative data to evaluate the effects of the 2004 French headscarf ban on the socioeconomic integration of French Muslim women. We find that the law reduces the secondary educational attainment of Muslim girls and affects their trajectory in the labor market and family composition in the long run. We provide evidence that the ban operates through increased perceptions of discrimination and that it strengthens both national and religious identities.
As Abdelgadir and Fouka show, the headscarf ban in France negatively affected the educational attainment of Muslim girls, as well as their labor force participation and employment rates: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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"Women and the Wall: Gender Attitudes and Political Engagement in Unified Germany" by Catherine E. De Vries and Diana Z. O’Brien.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars?
These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research.
So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...
La 1ère des inégalités sociales de santé : celle devant la mort.
L’ @insee.fr met à jour ses estimations d’espérance de vie par niveau de vie (EVpNV).
Les inégalités d'EV entre individus de NV modeste vs aisé se sont accrues entre avant et après Covid. (1/6)
insee.fr/fr/statistiq...
As people still need to hear this: the Danish social democrats are polling at below 20%. In this poll, the radical right in Denmark also nearly receives 20%. It remains striking how often Denmark is still referenced as a case were social democrats beat the radical right.
Based on our new PPRNet research briefs @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social, and I argue in The Guardian that building alone won't solve the housing crisis. Housing is fundamentally redistributive, and progressive policy must treat it as such.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Congratulations! The project looks exciting! @nathaliegiger.bsky.social supervised my thesis, and working with her was amazing! I cannot recommend pursuing a PhD thesis with her highly enough.
🔔Job Alert 🔔
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
Academic publishing is a lucrative business for a very small number of private academic publishers. For 🇦🇹, this paper estimates: public spending benefits publishing companies with a large amount - 25% of the annual basic funding universities receive from the Ministry of education
At least 98 Palestinians have died in custody since October 2023, Israeli data shows
There is a strong positive association between equality and development over the long run — that's what this new study based on our historical series available on wid.world is clearly showing.
Key findings in thread 🧵(1/9)👇
Moving to Opportunity, Together Many couples face a trade-off between advancing one spouse’s career or the other’s. We study this trade-off using administrative data from Germany and Sweden. We first conduct an event-study analysis of couples moving across commuting zones and find that relocation increases men’s earnings more than women’s, with strikingly similar patterns in Germany and Sweden. Using a sample of mass layoff events, we then find that couples in both countries are more likely to relocate in response to the man being laid off compared to the woman. We investigate whether these gendered patterns reflect men’s higher potential earnings or a gender norm that prioritizes men’s career advancement. We provide suggestive evidence of a gender norm using variation in norms within Germany. We then develop and estimate a model of household decision-making in which households can place more weight on the income earned by the man compared to the woman.
Our new paper shows that men benefit from couples' long-distance joint moves more than women do, in both Germany and Sweden. Is this just b/c men are usually the main breadwinner? No, it's hard to explain the patterns we see w/o a gender norm prioritizing men's careers. www.nber.org/papers/w32970
Mothers lose an average £65,618 in pay by the time their first child turns five
We must not let the shooting of Charlie Kirk become Trump’s Reichstag fire | David Van Reybrouck
When we think of sexism, it's easy to think of *active* efforts to discriminate against women. But sexism also operates *passively* - like through our inaction on issues like childcare and paid family leave. In that context, return-to-office policies are sexist in consequence, even if not in design.
New, from me:
It was a terrible week, one that inspired some truly awful takes. The worst was the effort by Bari Weiss and The Free Press to smear universities as "the biggest culprits" to blame American political violence, with faculty training "jihadis."
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-worst-...
The European Union’s response to Israel’s strike on Qatar is as telling as the strike itself.
⁉️𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 #𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝘄𝗶𝘀𝘀 #𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵? 📚 Join us for the book launch of “Women in Science” on 29 September 2025.
▪️2:30 to 5:30 pm at the SNSF offices in Bern
➡️ Register here: sohub.io/bvq3
"On a voulu rappeler au monde de la montagne qu’il existe des choses plus importantes que nos petites ascensions quotidiennes [...] C’était aussi une manière de bousculer ce petit monde montagnard privilégié, qui préfère rester les bras croisés loin de ces questions"
reporterre.net/Drapeau-pale...
BJPolS abstract discussing the dynamics of mainstream and radical political rhetoric regarding anti-immigrant policies, highlighting differences in societal responses and enforcement norms based on the source of the rhetoric.
NEW -
How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD
"we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians"
- @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026.
😵💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.
👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.
A short 🧵
From my experience in court facing Pascal Bruckner who accused my of « arming terrorists » my latest piece for @theguardian.com depicts the constant climate of suspicion against Muslims in France. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Work devotion in academia is often described as a cultural mandate that defines work as a calling deserving of undivided allegiance. Critical perspectives point to how this ideal worker norm has gendered consequences and produces performance expectations that only a worker without care responsibilities can satisfy. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 92 PhD holders, this study examines the range of strategies women and men use to navigate and reframe the ideal worker norm in academia, analysing how they manage the competing demands of work and family, as well as the competing demands within academia. We extend existing research on academia by applying approaches that emphasise the benefits of multiple roles, showing how a divided work devotion with room for external responsibilities, expands academics’ frames of reference and provide alternative sources of meaning. However, our analysis shows how position, and whether one holds a temporary or permanent contract, is key to understand who can allow themselves to uphold a divided allegiance to academia. This study suggests that it is not gender or care responsibilities per se, but rather the intersection between these dimensions and positional power, that influence academics options for navigating the ideal worker norm.
De la dévotion au travail et du jeu que l'on peut entretenir avec cette norme dans le milieu académique
"(Un)divided work devotion? Navigating the ideal
worker norm in academia"
Julia Orupabo et al.
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doi.org/10.1080/0307...
My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years.
If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply!
shorturl.at/kcTbG
A democracy is a system where parties lose elections and where people can tell the president to “go f*** himself” on TV.
