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Zeth Isaksson @zethis.bsky.social · 12d

"will counter the rise of the populist Right" - oh hell no

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Zeth Isaksson @zethis.bsky.social · 12d

What field? MY field.

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Zeth Isaksson @zethis.bsky.social · 13d

Really tries to play the far right playbook but being very bad at it.

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Zeth Isaksson @zethis.bsky.social · 13d

Exactly my thought. Total nonsensical discussion. But maybe they find it hard to imagine a histogram with more than two bars. I’m not Dutch but I hope they can request more from their statisticians.

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Zeth Isaksson @zethis.bsky.social · 13d

(Maybe a lunch at SU, the LMU lunch is cheaper than the metro ticket to get there)

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Zeth Isaksson @zethis.bsky.social · 13d

When you have to submit via Research Exchange instead of Manuscript Central.
(Different circles of hell)

a man in a suit and tie is crying and says " look how they massacred my boy "

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is crying and says " look how they massacred my boy "

media.tenor.com

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Zeth Isaksson @zethis.bsky.social · 20d

Pretty sure Niemöller didn’t mention late-night hosts. Looks like we’re adding a verse.

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Zeth Isaksson @zethis.bsky.social · 21d

Not a causal identifikation but they use ”the number of freelance artists at the ZIP code level as a new measure of urbanity” 🎸

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

www.sciencedirect.com

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Zeth Isaksson @zethis.bsky.social · 21d

Brilliant!

Ala Alrababah @aalrababah.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 New working paper alert 🚨
Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️
In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...

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Zeth Isaksson @zethis.bsky.social · 25d

In Hamburg! Which means: train ride away, and no pressure to wear shorts.

Zeth Isaksson @zethis.bsky.social · 25d

Update! @epssnet.bsky.social 2027 is not scheduled on Midsummer.

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Zeth Isaksson @zethis.bsky.social · 27d

please do!

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Zeth Isaksson @zethis.bsky.social · 27d

"Democracy is in danger because of the Democrats, so we’ll treat this as a Reichstag fire moment — and abolish democracy."

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Zeth Isaksson @zethis.bsky.social · Sep 5

Congrats!! Great job 👏

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Zeth Isaksson @zethis.bsky.social · Sep 2

Latest update: moved to Florence, started as a Max Weber Fellow at the EUI. Reporting live from the Tuscan hills 🤌

Zeth Isaksson @zethis.bsky.social · Sep 1

In other news: I have submitted my dissertation 🤘

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Zeth Isaksson @zethis.bsky.social · Sep 1

I really can’t understand why any government (or scientist, for that matter) would still use the platform. It’s truly baffling.

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Zeth Isaksson @zethis.bsky.social · Sep 1

Online in October! If political behavior in post-socialist Europe is your thing — heads up.

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Zeth Isaksson @zethis.bsky.social · Sep 1

In other news: I have submitted my dissertation 🤘

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Zeth Isaksson @zethis.bsky.social · Aug 29

Stages of a relationship: casual, serious, Reagan Foundation endorsement.

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Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · Aug 28

A new piece I wrote appearing in FOREIGN AFFAIRS today

www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/warn...

Warnings From Weimar

Why bargaining with authoritarians fails.

www.foreignaffairs.com

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Zeth Isaksson @zethis.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thanks! 🙏 Official invite soon — but mark November 14 in your calendar already.

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Zeth Isaksson @zethis.bsky.social · Aug 27

Waiting for the final proofreading of my dissertation before submission like:

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Aug 27

Every academic has one core theory they don't actually believe in, but can't stop using because it’s so **neat**

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Zeth Isaksson @zethis.bsky.social · Aug 27

Swedish student theses end up in Google Scholar (they’re required to upload to the same platform as faculty). Naturally, they cite their professors—netting them a few hundred citations on papers nobody reads.

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · Aug 27

Our paper is now out in an issue! Summarizing thread below and link for access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · Mar 24

Technological change has had important consequences for labour markets in recent decades. What about its electoral consequences? In this new article in EJPR, we use administrative data to follow nearly a million workers over 16 years to study this. 🧵

ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The gendered long‐term consequences of automation risk on electoral behaviour: Evidence from Norway

We examine long-run effects of automation risk on turnout. We expect gendered negative effects because men's turnout is more sensitive to job loss and earnings, but negative effects might be offset b...

ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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