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Danielle Pullan

@dmpullan.bsky.social

Assistant professor of political science researching abortion policy and gender representation | she/her 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🇮🇹 | Alum of MPIfG, U Cologne, American U

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Danielle Pullan@dmpullan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hey EPSS! Are you thinking of dipping out early after a long week of (double) conferencing? Let me change your mind! Join us in the very last panel of the conference (Saturday 15:20) to think about reproductive politics and family norms.

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Danielle Pullan@dmpullan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Is my network still using this platform? I fell off the grid over the last year as I've been settling into my tenure track position in Georgia, but I'm heading back to Europe soon for conferences and projects! Read more of my thoughts on Linkedin, and please be in touch if you want to get together!

Hey colleagues! It's been a wild year for me, and I've not been focused on sharing updates on LinkedIn with my broader network, but I'm about to head off for some international summer work...

Hey colleagues! It's been a wild year for me, and I've not been focused on sharing updates on LinkedIn with my broader network, but I'm about to head off for some international summer work networking ...

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Danielle Pullan@dmpullan.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Cosplaying as a sociologist for a few days at #ESS2026! I’m really enjoying the mini conference on reproduction, and this kicks off the 2026 conference circuit for me! Looking forward to hearing more great presentations and meeting the lovely ESS members here in DC!

Selfie in a bathroom mirror wearing black pants with pink and blue flowers, a light blue top, and a black blazer with rhinestones
Danielle Pullan@dmpullan.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I’m so glad to see this paper — my first solo-authored one and second from my dissertation — finally published! If you’ve heard me talk about my research in the last couple of years, you know this is the story that started it all for me, and I’m so happy to finally have it out there in the world.

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Danielle Pullan@dmpullan.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Calling all comparative legislative scholars! We’ve got a new dataset with committee memberships from 14 countries over 35 years, spanning almost 15,000 MPs in 260 parties! Grateful for my excellent coauthors! #polisky #gendersky

Jens Wäckerle@jwaeckerle.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New data for legislative scholars! Committee Membership Dataset with @bcastanho.bsky.social, @dmpullan.bsky.social and Firuze Taner: Committee assignments for all MPs (Wikidata IDs!) in 14 countries Harmonized roles/policy areas Data: doi.org/10.7802/2940 Working paper: tinyurl.com/vf54r78p ⬇️

Payton Gannon@paytongannon.bsky.social · last yr.

I am especially excited for the publication of @dmpullan.bsky.social's and my article “'In Italy, we have a saying: make the law and you will find a way to cheat it.' The Regionalized Implementation of Italian Abortion Policies." Read it here: tinyurl.com/3fu5khpu

“In Italy, we have a saying: make the law and you will find a way to cheat it”. The Regionalized Implementation of Italian Abortion Policies | Gannon | Interdisciplinary Political Studies

“In Italy, we have a saying: make the law and you will find a way to cheat it”. The Regionalized Implementation of Italian Abortion Policies

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The Loop@ecprtheloop.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉 Congratulations to @paytongannon.bsky.social and @dmpullan.bsky.social who made the Loop Best Blog 2024 shortlist for their article 'Emergency room abortions in the US: doctors’ objections trump patients’ lives'. #RoeVWade ➡️ ow.ly/2k5F50W3jR9

Emergency room abortions in the US: doctors’ objections trump patients’ lives

It is now two years since the fall of Roe v. Wade. How has this affected healthcare for pregnant Americans? Payton Gannon and Danielle Pullan explain the most recent Supreme Court cases, and contextua...

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Danielle Pullan@dmpullan.bsky.social · last yr.

Honored to have been considered for this prize for my work with @paytongannon.bsky.social explaining US court decisions on abortion post-Dobbs! Highly recommend publishing quick, contemporary pieces with @ecprtheloop.bsky.social — always a great experience and great editorial team!

The Loop@ecprtheloop.bsky.social · last yr.

🏆 Last week we awarded our annual £500 prize for the best Loop blog piece in the previous calendar year, as judged by an independent jury. 📝 Here, Managing Editor Kate Hawkins presents the longlisted pieces — and reveals the very special winner. ➡️ ow.ly/mii350W8Q0e

Danielle Pullan@dmpullan.bsky.social · last yr.

I've got a new job! My full thoughts are too long for one post, so see the attached images (with text in the descriptions) for my reflections on the academic job market this year, the choice to jump from Europe to the US, and what's next for me! And of course, there are plots in the reply post ;)

Finally with all of the t's crossed and i's dotted, I'm delighted to share more about my new job! But I also want to put this success in the context of the overall process that it took to get here. It's hard to get a job these days in many fields, but the field I know best is academia. It was a complicated choice to leave Europe for the next step, but a huge part of that choice was the knowledge that there are just so few long-term jobs available in academia. I made the bet that in the US, I could play the numbers game long enough that eventually, I would find a job that was a good fit. You only need one, after all, but with more application possibilities, I staked my hopes on the US instead of Europe.In the end, I applied to 177 jobs. Because I am an incurable nerd, I've made plots. Mostly I was aiming for tenure track jobs, because that was my other big hope in the US: to avoid 4, or 6, or 8, or more years of temporary, precarious positions that seem to be inevitable for European postdocs. The market is just really different, and it was a learning curve to remember how to write like an American again, but also to learn the unwritten rules of a system that I haven't been a part of for the last 9 years. A lot of these jobs just never replied. One place that actually interviewed me months ago finally got around to rejecting me literally yesterday. But this also meant that there were days where, on top of submitting more and more applications and doing my current job and flying back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean to make life work for my family, I was also getting several rejections a day.The biggest lesson I've learned about the academic job market is that, while in some ways, every job is extremely specific and hiring for a very narrow set of qualifications, in other ways, it is entirely impersonal. Rejections are not rejections of who you are as a person, and they don't mean that your work is bad or unimportant. The more stable the position, the more time and resources the university is investing in choosing a good long term candidate. It's hard to fire someone from the tenure track, and so they want to make sure they're making a good choice. What constitutes a "good choice" depends on who is on the committee, who has recently retired or left the university, what students are demanding, what the administration is demanding, and where they imagine the discipline / the department going in the future. It was always a matter of time and sheer numbers before my CV would end up in front of the right people in the right place at the right time for us all to fit together.Starting in August, I will be an assistant professor of political science on the tenure track at Georgia College, a small liberal arts college in the public University System of Georgia south of Atlanta. In the coming weeks, Marco and I are figuring out how to wrap up our life in Germany -- moving out, ending my employment at the University of Cologne, and seeing and celebrating with as many friends as we can. Life in Georgia is going to be really different, but we feel really hopeful about it. I don't know that we'll stay in Georgia forever -- nothing is ever promised -- but it's possible that we could, and that's huge. At the same time, when I say "stay," I don't mean that I won't ever travel -- in fact, I was very clear with my future colleagues that I intend to keep working with my broad international network of colleagues and friends. I will be back. But I will also have a stable home base in a beautiful area that brings so many of the things we're looking to have more of in our lives. This is really exciting, y'all!
Danielle Pullan@dmpullan.bsky.social · last yr.

Finally with a proper citation! Interested in how women MPs navigate parliamentary careers and adapt their behavior? Stay tuned for our followup project, where we look at how much power and prestige they attain as compared to men! #polisky #gendersky @jwaeckerle.bsky.social @bcastanho.bsky.social

Bruno Castanho Silva@bcastanho.bsky.social · last yr.

Now out in an issue with proper page numbers🎉 Women in parliament, particularly in left parties, adapt their speaking style over the years to fit the male-dominated hierarchies of parties and parliaments With the best coauthors one could ask for @dmpullan.bsky.social @jwaeckerle.bsky.social

Danielle Pullan@dmpullan.bsky.social · last yr.

Abortion access works in political-geographic systems: when there is regional regulation, you’ll end up with some sanctuaries, some islands, and some deserts of access — in the US, in Italy, and beyond. So glad my oldest paper with @paytongannon.bsky.social has finally made it online!

Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG)@mpifg.bsky.social · last yr.

Sanctuaries, Islands, and Deserts: @paytongannon.bsky.social and @dmpullan.bsky.social propose a typology of regionalized abortion policy. Comparing the US and Italy, they analyze the impact of regional abortion access on abortion providers and patients. New MPIfG Discussion Paper: s.gwdg.de/p7Ps65

Title page: Sanctuaries, Islands and Deserts. A typology of regionalized abortion policy. Payton Gannon and Danielle Pullan
Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social · last yr.

From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”

Deanna Fry@deannafry.tv · last yr.

UPDATE: Immigration officials arrested a 2nd person who participated in Pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia Univ, and revoked the visa of another student. Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian from the West Bank, was arrested. Ranjani Srinivasan’s, an Indian citizen and doctoral student, visa was revoked

Immigration officials arrest second person who participated in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia

Immigration officials have arrested a second person who participated in Pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, and have revoked the visa of another student.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi@tabouchadi.bsky.social · last yr.

Just ashamed of European academic institutions reacting to the authoritarian clampdown against our US colleagues with "look, we have nice jobs here". Do you think this is the kind of solidarity needed from us? What are you actually doing to strengthen academic freedom and to help those affected?