Überraschend, dass das ZDF-Politbarometer diese Umfrage so verzerrt darstellt: Statt nach der Originalaussage von Merz zu fragen, die tagelang diskutiert wurde, wird in der Umfrage seine späte Rechtfertigung ergänzt. In der Grafik wird das aber gar nicht erwähnt. So geht Framing.

What's the difference between @epssnet.bsky.social and the "old" EPSA, and why you should come to our conference in Belfast in June 2026: epssnet.org/uncategorize...

Happy German Unity Day! Excited to start my Marie-Sklodowska Curie Fellowship at @maastrichtu.bsky.social this week on how German bureaucrats 👨‍💼👩‍💼dealt with corporate interest groups during the remaking of the East German economy following fall of the Berlin 🧱. #Wiedervereinigung #econsky #polsky

I got introduced to @randyau.com's 'Data Cleaning IS Analysis, Not Grunt Work' post during the #dataBS Conf this week: www.counting-stuff.com/data-cleanin... . I just finished--it was a great read. Here are some quotes and thoughts I'm walking away with 👇 1/9 #RStats

Type approval for passenger cars Trade deal could open European roads to US trucks. Tesla Cybertruck or the Ram, huge US pick-up trucks do not meet European standards. But in the new trade agreement, the EU has declared itself willing to allow unrestricted imports. www.spiegel.de/auto/tesla-c...

„Made for Germany“ beim Kanzler in Berlin: Wenn man auf die Hälfte der Gesellschaft verzichtet - mit ihren Ideen, Innovationen und Geschäftsmodellen, dann muss man sich auch nicht wundern, wenn nicht wirklich viel vorangeht.

Wahnsinn! RBB meldet: "Eine jesidische Familie" ist gestern "in den #Irak abgeschoben worden. Die Familie mit vier [..] Kindern hatte vor dem Verwaltungsgericht [..] gegen ihren abgelehnten Asylbescheid geklagt" und am Tag der Abschiebung "Recht bekommen." 1/x www.tagesschau.de/inland/regio...

This really sets the bar high for promo videos of new packages and datasets 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O98... (h/t @alxndrmlk.bsky.social)

{tinytable} is a dead simple, ultra-flexible, and dependency-free #Rstats 📦 to turn data frames into beautiful tables: html, word, pdf, latex, typst, markdown, etc. v0.10.0 has cool new features and important bug fixes. Check out the detailed tutorials at: vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

Transparenz, die Symbolbild: Seite 47 des Berichts zu Spahns Maskenaffäre (ein Beispiel von vielen)

Starting to look like I might not be able to work at Harvard anymore due to recent funding cuts. If you know of any open statistical consulting positions that support remote work or are NYC-based, please reach out! 😅

Just ashamed of European academic institutions reacting to the authoritarian clampdown against our US colleagues with "look, we have nice jobs here". Do you think this is the kind of solidarity needed from us? What are you actually doing to strengthen academic freedom and to help those affected?

Sale of state assets was what created the first generation of Russian oligarchs. They're running plays from a known playbook

Deutschland hat gewählt, und die AfD gilt als die große Siegerin. Wie lässt sich ihr Ergebnis einordnen, und welche geografischen Merkmale prägen ihre Unterstützung? @hudde.bsky.social und ich haben das AfD-Zweitstimmenergebnis in den 299 Bundestagswahlkreisen ausgewertet. Ein Thread. 🧵👇

Zwei Fragen stehen aktuell im Zentrum der Debatte: Kann Europa die Ukraine aus eigener Kraft unterstützen, wenn die USA ausfallen? Kann sich Europa aus eigener Kraft, also ohne die USA, verteidigen und Russland glaubhaft abschrecken? Die Antwort ist zweimal ja. Warum? 1/N

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

Cool paper from my amazing coauthors and my misspelled doppelgänger! 😃

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "Neighborhoods, Perceived Inequality, and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from Barcelona" By @gerard-domenech.bsky.social

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Ob das BSW jetzt wohl seinen Antrag aus dem September noch mal in den Bundestag einbringt?

R Tip: Embrace the modern lambda syntax `\(x)` for anonymous functions! 🚀 The old `~ .` syntax is deprecated and maintained only for backward compatibility. Using `\(x) x^2` in `purrr::map()` makes your code clearer and more intuitive. Happy coding! 🎉 #RStats #DataScience

Spammers of AliBaba: Your industrial packaging machine for nuts 🥜 looks cool However, if you scraped that email alias from our CRAN #rstats package on the 🇪🇺 Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, be aware that we prefer to wrap NUTS codes in tibbles not plastic docs.ropensci.org/nuts/

The {messy} R package now has a pkgdown site with documentation: nrennie.rbind.io/messy/ #RStats #StatsEd

Hey #RStats people. How do you feel about startup messages? Would this nudge be too obnoxious if I added it to my package?

🚨Thrilled to share our new paper "Causal Claims in Economics"! 🚨 @fetzert and I analysed over 44,000 economics papers using AI to create a knowledge graph of economics and map out causal relationships. Here's what we found 🧵👇

🇨🇭🇦🇹🇩🇪🌐 Starter Pack Update Active accounts recently spotted: @christinafelfe.bsky.social (Konstanz) @alexwulfers.bsky.social (FAS/FAZ) @lwallossek.bsky.social (LMU) @igorletina.bsky.social (Bern) @sebastiantbraun.bsky.social (Bayreuth) (1/2) go.bsky.app/JjMC8UM

Speechless about this new podcast 📣 on my paper "The Big Sell: Privatizing the East German Economy". (w/ @aaoritz.bsky.social and M. Lubczyk) Not because its about my research but because its entirely AI-generated by Googles NotebookLM and gets the paper so well. soundcloud.com/lukas-mergel...

This workshop is tomorrow, so don't miss your chance to register! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

We’ve just published a new pre-print on ArXiv titled "Inventor Mobility After the Fall of the Berlin Wall" (with Ann Hipp, Bremen & Thünen). Below is a summary of our key findings. We’d greatly appreciate any feedback you may have. doi.org/10.48550/arX...

One week left to apply for a postdoc position in my DFG-funded project on the power of public opinion polls (University of Potsdam)! Do not hesitate to write me a message/email in case of questions.

Excited to share a new R-package (written w/ @aaoritz.bsky.social)! "nuts: Convert European regional data in R" tinyurl.com/4yhbnpxn nuts allows to harmonize and aggregate European regional data across all NUTS versions (2006, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2021) & levels (NUTS-3 to NUTS-1). 1/4

So, you're into art? That's good! But have you ever experienced the exhilarating beauty of Brazilian drug bust photo-op art? Have a look at this feed of the drug war's most beautiful absurdity and become addicted: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Skandalöses Urteil heute: Das Bundesverwaltungsgericht legt die Axt ans IFG. Anonyme Anträge ab sofort unzulässig, Behörden dürfen Adressen und Namen sammeln, müssen nicht mehr per E-Mail antworten. Wir brauchen endlich ein Transparenzgesetz! fragdenstaat.de/blog/2024/03...

Great story here. I deeply admire his choice to not learn French and still win the French world championship

Some of @rfberlin.bsky.social's researchers are taking part in the 2024 ASSA Meetings. On Friday, Jan. 5, Moritz Lubczyk is presenting joint work with @aaoritz.bsky.social and @lukasmergele.bsky.social on the process and outcomes of privatization after German reunification in East Germany.

Blauer Himmel über Wuppertal: Wir sind jetzt auch dabei!  Bevor wir zu unseren Themen rund um Transformationsprozesse zu einer Nachhaltigen Entwicklung richtig aktiv werden, die Frage: Was möchtet ihr hier von uns lesen? Wir freuen uns auf netten Austausch und inhaltliche Diskussionen auf Bluesky! 👋

"Does Right-Wing Violence Affect Public Support for Radical Right Parties? Evidence from Germany" Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with page numbers! Blog Post: theloop.ecpr.eu/right-wing-v... Full Article (Open Access): journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11