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hermwerf.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology at the #EUI, Florence. Works on education and inequalities. Posts are personal. @eui-sps.bsky.social Substack/blog: https://substack.com/@hermwerf . www.hermanvandewerfhorst.net ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2323-3782
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Als die 8 miljard nu in het geheel niet wordt aangewend om de bezuinigingen op het HO te verzachten, is het gewoon pestgedrag.

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Literally nowhere in Berlin was the SPD the biggest party.

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Followers gezocht. Nu we niet meer actief zijn op X (algemeen FS-account 150k followers) en Mastodon helaas niet het volume van het oude Twitter lijkt te krijgen, hoop ik dat BlueSky die plaats kan innemen. Social media is toch een goedkope manier om publiek te informeren. pls rt

submitted 20 days ago • 56 comments

Chianti!

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AfD overwhelmingly won votes from non-voters and the centre-right. This is a standard pattern. It is a myth that the radical right are mainly winning disaffected centre-left voters.

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Wel een goed idee voor de Nederlandse kranten. Naast de reeds bestaande podcasts ook livestreams op camera na grote evenementen. @nrcnl.bsky.social @volkskrant.nl

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Sociologists commenting on the German elections on @zeit.de livestream, @steffenmau.bsky.social and Jutta Allmendinger. Social structure and demography as explanations for the election results.

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Left or right: be a liberal.

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#DonaldTrump & #VladimirPutin #Republicans #ElonMusk #UkraineInvasion #VolodymyrZelenskyy

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De opleidingskloof in werk, cultuur en politiek is stevig, maar niet iets nieuws. #Eenkloofvanalletijden www.aup.nl/nl/book/9789...

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Uitstekende @nrc vandaag met analyses over het veranderde wereldtoneel.

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American science is under attack. This includes everything from cuts to censorship. This will likely have damaging consequences for fields ranging from medical science to agricultral from national defense to economics. See this letter from the Director of the NIH: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

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Trumpiaanse kaalslag bij ontwikkelingssamenwerking.

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Our first year’s PhD students of @clic.bsky.social and the analytical sociology colloquium presented their plans. Our postdocs were discussants. Great day!

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You can say a lot about Trump, but within one month in office he did managed to stop Vladimir Putin from being the biggest threat to world peace

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Our first year’s PhD students of @clic.bsky.social and the analytical sociology colloquium presented their plans. Our postdocs were discussants. Great day!

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Another paper concluding that standardized tests improve equal opportunities. My earlier blog on the matter: substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Another paper concluding that standardized tests improve equal opportunities. My earlier blog on the matter: substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Today marks one year since Alexei Navalny’s sudden death in a Russian prison. Alexei Navalny was a determined advocate for democracy and freedom in Russia. We honour his memory and stand in solidarity with those who continue the fight for human rights and democracy.

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What I told @science.org about the wanton cancellation of valuable education statistics & evaluation contracts: “In my view, the termination of these contracts is capricious and wasteful and cruel…” 1/2 www.science.org/content/arti...

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Meanwhile, join me at Sciences Po in Paris! Assistant Professor position for a social scientist who focuses on digital inequalities (French not required to apply) www.sciencespo.fr/cris/en/news...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Voor fascistische leiders is onderwijs bedreigend, want onderwijs leidt - als het goed is - op tot kritische en zelfdenkende burgers. Dat willen fascistische leiders als Trump of Wilders niet. Zijn willen kadaverdiscipline en loyaliteit zonder vragen. Links Trump in 2025, rechts Wilders al in 2005.

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

Klassieke #gymnasia hebben het moeilijk, schrijft @nrc. In mijn onderzoek toonde ik aan dat het zelfstandige gym weliswaar de kans op een onvertraagd vwo-diploma vergroot tov een andere vwo-omgeving, maar alleen voor de kinderen die er doorgaans minder vaak naartoe gaan (lager opgeleide milieus).1/n

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Registered for the Stramilano Half Marathon on 23/3, which is nicely preceding the #rc28 conference. Anyone else joining?

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Thanks to @lpeblog.bsky.social for the invitation to write about what policy scholars should do if "policy" is permanently broken. There are lots of good answers, but we can't afford to ignore the question.

submitted 30 days ago • 10 comments

Great talk today by @filipkostelka.bsky.social in our department seminar @eui-sps.bsky.social, on election fatigue. With serious implications for the proponents of referenda; more elections reduce turnout, and abstention gets more acceptable to others if there had been many other recent elections.

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Hoor ik daar "Come on NSC!" ? open.spotify.com/track/6pACb7...

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Hoor ik daar "Come on NSC!" ? open.spotify.com/track/6pACb7...

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⚡️Lithuania to allocate $32 million for education of Ukrainian refugees. Lithuania will allocate nearly 32 million euros ($32.9 million) in 2025 to support the education of Ukrainians who have relocated to the country due to the war, Lithuanian broadcaster LRT announced on Feb. 9.

submitted 16 days ago • 17 comments

Kunnen de Nederlandse media ajb even bij de oosterburen kijken hoe een politiek debat georganiseerd kan worden? Ruimte voor antwoorden, serieuze vragen.

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