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G Brueckmann
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Research on climate 🌍 & energy 🔋 policies 🌐 using experiments 🎲 & reproducible research 🔁
@ipwunibern.bsky.social & Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, @unibe.ch
PhD from @ethz.ch
(they/them)

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Website: brueckmann.github.io
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joshuaraclaw.com
It is December which means that it is once again time to share that the Yiddish word for marshmallow is “shney-kishele,” literally LITTLE SNOW PILLOW
December 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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jonworth.eu
So what's the outcome?

2️⃣5️⃣ of the 27 Commissioners have posted in the last week

2️⃣4️⃣ of the 27 generally post every week (Albuquerque has never been on X, Ribera is sporadic, McGrath has somehow stopped)

0️⃣ have stopped as a result of what Twitter has become since the Musk takeover
December 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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claesdevreese.bsky.social
European digital autonomy in action. Or not so much.

25 out of 27 @ec.europa.eu Commissioners post every week on X.

No one left after Musk’s takeover.

Actions matter. Not words.
jonworth.eu Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 12h
So what's the outcome?

2️⃣5️⃣ of the 27 Commissioners have posted in the last week

2️⃣4️⃣ of the 27 generally post every week (Albuquerque has never been on X, Ribera is sporadic, McGrath has somehow stopped)

0️⃣ have stopped as a result of what Twitter has become since the Musk takeover
December 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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jessothomson.co.uk
Kishwer Falkner in The Times talking about the rights of "biological people". As compared to trans people, who are, of course, non-biological.
“They’re concerned their rights are being taken away. Their anger should be directed at those snake-oil salesmen who sold them the fiction they had rights that have been taken away, and not ever explained that rights are balanced. And that in some areas, such as discrimination law, the rights of biological people hold.”
December 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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sky.skymarchini.net
not to put too fine a point on it but every guy doing the “we need to reboot masculinity!!!” schtick has fewer masculine virtues than I do and I’m nonbinary
costasamaras.com Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d
"we're having a crisis of masculinity!11!" - a man-baby dork
December 7, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
It’s us
What caused a massive die-off of penguins off the South African coast?
There are fewer than 10,000 breeding pairs of African penguins left today.
wapo.st
December 7, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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elizabethbitmeehan.com
My mistress’s eyes are nothing like the sun; coral is far more red than her lips red

youtu.be/WxB1gB6K-2A?...
December 7, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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rfrbrghs.bsky.social
Gantner &co: Wegen der erst eingeführten Transparenz über die Politikfinanzierung wissen wir nicht🇨🇭, wie sich der Anteil Superreicher an den Parteispendern über die Zeit verändert hat.

Das Beispiel USA zeigt:„Mega-donor influence“ ist der mit Abstand wirksamste Weg, mit Geld Politik zu beeinflussen
adambonica.bsky.social Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 1d
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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jasonreifler.bsky.social
This is my all time favorite Onion headline (complete with picture to make the joke work), which is apropos today given the passing of architect Frank Gehry.

theonion.com/frank-gehry-...
December 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
brueckmann.bsky.social
What kind of difference-in-differences studies (ideally with data available) do other #PoliticalScience folks use in teaching?

Thanks for sharing and boosting

#Diff-in-diffs
December 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
brueckmann.bsky.social
I found out cloudflare is down as I realised that Editorial Manager is down with the same error message

😅
mashley.bsky.social Marcus Shepheard @mashley.bsky.social · 3d
It's not the way I expected to confirm that cloudflare is currently down, but it works
Screenshot of downdetector.co.uk's page for cloudflare, which is returning a '500 Internal Server Error' because cloudflare is down.
December 5, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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robdickinson.bsky.social
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals

Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is

interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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parkermolloy.com
The Next One Here's what's going to happen next. Somewhere, right now, a trans person is teaching a class, or coaching a team, or working at a library, or providing healthcare. They're doing their job. They're probably good at it. And at some point, someone is going to have a problem with them. Maybe a parent, maybe a student, maybe a coworker. The problem won't really be about job performance. The problem will be that they're trans. That person, or someone connected to them, will take their grievance to social media. If they're lucky, Libs of TikTok will pick it up. Or Turning Point. Or one of the other accounts that have built massive followings by turning trans people into content. The post will frame the trans person as a predator, or a groomer, or a bully, or a tyrant. It won't matter what actually happened. The framing is the point. Then the calls will start. To the school board, to the administration, to the HR department. Local news will cover the "controversy." A state legislator will demand an investigation. The institution, desperate to make the problem go away, will put the trans person on leave. Maybe they'll be fired outright. Maybe they'll resign because the harassment makes it impossible to do their job. Either way they're gone. And then the person who started it all will go on Fox News. They'll get a GoFundMe. Maybe a speaking gig at a conservative conference. If the story is big enough, if it goes viral enough, they might get something more. A podcast. A book deal. A center with their name on it. This is not a guess. This is a pattern. We've watched it happen over and over again, and we will keep watching it happen until the institutions that capitulate to these campaigns start recognizing them for what they are: coordinated attempts to purge trans people from public life, dressed up as individual controversies.
December 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
brueckmann.bsky.social
Rage bait for those „actually that’s two words“ folks
academic.oup.com Oxford Academic @academic.oup.com · 6d
RAGE BAIT WINS OXFORD WORD OF THE YEAR

In a perfect summary of 2025’s chaos - and following a public vote and analysis from our language experts - rage bait has been crowned Word of the Year. 🎉🎣📱

#OxfordWOTY #RageBait
Oxford Word of the Year Winner - Rage Bait.
December 2, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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rahmstorf.bsky.social
Ganz Deutschland rätselt: Was ist ein “hocheffizienter Verbrenner”?
Hier werden Physik, Ökonomie und politische Psychologie gut erklärt:
heinerm.substack.com/p/hocheffizi...
Hocheffiziente Verbrenner, my ass: Physik, Ökonomie und das kulturelle Trostangebot
Warum Friedrich Merz‘ Verbrenner-Rettung an Sadi Carnot scheitert – und warum er sie uns trotzdem verkauft.
heinerm.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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giuliomattioli.bsky.social
Great example of motonormativity
rosiemund.bsky.social Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 6d
I think another weird facet to this is if you say "I was driving today & there are so many terrible, dangerous drivers," people tend to be like "ugh, I know" but if you say "I was cycling today & there are so many terrible, dangerous drivers," they furiously disagree & imply it was your own fault.
gravelinfluencer.bsky.social Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 12d
Something I've been thinking about a lot lately is how when a driver does something wrong, the public and media don't smear all drivers as reckless assholes. But when a cyclist — and especially an e-biker — does something wrong, all bicyclists get attacked and blamed.
December 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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gabrielbachner.at
Und die Konsequenzen daraus sind sich extrem hohe Emissionen dieser Gruppe.
volksverpetzer.de Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 7d
Allein der Vermögenszuwachs (!!) nur der Milliardäre (!!) aus nur den G20-Staaten (!!) nur im vergangenen Jahr (!!!) wäre die 10.-größte Volkswirtschaft der Welt, wenn er ein Land wäre. Aber denk dran: wir müssen den Gürtel enger schnallen und Überstunden machen.
December 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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bogatyrev.bsky.social
Re-upping this thread 👇 in light of the current discussion on replications/reappraisals. I’ve also experienced reviewers engaging with our dataverse package already upon initial submission and catching errors early, and I am grateful for those comments. I wish more journals would make it possible.
bogatyrev.bsky.social Konstantin Bogatyrev @bogatyrev.bsky.social · May 9
As long as social science journals don’t implement actual code review — not just mechanical reproducibility checks — there’s no good way to ward off such errors or abuse. Not every publication has a shocking result begging for a replication, like the one flagged by @johannarickne.bsky.social.
johannarickne.bsky.social Johanna Rickne @johannarickne.bsky.social · May 9
8/ Shockingly to us, most treatment effects are produced by implementing methods in the code that differ from those described in the paper. This practice seems super problematic because it will mislead reviewers and editors who expect the two to align.
November 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
brueckmann.bsky.social
"We find that the largest predictor of positive experimental results was sample size. This is somewhat surprising, given that experimental studies typically take power considerations into account prior to data collection." (Rauf et al 2025, doi.org/10.1093/poq/...)

😂😂😂
An Audit of Social Science Survey Experiments
Abstract. Survey experiments have become a popular methodology for causal inference across the social sciences. We study the efficacy of survey experiment
doi.org
November 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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teresabuecker.bsky.social
Bürger_innenräte geben häufig Impulse für Gerechtigkeit und moderne Politik. Dass Klöckner davon nichts hält, überrascht nicht. Sie passen nicht zum rechtsautoritären Kurs und könnten zeigen, dass die Gesellschaft nicht so konservativ ist, wie oft behauptet wird. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
Bürgerräte im Bundestag: Bundestagsverwaltung löst Stabsstelle für Bürgerräte auf
Die Ampelregierung hatte den ersten Bürgerrat ins Leben gerufen, Bundestagspräsidentin Julia Klöckner hielt von der Idee wenig. Die SPD will dennoch daran festhalten.
www.zeit.de
November 26, 2025 at 7:42 AM
brueckmann.bsky.social
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?

— — —

Glad the flags use in protests made my curious 😅
The one piece crew
November 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
brueckmann.bsky.social
I think this is such a cool advert by #CriticalMass #Bern that you need to see it!

🚲 🚴 🚲 🚴‍♀️ 🚲 🚴‍♂️ 🚲

They used the graph on transport efficiency that prominently features humans on a #bicycle from www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...
Critical mass flyer on a colourful graph indicating the efficiency of travel by humans on a bike
November 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
brueckmann.bsky.social
Survey on Research Data Management at 🇨🇭 Swiss Higher Education & Research Institutions

Results will contribute to improving #research data management support across #Swiss higher education institutions.

🇨🇭
#Switzerland , take the survey here: library-survey.epfl.ch/c/unibe-rdm-...
Quantitative assessment of RDM practices 2025
library-survey.epfl.ch
November 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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lakens.bsky.social
For many social dilemma's in Science (e.g. the slow uptake of diamond open access journals) stronger top down management is necessary. It won't just happen. If scientists will not create this management themselves, someone is going to create it for us.
November 24, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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davidajaeger.bsky.social
The world could use less artificial intelligence and more plain intelligence right about now.
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM