Bei den ganzen Maßnahmen, die Politiker:innen von Johann Wadephul über Friedrich Merz bis Julia Klöckner gegen Iran ankündigen, spricht niemand von Visa-Erleichterungen. Seit Jahren ist es für Iraner:innen fast unmöglich, ein Visum für Deutschland zu bekommen. Ah damn, das wäre ja echte Solidarität.

Man muss ja derzeit echt ganz genau hinhören, um das Schweigen von Merz zu Venezuela von seinem Schweigen zu den Hate-Aid-Sanktionen auseinanderhalten zu können.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

YES! So many structures and words that have been classed as AI giveaways are what speakers of English as a second language have been taught and encouraged to do.

Liebe Innenpolitik-Journalist*innen: Hier ist ein Elfmeter ohne Torwart für Euch: Die Schweiz hat die Palantir-Software überprüft und das Risiko für zu hoch befunden. Warum sind Dobrindt und mehrere Landesinnenminister anderer Meinung? netzpolitik.org/2025/schweiz...

The Mallorca rule applies here too: if you can't function outside of Bödefeld-Schmallenberg, just stay in fucking Bödefeld-Schmallenberg. Not like the rest of the world is jonesing for a visit from some of the least fun people on the planet.

turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT

New @nberpubs: "The Economic Impact of Brexit" www.nber.org/papers/w34459 "by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time." 😲

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes,” by Barwick, Chen, Fu, and Li: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

"Es ist empörend und ein Skandal, dass sich in der Hauptstadt des Deutschen Reiches 78.000 Juden [...] herumtreiben können. Sie verderben nicht nur das Straßenbild, sondern auch die Stimmung. [...] Ganz abstellen wird man das erst dadurch, dass man sie beseitigt." Goebbels, Tagebücher, 20.08.1941.

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here. www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/... And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong. #AIisnotresearch

🚨 Why do people protest against authoritarian regimes even when facing extreme danger? 🚨 In our new paper on Romania's 1989 Revolution, we find that communities exposed to the communist Gulag showed 5x higher dissent levels. doi.org/10.1177/0010... 1/🧵

So many echoes from this article for US politics....

“All opposing forces seem as though vanished from the face of the earth. It is this utter collapse of powers only recently present, no, their complete disappearance … that I find so staggering.” Victor Klemperer, 1933

Wenn man den Autoverkehr in den Städten reduziert, lässt sich auch das Wohnungsproblem lösen: Man macht aus Parkhäusern Wohnhäuser.

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

Someone please kill me right now.

Serious question: What is the one specific thing that would convince you that you’re living in an authoritarian state?

Oh great, now Duolingo is reading my papers

New paper with @yannistheocharis.bsky.social When it comes to health choices that seem to run counter to people's own self-interest, politics is overwhelmingly more important than individuals' cognitive styles or media diet: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Aber dass die CDU lieber den Eindruck ihrer eigenen Regierungsunfähigkeit in Kauf nimmt als diesen ekligen Happen aus der knallrechten Kulturkampf-Themenproliferation zu verschmähen, sollte ein wichtiger Datenpunkt für künftige strategische Erwägungen sein.

Die Politisierung der Justiz ist ein zentraler Baustein der Machtergreifung von Rechtsextremen. Wie willfährig Konservative dabei aktuell den Steigbügel halten, ist wirklich erschütternd. Ich weiß nicht, ob das an Naivität oder einem radikalisierten Bauchgefühl liegt, aber es ist gefährlich.

"One of the most important, and most overlooked, functions of protest is to prevent the dreaded 'spiral of silence,' which can begin when people wrongly believe that their own point of view is not widely shared," Betsy Levy Paluck writes:

Anne Hildagos Begrünung von Paris "zeigt in der aktuellen Hitzewelle erste, teils spektakuläre Resultate", schreibt der Standard: In den renaturierten Straßen und Vierteln ist es um bis zu vier Grad weniger heiß, auf den begrünten Dächern sind die Dachtemperaturen von 67,5 auf 35,7 Grad gesunken.

Vielleicht, also nur ganz vielleicht, ist es nach "Kleine Paschas", "Drecksarbeit" und "Zirkuszelt" ja auch einfach so, dass das gar keine sprachlichen Ausrutscher sind, sondern Friedrich Merz einfach so drauf ist?

Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

#Sexism #Bundestagswahl Hostile sexism shaped the 2021 German election: Baerbock’s support fell even among Greens, while AfD, FDP & CDU/CSU attracted sexist voters. A new study reveals just how deep gender bias runs – even without gender being a top campaign issue. doi.org/10.1080/2474...#Sexism

Julia Klöckner hat angewiesen, dass zur diesjährigen Pride Parade in Berlin keine Regenbogenflagge auf dem Bundestag weht. Nun wurde auch die Teilnahme der Bundesregierung an der Pride zurückgenommen. Ich sag’s nur, damit am Ende von euch niemand sagen kann, ma hätte ja nichts ahnen können.

Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called: "How to Write a Title and Abstract" Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles. #EconSky #AcademicSky

Washington Post is now engaging in discrediting its own sources to protect it’s owners economic interests. WaPo is not just a biased publication, it is a bad faith actor!

🎉 New article with @tanzformation.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 Publication Alert 🚨 Do populists get “disenchanted” in office? We analyze if coalitions with populists are less stable than mainstream coalitions and find that indeed, populists coalitions have a high chance of early termination. But—it depends. New paper out👇🏻 academic.oup.com/pa/advance-a...

Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Bedrückender und spannender Longread über das Ausmaß der Unterwürfigkeit und Würdelosigkeit, dass Menschen in Washington heute an den Tag legen, um politisch aufzusteigen. Die Gesellschaft scheint komplett re-feudalisiert. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

This is how your email finds me.

New peer-reviewed article by the Citizen Lab’s @mmichae1sen.bsky.social & @sanstis.bsky.social discusses the gendered forms of digital threats faced by women human rights defenders and journalists in exile and in the diaspora. Read it here ⬇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨Why do masses support democratic backsliding?🚨 A new @AJPS_Editor paper with Yotam Margalit, @liorsheffer.bsky.social and Itamar Yakir explores this question in the Israeli context. Our findings emphasize the role of leader attachment and affective polarization. doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

“We are currently clean on OPSEC” accidentally sent to a journalist is an all time classic.

This speaks volumes: Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada. leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03... munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...

„Private contact details of the most important security advisers to U.S. President Donald Trump can be found on the internet. DER SPIEGEL reporters were able to find mobile phone numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to the top officials.“ t.co/VUX1Cp5z9A

I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/

I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.

Microsoft constantly promises that AI will increase my productivity. But it would increase my productivity immensely if Word could finally recognize reliably in which language I am writing in a bi-lingual text. 🙄

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

Out now open access at @ajpseditor.bsky.social. 194 potential exclusion-restriction violations for studies using weather as an instrumental variable onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

NEW: We obtained the directions NSF program officers are following to review all grants for compliance with the Trump EOs and the turmoil it has created in an agency mandated to broaden STEM participation. Our story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...