Julia Partheymüller

Why aren't families having more babies?

This brand new paper argues that part of the reason is because childcare is so expensive.

"A 10% increase in the price of childcare leads to a 5.7% decrease in the birth rate"

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It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted

“Throughout these conversations, ChatGPT reinforced a single, dangerous message: Stein-Erik could trust no one in his life — except ChatGPT itself," the lawsuit says. “It fostered his emotional dependence while systematically painting the people around him as enemies..."

Unis verzichten in "einmaliger Aktion" auf Geld – Gehaltskürzung beim Personal hilft dabei Universitäten geben rund 120 Millionen ab, um Lücke beim Wissenschaftsfonds zu füllen. Gehaltsanpassungen 2026 und 2027 deutlich unterhalb der Inflation

80 % arbeiten befristet, jetzt noch Reallohnkürzung in Millionenhöhe, gleichzeitig Top-100-Marketing und das Gerede von Leistungsanreizen an jeder Ecke … schwierig, das nicht zynisch zu kommentieren... 🫠

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The US is not just Europe’s unwilling ally, but an adversary steeped in far-right ideology | Cas Mudde Don’t say you weren’t warned: Trump’s new national security strategy seeks to destroy liberal democracy as we know it, says academic and author Cas Mudde

The US is not just Europe’s unwilling ally, but an adversary steeped in far-right ideology

Don’t say you weren’t warned: Trump’s new national security strategy seeks to destroy liberal democracy as we know it

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Looks like I ain't travelling to the United States any time soon...

Schweiz: Palantir-Software hat verheerende Risiken Nach Risikoprüfung des Einsatzes von Palantir-Software in der Schweiz bekam der US-Konzern eine Absage, trotz jahrelanger Hofierung von Behörden und Armee. Den Eidgenossen sind die Risiken zu groß. Da...

Software von #Palantir hat verheerende Risiken. Das ist das Ergebnis einer Risikoprüfung in der Schweiz. Aber für deutsche Polizeien soll die Palantir-Software gut genug sein. Nimmt #Dobrindt diese Risiken in Kauf? netzpolitik.org/2025/schweiz...

Wie mit Kryptowährungen hybride Angriffe finanziert werden Sabotage von Bahnstrecken, mysteriöse Drohnenflüge oder Desinformationskampagnen: Hybride Angriffe werden zur Verschleierung oft mit Kryptogeld bezahlt.

Kryptowährungen: Wie hybride Angriffe finanziert werden

www.deutschlandfunk.de/kryptowaehru...

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Kick-Off-Event zur Hochschulstrategie 2040 - Wir von @nuwiss.bsky.social sind dabei! 👋

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The Dangers of Unregulated AI in Policing New data fusion tools risk embedding biases and chilling free speech.

Across the country, police departments have adopted AI-driven platforms to assist with data collection and analysis. But without robust safeguards, these data fusion tools risk generating inaccurate results, perpetuating bias, and undermining individual rights. bit.ly/44nxPlx

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This is necessary

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An Audit of Social Science Survey Experiments Abstract. Survey experiments have become a popular methodology for causal inference across the social sciences. We study the efficacy of survey experiment

Needed - larger samples, more realism about (the lack of) heterogeneous treatment effects:
-"less than a third of proposed hypotheses were supported... the largest predictor of positive exp. results was sample size"
-"moderation hypotheses were rarely significant"
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It's not this platform. It's all of society that hates AI

In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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European parliament calls for social media ban on under-16s MEPs pass resolution to help parents tackle growing dangers of addictive internet platforms

European parliament calls for social media ban on under-16s www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"

Read the Stanford report:
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🎉 New publication 🎉 Why do #youngpeople vote for the #AfD? This question has kept our research project busy for quite some time, so I'm beyond excited that our first article - co-authored with @timonscheuer.bsky.social - is now out in #GermanPolitics! 🤩 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Survey Design ECPR Methods School winter training programme

🎓 Methods School course on Survey Design #ecprms 👇

Learn to design and conduct surveys independently, master research design, sampling, measurement & data quality

📆 26–27 Feb, Online
👩‍🏫 @schnizzl.bsky.social
🐦 £55 off - early bird until 5 Jan buff.ly/SiewnBZ

#Polisky #Academicsky #Methodstraining

Warum Künstliche Intelligenz nicht als Suchmaschine taugt Die Hälfte der Deutschen verwendet mittlerweile ChatGPT & Co. als Google-Ersatz. Gleichzeitig arbeiten auch die klassischen Suchmaschinen immer mehr mit KI. Warum das ein Problem ist. Von Till Bücker.

"Schaut man rein auf die Korrektheit der Antworten, beinhaltet ChatGPT zu 51,5 Prozent, Copilot zu 45,4 Prozent, Gemini zu 50 Prozent und Perplexity zu 45,7 Prozent wesentliche Fehler oder Ungenauigkeiten."
www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/d...

My interview with @kyivpost.com by Ugo Poletti

"How Russian Propaganda and Disinformation Tools Influence Europe"

www.kyivpost.com/interviews/6...

These of course are the sorts of account that get boosted under Musk’s X. If you’re still on the platform for engagement, you are a mug.

Surprise, surprise! 😅

'Twitter is not real Britain' latest.

"The high-income admissions advantage at Ivy-Plus colleges is driven by....(1) preferences for children of alumni, (2) weight placed on non-academic credentials, and (3) athletic recruitment" which are "uncorrelated or negatively correlated with post-college outcomes" unlike SAT/ACT scores

Herbert Diess: »Die Stromrechnung fürs Auto fällt praktisch weg« Am Verbrenner-Aus zu zweifeln, ist für Herbert Diess »etwas sehr Deutsches«. Der Ex-VW-Chef setzt voll auf Elektroautos. Deren Batterie könne für manche Fahrer zur Geldmaschine werden.

Herbert Diess: »Die Stromrechnung fürs Auto fällt praktisch weg«: Am Verbrenner-Aus zu zweifeln, ist für Herbert Diess »etwas sehr Deutsches«. Der Ex-VW-Chef setzt voll auf Elektroautos. Deren Batterie könne für manche Fahrer zur Geldmaschine werden.