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Timo Wiesner
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Doctoral researcher @sociumbremen / @unibremen interested in perceptions and evaluations of economic inequality.
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pengzell.bsky.social
Jeepers @nature.com I thought we were past this

Abstract: "we demonstrated an association between higher physical activity and slower cognitive and functional decline"

Press brief: "taking as few as 3,000 to 5,000 steps per day can help to stave off mental decline"

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Alzheimer’s decline slows with just a few thousand steps a day
A modest increase in physical activity can delay cognitive decline by three years — or more.
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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tillhilmar.bsky.social
📣 In a new open access article in @environmentalpol.bsky.social, I examine how appeals to "economic realism" – like the claim that we "can’t afford climate policy" – have long structured far-right #climateskepticism @cidape.bsky.social @ifswien.bsky.social
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Cassandra from the far right: how the German and Austrian populist radical right links climate skepticism with economic issues
This article asks how two populist radical right parties, the German AfD and the Austrian FPÖ, communicate about climate on Twitter/X. Analyzing a corpus of 6,254 tweets, it pays special attention ...
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September 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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'Why Inequalities Persist: Parties’ (Non)Responses to Economic Inequality, 1970–2020' by @alexanderhorn.bsky.social, Martin Haselmayer & @klueserthan.bsky.social was the most-downloaded @apsrjournal.bsky.social paper in August 2025.

You can read it #OpenAccess here - https://cup.org/4nwEeCo
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September 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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juliusk.bsky.social
"Overall, our findings suggest a “ratchet-effect” heuristic: left parties may still push back against rising disparities but have given up on lowering existing levels of inequality"

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Why Inequalities Persist: Parties’ (Non)Responses to Economic Inequality, 1970–2020 | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Why Inequalities Persist: Parties’ (Non)Responses to Economic Inequality, 1970–2020
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August 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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arminschaefer.bsky.social
I am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word.
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637
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August 7, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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philiprathgeb.bsky.social
Glad to share a symposium on my book "How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare" with SER: academic.oup.com/ser/advance-....

Featuring @alexandreafonso.bsky.social, @vapunkt.bsky.social, @ankehassel.bsky.social, @danielk24.bsky.social, @gscheiring.bsky.social, & rejoinder by myself 👇
July 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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natrinh.bsky.social
Very happy to be part of this special issue on "Gender and Wealth Accumulation" in @sasemeeting.bsky.social next to a fantastic group of scholars ✨
@dariatisch.bsky.social @schechtlm.bsky.social @nicolekapelle.bsky.social @pmlersch.bsky.social @shayobrien.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ser/article/...
Gender and wealth accumulation: an international perspective
Abstract. Why do women accumulate less wealth than men globally? As wealth inequality rises both within countries and worldwide, studies on gender and weal
https://academic.oup.com/ser/article/23/2/479/8190030?login=true#no-access-message#no-access-message
July 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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alexanderhorn.bsky.social
1/3) 📣Out in Party Politics:
We trace the equal rights and economic equality positions of 69 center-right and far-right parties since 1970 in 12 countries. We find that center right parties did not react to/address equal rights concerns and economic inequality

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July 4, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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alexanderhorn.bsky.social
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Our article on parties' programmatic responses to inequality - and more often the lack of responses - will come out in APSR!

Here is the @excinequality.bsky.social working paper:

kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstreams/4...

with @klueserthan.bsky.social & Martin Haselmayer 🧗🙏
June 23, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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socialindicators.bsky.social
We are seeing multiple instances of reviewers doing manuscript reviews via use of AI/LLM.

If you don't want to do a review the old-fashioned way, better to decline the request.

Giving someone else's manuscript to AI is a violation of intellectual property rights/laws; the manuscript isn't yours...
May 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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dingdingpeng.the100.ci
Thanks to everybody who chimed in!

I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.

So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
May 11, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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excinequality.bsky.social
First Wednesday of the month – time for a new In_equality podcast! This time, our hosts @mbusemeyer.bsky.social and Gabriele Spilker @uni-konstanz.de talk with @juandiego48cr.bsky.social about how people (mis-)perceive inequality – and why it matters for politics. ➡️ inequality.uni.kn/podcast
May 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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franziskawiest.bsky.social
My first paper of my dissertation 'Patrimonial Relations. Kinship, capital and conflict in super-rich Families' is out now on open access!

Here I discuss how super-rich families use relational work on affective family ties as an economic resource.

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Family feelings: affective ties and the reproduction of wealth in super-rich families
Rising wealth inequalities, concentrated in the hands of a few super-rich families, have recently sparked sociological interest in how these families sustain and legitimise their wealth across generat...
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April 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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weedenkim.bsky.social
My colleague Cristobal Young and co-author Erin Cumberworth just released their book on multiverse analysis, a set of tools that help resolve the "garden of forking paths" and "file-drawer" problems and, in the process, improve quantitative social & behavioral science.

Highly recommend.
Book jacket for Multiverse Analysis: Computational Methods for Robust Results by Cristobal Young and Erin Cumberworth.
April 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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🔔 Call for Participation 🔔
Lab² is inviting researchers to take part in a multi-analyst study on the effects of having daughters on various outcomes.
Join this metascience project as a co-author and gain the opportunity to work with SOEP data!
#ManyDaughters
Many Analysts
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March 31, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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socarxiv.bsky.social
Here's an update on sociology (and some demography) journal editorial polices with regard to sharing preprints before submission and after acceptance. A big improvement from the last edition of this table. With one exception.
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April 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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sophiahunger.bsky.social
🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Bremen 🚨

Open to PhD students and early career scholars Fully-funded places available for applicants, deadline 1st of May 📅 summerschoolwpm.org
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April 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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nilssteiner.bsky.social
Since the publication of our study on rising inequality ➡️ public support for redistribution (doi.org/10.1111/1475...), 2 independent studies on this relation have come out.

Reassuringly, they come to the same conclusion:
1. doi.org/10.1093/ijpo...
2. @twiesner.bsky.social‬: doi.org/10.1093/ser/...
April 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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lwestheuser.bsky.social
The deadline has now been extended to *14 April*.
I am also extremely happy that there will be keynotes by two of my sociological heroes, Patrick Sachweh and Michael Vester.
lwestheuser.bsky.social Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · Mar 17
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS 📢

"Moral Economies of the Polycrisis. Conflict, Critique, and Legitimation in Critical Times"

Workshop, June 16-17
University of Hamburg

Deadline for abstracts: 07/04
Supported by the Economic Sociology section of @dgsoziologie.bsky.social

linuswestheuser.com/cfp-moral-ec...
Moral Economies of the Polycrisis Conflict, Critique and Legitimation in Critical Times International Workshop. 16-17 June 2025. University of Hamburg. Organizers: Laura Lüth (University of Hamburg), Till Hilmar (University of Vienna), and Linus Westheuser (Humboldt University Berlin). By disrupting what is taken for granted, moments of economic, political, and ecological crisis reveal the implicit modus operandi of a society. As routines get derailed and settled arrangements come under strain, institutions are forced to explicate the “implicit social contract” (Barrington Moore) underpinning power, domination, and inequality. Who deserves protection when times get rough? Whose suffering matters and whose claims are made to count? Who is blamed? And what even counts as a crisis and what is shrugged off and fades into a ‘new normal’? These questions touch on a tacit structure of social expectations commonly discussed under the heading of moral economy. Drawing on thinkers like E.P. Thompson, James C. Scott, or Marion Fourcade, the moral economy perspective examines expectations of unequal reciprocity and distributive claims in economic relations; ideas of systemic legitimacy resting on mutual obligations between dominant and dominated groups; or political priorities tied to assumptions about the (un)deservingness and moral worth of social groups. Moral economy approaches focalize the ideational and institutional architecture of capitalist societies by parsing how legitimacy and hegemony are embedded in everyday moral reasoning. In addition these approaches also often look at social practices, struggles, and forms of critique centered around the violation of moral claims. At our workshop, we want to discuss work in the moral economy paradigm that sheds light on the current “polycrisis” composed of geopolitical turmoil, economic shocks, ecological breakdown, as well as crises of care and political legitimacy. What can the moral economy perspective teach us about the way capitalist societies navigate these crises? To what extent do crises open up a space in which dominated groups can critique inequality and demand a renegotiation of the implicit social contract? How do demands and political responses informed by existing moral economies deepen inequality and domination? How do institutions like the welfare state or social and eco-social policies seek to mend rifts in the moral economy? What are moral background assumptions that make some developments (such as migration) but not others (such as poverty and extreme wealth) appear as crises? And what is the explanatory status of moral economy as a concept? For instance, are popular moral sentiments and subjective aspirations a driver of political and economic action, or are they merely a symptom of existing power relations? Is moral economy about agency or structure? And if both, how exactly? These are some of the questions we want to discuss with a group of international scholars. We invite papers taking a moral economy perspective to empirically research or theorize the current conjuncture. Papers can be at all stages of development, the event is meant to collaboratively discuss work in progress. We especially welcome submissions from doctoral and post-doctoral researchers. Limited funds are available to assist with travel and accommodation for those lacking institutional support. Please send an abstract of max. 500 words to: laura.lueth@uni-hamburg.de, till.hilmar@univie.ac.at and linus.westheuser@hu-berlin.de Deadline for abstract submissions: 7 April, 2025 The workshop is supported by the Economic Sociology Section of the German Sociological Association (DGS), the Research Unit Economic Sociology at the University of Hamburg, and the Research Unit Macrosociology at Humboldt University Berlin.
April 2, 2025 at 9:26 AM
twiesner.bsky.social
Had a great time at the conference #SocialPolicy and #Inequality in the #Polycrisis.

Thanks to Corinna Kleinert, @apweiland.bsky.social (📸) and @katjamoe.bsky.social for the opportunity to present my first paper, which is now available to read in SER (academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...)
March 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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katjamoe.bsky.social
Already next week: Very much looking forward to host you at our conference Social Policy and Inequality in the Polycrisis @uni-bamberg.de !
Supported by @lifbi.bsky.social @difis.bsky.social
#Sozialpolitik #SozialeUngleichheit #socialpolicy #SocialInequality
www.uni-bamberg.de/sfa/veransta...
March 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM