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Christian Czymara
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Migration & political communication scholar at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences/University of Groningen

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Christian Czymara @christian.czymara.com · Aug 20
How do past political processes shape current perceptions of #migration? New study on #Soviet Union-era policies and perceptions of #migrants in the Baltic states today, with A. #Gorodzeisky & I #Leykin in Comparative Migration Studies 🔓:
comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/articles/10....
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jamesrdennison.bsky.social
Thrilled to share my new article in Political Psychology: “The psychology of political attitudinal volatility.” In it, I attempt to answer why do some people change their political views more than others? Open access at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
@ispp-pops.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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jbgruber.bsky.social
After a long time in development, {traktok} #rstats is now finally on CRAN!

Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered

jbgruber.github.io/traktok/
November 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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lhaffert.bsky.social
The urban-rural divide contains a within-generation divide: It is the younger, not the older generations, who are polarized by their place of residence.
indubioproreto.bsky.social Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · 1d
New Publication with @lhaffert.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social!

We study the role of generations in the urban-rural divide, which is increasingly shaping the politics of many democracies.

Studying Switzerland, we show: The urban-rural divide is stronger among younger generations. (1/10) 🧵👇
November 24, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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ebharrington.bsky.social
Revelations about RW social media accounts being run from Russia correspond perfectly to data already revealed by the Panama, Paradise & Pandora Papers: Russian money streamed thru offshore accounts funds virtually all right-wing "populist" parties in EU & NAmerica. Same goal: undermine democracy.
chadbourn.bsky.social Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.

It’s Russian.
Collingwood @admcollingwood 田 Date joined January 2017 • Account based in Europe Veritied since Since August 2024 > 1 username change Last on January 2017 Connected via Eastern Europe (Non-EU) Android App
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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amreibahr.bsky.social
#TenureTrack klingt nach Erfolgsgeschichte! 🏆 Warum ich dann für seine Abschaffung plädiere? Das erfahrt Ihr in diesem Video! Aufgenommen wurde es bei der #TenureTrackTagung2025 im Mai — alle Aufzeichungen & Ergebnisse gibt‘s nun auf 1 grandiosen Website: tenure-track-tagung.pageflow.io #IchBinHanna
November 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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mabreyer.bsky.social
New article out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Tabea Palmtag and @dpzollinger.bsky.social 📝
We use open-ended survey questions (in Germany) to assess how and among whom social status shifts are perceived. This tests cultural backlash narratives in voters' perceptions.

🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...
Abstract It is widely accepted in political science – and remarkably established in public discourse – that status anxieties fuel a far right backlash against progressive politics. This narrative suggests that right-wing conservatives perceive the status of women, racial, or sexual minorities as threatening. Using open-ended survey questions fielded in Germany, we show that women and minorities indeed figure in people’s perceptions of status hierarchies, but in very specific ways: First, overall, people still perceive status as largely socioeconomically determined. Second, sociocultural groups figure in perceptions of who is gaining/losing status, less so in perceptions of the top/bottom of society. Third, more than conservative voters, it is social progressives who mention women and minorities as “winners”. While on race/ethnicity, we find evidence for a backlash, on gender and sexuality we find more evidence for a progressive momentum. This matters for progressive politics today and for how we empirically study status concerns.
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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gelliottmorris.com
Good morning. I've got a banger new post out today that develops a new method for placing voters on the left-right ideological spectrum, and adds a new, "non-ideological"/affordability axis to usual way we chart & think about US voters (esp swing voters). www.gelliottmorris.com/p/not-just-l...
Not just left vs right: Most voters think about affordability and material wellbeing, not in ideological terms
Most voters want a party that emphasizes cost of living issues and makes the world a better place. Few Americans think in solidly ideologically terms. "Moderates" are mostly non-ideological.
www.gelliottmorris.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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pascalsiegers.bsky.social
Please share! Top Gelegenheit Erfahrungen im Maschinenraum der Sozialforschung zu sammeln.
November 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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fguelzau.bsky.social
Fascinating new study (🔓) highlights striking differences in administrative burden—obtaining a visa appointment—across German consulates worldwide.

Congrats, @deutschmann.bsky.social, Lorenzo Gabrielli, @alexandra-orlova.bsky.social, @niklas-harder.bsky.social, and Ettore Recchi.
A time penalty for the Global South? Inequalities in visa appointment wait times at German embassies and consulates worldwide
Visas are a key tool for states to regulate incoming mobility from abroad, which can have ramifications for the establishment and perpetuation of glob…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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seanjwestwood.bsky.social
AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail
November 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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amreibahr.bsky.social
„Juniorprofessor[*innen] ohne #TenureTrack berichten signifikant häufiger von eingeschränkter Lebenszufriedenheit, emotionaler Erschöpfung und großer Unzufriedenheit mit der Planbarkeit ihrer Karriere.“
Kizilirmak & Hofmann: Zwischen Belastung & Balance. Neue Perspektiven auf den Tenure Track ⬇️ 1/4
Ausgabe 11/25
Forschung & Lehre Ausgabe 11/2025 | Themenschwerpunkt "Ausgründungen". Forschung & Lehre, die auflagenstärkste hochschul- und wissenschaftspolitische Zeitschrift Deutschlands.
www.forschung-und-lehre.de
November 18, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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kunkakom.bsky.social
The billions of research funds channeled into the pockets of Elsevier and other commercial publisher in return for very little actual value is one of academia's big inefficiencies that will eventually be replaced by more attractive Community-run alternatives
November 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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moritz-marbach.com
🚨New working paper: Compositional Effects, Internal Migration and Electoral Outcomes

osf.io/preprints/so...

#polisciresearch
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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pavlosvas1.bsky.social
Today marks 10 years since the 2015 Paris terror attacks. Le Monde published the life stories of 112 of the victims. It is such an overwhelming, heartbreaking read

www.lemonde.fr/attaques-a-p...
Attentats du 13-Novembre : le mémorial du « Monde » aux victimes
En 2015, « Le Monde » avait publié les portraits des hommes et des femmes tués dans les attaques afin de conserver la mémoire de ces vies fauchées.
www.lemonde.fr
November 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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amadeuantonio.bsky.social
Die AfD greift uns an – und mit uns die Demokratiearbeit in ganz Deutschland. Morgen will die AfD im Bundestag einen Antrag einbringen, mit dem sie uns alle staatlichen Fördermittel streichen will. Der Höhepunkt einer jahrelangen Diffamierungskampagne: 1/x
AfD greift Amadeu Antonio Stiftung direkt an – Demokratiearbeit in ganz Deutschland in Gefahr - Amadeu Antonio Stiftung
Die AfD-Fraktion im Bundestag hat einen Antrag mit dem Titel „Staatliche Finanzierung der Amadeu Antonio Stiftung aus Bundesmitteln beenden“ eingebracht, mit dem sie der Demokratie-Stiftung sämtliche ...
www.amadeu-antonio-stiftung.de
November 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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mediendienst-integration.de
Als 2015 hunderttausende Schutzsuchende nach Deutschland kamen, stieg Zahl der Angriffe auf Flüchtlingsheime auf Rekordhoch.
➡️ Zuletzt haben Straftaten gegen Asylunterkünfte wieder zugenommen.
➡️ Wie haben sich Zahlen entwickelt, wer sind die Täter?
🔗 Mehr: mediendienst-integration.de/artikel/angr...
Straftaten - Angriffe auf Flüchtlingsunterkünfte waren nie verschwunden
Als 2015 hunderttausende Schutzsuchende nach Deutschland kamen, stieg die Zahl der Angriffe auf Flüchtlingsheime auf ein Rekordhoch. Zuletzt haben Straftaten gegen Asylunterkünfte wieder zugenommen. W...
mediendienst-integration.de
November 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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pengzell.bsky.social
Pushing for open access is not enough. We need a push to end profit.
hansonmark.bsky.social Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 14d
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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alonadolinsky.com
Faculty are VERY welcome to adjust their INCREASINGLY high expectations/demands of early career scholars looking for entry-level jobs when it comes to publications. There are nowadays postdoc positions that only hire people with 3-5 publications. This is not sustainable.
jayvanbavel.bsky.social Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 14d
The race to churn out papers is a systemic problem.

Early career scholars are desperate to get more papers to compete in the academic job market. This can make it hard for faculty mentors hard to reduce their output unless they shrink their lab (which removes opportunities from next generation).
November 12, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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arianeophir.bsky.social
🚨 #Hiring! 3yr #postdoc w/survey methodology experience to join the ERC-project SINGLE for its next stage of designing & launching a comparative multidisciplinary singlehood #survey in EU. Research area is open!

Application deadline: 12-Jan-2026 (12PM CET). Barcelona-based.
👉🏻 shorturl.at/CmY0F
November 12, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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fguelzau.bsky.social
Gestern war ich zu Gast bei der WDR5-Sendung Politikum. Thema war der Einbezug von Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund in die #Bundeswehr. Ein Engagement bietet Chancen und besondere Risiken, aber auch hier sollten Repräsentationslücken offen diskutiert werden.
Podcast: Migranten für die Truppe & Siedlergewalt im Westjordanland
Die Bundeswehr braucht dringend neues Personal. Dies könnte sie bei Menschen mit Migrationsgeschichte finden, meint unser Gast. Außerdem: Trotz des Waffenstillstands nimmt die Gewalt von radikalen Sie...
www.ardaudiothek.de
November 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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denis-cohen.bsky.social
Just published in @bjpols.bsky.social: @sergipardos.bsky.social and I show that inter-regional moves in pursuit of employment security reduce individual worries about immigration—a mobility pattern that, in the aggregate, reinforces spatial polarization in anti-immigration sentiment. cup.org/3XiB6yD
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
9-10 November 1938 | The November Pogrom – a pogrom against the Jews throughout Nazi Germany. Hundreds were killed (or died by suicide), 30,000 men arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps, over 1,000 synagogues burnt, over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged.
Black and white photograph showing a two story synagoguge building engulfed in flames, with a large crowd gathered outside observing the scene. Interior of the damaged Synagogue, showing debris-covered floors and damaged arches. Black and white historical photograph showing people passing by the damaged storefront with broken windows and debris visible.
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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juedischeonline.bsky.social
Wenn Deutschland heute der Pogromnacht gedenkt, darf Erinnerung nicht nur rückwärtsgewandt sein. Sie muss auch die Angst der Juden von heute im Blick haben.
9. November: Erinnerung ohne Empathie ist leer
Wenn Deutschland am Sonntag der Pogromnacht gedenkt, darf Erinnerung nicht nur rückwärtsgewandt sein. Sie muss auch die Angst der Juden von heute im Blick haben
buff.ly
November 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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schnizzl.bsky.social
Interessante neue Studie zu #TikTok im Bundeswahlkampf #BTW2025 ⚠️

Wie stark Parteien im Feed auftauchen – verglichen mit dem, was sie hochladen:

1️⃣ Linke 🔺 2,85×
2️⃣ BSW 🔺 2,68×
3️⃣ AfD 🔺 1,74×
4️⃣ SPD 🔻 0,59×
5️⃣ Grüne 🔻 0,38×
6️⃣ CDU/CSU 🔻 0,29×
7️⃣ FDP 🔻 0,18×

www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/de/unsere-pr...
Sankey-Diagramm mit dem Titel „Exposure der Videos offizieller Parteiaccounts auf TikTok“. Links sind die prozentualen Anteile der von Parteien hochgeladenen Videos dargestellt, rechts die Anteile der Videos, die im TikTok-Feed aufgetreten sind. AfD: 21,5 % der Uploads → 37,4 % im Feed (starke Verstärkung) BSW: 3,1 % → 8,3 % (deutliche Verstärkung) CDU/CSU: 17,1 % → 4,9 % (stark reduziert) FDP: 7,6 % → 1,4 % (sehr stark reduziert) Grüne: 16,8 % → 6,3 % (stark reduziert) Linke: 9,7 % → 27,6 % (starke Verstärkung) SPD: 24,1 % → 14,1 % (stark reduziert) Farben: AfD (blau), BSW (orange), CDU/CSU (grau), FDP (gelb), Grüne (grün), Linke (magenta), SPD (rot). Quelle: PolSocial-Data 2025, Bertelsmann Stiftung.
November 7, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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kathrinkuehn.bsky.social
Rechtsextreme, demokratiegefährdende Einstellungen, was ist wichtig, im Hinterkopf zu haben, wenn es um Ergebnisse wie die der Mitte-Studie geht? Einordnungen mit Politikwissenschaftler & Rechtsextremismusforscher @kai-arzheimer.com - 30min Vertiefung 🎧 www.deutschlandfunk.de/mitte-studie... 2/2
Politologe Arzheimer - Viele Menschen stehen fest auf dem Boden der Demokratie
AfD, Pegida, Neonazis - die Mitte-Studie macht den Machern Sorgen. Politiologe Arzheimer warnt, Einstellunge mit Politik gleichzusetzen.
www.deutschlandfunk.de
November 6, 2025 at 10:38 AM