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Mathis Lohaus @mathislohaus.de · 2d

#Servicetweet Ich rate zum Spaziergang ab Lichterfelde West; hoffentlich kein Regenwetter!

Mathis Lohaus @mathislohaus.de · 2d

Kleiner Gruß von der BVG an die @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social: Pünktlich zum Beginn der Vorlesungszeit ist drei Tage "Ersatzverkehr" auf der (einzigen) U-Bahn-Linie, die zur Uni fährt. Liebe Erstsemester, willkommen in Berlin! 🤡

Ausschnitt U-Bahn-Plan Berlin: Linie U3 mit Bus statt Bahn

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Mathis Lohaus @mathislohaus.de · 4d

Should be easy wins, seeing how clueless the US team has been about fundamentals lately.

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Mathis Lohaus @mathislohaus.de · 10d

Congratulations! A good omen: this similar-looking book has been a great hit :)

Book cover: "Die Vogelhochzeit" (children's book)

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 13d

The amount of time it takes to grade things once they show an inkling of maybe-LLM-hallucinations is such a waste—gotta stop reading and spend half an hour to track down sources to see if they actually exist and say the things they claim to say

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Mathias Hong @hongmathias.bsky.social · 13d

Evin Dalkilic @evinale.bsky.social:

Hochschulen und Bibliotheken "dürfen Diamond-Open-Access-Publikationen" wie den Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de finanzieren.

Das Wirtschaftlichkeitsgebot steht nicht entgegen: "Um es kurz zu machen: Es handelt sich um ein Scheinproblem."

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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 14d

Den einen ist der Verfassungsblog nicht wissenschaftlich genug, den anderen zu kostenfrei, um von wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken finanziert zu werden.

Wieso an beidem nichts dran ist, erklärt EVIN DALKILIC im Editorial.

verfassungsblog.de/diese-wissen...

Zitat aus dem Editorial von Evin Dalkilic: „Der Verfassungsblog bietet Wissenschaftler*innen eine Plattform, um diesen Diskurs anzustoßen und zu führen, zwischen Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit, schneller als jede Zeitschrift und mit strengerer Qualitätssicherung als die meisten.“

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Mathis Lohaus @mathislohaus.de · 21d

Hier die Quelle globalinequality.org/imperial-pow...

Dachte erst, sie haben den 2. Weltkrieg markiert (🤡), aber laut Kleingedrucktem sind das "Operationen" ab 1949. Also vermutlich "election interference" in BRD und/oder DDR!? Da wird jedenfalls viel in einen Topf geworfen...

Imperial Power - Global Inequality

globalinequality.org

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Mathis Lohaus @mathislohaus.de · 23d

Great news, congratulations!

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Mathis Lohaus @mathislohaus.de · 26d

Angrist et al. 2020? doi.org/10.1257/jel....

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Mathis Lohaus @mathislohaus.de · 27d

Es muss doch irgendjemandem aufgefallen sein, wie unfreiwillig komisch die Abfolge von "jeder sieht sich als Opfer und klagt" und "es ist kaum auszuhalten" ist!?

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Mathis Lohaus @mathislohaus.de · Sep 11

(1) Delete account and (2) click unsubscribe in any email you receive afterwards. Worked for me a few years ago.

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Carl Müller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social · Sep 6

It’s really worrying that it takes a political scientist to point out all these irregularities in a paper that is picked up to such an extent by the press — reviewers, science editors, anyone listening? Anyone bothered to ask for the underlying data & code?

Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · Sep 5

As noted by @carlmc.bsky.social, one odd pattern in these results is that ALL the estimates and confidence interval bounds are multiples of 0.008

What could explain that? 🤔

eTable 6 with all the multiples of 0.008 highlighted in red

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · Aug 30

🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics.

The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.

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Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · Aug 29

We are going to be digging out from all this for years and years and years.

Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · Aug 28

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a peer-to-peer evaluation of a country's rights record. All 193 UN member states are expected to participate, and even states like Russia and China do.

Today, the US took the unprecedented step of withdrawing from the UPR www.reuters.com/world/europe...

US withdraws from key UN human rights report, draws criticism from rights advocates

The United States will not participate in a U.N. review of its human rights record, officials said, a move that rights advocates called a worrying retreat from Washington's global engagement on rights and justice issues.

www.reuters.com

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Bernd Schlipphak @bschlipphak.bsky.social · Aug 26

Together with the great colleagues @i4replication.bsky.social, we are organizing the first Münster replication games (28/11/25)! Highly recommended to junior & senior scholars. Joint project together with #MueCOS & #CDSC @uni-muenster.de. More info/registration: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3526/

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Mathis Lohaus @mathislohaus.de · Aug 11

Thanks!

Mathis Lohaus @mathislohaus.de · Aug 10

Here's the link. www.economist.com/europe/2025/... It says EUI is "among the world’s foremost graduate schools." And I don't see how the text is "anti-EU". It points out the tension between basic research and policy relevance, no? Perhaps you can share the link to the EUI response. Thanks!

Europe’s Hogwarts has a new Dumbledore

Patrizia Nanz is trying to make the European University Institute relevant

www.economist.com

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Mathis Lohaus @mathislohaus.de · Aug 7

FYI: Sie heißt Rodrigo, nicht Rodriguez

a man wearing a crown is sitting in a chair and applying makeup to his face .

Alt: Rodrigo von der Band Die Ärzte

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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · Aug 7

Very excited to share this new tool for teaching the politics of climate change. What are the different *theories of change* that underlie decarbonization efforts and policies? Help your students learn about them. Please share widely. 🌎🔌💡🛢️

Climate Solutions Lab @climatesollab.bsky.social · Aug 6

We are excited to share a new resource for teaching climate politics! @jeffcolgan.bsky.social and @maxbradley.bsky.social introduce the framework here www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI20.... Visit the Syllabus Bank for more details climate.watson.brown.edu/syllabus-bank - we'd love your feedback!

Teaching Climate Politics | Jeff Colgan & Max Bradley | CSL

YouTube video by Watson School of International and Public Affairs

www.youtube.com

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Mathis Lohaus @mathislohaus.de · Jul 31

Existenzprüfung klingt irgendwie bedrohlich!? 🤔

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Jul 29

What a graph

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Mathis Lohaus @mathislohaus.de · Jul 25

Sorry, can't hear you, I'm busy enjoying the VR metaverse

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Jul 17

methods section said
“we follow standard practice”
because we did not
understand
what we were doing
but assumed
someone once had

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Jochen Müller @jocmuel.bsky.social · Jul 14

📣 Postdoc (75 %, 3 yrs) at @unigreifswald.bsky.social — start autumn 2025 on perhaps Germany’s most beautiful campus. Know someone with a PhD (or nearly done) in Political Science? ⬇️ #PolSci #Postdoc

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Mathis Lohaus @mathislohaus.de · Jul 11

The face-eating leopards are coming for ... Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok!?

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · Jul 10

It takes a lot to get university spokespeople to react with anything approaching snark like this. The level of bad-faith shittiness from the Trump administration is absolutely off the charts
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

“George Mason University received the complaint this morning, apparently as it was simultaneously released to news outlets, which is unprecedented in our experience,” he said in a statement.