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Alina Schmitz

@alinaschmitz.bsky.social
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Sociologist, PostDoc at TU Dortmund sag.sowi.tu-dortmund.de/professur/t… Topics: inequalities in health and well-being, lifecourse, ageing, gender, social policy

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Alex Patzina @patzinaalex.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New paper with @mcollischon.bsky.social & @alinaschmitz.bsky.social ! Does upward educational mobility improve life satisfaction? And do its benefits change as people age? We use 39 waves of German panel data to study mobility patterns across the life course. Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss... 🧵1/4
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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Hier geht es direkt zu unserer Stellungnahme! #WissZeitVG #IchBinHanna
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Alina Schmitz @alinaschmitz.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The article is part of the Social Science & Medicine-Special Issue „Understanding cognitive ageing: individuals, institutions, and inequalities“. 🔓 Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Alina Schmitz @alinaschmitz.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Cognitive aging is not only an individual or biological process, but also socially and structurally shaped. Strengthening social integration may offer meaningful opportunities to promote cognitive health for both women and men, especially in contexts with more traditional gender roles.
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Alina Schmitz @alinaschmitz.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
• Women showed a cognitive advantage in several welfare regimes. • Low social integration emerged as a risk factor for low cognitive performance. • After accounting for social participation, women demonstrated cognitive advantages even in contexts where disparities were not initially visible.
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Alina Schmitz @alinaschmitz.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Study on gender disparities in cognitive performance, co-authored with Martina Brandt, @melwagner.bsky.social, Michal Levinsky and Ella Cohn-Schwartz. Using @share-eric.bsky.social data, we examine how social participation and welfare state contexts shape gendered patterns of cognitive aging.
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Alina Schmitz @alinaschmitz.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
The study provides a more nuanced understanding of when and how adult children’s involvement may ease parents’ adjustment. We argue that not all forms of help function in the same way and that assumptions about gendered patterns of support may warrant reconsideration.
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Alina Schmitz @alinaschmitz.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Widowhood is often accompanied by declining mental health, yet the role of adult children in shaping parents’ adjustment remains insufficiently understood. We use data from @share-eric.bsky.social to examine how different forms of adult-child support relate to depressive symptoms among the widowed.
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Alina Schmitz @alinaschmitz.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
with @lisajessee.bsky.social, Yaeji Kim-Knauss, Reem Nashef-Hamuda, Hanna Köttl, Ella Cohn-Schwartz, and Maria Clara P. de Paula Couto
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Alina Schmitz @alinaschmitz.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
What started out at the Minerva-funded workshop on „Social Networks and Health Inequalities in Ageing Societies“, has now resulted in a published paper: „When Parents Grieve: Adult Child Support and Depressive Symptoms Among Men and Women After Widowhood“ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Alina Schmitz @alinaschmitz.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Wäre an Empfehlungen zu Platz 3 interessiert!
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Carla Rowold @crowold.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
📢 Call for Abstracts Join us at the Family Diversity & Health Workshop June 29-30 2026 in Berlin! We welcome submissions on intersections of health & family research, especially using register data. 🌏 🫶 No participation fees & hotel costs are covered. 📨 Send us your abstracts by Jan 31 2026
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Alina Schmitz @alinaschmitz.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Can you please add me? Thank you!
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Alina Schmitz @alinaschmitz.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
If you are interested in our thoughts on intergenerational educational mobility as a new category of social inequality in later life, the paper is available here (open access): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Children’s Upward Educational Mobility as a Booster for Parents’ Subjective Well-Being in Later Life - KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
Many European countries have experienced sustained educational expansion. Although the subjective well-being of upwardly mobile individuals has been studied, less is known about the implications of in...
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Alina Schmitz @alinaschmitz.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The effect is strongest among lower-educated parents and increases with each additional upwardly mobile child. While emotional closeness and (financial) support matter for well-being overall, they do not fully explain this link.
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Alina Schmitz @alinaschmitz.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Using data from SHARE @share-eric.bsky.social, our study examines how children’s educational mobility relates to their parents’ life satisfaction. Parents with upwardly mobile children report higher life satisfaction than those with non-mobile children.
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Alina Schmitz @alinaschmitz.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
How does children’s educational success affect their parents’ well-being? Joint paper with Rasmus Hoffmann, published in the Special Issue “Sociology of Age and Ageing: Theoretical and Empirical Challenges (Re-)Visited”. link.springer.com/collections/...
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Special Issue: Sociology of Age and Ageing: Theoretical and Empirical Challenges (Re-)Visited
Demographic change and population ageing changes social live significantly. In contemporary societies, age is widely used as a basis for regulating and ...
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Kohli Foundation for Sociology @kohli-sociology.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
🚨🚨🚨There was a typo: The deadline for application is November 16, 2025! 🚨🚨🚨
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Kohli Foundation for Sociology @kohli-sociology.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
📢𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻!📢 We’re now accepting applications for the 𝗞𝗼𝗵𝗹𝗶 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center @wzb.bsky.social Apply via our online portal: kohlifoundation.eu/programs-koh... 📆 Deadline 16 November 2025
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taz @taz.de · 14/10/2025
Die AfD Sachsen-Anhalt fragt gezielt nach Listen postkolonialer Seminare und Lehrstühle. Wie die Universitäten beginnen, sich gegen die Angriffe zu wappnen.
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AfD hetzt gegen Hochschulen: Angriff auf die Freiheit der Wissenschaft
Die AfD Sachsen-Anhalt fragt gezielt nach Listen postkolonialer Seminare und Lehrstühle. Wie die Universitäten beginnen, sich gegen die Angriffe zu wappnen.
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Deutsches Zentrum für Altersfragen @dza-berlin.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Die Bundesregierung hat eine mögliche Streichung des Pflegegrads 1 ins Spiel gebracht. In einer Stellungnahme des DZA erläutern Astrid Lärm und Ulrike Ehrlich, was eine Streichung bedeuten würde: www.dza.de/detailansich...
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DZA-Stellungnahme: Die Streichung von Pflegegrad 1 würde vor allem Menschen mit Demenz und ihre pflegenden Angehörige treffen
Stellungnahme des DZA zur Diskussion um die Abschaffung des Pflegegrads 1
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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
We are live! The SoGreen project website is now online: 🔗 sogreen-project.eu We invite you to explore, share, and follow along as we build knowledge to support just and evidence-based policies in the green transition in Europe. @ess-survey.bsky.social @ggp.bsky.social @guide-cohort.bsky.social
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Home • SoGreen
SoGreen is a European research collaboration integrating the four leading longitudinal social science surveys to track how people across Europe experience and respond to climate change. By adding a gr...
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Alina Schmitz @alinaschmitz.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
We find that men have higher volunteering rates than women. However, a higher proportion of women express interest in volunteering. Higher informal care responsibilities among women partly explain gender inequalities in actual volunteering. If you have no access to the full text, send a DM.
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Alina Schmitz @alinaschmitz.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
We examine potential and actual volunteering in middle and old age, focusing on gender inequalities and the potential barriers posed by informal caregiving. Data were drawn from the 2017 German Aging Survey (DEAS).
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Alina Schmitz @alinaschmitz.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
New publication co-authored with Frank Micheel & Martina Brandt out in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly: Enabling Factors and Barriers to Volunteering (Potentials) in the Second Half of Life: The Role of Gender and Informal Caregiving in Germany doi.org/10.1177/0899...
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Alina Schmitz @alinaschmitz.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Glückwunsch!!! 🐈🐈‍⬛🐈
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Cornelius Schubert @cschbrt.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
W3 Professur für Allgemeine Soziologie an der @tu-dortmund.bsky.social. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 01.10.2025. #Stellenausschreibung #Professur tudberufung.hr4you.org/job/view/731/universitaetsprofessur-w3-allgemeine-soziologie?page_lang=de
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Universitätsprofessur (W3) Allgemeine Soziologie
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taz @taz.de · 14/08/2025
Eine neue Studie zeigt: Wer eine Schwangerschaft abbrechen möchte, findet oft keine ausreichende medizinische Versorgung und erlebt Stigmatisierung.
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Studie zu Schwangerschaftsabbrüchen: Viele Hürden für ungewollt Schwangere
Eine neue Studie zeigt: Wer eine Schwangerschaft abbrechen möchte, findet oft keine ausreichende medizinische Versorgung und erlebt Stigmatisierung.
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Hans-Böckler-Stiftung @boeckler-stiftung.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Eine häufig gehörte Unterstellung ist, dass sich #Arbeit für Bezieher*innen von #Bürgergeld nicht mehr lohne. Eine neue Studie unseres @wsiinstitut.bsky.social beweist das Gegenteil und liefert Zahlen zu allen 400 deutschen Landkreisen und kreisfreien Städten: www.boeckler.de/de/pressemit...
Text: Mindestlohn vs. Bürgergeld I Neue WSI-Studie zeigt: Arbeit lohnt sich. Durchschnittliches Einkommensplus im Monat für verschiedene Haushalte bei einem Job mit Mindestlohn gegenüber Bürgergeld. Die Grafik zeigt zum einen eine alleinstehende Person, die bei Vollzeit-Arbeit zum Mindestlohn ein monatliches Einkommensplus von 557 Euro hat. Eine alleinerziehende Person mit Kind hat ein Einkommensplus von 749 Euro gegenüber bloßem Bürgergeld-Bezug – und ein Ehepaar mit zwei Kindern, wovon eine Person Vollzeit arbeitet, verzeichnet ein monatliches Einkommensplus von 660 Euro. Quelle: WSI Policy Brief Nr. 90, 08/2025
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Teresa Bücker @teresabuecker.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Es ist untragbar, dass die Katholische Kirche die medizinische Grundversorgung gefährdet. Danke an den Gynäkologen Joachim Volz, der dagegen hält und darauf aufmerksam macht, auf welchen grotesken Wegen die Versorgungslage in Deutschland dünner wird. www.spiegel.de/panorama/jus...
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Katholischer Klinikträger: Chefarzt scheitert mit Klage gegen Abtreibungsverbot
Ein katholischer Krankenhausträger darf die Durchführung von Abtreibungen einschränken. Das hat das Arbeitsgericht in Hamm entschieden. Der klagende Gynäkologe erwägt nun, die nächste Instanz anzurufe...
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Alina Schmitz @alinaschmitz.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Danke 😊
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Maximilian Pichl @maxpichl.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
"Man sollte Armut bekämpfen, nicht die Armen". Sehr gutes Interview mit Christoph Butterwege über die absurde Debatte zum Bürgergeld. www.tagesschau.de/multimedia/v...
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Christoph Butterwegge, Politikwissenschaftler, zur Bürgergeld-Debatte
Christoph Butterwegge, Politikwissenschaftler, zur Bürgergeld-Debatte
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Alina Schmitz @alinaschmitz.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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Alina Schmitz @alinaschmitz.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
📄 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #SocialInequality #WelfareStates #IntergenerationalMobility No access to the full text? Feel free to reach out!
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Parental education and older workers’ income - Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie
Background This study examines whether parental education is related to income among older workers and whether this association varies across welfare regimes. While education is often viewed as a soci...
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Alina Schmitz @alinaschmitz.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
🚨 New paper out! Does your parents’ education still shape your income later in life? I analyzed older workers (50–65) in 8 European countries using SHARE data. Findings: In conservative welfare regimes, family background still affects income. In social-democratic regimes, no such link was found.
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Parental education and older workers’ income - Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie
Background This study examines whether parental education is related to income among older workers and whether this association varies across welfare regimes. While education is often viewed as a soci...
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Whitney Robinson @whitneyepi.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
So…what’s the latest in health research in the US? Excellent overview from @kkjetelina.bsky.social & @sciencewhizliz.bsky.social Watching this play out, I’ve been too sad to write much myself. I’m grateful to them for continuing to tell what’s happening open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
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NIH: The quiet engine of science is being dismantled
And what you can do
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Sektion Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung in der DGS @gender4dgs.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Wir freuen uns über Abstracts für Vortragsvorschläge für unsere gemeinsame Frühjahrstagung „Geschlechter des Sozialen: Dialoge zu Verortungen und Perspektiven soziologischer Theorien“ zusammen mit der DGS-Sektion „Soziologische Theorie“ @theoriesektiondgs.bsky.social (12.-13.03.2026 im Dortmunder U)
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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
We are happy to share this recent publication with you that investigates the social integration of people aged 50 years and over: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Introducing the Social Integration Index for Older Europeans: The Role of Gender and Care Regimes - Social Indicators Research
Social Indicators Research - Social integration is a critical factor in health and longevity among older adults, but an instrument for measuring and comparing social integration of older adults...
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Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften @oeaw.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
#Frauen sind im Alter durchschnittlich weniger sozial integriert – besonders dort, wo viel #Betreuungsarbeit auf ihnen lastet. Das zeigt eine internationale Vergleichsstudie in 21 Ländern unter Beteiligung von Demograph:innen der ÖAW. Mehr dazu ⤵️ www.oeaw.ac.at/news/frauen-...
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Frauen über 50 in Europa sozial weniger integriert
Eine internationale Vergleichsstudie in 21 Ländern unter Beteiligung von Demograph:innen der ÖAW zeigt: Frauen sind im Alter durchschnittlich weniger sozial integriert – besonders dort, wo viel Betreu...
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European Association for Population Studies @eaps.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
🚨4 Postdoctoral Researcher positions in Demography at the Department of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati" of the University of Bologna 🚨 The research activity will focus on contemporary fertility and family dynamics. Deadline: Tuesday, June 24, 2025 More information: tinyurl.com/4uu26uxm
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Procedura di valutazione comparativa per titoli e colloquio per il conferimento di n. 4 contratti di ricerca, Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche "Paolo Fortunati" - SSD STAT-03/A - GSD 13/S...
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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
📄 New publication in @socialindicators.bsky.social introducing a Social Integration Index for older Europeans using #SHAREdata 👇
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Alina Schmitz @alinaschmitz.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
@socialindicators.bsky.social, @share-eric.bsky.social, #socialintegration #gender #socialpolicy #populationaging
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Alina Schmitz @alinaschmitz.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Joint work with Michal Levinsky, Melanie Wagner, Ella Cohn-Schwartz and Martina Brandt. Open Access can be found here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Introducing the Social Integration Index for Older Europeans: The Role of Gender and Care Regimes - Social Indicators Research
Social Indicators Research - Social integration is a critical factor in health and longevity among older adults, but an instrument for measuring and comparing social integration of older adults...
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Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) @demographyvienna.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
📖 New Publication: "Introducing the social integration index for older Europeans: The role of gender and care regimes"! Insights from #MichalLevinsky, @melwagner.bsky.social, @alinaschmitz.bsky.social et al. based on the newly adapted Social Integration Index. 🔗 Read now: tinyurl.com/2kcuvt39
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Alina Schmitz @alinaschmitz.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
These findings suggest that traditional caregiving roles may restrict women's opportunities for broader social engagement. The gender gap in social integration varies by context, which highlights the need for policies tailored to specific care systems.
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Alina Schmitz @alinaschmitz.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
. This study examines the social integration of people aged 50 and older across Europe by adapting the Berkman and Syme Index (1979) using SHARE data from 2021. The analysis reveals that women are generally less socially integrated than men, particularly in more family-oriented care regimes.
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Alina Schmitz @alinaschmitz.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
📑 New publication in Social Indicators Research: "Introducing the Social Integration Index for Older Europeans: The Role of Gender and Care Regimes" Social integration plays a vital role in the health and longevity of older adults, yet a comparative European measurement tool has been lacking.
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Zeitschrift für Sozialreform | Journal of Social Policy Research @zfsozialreform.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Interessiert an Sozialpolitikforschung in Deutschland? Hier ist das Starterpacket 🧚🎁 Für Ergänzungen gerne melden 😊 #Sozialpolitik Interested in social policy research in Germany? Here is the starter package 🧚🎁 Please let us know if you would like to be added 😊 #socialpolicy go.bsky.app/TvvhgdD
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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Kaum zu glauben: #IchBinHanna wird heute 4! 😱🎈🥳🎁🎂 Viel hat sich bewegt seit dem 10.6.2021. Viel gibt es noch zu tun. 1 Sache bleibt aber unverändert: Mit @drkeichhorn.bsky.social, @kubon.bsky.social & Euch allen Wissenschaftspolitik machen ist das allergrößte Geschenk! 3 Wünsche in #ArbeitInDerWiss:
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Vier Jahre #IchBinHanna: Ein Geburtstagsgruß mit drei Wünschen
Hanna hat Geburtstag! Was wünschen wir uns -- auch angesichts der aktuellen politischen Lage?
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Jan Brülle @janbruelle.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Dear FReDA, pairfam, and GGS Users! 7 days left to send your Abstract for the FReDA User Conference 2025.
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