Thank you! We are over the moon too!
04.03.2026 09:54
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Thank you! We are over the moon too!
#EDGE – Enhancing Democratic Support under Conditions of Geographic and Intersectional Inequalities in Europe has been funded under Horizon Europe. My first Horizon project as coordinator—and the first coordination for @gesis.org On my side as Co-PI the amazing @sofiavasilopoulou.bsky.social
WG3 held a packed programme advancing EUPopLink’s work on the overlap between Euroscepticism and populism:
● Expert Survey Questionnaire (Leads: @denisivanov.bsky.social & @piotrsula.bsky.social): overview of purpose and structure, followed by a completion exercise and structured feedback.
Connecting the dots between euroscepticism and Populism is not as easy as initially thought. I am grateful to this multinational multiperspective group for their engagement and theory development.
This is a hard way to start your day. I hope you had coffee first.
And no mention of the amazing Greek cuisine? Well, we have great history, and we eat well. Come eat with us, we are warm and hospitable.
Make teaching fun! Great idea 🎓
Platforms are neither neutral nor apolitical, and platform governance is politics. Thank you, Spain!
The figure shows the predicted probabilities by party vote, derived from the partially observed bivariate probit model, separately for willingness and completion, and the joint probability. Voters of the CDU/CSU, the AfD, the SPD, the LINKE, and BSW exhibit predicted probabilities of willingness to participate close to the sample average of 50%. Green Party voters show a higher predicted probability of willingness to participate, while the elevated probabilities among FDP voters are not statistically different from those of CDU/CSU voters. In contrast, voters of other parties and non-voters, including those who did not disclose their vote choice, display lower predicted probabilities of willingness. When it comes to donation completion, both Green Party and FDP voters stand out with higher predicted probabilities. As a result, the joint predicted probabilities indicate that voters of the Greens and FDP are the most likely to both opt-in and follow through with the data donation, even when controlling for age, gender, and education.
Who opts into a data donation study asking for Google Search histories – and more importantly, who actually donates their data? Sina Chen and I found that Green Party and FDP voters were more likely to follow through, hinting at political skew in donated data 👇
How do (anti)democratic #masculinities develop as socially-accepted models within the European context?
In this #men4dem report, @veralomazzi.bsky.social and Francesca Tomatis use ~80 indicators to describe #EU27 national contexts of #socialization into (anti)democratic masculinities.
Well, I just cited it :) Very good!
If this goes well for him electorally, I will not be surprised if he takes a ministerial post on education. Then we will see what it means for education to be governed by a radicalised ex-academic.
Two excellent tools to track the democratic backsliding process within the USA
The Trump Action Tracker: www.trumpactiontracker.info
and the Project 2025 Tracker www.project2025.observer/en
I just received the most needed birthday present. An escape from reality, the first book of the Stormlight Archive Series, The Way of Kings. I am looking forward to some hours without dreaded news.
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@chrischirp.bsky.social has done a magnificent job of tracking the actions of the Trump administration.
They have just launched @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social:
A bot that automatically posts new actions to 🦋 along documentation links.
Excellent service and resource in extraordinary times.
Same ideology, different people.
Look who is immigrating from South pole!
At least you are not faxing them.
Things that are "gay" according to the far right: Having a girlfriend as a straight man and the International law
📣 New publication! The second article of my postdoc project on the far right and anti-gender mobilization is now out #openaccess in #GermanPolitics doi.org/10.1080/0964...
It examines antifeminism in far-right party politics through the case of AfD
Key findings:
Antifeminism ✅
Radicalization ✅
So what is next? The European Union plus Canada?
Poster for the “Sociological Ash Wednesday” event at the University of Cologne on 18 February 2026, 16:00–18:00, in lecture hall A2, with a background photo of the Cologne skyline and cathedral at sunset over the Rhine. Large white text announces the title “SOZIOLOGISCHER ASCHERMITTWOCH”, with green banner slogans reading “Universitäre Diskursräume” and “Zwischen Freiheit und Beschränkung”. The lower left lists a panel discussion with Claudia Diehl (Konstanz), Naika Foroutan (Berlin), Markus Ogorek (Köln), Uwe Schimank (Bremen) and Richard Traunmüller (Mannheim), moderated by Jan‑Martin Wiarda, and organisation credit to Clemens Kroneberg with a website link. The logos of the University of Cologne, the Adenauer School of Government and the WiSo Faculty’s 125‑year anniversary (1901–2026) appear at the top and bottom of the poster.
Cologne sociologist Clemens Kroneberg invites to the Sociological Ash Wednesday on 18 February at the University of Cologne.
This year’s high-calibre panel discussion focuses on how to deal with academic freedom and diversity of perspectives in universities and academic world.
bit.ly/soziologisch...
"You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination." Wow, just wow! globalnews.ca/news/1162087...
Carney calling out America for weaponising interdependence.
Clearly explained: How does the ACI "bazooka" work.
Troll-in-chief?
Surely the irony here cannot go unnoticed.
Things that come up during casual lunch discussions in the office @gesis.org Greenland has 54 clubs and about 10% of the population are registered football players.
