Isabel Maria Habicht

🚨New article w/ @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter
Protest and the rise of left-nationalist challengers: evidence from Germany
📔 Social Movement Studies
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1474...
In 2022, Germany faced a cost-of-living crisis.
Many expected a “Hot Autumn” of mass protest—but it never happened. Why?

👩‍🎓 Work in Sweden: The Institute for Analytical Sociology offers 2 fully funded PhD positions! liu.se/en/work-at-l...

What do local govts in Switzerland do when they’re unhappy with federal policy but lack formal channels to voice their concerns?

They threaten not to clear snow from the roads so federal officials can no longer reach the asylum centers they oppose. Protest as another form of intergovt lobbying!

"Why women leave academia: A longitudinal study of the leaky pipeline in German sociology" new preprint osf.io/preprints/os...

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⚖️ Yes—underperformance increases the risk of leaving academia.

But this applies to both men and women, challenging the idea that academic attrition is solely driven by performance-based self-selection.

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👩‍👧 Among women: mothers tend to be more likely to exit academia than childless women.

Also, women face a much higher risk of leaving academia at the pre-doc stage, where family formation and academic uncertainty often intersect.

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📉 Women in German sociology face a 35% higher risk of leaving academia compared to men.

Importantly, this gap cannot be explained by gender differences in parenthood, career stage, productivity, or academic rewards.

Preprint: osf.io/preprints/os...

Joint work with @martinschroeder.bsky.social & @marklutter345.bsky.social

I recently presented at INAS2025 in NYC:
“Why women leave academia? A longitudinal study of the leaky pipeline in German sociology”

Thanks to @womensforuminas.bsky.social and the INAS attendees for the inspiring exchange, and @europeatharvard.bsky.social for their support!

📝 Preprint👇

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A few days left to apply for this great PhD opportunity – it would be a privilege to work with you @unil.bsky.social !

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Assistant Professor of Political Science Assistant Professor of Political ScienceThe Institute of Political Science at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Leiden University is currently looking for at least two (2) assistant professors in Poli...

We're hiring!

Two tenure-track openings for Assistant Professors in Political Science or International Relations.

Sharing = 🙏❤️

www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

If you are in Boston area next Monday, join me next Monday in a very special conversation with former Irish PM Leo Varadkar -- one of the first openly gay heads of government in the world.

That’s a wrap on my poster at #PAA2025 — thank you to everyone who stopped by and shared thoughts on justice perceptions in parental leave decisions! ⚖️👶

Couldn’t make it? You can still check out the preprint here: osf.io/preprints/os...

I’m excited to be participating in the #PAA2025 which will take place from April 2–5, 2025 in Washington, D.C. 🏛️!
If you’re attending, feel free to reach out ✉️ — I’d love to connect 🤝

Poster session at PAA 2024 in columbus ohio

Willing to serve as a #PAA2025 poster discussant? Help foster engagement and deliver feedback to the research presented at the poster sessions. Interested in volunteering, sign up here: form.jotform.com/250658911441...

Just presented my research on gendered (dis)incentives in parental leave entitlements at the “Politics and Social Change” Seminar at Harvard University. Grateful for the insightful discussion!

@europeatharvard.bsky.social
@uni-wuppertal.bsky.social
#Sociology #SocialInequality #GenderInequality

Meet Irene Morlino, one of our Visiting Scholars from @lseir.bsky.social. Join her on Wednesday for a seminar on “EU Humanitarian Aid Between Civil and Military Coordination: An Empirical Analysis.”

🗓️March 26
⏰ 2:00 - 3:15pm
🔗 ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/...

YouTube video by Marek Kwiek - Global Academic Careers Are Scientists Changing their Research Productivity Classes When They Move Up the Academic Ladder?

Interested in #Global Academic Profession?

Here is my recent paper on changing productivity classes lifetime - do jumpers-up exist in academic science?

Becoming MUCH more productive?

DeepDive discussion explains it in 10 mins!

Paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

youtu.be/WcRthYMH-z8?...

Caring Masculinities: Rethinking the Concept - Katarzyna Wojnicka, Sam de Boise, The aim of this article is to critically evaluate the concept of caring masculinity/ies, a concept that has gained traction in critical studies on men and mascu...

New publication alert! My latest article in "Men & Masculinities" is out, co-authored with the brilliant @samdeboise.bsky.social! Open access & ready for you to read.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#HigherEducation
#EliteUniversities
#GrantFunding
#GermanAcademia
#Exzellenzstrategie

We find that larger academic fields with substantial grant funding had a higher chance of selection. Plus, the initiative reinforced a stable social order among public universities, shaped by organizational size.

Field size as a predictor of “excellence.” The selection of subject fields in Germany’s Excellence Initiative We investigate the selection of subject fields in Germany’s “excellence initiative,” a two-phase funding scheme administered by the German Research Foundation (DFG) from 2005 to 2017 to increase inter...

Exciting new research! 📚✨ My co-authors and I take a fresh look at Germany’s Excellence Initiative—not at the university level (‘elite universities’), but at subject fields within universities. 🏛️🔬

🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

FEBS Press We examine biologists in 38 countries leaving science in the past two decades. Starting an academic career is making one's first contribution to an academic journal, and leaving science is publishing...

Just published!

#Attrition and #retention in science.

We examine biologists quitting publishing in 38 countries in the past two decades. In a cohort-based and longitudinal way. We follow individuals over time, from their first publication (N = 86 178).

febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The BSW is currently at 5.034%. With Germany’s 5% threshold,it’s still uncertain whether they’ll make it into parliament.

#btw25 in Boston: The timezone difference makes staying awake easy—esp in such great company @isabelmhabicht.bsky.social @tobiaswille.bsky.social @lennartschuermann.bsky.social

What Happened to Germany’s Climate Movement? Germany's climate movement is trying to regain momentum by building alliances with trade unions and aligning climate action with social justice.

Last week, I spoke with @jenkirby.bsky.social from the Green European Journal about the state of Germany’s climate movement — check out this article to learn what happened to its momentum! 🌍🌳💭✊

www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/what-happene...

Anti-Muslim Bias Crosses Political Spectrum The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) at Harvard University promotes the study of Europe's politics, history, culture, and society…

Bias that Muslims pose a threat to LGBTQ+ individuals is not strictly a right-wing phenomenon in 🇩🇪🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸, says new study by our Ramón Areces Fellow Alberto López Ortega @bertous.bsky.social. @bjpols.bsky.social @fundacionareces.bsky.social ces.fas.harvard.edu/news/2025/02...

Human capital, gender, institutional environment and research funding: Determinants of research productivity in German psychology Which academics are more productive? The “sacred spark” theory predicts that some researchers are innately more productive than others, while the theory of cumulative advantage argues that small initi...

Why are some academics so much more productive than others? Main determinant of later productivity: early publications. Also: women publish less mainly due to getting less practice early on. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... in #PLOSONE with @isabelmhabicht.bsky.social and @marklutter345.bsky.social

Politics & Policy | PSO Policy Research Journal | Wiley Online Library Growing attention to “degenderization” reforms that aim to encourage men's caregiving roles may generate opposition from groups advocating to prioritize mothers' right to care. This article seeks to ...

Publication alert! 🚨

Care at the Crossroads: How Policy Feedback Shaped Competing Feminist Advocacy for Parental Leave Reform in Spain?

I promise a fascinating thread on the politics of gender and work in Spain. Don't miss it! 🧵 1/9

doi.org/10.1111/polp...

Meet bertous.bsky.social, one of our Visiting Scholars from vuamsterdam.bsky.social. Join him next week for a seminar on “Selectively (Il)liberal Citizens.”

🗓️Feb 19
⏰ 2:00 - 3:15pm
🔗 ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/...

Thank you so much for this warm welcome, my dear Rahel 🙏🏻 We can't wait to have you back at CES, Harvard (@europeatharvard.bsky.social) on February 28th!