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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Die Landtagswahlen zeigen, dass die ehemaligen Volksparteien kein programmatisches Angebot mehr haben, das Wähler:innen anspricht. Sind sie nicht mehr im Rennen um das Amt der Ministerpräsident*in, erhalten sie kaum noch Stimmen. Übrig sind dann nur noch wenige eher ältere Stammwähler:innen.

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Stanford Tech Impact and Policy Center @techimpactpolicy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Could bad actors game #SocialProof metrics to induce the use of malign #software? New in #JOTS, a study by Lucas Shen, @soodoku.bsky.social, and @danweitzel.net draws on two field experiments on the largest developer platform, #GitHub, to examine the impact of social proof on developer adoption.

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Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

instead of writing what I'm supposed to be writing I'm learning something really interesting, what a massive freaking waste of time

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Peter Dalgaard @pdalgd.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

R version 4.6.0 "Because it was There" (source version) has been released. It should be on CRAN by now. #rstats The choice of codename is in remembrance of R Core member Tomàš Kalibera (1978-2026). Among many other things, he was a keen mountain climber.

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Daniel Weitzel @danweitzel.net · 13/04/2026

Not a bad day to head into the office

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

And the freestyle causal inference top Play of the Week goes to the @economist.com Charlemagne piece on Europeans needing to work more

Extract from the Charlemagne column in the Economist, reading: "more working means more money, and more money means added clout in global affairs. Until the 1960s Europeans toiled longer hours than Americans, and mattered somewhat more in the world. That is no coincidence"

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 25/07/2025

just like buying a new empty notebook, switching todo apps will *definitely* make me more productive

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Daniel Weitzel @danweitzel.net · 21/04/2025

Asked ChatGPT how to expand a data frame with a categorical variable and count. Thought it was hallucinating when it suggested `uncount()`, but nope! It's a legit #tidyverse function. Reverse a count with grouped `uncount()`. Love it!

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soodoku @soodoku.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

If you want to study 'TV news' (for which ideally you should get the images), here are the transcripts from archive.org github.com/notnews/arch...

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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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Daniel Weitzel @danweitzel.net · 28/02/2025

Happy 25th anniversary to R 1.0.0! 📊👩‍💻⌨️🎉🍾

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Ansgar Wolsing @ansgarw.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Yesterday brought 18°C in Cologne (DE), which is 3°C above the previous record temperature for a 24th of November. This made me revisit a map I made last year. Most of 2024 has been warmer than the long-term average for Germany from 1961-1990. #30DayMapChallenge Day 25 Heat #rstats #ClimateChange

10 maps of Germany for each month from January to October 2024. 268 points on each map represent the DWD weather stations active since 1961. The points are colored by the deviation of the monthly average temperature in 2024 from the long-term monthly average between 1961 and 1990. There’s hardly any station which had an average in any month that was below the reference period. Highlights: February 6.2 °C above the reference period; March 4.0 °C, August 3.4 °C.

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Daniel Weitzel @danweitzel.net · 24/07/2024

Hey #polisky, we are hiring in American Politics at Colorado State! Great colleagues, wonderful state, 350 miles of bike lanes, and over 300 days of sunshine. We have a great group studying AP, behavior and CSS more generally. There also is an HPC available! jobs.colostate.edu/postings/148...

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Assistant Professor of American Politics

The Department of Political Science at Colorado State University invites applications for an entry-level tenure-track Assistant Professor position in American politics with a specialization in politic...

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Daniel Weitzel @danweitzel.net · 25/03/2024

#polisky Friends, I'm collecting job market resources for social science undergrads. I want to include examples of jobs that students can have with a social science BA, an intro stats course, and R coding skills. What are successful stories or job ads that I should include?

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soodoku @soodoku.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

now tallying libraries used in replication files of **34** social science journals + support for python github.com/recite/softv... if stata mavens know how to tally imports in stata, let me know. (ssc install is not used frequently) w/ @danweitzel.net

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Enrique Hernández @ehernandez.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Are you interested in democratic backsliding? With @honoratam.bsky.social and Joep van Lit we are organizing a workshop on "Early Signs of Democratic Recession in Established and Backsliding Democracies" Join us at the @ecpr.bsky.social joint sessions polisky ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

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Daniel Weitzel @danweitzel.net · 03/11/2023

Polisky, check out this super cool resource: demscore.se "An innovative e-infrastructure providing free access to harmonized data from several of the world’s largest datasets on Democracy, Environment, Migration, Social Policy, Conflict, and Representation"

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Daniel Weitzel @danweitzel.net · 23/10/2023

New Polisky working paper here: github.com/soodoku/part...

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Daniel Weitzel @danweitzel.net · 23/10/2023

How much do Republicans and Democrats disagree about political facts? In the news, we can frequently find reports of large gaps in how partisans perceive the world. Wide and widening partisan gaps have serious implications for the functioning of our democratic systems! 1/7

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Daniel Weitzel @danweitzel.net · 01/10/2023

Polisky people might be interested in this!

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Ed Hagen @edhagen.net · 28/09/2023

For #rstats users, {renv} now provides similar functionality to {groundhog}. With your script open in RStudio, simply call renv::embed() & a code snippet will be inserted at the top with the script's version-specific dependencies and the code to install them 🧪#stats rstudio.github.io/renv/referen...

Calling embed() inspects the dependencies of the specified document then generates and inserts a call to use() that looks something like this:

renv::use(
"digest@0.6.30",
"rlang@0.3.4"
)
Then, when you next run your R script or render your .Rmd, use() will:

Create a temporary library path.

Install the requested packages and their recursive dependencies into that library.

Activate the library, so it's used for the rest of the script.

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Daniel Weitzel @danweitzel.net · 28/09/2023

If you don't use Netlify you can either change the DNS entry on the website of your Domain host or upload a txt file from the Bluesky settings (at Change handle) to your website.

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Daniel Weitzel @danweitzel.net · 28/09/2023

Threads enabled ✅ Own domain as handle ✅

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Matthew P. Hitt @matthewhitt.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Excited to share this pre-print with the awesome Nicholas T. Davis here-long story short, the perceived legitimacy (diffuse support) for SCOTUS has durably sorted along party lines. Dobbs deepens a pre-existing trend. Other correlates of diffuse support have also sorted. Paper: psyarxiv.com/jq7fb

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Daniel Weitzel @danweitzel.net · 20/09/2023

Which one are we going to do first? R vs Stata or the Linear Probability Model?

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