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I am not familiar with the literature on the Volkskörper idea, but I would guess it's simply because they are in awe of their higher level organism. For those who are susceptible it is an elevation and not a reduction of status/meaning, especially in the presence of outgroups.

Coming Up: The 2025 MEDem Conference & Workshop! - Monitoring Electoral Democracy Coming Up: the 2025 medem Conference! We are thrilled for the upcoming 3rd MEDem Conference, scheduled to take place from September 29-30 at GESIS in Cologne!The 3rd MEDem conference will bring togeth...

Coming up on Monday the @medem.bsky.social conference at @gesis.org in Cologne. Stay tuned for the future of democracy research infrastructures www.medem.eu/coming-up-th... Keynotes from @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social and @sldelange.bsky.social

Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin?

TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

Shot Chaser

Elon Musk tweets AI art of far-right UK march in front of the Arc de Triomphe

That's an AI image of Paris, you ketamine-addled assclown.

Das Klima der Ungleichheit. Zur sozialen Struktur von Klimakonflikten - Berliner Journal für Soziologie The article maps how political conflicts over climate change are intertwined with social inequality. Building on studies of Dörre et al. on industrial transformation conflicts, four forms of social in...

Warum wir beim Klima zwar alle in einem Boot sitzen, es aber entscheidend ist, dass manche im halbgefluteten Maschinenraum mitfahren und andere auf dem Sonnendeck:

Neuer Artikel zu Klima, Klasse und Konflikt, mit @steffenmau.bsky.social und @thomaslux.bsky.social

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Charlie Kirk was a 2020 election denier and conspiracy spreader. But he was a 2020 election denier and conspiracy spreader in the right way.

by Ezra Klein

Screen-Shot von einem FAZ-Interview mit Markus Söder mit dem Titel „Wir haben uns zu einseitig auf Bahn und ÖPNV fixiert.“

Sage, dass du in den letzten 10 Jahren nicht einmal Bahn gefahren bist, ohne zu sagen, dass du in den letzten 10 Jahren nicht einmal Bahn gefahren bist.

#DataCuration #DataQuality
Out now: Insa Bechert, Kerstin Beck, and Ivet Solanes Ros: Caring for Data’s Soul –The Development of a Curation Impact Factor to Pinpoint the Effects of Data Curation Activities on Data Quality: ijdc.net/index.php/i....

Brutal. Condolences.

Der Vorwurf "die Linken sind Schuld am weltweiten Vormarsch der Rechtsradikalen" ist so platt und eindimensional, man fragt sich wirklich, wie man Menschen, die so etwas schreiben, je für Intellektuelle halten konnte. Das ist Schuldumkehr für billige Klicks. (Thread)

Final release ISSP Data on Family and Changing Gender Roles

The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) has conducted a survey that sheds light on attitudes, opinions, and behavior related to Family and Changing Gender Roles across six continents. The release contains data from 32 countries.

Surveying emigrants worldwide–using Facebook and Instagram to recruit respondents in cross-national (e)migration research by Pötzschke & Weiß: doi.org/10.1186/s408...
Social Networking Sites provide an opportunity for the recruitment of certain hard-to-reach populations in almost all countries.

Eine Kollaboration von @prif.org und @gesis.org zum Thema Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik.

Oh my, have pro-pedestrian extremists taken over the council?

Last day, everyone!

Do Birth Order Effects on Secondary School Track Placement Differ Between Natives and Migrants? A Within-Family Analysis in the German Educational System Abstract. While existing research has found negative birth order effects on competences and educational attainment in various Western countries with differ

For a change, here is some advertising on my own behalf, as I believe this paper together wiht Tobias Roth, Sandra Mingham and Meike Selbach deserves a little more attention. academic.oup.com/esr/article/...

Wenn der Ottomotor heute erfunden werden würde

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2 new job opportunities at the @cais-research.bsky.social:
- PhD student, team "Research Data & Methods" stellenangebote.cais-research.de/de?id=f50b76
- Researcher, DFG project "SocEnRep - Automation of Reproducibility in Economics and Social Sciences" stellenangebote.cais-research.de/de?id=f50b76

GESIS Workshop Qualitative Netzwerkforschung 16. bis 18. September 2025 in Köln Markus Gamper (Uni Köln) & Laura Behrmann (Uni Wuppertal)

Tauche ein in die qualitative Netzwerkforschung mit Laura Behrmann @uni-wuppertal.bsky.social & Markus Gamper @unicologne.bsky.social! Beherrsche Schlüsselkonzepte, lerne Datenerhebungs- und Analysemethoden und entwickle Fähigkeiten zur Planung eigener Netzwerkstudien.

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Sharing digital trace data: Researchers’ challenges and needs - Jan Schwalbach, Reiner Mauer, 2025 Over the past decade, research has made rapid progress in the collection and analysis of digital trace data. However, when it comes to sharing data, researchers...

🚨New article with Reiner Mauer in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social

This might be for you if you collect or use digital trace/behavioral data (e.g. social media data) and want to share it! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Image of the registration desk of the GESIS Summer School 2025 in Cologne.

The GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology 2025 is underway! 🎉 3 short courses kicked off this morning. Over 3.5 weeks, global participants explore survey methods & more. 👏 Welcome to all, and huge thanks to our sponsors @infas.de & @veriangroup.com for their support!

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Job offer: You love international electoral studies? If you'd like to lead the CSES data processing team at GESIS in Cologne, Germany, and be part of the CSES Secretariat, apply here before August 15th:
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Wahl der Verfassungsrichter: Brosius-Gersdorf berichtet von Drohungen nach gescheiterter Wahl Aufgrund von Drohungen hat Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf ihre Mitarbeiter gebeten, nicht am Lehrstuhl zu arbeiten. Einen Verzicht auf ihre Kandidatur schließt sie nicht aus.

Wissenschaftsministerin ein massiver fail. Ideologisch, dumm, und in der Sache so falsch wie im Amt unprofessionell. Anstatt sachlich nüchtern die Professorin vor Diffamierungen & gegen 1 Kampagne zu schützen, wirft sie diese erneut dem geifernden Polit-Mob zum Fraß hin.
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

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Only a few weeks to #ESRA25!
How many conferences have their own playlist? We have it since #ESRA21!
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#ESRAGoesToUtrecht

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Is there a growing gender divide among young adults in regard to ideological left–right self-placement? Evidence from 32 European countries Abstract. Growing gender differences in political ideology among young people are a major concern because of their potential long-term societal implication

Paper on the ideology gender gap with Eurobarometer data from @gesis.org by @nennstielr.bsky.social and
@hudde.bsky.social . Most interesting finding: while young women are becoming more left-wing in 11 countries, in 5 of them young men are also becoming more right-wing (DK, FI, SE, FR and LT)

There will be no midterm elections.

Watching America now feels like witnessing a loved one slowly lose themselves to addiction and delusion. You recognize them, but they're slipping away.