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Jetzt an der LMU: Master Computational Social Science (M.Sc.)
Bewerbungen für die 2. Kohorte sind offen. Der interdisziplinäre Studiengang verbindet Kommunikationswissenschaft, Soziologie und Politikwissenschaft mit daten- und computergestützten Methoden. Info-Sprechstunde: 27. April.
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Entlastung an der Tankstelle: Regierung schickt allen Pendlern einen Sanifair-Bon www.der-postillon.com/2026/04/sani...
For a detailed explanation of why the two-thirds majority is so important, see: bsky.app/profile/juli...
New Article: Responsive to What? Explaining the Information Quality of Public Comments on Bureaucratic Policymaking Using a Text-as-Data Approach
From: @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social, @sergiulipcean.bsky.social, @chrauh.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
This is a very good paper and you should all read it. However, to this part, I want to reply with Arthur Spirling: "Open generative AI models are a way forward for science" (doi.org/10.1038/d415...).
Seriously, please don't default to sending students and other researchers to closed models.
📣 New article 🌟
👥 Adriana Bunea, Sergiu Lipcean & Christian Rauh
👉 Responsive to What? Explaining the Information Quality of Public Comments on Bureaucratic Policymaking Using a Text-as-Data Approach
📗 Open access in: Governance
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/gove...
Now out in the American Sociological Review
We present the first large-scale assessment of the structure and evolution of temporalities expressed in U.S. climate change news coverage (2000 to 2021). For this, we analyzed more than 23,000 statements about climate change effects and actions. 🧵 1/
📚 2 PhD positions in International Relations at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social! The positions are linked to my ERC-project about local change and public support for protectionism #academicsky #polisky
Deadline April 10, 2026, apply here! 👇
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A visual quantitative overview of European Council meetings 1975-2025 (meeting months, annual meeting frequency, lenght of EUCO conlsuions in words as well as key context events)
When starting a new dataset/corpus, get an overview first ...
🇪🇺 #EuropeanCouncil meetings 1975-2025
Nick Vivyan, Chris Hanretty (@chanret.bsky.social) and I have a new book out: “Idiosyncratic Issue Opinion and Political Choice”. The core of the book is making the argument that citizens’ views about political issues neither reduce to an ideological orientation nor to a lack of substance. (1/10)
Neat!
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
Ok, this is wild: an AI agent autonomously shames a developer because the latter didn't accept a pull request (we are talking matplotlib here)
theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
Bootstrapping against the deadline 😬
OPINION: As the current consensus goes, Europe has smothered itself in unnecessary regulation, and growth will return once red tape is cut.
This agenda is bound to disappoint.
I was interviewed for a podcast!
I talked with Wendo King'ang'i about (large) language models and opinion mining. It was recorded some time ago, so my affiliation is old, but the topic is still relevant, and I tried to make it as accessible as I could.
Get better soon!
Geschichte wiederholt sich nicht, aber sie reimt sich.
This map shows where ICE is conducting the most "at large" arrests.
Notice a pattern?
A historical black and white photo of young survivors in striped uniforms standing behind a barbed wire fence at Auschwitz concentration camp.
Black and white historical photo of liberated prisoners walking under the 'Arbeit Macht Frei' gate at Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
Black and white historical photo showing a large hall filled with discarded clothing, with a person visible in the background.
Historical black and white photograph of Auschwitz concentration camp after liberation showing dilapidated wooden barracks and victims' bodies on the ground.
Eighty-one years ago today, over 7,000 prisoners of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz, including some 700 children, were liberated by the soldiers of the Soviet Army.
1,689 days of murder, pain, suffering, and humiliation were over.
Today, we all remember. We must keep remembering.
EU-Mercosur: Fatale Fehlentscheidung von acht deutschen Grünen im EP auf mehreren Ebenen - geopolitisch ebenso wie parteipolitisch (Schützenhilfe für linke EU-Gegner und rechte EU-Feinde). Trump und Putin sind erfreut.
German perspective: prices for school exchange years in the US have dropped by around 1/3. For Canada and Australia, they went up.
A family member reacts after a federal immigration officer used a battering ram to break down a door before making an arrest on January 11, 2026, in Minneapolis.
Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
Sharing this sentiment tonight.
📣 Come work with us! The @wzb.bsky.social Center for Civil Society Research is looking for a research associate/doctoral candidate (75%) for a 3 year period, starting on Apr 1, 2026. The researcher will work in the Manifesto Project. More:
wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/428...
Apply by Jan 25, 2026! 🗓️
TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force?
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
MILLER: The US is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere. We're a superpower. It's absurd we'd allow a nation in our backyard to become a supplier of resources to our adversaries
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
Taking in some light to finish off the break ...
