Davy-Kim Lascombes Trinh

"Women and the Wall: Gender Attitudes and Political Engagement in Unified Germany" by Catherine E. De Vries and Diana Z. O’Brien.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars?

These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research.

So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...

La 1ère des inégalités sociales de santé : celle devant la mort.
L’ @insee.fr met à jour ses estimations d’espérance de vie par niveau de vie (EVpNV).
Les inégalités d'EV entre individus de NV modeste vs aisé se sont accrues entre avant et après Covid. (1/6)
insee.fr/fr/statistiq...

As people still need to hear this: the Danish social democrats are polling at below 20%. In this poll, the radical right in Denmark also nearly receives 20%. It remains striking how often Denmark is still referenced as a case were social democrats beat the radical right.

Europe’s housing crisis is fuelling the rise of the far right. Our research shows how to address it | Tarik Abou-Chadi, Björn Bremer and Silja Häusermann The mantra of ‘build, build, build’ misses something crucial: that few can afford these new homes, say Tarik Abou-Chadi, Silja Häusermann and Björn Bremer

Based on our new PPRNet research briefs @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social, and I argue in The Guardian that building alone won't solve the housing crisis. Housing is fundamentally redistributive, and progressive policy must treat it as such.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Congratulations! The project looks exciting! @nathaliegiger.bsky.social supervised my thesis, and working with her was amazing! I cannot recommend pursuing a PhD thesis with her highly enough.

🔔Job Alert 🔔
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!

Academic publishing is a lucrative business for a very small number of private academic publishers. For 🇦🇹, this paper estimates: public spending benefits publishing companies with a large amount - 25% of the annual basic funding universities receive from the Ministry of education

At least 98 Palestinians have died in custody since October 2023, Israeli data shows Exclusive: Real toll likely substantially higher as hundreds of detainees from Gaza are missing, says NGO Physicians for Human Rights - Israel Israeli data shows at least 98 Palestinians have died in custody since October 2023, and the real toll is likely substantially higher because hundreds of people detained in Gaza are missing, an Israel-based human rights group has said. Physicians for Human Rights – Israel (PHRI) tracked deaths from causes including physical violence, medical neglect and malnutrition for a new report, using freedom of information requests, forensic reports and interviews with lawyers, activists, relatives and witnesses. Continue reading...

At least 98 Palestinians have died in custody since October 2023, Israeli data shows

There is a strong positive association between equality and development over the long run — that's what this new study based on our historical series available on wid.world is clearly showing.

Key findings in thread 🧵(1/9)👇

Moving to Opportunity, Together Many couples face a trade-off between advancing one spouse’s career or the other’s. We study this trade-off using administrative data from Germany and Sweden. We first conduct an event-study analysis of couples moving across commuting zones and find that relocation increases men’s earnings more than women’s, with strikingly similar patterns in Germany and Sweden. Using a sample of mass layoff events, we then find that couples in both countries are more likely to relocate in response to the man being laid off compared to the woman. We investigate whether these gendered patterns reflect men’s higher potential earnings or a gender norm that prioritizes men’s career advancement. We provide suggestive evidence of a gender norm using variation in norms within Germany. We then develop and estimate a model of household decision-making in which households can place more weight on the income earned by the man compared to the woman.

Our new paper shows that men benefit from couples' long-distance joint moves more than women do, in both Germany and Sweden. Is this just b/c men are usually the main breadwinner? No, it's hard to explain the patterns we see w/o a gender norm prioritizing men's careers. www.nber.org/papers/w32970

Mothers lose an average £65,618 in pay by the time their first child turns five Women’s average monthly earnings fall by 42% compared with one year before birth, ONS study finds Mothers lose an average of £65,618 in pay by the time their first child turns five, as the “motherhood penalty” risks their financial security, official figures show. Mums in England are hit by a “substantial and long-lasting reduction” in their pay after they have children, as they become less likely to stay in paid employment, the Office for National Statistics have said. Continue reading...

Mothers lose an average £65,618 in pay by the time their first child turns five

We must not let the shooting of Charlie Kirk become Trump’s Reichstag fire | David Van Reybrouck Take heed from European history: this could be the pretext for the repression of the US president’s political opponents, says Belgian author and philosopher David Van Reybrouck

We must not let the shooting of Charlie Kirk become Trump’s Reichstag fire | David Van Reybrouck

When we think of sexism, it's easy to think of *active* efforts to discriminate against women. But sexism also operates *passively* - like through our inaction on issues like childcare and paid family leave. In that context, return-to-office policies are sexist in consequence, even if not in design.

The worst takes from a bad week The Free Press, about to take over CBS News, blames universities for American political violence

New, from me:
It was a terrible week, one that inspired some truly awful takes. The worst was the effort by Bari Weiss and The Free Press to smear universities as "the biggest culprits" to blame American political violence, with faculty training "jihadis."
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-worst-...

Israel’s attack on Qatar: Another reckless act without justification - DiEM25 Communications DiEM25 unequivocally condemns the Israeli airstrike against Qatari territory as a reckless and dangerous escalation that undermines all efforts for peace

The European Union’s response to Israel’s strike on Qatar is as telling as the strike itself.

Université d'été de LFI : retour sur l'« affaire Olivier Pérou » « Une ligne rouge jusqu'ici traversée par l'extrême droite. »

Université d’été de LFI: retour sur l’«affaire Olivier Pérou»

⁉️𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 #𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝘄𝗶𝘀𝘀 #𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵? 📚 Join us for the book launch of “Women in Science” on 29 September 2025.
▪️2:30 to 5:30 pm at the SNSF offices in Bern

➡️ Register here: sohub.io/bvq3

Drapeau palestinien dans les Alpes : « Rappelons aux sportifs qu’il existe des choses plus importantes que nos petites ascensions » Mi-août, des alpinistes ont accroché un gigantesque drapeau palestinien sur la paroi d'un sommet des Alpes. L'un de ces grimpeurs raconte à Reporterre les raisons de cette démonstration de solidarité,...

"On a voulu rappeler au monde de la montagne qu’il existe des choses plus importantes que nos petites ascensions quotidiennes [...] C’était aussi une manière de bousculer ce petit monde montagnard privilégié, qui préfère rester les bras croisés loin de ces questions"
reporterre.net/Drapeau-pale...

BJPolS abstract discussing the dynamics of mainstream and radical political rhetoric regarding anti-immigrant policies, highlighting differences in societal responses and enforcement norms based on the source of the rhetoric.

NEW -

How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD

"we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians"

- @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026.

😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.

👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.

A short 🧵

Footballer, journalist, fashionista: whatever French Muslims do, we’re treated as the enemy within | Rokhaya Diallo Ministers have accused us of ‘infiltration’ and posing ‘a threat to national cohesion’. They’re old racist tropes given a dangerous new life, says Guardian Europe columnist Rokhaya Diallo

From my experience in court facing Pascal Bruckner who accused my of « arming terrorists » my latest piece for @theguardian.com depicts the constant climate of suspicion against Muslims in France. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Work devotion in academia is often described as a cultural mandate that defines work as a calling deserving of undivided allegiance. Critical perspectives point to how this ideal worker norm has gendered consequences and produces performance expectations that only a worker without care responsibilities can satisfy. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 92 PhD holders, this study examines the range of strategies women and men use to navigate and reframe the ideal worker norm in academia, analysing how they manage the competing demands of work and family, as well as the competing demands within academia. We extend existing research on academia by applying approaches that emphasise the benefits of multiple roles, showing how a divided work devotion with room for external responsibilities, expands academics’ frames of reference and provide alternative sources of meaning. However, our analysis shows how position, and whether one holds a temporary or permanent contract, is key to understand who can allow themselves to uphold a divided allegiance to academia. This study suggests that it is not gender or care responsibilities per se, but rather the intersection between these dimensions and positional power, that influence academics options for navigating the ideal worker norm.

De la dévotion au travail et du jeu que l'on peut entretenir avec cette norme dans le milieu académique

"(Un)divided work devotion? Navigating the ideal
worker norm in academia"
Julia Orupabo et al.

👀

doi.org/10.1080/0307...

My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years.

If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply!

shorturl.at/kcTbG

A democracy is a system where parties lose elections and where people can tell the president to “go f*** himself” on TV.

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

Exclusive: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication.

My latest.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Plot with the evolution of vote share for CH: 1.3% to 7.28 % to 18.06% to 22.08%

The Portuguese far right party CH has been growing spectacularly, shattering views of the country as immune to this phenomenon.

This has prompted a discussion about where their votes come from.

Some thoughts on this, prompted by newly released survey data:

Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.

Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust

The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

La haine : six mois d’islamophobie en France Avant les assassinats d’Aboubakar Cissé et d’Hichem Miraoui, combien ont été agressés, discriminés, mis au ban parce que musulmans ? Quand le ministre de l’intérieur nie l’existence même de l’islamop…

Avant les assassinats d’Aboubakar Cissé et d’Hichem Miraoui, combien ont été agressés, discriminés, mis au ban parce que musulmans ? De janvier à juin 2025, @mediapart.fr raconte six mois d’islamophobie, cette haine qui abîme la France. Édition spéciale. www.mediapart.fr/studio/panor...