People’s ideas about the world are formed mostly from their social environment. Their social environment includes their parasocial environment: media and social media. The parasocial share of our social environment has been growing for many decades.

In Ostdeutschland sind die Agrarflächenpreise seit der Finanzkrise um 400 Prozent gestiegen, nur noch Großinvestoren können sie sich leisten. Diese bilden nun eine neue Junkerklasse, die Agrarsubventionen kassiert und auf einen Boom bei Erneuerbaren setzt.

Wow, 2/3 des Regenwassers auf drainierten Flächen gehen für die Grundwasserneubildung verloren. 😳 Wenn wir dann noch hinzurechnen, welche Mengen durch verrohrte Bäche und eingetiefte, begradigte Flüsse davon rauschen, ist klar: #Dürre und auch #Hochwasser verstärken wir massiv durch Entwässerung!

Obwohl ich es ja weiß, bin ich immer wieder schockiert, dass wirklich fast alle verdammten Senken in der Agrarlandschaft an die #Entwässerung angeschlossen sind. Hier 👇 n Beispiel. (und das sind nur die gewidmeten Gräben & Rohrleitungen, d.h. die ungewidmeten + Drainagen sind da nicht mal drin.😐)

Eine sehr schöne Analyse mit unserem Index regionaler sozioökonomischer Deprivation #GISD. Danke an Regina Singer, Sebastian Haller und alle anderen Beteiligten! 🙏

The RFK Jr. version of health, where health creates health and healthy people don't get sick and the thing that keeps you healthy is /living the right way/ is very seductive to a lot of people. It also places the burden of illness back on the ill, which decreases the value of human life.

The new Neil Halloran documentary on Smallpox has completely changed how I see the RFK Jr. version of the world. Neil (softly) argues that realizing that disease isn't the fault of the sick /or/ the fault of the Gods ushered in a new future where we felt the authority to care for each other.

Thanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

I’ve been referring people (esp social science/psych PhD students) to this blog post for years. The headline and opening paragraph are all you really need.

I wrote a very long blog post about AI writing. I hope you'll read it. meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-mental...

"Last week, Vance said foreign students at elite U.S. universities are 'not just bad for national security,' but also 'bad for the American dream, for American kids who want to go to a nice university but can’t because their spot was taken by a foreign student.'" www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

This was the end goal of crypto aligning behind Trump - the crypto economy has very few actual dollars in it and relies on finding new people to hold the bag to get their dollars. The US government is the ultimate bag holder and they’re going to use your tax dollars to bail out crypto owners.

The bullshitting is tolitary! 😞

„So bekommt er natürlich seine Aufmerksamkeit, wenn er statt „Wrem Wrem Wrem" „Fick Fick Fick" sagt, zumindest bei den sogenannten Kollegen der Plappermedien – aber ich muss Ihnen sagen, ich mag das nicht besonders.“

Hab von Mr Magoo geträumt

The public has a distorted view of science, because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries. - Freeman Dyson

ich höre immer wieder dass leute zwar von x weggehen wollen, aber nicht weggehen können, weil da diese eine community ist, an der man hängt, beruflich, informationell, sprituell, whatever. i feel you. deswegen hier ein vorschlag für das umtopfen von communities. mspr0.de/communities-...

NFL Teams dürfen keine Bluesky accounts haben! 🤦

1/2 Die Entwicklungen auf X in den vergangenen Monaten haben uns veranlasst, die Plattform zu verlassen. Mit diesem Schritt schließen wir uns den Hochschulen und Forschungsinstitutionen an, die vor wenigen Tagen angekündigt haben, X ebenfalls nicht mehr zu betreiben. idw-online.de/de/news845520

Welcome Bluesky newbies! Just so you know: 1. ❤️s are nice, but only let the poster know that you like something. They're not public and don't affect what others see. 2. To really boost something you like, you have to repost it. This will make it visible to your followers / push it up their feed. 1/2

Wenn Clickbait, dann bitte immer so ...

The 12 types of Political Science paper. What's missing #polsci?

🚨Exited to share new research on COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Germany! Together with our colleagues, @nielsmichalski.bsky.social and I examined how educational attainment and area-level socioeconomic deprivation affected vaccine uptake during the first 10 months of the 2021 campaign.

#polsci Any recommendations for replicable papers on inequality and political behaviour/attitudes? I’m currently designing my class and still searching for publications that apply the #openscience format Shameless self-promotion is encouraged!!

Happy German Unity Day 🎉 That day of the year to share some maps we produced a few years back with @lukasmergele.bsky.social @woessmann.bsky.social 👉 www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Sad news not just for hockey fans 😞

Seit der Parkraumbewirtschaftung bei uns im Kiez fahren nun einige mit dem Auto zur Arbeit. 🤡

Heißt es Föderalismus oder Förderalismus?

❗New methods paper out on OSF ❗ A new R-squared for multilevel models 👀👀 Resolves a long-standing R-squared oddity identified by Snijders/Bosker 30 years ago! with the amazing Anders Holm #sociology #erc Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...

Strings As Factors, no. Factors as factors, yes! notstatschat.rbind.io/2024/03/22/f...

I want to know everyone's experiences publishing in: * MDPI journals * Hindawi journals * Frontiers journals Not stories about what you heard, please, but your literal experience. what happened to you. Editors of said journals particularly welcome. RT this. A lot.

Ossastraße gibt's noch nicht ☺️

Oder wie wir Methodiker sagen würden small-N-bias + unscharfe Einschlusskrierien + Selektion anhand der Ausprägung der AV + ökologischer Fehlschluss

Just hit 8035 code sent! Thank you all so much for donating codes and spreading the word to get more researchers and clinicians here. There are ~850 codes left to distribute, and I just cleared the request list. If you know anyone looking to join bsky, send them my way! 🧪 forms.gle/ZyYhpa5MHT66...

Folks, this is a usability game-changer. Turn it on! In your settings -> Thread Preferences. Turns the threading of post replies into a reddit-like structure instead of twitter-like. *SO* much easier to navigate and read without having to backtrack and re-click replies to unlock threads.

Chance vertan! Das #BIPAM sollte ein #PublicHealth-Insitut werden. Public Health ist mehr als Medizin & Prävention für 3 Indikationsbereiche. #Gesundheitsförderung fehlt völlig. „Gestrig. Eng. Klein. Das ist ein Verrat an der #PublicHealth-Wissenschaft“. www.sueddeutsche.de/gesundheit/l...

Need help from #data peps, #sociology and others: want to learn about the IYO most valid way to measure occup in 4 digit ISCO (for social class measure) w/o open answer form in surveys and experiences about exploiting AI for occup coding of standard open answers. pls share, there must be so who know