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

We would love your feedback before the project ramps up this summer! Hope to see you there!

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

Starting before Roe v Wade & concluding after Dobbs v Jackson, we have several research questions about how abortion has been debated in both Democratic and Republican states. The project makes both data & methodological contributions in addition to building on the gender representation literature.

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

I’ll be presenting the research design for my project with @klatt.bsky.social and @paytongannon.bsky.social where we investigate the role of legislators’ gender and party in state-level abortion debates in the US.

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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 beyond grateful to my interviewees and the other people along the way who helped me, especially @paytongannon.bsky.social @cerencevik.bsky.social @keonhison.bsky.social and more! I’d love to hear your thoughts if you read the article! Reprosky gendersky polisky

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

…to pregnant people or the experts charged with caring for them. I conclude the piece by offering policy recommendations on how the administration of the current policy could be improved without needing to fundamentally change the law governing abortion in Italy.

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

These doctors are not necessarily against abortion, but they decline to provide abortion care because doing so harms their careers and is met by judgment and ostracism from their peers. Both pro- and anti-abortion doctors agree that the public health system doesn’t provide enough support…

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Doctors’ Rights vs. Patients’ Rights: Analyzing the Implementation of Italian Abortion Policy in Puglia

Abstract. In Italy, the law regulating abortion weighs the rights of both patients and doctors. The region of Puglia is puzzling because it has a high rate

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

Bringing together the literature on abortion policy, public administration, and religion in politics, I found that it’s hard to access abortion in Italy because of the working conditions facing abortion doctors there.

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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

If this topic interests you, check out the rest of the articles in the special issue! siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/id...

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

...conscientious objection within one hospital or hospital system, the regions are able to provide different levels of abortion access. In turn, doctors who provide abortions have much more or less positive experiences in their jobs, and patients have an easier or harder time accessing care... 3/

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

We quickly realized that what was standard procedure in one place was not necessarily the case in another region, and we dug deeper to determine why regions were implementing the same law in different ways. In the end, we see that due to local administrative choices and cultural norms of... 2/

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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

Check out the full lineup -- all of these articles are available for free, because IdPS publishes open access through the Università del Salento press! siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/id...

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

We have had the pleasure of working with sharp scholars & capable editors as we guest edited this issue over the last year. Spanning geographies, levels of analysis, and methods, this issue asks: why are some countries taking steps to liberalize abortion rights, while others are rolling them back?

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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

I don’t address the “harms”’of abortion because the peer reviewed evidence of a years-long study finds that abortion is not harmful. I’ve read the source material and made my own interpretations. You clearly have your own opinion here. Have a nice day!

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

Thanks for your question. You can read more about the harms of gestational limits at the De Zordo citation you mention, and you can read all about the harms of being denied an abortion in The Turnaway Study — worse health for mothers and children, worse economic status, bad relationships, etc!

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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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Danielle Pullan @dmpullan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Very cool! What’s your preliminary answer to the title question?

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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

RSVP here: www.fiapac.org/en/home/webi... For anyone calling in from the US, note that the time difference to CET is one hour less than usual due to daylight savings time! 4/4

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

I'm excited to present alongside @ronator.bsky.social (Hochschule Fulda) who studies Germany and Martha Paynter (U New Brunswick) who studies Canada. It's sure to be an interesting discussion! Thanks to @doctorsforchoice.bsky.social for the invitation and FIAPAC for hosting us! 3/4

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