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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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📣🆕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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www.deutschlandfunk.de/corona-beric...
Ich hatte mal überschlagen, dass eine ca. 2-3 Woche spätere Reaktion in D ca. 60.000 zusätzliche Todesfälle bedeutet hätte. Das scheint wohl mit dieser Schätzung aus UK übereinzustimmen.
Versäumnisse der Regierung Johnson - Corona-Bericht: Tausende vermeidbare Tote in Großbritannien
Eine Expertenkommission in Großbritannien wirft der damaligen konservativen Regierung von Premier Johnson schwere Versäumnisse zum Beginn der Corona-Pandemie 2020 vor.
www.deutschlandfunk.de
November 21, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Someone at the Economist badly needs to be fired www.economist.com/united-state... Biden might have been tone-deaf in saying true things about the economy, Trump is outright lying. Anyone who can't tell the difference has no business working for a serious publication.
How Donald Trump is turning into Joe Biden
It’s about more than denying inflation
www.economist.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Happy that our paper with @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, and @lstoetze.bsky.social found a home at @thejop.bsky.social. You can read it here 👇

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Thanks to all the fantastic people giving feedback and supporting us
November 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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German reforms to limit power prices for industry and boost gas-fired generation risk hampering the growth in renewable energy the country needs, energy expert Claudia Kemfert told Montel’s Plugged In podcast this week. montelnews.com/news/9220dce...
German energy reforms put renewables growth at risk, expert says
German power reforms risk slowing renewables growth — price cap and gas tenders may deter PPAs and flexibility investments, warns expert Claudia Kemfert.
montelnews.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
November 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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This meme finally found its soulmate
They line up perfectly.
November 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
so dig the carbon up, burn it, and use renewable energy to put it back into the ground? no kink-shaming, but sounds like a fetish
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said today that the fight against climate change was not against the fuels that cause it — only the pollution they emit.
Von der Leyen says EU is not fighting fossil fuels, only emissions
The comment could undermine European countries’ push at COP30 to move away from coal, oil and gas.
www.politico.eu
November 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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"we are not fighting fossil fuels, we are fighting the use of fossils for fuel"

well, ok then...
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said today that the fight against climate change was not against the fuels that cause it — only the pollution they emit.
Von der Leyen says EU is not fighting fossil fuels, only emissions
The comment could undermine European countries’ push at COP30 to move away from coal, oil and gas.
www.politico.eu
November 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Apropos nothing in particular, I just got a nice new T-shirt

(from the fine folk at @kyivindependent.com)
November 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Unerhofft kommt oft: 20 Jahre Metaebene.

metaebene.me/blog/2025/11...
November 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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The 28-point proposal being hawked around by America is so poorly put together, so vague, unbalanced and impractical that, in a more normal world, it would never have seen the light of day
Donald Trump’s peace plan would be bad for Ukraine, Europe and America
It is a sad mix of naked opportunism and strategic myopia
econ.st
November 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Habt ihr damals davon gehört? Am 23. Dez 23 wurde Mahdi Ben Nasr von einem deutschen christlichen evangikalen Rassisten erschossen, zerstückelt und versenkt.
Alles an diesem Fall ist widerlich. Die Polizei, der Richter, die Familie des Täters. Quasi keine Berichterstattung, weil Opfer nicht deutsch.
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Ever wonder which international border is closest? This map divides Germany into 9 zones, showing the nearest neighbor for any given point. Germany borders more European countries than any other nation.*

#30DayMapChallenge Day 22: Natural Earth #rstats #ggplot2
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Cas Mudde spells out what has become largely the consensus among researchers: moving right on immigration will not weaken the far right nor strengthen social democracy. If your reaction is "but in Denmark" please at least familiarize yourself with Danish politics

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde
This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Nach dem Cloudflare-Ausfall: Digital völlig unsouverän

"Welche Ironie, dass sich der jüngste Ausfall just in dem Moment zutrug, in dem in der EU über digitale Souveränität gesprochen wird.

Aber sie genügten, um zweierlei sichtbar zu machen: Erstens, in welchem..."
www.heise.de/meinung/Nach...
Nach dem Cloudflare-Ausfall: Digital völlig unsouverän
Die Ausfälle von AWS, Azure und Cloudflare haben gezeigt: Das Netz steht auf tönernen Füßen. Der Countdown zum GAU läuft. Ein Kommentar.
www.heise.de
November 21, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Can the far-right be tamed by government inclusion? The short answer is no, on the contrary. The longer answer can be found in this pre-print, which analyzed an impressive amount of data (1,237 cabinets in 57 democracies from 1976 to 2023):

osf.io/preprints/so...
OSF
osf.io
November 22, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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🎉 New publication 🎉 Why do #youngpeople vote for the #AfD? This question has kept our research project busy for quite some time, so I'm beyond excited that our first article - co-authored with @timonscheuer.bsky.social - is now out in #GermanPolitics! 🤩 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Wtf soll das überhaupt bedeuten @zdfde.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: “To end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.”

Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵
The missing heritability question is now (mostly) answered
Not with a bang but with a whimper
theinfinitesimal.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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The publication process took much longer than I expected, but now our segregation comparison has been published: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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November 22, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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New evidence that twin estimates of heritability should be adjusted downward by about half
So there you have it, twin study estimates were greatly inflated, and molecular data sets the record straight. I walk through possible counter-arguments, but ultimately the uncomfortable truth is that genes contribute to traits much less than we always thought.
November 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Claim: the US is militarily and politucally allied with Russia and no longer a partner in NATO and with EU. Indeed the US is a violent adversary and a danger to the world.

Evidence: US-Russia "peace" plan for Ukraine, giving everything to Russia and absolving Russia of all war crimes.
a black and white photo of a crowd of people wearing top hats .
ALT: a black and white photo of a crowd of people wearing top hats .
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Archeologists Gen Z

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Is it a ritual?
My favorite piece of content today.
November 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM