Reposted by Dominic NyhuisTheres Matthieß @theresmatthiess.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Really enjoyed attending the first EPSS conference in Belfast! Many thanks to the organizers for putting together such a great event 🙏🏻 @epssnet.bsky.social See you next year in København! 🇩🇰 #EPSS2026 -> #EPSS2027 0424
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Few technologies have remained as futuristic and frankly magical to me as noise cancelling headphones. 150
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 20/01/2026So I assume we all have that one scholar who has already published in whatever shiny new research area we're starting to get interested in? Major tortoise and the hare vibes... 130
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 30/10/2025I find it so silly seeing so many articles that claim X percent of ChatGPT answers are wrong. I can create a test where it gets 100 percent of the questions wrong. To me, that's an irrelevant metric. It's on users to understand what good questions are to ask of AI, what good use cases are. 272
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Reading term papers, it occurs to me that there is a massive disconnect between everyone being worried that all student submissions are written by AI and the quality of the papers that I get to read... If students are using AI, I wish they would use it better... 1111
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 23/09/2025So we're all in agreement that copy-editing is dead, right? 141
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 21/09/2025It’s a profound tragedy of our time how many people are apparently angry all the time. 020
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 01/09/2025I just learned that pigeons can be trained to discriminate between good and bad children's paintings by pecking at the good ones. Brutal. 230
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 26/07/2025I keep hearings that there is a lack of blood donors. Would it be unethical for blood donation organizations to advertise by saying that donating blood reduces PFAS levels in the blood? Seems more effective than advertising by appealing to citizenship. 120
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 15/06/2025It occurs to me that an e-scooter is the vehicle equivalent of a vape in terms of sex appeal. 130
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Is there any other service like academic publishing where the brand name is all that matters and the quality of the service is absolutely irrelevant? 110
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 11/06/2025How is it possible that despite having ungodly amounts of money, no major journal publisher has been able to develop a decent eproofing platform? 130
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 18/05/2025I have a really interesting political science puzzle, to which I don't have a good answer at all. Can somebody please set up the Journal "Political Science Puzzles", so I can get that published? 030
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 06/05/2025We gotta stop saying "this lack of political professionalism shouldn't happen in times of the AfD". It's setting an impossible standard for the messiness of real world politics and it strengthens the bizarre reading that somehow anything less than perfect is a validation of the AfD 2110
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Arrows are the most self-explanatory symbols that have no basis in the physical world 150
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 21/04/2025The contemporary political right makes a much greater effort to develop a coherent theory for their project, something that was historically true for the left. 040
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Do we have a sense that popular TV shows have become more conservative in the last couple of years? No, right? Isn't there a surprising disconnect between culture and society/politics at the present moment? And should we expect TV to become more conservative now? 220
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Why aren’t there any successful parties of (new) ethnic minorities in Europe? Shouldn’t there be a market? 010
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Never stops being a joy to see your delivery truck on a map in real time. What a delightful and pointless feature. 160
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Companies printing their Facebook/Instagram/etc. links (along with the logos) on their products is such a huge marketing success for social media companies. I get my bread in a bag with a Facebook logo on it. Everybody sees the logo, even though nobody needs it or wants it. 140
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 16/03/2025I don't understand why so many parties go for a dual leadership. Doesn't that create a whole lot of unnecessary problems? 030
Reposted by Dominic NyhuisDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 16/03/2025I have encountered the worst footnote. 2134464
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 15/03/2025The notion that science is populated by big egos is probably never more evident than when a reviewer says, you forgot to cite X, Y, Z papers (all by the same author) 110
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 12/03/2025The other day I've heard e-mail being compared to a slot machine. I don't know whether that's a common metaphor but man does it ring true. Both the unpredictability of when something might come in and whether it's a winner or not. I suppose people would say the same about social media. 130
Reposted by Dominic NyhuisJuraj Medzihorsky @medzihorsky.bsky.social · 09/03/2025How it started | How it's going 0112
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Hypothesis. Rearranging your furniture will generate a boost in creativity. Seeing things from a different perspective. 040
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 09/03/2025As long as we are a digital society (not a given), emojis will continue to grow in meaning (good pun but not intended). Super easy language learning for young people. The technical limitation right now is finding the correct one on the keyboard. 130
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Does ChatGPT try to automatically identify which of their users provide the most lucrative input? Should be possible to quantify. 020
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 09/03/2025So, help me out here. Quantum physics, you’re just telling me that reality has pixels, right? 040
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Professional communities are much less subject to the problem of everyone possibly being a bot online these days, since we know the other participants in the conversation. 020
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 05/03/2025I'm really glad I don't work in political communication. The publication output in political communication seems insane to me. 070
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Feels a little off to be working on a run-of-the-mill paper on Congressional legislation right now. Can't imagine how Americanists must feel going about their ordinary research business these days. 030
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 02/03/2025The only people who consistently like my posts are people that I employ. I don’t think that’s a great indicator for the quality of my posts. Or, rather, it is a great indicator, just not the one I would like… 490
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 01/03/2025I'm guessing Gen Z has been wise to this for a while, but no longer striving really is the revolutionary mode du jour 130
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Really impressed with @philippkoeker.bsky.social for spotting a (small) recording error in the electoral data from Sunday. Poli sci street cred through the roof. 180
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Despite a big increase in turnout, yesterday's elections have seen the lowest share of invalid votes at any German federal election ever at 0.6 percent. People can vote correctly when they want to. 0447
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 24/02/202523 electoral districts wake up to headlines like these. That will create enormous frustration for voters. 471
Reposted by Dominic NyhuisHeinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 23/02/202583% turnout despite not liking anyone on offer. 45114
Reposted by Dominic NyhuisNils Steiner @nilssteiner.bsky.social · 23/02/2025This has been true for the entire existence of the AfD, but it is worth emphasizing again and again: Among German voters, the AfD is the most unpopular party. 14213
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 23/02/2025I am betting that we'll end up having the lowest share of invalid votes in decades in today's German federal election. 150
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Speaking of the uncharismatic AfD leadership, I would bet that the AfD has had a far smaller share of their posters depicting Alice Weidel than the other mainstream parties had their leaders on their posters. 020
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 21/02/2025As the far right is headed for a stunning win in the German federal election on Sunday, one wonders what they could have achieved if they didn’t have whatever the polar opposite of a charismatic leadership is 130
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 19/02/2025When will the first academic journal switch to pre-screening their submissions using AI? Can't be far off given the flood of manuscripts and the lack of reviewers. 130
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 16/02/2025I have a brand problem on social media. I know I'm supposed to have a professional presence but the things that I find most interesting/want to post about seem to me like the most unprofessional things I could post about. So I guess I view my brand as more conservative than I view the product? 120
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Political science has a massive over-supply of public opinion research because it's too cheap and easy to do. 020
Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Not loving the "party X shouldn't promote issue Y because it strengthens party Z" discourse in German political science these days. It completely negates that party X might have preferences/convictions independent of strategic considerations, something we would applaud in every other circumstance. 271
Reposted by Dominic NyhuisKen Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 26/01/2025The globalist elite will scream and yell but the tariffs on Colombia will be great for Iowa coffee farmers. 4163
