Reading the book Abundance. Great book about the main problem that plagues virtually every modern economy: „rules have increased, while efficiency has decreased.“ Suggests an easy solution to increase living standards.

Science as social engineering: @natrevpsychol.nature.com now encourages "citation diversity statements" How about Merton's idea of universalism, that particularistic criteria such as race, nationality, religion should be irrelevant in the pursuit of knowledge? nature.com/articles/s44...

Contentious and interesting: is wokeness due to The Great Feminization? compactmag.com/article/the-... by Helen Andrews

Ever wondered how to get a professorship in economics? The answer is here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Angestellte können oft nicht fassen, wie hoch die Pensionen von Beamten sind. Ihre Empörung ist nachvollziehbar. www.zeit.de/2025/30/pens...

Ever more Europeans feel emotionally attached to the EU, consider it as democratically legitimate as well as producing positive outcomes. doi.org/10.1093/ijpo...

Bluesky bubble: Ich schreibe gerade einen Artikel, weswegen es sinnvoll wäre, dass Beamte bis 70 arbeiten, um die volle Pension von 71,75 % des letzten Bruttolohnes zu beziehen. Welche Gründe dafür oder dagegen fallen euch ein?

People tell me nobody wants to look at climate curves anymore, yet here we are!!! Please enjoy our interactive journey through 485 million years of climate history and dive into the fascinating and important work of paleoclimate scientists. 🎁 www.zeit.de/wissen/umwel...

Wir sind in Deutschland sehr geübt darin, jede Beschäftigung mit einem internationalen Problem schnell in eine Beschäftigung mit uns selbst zu verwandeln.

@martinschroeder.bsky.social, Daniela Braun, Katrin Luisa Grimm, Martin Ulrich & Georg Wenzelburger find that attachment to the EU is a matter of time, not generations.

I recently presented at INAS2025 in NYC: “Why women leave academia? A longitudinal study of the leaky pipeline in German sociology” Thanks to @womensforuminas.bsky.social and the INAS attendees for the inspiring exchange, and @europeatharvard.bsky.social for their support! 📝 Preprint👇

Wenn Moralspektakel Kompetenz angreift: @dpz.bsky.social bezeichnet @ruudkoopmans.bsky.social Forschung als "problematisch" Ruud Koopmans = 30216-mal zitiert scholar.google.de/citations?hl... Daniel-Pascal Zorn = 374-mal zitiert scholar.google.de/citations?us... 🤔

150 Mrd für Infrastruktur, Steuersenkungen für mittlere/niedrige Einkommen, strengere Regeln Bürgergeld, 2000 Euro steuerfrei für arbeitende Rentner, Wechsel Migrationspolitik, nudging zu attraktiverem Wehrdienst... Ist doch gar nicht mal so schlecht. shorturl.at/k56Rk

Sad, but I will not to visit @ces-europe.bsky.social Conference of Europeanists in Philadelphia in 2025. I just don't want to wonder if I will be detained for no reason when I arrive in the US. Hope the US becomes a place again that one can visit without fear.

Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social finally speaking up: "Imagine if had done any of this." youtu.be/xvriwMCa7rE?...

Grüne übernehmen gruppenbezogene Menschenfeindlichkeit der AfD: Zuerst Menschengruppe pauschal abwerten, daraufhin müssen sich deren einzelne Mitglieder durch ihren "Mehrwert für die Gesellschaft" individuell rehabilitieren. Man ersetze "Männer" durch "Flüchtlinge", schon hat man AfD-Diktion.

This is very worrying... Have humans passed peak brain power? www.ft.com/content/a801... via @ft

Why are some academics so much more productive than others? Main determinant of later productivity: early publications. Also: women publish less mainly due to getting less practice early on. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... in #PLOSONE with @isabelmhabicht.bsky.social and @marklutter345.bsky.social

Why do people fear crime? Because politicians stoke this fear, independently of actual crime rates. New research article that uses cross-country ESS data and German SOEP data, with Georg Wenzelburger in West European Politics @wepsocial.bsky.social

Es täte allen gut, wenn die Wissenschaft aufhört, sich derart aktivistisch zu betätigen. Wissenschaftler können zeigen, wie die Welt ist. Sie sollten Menschen aber nicht einreden, was moralisch falsch und moralisch richtig ist. www.zeit.de/2024/13/akti...

While many in the news lament the terrible state of the world, most of what really counts has secretly continued to improve massively. "66 Good News Stories You Didn't Hear About in 2023": futurecrunch.com/goodnews2023/ And also see:

100+ years of historical research on WW I have found their greatest expression so far in this amazing video ;-) youtu.be/f4WwNcqrUNI?...

Generationen existieren nicht www.deutschlandfunk.de/soziologe-ma...

Are some generations less motivated to work? I fail to find this effect amont 584,217 individuals in 34 countries over 30 years. Instead, everyone gets less motivated to work over time, rather than some generations being less motivated to work. Now available open acccess: doi.org/10.1007/s108...