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Petar Marjanović @piit.ch · 21h

Morgen kommt der Weidmann-Bericht raus.

Der ETH-Professors und Bähnler wird darin Bundesrat Albert Rösti aufzeigen, welche Bahn/Strassen-Projekte priorisiert werden sollen. Es geht um Milliarden. Die Nervosität ist gross.

www.bluewin.ch/de/news/schw...

Geheimpapier zu Bahn und Strasse sorgt für Nervosität auf höchster Ebene

In der Schweizer Bahnpolitik braut sich etwas zusammen: Ein Bericht sorgt hinter den Kulissen für Nervosität. Laut blue News liegt der sogenannte Weidmann-Bericht bereits vor – die Öffentlichkeit wird...

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G Brueckmann @brueckmann.bsky.social · 22h

Congrats! You must have liked it in Cologne the other year :)

G Brueckmann @brueckmann.bsky.social · 5d

Why do you think this is more in the transport sector than other sectors? 🤔🫣

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G Brueckmann @brueckmann.bsky.social · 5d

Why do they always want Gantt charts and a like, if they could have memes?
😉🤣

Screenshot of a post saying every season is spooky season when civil society is disintegrating

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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 7d

@science.org just dropped a story covering this preprint! Check it out below, and thanks to @cathleenogrady.bsky.social for the great write-up! www.science.org/content/arti...

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G Brueckmann @brueckmann.bsky.social · 9d

Is it too early to post something something on IVs and papers being written?

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 9d

The Taliban have completely shut down the internet in Afghanistan to “prevent violations of moral norms.”

NetBlocks
@netblocks@mastodon.social
A Update: #Afghanistan is now in the midst of a total internet blackout as Taliban authorities move to implement morality measures, with multiple networks disconnected through the morning in a stepwise manner; telephone services are currently also impacted
Network

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G Brueckmann @brueckmann.bsky.social · 10d

Sometimes the fun is in the footnotes.

This is from: Darwili, A., & Schröder, E. (2025). Which countries have offshored carbon dioxide emissions in net terms?. Ecological Economics, 235, 108597.

#AcademicChatter #SwissExceptionalism #Sweden #Energy #Trade #ClimateChange

Footnote from mentioned academic paper which reads: In the interest of transparency: we initially set the threshold at 10 million, a nice and round number. We lowered the threshold after noticing it would exclude Sweden and Switzerland. Both countries are worth studying on account of their trade-intensive economies with exceptionally clean energy systems.

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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 10d

Big surprise in Switzerland: In the canton of Bern, a stronghold of the far-right SVP, voters just approved a popular initiative from the left forcing landlords to disclose the previous rent when tenants change. In the near-complete absence of an actual campaign due to a lack of financial resources

Aendu ☘️ @aendu.bsky.social · 10d

Immerhin tun der Kanton Bern etwas für uns Mieter:innen. 🥳
www.derbund.ch/abstimmungen...

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G Brueckmann @brueckmann.bsky.social · 12d

A system that works is a good system in my book.

G Brueckmann @brueckmann.bsky.social · 12d

Sublime locally and you could still share the project via github and you can even use github as a LaTeX compiler, e.g., as I do in the projects for my course syllabi, here is an example: github.com/brueckmann/S... (Just FYI, stuff with co-authors is not public).

GitHub - brueckmann/Syllabus_PolDec_HS2025: 478981-HS2025-0-Energy and Mobility Policies for Decarbonisation

478981-HS2025-0-Energy and Mobility Policies for Decarbonisation - brueckmann/Syllabus_PolDec_HS2025

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G Brueckmann @brueckmann.bsky.social · 13d

Not like us having a preprint on the „none option“ www.doi.org/10.31235/osf... (need to update it soon)

And me also speaking out since when I was a PhDstudent about the fact that making people choose and rate others is also ethically iffy.

Anyway #conjoint fans this is for you

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 14d

I fear somebody in the Australian government may have misunderstood the meaning of pull requests

Jan Kabatek 🇺🇦 @jankabatek.com · 15d

The list of social media platforms that Australia is considering to ban (under the new restrictions for Aussie teenagers) includes—yes, you read that right—GitHub.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Not just 'big fish': eSafety reveals new platforms may be forced to ban teens

WhatsApp, Roblox, Reddit and Discord are among an expanded list of platforms which may be covered by the teen social media ban, the ABC can reveal.

www.abc.net.au

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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 18d

Lesen Sie unsere #POLITKOLUMNE? Und haben Sie Lust, mit uns zu diskutieren?

Zum 2-jährigen Jubiläum unserer Kolumne dürfen Adrian Vatter & ich in "Der Bund im Gespräch" auftreten, moderiert von Chefredaktor @cellmob.bsky.social

Es würd uns SEHR freuen, Euch zu sehen! www.derbund.ch/der-bund-im-...

«Der Bund» im Gespräch, Gratis für Abonnent:innen: Ist die Demokratie noch zu retten?

Das pointierte Berner Politduo Adrian Vatter und Rahel Freiburghaus über autokratische Gefahren und föderalistische Grenzen. Am 11. November 2025 im Bierhübeli Bern.

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G Brueckmann @brueckmann.bsky.social · 19d

Jeah, alles vollkommen normal in Hessen 🥸

phlsner @phlsner.bsky.social · 20d

In Hessen scannen Mitarbeiter*innen des Kultusministeriums Social-Media-Accounts von Schulen, ob dort mit Sonderzeichen gegendert wird und weist die Schulen dann darauf hin, dass die verboten sei. Alles normal.

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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 19d

🚨📢 I am hiring a PhD candidate /research assistant in Swiss Politics and/or Comparative Politics (100%)!

🚨📢 Je recrute un·e assistant·e diplômé·e en science politique en politique suisse et comparée!

Please join me @unil.bsky.social, Switzerland!

Thanks for sharing! polisky @sspunil.bsky.social

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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 20d

Oh ffs. No, I do not want to "Chat with the PDF" of this interesting looking academic journal article I just came across.

I would like to read it. With my own eyeballs. And think about it. You know, with that grey matter sitting between my ears.

Just make it stop.

#AcademicChatter

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 20d

Hey climate experienced and climate curious political scientists:

Send your hottest (!) climate paper to this @epssnet.bsky.social section 🔥🌱🔌

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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G Brueckmann @brueckmann.bsky.social · 22d

Thank you for the clarification, totally agree!

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G Brueckmann @brueckmann.bsky.social · 22d

Polite question, why would you (only) say get out in the digital world and not into the physical world, and in real dialogues with those people who do not yet know much about it?

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 22d

This a.m. I spent 2 hours in a high powered international climate policy meeting focused on understanding mitigation narratives in advanced economies.

Three personal and loosely elaborated thoughts on hearing the experts in the room (these are “technocrats” à la advisors in UNEP, EDF, etc).

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 23d

Can someone program a bot to identify the most cited never-published papers and we take it from there

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 23d

*Lost Preprints*, the podcast about scientific near-misses, where we trace the afterlife of papers that got stuck in limbo...

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G Brueckmann @brueckmann.bsky.social · 23d

With the semester start, teaching starts!
I usually compile a list of ressources for students to learn. Here are the ressources for #RStats :

gist.github.com/brueckmann/f...

Which R ressources does #PolSci recommend to students?

Auch suche ich noch ein paar mehr Ressourcen auf Deutsch, danke 🙏

gist.github.com

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G Brueckmann @brueckmann.bsky.social · 23d

With the semester start, teaching starts!
I usually compile a list of ressources for students to learn. Here are the ressources for #RStats :

gist.github.com/brueckmann/f...

Which R ressources does #PolSci recommend to students?

Auch suche ich noch ein paar mehr Ressourcen auf Deutsch, danke 🙏

gist.github.com

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 23d

Hanna und Nanni

Julian Hamann @julianhamann.bsky.social · 23d

Zur Stärkung der - na klar - Resilienz von Postdocs bietet die Postdoc Academy der Berlin University Alliance jetzt "Pferdegestütztes Coaching" an. Auf dem Workshop kann man seine Resilienz "durch direkte, nonverbale Rückmeldung von Pferden" stärken.

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Petar Marjanović @piit.ch · 24d

Tausendmal nicht bemerkt: Bundeshaus korrigiert Tippfehler – jahrelang merkte es niemand.

www.bluewin.ch/de/news/schw...

Bundeshaus korrigiert Tippfehler – jahrelang merkte es niemand

Manchmal liegt die grosse Symbolik im kleinsten Detail. Eine Korrektur im Bund macht es deutlich, wie ernst die Schweiz ihre Mehrsprachigkeit nimmt.

www.bluewin.ch

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