According to our Federal Ministry for Housing, only 39% of women in rural areas have access to good public transport.
One in three women feels that their career opportunities are limited by mobility.
Mothers, single parents, and women working part-time are particularly affected.

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🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Bremen 🚨

Open to PhD students and early career scholars Fully-funded places available for applicants, deadline 1st of May 📅 summerschoolwpm.org

I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social!

German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf
English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf

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Apply to be our colleague in Basel!
Assistant Professorship in Political Science (without Tenure Track) with a focus on Environment and Development. Deadline 20 January:
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Thank you! 🤗

Happy Holidays and a great New YeaR to all R enthusiasts out there. 🎄🎄🎁

R-Users Zurich is now on Bluesky!! Follow us to stay updated about R events in Zurich.

You can already sign up for our WinteR event 'Geodata and Landscape Insights with R' on Jan. 23 at @wslresearch.bsky.social 🌳🌲🌍. #rstats

And another round of an online info session for female MA students on PhD programmes in political science, 15 Jan 10am CET - this time with Kristine Eck and @annalenahoenig.bsky.social. See tinyurl.com/y2a8e96s for more info + registration details. #polisky

If you're curious about my research, code (R, SQL, Python), or collaborations, check out my website gerlindetheunissen.github.io

My dissertation, "Close Comparisons: How Local Exposure to Inequality Shapes Perceptions and Political Behavior," explores how neighborhood inequality shapes perceptions and political behavior. Using spatial data like satellite imagery, street networks & surveys, I model local conditions.

🎓 Last Thursday, I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation. I am grateful for all the support during these last four years! A huge thank you to my advisors, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social @claireadida.bsky.social and Anke Hoeffler, co-authors, @keremoglu.bsky.social , and amazing colleagues.

Bayern verschlechtert die Gesundheitsversorgung schwangerer Frauen noch einmal drastisch.
www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/bayer...

University of Münster in Germany is seeking a unlimited Postdoc (teaching) position in Sociology. Might be interesting for some who want to focus on teaching entirely
stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/8...

It was a great workshop! Thank you so much for the organization and the great feedback!

I'm very excited for this conference we're organising with the dvpw methods section. 🎉
Plus: there'll be a conference dinner and travel stipends are available.

More info & links for application 👇

To all the #pyladies and #rladies out there - if you have a blog or a YouTube channel and want to be added, feel free to reach out! Your content will then be featured by the @pyladies-bot.bsky.social or @rladies-bot.bsky.social 🙌

Ohne Paywall: www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

The call for the Conflict & Change PhD Workshop at University College London is out! PhD students working on IR, conflict, contentious politics, apply by 8 December! It is a really nice crowd. Workshop is on 24-25 February, 2025. www.conflictandchange.org/phdworkshop2...

How autocrats control the internet via state-owned service providers: A German-American research team led by the #UniKonstanz has mapped the ownership of network infrastructures in democratic and authoritarian states worldwide.
Full story: https://t1p.de/02wb7

My university (European University Viadrina, 📍Frankfurt, Oder) has a call for funded 1-3 month visits for international PhD students | ⏱️20/03/24

Details, including experiences of past fellows: europa-uni.de/en/struktur/...

I hosted someone last year and 💯 recommend the program.

Our research cluster ("The Politics of Inequality") at the University of Konstanz is offering fully funded Visiting Fellowships (2-6 months) for external researchers from the social sciences in the academic year 2024/2025. If you're interested, details here: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/0...

We blurred the gender of soccer players and had people rate their performances − with surprising results @theconversationus.bsky.social
Carlos Gómez González, Cornel Nesseler

theconversation.com/we-blurred-t...