📣The “TRANSMIT” dataset offers a transnational perspective on #migration and #integration dynamics. It allows the examination of local contexts and group differences and offers insights into mixed-migration contexts. Apply here ➡️ datasearch.fdz.dezim-institut.de/item/de.dezi...

“We should not let Lebanon become the new Gaza.” PM of Slovenia joins his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sanchez in calling for the EU-Israel Association Agreement to be suspended in response to ongoing, escalating & unlawful Israeli attacks in Lebanon👇

When the US or Israel blatantly violate int law for their own gain we mustn't mistake it for an effort to reform an imperfect system of laws. Thanks @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social & @bechamilton.bsky.social for saying this with clarity and integrity. justsecurity.org/133417/aggre...

Aggression, Plain and Simple: A Response to Shany and Cohen on the Attack on Iran

Legal academics debate the state of international law and international institutions in light of the US-Israel-Iran War.

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Tom Dannenbaum@tomdannenbaum.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It was a privilege to join forces with @bechamilton.bsky.social to write this piece on the Iran war in response to Yuval Shany and Amichai Cohen Aggression, Plain and Simple @justsecurity.org www.justsecurity.org/133417/aggre...

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The relevance of meritocratic beliefs for redistributive preferences increases with income

A leading explanation for why in democratic societies the rich are not taxed more is that meritocratic beliefs breed tolerance for inequality. We prob…

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This is the *fifth* study to undermine the idea that the muted political response to inequality is due to growing meritocracy beliefs, esp. among the poor. - Inequality erodes meritocracy beliefs - Poor meritocrats still want redistribution - What matters is the politicization of inequality Links:

Sven Ehmes@svenehmes.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🔍 How does economic inequality impact beliefs in meritocracy? Using comprehensive survey data from 39 advanced capitalist democracies over more than three decades, Markus Gangl & I examine how rising economic inequality has been shaping citizens' belief in meritocracy. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwag016

Title and abstract (300-500 words) can be sent until 15 March 2026 to mad-office@wzb.eu. WZB will cover travel and accommodation costs for invited participants. See wzb.eu/de/veranstal... for more details.

📢CfP: The Cultural Evolution of Migration and Diversity conference @wzb.bsky.social We want to bring together cultural evolution scholars & social scientists to explore how evolutionary perspectives can contribute to empirical research on migration & diversity. Keynote by @michael.muthukrishna.com

💰 Does money change how we define "fair"? New research by @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social, @irenepaneda.bsky.social , J. Kamphorst & B. Battu, shows that as income rises, people rely more on meritocratic beliefs to oppose redistribution Published on Social Science Research 🔓: hdl.handle.net/1814/94113

Is meritocratic ideology an "opium of the masses" of sorts that tames redistributive demands? Not for lower income strata. The myriad mechanisms through which the rich exert disproportionate influence are probably better explanations of why we do not observe higher redistribution. Check it out!😊👇

Arnout van de Rijt@arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📢New publication: The poor want redistribution regardless of whether they think society is meritocratic. 🎉 Big congrats to my former supervisees — now co-authors, @irenepaneda.bsky.social, @jonnekamphorst.bsky.social, and Bala Battu! 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it. 
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures. 
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do. 👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette... 🧵

Fail Better: Why Your Rejections Will Shape You More Than Your Publications

The Art of Learning from Rejection

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Prof @catherinedevries.bsky.social: „Demonstrate that the state can efficiently serve its citizens“ Truly the best keynote I’ve ever had the privilege of listening to, incredibly powerful &inspiring. It invited so many fields into a conversation we urgently need: how to design a state that delivers

The topic is serious and the exchange is intense. For two days, 100 researchers gather at the WZB to discuss the "Future of Democracy?" at the 1st Annual Interdisciplinary WZB Conference. Thanks to all the participants for the lively debate.

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

El ascensor social se avería en España: es uno de los países ricos con más desigualdad de oportunidades

La OCDE sostiene que, de media, una cuarta parte de las diferencias socioeconómicas se explica por razones impuestas o heredadas. En España, la proporción supera el 35%

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"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

Zehn Jahre nach dem Sommer der Migration: Von Solidarität zur Normalität der Gewalt

Der Rechtsruck begann in der Migrationspolitik und betrifft heute alle Bereiche der Gesellschaft - ein Gastbeitrag von Valeria Hänsel und Kerem Schamberger von Medico International.

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@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).

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. 4/

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.

You’ve Got the Ideas. What If It’s Your Voice That’s Not Landing?

The Hidden Curriculum of Academic Writing

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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

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

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Writer Who Condemned Colonists and Elites, Dies at 87

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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...

A guess from a guess

Translation, research, conjecture; Linear Elamite, Rumi; the position of Jupiter drives the invention of agriculture; an economist does something good

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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.

Catherine E. de Vries@catherinedevries.bsky.social · last yr.

For some time, I wasn’t sure if I should share these reflections (as they aren’t my usual political takes). So grateful I did & big thank you for the positive responses & DMs. I’ve now expanded more on skill power & will continue to do so, here: open.substack.com/pub/catherin...

Launch event 🚀 The project report "Transnational Perspectives on Migration and Integration" combines rich qualitative and quantitative data and methods to investigate #migration and #integration from a transnational perspective. 📆Tuesday 11.03., 2pm📍hybrid Sign up here: go.dezim-institut.de/3z

This thread is a cool embodiment of what economists and sociologists can achieve if we talked to each other

Soumitra Shukla@soumitrashukla.bsky.social · last yr.

1/ As US colleges bring back the SAT, an old dilemma reemerges: do test scores reduce bias, or does focusing on “fit” quietly uphold class barriers? My research on class discrimination at elite firms sheds light. 🧵