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Josh Dubrow
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Social scientist. Polish Academy of Sciences.

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We also had a nice conference at IFiS PAN and @gssr-warsaw.bsky.social that invited scholars from the CEE on social movements and protest about the CEE

Thank you to @radiukiewicz.bsky.social and everyone who participated!

funded by...

politicalinequality.org/2025/11/06/e...
Empirical Research on Protests and Social Movements in Central and Eastern Europe: Conference 2025
Empirical Research on Protests and Social Movements in Central and Eastern Europe: State of the Art Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (IFiS PAN)72 Nowy Swiat, Warsaw…
politicalinequality.org
December 7, 2025 at 10:11 AM
We had a nice three-day PhD workshop, connected to a conference, on social movements and protest @gssr-warsaw.bsky.social

Funded by NAWA, co-organized with GSSR

Thank you to the students and faculty who participated!

politicalinequality.org/2025/11/28/p...
PhD Workshop: New Voices in Social Movements and Protest
The three-day English-language international event, “Empirical Research on Social Movements and Protest: New Voices” will take place December 3, 4, 5, 2025 at the Graduate School for So…
politicalinequality.org
December 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
"OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT, is acquiring Neptune.ai, a Polish-founded startup that helps track the training of AI models through tools for monitoring, analysing and comparing machine-learning experiments."

notesfrompoland.com/2025/12/04/o...
OpenAI to acquire Polish-founded startup
notesfrompoland.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
"In April this year, PM Donald Tusk established a special commission to investigate “the mechanisms of repression against civil society organisations and social activists in 2015-2023”, the period in which the national-conservative PiS government was in power."

notesfrompoland.com/2025/11/26/p...
Polish abortion activist denied security clearance to investigate surveillance of her own movement
notesfrompoland.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Strong conclusion. Take a close look at the empirical aspects:
-- Members of Parliament and Congress
-- Legislative speeches in Austria & Germany (2014 - 2017), Hungary & USA (2021 - 2021)
-- policy domains of migration and Covid pandemic only
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November 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
"On Thursday morning, an overwhelming majority of 554 MEPs voted in favour of waiving Braun’s immunity. Only 60 were opposed to the motion, including MEPs from Poland’s opposition national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party"

notesfrompoland.com/2025/11/13/p...
Polish far-right leader Braun again stripped of legal immunity by European Parliament
notesfrompoland.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:27 AM
#ZofiaRydet "first major solo exhibition in the UK presents Rydet’s monumental project, Sociological Record, in which she ambitiously documented the homes and people of Poland in more than 20,000 images taken between 1978 and 1997, the year of her death."

notesfrompoland.com/2025/11/04/l...
London exhibition shows pioneering work of Polish "sociological photographer" Zofia Rydet
notesfrompoland.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:40 AM
"OECD also notes that Poland has one of the highest rates of employment among immigrants as a whole, as well as experiencing some of the highest levels of immigration among the 38 countries belonging to the organisation."

notesfrompoland.com/2025/11/05/p...
Poland has highest employment rate for Ukrainian refugees in OECD
notesfrompoland.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:38 AM
It doesn't matter in the grand scheme of the universe, but I was pleased to get my Halloween Hat badge on Spelling Bee today.
October 31, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Scumbag antisemite and *member of the European Parliament* Grzegorz Braun, along with vicious Polish right-wing trolls, forced a small Polish town to not honor a local Jewish composer.

Remember: Braun got 6% of the vote for President in Poland

#StopAntisemitism

notesfrompoland.com/2025/10/24/p...
Polish town's event honouring local Jewish composer cancelled after far-right backlash
notesfrompoland.com
October 25, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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eborbath.bsky.social
🔔 New paper with @susanszky.bsky.social in Social Science Quarterly: The Effect of Politicization on Protest Participation in Non-Democracies: The Case of Hungary 🔔

We test whether politicization mobilizes or demobilizes partization in an autocratizing context

Paper: doi.org/10.1111/ssqu...
The Effect of Politicization on Protest Participation in Non‐Democracies: The Case of Hungary
Politicization—the expansion of conflict in the political system—is often assumed to be associated with high levels of participation. Yet, this is not necessarily the case, especially in contexts of.....
doi.org
October 23, 2025 at 8:07 AM
"Andrzej Poczobut, journalist & leader of the Polish minority in Belarus who has been imprisoned since 2021, has been awarded the Sakharov Prize, the EU’s highest award in the field of human rights, alongside Mzia Amaglobeli, a journalist imprisoned in Georgia."

notesfrompoland.com/2025/10/22/e...
Ethnic Polish journalist imprisoned in Belarus awarded EU human rights prize
notesfrompoland.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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ess-survey.bsky.social
Data collected in Wave 5 of our self-completion panel survey (CRONOS-3) has now been published.

Questions focused on artificial intelligence (AI), how panellists think they are viewed by other people, climate change policy proposals, mental health, financial security and many more.
Latest panel survey data highlights the position of younger Europeans | Infra4NextGen
Data collected in Wave 5 of the self-completion panel survey undertaken as part of the Infra4NextGen project has been published today (Friday 17 October).
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October 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
A ruse, they say! A "false flag" operation? 🤣

"an unidentified group or individual who distributed American flags bearing a similar symbol, which were initially indistinguishable from an ordinary American flag to the naked eye."

#surewhateveryousaydude

www.yahoo.com/news/article...
US congressman from Ohio says swastika flag in office was 'ruse' that targeted Republicans
Rep. Dave Taylor said his staffer didn't knowingly display the altered American flag.
www.yahoo.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:27 AM
-- "the IMF estimates that Poland’s GDP will reach $1.04 trillion this year."

-- "In 1990, it was the world’s 38th largest economy, according to the IMF, ranking just below Pakistan and Algeria."

notesfrompoland.com/2025/10/15/p...
Poland joining 20 largest world economies, IMF figures show
notesfrompoland.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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
October 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
"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"

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rachelbrule.com
September 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"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....
Democracy - Economic Power & Political Inequality
Exploring the dynamics of democracy, leadership, and citizen participation under modern influences, alongside legal and ethical considerations. <br><br>By means
papers.ssrn.com
September 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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...
The interaction of economic and political inequality in Latin America: a view from Colombia
Abstract. We investigate how economic inequality can persist in Latin America in the context of radical falls in political inequality in the last decades.
academic.oup.com
September 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Not too many of them, but its worth investigating, I suppose.

www.emerald.com/ijpl/article...
When the strongman is a woman: female leadership in right wing populism
Purpose. The article wants to unpack a curious, but important, puzzle: if, as most analysts agree, the core unifying feature of right-wing populisms is the adoption of masculinist and anti-feminist pe...
www.emerald.com
September 27, 2025 at 9:37 AM
"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...
Foreign Fighters and the Extreme Right | Tracking Far-Right Volunteers
Foreign Fighters and the Extreme Right is the first comprehensive academic study taking an in-depth look at white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other right-wing
www.taylorfrancis.com
September 27, 2025 at 9:35 AM
“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...
No, Poland's Vistula river isn't drying up - but it does face mounting environmental threats
notesfrompoland.com
September 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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...
Poles' trust in army reaches record high while trust in church falls to record low
notesfrompoland.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:51 AM
"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...
Poland hits back at Zelensky's claim it can't protect its people from mass Russian drone attack
notesfrompoland.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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politicsgenderj.bsky.social
"Intersectionality in Electoral Politics: A Mess Worth Making" - Wendy Smooth

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September 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM