@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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This is the *fifth* study to undermine the idea that the muted political response to inequality is due to growing meritocracy beliefs, esp. among the poor.
- Inequality erodes meritocracy beliefs
- Poor meritocrats still want redistribution
- What matters is the politicization of inequality
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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.
📢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
the graduation of a cohort of gaza’s new medical professionals in front of the ruins of al shifa hospital. No words, really.
💰 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
Thanks Burak! And yes, I think it's relevant for the paper you presented at Columbia :)
Gracias Marta 😊
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!😊👇
Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
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Prof @catherinedevries.bsky.social: „Demonstrate that the state can efficiently serve its citizens“
Truly the best keynote I’ve ever had the privilege of listening to, incredibly powerful &inspiring. It invited so many fields into a conversation we urgently need: how to design a state that delivers
The topic is serious and the exchange is intense. For two days, 100 researchers gather at the WZB to discuss the "Future of Democracy?" at the 1st Annual Interdisciplinary WZB Conference. Thanks to all the participants for the lively debate.
"Zehn Jahre nach dem Sommer der Migration: Von Solidarität zur Normalität der Gewalt" - ein aktueller Gastbeitrag von @valeriahaensel.bsky.social und mir in der Frankfurter Rundschau.
@medico2.bsky.social
@irenepaneda.bsky.social's analysis shows: Understanding how gender inequality influences female migration is crucial for formulating migration and development policies as well as gender equality initiatives in both origin and destination countries.
Yet, the role of GBV, one of the most severe forms of gender inequality, remains underexplored at the individual level in shaping women’s migration intentions, as @irenepaneda.bsky.social has shown in her recent article for the WZB-Mitteilungen. bibliothek.wzb.eu/artikel/2025...
#Migration research has long been influenced by a male-centric perspective. Recent evidence explores a “feminization of migration”, with more women migrating as primary movers driven by complex factors — among them, gender inequality and gender-based violence (GBV).
But here’s the hard part:
When ideas are new, interdisciplinary, different, how we say them often matters as much as what we say.
That’s when the ‘voice tax’ kicks in: our voice struggles to be heard because it doesn’t sound familiar.
Not just due to novelty, but due to gender, class or race.
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Voice is one of the most talked-about, and least explained, aspects of academic writing.
We’re told to “find it,” but rarely taught how to build it.
I wrote up some reflections here:
👉 open.substack.com/pub/catherin...
A 🧵 about why so much academic writing feels voiceless & what to do about it.
Si! Claro. Escríbeme por email y concertamos un café por zoom ;)
Super relevante Hector! Quizás te resulte interesante esto que acabo de publicar con un compañero del WZB con datos que recabamos en Senegal y Gambia. Parece que el tipo de desastre climático importa. Pero estoy de acuerdo que a menudo se exagera mucho el fenómeno www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Was bringt Menschen dazu, ihr Land zu verlassen? Welche Erfahrungen machen sie dabei? Und wie reagieren die aufnehmenden Gesellschaften? Das neue Heft der WZB-Mitteilungen blickt aus verschiedenen Perspektiven auf #Migration.
Zum Heft: wzb.eu/de/migration
🥳!!الف مبروك حمزة
I wrote about research, translation and conjecture, knowledge and delusion; about Linear Elamite, Rumi, economics, and our own @andreamatranga.bsky.social
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This from Joseph Brodsky’s Nobel lecture caught my eye yrs ago. The social scientist in me has toyed with the idea of designing a study to test causality here. Even if I don’t think it’s actually true, I wish it was in these times of rampant authoritarianism.
#WorldBookDay #DiadelLibro #SantJordi 🌹
Great advice on academic writing by @catherinedevries.bsky.social👇 "I am a first generation scholar, suffer from dyslexia, write in a foreign language and often feel like a outsider in my profession — where let’s face for many being an academic is like being part of family business." Worth reading.
