Lukas Mergele

Not a real friend!!!

🚨Thrilled to share our paper🚨
Does science focus on the diseases that hurt people the most?
When deadly outbreaks hit, how does research respond?

Our work with:
@prashantgarg.bsky.social
@trfetzer.com

shows how medical research worldwide responds to both endemic burdens and emergencies.
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Here’s How Trump Loses the Shutdown God help us but Gavin Newsom is the only Democrat who understands power.

Defending democracy is fundamentally different from winning elections when rules of democracy can be taken for granted.
In a must-read article, @jvl.bsky.social observes that "Democrats are negotiating about policy when they should be negotiating about power."
www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

German Reunification Day invites both gratitude and reflection.
Gratitude, because the peaceful revolution of 1989 was nothing short of a miracle — a bloodless dismantling of a repressive regime.
Reflection, because the wounds of the transition still mark the country —and because

Seco-Chefin Budliger zu einem Deal mit den USA: "Wenn ich nicht optimistisch wäre, wer sollte es dann sein? Für einen Vertragsabschluss braucht es jedoch immer zwei, die ihn wollen", @NZZ

Ist jetzt nicht überraschend, aber in der Deutlichkeit dann doch bemerkenswert. (aus: on.ft.com/4gP83eW)

Gesamte Schwefeldioxid-Emissionen in Deutschland. Damit wird die Menge des aus Verbrennungsprozessen in Kraftwerken, in Haushalten usw. freigesetzten Schwefeldioxids beschrieben.

Mittlere Schwefeldioxid-Konzentrationen in Deutschland. Damit werden die Konzentrationen von Schwefeldioxid in der Außenluft beschrieben.

Mittlere Schwefeldioxid-Konzentrationen auf dem Gebiet der DDR im Jahr 1985. Damit werden die Konzentrationen von Schwefeldioxid in der Außenluft beschrieben.

Die App "Luftqualität" informiert über die Qualität der Luft, die wir atmen, in verschiedenen Regionen.

3. Oktober – Tag der Deutschen Einheit.
Die #Wiedervereinigung war nicht nur ein politisches Ereignis – sie hat auch unsere Luft sauberer gemacht.
Ein kurzer Rückblick auf die #Luftqualität in den neuen Bundesländern in den Kommentaren 👇

🥂 Another German Unity Day (3 Oct) is round the corner 🎉

Na ja, wenn der Algo systematisch extreme Meinungen bevorteilt, dann ist das nochmal ein anderes, strukturelles Problem

Some real gems 💎 in the replies

Nice line-up! Make sure you iron your shirt before the event 😋

AI isn't replacing radiologists Radiology combines digital images, clear benchmarks, and repeatable tasks. But demand for human radiologists is ay an all-time high.

An insightful piece by Deena Mousa about how AI performs extremely well at benchmarks for reading medical scans, yet isn't putting radiologists out of work. Lots to learn for other knowledge-work professions here.
www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-ai-isn...

Thanks, Abhi!

Fascinating paper, congratulations! Do you have any thoughts on what makes private schools more productive? (Srry if it's in the paper)

sheesh! AI bluesky has arrived

not just good content, there’s more and more original work, people from labs, and people with genuinely interesting perspectives

when i joined, it was so painful trying to find even traces

Nicht unbedingt, wie die Forschung zeigt: snunnari.github.io/gn_populism....

Did the political establishment pave the way for Trump and Farage? New research suggests mainstream politicians created an opening for the populist right

now also covered by www.ft.com/content/9598...

W3 professorship “Economics, especially Empirical Microeconomics” The Faculty of Law and Economics, School of Economics and Business, at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg is seeking to fill the following position at the earliest possible date: W3 professorship  “Economics, especially Empirical Microeconomics” We seek a person with a proven track record in empirical microeconomics with publications in high-ranking international journals and the potential for further high-ranking publications. Research interests that strengthen the profile of the School of Economics and Business (especially in the quantitativeempirical field of economic governance) and open up opportunities for cooperation are expressly desired. It is expected that the applicant's own research focus has links to the university's profile areas “Sustainability, Transformation and Knowledge Cultures and Education”. Applicants should have experience with or be willing to acquire and carry out third-party funded projects.

W3 professorship “Economics, especially Empirical Microeconomics” #Econsky

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As I was saying…

Thanks Paul. It’s nice to have a paper that’s both elegant (if I may say so) and practically useful. The conclusion is that using a particular covariate balancing PS estimator — inverse probability tilting — renders IPW, AIPW, and IPWRA all numerically identical with a linear conditional mean.

Did you know that every single person who confuses correlation and causation ends up dying?! 😵

Correlation vs Causation

#tylenol #acetaminophen

Econ meme that made me giggle.

Via Linkedin from Ignacio Ramirez Moreno (www.linkedin.com/in/ignacio-r...)

Thought you might enjoy it too, @fabiocanetg.bsky.social!

Leider bestätigt die Bundesregierung 🇩🇪 mal wieder die klassischen Political Economy-Annahmen. Genau wie bei der Diskussion um das Schuldenpaket befürchtet.

via lnkd.in/p/eVtPyNS3

Kimmel off the air is not cancel culture. It's state censorship.

The FCC Chair abused merger approval authority to do it, and the president touted it saying no one should be allowed to make fun of him.

Don't play into the BS that complaining students or social media posters are equivalent to govt.

So right-wing oligarchs now control X, Facebook, TikTok, WaPo, Fox News, CBS...and others not controlled by them are capitulating. Do I have that right?

Kommentar: Nach Musks Aufruf zur Gewalt muss die Bundesregierung X verlassen Elon Musk hat am Samstag als Sprecher einer Großdemonstration zu Gewalt aufgerufen. Doch die Bundesregierung und viele Medien sind weiterhin auf seiner Plattform X. Was muss eigentlich noch passieren,...

"Was muss eigentlich noch alles passieren, bis Ihr eure X-Accounts endlich dichtmacht?"

Ich verstehe es auch nicht.
netzpolitik.org/2025/komment...

Meanwhile in Germany: bsky.app/profile/juli...

Bluesky isn’t perfect but at least its owner isn’t demanding violent insurrection in the UK from thousands of miles away

"Wir werden wahrscheinlich mit der Schweiz einen Deal machen", kündigt US-Handelsminister Howard #Lutnick in einem Interview mit dem amerikanischen TV-Sender CNBC an.
Die Schweiz werde "mit der Zeit ihren Weg finden", ist der Handelsminister überzeugt. (1/3)

It's just been a brutal several years for German GDP growth—they're the only EU member state whose economy is still smaller than before the pandemic