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G Brueckmann
@brueckmann.bsky.social
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Research on climate 🌍 & energy 🔋 policies 🌐 using experiments 🎲 & reproducible research 🔁
@ipwunibern.bsky.social & Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, @unibe.ch
PhD from @ethz.ch
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Website: brueckmann.github.io
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G Brueckmann @brueckmann.bsky.social · 24d
Good morning, Mannheim!

I will join @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social as a visiting fellow from April 20 to May 15!

I look forward to starting exciting new research collaborations!

Moreover, I offer my apartment for #academics visiting Bern at the same time ☺
a man in a tie is screaming in a kitchen and saying `` finally , some good news '' .
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
Time to stop writing articles about the "security" or "economic" reasons to capture Greenland, they are irrelevant
anneapplebaum.bsky.social Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d
Not everyone believed me when I wrote that Trump wants Greenland becuase it would make him feel important, but that's what he told the NYT:

When asked why he needed to possess the territory, he said: “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success"
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2026 at 7:18 AM
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p-hunermund.com
We have a word for it: Gleichschaltung. While you were busy studying Civil War battles in high school, Germans were taught—painfully and deliberately—how dictatorships take hold and how entire societies are brought into line. That's why we recognize the pattern—and why your complacency is alarming.
justinbaragona.bsky.social Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d
"Marco Rubio, we salute you!"

A real thing that was said by the CBS Evening News anchor tonight.
January 7, 2026 at 6:40 AM
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colognaviktoria.bsky.social
📣 Call for abstracts: We are organizing a session at European Geosciences Union (EGU) @egu.eu on interdisciplinary approaches to study societal responses to extreme weather events 🔥🌧️🌡️ Submit your abstracts by 15 January and join us in Vienna 👇

More information: www.egu26.eu/session/57599
simonameiler.bsky.social Simona Meiler @simonameiler.bsky.social · Nov 3
📢 Call for ABSTRACTS for @egu.eu 2026

Submit your #interdisciplinary contributions that address societal responses to extreme weather events 🌪 🌡 🌏 🔥

➡ Deadline: 15 January 2026
➡ Conference: 3 - 8 May 2026, Vienna
➡ meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
January 5, 2026 at 9:31 AM
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mclem.org
A new paper by George Borjas—who served this past year in the Trump White House designing some of its anti-immigration policies—claims to display evidence of ideological bias among researchers who study immigration.

doi.org/10.1126/scia...

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January 6, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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worldbollardassoc.bsky.social
Happy Christmas to bollard fans across the world!
#WorldBollardAssociation
December 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
I wish you a Happy Christmas and a coming year of solidarity and resistance. Love and courage to you all.
December 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
brueckmann.bsky.social
Silly little metaphor …
Burning snowman candle
December 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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paulita.bsky.social
Das Regime in den USA …
December 24, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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tiefenbacherin.bsky.social
🤶🎄Yeay! Ich hab ein ganz besonderes Weihnachtsgeschenk vom Rotpunktverlag bekommen: Ich kann ein weiteres Buch zum Emissionshandelssystem (EHS) schreiben!🎄🎅 (1/5)
December 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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klimahandlung.bsky.social
"Dieses Crowdfunding hilft dabei, dass Angehörige die Unterstützung bekommen, die sie verdienen - sind sie doch eine der wichtigsten gesellschaftlichen Stützen, die oft im Verborgenen Grosses leisten." @beobachtermagazin.bsky.social @pflege-betreuung.bsky.social @wirstiftung.bsky.social
Angebote für pflegende und betreuende Angehörige stärken - Lokalhelden.ch - Crowdfunding von Raiffeisen
ACCANTO steht Angehörigen von erkrankten oder verunfallten Personen zur Seite. Hilf mit, die Angebote bekannt zu machen und auszubauen.
www.lokalhelden.ch
December 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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indubioproreto.bsky.social
chuuchuu.com/2025wrapped

Pretty interesting data on the punctuality of (Western) European trains - and a sobbering/depressing reality for all people regularly using Deutsche Bahn...
December 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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jonworth.eu
Solange niemand neue Wagen baut, kommen wir nicht weit.

Eine vernünftige Strategie muss auch die Beschaffung von Rollmaterial umfassen.
matthias-gastel.de Matthias Gastel @matthias-gastel.de · 17d
Mehr #Nachtzüge! 🌙 🚆
Deutschland sollte mit seiner Lage mitten in Europa 🇪🇺 aktiver werden, um mehr Nachtzüge anzureizen.
Dazu haben @gruene-bundestag.de einen Antrag mit entsprechenden Vorschlägen ins Parlament eingebracht.
Nachtzüge stellen eine wunderbare, klimaverträgliche Form der #Reise dar.
December 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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fgenovese.bsky.social
All I want for Christmas is less fascism around the world
December 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social
I need a porch goose that you can dress up in different outfits. But then i first need to get a porch.
A porch goose in 8 (US) outfits for 8 different holidays
December 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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davidajaeger.bsky.social
Are you interested in studying Public Policy at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social ?

There are two scholarships available for Palestinian students:

www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
St Andrews Education for Palestinian Students - Study at St Andrews - University of St Andrews
www.st-andrews.ac.uk
December 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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earthsciinfo.bsky.social
This is a record I’m happy to see broken time and again. Stop burning stuff. We do not need fossil fuels. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋
janrosenow.bsky.social Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 23d
Mega heat pumps are coming. It’s great to see that so many projects are now underway around the world.

There’s a real competition on who builds the biggest heat pump.

Technology has come a long way and keeps getting better.
December 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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johnkenny.bsky.social
New paper out with @stevefisher.bsky.social at @environmentalpol.bsky.social.

We use @ess-survey.bsky.social from 2016-17 and 2020-22 to show how climate worry rose across Europe, and in Western Europe especially so for left individuals and voters of left parties.

doi.org/10.1080/0964...
Europeans’ climate consciousness: increased yet more politicised
As climate change became more important to voters and political parties in the late 2010s in Europe, this paper asks whether aspects of public opinion on the issue also became more politicised, in ...
doi.org
December 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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jasonreifler.bsky.social
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is keen to light its brand on fire?
sabrinanorwood.bsky.social Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 24d
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?

Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Text reads: About synthetic panels Recruiting the right participants for a study can be difficult. You may not get the exact demographics you need, and the shorter the deadline, the less sure you can be that everyone will answer on time. One possible solution can be to use synthetic panels. Synthetic panels are powered by a first party proprietary AI model developed here at Qualtrics. Our synthetic panel is trained on thousands of responses from a variety of demographic backgrounds in order to more accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey. Our synthetic panel is based on the United States General Population, and is only available in English. This panel comes with ready-made quotas and target breakouts in order to represent your chosen population and make it easy to launch your survey right away. Text reads: Question-writing best practices To get the most reliable and actionable results from synthetic audiences, consider these question-writing best practices: Ask forward-looking and attitudinal questions. Synthetic panels perform best with perceptions, preferences, and intent-based questions. For example, “How likely are you to try…?” Synthetic panels are less applicable for studies on past behaviors, detailed recall, brand recall, or awareness questions. For example, “When did you last visit…?” Text reads: Discussion The current study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of the TPB when applied to health behaviours which addressed the limitations of previous reviews by including only prospective tests of behaviour, applying RE meta-analytic procedures, correcting correlations for sampling and measurement error, and hierarchically analysing the effect of behaviour type and sample and methodological moderators. Some 237 tests were identified which examined relations amongst model components. Overall the analysis indicated that the TPB could explain 19.3% of the variance in behaviour and 44.3% of the variance in intention across studies. This level of prediction of behaviour is slightly lower than that of previous meta-analytic reviews which have found between 27% (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Hagger et al., 2002) and 36% (Trafimow et al., 2002) of the variance in behaviour to be explained by intention and PBC.
December 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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plehmann.bsky.social
Neuer Versuch, um die Akzeptanz der Energiewende in Sachsen zu steigern: Schwibbogen auf Windrad www.mdr.de/nachrichten/...
Sachsens höchster Schwibbogen leuchtet auf Windrad bei Zwickau | MDR.DE
In Mülsen bei Zwickau wird am Wochenende der - vom Erdboden aus - vermutlich höchstgelegene Schwibbogen Deutschlands eingeschaltet. Er steht rund 140 Meter hoch auf dem Maschinenhaus eines Windrades.
www.mdr.de
December 17, 2025 at 6:54 AM
brueckmann.bsky.social
Good morning, Mannheim!

I will join @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social as a visiting fellow from April 20 to May 15!

I look forward to starting exciting new research collaborations!

Moreover, I offer my apartment for #academics visiting Bern at the same time ☺
a man in a tie is screaming in a kitchen and saying `` finally , some good news '' .
Alt: person in a white shirt with a black tie is excitedly screaming ``finally, some good news"!
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December 16, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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amreibahr.bsky.social
#HochschulBarometer2025 ist da. Wir sehen deutlich: An staatlichen Universitäten schreitet Fachkräftemangel weiter voran. Dank #IchBinHanna überlegen sich die Leute, ob sie prekäre Beschäftigung ohne Zukunftschancen wirklich wollen. Was hilft? Perspektiven schaffen mit guter Reform des #WissZeitVG!
7% der staatlichen Universitäten bewerten ihre Personalsituation bezogen auf Ausstattung und Rekrutierungschancen als (eher) gut. Im Vorjahr waren es noch 15%.
December 16, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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republik.ch
Einem der erfolg­reichsten Klima­instrumente droht das Aus. Der Bundesrat will jährlich mindestens 400 Millionen beim Klimaschutz einsparen. Das wäre fatal, wie @bluelle.bsky.social aufzeigt.
Wie der Bundesrat den Klima­schutz zusammen­streicht
Eines der erfolg­reichsten Instrumente soll fallen – wir erklären die Hintergründe.
www.republik.ch
December 15, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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kai-arzheimer.com
Medieval political science departments #AcademicChatter
An illuminated manuscript. A person in a red gown is hammering a small devil. The person is labelled "researcher" while the devil is labelled "data"
December 16, 2025 at 7:51 AM
brueckmann.bsky.social
Interesting comment on Article 6 (esp. 6.4 and 6.2) of the Paris Agreement

doi.org/10.1038/s415...
UNFCCC carbon trading could undermine global climate action - Nature Climate Change
Recent United Nations policymaking on international emissions trading fails to reconcile longstanding flaws that could jeopardize the integrity of these programmes. We call for urgent action by policy...
doi.org
December 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
brueckmann.bsky.social
Have you seen that the state of Baden-Würtenberg is funding 14 Postdoctoral Fellowships (for 2 years) for those who can't do their research in the US anymore as academic freedom is under threat?

uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
uni-freiburg.de
December 15, 2025 at 10:49 AM