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Adrian Rothers
@arothers.bsky.social
Post-doc: agricultural social science, political psychology, social conflict
https://www.umwelt.uni-hannover.de/de/institut/personen/rothers
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📖 New open access paper 📖
"The poles in polarization: Social categorization and affective polarization in multiparty systems", now published in Electoral Studies.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#polpsy #socialpsyc #GermanPoliticSky #polisci
The poles in polarization: Social categorization and affective polarization in multiparty systems
A challenge in adapting the concept of affective polarization to multiparty systems has been to determine who is polarized against whom. I propose a s…
www.sciencedirect.com
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You are a Post-Padawan now!
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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New pub! 📝
Solidarity with refugees depends on refugee‘s origin and gender. Partly explained through a similarity->threat link. We discuss this as a psychological expression of neocolonial geopolitics.
spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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SPSSI Journals
This paper investigates social psychological mechanisms underlying selective solidarity with refugees in two experimental studies conducted in Germany. We hypothesized, in line with the geopolitics o...
spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Wissenschaftsministerin ein massiver fail. Ideologisch, dumm, und in der Sache so falsch wie im Amt unprofessionell. Anstatt sachlich nüchtern die Professorin vor Diffamierungen & gegen 1 Kampagne zu schützen, wirft sie diese erneut dem geifernden Polit-Mob zum Fraß hin.
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
Wahl der Verfassungsrichter: Brosius-Gersdorf berichtet von Drohungen nach gescheiterter Wahl
Aufgrund von Drohungen hat Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf ihre Mitarbeiter gebeten, nicht am Lehrstuhl zu arbeiten. Einen Verzicht auf ihre Kandidatur schließt sie nicht aus.
www.zeit.de
July 16, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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Ich gebe euch hiermit offiziell hitzefrei. Ein Retweet reicht und ihr seid rechtlich auf der "sicheren Seite".
July 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Kurz: Die #Grundwasserneubildung💧 kackt vielerorts ab.
👉 Leider halt wieder sone Nachricht, die kaum Aufmerksamkeit bekommen wird, da es ja in den letzten 2 Wochen *etwas* geregnet 🌧 hat.
Und warum auch, geht ja grundsätzlich nur um unsere wichtigste Lebensgrundlage. 🤷‍♂️
#Dürre #Entwässerung
Grundwasser in Deutschland: Kritische Lage in 201 von 401 Landkreisen - die Gründe
Neben der Dürre tragen Landwirtschaft und Braunkohleabbau zur Knappheit bei. Daten zur Grundwassernutzung sind oft unzureichend.
www.sueddeutsche.de
June 16, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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📣 Excited to share our new preprint:
"Measuring Perceived Structural Constraints on Choice: The Structural Awareness Scale" (SAS)

osf.io/preprints/os...

We developed SAS to capture how people perceive 🧱 structural barriers on their choices in areas such as sustainability or healthy eating.
OSF
osf.io
June 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Attended my first agriculture-focused conference in Leipzig, great place, great talks and such a lovely crowd 🥰
Back from #REECAP which was hosted by the @idiv-research.bsky.social this year. I just hope that I have the opportunity to participate next year again. 1/2
June 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Recognizing the financial pressures many academics experience in these trying times, we have waived the Article Processing Charge for this special issue. Kindly repost.
March 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀

Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯

A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛

Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
April 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Ergebnisse der KoaV-AG „Bildung, Forschung & Innovation“:

Was ist drin für #IchBinHanna? Was unklar? Was fehlt? 1 🧵.

Tl,dr: 1. Eindruck erfreulich, aber 🐘 im Raum – konkrete Ausgestaltung der Postdoc-Phase zur Schaffung langfristiger Perspektiven – wird nicht ausreichend adressiert.

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Koalitionsverhandlungen CDU/CSU/SPD AG 8 - Bildung, Forschung und Innovation
Schwarzer Text: Einigkeit Blauer Text: nicht geeint, Union-Forderung Roter Text: nicht geeint, SPD-Forderung [Zu den Ergebnissen der anderen Arbeitsgruppen geht es hier.](https://fragdenstaat.de/ar...
fragdenstaat.de
March 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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I don't really get what this research is for. Of course you can't use LLMs in place of humans for social science research. osf.io/preprints/so...
OSF
osf.io
March 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Dear colleagues,

I invite you to sign a letter of support for Serbian students and professors and to share it within your academic community.

Thank you for standing with us! (600+ signatures at the moment)

forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
March 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Ich habe in letzter Zeit Gespräche mit Mitarbeitenden der Agentur für Arbeit geführt. Sie schienen alle genervt vom Begriff der „Totalverweigerer“, weil es die praktisch nicht gibt.
Entweder hat niemand dieser Politiker:innen je mit Mitarbeitenden der Ämter gesprochen. Oder sie sagen die Unwahrheit.
March 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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It seems PubMed has disappeared. This is the digital equivalent of burning a library.
March 2, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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✏️ New Paper: Prejudice towards (Black/Muslim) refugees predicts fear of crime more strongly than vice versa.

Recent debates about increasing deportation are therefore likely to increase fear of crime, not lower it.

bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
Research suggests that social fear of crime and prejudice towards minority groups may be linked. We investigated (Ntotal = 7712) whether prejudice towards a social group that is stereotyped as more c...
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
📖 New open access paper 📖
"The poles in polarization: Social categorization and affective polarization in multiparty systems", now published in Electoral Studies.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#polpsy #socialpsyc #GermanPoliticSky #polisci
The poles in polarization: Social categorization and affective polarization in multiparty systems
A challenge in adapting the concept of affective polarization to multiparty systems has been to determine who is polarized against whom. I propose a s…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 5, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Mercator projection strikes again.
March 5, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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If you are keen to learn #Rstats and other coding techniques, here are some workshops and resources offered by a group of European academics in exchange for donations to #Ukraine.

See below for workshop contents and how to #DonateToUkraine
sites.google.com/view/dariia-...
Dariia Mykhailyshyna - Workshops for Ukraine
Feedback on the past workshops (if you want to learn how to make wordclouds, check out Text Data Analysis workshop below)
sites.google.com
March 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is the position I did my PhD on - get in touch if you have questions!
Our social psychology group is hiring a new PhD student! The research topic is open, under the supervision of Christopher Cohrs. The applicant must have a good level of German language proficiency and is expected to teach in German. stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/d...
Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (Doktorand*in)
stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de
February 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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"You should have never started it" -- Trump to Ukraine, which very much did not start the war
February 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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"Appeasement at Munich: World Wars, Past and Possible"
The symmetry between Germany-Czechoslovakia in 1938 and Russia-Ukraine in 2022 is uncanny, and pausing for a moment on the resemblances might help us to take a broader view of today.
snyder.substack.com/p/appeasemen...
Appeasement at Munich
World Wars, Past and Possible
snyder.substack.com
February 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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In diesen düsteren Zeiten braucht es dringend eine neue Debatte über Wirtschaftspolitik und greifbare Alternativen zum Neoliberalismus & zum Aufstieg der extremen Rechten.

Deshalb haben wir @surplusmagazin.bsky.social gegründet!

Adam Tooze @mauricehoefgen.bsky.social @lukasscholle.bsky.social
January 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Wir reden viel über individuelle CO2 Budgets, aber die ökonomische Klasse ist dabei wichtiger als viele wahrhaben wollen

Oxfam: Superreiche haben ihr CO2-Budget für 2025 bereits verbraucht
January 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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🚨 Data of GLES Panel Wave 27 have been pre-released! 🚨
➡️ dx.doi.org/10.4232/1.14...
👥 8.263 interviews 📅 24/09–08/10/2024
Topics included, among others, the state elections in Brandenburg, Saxony, and Thuringia.
December 6, 2024 at 7:30 AM