So glad this finally happened. It took us too long and I hope this is only the beginning. 100.000 in the streets of Berlin to end Germany's complicity in the Gaza genocide. Thank you to the wonderful and courageous organizers, @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social and all the others!

Astonishing drone footage released by @amnesty.de of today's All Eyes on Gaza protest in Berlin.

Wir gedenken heute bei den Protesten Zusammen für Gaza und All Eyes on Gaza unseren getöteten Kolleg*innen und ihren getöteten Studierenden. Es ist inzwischen international weitgehend akademischer Konsens: in Gaza geschieht ein Genozid.

La cuna como factor principal de la desigualdad: elpais.com/economia/202...

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

"You can be English with roots that stretch back a 1,000 years, but you can also be English and look like me".

About time.

Need much more of this, and need the PM to come out and say it and challenge the politicians and media who've brought us here - not just Musk

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Zehn Jahre nach dem Sommer der Migration: Von Solidarität zur Normalität der Gewalt" - ein aktueller Gastbeitrag von @valeriahaensel.bsky.social und mir in der Frankfurter Rundschau.
@medico2.bsky.social

@irenepaneda.bsky.social's analysis shows: Understanding how gender inequality influences female migration is crucial for formulating migration and development policies as well as gender equality initiatives in both origin and destination countries.

Yet, the role of GBV, one of the most severe forms of gender inequality, remains underexplored at the individual level in shaping women’s migration intentions, as @irenepaneda.bsky.social has shown in her recent article for the WZB-Mitteilungen. bibliothek.wzb.eu/artikel/2025...

#Migration research has long been influenced by a male-centric perspective. Recent evidence explores a “feminization of migration”, with more women migrating as primary movers driven by complex factors — among them, gender inequality and gender-based violence (GBV).

📢 *Call for Applications* / 📢 *Convocatoria abierta*
Join our project on Prejudice & Discrimination at the Spanish National Research Council (Madrid 🇪🇸)
Open to junior scholars at different stages (postdocs, predocs, or MSc grads considering a PhD)
🔗 ⬇️ www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zrur0...

But here’s the hard part:
When ideas are new, interdisciplinary, different, how we say them often matters as much as what we say.

That’s when the ‘voice tax’ kicks in: our voice struggles to be heard because it doesn’t sound familiar.

Not just due to novelty, but due to gender, class or race.

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Voice is one of the most talked-about, and least explained, aspects of academic writing.

We’re told to “find it,” but rarely taught how to build it.

I wrote up some reflections here:

👉 open.substack.com/pub/catherin...

A 🧵 about why so much academic writing feels voiceless & what to do about it.

Si! Claro. Escríbeme por email y concertamos un café por zoom ;)

Super relevante Hector! Quizás te resulte interesante esto que acabo de publicar con un compañero del WZB con datos que recabamos en Senegal y Gambia. Parece que el tipo de desastre climático importa. Pero estoy de acuerdo que a menudo se exagera mucho el fenómeno www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Was bringt Menschen dazu, ihr Land zu verlassen? Welche Erfahrungen machen sie dabei? Und wie reagieren die aufnehmenden Gesellschaften? Das neue Heft der WZB-Mitteilungen blickt aus verschiedenen Perspektiven auf #Migration.
Zum Heft: wzb.eu/de/migration

🥳!!الف مبروك حمزة

Today is a sad day for African literature. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...

I wrote about research, translation and conjecture, knowledge and delusion; about Linear Elamite, Rumi, economics, and our own @andreamatranga.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/rottenan...

❗Diez lecciones que nos deja Pepe Mujica www.eldiario.es/internaciona...

This from Joseph Brodsky’s Nobel lecture caught my eye yrs ago. The social scientist in me has toyed with the idea of designing a study to test causality here. Even if I don’t think it’s actually true, I wish it was in these times of rampant authoritarianism.
#WorldBookDay #DiadelLibro #SantJordi 🌹

Great advice on academic writing by @catherinedevries.bsky.social👇 "I am a first generation scholar, suffer from dyslexia, write in a foreign language and often feel like a outsider in my profession — where let’s face for many being an academic is like being part of family business." Worth reading.

Congrats Simone, capolavoro! 👌