Achim Kemmerling

Rant of the day: why do I have to register on a platform, if I only have to upload an academic letter of recommendation for someone else? Utter nonsense.

Republican Members of Congress are no longer coming from elite institutions of higher education. Elite-educated legislators are more liberal. Important manifestation of the education divide between the parties & context for the current higher ed wars
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Covers a many dimensions from metatheoretical positions to typical data collected. We argue that qualitative evaluations can be strengthened and knowledge accumulation improved, if reporting follows the insights from discussions about confirmability, transferability and reflexivity.

If you are interested in qualitative methods and/ or evaluation, have a look at our review study on qualitative methods and reporting standards in evaluation.

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Paradoxes of the AI age: students no longer do spelling mistakes or plagiarism, but now forget basics such as page numbers...

Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary Excess words track LLM usage in biomedical publications.

As if we need more reasons to inflate "significant" findings, AI does it for us... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Vielen Dank für das Gespräch.

Bildkollage mit schwarz-weiß Porträtfoto von Prof. Dr. Achim Kemmerling Professor für Public Policy und Development an der Willy Brandt School der Universität Erfurt, im Wortmelder, dem Wissenschaftspodcast der Universität Erfurt, mit dem Zitat: „Die letzten fünf Jahre der KI-Entwicklung kann man als dramatisch bezeichnen. Was die schiere Beschleunigung betrifft, würde ich schon von einer Revolution auf dem Arbeitsmarkt sprechen.“, Hintergrund orange

🤖🧠 Bedroht KI unsere Jobs? Im #Wortmelder-Podcast spricht @achimkemmerling.bsky.social über den Einsatz von #KI & die Auswirkungen auf die #Arbeitswelt: Welche Berufe werden durch KI ersetzt & welche werden neu geschaffen?
🎧 Reinhören: www.uni-erfurt.de/forschung/ak...

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Interested in how illiberal public rhetoric of right-wing leaders related to socio-economic inequality? Read our latest article to find out more.

Las primeras elecciones judiciales de México solo alcanzan un 13% de participación Sheinbaum califica de “éxito” la jornada pese a la escasa afluencia a las urnas para seleccionar a más de 2.600 cargos

Las no tan populares (13% de participación!) elecciones judiciales en Mexico. Como sigue esto @azulaguiar.bsky.social ?
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Image credit: Ángel Sandoval Sub-Governorate, Santa Cruz, Bolivia

"As long as Bolivia does not have a fully democratic government, these fires will continue to burn...authoritarian regimes disguise their abuse and prioritize short-term gains over the long-term survival of ecosystems and human life."

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Wouldn't there be a correlation between the propensity to have kids and the importance you assign to work?

This is why it is pointless being on X. If you get to the point where your voice is being heard, it will just be throttled.

I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social!

German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf
English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf

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A growing list of words and materials are being scrubbed from government websites and documents in an attempt by the Trump administration to remove all references not only to DEI, but also to climate change, vaccines, and a host of other topics.

More: pen.org/banned-words...

Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

🛜 ‘Digitalization and the future of the welfare state’ by @mbusemeyer.bsky.social, @achimkemmerling.bsky.social, Paul Marx, and Kees van Kersbergen: digit-research.org/event/digita...

Off University is the best way to address the autocratic onslaught on academic freedom. Check out their courses. bsky.app/profile/offu...

The importance of green skill formation: some insights on its political economy from great colleagues (@mbusemeyer.bsky.social, Martin B. Castensen and Jale Tosun) and myself: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

SEM is structural equations model?

Scientists’ warning on affluence - Nature Communications Current environmental impact mitigation neglects over-consumption from affluent citizens as a primary driver. The authors highlight the role of bottom-up movements to overcome structural economic...

Climate action means taxing the rich.

We must "strengthen equality and redistribution through suitable taxation policies, basic income and job guarantees and by setting maximum income levels, expanding public services and rolling back neoliberal reforms"

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And so should Germany. Beggers belief why there isn't even a debate about this.

The UK should ban X too.

Wie X zugunsten von AfD und BSW manipuliert: Deren Posts landen viel öfter in der „für Dich“-Timeline als die anderer Parteien. Dazu passt, dass meine Reichweite auf X um mehr als 95 Prozent ‼️reduziert wurde.

Myanmar in “polycrisis” as US aid freeze compounds long-term donor neglect Conflict, disease, and poverty are driving unprecedented needs as junta rule enters a fifth year. So why is humanitarian assistance shrinking?

Just one of many examples what happens when #USAID disappears: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...

MoPED Workshop Berlin Meeting on the Political Economy of Development (MoPED) -- The MoPED workshop offers an opportunity for scholars who focus on the political economy of development, broadly defined, to build...

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We will be running our annual workshop on the political economy of development in Berlin @wzb.bsky.social in June.

This is a really fun workshop doing deep reads of a small number of new papers.

Call for papers / participants below! ⬇️

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(PDF) Populism and the Welfare State: Why Some Latin American Countries Produce Cycles Instead of Stability PDF | Populist politics and demand for nationalization are a recurrent phenomenon in many Latin American countries. Compared to the ‘European’ (welfare)... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

It has always fascinated me how the 'communist scare' in Europe has led to more state expenditure and welfare statism, while in the US it seems to do the opposite. I think the US becomes more and more like Latin America in this sense: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Warum die Abschaffung des USAID zynisch und idiotisch ist: www.uni-erfurt.de/forschung/ak...

Midway through our project, here is what we found so far how the Future of Work plays out in middle-income countries. Many thanks to Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and Inga Sabanova to let us showcase those findings. futureofwork.fes.de/tew-7

282: Brain-Washing Machine Plus, a sea of photovoltaic possibility, good news for the environment in America (seriously), global prices back to normal, 'emergent' collective memory for ants, and some Herculaneum scroll action.

The larger picture is that fascists thrive on fear, this is why they’re doing their best to spread it far and wide. To detox, it helps to get rid of algorithmic media and switch as much as possible to chronological media fixthenews.com/282-brain-wa...