Mathis Lohaus
@mathislohaus.de
Guest professor (EU & International Relations) at Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
🏡 https://lohaus.org 💡 https://transnorms.eu
🏡 https://lohaus.org 💡 https://transnorms.eu
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@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris).
We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵:
#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵:
#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
Welcome! – VARICRIS
VARICRIS research project
bit.ly
October 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris).
We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵:
#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵:
#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
New kinds of questions to ponder for a large political science (!) conference with (typically) ~50% participants from outside of North America. It used to be that "only" people with the "wrong" passports suffered visa issues; now it's about the risk of politically motivated sanctions.
Is Columbus safe for LGBTQI+ travelers? Can you be detained or profiled? Is the US military present at airports?
Get answers before #ISA2026.
🕒 20 Oct | 14:00 UTC
🔗 Submit questions now! buff.ly/2jedzSh
Get answers before #ISA2026.
🕒 20 Oct | 14:00 UTC
🔗 Submit questions now! buff.ly/2jedzSh
October 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
New kinds of questions to ponder for a large political science (!) conference with (typically) ~50% participants from outside of North America. It used to be that "only" people with the "wrong" passports suffered visa issues; now it's about the risk of politically motivated sanctions.
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The essential idea is that cognition (AGI) can be derived from discourse (ie the internet)*. Applying this same logic, I see no reason why Cat General Intelligence cannot be derived from Actual Cat discourse (ie meowing).
* Note that the internet is c 75% cat photos etc - not a coincidence
* Note that the internet is c 75% cat photos etc - not a coincidence
October 17, 2025 at 7:46 AM
The essential idea is that cognition (AGI) can be derived from discourse (ie the internet)*. Applying this same logic, I see no reason why Cat General Intelligence cannot be derived from Actual Cat discourse (ie meowing).
* Note that the internet is c 75% cat photos etc - not a coincidence
* Note that the internet is c 75% cat photos etc - not a coincidence
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Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
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CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
🧵
Fail Better: Why Your Rejections Will Shape You More Than Your Publications
The Art of Learning from Rejection
catherineeunicedevries.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
🧵
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
🧵
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Next Wednesday (October 15, 17:00 Berlin time), we're kicking off next term's Speaker Series with a talk and package demo by Francisco Tomas-Valiente on "Uncertain Performance: How to Quantify Uncertainty and Draw Test Sets When Evaluating Classifiers". Paper and information on how to join ⬇️
October 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Next Wednesday (October 15, 17:00 Berlin time), we're kicking off next term's Speaker Series with a talk and package demo by Francisco Tomas-Valiente on "Uncertain Performance: How to Quantify Uncertainty and Draw Test Sets When Evaluating Classifiers". Paper and information on how to join ⬇️
Kleiner Gruß von der BVG an die @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social: Pünktlich zum Beginn der Vorlesungszeit ist drei Tage "Ersatzverkehr" auf der (einzigen) U-Bahn-Linie, die zur Uni fährt. Liebe Erstsemester, willkommen in Berlin! 🤡
October 9, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Kleiner Gruß von der BVG an die @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social: Pünktlich zum Beginn der Vorlesungszeit ist drei Tage "Ersatzverkehr" auf der (einzigen) U-Bahn-Linie, die zur Uni fährt. Liebe Erstsemester, willkommen in Berlin! 🤡
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The amount of time it takes to grade things once they show an inkling of maybe-LLM-hallucinations is such a waste—gotta stop reading and spend half an hour to track down sources to see if they actually exist and say the things they claim to say
September 29, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The amount of time it takes to grade things once they show an inkling of maybe-LLM-hallucinations is such a waste—gotta stop reading and spend half an hour to track down sources to see if they actually exist and say the things they claim to say
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Evin Dalkilic @evinale.bsky.social:
Hochschulen und Bibliotheken "dürfen Diamond-Open-Access-Publikationen" wie den Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de finanzieren.
Das Wirtschaftlichkeitsgebot steht nicht entgegen: "Um es kurz zu machen: Es handelt sich um ein Scheinproblem."
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Hochschulen und Bibliotheken "dürfen Diamond-Open-Access-Publikationen" wie den Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de finanzieren.
Das Wirtschaftlichkeitsgebot steht nicht entgegen: "Um es kurz zu machen: Es handelt sich um ein Scheinproblem."
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Den einen ist der Verfassungsblog nicht wissenschaftlich genug, den anderen zu kostenfrei, um von wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken finanziert zu werden.
Wieso an beidem nichts dran ist, erklärt EVIN DALKILIC im Editorial.
verfassungsblog.de/diese-wissen...
Wieso an beidem nichts dran ist, erklärt EVIN DALKILIC im Editorial.
verfassungsblog.de/diese-wissen...
September 28, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Evin Dalkilic @evinale.bsky.social:
Hochschulen und Bibliotheken "dürfen Diamond-Open-Access-Publikationen" wie den Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de finanzieren.
Das Wirtschaftlichkeitsgebot steht nicht entgegen: "Um es kurz zu machen: Es handelt sich um ein Scheinproblem."
1/4
Hochschulen und Bibliotheken "dürfen Diamond-Open-Access-Publikationen" wie den Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de finanzieren.
Das Wirtschaftlichkeitsgebot steht nicht entgegen: "Um es kurz zu machen: Es handelt sich um ein Scheinproblem."
1/4
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It’s really worrying that it takes a political scientist to point out all these irregularities in a paper that is picked up to such an extent by the press — reviewers, science editors, anyone listening? Anyone bothered to ask for the underlying data & code?
As noted by @carlmc.bsky.social, one odd pattern in these results is that ALL the estimates and confidence interval bounds are multiples of 0.008
What could explain that? 🤔
What could explain that? 🤔
September 6, 2025 at 8:35 AM
It’s really worrying that it takes a political scientist to point out all these irregularities in a paper that is picked up to such an extent by the press — reviewers, science editors, anyone listening? Anyone bothered to ask for the underlying data & code?
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🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics.
The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
August 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics.
The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
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We are going to be digging out from all this for years and years and years.
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a peer-to-peer evaluation of a country's rights record. All 193 UN member states are expected to participate, and even states like Russia and China do.
Today, the US took the unprecedented step of withdrawing from the UPR www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Today, the US took the unprecedented step of withdrawing from the UPR www.reuters.com/world/europe...
US withdraws from key UN human rights report, draws criticism from rights advocates
The United States will not participate in a U.N. review of its human rights record, officials said, a move that rights advocates called a worrying retreat from Washington's global engagement on rights and justice issues.
www.reuters.com
August 29, 2025 at 3:26 AM
We are going to be digging out from all this for years and years and years.
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Together with the great colleagues @i4replication.bsky.social, we are organizing the first Münster replication games (28/11/25)! Highly recommended to junior & senior scholars. Joint project together with #MueCOS & #CDSC @uni-muenster.de. More info/registration: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3526/
August 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Together with the great colleagues @i4replication.bsky.social, we are organizing the first Münster replication games (28/11/25)! Highly recommended to junior & senior scholars. Joint project together with #MueCOS & #CDSC @uni-muenster.de. More info/registration: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3526/
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Very excited to share this new tool for teaching the politics of climate change. What are the different *theories of change* that underlie decarbonization efforts and policies? Help your students learn about them. Please share widely. 🌎🔌💡🛢️
We are excited to share a new resource for teaching climate politics! @jeffcolgan.bsky.social and @maxbradley.bsky.social introduce the framework here www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI20.... Visit the Syllabus Bank for more details climate.watson.brown.edu/syllabus-bank - we'd love your feedback!
Teaching Climate Politics | Jeff Colgan & Max Bradley | CSL
YouTube video by Watson School of International and Public Affairs
www.youtube.com
August 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Very excited to share this new tool for teaching the politics of climate change. What are the different *theories of change* that underlie decarbonization efforts and policies? Help your students learn about them. Please share widely. 🌎🔌💡🛢️
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methods section said
“we follow standard practice”
because we did not
understand
what we were doing
but assumed
someone once had
“we follow standard practice”
because we did not
understand
what we were doing
but assumed
someone once had
July 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
methods section said
“we follow standard practice”
because we did not
understand
what we were doing
but assumed
someone once had
“we follow standard practice”
because we did not
understand
what we were doing
but assumed
someone once had
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📣 Postdoc (75 %, 3 yrs) at @unigreifswald.bsky.social — start autumn 2025 on perhaps Germany’s most beautiful campus. Know someone with a PhD (or nearly done) in Political Science? ⬇️ #PolSci #Postdoc
July 14, 2025 at 7:16 AM
📣 Postdoc (75 %, 3 yrs) at @unigreifswald.bsky.social — start autumn 2025 on perhaps Germany’s most beautiful campus. Know someone with a PhD (or nearly done) in Political Science? ⬇️ #PolSci #Postdoc
The face-eating leopards are coming for ... Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok!?
It takes a lot to get university spokespeople to react with anything approaching snark like this. The level of bad-faith shittiness from the Trump administration is absolutely off the charts
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
July 11, 2025 at 6:41 AM
The face-eating leopards are coming for ... Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok!?
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This is simply huge. Hell freezing is next on my bingo card, after the French now agreed to coordinate on nuclear responses with the UK ! Anything is possible !
»"There is no extreme threat to Europe that would not prompt a response by both nations,” the UK added. “As such, any adversary threatening the vital interests of Britain or France could be confronted by the strength of the nuclear forces of both nations.”«
UK and France vow to co-ordinate nuclear weapons for first time
Announcement marks increase in co-operation between allies amid growing threat from Russia
www.ft.com
July 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM
This is simply huge. Hell freezing is next on my bingo card, after the French now agreed to coordinate on nuclear responses with the UK ! Anything is possible !
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1/ Der erste 🇪🇺 #EUCO für 🇩🇪 Bundeskanzler #Merz ist vorbei – und offenbar war’s ganz nach seinem Geschmack. Doch was kam dabei heraus? Was hat Europa davon? Am 01.07. #EBDanalyse online mit Kanzleramt. 🧵
Vorab die Schlussfolgerungen:
www.consilium.europa.eu/de/meetings/...
bsky.app/profile/cons...
Vorab die Schlussfolgerungen:
www.consilium.europa.eu/de/meetings/...
bsky.app/profile/cons...
June 28, 2025 at 9:16 AM
1/ Der erste 🇪🇺 #EUCO für 🇩🇪 Bundeskanzler #Merz ist vorbei – und offenbar war’s ganz nach seinem Geschmack. Doch was kam dabei heraus? Was hat Europa davon? Am 01.07. #EBDanalyse online mit Kanzleramt. 🧵
Vorab die Schlussfolgerungen:
www.consilium.europa.eu/de/meetings/...
bsky.app/profile/cons...
Vorab die Schlussfolgerungen:
www.consilium.europa.eu/de/meetings/...
bsky.app/profile/cons...
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It's time for the EU to embrace Eurobonds and topple the US dollar. on.ft.com/4kgLYq5
European common debt is the way to topple the dollar
[FREE TO READ] It’s high time for the EU to overcome its childish resistance to permanent joint borrowing
on.ft.com
June 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM
It's time for the EU to embrace Eurobonds and topple the US dollar. on.ft.com/4kgLYq5
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Diese ganze Story stinkt zum Himmel. Bojanowski konfrontiert niemanden von den Grünen, der SPD oder einen Umweltverband mit diesen Vorwürfen, sondern holt bei der "Initiative Transparente Demokratie" eine Stellungnahme ein - ein Verein, der GERADE EINMAL ZWEI WOCHEN EXISTIERT?
June 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Diese ganze Story stinkt zum Himmel. Bojanowski konfrontiert niemanden von den Grünen, der SPD oder einen Umweltverband mit diesen Vorwürfen, sondern holt bei der "Initiative Transparente Demokratie" eine Stellungnahme ein - ein Verein, der GERADE EINMAL ZWEI WOCHEN EXISTIERT?
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Schließt die EU-Kommission Geheimverträge mit Umwelt-NGOs damit die dann Lobbyarbeit im Auftrag machen? 🧐
Gestern erschien in der welt ein Artikel, der das suggeriert. Damit wird dann Kampagne gegen Zivilgesellschaft gemacht.
❌Das Argument stimmt jedoch einfach nicht❌/1
Gestern erschien in der welt ein Artikel, der das suggeriert. Damit wird dann Kampagne gegen Zivilgesellschaft gemacht.
❌Das Argument stimmt jedoch einfach nicht❌/1
June 8, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Schließt die EU-Kommission Geheimverträge mit Umwelt-NGOs damit die dann Lobbyarbeit im Auftrag machen? 🧐
Gestern erschien in der welt ein Artikel, der das suggeriert. Damit wird dann Kampagne gegen Zivilgesellschaft gemacht.
❌Das Argument stimmt jedoch einfach nicht❌/1
Gestern erschien in der welt ein Artikel, der das suggeriert. Damit wird dann Kampagne gegen Zivilgesellschaft gemacht.
❌Das Argument stimmt jedoch einfach nicht❌/1
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As per tradition, the Financial Secrecy Index Visualized - in diamond plot format, with @taxjustice.net's data (2025 edition):
June 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
As per tradition, the Financial Secrecy Index Visualized - in diamond plot format, with @taxjustice.net's data (2025 edition):