Irene Pañeda Fernández

💰 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!😊👇

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.

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

La última edición Sé que estás muy unido a tu madre, ¿quieres decirle unas palabras?

"La lucha contra la inmigración es el caballo de Troya perfecto para facilitar la entrada de gobiernos autoritarios".
Externalización de fronteras, Ur-Fascismo y el valor de quienes defienden un debate público sano sobre migraciones. ✏️ @lucilamaravillas.bsky.social
www.publico.es/opinion/colu...

For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)

1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.

www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...

“When the director of Frontex, Hans Leijtens, orders an officer to hand over a vessel detected on the high seas to the Libyan militia, both know they are sending those people to rape, slavery, torture, and murder,” explains @iftachco.bsky.social, co-director of @front-lex.bsky.social

Las causas del descenso de cayucos en la ruta canaria están al otro lado del mar: torturas, cárceles y abusos Dos investigaciones recientes advierten de las vulneraciones de derechos fundamentales que sufren los migrantes en Mauritania, uno de los principales puntos de salida hacia el Archipiélago

Cuando se "cierra" una ruta, se abre otra.

✍️ Texto de Natalia G. Vargas

Border Externalization: Spain Opens Two Migrant Detention Centers in Mauritania Through the development agency FIAP, the Spanish government is launching two migrant detention facilities that even include cribs, allowing authorities to hold minors. These centers, located in the...

Through the development agency FIAP, the Spanish government is launching two migrant detention facilities that even include cribs, allowing authorities to hold minors.
This investigation comes to light thanks to the support of the @pulitzercenter.org
pulitzercenter.org/projects/bor...

I feel sick to my stomach reading the reports from Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli detention. I genuinely want to vomit.

⚫️ “None. No Accountability.” Palestinian human rights lawyer Diana Buttu told Drop Site that not a single Israeli soldier has faced prosecution for killings or torture since October 2023 — “none.” Sharif Abdel Kouddous noted that Israel’s military advocate general — the same office now under fire for leaking the Sde Teiman rape video — has brought less than a handful of cases since 2023, despite hundreds of documented atrocities. Buttu pointed to the 2016 case of Elor Azaria, filmed executing a wounded Palestinian lying motionless on the ground in Hebron, as a rare exception. However, “he served less time than Ahed Tamimi – a teenager who slapped a soldier.” @dianabuttu | @sharifkouddous | @MazMHussain

⚫️ “None. No Accountability.”

Palestinian human rights lawyer Diana Buttu told Drop Site that not a single Israeli soldier has faced prosecution for killings or torture since October 2023 — “none.”

Sharif Abdel Kouddous noted that Israel’s military advocate general — the same office now under...

Fail Better: Why Your Rejections Will Shape You More Than Your Publications The Art of Learning from Rejection

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

WZB President Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln

Panel State of US Democracy

Catherine de Vries

Coffee break in the Wintergarten.

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.

El ascensor social se avería en España: es uno de los países ricos con más desigualdad de oportunidades La OCDE sostiene que, de media, una cuarta parte de las diferencias socioeconómicas se explica por razones impuestas o heredadas. En España, la proporción supera el 35%

La cuna como factor principal de la desigualdad: elpais.com/economia/202...

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Zehn Jahre nach dem Sommer der Migration: Von Solidarität zur Normalität der Gewalt Der Rechtsruck begann in der Migrationspolitik und betrifft heute alle Bereiche der Gesellschaft - ein Gastbeitrag von Valeria Hänsel und Kerem Schamberger von Medico International.

"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).

📢 *Call for Applications* / 📢 *Convocatoria abierta*
Join our project on Prejudice & Discrimination at the Spanish National Research Council (Madrid 🇪🇸)
Open to junior scholars at different stages (postdocs, predocs, or MSc grads considering a PhD)
🔗 ⬇️ www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zrur0...

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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You’ve Got the Ideas. What If It’s Your Voice That’s Not Landing? The Hidden Curriculum of Academic Writing

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 ;)

Climate disasters and individual migration aspirations: evidence from Senegal and the Gambia How do climate disasters shape migration? The existing evidence presents conflicting and inconclusive findings. To address this question, we theorise the cognitive processes guiding migration decis...

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