You’ve probably seen our posts in the last few months about MEN4DEM’s LARP tryouts, but what are we actually preparing for? Here’s some more information about this project!
Swipe right to find out more or go to our website, link in bio ➡️🔗
@via_berlin
I have rarely encountered a network as vibrant, careful, and brilliant as ESRA’s. I am incredibly honored and excited of becoming the new editor of SRM.
whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!
This is madness.
Why do fascists hate sociology? Because it makes transparent everything fascists don't want you to know. A sociological imagination makes us harder to control. Long live the sociological imagination.
Survey people of BlueSky! Submit your papers to the @surveypractice.bsky.social Special Issue on Survey Costs by June 1. Guest edited by myself, @jameswagner254.bsky.social, Jill DeMatteis, John Eltinge, Daifeng Han, Chris Jackson, and Eric Rancourt!
www.surveypractice.org/post/3724-20...
A map graph showing the 62 countries that are autocratizing and democratizing in 2025. There are 44 autocratizing countries, while only 18 countries are democratizing. Autocratizing countries can be found in all parts of the world, including North America and Western Europe. The map graph also shows that there are many large countries autocratizing, such as the USA and India, while most countries democratizing are small, with the exception of Brazil, Poland and Thailand.
#DR2026: In 2025, a total of 62 countries are in episodes of regime transformation – autocratizing (red) or democratizing (blue), according to the Episodes of Regime Transformation (ERT) methodology. The color intensity shows the magnitude of the change. Gray = no significant change.
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#Polisky
Such admiration for these faculty members in Florida who are continuing to teach in the face of #censorship, restrictions on #AcademicFreedom, and the attempt to rewrite history and ignore social relations: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Chart of V-Dem liberal democracy index for U.S. since 1995, showing massive plunge from 2024-2025
"Under Trump’s presidency, the level of democracy in the USA has fallen back to the same level as in 1965" -- the year most historians/political scientists regard as the start of a true, modern democracy in the country. slate.com/news-and-pol...
This week, the EVS community came together in Lisbon to give further shape to the new wave! ☀️
Altogether, fruitful days that brought us closer to the EVS 2026 release (and the low flying planes)! ✈️
📢 Save the date for ESRA conference 2027:
Where: Paris, France
When: 19th - 23rd July 2027
Local hosts: @progedo.bsky.social, @ined.bsky.social, & @cdsp-sciencespo.bsky.social
ESRA 2027 will take place jointly with WAPOR. Updates will be added here: www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference/p...
🎙️ 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝙨𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗽𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄!
🤖 Topic: 𝗠𝗶𝘅𝗲𝗱-𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗱𝘀 and 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘆𝘀
🗣 Host: Barry Schouten
💬 Guests: Joost Kappelhof, Leen Sterckx, Janelle van den Heuvel, and Suzanne Roggeveen
🌍 Watch the video on our website (or on YouTube): www.europeansurveyresearch.org/resources/po...
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.
Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
This is a lucid analysis of the present context, though I for one disagree with the concept of “toxic masculinity” since it’s focusing individuals rather than the system.
“The suppression of gender studies is not only an attempt to suppress a critical analytical tool, but also knowledge itself.“
🎤📢 The recording of the public panel 'Political Masculinities in Europe' @BrIAS is now available online.
🦸♀️🔥Welcome by Karen Celis.
🎓🪒Interventions by @payoub.bsky.social @tomekbesta.bsky.social @elinbja.bsky.social @veralomazzi.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l_J...
Just published! discussing online violence against academics, epistemic conflicts, risky research, solidarity practices - with @haeszi.bsky.social @ariannarubi.bsky.social @debbieging.bsky.social @norocel.bsky.social @audreygagnon.bsky.social @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social and...
wrapping up our political masculinities workshop at BrIAS with this public panel 😎
huge thanks to Karen Celis, @lizamugge.bsky.social @elinbja.bsky.social @tomekbesta.bsky.social @veralomazzi.bsky.social @payoub.bsky.social for their time, feedback and lovely company ✨🤓
Read our latest special issue in Survey Methodology:
➡️ Advancing Comparative Research: Exploring Error and Quality Indicators in Social Research.
Edited by @heinzleitgoeb.bsky.social, Stefanie Kley, Katharina Meitinger & Natalia Menold.
surveyinsights.org
@francesca-b.bsky.social maybe of your interest?!
How do (anti)democratic #masculinities develop as socially-accepted models?
In this #men4dem report, we use ~80 indicators to describe #EU27 national contexts of #socialization into (anti)democratic masculinities. We show how they vary within Europe but also highlights commonalities. Check it out!
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
Time to remember our amazing #ESRA25 conference last year! We have put together a few photos on our web page:
www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference/u...
A big thank you to our conference photographer Dasha Nelina and our amazing host, the University of Utrecht (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social)
💯 Loads of excellent advice in this post #AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter
As the Trump admin removes safety nets, DEI programs, abortion, paid leave & childcare, caregiving is recast as women’s duty. Women bear the cost: privatize costs, impose costs on households & push the consequences onto women. @sorayachemaly.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/acti...
Political Masculinities in Europe – Public Panel
🗓 11 Feb, 10:30–12:00, BrIAS (Brussels)
🎙 With Karen Celis, @payoub.bsky.social @tomekbesta.bsky.social @elinbja.bsky.social @veralomazzi.bsky.social and me!
This panel is part of a NWO-VICI Grant
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EVS 2026 is underway 🌍🚀
The 6th wave of the EVS combines its historic values time series with a new framework on European Values, addressing democracy, rule of law, sustainability, and Europe in a changing world.
Fieldwork started in Dec 2025 and continues across Europe in 2026.
bit.ly/45T969x
The second Trump administration has curtailed flows of goods, services, finance, and people, w/ outsize effects on LMICs.
Directly or indirectly, these policies have had a particularly large impact on women. More from @charlesjkenny.bsky.social:
https://go.cgdev.org/4rmWZKS
AI tools can now generate survey responses, creating new data quality challenges. NORC developed a detection tool with over 99 percent precision and recall to identify AI-generated responses and protect research integrity.
Explore the innovation brief: go.norc.org/44JUZmy
Not a fan of this sport, but impressive what pink gloves can do
