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🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

Mit den Stimmen von CDU, SPD und AfD wurde heute im Bundestag die Aussetzung des Familiennachzugs für subsidiär Schutzberechtigte beschlossen. Über 70 % der nachziehenden Angehörigen sind Frauen und Kinder. Ihnen wird damit eine der wenigen legalen und sicheren Möglichkeiten zur Einreise genommen.

Dürre-Monitor des Helmholtz-Zentrums: „Das Frühjahr 2025 war im deutschlandweiten Vergleich im Boden bis 25 cm Tiefe stärker von Dürre betroffen als alle Jahre zurück bis 1950“

“Political science, which as a discipline was slower to start training women to carry out research […] and resisted centering gender as an important category of analysis […], has only recently begun to grapple with the determinants and impact of women's foray into the voting public.”

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I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

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Female PhD students (in economics) benefit tremendously from having female faculty around. When female professors go on leave, it decreases third-year female PhD students’ likelihood of publishing & securing academic positions. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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ggplot v4.0.0 is now out! 🎉 Join the release party on October 3rd with developer & maintainer @teunbrand.bsky.social and the ggplot2 extenders meetup to learn all about what's new and the change-making process! 📅 Friday, Oct 3rd 🕐 3pm Eastern 📋 Sign up: bit.ly/join-gg-extenders #RStats