Working paper: the east-west divide in support for Alternative for Germany & the Left in 2021
Here is a new working paper about the disproportionate success of the AfD and the Left in Germany’s eastern states
Fall of Civilizations Podcast 6. Easter Island
I discovered this podcast during lockdown and found the combination of cultivated speech patterns & inevitable societal breakdown oddly soothing. This episode, however, is utterly depressing.
Educated trolls
Is it proper trolling when the troll in question calls me Professor Dr and does not even threaten my physical safety? You be the judge
The singularity is not what I expected it to be
Opening an article on the site of a Springer journal, I was presented with this. Enough already, AI. Bloody machines, stop reading my mind.
I’m no longer a urologist
I’m happy to report that my sojourn in pay-to-play urology is over. I’m reverting to my old ways and will publish more dodgy stuff in archaeology and anthropology. Why do they have an IF? Must be all self-cites
Stabilität der Mainzer Ampelkoalition – Gespräch mit der dpa
Mit der dpa habe ich darüber gesprochen, was der Rücktritt von Innenminister Lewentz für die Mainzer Ampelkoalition bedeutet. Der Text wurde unter anderem von der Süddeutschen Zeitung übernommen – unter “Panorama”. https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/katastrophen-mainz-politologe-haelt-ampel-regierung-fuer-stabil-dpa.urn-newsml-dpa-com-20090101-221027-99-277612
I’m a urologist now
The marginal cost of spamming people is effectively zero, but fake editors have a better chance to get past the filters than Nigerian princes or Russian beauties.
Scholz and the conflict over nuclear energy: I’m speaking Portuguese now
I talked to a journalist from Portugal about the ongoing conflict between the FDP and the Greens over nuclear energy, and Scholz’s attempt to resolve it by referring to his constitutional prerogatives. https://www.publico.pt/2022/10/18/mundo/noticia/scholz-forca-acordo-centrais-nucleares-chanceler-raras-vezes-usado-2024489
A reading list: populism, euroscepticism & foreign policy attitudes
Here is the new reading list on populist, eurosceptic and foreign policy attitudes for my MA seminar
Profitiert die AfD von den aktuellen Fluchtbewegungen? Gespräch mit dem Handelsblatt
Das Handelsblatt hat einen umfangreichen Artikel zum aktuellen Streit zwischen Bund, Ländern und Gemeinden über die Versorgung der Geflüchteten. Ins letzte Drittel sind Ergebnisse aus eigenem Gespräch zwischen Dietmar Neuerer und mir eingeflossen. https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/migration-so-viele-fluechtlinge-wie-2015-kommunen-fordern-europaweite-verteilung/28747116.html