@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris). We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵: #PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐

New kinds of questions to ponder for a large political science (!) conference with (typically) ~50% participants from outside of North America. It used to be that "only" people with the "wrong" passports suffered visa issues; now it's about the risk of politically motivated sanctions.

The essential idea is that cognition (AGI) can be derived from discourse (ie the internet)*. Applying this same logic, I see no reason why Cat General Intelligence cannot be derived from Actual Cat discourse (ie meowing). * Note that the internet is c 75% cat photos etc - not a coincidence

Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it. 
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures. 
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do. 👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette... 🧵

Next Wednesday (October 15, 17:00 Berlin time), we're kicking off next term's Speaker Series with a talk and package demo by Francisco Tomas-Valiente on "Uncertain Performance: How to Quantify Uncertainty and Draw Test Sets When Evaluating Classifiers". Paper and information on how to join ⬇️

Kleiner Gruß von der BVG an die @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social: Pünktlich zum Beginn der Vorlesungszeit ist drei Tage "Ersatzverkehr" auf der (einzigen) U-Bahn-Linie, die zur Uni fährt. Liebe Erstsemester, willkommen in Berlin! 🤡

The amount of time it takes to grade things once they show an inkling of maybe-LLM-hallucinations is such a waste—gotta stop reading and spend half an hour to track down sources to see if they actually exist and say the things they claim to say

Evin Dalkilic @evinale.bsky.social: Hochschulen und Bibliotheken "dürfen Diamond-Open-Access-Publikationen" wie den Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de finanzieren. Das Wirtschaftlichkeitsgebot steht nicht entgegen: "Um es kurz zu machen: Es handelt sich um ein Scheinproblem." 1/4

It’s really worrying that it takes a political scientist to point out all these irregularities in a paper that is picked up to such an extent by the press — reviewers, science editors, anyone listening? Anyone bothered to ask for the underlying data & code?

🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.

We are going to be digging out from all this for years and years and years.

Together with the great colleagues @i4replication.bsky.social, we are organizing the first Münster replication games (28/11/25)! Highly recommended to junior & senior scholars. Joint project together with #MueCOS & #CDSC @uni-muenster.de. More info/registration: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3526/

Very excited to share this new tool for teaching the politics of climate change. What are the different *theories of change* that underlie decarbonization efforts and policies? Help your students learn about them. Please share widely. 🌎🔌💡🛢️

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methods section said “we follow standard practice” because we did not understand what we were doing but assumed someone once had

📣 Postdoc (75 %, 3 yrs) at @unigreifswald.bsky.social — start autumn 2025 on perhaps Germany’s most beautiful campus. Know someone with a PhD (or nearly done) in Political Science? ⬇️ #PolSci #Postdoc

The face-eating leopards are coming for ... Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok!?

This is simply huge. Hell freezing is next on my bingo card, after the French now agreed to coordinate on nuclear responses with the UK ! Anything is possible !

1/ Der erste 🇪🇺 #EUCO für 🇩🇪 Bundeskanzler #Merz ist vorbei – und offenbar war’s ganz nach seinem Geschmack. Doch was kam dabei heraus? Was hat Europa davon? Am 01.07. #EBDanalyse online mit Kanzleramt. 🧵 Vorab die Schlussfolgerungen: www.consilium.europa.eu/de/meetings/... bsky.app/profile/cons...

It's time for the EU to embrace Eurobonds and topple the US dollar. on.ft.com/4kgLYq5

Diese ganze Story stinkt zum Himmel. Bojanowski konfrontiert niemanden von den Grünen, der SPD oder einen Umweltverband mit diesen Vorwürfen, sondern holt bei der "Initiative Transparente Demokratie" eine Stellungnahme ein - ein Verein, der GERADE EINMAL ZWEI WOCHEN EXISTIERT?

Schließt die EU-Kommission Geheimverträge mit Umwelt-NGOs damit die dann Lobbyarbeit im Auftrag machen? 🧐 Gestern erschien in der welt ein Artikel, der das suggeriert. Damit wird dann Kampagne gegen Zivilgesellschaft gemacht. ❌Das Argument stimmt jedoch einfach nicht❌/1

As per tradition, the Financial Secrecy Index Visualized - in diamond plot format, with @taxjustice.net's data (2025 edition):

⚡Financial secrecy rocks democracies. The latest #FSI2025 shows countries enabling the most #financialSecrecy are shifting towards autocracy. US ranks 1st & downgraded to an anocracy. EU countries are accused of "Jekyll-and-Hyde"-like secrecy. bit.ly/450aU0U

In Berlin wie in Hannover werden Erfolge bei der #ExStra gefeiert: Ganz herzlichen Glückwunsch an alle Beteiligten! @scripts-berlin.eu @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social & @unihannover.bsky.social (Idee für eine Kollaboration: Liberale Weltordnung mit Lasern verteidigen? 🧐)

Reminds me of a discussion we just had at the @dvpw.bsky.social norms workshop in Hamburg... CC @carmenwunderlich.bsky.social et al.

Sorry, but this stuff drives me absolutely crazy. I’m sorry economists & journalists are just discovering the field of international political economy. But we’ve been studying & publishing about this stuff for 50 years now. There’s no new age of anything & “geoeconomics” has been around forever.

To mark the 75th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, the European Parliament is introducing the European Order of Merit. It is the first official European distinction of its kind, honouring individuals who advance European integration and values.

Over here, we make people resign if they plagiarized in their PhD dissertation...

Unenviable task for @isanet.bsky.social: In 2026, host a conference (that normally attracts >50% scholars from abroad) not just in the U.S. but in a Republican-led state. After Covid, the next big test for the "in-person-and-inside-a-Hilton" model.

total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/4c4b...

📚😅🎉 Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher! Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies. Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com #RStats #PyData

🚨🚨Great @politico.eu report on EU proposed response to Trump #tariffs revealing the ingenuity among trade nerds in @ec.europa.eu in adopting a less aggressive than expected but still painful counteroffer likely to stir bad mood in the Trump administration.🧵 www.politico.eu/article/eu-t...

🚨🚨 This is excellent by @edwardluce.bsky.social on the futility of understanding #trump on the scale of rational foreign policy/trade policy schools of thought: www.ft.com/content/9f51...

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

I think they treat partners by how much they "take advantage" of the US. Their measure is the export/import ratio, maybe taken from this Wiki page. To make up the "tariffs on the US": EU: 1 - 0.61 = "39%" Indonesia: 1 - 036 = "64%" Australia: 1 - 2.1 = oops, U.S. has a trade surplus, so "10%"

I just did the numbers and this assumption looks to be completely right. Let’s pause for a minute and consider how INSANE this is. 🧵

It’s only vote buying if it happens in the tropics. Otherwise it’s just sparkling whatever this is. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Deutsche SiPo-Community ekstatisch: heute Nacht endlich #Zeitenwende!

Teaching the political economy of the green transition this term, I used, and learned from, some amazing 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬. A 🧵 on some of the best. Further suggestions are very welcome, I'll add them below.

Honest question, not trying to be snarky: Surely that can't be all they got out of it? It seems kind of silly for someone in such a position to risk their career for a few thousand € (plus some nice dinners, presumably).

Sportmedien würden schreiben: "Für die kommende Saison haben sich @unihannover.bsky.social und @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social auf eine Leihe ohne Kaufoption verständigt." -> Ab April verwalte ich in Hannover die Professur für Internat. Beziehungen! (Kaffee dort oder im Bordbistro? Bitte melden! 🤗)

No, #libgen is not a library set up by evil corps to train AI. No, your publisher did not upload books to it. (Your co-author might have...) It's an old-fashioned pirate site used by many to circumvent paywalls and/or get out-of-print stuff. "Gray open access", basically. The AI guys came later.

An increasingly exasperated Judge Boasberg gives the government another 24 hours to explain themselves, with his order showing high skepticism towards any claim of state secrets for unclassified information that, as he points out, was largely disclosed by the admin already on social media.

Die "wissenschaftlichste" Petition, die ich je gesehen habe. Viel Text, einige Klicks nötig -- und Peer Review! 😃

Last week the 2024 data of the #AcademicFreedom Index (AFi) was released by @vdeminstitute.bsky.social & @fau.de. At @gppi.bsky.social I co-developed the AFi & want to share some observations. Access the dataset on V-Dem's website & read the 25' report: academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...