(Hearing the word "sycophant", I'll always imagine a poor elephant that's terribly I'll.)

I'm teaching my judicial politics module at UCL again this term which means that I'm keen on new resources for students. In particular, let me know if you published a dataset on courts/judicial politics/legal mobilization and it is not yet listed here: michalovadek.github.io/judicial-pol...

Back in the travelling coffin. #couchette

I've had two different EU officials tell me, basically, "Back when you were at Google you guys said 'no' to us all the time and we hated it. But now we get newer platforms saying 'yes' all the time and... that kind of creeps us out." 10/

Fox has been named Head of the Hen House in #ireland. https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/09/17/ex-tech-lobbyist-named-to-data-protection-commission/ #Dataprotection #Privacy #gdpr #meta #lobbying #facebook #revolvingdoor cc @lobbyctrl_tech @corporateeurope

Right now in Hamburg-Harburg. #phonesnaps

Vienna -- Hamburg by night, and then onward to Lüneburg for a grant proposal workshop on unpolitics. The pod's mattress corresponds nicely with my ereader's felt sleeve, and the #oebb even thought of a skateboard compartment. #couchette #nowtrawelling #trains

Causal evidence of racial and institutional biases in accessing paywalled articles and scientific data https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08299 Nice setup - one more reason why it's a good idea to not put papers behind paywalls or data behind "data available upon request"

For weeks I have been telling reporters that #trump could have the power to switch off our tech in #europe. It felt a bit alarmist until I just read the #microsoft, on the behest of the #US gov has suspended the email account of Karim Khan, #ICC chief prosecutor. One of the most important […]

A beautiful day out. Schneeberg up via Nandlgrat (wit a fun scramble) and down via Fadensteig. Found a bunch of ancient cans and carried them back down where they belong.

"So in summary: it appears that this was a shooting where the victim, an influencer, was answering a question from another influencer when he was shot by a third influencer, after which a fourth influencer documented the ensuing chaos and a host of other influencers registered their takes […]

currently touching grass. call me on the phone if you need me.

So this is really really bad, right? The SCOTUS has just given a green light for ICE to detain ALL NONWHITES based on their appearance and language. I agree with one of the plaintiffs: this is nothing short of “racism with a badge”. The conservative-stuffed SCOTUS is actively destroying […]

#vienna #phonesnaps

White paper from the Alan Turing Institute: The Challenges and Prospects of the Intersection of Humanities and Data Science. The vision: a two-way exchange where humanities enrich data science with critical, ethical, and cultural insights – and data science […] [Original post on det.social]

Here are two easy things YOU can do: #1 Every academic supporting #openscience and #openaccess should consider ORE as their primary publishing venue and ask colleague/co-authors to do the same. #2 Point your librarian, institutional leaders, funding agencies towards the documents linked above […]

This should have been big news! Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals: FWF 🇦🇹 RCN 🇳🇴 Forte 🇸🇪 ARIS 🇸🇮 SRC 🇸🇪 FCT 🇵🇹 CSIC 🇪🇸 DFG 🇩🇪 Formas 🇸🇪 ANR 🇫🇷 Only two of them issued press releases in […]

[Hot take, food] Pesto with miso (and ginger) beats pesto with parmigian. (Best with udon.)

SGEU Future Grants: supporting the data collection of Ph.D. students doing research on the #EuropeanUnion Deadline: 30 September 2025 https://ecpr.eu/news/news/details/859 #CfA #socialscience #politicalscience

TIL: #SonicYouth played the first concert of their career in #vienna, at the U4 club, brokered by Edek Bartz.

Buying a used penny board, listening to Fluke, like it's 1997. #vienna #sunday #phonesnaps

Do you know the temptation to write just a "quick paper" because you have "almost all the data anyway". I yielded in part thanks to @jonasbornemann.bsky.social, and of course this became one of those notorious side-projects that turn into your main project for a while. Erm, I mean for two and a […]

Eugen Coubillier is a little-known photographer 📸 from #cologne whose archive was largely destroyed in #wwii. A recent #photobook 📖 brings together what survived, including portraits of everyday life. A rare glimpse into a lost visual history of the city. Just ordered a copy myself and can’t […]

The ECPR Standing Group on the Politics of Law & Courts Bluesky account is now bridged to the Fediverse. Follow it for updates and browse posts on talks at the just concluded ECPR-GC in Thessaloniki: @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social #ecprgc25 #ecprgc2025 #ecpr2025 #ecpr

Is there some quick and easy way to follow all accounts in a Bluesky starter pack that are Bridgy Fed-bridged to the Fediverse? @FediTips

It is not entirely surprising that the Justice Department paralegal who hurled a Subway salami footlong at a Customs and Border Protection officer—declaring, upon his arrest, “I did it. I threw a sandwich”—promptly became an icon of D.C. resistance

The take-home message: Overall, mobilization against EU legislation, implementation, and enforcement is growing, but the salience and polarisation of the respective Court proceedings depends on how much authority the EU wielded in these domains in different […] [Original post on eupolicy.social]

From Jeremy Singe-Vine's newsletter Data Is Plural: > The European Union’s Directorate-General for Competition has begun publishing case datasets, providing information about decades of antitrust and cartel cases, merger cases, Digital Markets Act cases, subsidy cases, and more […]

Do you know the temptation to write just a "quick paper" because you have "almost all the data anyway". I yielded in part thanks to @jonasbornemann.bsky.social, and of course this became one of those notorious side-projects that turn into your main project for a while. Erm, I mean for two and a […]

Look, we have a new statement of principles for the Republican Party.

Kid is being enrolled in school. Her class has a gmail address.

Late summer, but the bee-eaters have not left the Viennese outskirts yet.

In April 2025, grants and financial support for the project from the National Endowment for the Humanities were terminated following an executive order by the current US president.

Since 2018, the project “Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade” https://enslaved.org/ at Michigan State University has collected and linked datasets about the lives of people involved in the historical slave trade to create visualizations and let people explore biographies. It was one […]

Ich gehe jetzt einfach mal davon aus, das Trump das nicht kannte.

A shot in the dark, but has anybody fixed the collimation in a pair of Kite Birdwatcher 8x24 binoculars? I can't find any screws to adjust the vertical prism alignment inside. Any ideas about a repair shop in Austria? #optics #repair #diy #birdwatching

Auch heute ergibt die Twitter-Instantjournalismus-Pipeline wieder Käse.

#CfA Postdoc position for platform data and computational social science at GESIS, Cologne, Germany. Four years, 100%, polSci, comSci, psychology #academicjobs […]

JOB: come work with me @uni-konstanz.de ! We have a junior professorship to fill from 1 April 2026 (6 years, non-tenured, as funding comes from the Centre for Cultural Inquiry). The denomination is very timely: Environmental #Anthropology! Details ⬇️ stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2... #academia

The new Komex course catalogue is out. The classes cost a fraction of the typical ECPR methods school, for example. Short: €180 early bird / €250 regular Compact: €270 early bird / €350 regular Main: €440 early bird / €540 regular https://afww.uni-konstanz.de/komex/ #methods #socialscience

("Cordula killt dich" muss hier noch irgendwo rumliegen. Unlesbar aber großartig. Hat mir zwei schöne Sommernachmittage im Schatten eines großen Baumes bereitet). #lastboost

Ich bin im Funkhaus Berlin für eine Live-Sendung über digitale Souveränität und Alternativen zu Big-Tech-Anbietern. Im Fahrstuhl und auf allen Fluren hängt dieser Flyer. Keine Pointe.

📢 Stellenausschreibung! Postdoc-Stelle (100%, 4 Jahre) Institut für Sozialwissenschaften @kieluni Bereich Soziologische Theorie 👉 Fokus ist Theoriebildung in Forschung + Lehre Bewerbungsfrist 30.09.25 Rückfragen per E-Mail an mich. @dgsoziologie […]

As a person from a former British colony who studied a lot of colonial and postcolonial history of their occupation of my lands, it is not lost on me that they are now doing to themselves what they first practiced on others. Every single ‘anti-democratic’ law and action they ever later accused […]

Ich bin heute Morgen im Bus von einem aggressiven Mann homophob beleidigt und geschlagen worden. Ich konnte mich wehren, habe die Polizei gerufen und bin okay, aber mir hat niemand geholfen. Wenn ihr sowas mitkriegt: Schweigt nicht, seid laut, greift ein. Es fühlt sich mies an, allein zu sein.

The Oval Office looks exactly like the Mar a Lago toilet where Trump stored classified documents. It's all the same.

Der Amselpapa zeigte heute seinem Sprössling (Ästling, genau genommen), wie man in unserem Hinterhofgarten die Blumenkübel zerlegt und so an die fettesten Bodeninsekten herankommt.

Woord van de dag: voxpopjes https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/08/19/journalisten-hou-op-met-die-voxpopjes-want-ze-ondermijnen-de-democratische-gezindheid-a4903456

Wir fordern Bundestagspräsidentin Julia Klöckner auf, ihr problematisches Verhältnis zu Sponsoren zu klären. Mehr Infos: www.djv.de/news/pressem...

The interior design aesthetics of autocrats is truly globalized. #lastbooat