Wir suchen Verstärkung am @bidt.bsky.social in München.
Thomas Hess und ich starten ein neues Projekt „Digitale Staatlichkeit gestalten“!
Lust auf quantitative empirische Sozialwissenschaft und Digitalpolitik?
Hier geht es zur Bewerbung: bidt.jobs.personio.de/job/2578559
Many middle powers are fast diversifying trade ties away from the US
• In May-Dec 2025 trade among UK, Canada, EU, Japan, South Korea and Switzerland rose by 12%
• EU leads the way, as recent burst of free-trade deals with Mercosur, India and Australia illustrates
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
This is quite extraordinary- scientists set a kind of trap for AI chat bots by inventing a fake disease. AI told people it was real and… the deliberately bogus preprints started being cited in peer reviewed literature 🫣
🧪 #MedSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I'm also concerned about contaminating the control group.
But we are working on an experiment with multiple DVs, and wonder whether increasing the distance between the treatment and mechanism might reduce a measurable effect.
Anymore views on this? Thanks to everyone engaging 🙏
Congrats Philipp! 🎉
Always good to see scientists replicating previous famous findings.
An image of the schedule with speaker images. You can find the full schedule on tada.cool.
🚨 TADA Speaker Series Spring 2026 schedule is here! 🚨
We've assembled a fantastic lineup of researchers exploring the future of survey research in the age of LLMs.
Mar 18 - May 27, online at 17:00 CEST. Join us!
More info & signup: tada.cool
MAGA's war on European civil society is escalating. Visa bans for NGO leaders and former EU officials, plus congressional demands for documents - it's all about undermining the Digital Services Act to protect Big Tech.
If Europe doesn't push back hard, "the law is dead."
www.ftm.eu/articles/tru...
Come work with me! Two postdoc positions open in @erc.europa.eu project PROTECT, examining how local change shapes public support for protectionist policies in areas like trade and finance. @stockholmuni.bsky.social
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#polisky #academicsky
Carney to Europeans + other middle powers: “When we only negotiate bilaterally with a hegemon, we negotiate from weakness. We accept what’s offered. We compete with each other to be the most accommodating. This is not sovereignty. It’s the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination.”
This is dangerous for many reasons, not least the information suppression that this causes.
Lots of pressure on the EU to continue defending the torch of cooperation and, frankly, collecting data for the world now
The EU CBAM "has prompted China to expand its own emissions trading system, since the levy will be reduced if a carbon price has already been paid at source."
Brazil, Mexico, Japan, Colombia and Turkey may follow.
via @alicemhancock.bsky.social.
www.ft.com/content/9e4a...
“With the govt’s planned 10% cuts to the Swiss National Science Foundation, Switzerland is massively weakening its research, thereby putting the innovative strength of its economy & its competitiveness at risk,” says the President of the Research Council of the @snf-fns.ch www.srf.ch/audio/echo-d...
🚨🚨 Politically significant decision by @ec.europa.eu to impose a €120 million fine on Elon #Musk’s #X, the first-ever penalty issued under the EU’s flagship content moderation law, the Digital Services Act. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...
New working paper w/ @erikvoeten.bsky.social on the hottest topic in town: data centers!
We show how concerns about #digitalsovereignty, decarbonization, electricity costs & local environmental impacts shape public support for data center construction in #Germany.
osf.io/preprints/so...
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Another day, same story in the European Parliament - talks between the centrists parties collapse, and the centre-right to far-right forms the majority, today expectedly on the deforestation regulation.
At least on the simplification/deregulation agenda, it now seems to be the de facto EP majority:
"Support for prevention has the hallmarks of “real” attitudes: consistency across wordings and response formats, including open-ended probes; steadfastness in the face of arguments; and willingness to make trade-offs against disaster relief, increased taxes, and reduced spending on other programs."
"Brussels’ focus on market influence has become a dangerous blind spot. For instance, officials may treat digital protections as bargaining chips rather than a crucial bulwark of European democracy or a defence against foreign influence. That would be a terrible mistake." 👌
📣 We're hiring a postdoc in political science for our ReJust project @uni-konstanz.de!
Project with Dirk Leuffen @leuffen.bsky.social and Urs Fischbacher
3-year position | Deadline: Dec. 15, 2025 | Start: April 2026
Please share widely 🙏
Expect more partisan conflict over the digital omnibus in the European Parliament mirroring last week's controversial vote on the "green omnibus".
Does the cordon sanitaire keep withering away in the face of the dergulatory agenda?
Importantly, however, there is a convergence on a deregulatory agenda, not least as France seeks to boost its AI hopeful Mistral.
Today, the European Commission unveils its "digital omnibus" proposal including deregulatory measures regarding AI, data protection etc.
www.politico.eu/article/the-...
Or more academically, @adler-nissen.bsky.social & Kristin Anabel Eggeling have detailed how different understandigns of digital sovereignty derailed GAIA-X: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Franco-German disagreement over what entails and how to achieve digtial sovereignty has previously hampered the success of cloud initative GAIA-X, which remained behind expectations.
www.politico.eu/article/anat...
But even as they try to speak with one voice, German and French interpretations of the means and ends of digital sovereignty are still not aligned.
Merz: "Digital sovereignty cannot be achieved through regulation and subsidies."
www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
If it wasn't a sign: Yesterday's German-French "digital sovereignty summit" took place right during the Cloudflare outage.
Chancellor Merz: "We want to speak with one European voice, and we work together toward one goal: that is European digital sovereignty."
www.politico.eu/article/germ...
Party positions in the European Parliament 2024. Based on the CHES expert survey. Political space in the European Union 2024.
🤩 Party positions in the 2024 European Parliament 🇪🇺!
I merged the CHES expert survey with EP composition data to visualize the political space of the current EP. The graphs make the center of gravity in the EP quite clear, on multiple dimensions and policy issues.
dimiter.shinyapps.io/ches/
📊 𝗘𝗨𝗣𝗟𝗘𝗫 dataset update!
💻 We updated complexity data to 𝟭,𝟬𝟯𝟮 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀, including entirely new data on 𝟴𝟭𝟱 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀. The dataset now includes legislative procedures from 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟯 𝘁𝗼 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱.
📎 The data are now available for download at www.euplex.org/data
Was für Post Apocalyptic, das is legit jede zweite deutsche uni zwischen november und mai
