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Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · Aug 27

Republican Members of Congress are no longer coming from elite institutions of higher education. Elite-educated legislators are more liberal. Important manifestation of the education divide between the parties & context for the current higher ed wars
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Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social · Aug 29

Covers a many dimensions from metatheoretical positions to typical data collected. We argue that qualitative evaluations can be strengthened and knowledge accumulation improved, if reporting follows the insights from discussions about confirmability, transferability and reflexivity.

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Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social · Aug 29

If you are interested in qualitative methods and/ or evaluation, have a look at our review study on qualitative methods and reporting standards in evaluation.

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social · Aug 1

Paradoxes of the AI age: students no longer do spelling mistakes or plagiarism, but now forget basics such as page numbers...

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Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social · Jul 7

As if we need more reasons to inflate "significant" findings, AI does it for us... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary

Excess words track LLM usage in biomedical publications.

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Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social · Jun 24

Vielen Dank für das Gespräch.

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Universität Erfurt @unierfurt.bsky.social · Jun 24

🤖🧠 Bedroht KI unsere Jobs? Im #Wortmelder-Podcast spricht @achimkemmerling.bsky.social über den Einsatz von #KI & die Auswirkungen auf die #Arbeitswelt: Welche Berufe werden durch KI ersetzt & welche werden neu geschaffen?
🎧 Reinhören: www.uni-erfurt.de/forschung/ak...

@brandtschool.bsky.social

Bildkollage mit schwarz-weiß Porträtfoto von Prof. Dr. Achim Kemmerling Professor für Public Policy und Development an der Willy Brandt School der Universität Erfurt, im Wortmelder, dem Wissenschaftspodcast der Universität Erfurt, mit dem Zitat: „Die letzten fünf Jahre der KI-Entwicklung kann man als dramatisch bezeichnen. Was die schiere Beschleunigung betrifft, würde ich schon von einer Revolution auf dem Arbeitsmarkt sprechen.“, Hintergrund orange

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Carsten Q. Schneider @cqschneider.bsky.social · May 30

Interested in how illiberal public rhetoric of right-wing leaders related to socio-economic inequality? Read our latest article to find out more.

Seraphine F Maerz @seraphinemaerz.bsky.social · May 30

“Strongmen” Don't Redistribute: Illiberal Leaders on the Right and Worsening Economic Inequality | Article | Politics and Governance www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

“Strongmen” Don't Redistribute: Illiberal Leaders on the Right and Worsening Economic Inequality | Article | Politics and Governance

Dean Schafer, Seraphine F. Maerz, Carsten Q. Schneider, Alexandra Krasnokutskaya

www.cogitatiopress.com

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Mariana Llanos @millanos.bsky.social · Jun 2

Las no tan populares (13% de participación!) elecciones judiciales en Mexico. Como sigue esto @azulaguiar.bsky.social ?
elpais.com/mexico/2025-...

Las primeras elecciones judiciales de México solo alcanzan un 13% de participación

Sheinbaum califica de “éxito” la jornada pese a la escasa afluencia a las urnas para seleccionar a más de 2.600 cargos

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · May 28

"As long as Bolivia does not have a fully democratic government, these fires will continue to burn...authoritarian regimes disguise their abuse and prioritize short-term gains over the long-term survival of ecosystems and human life."

www.journalofdemocra...

Image credit: Ángel Sandoval Sub-Governorate, Santa Cruz, Bolivia

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Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social · May 12

Wouldn't there be a correlation between the propensity to have kids and the importance you assign to work?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Apr 23

This is why it is pointless being on X. If you get to the point where your voice is being heard, it will just be throttled.

Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · Apr 23

The free speech website where the owner (who believes in free speech) will throttle your access if you criticize him - even if you support all the far-right conspiracy theories and bigotry he supports. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

They Criticized Musk on X. Then Their Reach Collapsed. (Gift Article)

Three users who disagreed with the site’s owner saw views for their posts plummet.

www.nytimes.com

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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · Apr 17

I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social!

German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf
English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · Apr 4

A growing list of words and materials are being scrubbed from government websites and documents in an attempt by the Trump administration to remove all references not only to DEI, but also to climate change, vaccines, and a host of other topics.

More: pen.org/banned-words...

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.bsky.social · Apr 3

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)

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ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work (Digit) @digitcentre.bsky.social · Mar 27

🛜 ‘Digitalization and the future of the welfare state’ by @mbusemeyer.bsky.social, @achimkemmerling.bsky.social, Paul Marx, and Kees van Kersbergen: digit-research.org/event/digita...

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Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social · Mar 26

Off University is the best way to address the autocratic onslaught on academic freedom. Check out their courses. bsky.app/profile/offu...

Off University @offuniversity.bsky.social · Mar 25

🌟Off University’s 2025 Summer Semester, a defence against the global attack on science and critical thinking, is starting soon!

Sign-up today for our online courses on our new website at offuniversity.org and check out our e-learning platform, moodle.offuniversity.org

#universitywithoutborders

Caste on Screen: Hindi Cinema and the Making of Contemporary India by Reyazul Haque and Nadja-Christina Schneider, History and Memory in Contemporary Russia by Alexandra Kolesnik and Aleksandr Rusanov, Myanmar in the World by two scholars from Myanmar, and Othering, Social Taboo, and Ethnicity: Representations of the Margin in Arab Contemporary Fiction by Adel Dashela and Safwan Yahya Al-Showaiter.

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Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social · Mar 24

The importance of green skill formation: some insights on its political economy from great colleagues (@mbusemeyer.bsky.social, Martin B. Castensen and Jale Tosun) and myself: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Foundations for a green economy: how institutions shape green skills - npj Climate Action

npj Climate Action - Foundations for a green economy: how institutions shape green skills

www.nature.com

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Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social · Mar 24

SEM is structural equations model?

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · Mar 11

Climate action means taxing the rich.

We must "strengthen equality and redistribution through suitable taxation policies, basic income and job guarantees and by setting maximum income levels, expanding public services and rolling back neoliberal reforms"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Scientists’ warning on affluence - Nature Communications

Current environmental impact mitigation neglects over-consumption from affluent citizens as a primary driver. The authors highlight the role of bottom-up movements to overcome structural economic...

www.nature.com

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Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social · Mar 7

And so should Germany. Beggers belief why there isn't even a debate about this.

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · Mar 7

The UK should ban X too.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · Mar 7

strong agree thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

X Threatens Our Democracy. Canada Should Ban It | The Tyee

The risks of election interference, misinformation and attempts to support a US takeover are too great.

thetyee.ca

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Ruprecht Polenz @polenz.bsky.social · Feb 19

Wie X zugunsten von AfD und BSW manipuliert: Deren Posts landen viel öfter in der „für Dich“-Timeline als die anderer Parteien. Dazu passt, dass meine Reichweite auf X um mehr als 95 Prozent ‼️reduziert wurde.

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Achim Kemmerling @achimkemmerling.bsky.social · Feb 18

Just one of many examples what happens when #USAID disappears: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...

Myanmar in “polycrisis” as US aid freeze compounds long-term donor neglect

Conflict, disease, and poverty are driving unprecedented needs as junta rule enters a fifth year. So why is humanitarian assistance shrinking?

www.thenewhumanitarian.org

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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · Feb 14

🚨 please share!

We will be running our annual workshop on the political economy of development in Berlin @wzb.bsky.social in June.

This is a really fun workshop doing deep reads of a small number of new papers.

Call for papers / participants below! ⬇️

www.wzb.eu/en/events/mo...

MoPED Workshop

Berlin Meeting on the Political Economy of Development (MoPED) -- The MoPED workshop offers an opportunity for scholars who focus on the political economy of development, broadly defined, to build...

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