📣 MZES Fellow @janaberkessel.bsky.social has won the first prize at the Short Talk Awards at the 18th Swiss Psychological Society Conference in Crans-Montana – congratulations! 👏

👉 www.linkedin.com/posts/the-ps...

📣 Diversity Week 🏳️‍🌈
📆 13-16 October 2025
📍 University of Mannheim

With contributions from MZES researchers Rainer Freudenthaler, @wurthmann.bsky.social (14 October), Andrea Chagas López, Oliver Rittmann (15 October) and many others.

Programme and details:
👉 www.uni-mannheim.de/en/gleichste...

📢 MZES PUBLIC LECTURE ❗️
📆 Wed, Oct 15, 2:30-4:00 pm CET
📍 MZES A 231 and via Zoom

@catherinedevries.bsky.social (Bocconi University)

will talk on

"Public Service Deprivation and the Rise of Populism in Europe"

Please share and join us! 🙂
👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even...

📣 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...

❗📣 MZES Research Fellow @wurthmann.bsky.social has been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant for his project “VisibleQueers”, fully titled

"Making the Queers Visible: Partisanship and Support among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Eastern and Western Europe".

Congratulations! 🥳👏
#ERCStG
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🗳️ The DFG-funded project @zweitstimme.bsky.social drew widespread attention from media and scholars in the context of the 2025 German federal election.

Besides national-level party vote shares, they forecasted district-level vote shares for candidates, and whether districts become “vacant”.

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⏰ Timing is crucial:

@marcdebus.bsky.social and @ortuttnauer.com show that voters tend to reward parties for attacking coalition partners, provided it comes at the right time.

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❓ Why don’t we see higher levels of interethnic partnerships in modern migration societies?

❗ By studying the preferences of young Christians and Muslims in Germany, MZES researchers highlighted the key role played by religious homophily in shaping partnership choices.

@parform.bsky.social

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For more information about Oliver including ongoing work, visit oliver-rittmann.com

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📢 MZES Fellow Oliver Rittmann has been granted this year’s Lorenz von Stein Award for his outstanding thesis titled “Video-as-Data for the Study of Parliamentary Speech: Methodology and Application”

Congratulations! 🥳

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📢 MZES PUBLIC LECTURE ❗️
📆 Wed, May 7, 2:30 pm CET
📍 MZES A 231 and via Zoom

Javier G. Polavieja (Spanish National Research Council)
will talk on

"Unpacking Racial Discrimination: The Role of Phenotype"

Please share and join us in person or via Zoom! 🙂
👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even...

❗ Reminder:
Apply now for a fellowship at the MZES, University of Mannheim!
📅 Deadline: 26 April
❗ Please note the updated link 😊👇🏻
www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/deta...