Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Fellow political scientists: if you don't understand the formal model, think twice before you say "I feel it could be moved to the appendix" unless you also recommend that statistical tables be moved there. Everything can be expressed in words, even string theory... just with a lot less precision. 000
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 12/09/2026New dog owner here: If I understand this correctly, at some point a wolf must have been born whose evolutionary advantage was to look really cute when begging for scraps? 010
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Und dann Gruppenarbeit, Aufgabe: Wie bekommen wir die Kinder zum Lesen? 120
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Schultüten are a thing in Spain, too. My son’s school gave them out. I was really surprised because I too thought it was a German thing! 130
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Yes but it’s been sitting there in our unpleasant climate for years now… 000
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I guess it’s only half as embarrassing as it could be because only one of the planes is owned by a Russian company 000
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 08/08/2026How does Canada do better? “Our” Antonov has been sitting parked in Toronto since 2022 100
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 22/07/2026ChatGPT Edu is now so attuned to me that when I ask dog-related questions, it suggests new data sources that connect dogs and political economy questions. 000
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 24/06/2026You’re right on that. In the stadium though it felt like Germany had much more possession and played as if you’d win by completing more passes than the other team. 010
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Nerve wracking rather if you’re supporting Germany to see the “let’s pass the ball around while they have all 11 men defending inside the box until we lose it” strategy being tried again 100
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 24/06/2026This and Germany-Ivory Coast reminds me of the EPL 2-3 years ago, when seemingly everyone (except Liverpool) played a low block against City and it got extremely frustrating to watch. 100
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Why is it “don’t bite the hand that feeds you” and not “don’t chew up the flip flops of the person who feeds you” that seems far more common? 000
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 09/06/2026The kids may have aged out of this but I most definitely have not 010
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Also, the US healthcare system is the best because the US spends the most money on healthcare per capita and a V8 Chevy is the best car because it’s uses the most gas per mile. 130
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 04/01/2026The year is 2035. “Canadian nuclear doctrine requires that a launch order is separately confirmed by two senior officers, once in English and once in French.” 314826
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 03/01/2026One might consider that Venezuelans inside Venezuela and abroad are cheering though 000
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 30/11/2025We used to teach that every Presidential system was fragile except the US, which was a real puzzle 130
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Wenn wir mehr Menschen zur Altenpflege verpflichten wollen, und damit die Geburtenrate automatisch noch weiter senken - denn der Berufseinstieg verzögert sich um ein Jahr - dann können wir das tun. Oder wir mustern alle 18jährigen Männer, die in Deutschland leben, mit oder ohne deutschen Pass. 010
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 08/11/2025RCV would work well. I don’t get the fascination with multi member districts. Anyone who has studied Japan knows that they bring out the worst kind of local patronage politics. 010
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Kurioserweise können auch Menschen mit Hyperosmie Bettwanzen riechen, wie ich selbst festgestellt habe, aber natürlich niemals so gut wie ein Spürhund! 020
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Somehow the autism question is now about something that women do, when the only known causal association is something that men do - have kids late in life, with women who may or may not be much younger. 020
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Don’t worry, the baggy 1990s suits are back in style now! You can jump from rooftop to rooftop in those. 031
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 08/09/2025No. The US did the basic research but preferred that a Dutch company holds the key tech over a Japanese company share.google/gLaZyhnMvdoY...share.google 100
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 07/09/2025ASML’s success is based on US patents applied by brilliant Dutch engineers, so not quite what you want to convey here 300
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Punk Rock only became bearable because American kids who had learned how to actually play their instruments in a different genre decided to play Punk for fun. 100
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Germany has 2x the population of California, China has… too hard to calculate in my head right now. Stunning. 000
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Exactly! When you a have a time series and at the end, it drops off like this, it’s good practice to wait and see 010
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 13/08/2025If you look at the trend, it doesn’t look like statins were even a major factor. And how would they if they only reduce the absolute risk by a few percent? My money would be on people giving up smoking making the biggest difference 120
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Why the heck do I get so many cat pictures in “Discover.” I’m not a cat person. 000
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Group 1 consists of some who believe that it’s fine if everyone is very progressive because they’re fighting a battle, and others who think that academics are just a bit to the left of most voters and that it isn’t a problem. The latter have no idea what voters really think. 010
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 28/06/2025@epsanet.bsky.social Excellent conference at Carlos III, but to whoever decided on the numbering of the rooms: the whole point of integers is that they’re consecutive in an agreed upon order 010
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Military Keynesianism! If only there were enough young Germans to make this work… 000
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Even America can’t do without Microsoft products, and they at least have the software industry to develop alternatives in principle. The uni forces them down our throats almost. 000
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 12/06/2025“The Coming War with Japan” can now be had used for $1.60 on Amazon… things shall pass 000
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 26/05/2025… and that’s before they realize that they’d have to take a 30-40% pay cut 170
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Chance verpasst: „Bundeswehr setzt auf neue Wunderwaffe gegen Putins Super-Rakete“ hätte noch mehr historische Resonanz gehabt 😆 020
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 10/05/2025I suspect this is driven by TikTok. I reset my feed twice a while ago and first I got alpaca clips, and then capybaras the second time. Why, I still don’t know… 010
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Ok but why did it take until 2025? Two winters on the tarmac in Toronto aren’t great for a plane 100
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Das ist in den USA und Kanada auch völlig normal. Manchmal aus banalen Gründen wie „die Kommission konnte sich nicht entscheiden.“ 000
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Ich saß mal in einem Theoretischen Seminar bei einer Zentralbank und dachte genau das: für jede/n hier neben mir gibt es eine/n der ganz weit weg vom Durchschnitt ist, aber in die falsche Richtung 010
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Und wenn das Ministerium jetzt ein Sonderprogramm auflegt, dann könnten ca. 2032 noch ein oder zwei neue Lehrstühle geschaffen werden, also zum Ende der ersten Amtszeit von Trump Jr… 030
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Reminder that US imports are only ~13% of the global total and that this isn’t the end of the world unless you’re in the US (or right next door) 000
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Last time they tried that, the tanks were over engineered and wouldn’t start when it was -40C in the Russian steppe 220
Mark Manger @markya.bsky.social · 03/04/2025As I just discovered, 30-40% of Canadian exporters didn’t use the USMCA tariffs because of the paperwork. I guess the utilization rate will go up now? 010