Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026These days, most celebrities are entirely unknown to a vast part of the population. 000
Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The more I think about it the more absurd it looks what Kellner has done. His calculation assumes that every voter in the country knows who the top two parties in their constituency are and then applies the Yougov rates of tactical voting for each contest. kellnerp.substack.com/p/how-tactic... 341
Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Historically, a lot of music has ruined music. My dad, for one, had a somewhat different definition from this "Rock and Roll Hall of Famer". www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...independent.co.ukRock and Roll Hall of Famer says Taylor Swift ‘ruined music’‘Taylor Swift is the apotheosis of mediocrity,’ says the Seventies rocker 000
Reposted by Heinz BrandenburgStefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Our School of Politics and International Relations at @ucddublin.bsky.social is hiring two permanent (!) Assistant Professors in any field of political science, international relations, political theory, or development. Deadline: 9 November Start date: 30 August 2027 my.corehr.com/pls/coreport... 15546
Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Call my a cynic but I still don't trust that the next Labour manifesto will commit to a serious form of IR. At best a Scotland-style AMS with too many single-member districts and too few list seats, likely regionalissed and thus incapable of compensating for resulting disproportionalities. 010
Reposted by Heinz BrandenburgScott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Eva, it's behind you. 512096255
Reposted by Heinz Brandenburglastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The raw visceral hatred some men have for women, at least women who step out of line, is shocking. I know it sounds like some sorta "one of the good ones" ploy but I am genuinely taken aback when I see it because I think: I had a fairly normal socialisation as a man in the west, how did I miss this? 591762234
Reposted by Heinz BrandenburgPeatWorrier @peatworrier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is a good news story and important new source of postgraduate funding for Scottish students wanting to pursue Masters level study. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2658256...heraldscotland.comNearly £1m grants awarded to 110 Scottish postgraduatesThe Carnegie Education Fund wants to support those from low-income backgrounds seeking to study at Master's level. 01810
Reposted by Heinz BrandenburgMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 27/09/2026oh we've got a classic one today 2837140
Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Only footballers can scream that hard. Nobody suffers more. Ever. 010
Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Looking up a range of lists of best songs of Tom Waits and absolutely none has "Invitation to the Blues" on it, and I just cannot handle the world yet again. 000
Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Yes, this is very bad propaganda using very bad AI slop, but it is also from a party that hasn't won any votes worth mentioning in over half a century. So why bother? 020
Reposted by Heinz BrandenburgMae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"Can AI feel pain and what should we do about—" you know we literally ground up billions of male baby chicks every year for being unproductive, right? 67020
Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I had no idea that ruthlessness was at odds with their public image. 050
Reposted by Heinz BrandenburgSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The more I look at it, the more this graph at the end of my most recent Gist explains the behaviour of so many of Ireland's political parties. SF, for example, simply can't deal with 50% of its supporters looking to strengthen institutions while the other 50% want to blow them up. 106623
Reposted by Heinz BrandenburgGavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 25/09/2026This single image comes closer to explaining the state of the parties in Irish politics than anything I’ve ever seen 58118
Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Splendid. We now get extensive coverage of every good dozen's micro-preferences on independence. Where would we be without that? 162
Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Breaking news: Something happened over that thing we did not bother to report. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukDaniel Thomas arrested over video of dinghy slashingPolice had been looking into footage appearing to show the man, also known as Danny Tommo, slashing at a boat in the English Channel with a knife. 040
Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Read the article. Failed to find where he actually explains. 110
Reposted by Heinz BrandenburgGina-Julia Westenberger @gjwestenberger.bsky.social · 23/09/20263rd PhD baby is out in the world 🎉 Voting far right because your region is left-behind? Not necessarily. "Left-behind" regions — slower growth, higher unemployment, industrial decline — are said to drive votes for the radical right. My new paper in @actapolitica.bsky.social complicates this story. 39736
Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Every year this is as disturbing as the last time. But also really weird to not include the rest of the UK in this comparison. I looked through the tables repeatedly and am quite convinced I haven't overlooked a row. 200
Reposted by Heinz BrandenburgLRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 23/09/2026this is daft. driving passengers away is the whole point of a bus 5781100
Reposted by Heinz BrandenburgDanbischof @danbischof.bsky.social · 23/09/2026📄 New working paper w. Alex De Juan, @felixhaass.bsky.social & Henry Thomson: We study Weimar Germany in 1932 to ask whether far right electoral success pacifies extremist movements - or can fuel violence when mandates do not translate into power. osf.io/preprints/so... 14522
Reposted by Heinz BrandenburgOliver Das Gupta @oliverdasgupta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Im Bundesland #Mecklenburg-Vorpommern stellte die #CDU in den neunziger Jahren zweimal den Ministerpräsidenten. Von 1993 bis 2000 wurde die Landes-CDU von Angela Merkel geführt. 610228
Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I mean I live around the corner and it is really nice. But no. No. No. No. Not really No5 in the world. www.timeout.com/travel/coole... 160
Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026How the fuck do we explain to future generations the kind of headlines that our times created? 020
Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Read that to someone and face the question: "which four ports"? 010
Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026No, you didn't go into the village hall as the underdog. You are the council chair; your council ran the entire stunt. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 151
Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026In a sane world more than 37% of the population would want to vote against a radical right party. 030
Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Being forced to choose one of two correct answers. Smashing stuff. 063
Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Somebody needs to explain to me why German parties contemplate using "federal enforcement" against an AfD-led government in Saxony-Anhalt, or even to remove the operational plan of the Bundeswehr from the offices before AfD takes over, but to initiate proceedings to ban the party are off the table. 243
Reposted by Heinz BrandenburgErik Angner @erikangner.com · 13/09/2026The story may be young men. They leaned strongly right four years ago but according to polls now tilt left. This is an extraordinary shift over the course of only four years www.svt.se/nyheter/inri... 19325
Reposted by Heinz BrandenburgErik Angner @erikangner.com · 13/09/2026Yet another story may be that immigration is no longer top-of-mind. Pre-election surveys put immigration in 7th place, after healthcare, education, law and order, eldercare, the environment, and economics www.svt.se/nyheter/inri... 22410
Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The full picture of the exit poll. Would give the four party left of centre coalition 183 out of 349 seats. Which looks like a quite comfortable majority. 021
Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Oh yes. Much better exit poll in Sweden than most recent polls were suggesting. And also the fecking Sweden Democrats trailing behind the Social Democrats and the Moderates only in third place. 042
Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026My second favourite Swedish political scientist in action. I remember him 25 years ago criticising a comparative project with the words "I'd like to see more countries" which got the reply from an also immensely likeable Irish colleague "travel!". 030
Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026An authoritative voice adds his weight to the debate. 010
Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Austria. The East Germany of the Alps. 121
Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I am only applying for citizenship to help reduce the fiscal deficit. 181
Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Not the main issue here, what with the killing us all vibes, but how long are media going to continue calling Anthropic a "start-up"? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...nytimes.comAnthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological WeaponsIn a new report, the A.I. start-up added that it could not determine if the research was legitimate or nefarious, leading the company to shut down the work. 000
Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Simple syllogism: Apple's big goal now is a foldable AI. 010
Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026What a crack team. www.theguardian.com/politics/202... 000
Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Indeed. But we do all need to figure out what is going on in Montenegro? 110
Reposted by Heinz BrandenburgCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I’ve reconciled myself to being to the left of any Labour government in my adult lifetime, but I didn’t anticipate that I’d also wildly diverge from them on whether masked gangs of fascist thugs should be allowed to break the law with impunity in the service of inciting racial hatred 16552103
Reposted by Heinz BrandenburgDavid Chance @davidchance.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Carry on protesting. 042
Reposted by Heinz BrandenburgJulius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Saxony-Anhalt went to the polls, with the AfD falling just short of a majority. Here are some takeaways based on the preliminary results across all 218 municipalities and local socioeconomic characteristics. A thread 🧵(1 /n) Full analysis + write-up: juliuskoelzer.de/saxony-anhal... 2246114
Reposted by Heinz BrandenburgPhilip Kreißel 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @pkreissel.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026Wahlkreis Halle III be like 1369