Can culture help to explain prejudice? We (@maxschaub.bsky.social) explore this question by examining the rise of antisemitism during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany.
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Thanks, Joan!
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27.01.2026 10:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0PS2: This may be of interest to @noamgidron.bsky.social, @mattblackwell.bsky.social, @mayasen.bsky.social, @laurasoter.bsky.social, @rdancygier.bsky.social, @endersayan.bsky.social, @mbhunzaker.bsky.social, @sociologylauren.bsky.social,
27.01.2026 10:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Many thanks to you (those we may have forgotten to mention here), to our extremely thorough reviewers, and to the @poppublicsphere.bsky.social team for an amazingly engaged publication process!
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27.01.2026 10:57 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0PS: Our work profited from discussions with many scholars, including @aksoyundan.bsky.social, @amaliaab.bsky.social, @pablobalan.bsky.social, @vcharnysh.bsky.social, @lchristensen.bsky.social, @eliasdinas.bsky.social, @ainagallego.bsky.social, @dasalgon.bsky.social, @simonhix.bsky.social,
27.01.2026 10:57 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Please let us know what you think!
27.01.2026 10:57 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Beyond this more narrow focus, we believe that our concepts and empirical tests hold promise to advance the study of prejudice (e.g., anti-Black resentment), and more systematically explore the role of culture therein.
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We demonstrate the plausibility of this proposition in a series of tests, using text-as-data and experimental methods, plus a concept association task, among others.
27.01.2026 10:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Our answer: culture — which we conceptualize as cultural scripts that link Judaism to disease and contagion.
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Why did antisemitism rise in Germany during the Covid pandemic? And why was this increase concentrated among political centrists, rather than on the fringes?
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
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My group has a 3-year position available for a PhD student or post-doc interested in India, ML models/data pipelines/python, and crime and protecting children. Must be eligible to work in Germany. DM or email me for details. Formal calls later, trying here first. #poliscisky #datasciencesky
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Why does armed conflict harm child health?
In a new paper, we show that victimization of caregivers causes lower vaccination rates and reduced healthcare-seeking, mostly due to a loss of trust in state institutions.
Improving trust after conflict can potentially be life-saving.
We are very excited to host Noam Gidron today in our Hamburg Political Science Seminar Series (info below) - very much looking forward to your talk, @noamgidron.bsky.social !
Please all join if you are interested. Everyone is welcome to attend, no prior registration necessary.
Protest gegen die Streichung einer IB-Professur an der Universität Hamburg
Die Politikwissenschaft an der Universität Hamburg droht eine Professur für Internationale Beziehungen zu verlieren. Bitte teilt und unterschreibt den Protestbrief auf uhh-ib-erhalten.de
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06.03.2025 16:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The 2024 Nils Petter Gleditsch JPR Article of the Year Award goes to @melinscribe.bsky.social (University of Mannheim) for her article entitled ‘Politicized health emergencies and violent resistance against healthcare responders’. Congratulations to the author! 🏆
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⏰ Please share widely!
We have an opening in our group at @wzb.bsky.social Berlin for a PhD student wanting to work on political violence (pol economy of development / pol ineq)
wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/345... Apps from global south especially encouraged. Fun group, great city, lots to do!
Join us for a keynote by Halvard Buhaug, Research Director at PRIO and Professor at NTNU, on the climate-conflict-migration nexus.
🗓️ Date: November 27, 2024
🕔 Time: 5:00 - 6:15 PM
📍 Location: WZB Berlin Social Science Center
🔗 Register here: events.wzb.eu/madconf24/ 2/2🧵
Why are civilians abused and killed in during conventional war?
Using data from Ukraine, Julius Koch and I put forward a new explanation: The threat to combatants posed by long-range weapon technology.
The paper is here: osf.io/z38sq/
, and we would be grateful for comments!
