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Julia Zimmermann @juliazimmermann.bsky.social · Jul 10

Having a looooong lunch break :) 🤗

Julia Zimmermann @juliazimmermann.bsky.social · Jun 20

“Home [Baltic Sea] is where I want to be
But I guess I'm already there
I come home, she lifted up her wings
I guess that this must be the place” …🎶🎵

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Aine Doran @ainedoran.bsky.social · May 21

🚨Survey for university students🚨

I'm currently carrying out a project for DfE examining student mobility in higher education with Anne Devlin & Maureen O'Reilly

Please share this short survey with any students in UK/ROI, every response helps!

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Microsoft Forms

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Julia Zimmermann @juliazimmermann.bsky.social · May 8

Also came across: “a vocabulary teacher at the Institute for Noble Maidens.” Not sure if he led uprisings... but if anyone was silently plotting revolution with a thesaurus, it was him. 🕯️📚🧾 - so rich data

Julia Zimmermann @juliazimmermann.bsky.social · May 4

Been coding 19th-c anti-Tsarist activists (with a bit of LLM help 🤖). Some were terrorists, many were accountants 🧾💥 Honestly, I like to imagine they all looked like Ben Affleck in The Accountant 2—brooding, revolutionary, and not just good with ledgers… deadly with double-entry bookkeeping 🕶️📉✊

Julia Zimmermann @juliazimmermann.bsky.social · May 4

Been coding 19th-c anti-Tsarist activists (with a bit of LLM help 🤖). Some were terrorists, many were accountants 🧾💥 Honestly, I like to imagine they all looked like Ben Affleck in The Accountant 2—brooding, revolutionary, and not just good with ledgers… deadly with double-entry bookkeeping 🕶️📉✊

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Julia Zimmermann @juliazimmermann.bsky.social · Apr 30

Uuuh… thrilled (and slightly confused) to share I’m now a 2x Marathon Finisher!! 🏃‍♀️🏁 Only took me seven years to come back for round two. Turns out 42.2 km still hurts just as much.

Endurance, stubbornness, and questionable life choices? Oh absolutely: ✅✅✅

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Julia Zimmermann @juliazimmermann.bsky.social · Mar 12

Reading list for the upcoming weeks 🤗

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Julia Zimmermann @juliazimmermann.bsky.social · Mar 7

Congratulations!!! Well done!

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Sabine Fischer @sabfis3.bsky.social · Mar 4

It should be clear by now that Trump is blackmailing Zelensky to remove him from office. He is pursuing his own policy of regime change. Whether it just coincides, is coordinated or even directed by, Russia, I don’t know. But if he gets his way,

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/u...

Trump Suspends Military Aid to Ukraine After Oval Office Blowup

The directive, which takes effect immediately, affects more than $1 billion in arms and ammunition in the pipelines and on order.

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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · Feb 14

🚨 please share!

We will be running our annual workshop on the political economy of development in Berlin @wzb.bsky.social in June.

This is a really fun workshop doing deep reads of a small number of new papers.

Call for papers / participants below! ⬇️

www.wzb.eu/en/events/mo...

MoPED Workshop

Berlin Meeting on the Political Economy of Development (MoPED) -- The MoPED workshop offers an opportunity for scholars who focus on the political economy of development, broadly defined, to build...

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Lukas Haffert @lhaffert.bsky.social · Feb 24

Ein Blick auf den Stadt-Land-Gegensatz. Abgebildet für jede Partei ihr nach Bevölkerungsdichte mittlerer Wahlkreis: 50% ihrer Stimmen sind urbaner, 50% ländlicher. AfD im Westen stärker und damit etwas urbaner, BSW ähnlich wie Union (weil Ostdeutsch), Grüne bleiben stark urban, Linke urban wie nie.

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Pau Vall-Prat @pauvallprat.bsky.social · Feb 20

🚨🚨Final Call! 🚨🚨
Send us your best HPE work by tomorrow

Pau Vall-Prat @pauvallprat.bsky.social · Dec 13

📢 Submit your work to the Junior Workshop on HPE organized by @tinepaulsen.bsky.social, @franvillamil.bsky.social & myself.
📍 UC3M Madrid
🗓️ June 25, 2025 (just before EPSA)
📝 Deadline: Feb 21, 2025
🔗 Apply: forms.gle/F5zPJRWn6gr4...
ℹ️ More info: www.pauvallprat.com/hpe-workshop
#HPE #EPSA2025

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Julia Zimmermann @juliazimmermann.bsky.social · Feb 19

This Friday, @amaliaab.bsky.social dives into "The Enforcement of Political Norms" in the Permanent Seminar Series of @ic3jm.bsky.social .

A must-attend also for economic historians digging into authoritarianism, institutions, and coercion 👀 - looking forward to it!

Instituto Carlos III-Juan March/ Carlos III-Juan March Institute @ic3jm.bsky.social · Feb 19

‼️On Friday, @amaliaab.bsky.social on "The Enforcement of Political Norms" in our Permanent Seminar Series‼️

Join us at 12.30 -- is open to everyone!! 🧐🤗

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Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke @kevinhorourke.bsky.social · Feb 18

Will we get to the point where Washington wakes up one day and finds that it no longer has leverage in the West, since there are no benefits left for it to withdraw?

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Julia Zimmermann @juliazimmermann.bsky.social · Feb 17

Es war eine ganz spannende Episode!!

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Thomas Rieger @thorieger.bsky.social · Feb 7

📢 #CallForPapers

@bseberlin.bsky.social Political Economy Workshop aimed at connecting researchers working on related topics in the Berlin area

🗓️ April 11
📍 @diw.de
Submit by Feb 15

For any questions, reach out to Max Deter, @felixkersting.bsky.social, @mlubczyk.bsky.social, or me 👋

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Julia Zimmermann @juliazimmermann.bsky.social · Feb 10

📣 Buckle up, number-crunching time travelers!! The Economic History Seminar at @uc3m.es is back - co-organized by @artolam.bsky.social Jordi Domenech, and me.

Expect cutting-edge research, dangerously data-driven insights, and enough historical stats to make Clio do a happy dance. Full program 👇

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Pau Vall-Prat @pauvallprat.bsky.social · Dec 13

📢 Submit your work to the Junior Workshop on HPE organized by @tinepaulsen.bsky.social, @franvillamil.bsky.social & myself.
📍 UC3M Madrid
🗓️ June 25, 2025 (just before EPSA)
📝 Deadline: Feb 21, 2025
🔗 Apply: forms.gle/F5zPJRWn6gr4...
ℹ️ More info: www.pauvallprat.com/hpe-workshop
#HPE #EPSA2025

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Julia Zimmermann @juliazimmermann.bsky.social · Feb 7

Fantastic Scoping Workshop on the Historical Political Economy in Europe! Who knew PoliSci and EconHist do not wear such different hats?

Huge thanks to @lhaffert.bsky.social @cathrinmohr.bsky.social @beckerbastian.bsky.social for an inspiring deep dive.

Learned a lot!

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Julia Zimmermann @juliazimmermann.bsky.social · Jan 31

So hopeful!!

taz @taz.de · Jan 31

Was Ex-Kanzlerin Merkel von Merz' Tabubruch hält, lest ihr hier: https://taz.de/Angela-Merkels-Kritik-an-Friedrich-Merz/!6063295/

Ein Portrait von Angela Merkel, dazu die Zeile: Oma gegen Rechts.

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Zentrum für Politische Schönheit @politicalbeauty.bsky.social · Jan 30

BREAKING: Wow, es bewegt sich etwas. Der Osten steht gerade als erstes auf und läuft #SturmgegenMerz. Proteste in Leipzig (Video hier), Dresden, in Berlin wurde sogar gerade eine CDU-Parteizentrale besetzt! Die demokratische Gesellschaft will nicht tatenlos zusehen bei ihrer Beerdigung. 💪

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Julia Zimmermann @juliazimmermann.bsky.social · Dec 24

Aaaah -my Christmas read arrived! 🤩🤗

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · Dec 17

“I’m creatively drained but I’ll turn it around in early 2025”

Early 2025:

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Julia Zimmermann @juliazimmermann.bsky.social · Dec 14

It is not herbals, but generals 🫣

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Julia Zimmermann @juliazimmermann.bsky.social · Dec 14

The wonderful Anna Arkhina on promotion conditions of Russian and British herbals in the 19th century! What a cool comparison and data source! At the WEast 224 Dublin Workshop!

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