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MZES Uni Mannheim @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

❗️ Tue, Apr 21, 13:45-15:15 CET 📍 A 231 and ZOOM MZES Speaker Series with @mfreino.bsky.social "Interior Immigration Enforcement, Perceptions of Discrimination and Political Trust Among Non-Naturalised Migrants in Great Britain" 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even... 1/2

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Mariña Fernández Reino @mfreino.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Back from a month of illness, storms, stress, and general apocalyptic vibes… crawling onto bluesky just to celebrate Benito 🎉🐰 #HalftimeShow youtube.com/watch?v=G6Fu...

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Bad Bunny's Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show

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Mariña Fernández Reino @mfreino.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

My mum has discovered AI and she’s out of control 😅🤣 #sendhelp

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Dr. Sanne van Oosten @sbvanoosten.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

⁉️What do people read into names? ⁉️ ✨New publication in Nature’s Scientific Data ✨ When people see an ethnic minority-sounding name, do they infer race, religion, gender, or social background? 🤓First @equalstrength.bsky.social publication 😅 Check it out here: 🧵

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The Perception of Names in Experimental Studies on Ethnic Origin: A Cross-National Validation in Europe - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - The Perception of Names in Experimental Studies on Ethnic Origin: A Cross-National Validation in Europe

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Mariña Fernández Reino @mfreino.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Denis and I debating between a 10pm bedtime or pretending we’re still young and going to Turnstile tonight 🤣

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

My closing pitch to voters? “I will only live in this awful place if I rule over it”

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Andrew Cuomo says he 'will move to Florida' if Zohran Mamdani becomes NYC
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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

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Tiago Ventura @tiagoventura.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality? Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Photo of Kendrick Lamar during the superbowl halftime show.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Fleabag season 3 writes itself

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Mariña Fernández Reino @mfreino.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I have no idea about the reasons behind the conflict, but this looks like (yet again, sigh) old-school male academics with big egos acting as if the world should be indebted to them. I should probably keep my mouth shut, but I sincerely hope no one attends EPSA in Prague 😬

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Mariña Fernández Reino @mfreino.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

As an outsider, I find it insane that a for-profit organisation managed to present itself as a scientific, professional organisation for years. But continuing to organise an alternative conference to undermine the not-for-profit EPSS is beyond insane. epssnet.org/uncategorize...

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Difference Between EPSS and EPSA: What to Know for 2026

Confused about the difference between EPSS and EPSA? Learn how they differ in governance, structure, and their 2026 conferences.

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Mariña Fernández Reino @mfreino.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I don’t think there is an easy answer, but the fact that many migrants & asylum seekers are Latinos (more favourable attitudes than towards other groups) and that identity politics in Spain has been hyperfixated on territorial debates partly explain this.

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Mariña Fernández Reino @mfreino.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

A common Q from British colleagues I keep getting is why isn’t asylum as salient in Spain’s political debate as in other countries like UK, given Spain had the 2nd most asylum apps in 2024 in EU (165K, after Germany)? Attitudes to immigration also remain quite favorable (ESS 2024).

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Many people desperately wanted to see Starmer's LPC speech as a new direction on immigration and asylum. Yet, we clearly see a continuation of an approach that basically says Farage is right on policy but morally wrong. Others have tried it, it won't work. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

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Mariña Fernández Reino @mfreino.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

open.substack.com/pub/benansel... Really nice post by @benansell.bsky.social to understand why Labour’s embrace of Reform positions makes zero electoral sense.

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British Politics' Midlife Crisis

Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

NEW WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened. This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

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The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers

WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.

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MZES Uni Mannheim @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

📣 Attention, postdoctoral researchers! ❗ Apply now for our MZES Visiting Fellowships 😊 💡 Spend 2-4 weeks at the MZES to share ideas 💰 Funding for accommodation, travel, daily allowance 📆 Deadline: 28 November Full information: 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/deta...

Screenshot of the call for applications for MZES Visiting Fellowships, 22 September 2025. For the full text, please follow the link.

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Mariña Fernández Reino @mfreino.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

When people tell me to be pragmatic & let it slide

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Mariña Fernández Reino @mfreino.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

O quizás no, mira Turquía con el genocidio armenio. 🥲

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Mariña Fernández Reino @mfreino.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

@williamlallen.bsky.social every single time I see a jack russell walking the streets of Madrid, I ttell @deniskierans.bsky.social “Mira, una Pepita” 🩷🫶🏼

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michael veale @michae.lv · 06/05/2025

How should legal education respond to AI? Together with 11 UCL Laws colleagues, this paper is our vision for the sector. It's rooted in academic integrity, fundamental competences, and concerns around impacts on learning to learn and intellectual risk taking. (🧵) discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

So: a) none of political assassins were students, or even shared a coherent ideology - shameful to blame universities b) Trump is already engaged in the attack on campus speech the Free Press wants c) I worry a lot more about the animosity to campus The Free Press is fueling than any of my students

The acceleration of political violence has been frightening: from the attack on the Capitol in January 2021, to the murder of a healthcare executive allegedly by Luigi Mangione, to the attempted assassinations of Trump, to the killing of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., to the shooting of state lawmakers in Minnesota. And now Kirk’s murder.

There are many guilty parties in the rise of political violence. But to our minds, among the biggest culprits are the universities. In the same way that madrassas radicalize jihadis, America’s campuses are among the places in the U.S. most hostile to disagreement and debate. Where they preach “inclusion,” they actually practice exclusion—shouting down speakers they disagree with, for instance. Where they promote “diversity,” they actually enforce a uniformity of thought, denying tenure to dissenters.

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Mariña Fernández Reino @mfreino.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Only compares to when a full prof asked his RA to do his personal website

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

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A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum

The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.

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Claudia Diehl @cdiehl.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

New papers out on perceived unfairness! A 🧵: In @sociusjournal.bsky.social with @brueggemann-o.bsky.social J. Lang, S. Strauss we show that women are no longer more accepting of lower wages than men by using linked employer-employee data.

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Kristina Bakkær Simonsen @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

This is an important opportunity for European poli sci: contribute to getting EPSS off to a fantastic start by submitting your work to next year’s conference. I’m section chair for Migration Politics together with @aalrababah.bsky.social and can’t wait to see the cool mig research you have for us 🔥

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 05/09/2025

Umberto Eco’s enduringly popular manual “How to Write a Thesis” is more than a guide for undergraduates; the book is a celebration of the magical process of self-realization.

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A Guide to Thesis Writing and a Guide to Life

Writing and research manuals like Umberto Eco’s “How to Write a Thesis” offer a vision of our best selves, Hua Hsu wrote, in 2015.

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Mariña Fernández Reino @mfreino.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Sad to leave Sibiu 🇷🇴 after a glorious month of work and vacation. @deniskierans.bsky.social and I met lovely people & cats, ate amazing food, loved both nature and the city 🩷 Ata pronto, Sibiu

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Mariña Fernández Reino @mfreino.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

In theory, yes. That said, obtaining a Spanish visa is cheap but incredibly slow. My experience so far has been that the Spanish immigration system is severely underfunded and inefficient :-(

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Mariña Fernández Reino @mfreino.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

This report by Lee Mordechai👇🏼👇🏼 witnessing-the-gaza-war.com/wp-content/u...

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