Andreas Busch

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Computational Social Science of Social Cohesion and Polarization This open access book explores the decay of social cohesion in democratic societies through the lens of Computational Social Science (CSS)

📖 Our book is out! 🎉

Computational Social Science of Social Cohesion and Polarization
is published, openly and freely available at doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-01373-6

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#ComputationalSocialScience #Polarization #SocialCohesion #NetworkScience #ABM #TextAnalysis

Klassenkämpfer in Partylaune zeitung.faz.net/data/667/rea...

#Wahlkampf Freiburg:
„Laut App ist die Guntramstraße ein Fokusgebiet mit maximalem Potential für die #Grünen. In der Straße haben auffallend viele Psychotherapeuten ihre Praxen, zudem gibt es den Biometzger Hügle und einen veganen arabischen Partyservice.“

Klassenkämpfer in Partylaune

Please, Not Another Kennedy Nancy Pelosi reportedly plans to endorse JFK’s grandson for Congress. Why?

The assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy Sr. inspired Democrats to search for heirs to the throne, "a practice that resolved into decades of affirmative action for their decreasingly talented offspring,” Jonathan Chait argues:

NL: Carrying water to the sea

Doing something unnecessary in different cultures : A primer

🇩🇪 Germany: Eulen nach Athen tragen (carrying owls to Athens)

🇬🇧 UK: Carrying coal to Newcastle

🇺🇸 USA: Carrying food to Italy

cc: @fgenovese.bsky.social

Schwache kontraproduktive Interviewführung von Miosga mit Chrupalla. Suggestivfragen, vorwurfsvoller Ton, Verzetteln in Einzelthemen. Wirkte wie eine Verhörsituation. So erreicht man AfD-Wähler nicht, sondern erzeugt Trotz und Solidarität mit Chrupalla.

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Morgan McSweeney quits as PM's chief of staff following Mandelson scandal

BREAKING: McSweeney resigns as PM Starmer‘s chief of staff.
May well be a case of too little, too late in my assessment.

www.bbc.com/news/live/c7...

Riffing off Ganesh’s excellent FT column about the two elites (financial vs cultural/intellectual), Ackman seems to have passed from the standard rich guy seeks to hang out with educated elites equilibrium to “maybe I’m smarter than those nerds and have access to the real truth”.

Cabinet Office failed to query Mandelson’s relationship w... Investigators carrying out security vetting on Peter Mandelson failed to ask interviewees about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, despite the fact the pair’s connection was in the public domain.D...

Exclusive: Investigators carrying out developed vetting (DV) on Mandelson failed to ask interviewees about his relationship with Epstein

One of those interviewed during this phase told @theobserveruk.bsky.social there was “not a single question on Jeffrey Epstein”

observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Reform UK are seeking to fob off blame for their illegal leaflet on a printer error. That won’t stand up with the police - responsibility for making sure the law is followed lies with the party commissioning and distributing the leaflets.

Lindsey Vonn crashes in Olympic women’s downhill, airlifted off course Vonn crashed during Sunday’s Olympic women’s downhill and was airlifted off the mountain. Her status is unclear.

Breaking News from @theathletic.com: The American ski racer Lindsey Vonn crashed in her women’s downhill attempt, skiing on a torn ACL. nyti.ms/4kr96Uk

Look, if you are genuinely surprised, you haven’t really interacted deeply and widely within academia, you dont know its strengths and weaknesses, you dont understand its political economy, and you have not paid attention to claims and investigations when ten years ago MeToo made the academy shake.

The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.

Compu­group-Medical: Warum dem Nius-Finanzier die Ärzte wegbrechen Der Unternehmer Frank Gotthardt, der mit Software für Arztpraxen reich wurde, macht als Geldgeber für Rechtspopulisten von sich reden. Doch die Geschäfte gingen schon mal besser.

Es tut sich was: Allein im letzten Quartal haben 600 Praxen die Compugroup-Software des Nius-Finanziers Frank Gotthardt durch ein Konkurrenzprodukt ersetzt.

Miosga nächste Woche:
Epstein - Verbrecher oder einfach unkonventionell?
Studiogast: Julian Reichelt

As someone who is in an academic department that is positively pullulating with global talent, I would just like to note the gratuitous, excessive emotional and financial stress and strain suffered by talented globals in the context of swingeing visa regimes and hostile environments.

This is an immensely significant document that continues to get virtually no attention in US media—but lots abroad. In Jul 2015, Epstein arranged a meeting between a known highest-level Russian intel operative, Sergey Belyakov and Peter Thiel,

This was to be expected - after cutting support to pro-democracy civil society last year, the US state is now looking to actively support far-right affiliated think tanks and charities in Europe.

Restoring Palace of Westminster could cost £40bn and take 61 years Home of UK parliament spends £1.5m a week on repairs but critics say restoration proposals lack accountability

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www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

YouTube video by James Harbeck Pronunciation tip: Finnish women's Olympic hockey team

There's something therapeutic about saying a lot of Finnish names. You should try it youtu.be/ySnPjH9K8wE

Was wurde gesprengt, lieber @spiegel.de?

Ein kleiner Ofen hält Gorilla Toni warm. Wenn die Temperatur in seinem Gehege auf unter 20 Grad fallen sollte, würde er sterben. Egal, wie heftig Russland die ukrainische Hauptstadt Kyjiw angreift: Pflegerin Valentyna kommt zur Arbeit, um das zu verhindern. Unsere Reportage aus dem Zoo.

EU plan to share data with US border force sparks surveillance fears Washington is demanding access to sensitive data as ICE heightens fears in Europe.

🚨🚨Given current situation and with the sharply deteriorating situation in #trumpland, I think it is unwise, imprudent and just a very bad idea for the EU to go ahead with plans to grant #US border authorities unprecedented access to Europeans’ data. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-m...