Ana Catalano Weeks

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Why do politicians support quotas that threaten their careers? A must-read: Resistance to Gender Quotas in Latin America by @malugatto.bsky.social shows how career incentives drive hidden resistance—and how women + courts push reform forward. Review by @anacweeks.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yvtzk4br

Super excited to see this article in print in the APSR: 📚 “Public Service Decline and Support for the Populist Right: Evidence from England’s National Health Service” - with the brilliant @zachdickson.bsky.social @catherinedevries.bsky.social @simonecremaschi.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S000...

📢 I am recruiting 2 fully funded PhD students to join my UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, “Invisible Burdens, Visible Gaps: The Mental Load and Gendered Citizenship” @uniofbath.bsky.social ! 🌍 Intl applications welcome 📅 Deadline: 1/12/26, for Oct 27 start www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Come and join us @sriucl.bsky.social We’re looking for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science with a research agenda on the environment and/or climate change, and expertise in causal inference. See full details and apply 👉🏼 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

From July 2026 - Thinly Veiled: The Use of Femonationalist Speech in European Parliaments - https://cup.org/4fPucuL - @jmfernandes86.bsky.social, Bonnie M. Meguid & @anacweeks.bsky.social #OpenAccess

🚨 Madrid people, mark your calendars: the permanent seminar of the Instituto Juan Linz is back! We have a great series of speakers from across the social sciences this year. First talk this Friday with @llschenoni.bsky.social Here is the program for this Fall:

It was great to talk to Rose Hirst @thespinoff.bsky.social about whether apps can help us outsource the mental load. Spoiler... I am a skeptic, and Rose's experience didn't change my mind !

How can the conditions of local politics enable women to continue representing their communities? Ana Catalano Weeks at @uniofbath.bsky.social and Anna Helgøy find that family-friendly working practices can increase women’s willingness to stand for office again.

Great talking to Grace Dean for this feature re gender gap in mental load. The article links to my research with @leahruppanner.bsky.social, @helenkowalewska.bsky.social, & @annanhelgoy.bsky.social 😀 The connection to current uk paternity leave debate is v important ! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

At a moment when gender and sexuality is central to understanding contemporary American politics, Harvard decides to . . . defund its Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies program.

Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton

Rutgers dean charged after filming 'upskirt' videos, officials say

Exploring legislative speeches from 5 West. Europ. countries from 2009-2024, @jmfernandes86.bsky.social, Bonnie M. Meguid & @anacweeks.bsky.social show that the use of femonationalist rhetoric by far right parties increases the more other parties accomodate to far right anti-immigration positions:

If journal editorial is of interest to you - replace me at @jeppjournal.bsky.social as Associate Editor. I've loved working with JEPP. The team, papers, and reviewers have been awesome. Happy to answer questions if you have any. editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

Does Your Relationship Need a ‘Mental Load’ Coach? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/w...

🆕 in @bjpols.bsky.social: "Thinly Veiled: The Use of Femonationalist Speech in European Parliaments" We describe the ⬆️ of femonationalist speech over time & across party families in Europe We find the far right use it esp when other parties converge on their anti-immigration position Open access!

New article, written before I became a father and was thus unable to conceive of a future when this paper would be out in the world

Japan: oh no what shall we do about the low birth rates Also Japan: how dare she take 4 months off to have a baby BBC News - A mayor in Japan announced her maternity leave - and got the whole country talking www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🇸🇪 🇪🇺 Swedish minister brings baby to EU talks Sweden's environment minister Romina Pourmokhtari brought her three-month-old baby to an EU meeting, in a barrier-breaking move she said showed it was possible to be both "a present minister and a present mother".

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

Just arrived in Belfast for EPSS!⚡ So much going on and so many great papers to catch up on. This Saturday 9:00 AM I'm presenting my paper with @anacweeks.bsky.social on Women's Leadership in the Rad Right!. Come find us at the panel "The Strategic Use of Gender and Sexuality by the Radical Right"

Last year, we shared a paper showing that Labour's accommodation of the radical right did not work. We now have a new version of the paper online: osf.io/preprints/so...

“Over half reported having reviewed or adjusted key words in research proposals, and almost half said they’d reframed research topics. [43%] had also cautioned students or collaborators to be careful what they say publicly and more than a third had abandoned plans on one or more research topics.”

The US government has a new website for moms that is peddling pro-natal, trad-wife propaganda: “the only mention of working motherhood on the homepage links to a warning that “workplace exposures, conditions, and tasks can affect workers’ sexual and reproductive health.” See @jessicacalarco.com👇

Reform mobilising non-voters looks to be a big story from this year’s locals. As so often, non-voters are the “dark matter” of politics - rarely discussed but so numerous they even mobilising a small slice can have big effects. Particularly in low turnout local elections.