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Irene Pañeda Fernández

@irenepaneda.bsky.social

Social scientist studying inequality and migration. | Postdoc @wzb.bsky.social, TRANSMIT project | PhD @eui-eu.bsky.social | في مكان كهذا كل شيء ترف 📍 Berlin/Asturias 🌐 sites.google.com/view/irenepaneda

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Proud to have a president who is one of the few ones defending international law in this conflict. Ladran, luego cabalgamos.

03.03.2026 21:45 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves.
Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone.
That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins.
If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after.
Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

01.03.2026 13:10 — 👍 10004    🔁 3549    💬 42    📌 56
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The Comforts of Provincialism: The History and Future of Colonial Memory in Germany This article analyzes some of the historical causes for contemporary disputes in Germany over the commensurability of colonial violence and the Holocaust, which have once again intensified after Hamas...

How can insights from African history inform current debates about commemoration of colonial violence and the Holocaust? Check out my new article in New German Critique to find out: doi.org/10.1215/0094... Thanks to @joncatlin.bsky.social for a great special issue on German Memory Politics!

27.02.2026 14:31 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

09.02.2026 04:46 — 👍 2029    🔁 592    💬 24    📌 109
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If you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live | Carlos Hernández de Miguel Leaving this world in an age of lies and cruelty, my last message is simple: don’t give up on truth, says Spanish journalist Carlos Hernández de Miguel

“If you are reading this, is because I am dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live

My last message is simple: don’t give up on truth”

Carlos Hernández de Miguel was a Spanish journalist and writer. He died on 3 February 2026

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

06.02.2026 09:11 — 👍 69    🔁 39    💬 0    📌 1
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Israel’s continuous assaults on Birzeit University are an attack on education itself: UN experts GENEVA – Israel’s military assault on Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank is not episodic violence but a systematic policy, UN experts* said today.“Raids, arrests, intimidation, and the crimi...

"From the obliteration of every university in Gaza to the daily strangulation of academic life in the West Bank, this is an assault on a people’s past, present, and future"

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

29.01.2026 17:10 — 👍 22    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 1

This thread is sickening. But it's so important not to look away.

31.01.2026 22:50 — 👍 132    🔁 45    💬 1    📌 1
The Cultural Evolution of Migration and Diversity 12th Annual WZB Conference on Migration and Diversity

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.

16.01.2026 03:31 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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📢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

22.01.2026 17:05 — 👍 8    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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Germany never stopped arming Israel’s genocide A new bilateral cybersecurity deal and the continued flow of weapons leave little ambiguity about Germany's stance: not accountability, but normalization.

"Germany never stopped arming Israel’s genocide" – my latest, for @972mag.com
www.972mag.com/germany-isra...

20.01.2026 19:45 — 👍 106    🔁 41    💬 3    📌 2

The international rule of law stands on the precipice of collapse. Only if the international community reacts with clarity, courage and consistency does it stand a chance.

This statement could use more of all of the above....

03.01.2026 11:47 — 👍 25    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 1

The 🇺🇸 started an int armed conflict with Venezuela, without plausible legal justification. “Leaders lacking legitimacy” or failing to “fight organized crime” are not apt justifications that could turn bombing a country into anything but an aggression violating Art2(4) of the UN Charter.

03.01.2026 11:47 — 👍 25    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 0

“the principles of international law” rather prohibit bombing countries because their leaders “lack legitimacy”.

03.01.2026 11:47 — 👍 120    🔁 55    💬 2    📌 1

No se puede ser demócrata y apoyar saltarse el derecho internacional, por muy en situación de crisis que este esté.

Hoy es Venezuela, pero mañana puede ser Taiwan, Groenlandia, Cuba o incluso Colombia.

Sin multilateralismo y derecho internacional estamos en a merced de la ley del más fuerte.

03.01.2026 10:48 — 👍 1709    🔁 752    💬 73    📌 23

Venezuela hoy da la imagen del mundo que traen las fuerzas reaccionarias: agresiones militares ilegales, la razón de la fuerza bruta, el capricho imperial como norma.

Un mundo de siervos en el que nadie esté a salvo.

03.01.2026 10:59 — 👍 876    🔁 356    💬 22    📌 14

Un ataque militar unilateral para vulnerar la soberanía de un país es injustificable, sea en Palestina, Ucrania o Venezuela. Hay que volver urgentemente al derecho internacional y a un mundo basado en reglas, diálogo y cooperación.

03.01.2026 09:46 — 👍 648    🔁 227    💬 27    📌 9
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the graduation of a cohort of gaza’s new medical professionals in front of the ruins of al shifa hospital. No words, really.

26.12.2025 11:45 — 👍 757    🔁 399    💬 9    📌 11
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The Gaza genocide has almost disappeared from the news, even though it's still ongoing. If you live in Europe or the US (and many other places), your govt is complicit.

Write about it, post about it, speak about it. Demonstrate, donate, organise.

Doing something is better than doing nothing

24.12.2025 10:28 — 👍 83    🔁 49    💬 1    📌 2

Here is the joint statement by @krisolwissenschaft.bsky.social, the German Middle Eastern Associations (DAVO) Committee on Academic Freedom and the Association of Palestinian and Jewish Academics on the cancellation of the event: "The Targeting of the Palestinian Academia" @lmumuenchen.bsky.social

18.11.2025 14:16 — 👍 33    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 5

He asked why the world wasn't listening. More than 2 years later, the German government and most of the German media still aren't listening.

They continue to deny the genocide and disregard the legal obligations that follow from the UN genocide convention.

29.11.2025 10:38 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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The genocide in Gaza is far from over | Raz Segal We live not in a post-Holocaust world of ‘Never Again’ but in the same world that led to the Holocaust, a world of ‘Again and Again’

Prof. Raz Segal was among the first to warn of and conclude that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. He was right.

Now he says the genocide in Gaza is far from over 👇

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

29.11.2025 10:38 — 👍 10    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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"Beyond #Staatsraison"

Experts calling for a new German policy in the Middle East that complies with Int Law

I am glad to have signed this paper

👇The paper in German and English is here
staatsraison.net/en/coming-so...

03.10.2025 09:28 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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This in depth @cnn.com investigation is not an easy read, but the bottom line is clear: bulldozing dead bodies into unmarked mass-graves is irreconcilable with #IHL demands to respect the dignity of the dead and prevent them from becoming the missing.

edition.cnn.com/2025/12/03/m...

03.12.2025 09:50 — 👍 24    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 2
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Israel has ‘de facto state policy’ of organised torture, says UN report Committee highlights allegations including dog attacks and sexual violence, raising concern about impunity for war crimes

The UN committee on torture expressed “deep concern over allegations of repeated severe beatings, dog attacks, electrocution, waterboarding, use of prolonged stress positions [and] sexual violence”.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

29.11.2025 22:58 — 👍 15    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 1
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 problematize this account by claiming that, unlike the...

💰 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

01.12.2025 17:19 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks Burak! And yes, I think it's relevant for the paper you presented at Columbia :)

29.11.2025 11:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gracias Marta 😊

29.11.2025 10:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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!😊👇

29.11.2025 10:04 — 👍 37    🔁 17    💬 2    📌 0

This asshole is out here saying, as president of the most prestigious university in the world, that women don’t advance in academia because they’re not intelligent enough while he’s telling a pedophile he won’t mentor this woman unless she sleeps with him.

My rage is without end.

17.11.2025 21:59 — 👍 128    🔁 21    💬 2    📌 0

predatory men are an enormous tax on women’s productivity (and happiness)

17.11.2025 16:46 — 👍 554    🔁 127    💬 6    📌 6