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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Hey EPSS! Are you thinking of dipping out early after a long week of (double) conferencing? Let me change your mind! Join us in the very last panel of the conference (Saturday 15:20) to think about reproductive politics and family norms.

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Good morning ECPG! Hoping to see many friends and colleagues in Newcastle this afternoon, where I’ll be presenting my latest project with @klatt.bsky.social & @paytongannon.bsky.social looking at abortion debates in US statehouses from 1970-present and how this intersects with gender/party!

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Cosplaying as a sociologist for a few days at #ESS2026! I’m really enjoying the mini conference on reproduction, and this kicks off the 2026 conference circuit for me! Looking forward to hearing more great presentations and meeting the lovely ESS members here in DC!

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I’m so glad to see this paper — my first solo-authored one and second from my dissertation — finally published! If you’ve heard me talk about my research in the last couple of years, you know this is the story that started it all for me, and I’m so happy to finally have it out there in the world.

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Scary time for academic freedom in the US these days. I have more faith in my students than these university presidents seem to — they are able to understand nuance and form their own opinions, and I’ll keep helping them do so as long as I can.

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Calling all comparative legislative scholars! We’ve got a new dataset with committee memberships from 14 countries over 35 years, spanning almost 15,000 MPs in 260 parties! Grateful for my excellent coauthors! #polisky #gendersky

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

My and @paytongannon.bsky.social 's latest publication on abortion access in Italy came out last week as part of the special issue of Interdisciplinary Political Studies! This article grew out of our conversations about the interviews we were each conducting in different regions of Italy. 1/

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Payton Gannon @paytongannon.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I am especially excited for the publication of @dmpullan.bsky.social's and my article “'In Italy, we have a saying: make the law and you will find a way to cheat it.' The Regionalized Implementation of Italian Abortion Policies." Read it here: tinyurl.com/3fu5khpu

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“In Italy, we have a saying: make the law and you will find a way to cheat it”. The Regionalized Implementation of Italian Abortion Policies | Gannon | Interdisciplinary Political Studies

“In Italy, we have a saying: make the law and you will find a way to cheat it”. The Regionalized Implementation of Italian Abortion Policies

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Payton Gannon @paytongannon.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

A special issue of Interdisciplinary Political Studies on reproductive rights in developed democracies has been published. It has been a pleasure to work with all the authors and my co-editors @dmpullan.bsky.social and @gmripamonti.bsky.social Read it here: siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/idps

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

So happy to see this special issue of Interdisciplinary Political Studies on Steps Forward and Backward on Abortion Rights in Advanced Democracies published today, coedited with @gmripamonti.bsky.social and @paytongannon.bsky.social! gendersky reprosky polisky

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Honored to have been considered for this prize for my work with @paytongannon.bsky.social explaining US court decisions on abortion post-Dobbs! Highly recommend publishing quick, contemporary pieces with @ecprtheloop.bsky.social — always a great experience and great editorial team!

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Nikolina Klatt @klatt.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I love when my academic family grows! Attending the very first Politics and Gender Conference at Rutgers University was one of those moments. I met many familiar faces and made new exciting connections. @politicsgenderj.bsky.social @ecprgender.bsky.social @dmpullan.bsky.social

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Excited to learn and widen my network at the Politics and Gender conference at Rutgers today and tomorrow! Are my ECPG people here? Please say hi! polisky gendersky

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I've got a new job! My full thoughts are too long for one post, so see the attached images (with text in the descriptions) for my reflections on the academic job market this year, the choice to jump from Europe to the US, and what's next for me! And of course, there are plots in the reply post ;)

Finally with all of the t's crossed and i's dotted, I'm delighted to share more about my new job! But I also want to put this success in the context of the overall process that it took to get here. It's hard to get a job these days in many fields, but the field I know best is academia. It was a complicated choice to leave Europe for the next step, but a huge part of that choice was the knowledge that there are just so few long-term jobs available in academia. I made the bet that in the US, I could play the numbers game long enough that eventually, I would find a job that was a good fit. You only need one, after all, but with more application possibilities, I staked my hopes on the US instead of Europe.

In the end, I applied to 177 jobs. Because I am an incurable nerd, I've made plots. Mostly I was aiming for tenure track jobs, because that was my other big hope in the US: to avoid 4, or 6, or 8, or more years of temporary, precarious positions that seem to be inevitable for European postdocs. The market is just really different, and it was a learning curve to remember how to write like an American again, but also to learn the unwritten rules of a system that I haven't been a part of for the last 9 years. A lot of these jobs just never replied. One place that actually interviewed me months ago finally got around to rejecting me literally yesterday. But this also meant that there were days where, on top of submitting more and more applications and doing my current job and flying back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean to make life work for my family, I was also getting several rejections a day.

The biggest lesson I've learned about the academic job market is that, while in some ways, every job is extremely specific and hiring for a very narrow set of qualifications, in other ways, it is entirely impersonal. Rejections are not rejections of who you are as a person, and they don't mean that your work is bad or unimportant. The more stable the position, the more time and resources the university is investing in choosing a good long term candidate. It's hard to fire someone from the tenure track, and so they want to make sure they're making a good choice. What constitutes a "good choice" depends on who is on the committee, who has recently retired or left the university, what students are demanding, what the administration is demanding, and where they imagine the discipline / the department going in the future. It was always a matter of time and sheer numbers before my CV would end up in front of the right people in the right place at the right time for us all to fit together.

Starting in August, I will be an assistant professor of political science on the tenure track at Georgia College, a small liberal arts college in the public University System of Georgia south of Atlanta. In the coming weeks, Marco and I are figuring out how to wrap up our life in Germany -- moving out, ending my employment at the University of Cologne, and seeing and celebrating with as many friends as we can. Life in Georgia is going to be really different, but we feel really hopeful about it. I don't know that we'll stay in Georgia forever -- nothing is ever promised -- but it's possible that we could, and that's huge. At the same time, when I say "stay," I don't mean that I won't ever travel -- in fact, I was very clear with my future colleagues that I intend to keep working with my broad international network of colleagues and friends. I will be back. But I will also have a stable home base in a beautiful area that brings so many of the things we're looking to have more of in our lives. This is really exciting, y'all!

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European Journal of Politics and Gender @ejpgjournal.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

🚨NEW ARTICLE ALERT🚨 "Our findings highlight how court rulings impact opposition strategies and shed more light on the post-reform stage as a crucial phase in determining the fate of liberalizing reforms" 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 @giuliamariani.bsky.social @camreu.bsky.social doi.org/10.1332/2515... GenderSky

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Finally with a proper citation! Interested in how women MPs navigate parliamentary careers and adapt their behavior? Stay tuned for our followup project, where we look at how much power and prestige they attain as compared to men! #polisky #gendersky @jwaeckerle.bsky.social @bcastanho.bsky.social

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Hey #polisky, who's in Chicago for #MPSA this week? Start off the conference on a high note with our panel "Abortion Policy & Democracy" at 8am Thursday! Looking forward to great conversation w @annacrawford.bsky.social, @klatt.bsky.social, @paytongannon.bsky.social, & others! tinyurl.com/25uz25gw

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Abortion access works in political-geographic systems: when there is regional regulation, you’ll end up with some sanctuaries, some islands, and some deserts of access — in the US, in Italy, and beyond. So glad my oldest paper with @paytongannon.bsky.social has finally made it online!

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Worse than Hungary or Poland or Turkey. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

if you think that "no one is protesting this time" it says less about what's happening in the world and more about your media consumption habits and how the news media is lying to you.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”

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Deanna Fry @deannafry.tv · 14/03/2025

UPDATE: Immigration officials arrested a 2nd person who participated in Pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia Univ, and revoked the visa of another student. Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian from the West Bank, was arrested. Ranjani Srinivasan’s, an Indian citizen and doctoral student, visa was revoked

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Immigration officials arrest second person who participated in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia

Immigration officials have arrested a second person who participated in Pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, and have revoked the visa of another student.

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Happening in 15 mins! Hope to see you there! #reprosky #gendersky

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Dustin Voss @dustinvoss.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

*Call for Applications* We’re excited to announce the Second Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy! Link to the conference website: www.mpifg.de/1343511/2025... Please share widely! @mpifg.bsky.social @palmapolyak.bsky.social

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Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Everyone--EVERYONE--in higher education has to understand that this is Trump's plan for you, too: federal control over scholarship, curricula, discipline, admissions--everything. They want you to submit. Your only other option is to stand up, together.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Just ashamed of European academic institutions reacting to the authoritarian clampdown against our US colleagues with "look, we have nice jobs here". Do you think this is the kind of solidarity needed from us? What are you actually doing to strengthen academic freedom and to help those affected?

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Dissertation by Dr Rachel Los not only includes acknowledgements, but also .. anti-acknowledgements. delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/a...

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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This is who they want to portray as an agent of Hamas.

"As a Palestinian student, I believe that the liberation of the Palestinian people and the Jewish people are intertwined and go hand-by-hand and you cannot achieve one without the other," he told CNN last spring when he was one of the negotiators representing student demonstrators during talks with Columbia University's administration.

"Our movement is a movement for social justice and freedom and equality for everyone," he said.

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Save the date: this Friday 14 March at 4pm CET / 11am EDT I'm speaking online to the International Federation of Abortion and Contraception Professionals (FIAPAC) about barriers to abortion care that go beyond legal restrictions. RSVP link in 🧵 #reprosky #gendersky 1/4

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Sheo @sheologian.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Man if you think spraypainting a Tesla is bad just wait until you hear about the personal property destruction when encampments are swept

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Dina Pomeranz @dinapomeranz.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

The Trump administration instrumentalizing the term "antisemitism" to further their crusaid against research and academia follows an old trope: Using Jews as a scapegoat for their policies. This, in turn, creates more real antisemitism, as people will blame "the Jews."

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Leaving Berlin so inspired to work on research projects that are enriched by the discussion at @wzb.bsky.social this week! My Rafstedt and @hannahzagel.bsky.social brought us such a refreshing workshop format where we focused on mutual understanding instead of “performing!” Thanks so much, bis bald!

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I'm in Berlin this week gathering with interdisciplinary scholars of reproductive policy @ the WZB! Looking forward to learning more about their approaches and the cases they study, & hoping to forge and deepen connections that will lead to more reproductive justice-informed research in the future!

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Vivien Fabry @vivifabrien.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

📌 Why does this matter? Disabled people remain underrepresented in German politics—both in numbers & in policy attention. Our study helps fill this gap! If you're interested in political representation & disability studies, check it out: 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... /6

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Representing the Unrepresented? Examining Disability Representation in the German Parliament

How are people with disabilities represented in the German Parliament? This article explores this question, addressing both the representation of substantive interests and the presence of represent...

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

For all the media hype about Sarah Wagenknecht, we will probably read little about the fact that Die Linke has profited massively from her leaving the party. As a clearly left-wing party, now without strong reactionary tendencies, it scored almost twice as much as the left-conservative BSW! #BTW25

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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Payton Gannon @paytongannon.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

If you want to read about concerns regarding abortion data integrity in a country other than the US @dmpullan.bsky.social and I have a new article out in RevDem. We discuss Italy's annual abortion report and concerns about the accuracy and its delayed release. revdem.ceu.edu/2025/02/07/a...

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Access Denied: Abortion Data Failures and Erosion of Accountability in Italy | Review of Democracy

Delayed data on abortion care in Italy impacts citizens’ ability to effectively advocate and hold their government accountable for the management of public healthcare. The Italian Ministry of Health i...

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

New publication alert! @paytongannon.bsky.social and I write about the importance of trustworthy, timely data on abortion in the case of Italy, but this dynamic plays out around the world. Citizens need to be able to hold public bureaucracies accountable! Read more in @revdem2020.bsky.social!

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 07/02/2025

He's running our country like one of his casinos, where the lights and the noise keep people from noticing the grime (and the crime) all around them, and where the free buffet and the chance at a big payoff are designed to make people forget that the house always wins.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau literally exists to protect consumers from predatory financial institutions. It's returned over $21 billion to 205 million consumers. The sole result of this move is that Americans will have no recourse when they get screwed over by a bank. Good work Elon 👍

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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The US isn't the only place where citizens are struggling to trust government data on abortion, gender, and health: Italy regularly publishes delayed data that is misleading at best about how available abortion actually is. Read more about why good public health data matters for democracy at RevDem!

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Louise Matsakis @lmatsakis.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

NEW: Meta changed its Community Guidelines today to permit "allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality" @knibbs.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

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Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have 'Mental Illness'

Meta rolled out a number of changes to its “Hateful Conduct” policy Tuesday as part of a sweeping overhaul of its approach toward content moderation.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/01/2025

Abortion laws are affecting how physicians treat pregnancy loss. ProPublica reporters wrote a guide, made in consultation with dozens of doctors, for what to expect and what questions to ask. Read the full guide at: propub.li/4a6qtED 📽️ @carissaqmb.bsky.social

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If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What To Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life

Abortion laws are affecting how physicians treat pregnancy loss. ProPublica reporters wrote a guide, made in consultation with dozens of doctors, for what to...

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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Thank you again to everyone who attended this year’s Annual Colloquium! A special thanks to our doctoral researchers for presenting insights into their dissertation projects

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 03/12/2024

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 04/12/2024

From an NLG Legal Observer: "Apple Intelligence can now read Signal messages on new iPhones. If you have a newer iPhone, 15 or 16, and you have downloaded iOS 18.1, please either disable Apple Artificial Intelligence under settings, or go under Siri/AI and ensure it is not enabled for Signal."

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 27/11/2024

Reply settings: ⚪️ Everybody ⚪️ Nobody ⚪️ Mentioned users ⚪️ Followed users 🔘 People who read the article

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 24/11/2024

Here on @bsky.app you can add fabulous #Alt text. Why? Inclusion! ♿️ Accessibility! & there are tips! 1. Enable the ‘must alt’ in settings so it reminds you. 2. Voice to text is a great option if you are not a groovy thumb typer. Added benefit: it makes you more conscious about the images you share.

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