Revs: Make clear the research design does not establish causality.
-> Do that.

New Rev: "Please, please stop the obsessive reporting on how every little tweak gets you closer or farther from causality .. causality is a theoretical concept .. there can never be a statistical solution to causality."

I feel overwhelmed and incredibly honoured to announce that I have been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant for my project “VisibleQueers”, fully titled as “Making the Queers Visible: Partisanship and Support among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Eastern and Western Europe”.
#ERCStG

Neu im @pwportal:
Wir starten die PPRnet Brief Serie zur politischen Machbarkeit von Klimapolitik mit der Einleitung: „Klimapolitik – aber machbar“.

Warum Klimapolitik nur wirkt, wenn sie tragfähig ist

#Klima #Polisky #PPRnet
Mit @bjoernbremer.bsky.social & Jane Gingrich

📢 Our latest research (with L. Rudolph, @uni-konstanz.de) on operationalizing natural experiments, particularly extreme weather, has just been accepted @thejop.bsky.social 🌦️Natural experiments offer a unique way to analyze causal effects in real-world settings. But operationalization is often messy:

Dass das 2025 tatsächlich eine interessante Headline ist, ist total verrückt.

Full house for the first panel at the @dvpw.bsky.social comparative section meeting organised by @politicsunisaar.bsky.social. Thank you for smart suggestions, valid criticism and to the co-panelists for making this a great conference start.

#ActEU

Mannheim -> Saarbrücken to discuss "Citizen's trust and societal polarization in times of transformations" organised by @dvpw.bsky.social Comparative Politics Section

Good start with dinner, a run, and @davidschweizer.bsky.social, @dienerjulius.bsky.social & @jlattmann.bsky.social

#DVPWbyTrain

We submitted a paper to a Top20 journal 132 days ago.

- It took 60+ days and two reminders to be assigned to an editor.
- Seemingly, no desk decision is made yet.
- Didn't get a reply for my last two mails asking about the status.

How is this how academia works...

Wenn wir umbauen, aufstocken, Dachgeschosse ausbauen, nachverdichten und Leerstandsflächen nutzen, können bis zu 4 Millionen neue Wohnungen
entstehen. Schnell, günstig und ökologisch. #Quadrell

Jede dritte Wohnung in den fünf größten Städten wird laut Immobilienportal Immoscout24 möbliert angeboten und damit die Mietpreisbremse häufig umgangen. Diese Ausnahmen wollen wir abschaffen und die Mietpreisbremse endlich scharf stellen, denn die Mieten müssen unbedingt runter. #Quadrell

It's almost like winning a dozen of one-score games doesn't translate all that well when it really matters in a single game...