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Or Tuttnauer

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Neujahrsaperol Spritz 🏖️😎

December 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM

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European Consortium for Political Research

@ecpr.bsky.social

📣 Call for #ecprgc26 Papers
🛣️ Advancing the Study of Parliaments: Structures, Actors and Processes at a Crossroads
🪑 @sophsuda.bsky.social & @ortuttnauer.com
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Advancing the Study of Parliaments: Structures, Actors and Processes at a Crossroads

General Conference 2026, 8 – 11 September, Jagiellonian University

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December 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM

Or Tuttnauer

@ortuttnauer.com

A one-word thriller story written in academic German:

Entscheidungsprozess

December 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM

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ECPR Parliaments Standing Group

@sgparliaments.bsky.social

Call for Papers open! The ECPR General Conference is taking place in September in Krakow and our section (organised by @sophsuda.bsky.social and @ortuttnauer.com) is open for papers! Please submit by 5 Jan! Full details on our section are here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... 🦉

Advancing the Study of Parliaments: Structures, Actors and Processes at a Crossroads

European Consortium for Political Research

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December 12, 2025 at 11:32 AM

Or Tuttnauer

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youtube.com/watch?v=HTkm...
שיר שכל פעם מקפיץ אותי עם הגרוב שלו, עד השורה ״ואני לא יכול לסחוב את המשקולת הזו לכל מקום שאלך״ ❤️‍🩹

Hadag Nahash - Ani Ma'amin - HD - הדג נחש - אני מאמין

YouTube video by הדג נחש

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December 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM

Or Tuttnauer

@ortuttnauer.com

It’s always painful to get a paper rejected. 😞
Even more so when it’s the six journal and the paper you thought is your most important work yet 🥴
#academicsky

November 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM

Or Tuttnauer

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@existentialcomics.com boy, that escalated quickly

November 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM

Or Tuttnauer

@ortuttnauer.com

The train restaurant accepts only cash. Yes, I’m #backingermany

Or Tuttnauer @ortuttnauer.com · Nov 17

German feed! In what must be as rare as seeing Bigfoot in the US or the Loch Ness monster in Scotland, I today took a 7-hour train (Heidelberg-Innsbruck) and it LEFT AND ARRIVED *EXACTLY (!) ON (!) THE (!) MINUTE (!!!)*
🤯

November 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM

Or Tuttnauer

@ortuttnauer.com

German feed! In what must be as rare as seeing Bigfoot in the US or the Loch Ness monster in Scotland, I today took a 7-hour train (Heidelberg-Innsbruck) and it LEFT AND ARRIVED *EXACTLY (!) ON (!) THE (!) MINUTE (!!!)*
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November 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM

Or Tuttnauer

@ortuttnauer.com

Disrupting German #Halloween 🎃
Kids come up to the house saying "Süßes oder Saures"* and I answer "Salziges!" offering them popcorn. And it's a hit!

* Literally: "sweet or sour," the 🇩🇪 version of trick or treat

a halloween greeting card with a pumpkin and a haunted house in the background

ALT: a halloween greeting card with a pumpkin and a haunted house in the background

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October 31, 2025 at 5:33 PM

Or Tuttnauer

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חמותי סיכמה את עצמה הכי טוב שאפשר:

״שכל מה שתרצה לעצמך יתגשם. אבל הכי חשוב שמה שאני רוצה יתגשם״

היא רוצה שנחזור לארץ. אמרנו לה כבר שאנחנו לא רוצים. אבל הנה, רואים מה הכי חשוב…

Or Tuttnauer @ortuttnauer.com · Oct 25

בוקר יום הולדת.

איך דמיינתי: אני ישן בכיף, קם מאוחר לשירים ומתנות ועוגה.

איך הולך בפועל: כבר חצי שעה אסור לי לצאת מהמיטה כי השאר עוד לא מוכנים, ומתחיל לשעמם לי 😕

אבל המתנות והעוגה עוד לפניי, אז יש למה לצפות 🥳

October 25, 2025 at 9:37 AM

Or Tuttnauer

@ortuttnauer.com

בוקר יום הולדת.

איך דמיינתי: אני ישן בכיף, קם מאוחר לשירים ומתנות ועוגה.

איך הולך בפועל: כבר חצי שעה אסור לי לצאת מהמיטה כי השאר עוד לא מוכנים, ומתחיל לשעמם לי 😕

אבל המתנות והעוגה עוד לפניי, אז יש למה לצפות 🥳

October 25, 2025 at 8:08 AM

Or Tuttnauer

@ortuttnauer.com

Good stuff right here by @dannychau.bsky.social

Maybe it's quibbling with semantics, but something about the integrity of our game doesn't sit quite right.
Because the game is the game. And the game is incredible. Thursday night served up one of the best opening week double-headers we've seen in a long time: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander emptying the tank in a double-overtime bout against an Indiana Pacers team that refused to have its season defined by its sidelined cornerstone; the timeless experience of watching Steph Curry's late-game heroics from 30-plus feet away from the hoop. Amid all the uncertainty, the basketball was very good. So, no, when we're talking about integrity, we're not talking about a game. It's not the integrity of basketball that is under siege, but the NBA as a platform supporting it.

October 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM

Or Tuttnauer

@ortuttnauer.com

My 2🪙 on #nba gambling scandal(s): there’s a connecting line b/w legalizing gambling; Pharma pushing opioids; oil & car companies perpetuating big, lethal, polluting cars; the guns issue; & how lobbies distort US politics. Surrendering to money & exploiting human weaknesses run thru US society.

October 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM

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European Journal of Political Research

@ejprjournal.bsky.social

🆕 Formateur expectations & #VotingBehaviour

Looking at #CSES and German 🇩🇪 pre-election surveys Reut Itzkovitch-Malka, @liranharsgor.bsky.social & @ortuttnauer.com discuss "formateur optimization" – when voters back parties likely to lead.

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The effect of formateur expectations on vote choice: A comparative analysis | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

The effect of formateur expectations on vote choice: A comparative analysis

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October 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM

Or Tuttnauer

@ortuttnauer.com

Your car may be fast, but is it “the time it takes my mother-in-law from coming to visit till asking about when will I look for a job back home” fast?

October 14, 2025 at 8:49 AM

Or Tuttnauer

@ortuttnauer.com

I’ll do 4 words in one (German):

Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz

(Look it up)

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · Oct 12

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · Oct 12

"The chancellor approved it"

October 13, 2025 at 5:41 AM

Or Tuttnauer

@ortuttnauer.com

My doctor: if you feel hungry, perhaps try drinking water first, see if that fills the urge.

Me: I feel hungry, let’s try chocolate first

October 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM

Or Tuttnauer

@ortuttnauer.com

🚨New #polisky publication 🚨
In @ejprjournal.bsky.social, Reut Itzkovitch-Malka, @liranharsgor.bsky.social and I ask: when do voters back a party that's not their top pick, but has a real shot at being the the next PM's party?
The answer is a mix of preferences, expectations, and uncertainty

1/4

The effect of formateur expectations on vote choice: A comparative analysis | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

The effect of formateur expectations on vote choice: A comparative analysis

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October 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM

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Liran Harsgor

@liranharsgor.bsky.social

Do voters strategically attempt to affect the identity of the next prime minister?
In a new paper at @ejprjournal.bsky.social, we show they do!
Using @cses.bsky.social and German surveys, we find when and how "formateur optimization" is more likely to occur
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doi.org/10.1017/S147...

October 1, 2025 at 11:31 AM

Or Tuttnauer

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#academicsky woes

Me: working my ass off on a paper

Reviewer 1: but why did you use [a model I never considered using] and not the better option of [the model I specifically said I used]?

Reviewer 2: it makes no sense to control for [a variable I never use or mention in the text]

😡

September 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM