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Francisca Castro @fcastrog.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Had a great time visiting @cunef.bsky.social for the first time to present at the Dept. of Social Sciences seminar. Thanks to @kkrakows.bsky.social for the invitation!

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Francisca Castro @fcastrog.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I know teaching evals tend to penalize women and POC (www.cambridge.org/core/journal...) as well as methods courses (link.springer.com/article/10.1...), so I'm letting myself be pretty happy about the congratulatory letter I just got for my teaching evals this semester 🥳.

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Francisca Castro @fcastrog.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Excited to be in Belfast for the first time for #EPSS. Tomorrow, I’ll be presenting at two panels. One at 9am on citizens' evaluation of political representatives, and the second at 3.20pm on climate and security. Looking forward to connecting with old friends and meeting new colleagues!

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Francisca Castro @fcastrog.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Next week I'll be traveling to the UK to present some ongoing work at @uniofreading.bsky.social on the relationship of memory sites and far-right vote in Chile. I just uploaded the WP here, comments are welcome :-) francisca-castro.com/research/wor...

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Francisca Castro @fcastrog.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Explaining this research in detail next time I have to teach quant methods to reluctant undergrads who don't want to learn statistics cddrl-impactoelectoral.com

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Francisca Castro @fcastrog.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Disclosing the use of cats for writing my paper

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Francisca Castro @fcastrog.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

We recently got some seed funding to expand this project a little further. You can read about it here www.mvbz.fu-berlin.de/news/seed-mo...

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Francisca Castro @fcastrog.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

I felt bad for never having been to Peru before, having lived so close by. But I can confirm that Peruvian food is indisputably the best cuisine in the world (I will not accept any arguments on this matter).

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Francisca Castro @fcastrog.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

these past few days between EPSA and Madrid’s ~36°C and then coming back to Berlin to vote for Chile’s presidential primaries have been really fun but now I’m tireddd

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Francisca Castro @fcastrog.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Reception with the best view award

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Francisca Castro @fcastrog.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Second day at #NEPS2025! Just presented some ongoing work with @isdcberlin.bsky.social colleagues on political polarization in Kyrgyzstan.

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Francisca Castro @fcastrog.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

In Helsinki for the UNU-WIDER conference where I’ll present @isdcberlin.bsky.social work on the long term impacts of conflict on Syrian refugees in Jordan.

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Francisca Castro @fcastrog.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Visiting another country during an electoral campaign is always an interesting experience.

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Francisca Castro @fcastrog.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I use the focus to-do Chrome extension and I don't know if it has downloadable data but I really spent so much time doing teaching prep -- not accounting for the actual teaching itself. For reference, I have spent 1725 hours just on "research" (which counts both non-diss and diss papers)

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Francisca Castro @fcastrog.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

This month I turned 5 years living in Germany and today I was granted the citizenship, and apparently I’m still on time to vote for the February elections!! (I wasn’t sure if the registration period was closed or not). Got a little too excited about it not gonna lie 🥨.

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Francisca Castro @fcastrog.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

nice! now I can fix this map before resubmission in the upcoming weeks instead of just making the neighboring countries' borders to have a similar color as the background haha. Much appreciated!

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Francisca Castro @fcastrog.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Well no more work for today I guess

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Francisca Castro @fcastrog.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Some good news to overcome the fact that I’ve had two papers rejected in the last few months 😅

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Francisca Castro @fcastrog.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

Our paper on how the 2019 protests in Chile and Bolivia affected subsequent electoral behavior in the 2020 elections is now published (open access). doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

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Francisca Castro @fcastrog.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

Our chair at Humboldt University (Berlin) is hiring a Pre-Doc/PhD researcher! Application closes on Feb 21. Feel free to reach out if you have questions haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/...

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Francisca Castro @fcastrog.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Ok but hypothetically speaking how likely can it be to stumble onto a location where the series is being filmed in the first week of April during MPSA in Chicago.

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Francisca Castro @fcastrog.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Honestly puzzled by this question of a postdoc application. Why is it mandatory and why there's no "none of the above" option. Been stuck here for the last 10 minutes trying to figure out if "I do not want to answer" is the way to go.

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Francisca Castro @fcastrog.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

As people are starting to celebrate Massa’s first place and Milei not winning on the first round—as previously feared—in the Argentinian general election, some pics of these days.

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Francisca Castro @fcastrog.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

One student I had 2 years ago recently came back from her exchange in Chile and brought me some Chilean snacks 🥹 sometimes teaching has its perks

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Francisca Castro @fcastrog.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

me entusiasmé y después me di cuenta que hay que tener un degree en una universidad en UK

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Francisca Castro @fcastrog.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

Stoked to be in Bergen for the @wareffectserc.bsky.social workshop ⛰️ took the cable car at 8am before starting my academic duties haha.

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Francisca Castro @fcastrog.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Make one (1) map and automatically feel a sense of self-fulfillment.

Map of Peru showing the number of state and Shining Path killings during the Internal Armed Conflict (1980-2002).

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Francisca Castro @fcastrog.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Unfortunately not enough cats on this app yet so I’ll post some of mine as my inaugural post.

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