Für den Umbau politischer Bildung braucht es keine AfD-Regierung: Laut RND soll die bpb sich künftig verstärkt um Linksextremismus kümmern. Zuständig ist das Innenministerium von Alexander Dobrindt, der 2018 in der Welt die "konservative Revolution der Bürger" ausrief. 1/2

Fokus auf Linksextremismus: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung plant Kurswechsel

Der bisherige Präsident der Einrichtung, Sönke Rix, schied in der vorigen Woche auf eigenen Wunsch nach nur fünf Monaten aus. Die BpB will sich nun stärker auf ihren „Kernauftrag“ konzentrieren. Die B...

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📢 Call: Postdoctoral Researcher for our research group on Technology and Statehood, led by Regine Paul. Possible research topics include: States’ use of AI stacks, quantum computing, and digital twins. 🗓️ Apply by September 18, 2026 Please share widely! career.mpifg.de/jobposting/f...

Today in correlations that just make sense: Endness of history x Budweiser dominance

I've been seeing a lot of people responding to this with "there ought to be a law," but importantly, we haven't needed a law for this sort of thing because no prior president wanted to be known as a leader who would literally kill people in their hour of need for not voting for him

Seth Masket@smotus.bsky.social · 6d ago

This is honestly one of the most shocking images coming out of this administration and that’s saying something

Unsere Kritik hat immerhin den Nonsens der Bestrafung schnellerer Promotionen abgeräumt. Aber es bleibt dabei: Die Pläne für die Novelle des #WissZeitVG sind lächerlich. Postdoc-Phase bleibt prekär wie gehabt. Anti-Werbung für Wissenschaft als Beruf in D. Da muss sich noch viel ändern! #IchBinHanna

Jan-Martin Wiarda@jmwiarda.bsky.social · 7d ago

Entschieden, aber vorläufig  Wissenschaftspolitischer Hochbetrieb im Hochsommer: Das Kabinett bringt die WissZeitVG-Novelle auf den Weg, der Bund verteilt die Fusionshubs. Beide Entscheidungen schaffen Klarheit – und verschieben einige Konflikte nur. Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/07...

The world is a little dimmer today. Writing this for my friend and colleague Sarah Knuth was agonizing and we miss her so much, but we also celebrate Sarah's memory and push forward on the struggles that she cared about so deeply. climateandcommunity.org/bio/sarah-kn...

Sarah Knuth (In Memoriam) - Climate and Community Institute

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Der neue #Verkehrsminister Steffen #Bilger war gegen das Verbrenner-Aus ab 2035 + ist gegen das Tempolimit. Er spricht sich für E-Fuels + die Beimischung v Biokraftstoffen aus. Der Deutschen Umwelthilfe wollte er im Dieselskandal die Gemeinnützigkeit entziehen lassen 1/4 table.media/climate/pers...

Postdoc opportunity in development studies at Cambridge. Apply! www.queens.cam.ac.uk/about-us/vac...

New in @socioeconreview.bsky.social: w/ @fbulfone.bsky.social & @m-stratenwerth.bsky.social we trace Southern Europe’s post-crisis growth paths, from the Eurozone crisis up to Covid19, to reconcile the competing claims of a decade of CPE literature on growth in the region: doi.org/10.1093/ser/... 👇

Shifting paths? The evolution of Southern European growth trajectories in the post-Eurozone crisis decade (2010–9)

Abstract. This article traces the growth trajectories of Southern European economies (Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain) over the decade 2010–9. Drawing o

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🚨 Job Alert 🚨 We're hiring a six-year Postdoc @stawi-univie.bsky.social, starting in Oct 2026 (or thereafter). Research: political representation, party competition, institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields 📅 Deadline: 20 Aug 2026 Apply here: tinyurl.com/dyf9bt7h

Are you a sociologist studying social inequality? Come join our awesome sociology department at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social as an assistant professor www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Assistant Professor in Social Inequality

Are you an expert in the sociology of social inequality or social stratification? Do you want to inspire students? Become our new assistant professor!

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Just out! My introduction to a new special issue in @sciasculture.bsky.social on "Tech Oligarchy" - go check it out and the papers in the special issue (under "Latest" articles) #techoligarchy #assetization #techbro #bigtech www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tech oligarchy

Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Wir suchen Verstärkung für die Greifswalder Politikwissenschaft! Die Stelle (E13, unbefristet) umfasst u.a. Lehraufgaben in der Politischen Theorie und Ideengeschichte. Bei Fragen gerne bei mir melden. t1p.de/3kgfv

Was plant denn die Regierung für die Entlastung der Verbraucher bei denEnergiekosten in den nächsten drei Jahren von mehr als 6 Mrd? Interessanter Chart von @niklasillenseer / @DezernatZ auf Linkedin... www.linkedin.com/posts/niklas...

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From ‘green finance’ to ’woke finance’: where should sociology stand in the critique of green finance and implications for a research agenda

Green finance, once heralded as a pragmatic tool for aligning capitalism with climate action, is now accused of being ‘woke’. While the social sciences have been strong on the critique of market-ba...

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Welcome, Network W! Following several successful years as a SASE mini-conference, Elites and Power Structures is now an official SASE research network. Learn more about Network W: sase.org/networks/net... #SASE #PoliticalEconomy #EconomicSociology

Network W: Elites and Power Structures | SASE | The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics

Network W aims to advance knowledge about elites and elite power structures historically and in the current socio-economic order. A central argument for the work is that in order to understand the…

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Academic summer – or, the challenging season where we are depleted of means to procrastinate and feel good about it.

I was so nervous about this course. Had never taught soc theory nor into-level before. Wasn’t sure how the concept of doing theory through different views on social action would work out. Teaching evaluation came back – students gave the course a 100/100 🥹🥹

Philipp Golka@pgolka.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Social structures appear in social action. This is why different views on how and why we act demarcate differences in theory. My intro-level course "theorizing social action" is designed to help bring these perspectives to life by inviting students to theorize. Posting the syllabus here 1/2

In this article in @socioeconreview.bsky.social I show why Europe is trillions euro behind China in lending to activities that can save the climate.

Green monetary transitions? Central banking and climate finance in Europe and China

Abstract. This article examines the political economy of “greening” central banking as a contested project dynamically evolving on the spectrum between neo

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Der Kampf gegen Rechts wird bekanntlich durch volle Praxen und lange Wartezeiten gewonnen. Was für ein unfassbarer Irrsinn diese Politik!

The ownership & management of financial assets is ever-more concentrated. This fuels systemic risk but occurs during times of growing risk supervision. In our new paper Hayley James and I address this puzzle by studying the rise of the so-called Master Trust. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧵

Excited to share a new paper on transformative statecraft. We start from a critique of the compensation consensus in climate politics/political science. Compensating losers works – plenty of evidence for that. But when the goal is transformation (not reform), we need to think about mobilization. 🧵

Das größte Problem kapitalgedeckter Altersvorsorge sind weder Kapitalmarktrisiken noch Verwaltungskosten, sondern das Befeuern von Finanzialisierung, die einen Keil zwischen Pensionist:innen und Beschäftigte treibt. Neue Folge 'Märkte, Macht & Mythen' für @moment.at www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HGC...

The ownership & management of financial assets is ever-more concentrated. This fuels systemic risk but occurs during times of growing risk supervision. In our new paper Hayley James and I address this puzzle by studying the rise of the so-called Master Trust. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧵

Just out w/ @jacobhell.bsky.social - "Cloud assets and the “unit of compute”: Market dominance in commercial computing" #assetization #cloudcomputing #datacentres #bigtech || journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Kennt jemand Schätzungen wie hoch die zusätzlichen Kapitalrenditen sein müssen, die das deutsche Rentensystem nach Umsetzung der geplanten #Rentenreform pro Jahr erwirtschaften muss?

Warum fällt es mir schwer, hier an Zufall zu glauben? Und selbst wenn es einer sein sollte: das ist ein Versagen vermeintlich „neutraler“ KI. Gerade im Vergleich zu Claude mit viel ausgewogeneren Werten.

One day the world is looking bleak, the next there is real hope Farage will be defeated by Count Binface.

The joy of witnessing the AC switching on again after your TGV got stuck for an hour without electricity during a heatwave is a joy I would have preferred to never have felt.