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Denys Pikus
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🇺🇦 | PhD'ing Social Policy at University of Oxford, Nuffield College.
Welfare-finance nexus in housing; housing insecurity; life course effects of social policies
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theguardian.com
To halt the far right, Europe’s progressive parties must fix its housing crisis. Our research shows how | Tarik Abou-Chadi, Björn Bremer and Silja Häusermann
To halt the far right, Europe’s progressive parties must fix its housing crisis. Our research shows how | Tarik Abou-Chadi, Björn Bremer and Silja Häusermann
The mantra of ‘build, build, build’ misses something crucial: that few can afford these new homes, say Tarik Abou-Chadi, Silja Häusermann and Björn Bremer
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November 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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deutschmann.bsky.social
New #openaccess study

We made >16,000 visa appointment requests at German embassies and consulates worldwide

Key finding: The poorer the country, the longer the wait time and the lower the chance to get an appointment.

"A time panelty for the Global South?"
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Visas are a key tool for states to regulate incoming mobility from abroad, which can have ramifications for the establishment and perpetuation of global inequalities. In this article, we systematically analyze visa appointment wait times in German embassies and consulates worldwide. Using computational methods, we collect—and publish—fine-grained longitudinal data on the closest available appointment dates for various visa types, covering a total of 16,182 visa appointment requests. Our analysis reveals strong and systematic variance: the poorer the country a diplomatic mission is based in, the longer the wait time and the lower the chances of finding an available appointment (which ranges from almost 0 to 100 percent). We also argue that Germany’s system is quite opaque compared to other established immigration countries such as the U.S. These core findings raise important questions in light of current debates about global justice, legal pathways to migration, and efforts to attract foreign talent. Graph that shows that 44.1 percent of requests did not lead to an appointment that could be selected. For the 55.9 percent where an appointment was available the distribution of wait times follows a steep curve with short wait times in many cases and a long tail of few cases with very long wait times of up to 98 days. The average wait times and chances to find an appointment varied a lot between Germany's diplomatic missions. The latter range from almost 0 to 100 percent. This variance is not random. Rather, economic wellbeing (GDP per capita) is a key predictor of wait times and chances of finding an appointment. The poorer the country a German embassy/consulate is based in, the longer the wait time and the lower the chances of finding an appointment.
November 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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janebliznyuk.bsky.social
Will be talking about:
🌀 the dynamics of eating habits during wartime;
🌀 how food budgets have shifted;
🌀 what people save on, and what remains untouchable;
🌀 whether healthy eating and self-care are gaining more interest;
🌀 what the “#wartime #consumer basket” looks like.
September 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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dariia.bsky.social
If you would like to be a speaker for my Workshops for Ukraine series, you can send me a DM or email me at dmykhailyshyna@kse.org.ua
Looking for speakers for 2-hour weekly workshops starting end of October on #RStats, #Python, data science, #dataviz, methods in #EconSky, etc.
August 25, 2025 at 10:08 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
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kyivindependent.com
As global power dynamics shift, Europe must navigate a path of principled pragmatism, upholding its legacy while adapting to new challenges, writes philosopher Slavoj Žižek in his op-ed.
Slavoj Žižek: Fate no longer smiles on us, Europeans
The second line of the Ukrainian national anthem — “Fate/luck still smiles on us, fellow Ukrainians” — sadly no longer holds. Much worse, we should extend this retreat of luck to Europe itself: Fate/l...
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February 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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trentonmize.bsky.social
Excited about a new article with Reilly Kincaid in ASR @asanews.bsky.social on role-accumulation & mental health across the life course. We identify a disagreement across prominent theories for how role-accumulation should affect mental health, especially in older adulthood. doi.org/10.1177/0003...
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February 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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mpidr.bsky.social
🚨🚨🚨Call for Papers! 🚨 Save the Date!🚨🚨🚨

Symposium
𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗩𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘁

📅 July 01–02, 2025
🗺️ @MPIDRnews

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@IUSSP #health #population #migration
February 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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sriucl.bsky.social
QSS/ CLS Seminar: Childbearing decision-making in Ukrainian cities during Russia’s full-scale invasion
13:00 - 14:00 Wednesday 5 February
If not now, then when? Brienna Perelli-Harris explores the views and experiences of childbearing during war. Book you place here: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...
Childbearing decision-making in Ukrainian cities during Russia’s full-scale invasion | IOE - Faculty of Education and Society
If not now, then when? Brienna Perelli-Harris explores the views and experiences of childbearing during war.
www.ucl.ac.uk
February 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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annekluge.bsky.social
It's been a long time coming but - my first PhD article is now published! 🎉✨
I conceptualise how sex education curricula shape the provision of reproduction knowledge, with empirical examples from the German federal states. ...⬇️
December 12, 2024 at 12:18 PM
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hannahzagel.bsky.social
Our book is out! It will be available open access soon. Read about reproduction policy in the welfare state from various comparative perspectives.

www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/rep...
Reproduction Policy in the Twenty-First Century
‘This book is truly going somewhere new, elucidating reproduction policy as a field of study and critically integrating it into comparative welfare state research. It shines an original light on an un...
www.e-elgar.com
November 19, 2024 at 3:17 PM