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Klaus Pforr
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Sociologist at @gesis.org working with EU-SILC in @fdzgml.bsky.social. Research interests: econometrics, survey methodology, sociology of wealth, family sociology, integration/migration, ethnic segregation. Typos galore🌻🏴🚩
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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.bsky.social · 26d
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fdzgml.bsky.social GESIS German Microdata Lab @fdzgml.bsky.social · 26d
📣🆕Complete Set of Setups for EU-SILC 2025-Release 1 are now available. These setups are compatible with the statistical software packages Stata, SPSS, and R, allowing to convert CSV data into system files for analysis.
Access to the setups: www.gesis.org/en/missy/mat...
GESIS: MISSY - Setups: EU-SILC
GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
www.gesis.org
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joschueck.de
Dürfen KI-Konzerne weiter einfach so geistiges Eigentum anderer ausschlachten?
Dazu gibt’s heute ein vielleicht wegweisendes Gerichtsurteil für ganz Europa in München… GEMA vs Chatgpt

muenchen.t-online.de/region/muenc...
München: Landgericht entscheidet über Songtexte bei ChatGPT
Das Landgericht München verkündet am Dienstag seine Entscheidung im Rechtsstreit zwischen der Gema und OpenAI. Es geht um Hits wie "Atemlos".
muenchen.t-online.de
November 11, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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ricardalang.bsky.social
„Ich glaube nicht mehr länger, dass Demokratie und Freiheit miteinander vereinbar sind.“

Dieser Satz kommt von Peter Thiel, dem Mitbegründer von #Palantir. Von solchen Typen sollten wir uns gerade mit Blick auf unsere Sicherheit niemals abhängig machen.
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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therealjackhopkins.bsky.social
This….is why it’s a BIG fucking deal.
November 11, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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gesis.org
#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy
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Scientific career at GESIS
At GESIS, researchers work in various phases of their scientific careers: as student assistants, doctoral candidates, postdocs, senior researchers, team leaders, and department heads. The institute's goal is to provide its scientific staff with the best possible support in their various career phase
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November 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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juniorhoncho.bsky.social
my new AI powered lamp is trained on millions of lamp interactions so it understands that 50% of chain pulls are to turn it on and the other 50% are to turn it off. and honestly, it's a little spooky how it knows exactly what i want almost half of the time
March 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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urbaninstitute.bsky.social
Urban #research shows that expanded #SNAP work requirements could lead to 2.7 million #families—and 5.4 million people—losing some or all of their monthly SNAP benefits. On average, affected families would see a monthly loss of $254 in food assistance.

Learn more. https://urbn.is/4hMj2Xj
Chart showing estimated monthly loss of SNAP benefits due to expanded SNAP work requirements, detailing number of people affected by age group and living circumstances. Data sourced from the Urban Institute's analysis of the 2021 and 2023 American Community Survey and Income Security datasets.
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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georghenning.bsky.social
Es geht langsam aber sicher aufs Vertragsende zu und ob ihr's glaubt oder nicht, der Arbeitsmarkt für Psycholog-Postdocs mit Mitte 30 ist gar nicht mal so super, vor allem wenn man örtlich nicht komplett flexibel ist? Nehme mal wieder Tipps für alternative Karrierewege entgegen.
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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cteney.bsky.social
"währenddessen wächst der Eindruck, dass nicht nur das Geld fehlt – sondern auch der politische Wille, Bildung endlich als gesamtstaatliche Aufgabe zu begreifen statt als innerstaatlichen Verteilungskampf."
jmwiarda.bsky.social Jan-Martin Wiarda @jmwiarda.bsky.social · 1d
Kitas gegen Hochschulen
Investitionsbooster-Ausgleich: Wie aus einem Förderprogramm für die Bildung ein Wettbewerb um den Mangel zu werden droht. Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/11...
November 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
klauspforr.bsky.social
Wer Reime wie "Lieber Kollege, Ihr Rap ist zu banal, er verfehlt die Probleme doch fatal." rappt, sollte mal besser die Füsse still halten. Übrigens wie so oft ist auch hier Gewalt die schlechtere Lösung und der schnellste Weg, den Kühlschrank ruinieren
ilkokowalczuk.bsky.social Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk @ilkokowalczuk.bsky.social · 2d
Unfassbar! Tim Drygala, ein aus Lübeck stammender Jurist an der Uni Leipzig, lebt seine schlimmen Gewaltfantasien und seinen Frauenhass offen aus. Nein, so jemand darf nicht Beamter, nicht Professor, nicht Jurist in einem demokratischen Rechtsstaat sein!
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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schrillmann.bsky.social
"Die Buffy hat aber gesagt-"
"Die Buffy hat aber gesagt, die Buffy hat aber gesagt! Du fängst dir gleich eine!"
October 7, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
Never really understood Griffin's appeal, and the Trump severed head thing was a dumb, poor-taste attempt to be provocative. But the reaction to it was (and apparently still is) absolutely unhinged.
She’s Been Booted Out of Hollywood and Investigated by the Secret Service. When She Let Me Into Her House, I Could See Why.
"I was kind of ahead of my time," she says. "Pun intended."
slate.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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philipncohen.com
Using GSS or ACS or CPS or NLSY to analyze a trend, and then years later ... it changes. Huh! Maybe we should have a Journal of Subsequent Events, to incentivize the original authors to report these developments. They are most likely to notice, and may as well get some credit for showing it.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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lwallossek.bsky.social
Much fewer people have moved from Germany to the US this year compared to the past years (Fortzüge is those who migrated GER—>US, Zuzüge is US—>GER). Last time we saw such a decrease (besides Covid) was 2017 👀

www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pr...
Screenshot from the linked website showing the numbers for Zuzüge and Fortzüge
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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casmudde.bsky.social
LOL! Seems the power of the media is limited after all… or maybe it is just harder to propel the radical right to prominence than the radical left? They spent so many hours of television and so many pages of print media on her…
Sarah Wagenknecht withdraws as BSW leader
Sarah Wagenknecht is stepping down as chair of the BSW, which she founded. The party missed out on entering the Bundestag in the last election.
www.bluewin.ch
November 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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wrigleyfield.bsky.social
This is one of the best accounts I’ve read and I wish every newspaper would run it and every college would invite students to a community conversation where it would be read out and students given space and time to talk and think about it.

But, at least, you can read it.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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theonion.com
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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zew.de
„Das ist ein sehr schlechtes Zeichen für die Wirtschaft, dass die Regierung nicht in der Lage ist, das zu verhindern“, kommentiert #ZEW-Ökonom @nicolasziebarth.bsky.social die drohenden Beitragserhöhungen der #GKV in der @szde.bsky.social. www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/m...
Kanzler Merz: Der Stolperkurs der Regierung belastet die Wirtschaft
Die Regierung hat einen Aufschwung versprochen – aber bisher zu wenig dafür getan, mahnen Fachleute. Und entgegen der Zusage werden doch die Krankenkassenbeiträge steigen.
www.sueddeutsche.de
November 10, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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gesistraining.bsky.social
If Difference-in-Differences has been on your “to-learn” list, now is your chance to dig in. Our #GESISworkshop with @janmarcus.de takes you from DiD basics to advanced topics like triple differences, synthetic control, and modern estimators — all in R and Stata.

➡️ t1p.de/dif_in_dif_26
GESIS Workshop Foundations and Advances in Difference-in-Differences 03 to 04 February 2026 | Online Jan Marcus (Freie Universität Berlin)
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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conjugateprior.org
See, this is what happens if you feed them
A bunch of Lime scooters begging outside someone's door, firmly convinced that they are the source of all rides now.
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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loukas.bsky.social
"Try that in a small town, Faramir."
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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collie.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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janrosenow.bsky.social
Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.

Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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politico.eu
EU officials are ready to sacrifice some of their most prized privacy rules for the sake of AI, as they seek to turbocharge business in Europe by slashing red tape.
Brussels knifes privacy to feed the AI boom
Draft proposals obtained by POLITICO show EU is breaking sacred privacy regime to placate industry.
www.politico.eu
November 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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chriswratil.bsky.social
🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project

You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna!

⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025

wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...

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November 10, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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theradr.bsky.social
Absolute queen shit
Rep Yassamin Anasari has set up a table and a sign saying "Mike Jonhnson is starving families and gutting healthcare to cover up the Epstein files, CHANGE MY MIND" outside Johnson's office.
November 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM