Lena Wagner

I’m looking for a postdoc (3y) to research kinship dynamics from a demographic, sociological, public health, or mathematical perspective. Reach out if you are interested and have any questions about the role or the MPIDR! 👇

📣 We're hiring! Looking for a PhD position? Join our team in Berlin! Work with @heikekluever.bsky.social and @markuskollberg.bsky.social in #STATEWORK at Humboldt University and join our @dynamics.bsky.social PhD programme Great people, great project, great city! 🗓️ Deadline: 13 October 2026

A new analysis by @propublica.org’s @andreasuozzo.com & Angel Philip shows that deaths from ectopic pregnancy are on the rise — and it’s worse in states with abortion bans. www.propublica.org/article/ecto...

I really am starting to feel preyed on by predatory journals

Delighted our paper (with an amazing group of co-authors) is forthcoming in the APSR Takeaway for Labour and other centre-left parties: fixing public services is key to reducing support for the populist right 👇

🚨Funding Opportunities in Berlin: Our programmes support excellent researchers and collaborative projects across Berlin's universities @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, @humboldtuni.bsky.social, @tuberlin.bsky.social, @udkberlin.bsky.social and Charité. 1/2

New working paper! I examine whether exposure to local unemployment during adolescence shapes immigration attitudes in adulthood, focusing on the long-term imprint of early economic insecurity doi.org/10.31235/osf...

❄️ Freezing cold outside? Perfect timing to submit your work for our Family Diversity & Health summer workshop in Berlin ☀️ 📅 June 29–30, 2026 📍 Hertie School, Berlin 🫶 No participation fees 🏨 1 hotel night covered 📨 1-page abstracts due: Jan 31, 2026

🎉 Große Anerkennung für die #HumboldtUni: Anette Eva Fasang wurde zum Mitglied der Leopoldina gewählt. Die Auszeichnung würdigt ihre exzellente Forschung zu Demografie, Sozialstruktur sowie zur Soziologie von Familien und Lebensverläufen. Mehr dazu 👉 www.hu-berlin.de/nachrichten/...

Denn gerade in aktuellen Rentenreformdebatten sollten Ungleichheiten zwischen Geschlechtern mitgedacht werden – insbesondere mit Blick auf Sorgearbeit und Erwerbsverläufe. 🔗 Dazu und zur Rentenlücke in DE eine paar Gedanken [hier](crowold.github.io/posts/2025/1...) #GenderPensionGap #Rentenpolitik

📣 New op-ed in Süddeutsche Zeitung: What the data say about the “Brandmauer” I summarize key findings from a study with @anninahermes.bsky.social across 57 democracies ➡️ Far-right parties don’t get weaker in government, they get stronger (~6 points by the next election) tinyurl.com/4j6jaud2

Join us in December for our last event in 2025, an informal online Meet & Mingle. There's a loose structure, but in brief: we hang out for about an hour and chat about feminist quantsy stuff we're working on/ thinking about. More info + link to sign up: femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...

From a humble master’s thesis to a published article! Thanks to my amazing co-authors and thoughtful reviewers, I learned so much about how (not) to write a scientific paper 😅 Really happy to see it out at @genus.bsky.social!

📢 Call for Papers 📢 Excited to co-edit a Special Issue on “Time Use and Family Dynamics in Contemporary Europe” in Comparative Population Studies (CPoS)! We invite submissions using time-use data to advance research on family life across Europe. 🔗 www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP...

@albalanau.bsky.social and @demosocupf.bsky.social are looking for a #PhDcandidate working on the dynamics of child poverty and the role of social policies in Spain and Southern Europe. 📅 22nd October #AcademicSky #ResearchJobs

just sayin‘

Big milestone - my first citation! 🎉 The paper shows how economic deprivation (unemployment + financial dissatisfaction) increases risk of #IPV in Germany. Good to see we are advancing this important research in Germany but we need more and better data to do more than just scratch the surface

How can policy address #intimatepartnerviolence and why do we need better data? 💡 Join us 16 Oct, 18:00 at @hertieschool.bsky.social for a discussion with @jisteinert.bsky.social, Miriam Schroer-Hippel, Christina Boll and more! Details & registration ⬇️ 🔗 www.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev...

Trump minimizes domestic abuse during a talk at the Museum of the Bible: "Things that take place in the home, they call crime ... If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see?"

💫Very happy to share that my first single-authored paper has been published in @sfjournal.bsky.social. I suggest to combine Life Course Feature Selection with Ñopo decomposition to disentangle which life-course events drive gender inequalities such as Gender Pension Gaps doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... 🧵👇

Neuer Beitrag 🚨 Lukas Zielinski, @claraoverweg.bsky.social und ich fragen uns für die Bundesstiftung Gleichstellung „Wie können wir Gleichstellung messen?“. Im Steckbriefformat beleuchten wir verschiedene Gender Gaps und ihre Messung durch Gleichstellungsindikatoren tinyurl.com/4kzyf6sz

Ciao Milano ✌🏽 I am presenting my current work on child political socialisation in non-nuclear family structures at #ESPANet2025 #Stream23. If you’re up early on Friday, come to my talk in room 435, 9am. And if you’re not here but currently thinking about similar things, drop me a line!

New paper: @katjamoe.bsky.social, @claraoverweg.bsky.social and @apweiland.bsky.social study the motherhood penalty in net wealth and public pension wealth in Germany www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Job alert! Join us at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a postdoctoral fellow to work on your own research for three years. #sociology

New paper out @wepsocial.bsky.social! 🥡 Key Take-Away: Opposition parties seek more conflict with the government when performing poorly in the polls – especially when falling below their previous election result. Read full 🧵 below:

Back from a month at @mpidr.bsky.social and already missing the sea breeze in Rostock. Many thanks to @nhiekel.bsky.social, her team, and all other colleagues I met during my time for a very inspiring and welcoming stay. I highly recommend - happy to share more if you’re interested, feel free to ✉️

🚨 New paper out! 🚨 We use Eurobarometer data to explore how strongly people across the EU reject the “no means yes” rape myth. Gender gaps persist, but shrink with higher gender equality and “only yes means yes” laws. w/ @saraalice.bsky.social l (@unibe.ch) 👉 doi.org/10.1177/23780231251351676

📣 Call for Applications 📣 3-year Postdoc position in Berlin 🚀 Join our Comparative Political Behavior Group at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & the @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social Great people, great projects, great city – come work with us! 🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025

Excited to present work on the impact of local unemployment in formative years on anti-immigration attitudes in adulthood tomorrow at #epsa2025 Saturday 11.20am-1pm Room 1A.08

In einer Grafik aktuell (@iabnews.bsky.social) zeige ich die Sätze des Elterngeldes inlfationsbereinigt im Vergleich zu anderen Sozialleistungen. Das Elterngeld wurde seit Einführung nicht erhöht; der Mindest- und Höchsatz haben real seitdem 27% an Wert verloren: www.iab-forum.de/graphs/elter...

🚨I'm advertising for a PhD position (4 yrs) in quant. Sociology/Social Demography (life course, social ineq.) @tcdsociology.bsky.social! 📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025 📄 More info: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va... 🔄 Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity #TrinityCollegeDublin

🌍 Exciting Opportunities at LIS and LISER! LIS and @liserinlux.bsky.social are proud to announce the third call for two research initiatives: ▶️ Senior Fellowship ▶️ Research Stays www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-eve...

Very excited to share that my first solo-authored paper is published in @demresjournal.bsky.social! ✨ I explore key trends in intimate partner violence (IPV) in Colombia over time and examine its relationship with infant health. Read more here 👇

Viele #Alleinerziehende stemmen #Kinderbetreuung, Job und Haushalt – und kommen finanziell kaum über die Runden. Das zeigt auch der aktuelle #Familienbericht. Alleinerziehende treffen auf steuerliche, strukturelle und soziale Rahmenbedingungen, die für sie nicht passen.

Excited to see our work on the 10th Family Report on the impact of divorce and separation across the family life course presented today by German Minister of Family Affairs @lisapaus.bsky.social. Check out key insights and recommendations here ⬇️ www.bmfsfj.de/bmfsfj/theme...

A new year? In this economy?

🚨 Der djb fordert die schnelle Verabschiedung eines Hilfesystems gegen geschlechtsspezifische Gewalt (sog. Gewalthilfegesetz). Angesichts alarmierender Zahlen ist Handeln jetzt unabdingbar! Hier geht es zu unserer Pressemitteilung: kurzlinks.de/5iqc

Umweltzonen verbessern nicht nur die Luftqualität, sondern wirken sich auch positiv auf die mentale Gesundheit und den Bildungserfolg der Anwohner*innen aus. Dieser Zusammenhang wurde erstmals in einer von DIW-Forscherin Laura Schmitz mitverfassten Studie belegt: www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c.... (1/4)

🔍 🫨 Children in stepfamilies report more difficulties than those in nuclear families; ❤️ but higher parental esteem and lower conflict in stepfamilies partially mitigate this effect. Check out our new preprint at @socarxiv for the full analysis 👇🏼 osf.io/preprints/so...

Hier geht es zu der gesamten Recherche und mehr als 2000 Seiten interner Unterlagen aus dem Finanzministerium. fragdenstaat.de/blog/2024/04...

Don't miss the submission deadline for the Divorce Conference 2024 - this year we will meet in Berlin! www.uni-due.de/divorce-conf...

First paper out of my PhD published in Nature Communications! Henri Gruhl and I find that different types of climate protests (climate strikes & acts of civil disobedience) have been effective in increasing concerns about climate change in Germany.

📢 Join us on March 4th for the 1st Hertie Distinguished Equality Lecture at the Social Policy Research Colloquium! Jonas Rees will discuss "From collective remembrance to collective forgetting" from 12:30-13:30 in Room: Forum A. Don't miss this insightful session! @hertieschool.bsky.social

Excited to kick off a week-long course on novel data science tools in demographic research at @mpidr.bsky.social today 👩🏽‍💻

New in AJS! @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social, Anette Fasang & I investigate a hotly debated question: are Millennials worse off than their parents’ generation, the Baby Boomers? We argue that this is a misleading question. Why? See ⬇️ or read www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...