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Irene Pañeda Fernández
@irenepaneda.bsky.social
Social scientist studying inequality and migration. | Postdoc @WZB_Berlin, TRANSMIT project | PhD @EUI_EU |
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📍 Berlin/Asturias
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Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.

CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.

But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.

👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...

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Fail Better: Why Your Rejections Will Shape You More Than Your Publications
The Art of Learning from Rejection
catherineeunicedevries.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Prof @catherinedevries.bsky.social: „Demonstrate that the state can efficiently serve its citizens“

Truly the best keynote I’ve ever had the privilege of listening to, incredibly powerful &inspiring. It invited so many fields into a conversation we urgently need: how to design a state that delivers
October 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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The topic is serious and the exchange is intense. For two days, 100 researchers gather at the WZB to discuss the "Future of Democracy?" at the 1st Annual Interdisciplinary WZB Conference. Thanks to all the participants for the lively debate.
October 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
September 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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"You can be English with roots that stretch back a 1,000 years, but you can also be English and look like me".

About time.

Need much more of this, and need the PM to come out and say it and challenge the politicians and media who've brought us here - not just Musk

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Elon Musk's comments at march were abhorrent, says home secretary
Shabana Mahmood says the tech billionaire
www.bbc.co.uk
September 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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"Zehn Jahre nach dem Sommer der Migration: Von Solidarität zur Normalität der Gewalt" - ein aktueller Gastbeitrag von @valeriahaensel.bsky.social und mir in der Frankfurter Rundschau.
@medico2.bsky.social
Zehn Jahre nach dem Sommer der Migration: Von Solidarität zur Normalität der Gewalt
Der Rechtsruck begann in der Migrationspolitik und betrifft heute alle Bereiche der Gesellschaft - ein Gastbeitrag von Valeria Hänsel und Kerem Schamberger von Medico International.
www.fr.de
September 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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@irenepaneda.bsky.social's analysis shows: Understanding how gender inequality influences female migration is crucial for formulating migration and development policies as well as gender equality initiatives in both origin and destination countries.
August 20, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Yet, the role of GBV, one of the most severe forms of gender inequality, remains underexplored at the individual level in shaping women’s migration intentions, as @irenepaneda.bsky.social has shown in her recent article for the WZB-Mitteilungen. bibliothek.wzb.eu/artikel/2025...
bibliothek.wzb.eu
August 20, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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#Migration research has long been influenced by a male-centric perspective. Recent evidence explores a “feminization of migration”, with more women migrating as primary movers driven by complex factors — among them, gender inequality and gender-based violence (GBV).
August 20, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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📢 *Call for Applications* / 📢 *Convocatoria abierta*
Join our project on Prejudice & Discrimination at the Spanish National Research Council (Madrid 🇪🇸)
Open to junior scholars at different stages (postdocs, predocs, or MSc grads considering a PhD)
🔗 ⬇️ www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zrur0...
www.dropbox.com
July 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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But here’s the hard part:
When ideas are new, interdisciplinary, different, how we say them often matters as much as what we say.

That’s when the ‘voice tax’ kicks in: our voice struggles to be heard because it doesn’t sound familiar.

Not just due to novelty, but due to gender, class or race.

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July 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Voice is one of the most talked-about, and least explained, aspects of academic writing.

We’re told to “find it,” but rarely taught how to build it.

I wrote up some reflections here:

👉 open.substack.com/pub/catherin...

A 🧵 about why so much academic writing feels voiceless & what to do about it.
You’ve Got the Ideas. What If It’s Your Voice That’s Not Landing?
The Hidden Curriculum of Academic Writing
open.substack.com
July 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Was bringt Menschen dazu, ihr Land zu verlassen? Welche Erfahrungen machen sie dabei? Und wie reagieren die aufnehmenden Gesellschaften? Das neue Heft der WZB-Mitteilungen blickt aus verschiedenen Perspektiven auf #Migration.
Zum Heft: wzb.eu/de/migration
Migration
wzb.eu
July 1, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Today is a sad day for African literature. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Writer Who Condemned Colonists and Elites, Dies at 87
www.nytimes.com
May 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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I wrote about research, translation and conjecture, knowledge and delusion; about Linear Elamite, Rumi, economics, and our own @andreamatranga.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/rottenan...
A guess from a guess
Translation, research, conjecture; Linear Elamite, Rumi; the position of Jupiter drives the invention of agriculture; an economist does something good
open.substack.com
May 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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❗Diez lecciones que nos deja Pepe Mujica www.eldiario.es/internaciona...
May 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This from Joseph Brodsky’s Nobel lecture caught my eye yrs ago. The social scientist in me has toyed with the idea of designing a study to test causality here. Even if I don’t think it’s actually true, I wish it was in these times of rampant authoritarianism.
#WorldBookDay #DiadelLibro #SantJordi 🌹
April 23, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Great advice on academic writing by @catherinedevries.bsky.social👇 "I am a first generation scholar, suffer from dyslexia, write in a foreign language and often feel like a outsider in my profession — where let’s face for many being an academic is like being part of family business." Worth reading.
For some time, I wasn’t sure if I should share these reflections (as they aren’t my usual political takes).

So grateful I did & big thank you for the positive responses & DMs.

I’ve now expanded more on skill power & will continue to do so, here: open.substack.com/pub/catherin...
April 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Launch event 🚀 The project report "Transnational Perspectives on Migration and Integration" combines rich qualitative and quantitative data and methods to investigate #migration and #integration from a transnational perspective.
📆Tuesday 11.03., 2pm📍hybrid
Sign up here: go.dezim-institut.de/3z
DeZIM Lunch Discussion: Transnational Perspectives on Migration and Integration
Findings & Data Infrastructure of the TRANSMIT Research Project (2020 - 2024)
go.dezim-institut.de
March 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Saw "El maestro que prometió el mar" (Spain, 2023) yesterday. Beautiful movie, based on the life and death of anti-authoritarian (Freinet) teacher Antoni Benaiges in pre-civil war Spain, also dealing with the culture of (non-)remembrance in post-Franco Spain. #vivalarepública ❤️💛💜
February 27, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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This thread is a cool embodiment of what economists and sociologists can achieve if we talked to each other
1/ As US colleges bring back the SAT, an old dilemma reemerges: do test scores reduce bias, or does focusing on “fit” quietly uphold class barriers? My research on class discrimination at elite firms sheds light. 🧵
February 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM