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Perline Demange @perlinedemange.bsky.social · 2d

Should we tax the super-rich?

My favorite news show tackles this question this week: www.arte.tv/en/videos/11... (spoiler: the answer is yes)

ARTE Europe Weekly - Does Europe need a supertax for the super-rich? - Watch the full documentary | ARTE in English

Europe’s super-rich are getting astronomically wealthy, while the squeezed middle and lower classes are being asked to tighten their belts. The French economist Gabriel Zucman has proposed a wealth ta...

www.arte.tv

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Dejan Mihajlović @mihajlovicfreiburg.com · 5d

Nur eine (von idR zu vielen fehlenden) Perspektive(n) zum populären Social Media-Verbot für junge Menschen: In #Serbien haben Schüler*innen landesweit Insta-Accounts erstellt, über die sie seit knapp einem Jahr den Widerstand gegen ein autokratisches System und den Kampf für Demokratie organisieren.

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 4d

I'm excited to share my new paper with a former student, Tommy Smith. "'This Work Would Not Have Been Possible without...': The Length of Acknowledgments in Sociology Books"

Open Access in @sociusjournal.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Main figure from the paper. Violin plots showing the length of acknowledgments sections in books by sociologists, broken out by gender, race, sexuality, parents’ education, millennium of author’s PhD, and publisher type.

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 6d

35 Years of #Reunification
MPIDR Researchers Discuss the Demographic Situation in #Germany
Athina Anastasiadou is Doctoral Student in the Laboratory of Migration and Mobility @mpidr.bsky.social.
Full quote:
https://ow.ly/SBJh50X4Wlw
#EastGermany #WestGermany #Migration #Inequality #Gender

Young woman with long brown hair and a red sweater in front of a green background with a quote about gender-specific migration in Germany. Migration from Eastern to Western Germany is a notable example of gender-specific migration and its demographic consequences in the field of migration research.

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 7d

35 Years of #Reunification
MPIDR Researchers Discuss the Demographic Situation in #Germany
Henrik-Alexander Schubert is Research Scientist in the Laboratory of Fertility and Well-Being @mpidr.bsky.social
Full quote: https://ow.ly/bpMV50X4l0h
#EastGermany #WestGermany #Fertility #Inequality

Man in a white shirt in front of an orange background with a quote from the Max Planck Institute on the birth rate in East and West Germany. Henrik Schubert says: Although the fertility rates in East and West Germany have converged significantly in the first decades of the 21st century and are now almost identical, the former inner-German border continues to be reflected in regional differences in fertility.

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Pietro Biroli @pietrobiroli.bsky.social · 7d

Totally agree with the diagnosis, not sure about the suggestion of the two track system. it might create weird selection and sorting.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...

we should change the reward and publication system.

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 8d

35 Years of #Reunification
MPIDR Researchers Discuss the Demographic Situation in #Germany
Nicole Hiekel is Leader of the Research Group Gender Inequalities & Fertility @mpidr.bsky.social.
Full quote: www.demogr.mpg.de/go/reunification
#EastGermany #WestGermany #CareWork #GenderInequality #Family

Portrait of a woman with brown hair and a black top in front of a green background with text about German reunification and gender inequality. Her quote says: German reunification brought together two different traditions of balancing family and career. Even 35 years later, these differences persist. While women's participation in the labor market has increased overall, the unequal distribution of care work remains a key challenge.

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 9d

35 Years of #Reunification: This week our researchers discuss the demographic situation in #Germany in short quotes – starting with Jonas Schöley
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/topics_10339/35_years_of_reunification_14656
#LifeExpectancy #EastGermany #WestGermany #Health #Inequality

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Institute for Behavioral Genetics (IBG) @ibg.colorado.edu · 8d

University of Colorado Boulder Department of Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors. This is open to all department areas, including Behavioral, Psychiatric, and Statistical Genetics🧬 jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Assistant Professor

jobs.colorado.edu

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 13d

breakups suck but have you ever remembered some stupid shit you said

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Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com · 13d

In some way, it's trivial:

The #brain & the rest of the #body (e.g. the #heart) are coupled.

Yet, we spelled it out
w/ A. Villringer & V. Nikulin for current scientists (below)
w/ @martager.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social for future scientists bsky.app/profile/mart...

Trends in Neurosciences @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social · 14d

'Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health'

by Arno Villringer, Vadim Nikulin & Michael Gaebler @mbe-lab.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com @mpicbs.bsky.social sky.social

www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Villringer et al. Figure 1. Conceptual framework for brain–body states

Villringer et al. Figure 2 Brain–body micro-, meso-, and macro-states can be distinguished on the basis of their duration and reversibility

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 23d

Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...

Graphic with a blue background and light green dots. The text 'call for applications' appears in green, and 'Ausschreibung' in white. A white arrow on the right points diagonally upward.

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Deniz Fraemke @denizfraemke.bsky.social · 24d

I am voting for one child reviewer for every study ! ☝🏼

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Agata Patyczek 🏳️‍🌈 @agatapatyczek.bsky.social · 25d

Was super fun to write this little piece with @el-rei.bsky.social @martager.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com Generally, its cool to write for kids and be REVIEWED by kids! Awesome reviews like "this is boring" or "this doesn't make sense" - real, honest and super helpful! Loved it, highly recommend.

Marta Gerosa @martager.bsky.social · 26d

Check out our new article for young readers (ages 8-15) on heart-brain interactions and interoception! 🧠🫀

I had so much fun co-writing this with @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social with the support of @michaelgaebler.com ✍️

👉 Share it widely with curious young minds
Yay for #scicomm ✨

Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 26d

🧠🫀 New from our lab on Frontiers for Young Minds:

Ever wondered how the heart and brain communicate? Think the heart as the drummer 🥁 & the brain as the singer 🎤 keeping the body's band in tune!

Read here (for ages 8–15): kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2025.1536787/full
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Adam L @lauretig.bsky.social · 28d

Simon Wood, the GOAT of generalized additive models & creator of the mgcv #rstats package, has an Annual Review of Statistics essay on GAMs, available open access #statssky #mlsky

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social · Aug 3

I wrote another book & I'm very excited (& nervous) for it to be released into the world: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/714593...

Original Sin by Kathryn Paige Harden: 9780593447628 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

An intellectually daring and deeply intimate exploration of how genetics complicates our ideas about blame, punishment and moral responsibility—from acclaimed psychologist and author of The Genetic....

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Jul 24

Poetry collection is going well thanks for asking

Mock up of a pamphlet with silly academic poems in the form of bluesky posts

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Deniz Fraemke @denizfraemke.bsky.social · Jul 15

And Many thanks too to @diw.de for data access and my graduate school @imprs-life.bsky.social at @mpib-berlin.bsky.social for their support.

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Deniz Fraemke @denizfraemke.bsky.social · Jul 15

11/11 I would like to express my sincere thanks to Y. Willems, A. Okbay, U. Lindenberger, S. Zinn, G. Wagner, E.M. Tucker-Drob, K.P. Harden, R. Hertwig, P. Koellinger & L. Raffington for their great contributions and support!

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Deniz Fraemke @denizfraemke.bsky.social · Jul 15

10/11 Tackling the downstream individual and intergenerational inequities in income 💰, health 🏨 and life opportunities 💼 that arise through differences in educational attainment is important to foster social justice and coherence in meritocratic-oriented societies.

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Deniz Fraemke @denizfraemke.bsky.social · Jul 15

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🧬📚 Education-genetic associations might have changed with the emergence of novel social norms and structures 🏛️🧑‍⚖️. Following the collapse of socialist elites, East Germans found themselves uniquely liberated from the constraints of ideological selection and parental social status.

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Deniz Fraemke @denizfraemke.bsky.social · Jul 15

8/11 Collectively, these findings are consistent with the interpretation that there was an amplification 📈 of education-genetic associations post-Soviet Union/German reunification rather than a Soviet-era suppression 📉 of genetic effects relative to West Germany.

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Deniz Fraemke @denizfraemke.bsky.social · Jul 15

7/11 This aligns with previous reports that the association between polygenic index for education and educational attainment increased in Estonia and Hungary after the fall of the Soviet Union in Europe. 🇪🇺

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Deniz Fraemke @denizfraemke.bsky.social · Jul 15

6/11 Negative control analyses of a polygenic index of height with educational attainment and height indicate that this G x E interaction is specific to the educational domain.

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