Martin Elff

Check out our new paper in the European Journal of Political Research (@ejprjournal.bsky.social):

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I like how Marco snatches the note back so that the President doesn't read it aloud again.

Reports: Trump Gave Classified Info To Russians During White House Visit The Washington Post reported that the president revealed "highly classified information" to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador, possibly jeopardizing future intelligence gathering on ISIS.

What? TG&DJT suing Obama? Then tell me why THAT was not treason? www.npr.org/2017/05/15/5...

CN Brutaler Mord

Ich habe erst heute erfahren, dass ein Mann, der unzählige Waffen & NS-Memorabilien besaß, 2023 in Rickenbach einen asylsuchenden Tunesier erschossen & zerstückelt hat, als er heute zu 6 Jahren Haft verurteilt wurde.

Wir wissen alle, wie es wäre, wenn es andersherum gewesen wäre.

Large Language Models Are Democracy Coders with Attitudes Current political developments worldwide illustrate that research on democratic backsliding is as important as ever. A recent exchange in Political Science & Politics (2/2024) has highlighted again a ...

Now available on arxiv: "Large Language Models Are Democracy Coders with Attitudes" (with Mats Faulborn and @dgarcia.eu) arxiv.org/abs/2503.22315

Tatjana Brütting with the defence committee.

I am super-proud and happy that (and how well!!) Tatjana Brütting defended her doctorate this week. Congratulations!

🔥🔥🔥

Le Chat - Mistral AI Chat with Mistral AI's cutting edge language models.

For those who are looking for a European alternative to ChatGPT, here is one: Mistral Le Chat (chat.mistral.ai). There is also an Android app, which is not as popular as it deserves.

Are violent incidents in Germany more widely reported if the perpetrator is a migrant? It seems so.

Gov. Walz, "There’s nothing conservative about an unelected South African nepo baby firing people at the VA."

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Ukrainian pillars of democracy are fighting our European fight.

Help them — with more than just words!

Thrilled that our paper has found a home at British Journal of Political Science !

Voice of America Journalists Face Investigations for Comments About Trump The broadcaster placed a longtime journalist on leave amid growing concerns about its editorial independence.

NEW: Voice of America is in upheaval. Journalists are facing HR investigations for comments critical of Trump. One of VOA's highest-profile journalists was put on leave today after a Trump aide called him a traitor. And the White House bureau chief was reassigned. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/b...

Mehr Ausländer erhöhen die Kriminalitätsrate nicht Migration nach Deutschland führt nicht zu einer höheren Kriminalitätsrate an den Zuzugsorten. Dies zeigen Auswertungen des ifo Instituts der Polizeilichen Kriminalstatistik nach Landkreisen für die Ja...

Das wirtschaftsnahe Ifo-Institut widerspricht in einer Studie Friedrich Merz' aktueller Politik - und gesamter aktueller Debatte: "Migration nach Deutschland führt nicht zu einer höheren Kriminalitätsrate an den Zuzugsorten."
Dies decke sich mit internationaler Forschung
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APSA Statement on Executive Action Impacts on Research Funding, Data Availability and Academic Freedom - The American Political Science Association (APSA) is deeply concerned about recent executive actions that have had troubling implications for research funding and academic freedom. In January, President Trump issued an executive order calling for the [...]

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Aspiring autocrats are always more dangerous the second time they are in office | Jan-Werner Müeller Just look at the chaos Trump is causing in the Department of Education to understand the nature of his second term

The first time as farce, the second time as tragedy.

The land of opportunity: You may not be able to vote in Virginia or Kentucky when you are a felon, but at least you can become president (provided you are a white, rich Republican).

Ruth Dassonneville and Romain Lachat are organizing a summer school on “Challenges to Electoral Democracy”, which may be of interest to you. Details can be found here: www.chairedemocratie.com/files/sites/...

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Wow, that's progress!

To put things in perspective: If American judges were as lenient towards ordinary people as Republican senators are towards Trump's nominees, then US prisons would be much less overcrowded.

Hey, what Cabinet would YOU pick if any normal person would in the future use the 25th Amendment to remove you from office?

The Engagement Is Better on Bluesky - Bluesky Bluesky is the lobby to the open web. Find and build your community here.

We could go on about how we welcome publishers, we don't demote links, we encourage independent developers to build apps and extensions on top of Bluesky's network.... but instead, we'll show you.

All thanks to the incredible community here! 🦋

Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it

Man sieht den Eingangsbereich der Universität Wien aus der Frontansicht, mit drei bunten Flaggen, der Rampe und den Treppen zum Haupteingang.

Aus aktuellem Anlass: Für Updates aus der Welt der Universität Wien habt ihr die Möglichkeit, uns hier auf Bluesky, Mastodon, auf Instagram, Facebook, unseren YouTube-Kanälen & auf LinkedIn zu folgen, überall unter '@univienna'. 🏛 🔍
Unseren Twitter-Account haben wir heute ruhend gestellt. #eXit 👋

Can Wall Street Billionaires Deliver on Trump’s Blue-Collar Promise? The president-elect has named wealthy financiers for key economic positions, raising questions about how much they will follow through on promises to help the working class.

Simple answer: No.

Can Wall Street Billionaires Deliver on Trump’s Blue-Collar Promise? www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/u...

The PG/ Musk exchange reads a lot like one of those Microsoft community pages where people ask why some simple function has been taken away and the Microsoft employee answers that it’s fine because you can still do it if you click 30 buttons or enter five DOS commands.

They did it. They did the funniest thing ever.

Out now open access at
@ajpseditor.bsky.social. 194 potential exclusion-restriction violations for studies using weather as an instrumental variable onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

it's official — 1,000,000 people have joined Bluesky in just the last day!!!

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Trump Threatens New York Times, Penguin Random House over Critical Coverage Legal letter follows complaints aimed at CBS News, the Washington Post, and the Daily Beast.

and so it begins...

www.cjr.org/the_trump_re...