Kein besserer Start in den Morgen als mit einem starken ZEIT-Artikel meines großartigen Hertie-Kollegen Christian Gläßel und @ascharpf.bsky.social: www.zeit.de/politik/ausl... (Freebie-Link)

This week, the 2025 edition of the Lancet Countdown Report on Health and Climate Change was released — and I was able to contribute a small part again (look for indicator 5.2 in our version of the #ShowYourStripes chart, that’s me!). 1/4

We are hiring a PhD student to join us at the @hertiesecurity.bsky.social (start Sept. 2026)! If you want to conduct research on topics related to digital authoritarianism, state repression, contentious politics or social movements online, then this job might be for you!

This looks very useful for comparative research on legislative elites. Also, it's great to see more projects paying attention to interoperability with existing data infrastructure. We're on a good path as a discipline!

... in which I accidentally imitate Otto Wels, while saying things far less momentous than he did back then.

Day 1 at #MEDem Conference @gesis.org in Cologne, where I had the chance to share a personal perspective on data infrastructure projects for democracy research. Slides here: simonmunzert.com/medem25/

Coming up on Monday the @medem.bsky.social conference at @gesis.org in Cologne. Stay tuned for the future of democracy research infrastructures www.medem.eu/coming-up-th... Keynotes from @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social and @sldelange.bsky.social

Deadline for the position as Full Professor at our dept is coming closer: Great position, great colleagues & very positive working atmosphere. Please contact @danbischof.bsky.social if you have any questions. And thanks for asking - yes, the pic shows today's view from the position's office.

I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Amazing to see what those students pulled together! And I'm delighted that our @hertiedatascience.bsky.social‬ Data4Good festival got the ball rolling... stay tuned for the next edition in 2026! www.hertie-school.org/en/data4good...

If you're a researcher (or, less likely, a policymaker) reading this, you'll definitely want to read on. Featuring a dataset that may include you - and findings that make a solid case for hanging out in this space and sharing your work.

The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone. So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment. It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/ expertvoicestogether.org

Just published at CHI ’25: How Commercial Content Moderation APIs over- and under-moderate hate speech dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... w/ @dawiet.bsky.social ky.social, Amin Oueslati @hheuer.bsky.social cial @dimitristaufer.bsky.social al Lena Pohlmann. 🧵

Just checking in on how the young fellas are doing and... great, apparently! Congrats Elias and Andreas on this wonderful publication! And very timely as we enter a new session of the Bundestag that promises lots of contentious debating.

Aus, aus, das Spiel ist aus!! Zumindest für unser Vorhersagemodell von @zweitstimme.bsky.social für die #btw25. Hier unsere vorläufig finalen Prognosen, vor ca. 70 Zeugen an der @hertieschool.bsky.social vorgestellt. zweitstimme.org/presentation

Was der Kollege sagt - plus schöne Evidenz, warum Wahlkreisverwaisung verkraftbar ist. Schon mal bookmarken für die zu erwartende Debatte nächste Woche… www.zeit.de/politik/deut... (Freebie-Link)

Schon 4000 Leute - vielen Dank. Aber wir nehmen gerne noch mehr! www.wahlumfrage2025.de

Die AfD ist hat viele Wähler, aber noch mehr Gegner. Weil sich diese Gegner aber über viele Parteien verteilen, kann die AfD Direktmandate erringen. Würde das Wahlsystem berücksichtigen, dass viele Wähler jede Partei gegenüber der AfD bevorzugen, wäre auch im Osten die Wahlkarte weniger blau.

Spieltheoretisch lohnt sich das Wählen kleiner Parteien (bei 4-8%). Vielleicht interessant für @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social @juliusk.bsky.social @lstoetze.bsky.social @heidireichinnek.de @marcobuschmann.bsky.social