Christian Rauh

👋 DB Chaos.
(Im Vordergrund der arme Mann, der den franz. Passagieren das Prinzip umgekehrte Wagenreihung erklärt)

Der DB Direktzug nach Paris fuhr heute 40 min früher. War vmtl. schön leer ... 🤬

Lipooo! 🥳🚴‍♂️🚀

Warming stripes by Ed Hawkins Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warming_stripes?wprov=sfti1#

Climate spiral by Ed Hawkins Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_spiral?wprov=sfti1#Critical_response

Hey #rstats, #pydata, #julialang & #dataviz folks! 😊

What are some iconic data visualizations, similar to @edhawkins.org‘s warming strips & climate spiral?

GitHub - z3tt/TidyTuesday: My contributions to the #TidyTuesday challenge, a weekly data visualization challenge. All plots are 💯 created in R with ggplot2. My contributions to the #TidyTuesday challenge, a weekly data visualization challenge. All plots are 💯 created in R with ggplot2. - z3tt/TidyTuesday

Maybe not iconic in the public impact sense, but @cedricscherer.com inspires me time and again: github.com/z3tt/TidyTue...

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Love it! 👌👏

"Trust me, Bro!": You should read this working paper if you consider using commercial #LLM endpoints for annotating #TextAsData

arthurspirling.org/documents/Ba...

Just chiming in to say this is related to a thought I've been having about how prompts are an extreme version of parameterization, where there are so many ways to express a prompt (each word and combination a parameter) that it's not obvious how changing it affects the outcome

Danke Bernd! 😃

International recognition of European Union “actorness”: Language-based evidence from United Nations general debate speeches 1970–2020 The European Union is often portrayed as a global actor that is said to wield ‘economic’ or even ‘normative’ power. Such perspectives presume that states in the international system recognize EU ‘a...

➡️ Bottom line: Recognition of EU actorness is hardly global and rather mirrors power and value-based conflicts in the international system.

📖 For more detail & context read the full open-access article here: dx.doi.org/10.1080/0305...

But when non-EU states do recognize EU actorness, it follows relatively clear patterns: 📍 Geographical proximity; 💼 Trade dependence; ❌ Less likely among great powers and autocratic regimes.

Recognition mostly occurs in economic contexts—rarely in security, and especially hardly in relation to democracy or liberal values. And: recognition is largely driven by EU member states themselves. External recognition is rare—less than 12% of all speeches.

Key findings: EU actorness is frequently recognized—more so than for many international organizations (with the #AfricanUnion as an exception) or even states.

🤔 The #EU 🇪🇺 aspires to be a global actor 🌍 — but do other states recognize it as such?

My new study in @intlinteractions.bsky.social develops targeted #NLP / #TextAsData tools to analyze 50 years of foreign policy discourse in the annual #UN General Debate (1970–2020).

A thread (1/n)

Swiss universities to release multilingual AI programme This summer researchers at Swiss universities will make available a large language model (LLM), an AI programme trained on vast amounts of data, developed on public infrastructure.

This sounds promising (👋🇪🇺...)
www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-ai...

Sliding into the weekend's rest,
steep like the Clipse tiny desk.

Sounds useful, will check this out. Many thanks!

Straightforward, didn't think of this one. Thank you! 🫡

Dear #Polisky hive mind: What are your best recommendations for resources that help students struggling with developing/refining #ResearchQuestions for term papers or theses?

Why Clarity Feels Dangerous (Especially If You’re an Academic) The Hardest Work in Writing Is Saying What You Really Mean

George Orwell warned: bad writing leads to bad thinking.

Academia trains us to write for journals, not the public.
Clarity feels risky, because it exposes us.

But clear communication is essential for democracy.
So how do we do it?

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New post 👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/why-clarit...

🚨 Newest Comparative Political Data Set released!🚨

Updated until 2023

Available here 👉cpds-data.org/data

@leuphana.bsky.social
@uniluzern.bsky.social
@ipz.bsky.social

Sundays ... | PSD Herzfahrt | Tour de Fürstenberg

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Interesting, looking forward to read this! 📌

(1/5) Out now in Acta Politica: Populist parties increasingly target scientists and scientific knowledge. By analyzing 15 annual waves of representative panel data from the Netherlands (2007–2022), I examine to what extent populist parties fuel science skepticism among their supporters.

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.

🔗 epssnet.org

Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.

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Are we witnessing the death of international law? The long read: A growing number of scholars and lawyers are losing faith in the current system. Others say the law is not to blame, but the states that are supposed to uphold it

www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jun...

I discovered exactly that yesterday ... and loved it.

🧵 Hiring 2 PhDs in political science!

Join my ERC project DEMO-LIES
@uantwerpen.be
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We study how politicians accuse each other of lying/disinfo — and how citizens react: Does it erode trust? Polarize? Mobilize? 🧠🗳️

💥 4-yr fully funded
📅 Start: Oct/Nov 2025
🗓️ Deadline: 21 Aug

Details + apply 👇