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Heiner Salomon @heinersalomon.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I’ll be taking a break from Bluesky. I need to focus on my dissertation for a bit. See you in the new year.

Heiner Salomon @heinersalomon.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Just look at how much energy we spend as societies to make sure poor people don’t get 5 Euros/ Pounds/ whatever more in benefits. That’s thousands upon thousands of public servants. Look at how few people actually work on auditing rich people right now in our countries. It’s all political decisions.

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Heiner Salomon @heinersalomon.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Cannot read the article behind the paywall, but this is not true and an argument that rich people love to put forward to obfuscate the simple reality: most of their assets are immovable, like companies and properties. They are quite easy to tax, we just have to have the political will to do it.

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Heiner Salomon @heinersalomon.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Also, 528 Megawatts?!? I just did a quick google search and that is roughly equivalent to the smallest nuclear power plant in the US. Just for this one data centre.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The hardest part of academic writing is remembering which synonym for important you haven’t used yet

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I wrote a longer essay on how social status matters for far-right support. Many still wrongly associate the far right with the economically left behind. Taking social status seriously also cautions against the idea that deliverism will win back far-right voters. equitablegrowth.org/threats-to-s...

equitablegrowth.org

Threats to social status and support for far-right political parties

How economic threats to social status in the form of unemployment risk and rental market risk affects support for the far right in Europe.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

This is extrajudicial execution, without any clear threat to the US, no authorization from Congress, and far beyond even Article II. The military is not the president's personal hit squad. Or wasn't, until now.

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Heiner Salomon @heinersalomon.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I mean, that reply though, 10/10, no notes

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Heiner Salomon @heinersalomon.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Ich bin mir nicht sicher, ob wir schon beim Reichstagsbrand - Niveau angekommen sind, aber es wird in der Tat inzwischen doch sehr schnell sehr wild: bsky.app/profile/greg...

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Yossi Bartal @yossibartal.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Aus einem heutigen Artikel in Haaretz über die psychischen Problem von Soldaten, die in Gaza in den letzten Monaten gedient haben. Quelle: www.haaretz.co.il/news/magazin...

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Heiner Salomon @heinersalomon.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Interesting, that would make sense, thanks.

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Heiner Salomon @heinersalomon.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Interesting, thank you for sharing. Any pointers to where one can read more about the potential underlying reasons?

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Help: I remember seeing a recent-ish paper (economics?) on cross-disciplinary citations in social science. Anyone here can confirm I'm not hallucinating?

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

So, listen up, kids: When Russia deliberately launches dozens of drones against Poland and Romania, that is NOT warmongering and NOT a threat of war between Russia and NATO.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

LINK ROT: 38% webpages that existed in 2013 were no longer available 10 years later. Even among pages that existed in 2021, 22% no longer accessible just two years later. This is often because individual page was deleted or removed on otherwise functional website. Many implications for knowledge 🧪

A line chart showing that 38% of webpages from 2013 were no longer accessible one decade later.

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Heiner Salomon @heinersalomon.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Uhm, he suggested to just kill people with mental illness who commit crimes. On air. I am not even sure what to say any longer.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

plenty of things going against the right globally: Bolsonaro's conviction in Brazil, the defeat of the right wing in Norway's election, the student strikes and Saba Saba protests in Kenya (brutal as the repression there was), the EU's von der Leyen pursuing sanctions and trade suspension for Israel

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💜 Big 💚 Roux 💛 @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 13/09/2025

Bluesky doesn’t get to position itself as an alternative to the Nazi app and suspend Black women for being flippant about someone who was a MAJOR factor in attacks on our well being and livelihood, while his own folks actually killed him is still frying my brain. And you’re gonna hear about it.

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Heiner Salomon @heinersalomon.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I think we should have never stopped highlighting how deeply, deeply weird these guys are. Just so strange.

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Heiner Salomon @heinersalomon.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Hahaha, this is amazing, thanks.

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Heiner Salomon @heinersalomon.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Ich bin heute morgen fast wahnsinnig geworden als Kirk auf dem @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy mehrmals als "konservativ" bezeichnet wurde...

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Heiner Salomon @heinersalomon.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I know, explaining memes is always a bit silly, but I am just so curious: Why the dog?!?!

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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 12/09/2025

Big shout out to the Austrian politicians who are destroying Schengen because they're too scared to stand up to a bunch of racist Facebook Uncles. I hate you all. Related: 10 minutes of pointless security theatre at the SLO/AT border and I've lost the first connection on a 14 hour journey home.

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

BREAKING Brazil’s supreme court finds former President Jair Bolsonaro guilty of attempting a military coup, with plans to assassinate Lula, to stay in power after his 2022 election loss. Trump, a Bolsonaro friend, had pressured the court to drop the case www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

washingtonpost.com

Bolsonaro found guilty in attempted coup, assassination plot

Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled the former president tried to reverse his 2022 election loss with a plot that included plans to assassinate President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗ 📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

we're hiring assistant professor in computational social science, applications close 26/10/2025

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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

900-year-old coins from Kilwa (Tanzania) that were found in northern Australia www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/africans-i...

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Heiner Salomon @heinersalomon.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Ja, rhetorisch drehen viele gerade frei, was auch sehr gefährlich ist. Bisher sind mir aber noch keine weiteren politischen Gewalttaten/ Dekrete bekannt geworden, die den Vergleich zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt zulassen. Das kann sich innerhalb von wenigen Stunden ändern….

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Heiner Salomon @heinersalomon.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Yeah, I was wondering the same. So far, I have not heard of anything too out of the ordinary (apart from some pretty wild takes from even democrats [and Keir Starmer, lol]) from the US. That might change later today, though...

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Heiner Salomon @heinersalomon.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Are you calling Starmer a pedophile? Why, I am genuinely curious?

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Heiner Salomon @heinersalomon.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Someone killed a fascist in the US last night.

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Jörg Spengler 🇪🇺 @joergspengler.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Was Helsinki geschafft hat, ist der Beweis, dass die #VisionZero keine unerreichbare Utopie bleiben muss. Wir brauchen auch in Deutschland endlich eine ambitionierte #Verkehrswende. 🚲 #StädteFürMenschen 💚 #NoIAA 🚘🚫

Luftaufnahme von Helsinki
Text: Mehr Tempo 30, mehr Öffis, mehr Kontrollen
In Helsinki stirbt ein Jahr lang niemand im Verkehr

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Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Applications are now open for the 2025 Colin Murray Award. Deadline: 30 September 2025. The award supports post-doctoral researchers to carry out original ‘engaged field research’ in Southern Africa. Please see the link below for more details jsas.blog

jsas.blog

Journal of Southern African Studies

Publishes leading research concerning the history, economics, sociology, demography and anthropology of Southern Africa.

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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

After 14 years, the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a massive hydroelectric power dam on the Nile River, is complete. The dam was officially inaugurated. It is a huge achievement for Ethiopia, with hopes that the power generated can reduce poverty & power shortages.

youtube.com

Ethiopia launches Africa’s biggest dam | BBC News

YouTube video by BBC News

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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Governor Polis Orders Flags to Half-Staff to Honor the Anniversary of September 11th and the Passing of Charlie Kirk

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH

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Heiner Salomon @heinersalomon.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

What in the fresh hell is this?!

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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Must watch for all. Free resource. Eqbal Ahmad, speaking of his interaction with Fanon, 45'30"-ish. How injurious the relationship of domination is both to the dominator & the dominated, to the victim & the victimiser. When the victim stands on his feet & fights back, he’s not a victim anymore.

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

All of us—including myself—should publish fewer but better papers. And we should spend more of our time on scrutinizing existing work, so we know which claims can be trusted. But that's hard work with little recognition. Thanks @sophieehill.bsky.social for doing it. Impressive 🕵️‍♀️ work. Fun to read.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

CH₄ has a lifetime of about a decade in the atmosphere, whereby it oxidizes to CO₂ and remains in the atmosphere for tens of thousands of years. More than 99% of the cumulative climate impact (i.e., the radiative forcing) is from its life as CO₂. In the end, it's still CO₂ that gets you. 🥲

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Since ppl love campus anecdotes so much, here's one: I have colleagues who give students they know to be MAGA an A (in one case I'm aware of overlooking clear AI use), because the colleague is on a Green Card or H1B, and they know: one complaint like at Texas A&M, and they're on a flight home. (1/3)

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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Take the time to learn the {mirai} package, an async framework for R. There's a learning curve, but it's worth it. Jobs that used to take hours now take minutes in parallel with mirai. And I'm getting never-before-seen performance in my Shiny apps. mirai.r-lib.org/inde...

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Heiner Salomon @heinersalomon.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

PSA: Never ever piss off Sophie with an awful statistical analysis (full of bad errors and likely manual manipulation of tables), she will come for you...

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Dino Carpentras @justanormaldino.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

To cite this meme: Photoshop et al. (2025)

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Kim Posster @kposster.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Und natürlich wird es keine „Female Depression Epidemic“-Takes und Artikelserien dazu geben

DAK: Situation von Mädchen „alarmierend" Für „alarmierend" hält die Kasse vor allem die Situation der Mädchen:
Mehr als ein Viertel von ihnen zeige depressive Symptome wie Niedergeschlagenheit und häufiges Weinen.
Mädchen seien mit
27 Prozent fast viermal so häufig betroffen wie Jungen mit sieben Prozent.
Besonders gefährdet seien Mädchen zwischen 14 und
17 Jahren mit niedrigem
Sozialstatus.
zdfheute
Quellen: DAK-Präventionsradar, LTF

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