Gerlinde Theunissen

According to our Federal Ministry for Housing, only 39% of women in rural areas have access to good public transport.
One in three women feels that their career opportunities are limited by mobility.
Mothers, single parents, and women working part-time are particularly affected.

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Image of a building of the University of Bremen with the text "Summer School for Women in Political Methodology" and "20 to 26 July at the University of Bremen" writen on it.

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Bremen 🚨

Open to PhD students and early career scholars Fully-funded places available for applicants, deadline 1st of May 📅 summerschoolwpm.org

I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social!

German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf
English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf

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Universität Basel: Professorship in Political Science with a focus on Environment and Development The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Basel seeks to fill a Professorship in Political Science with a focus on Environment and Development beginning on August 1, 2025, or ...

Apply to be our colleague in Basel!
Assistant Professorship in Political Science (without Tenure Track) with a focus on Environment and Development. Deadline 20 January:
buff.ly/3VLujgD

Thank you! 🤗

WinteR Meetup: Geodata and Landscape Insights with R, Do., 23. Jan. 2025, 18:30 | Meetup We look forward to the next Zurich R User Meetup, sponsored and co-organized by [Volodymyr Trotsiuk](https://www.wsl.ch/en/staff/trotsiuk/) from the [WSL](https://www.wsl.c

Happy Holidays and a great New YeaR to all R enthusiasts out there. 🎄🎄🎁

R-Users Zurich is now on Bluesky!! Follow us to stay updated about R events in Zurich.

You can already sign up for our WinteR event 'Geodata and Landscape Insights with R' on Jan. 23 at @wslresearch.bsky.social 🌳🌲🌍. #rstats

And another round of an online info session for female MA students on PhD programmes in political science, 15 Jan 10am CET - this time with Kristine Eck and @annalenahoenig.bsky.social. See tinyurl.com/y2a8e96s for more info + registration details. #polisky

If you're curious about my research, code (R, SQL, Python), or collaborations, check out my website gerlindetheunissen.github.io

My dissertation, "Close Comparisons: How Local Exposure to Inequality Shapes Perceptions and Political Behavior," explores how neighborhood inequality shapes perceptions and political behavior. Using spatial data like satellite imagery, street networks & surveys, I model local conditions.

🎓 Last Thursday, I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation. I am grateful for all the support during these last four years! A huge thank you to my advisors, @nilsweidmann.bsky.social @claireadida.bsky.social and Anke Hoeffler, co-authors, @keremoglu.bsky.social , and amazing colleagues.

Bayern verbietet medikamentöse Schwangerschaftsabbrüche per Telemedizin - Protest CSU und FW fordern im Landtag das Verbot, dass Frauen per Videosprechstunde einen medikamentösen Abbruch bekommen. Dagegen regt sich Protest.

Bayern verschlechtert die Gesundheitsversorgung schwangerer Frauen noch einmal drastisch.
www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/bayer...

Studienrätin / Studienrat im Hochschuldienst (Bes.Gr. A 13 LBesO)

University of Münster in Germany is seeking a unlimited Postdoc (teaching) position in Sociology. Might be interesting for some who want to focus on teaching entirely
stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/8...

It was a great workshop! Thank you so much for the organization and the great feedback!

I'm very excited for this conference we're organising with the dvpw methods section. 🎉
Plus: there'll be a conference dinner and travel stipends are available.

More info & links for application 👇

To all the #pyladies and #rladies out there - if you have a blog or a YouTube channel and want to be added, feel free to reach out! Your content will then be featured by the @pyladies-bot.bsky.social or @rladies-bot.bsky.social 🙌

Christian Lindner: Das liberale Drehbuch für den Regierungssturz Geheime Sitzungen, Präsentationen, Strategiepapiere: Recherchen der ZEIT zeigen, wie die FDP den Bruch der Ampel wochenlang vorbereitete. Der Name der Operation: "D-Day"

Ohne Paywall: www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

PhD workshop - call for papers — Conflict & Change

The call for the Conflict & Change PhD Workshop at University College London is out! PhD students working on IR, conflict, contentious politics, apply by 8 December! It is a really nice crowd. Workshop is on 24-25 February, 2025. www.conflictandchange.org/phdworkshop2...

How autocrats control the internet via state-owned service providers: A German-American research team led by the #UniKonstanz has mapped the ownership of network infrastructures in democratic and authoritarian states worldwide.
Full story: https://t1p.de/02wb7

My university (European University Viadrina, 📍Frankfurt, Oder) has a call for funded 1-3 month visits for international PhD students | ⏱️20/03/24

Details, including experiences of past fellows: europa-uni.de/en/struktur/...

I hosted someone last year and 💯 recommend the program.

Our research cluster ("The Politics of Inequality") at the University of Konstanz is offering fully funded Visiting Fellowships (2-6 months) for external researchers from the social sciences in the academic year 2024/2025. If you're interested, details here: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/0...

We blurred the gender of soccer players and had people rate their performances − with surprising r... A common criticism of women’s sports is that female players aren’t as entertaining or skilled as their male counterparts. Two researchers decided to put this notion to the test.

We blurred the gender of soccer players and had people rate their performances − with surprising results @theconversationus.bsky.social
Carlos Gómez González, Cornel Nesseler

theconversation.com/we-blurred-t...