Merlin Schaeffer
@mschaeffer.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology at University of Copenhagen. I study how immigration transforms societies. Diversity | Integration | Discrimination | Misperceptions
Yes! And if that would initiate a culture of a more collaborative way of making opposition politics, it would be a big win.
February 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Yes! And if that would initiate a culture of a more collaborative way of making opposition politics, it would be a big win.
👆 this is so true, unfortunately. A married couple where one is a medical doctor and the other a lawyer is the epitome of German prestige.
That said, German federalism and its two-chamber system may make a minority government a bit more challenging than the unicameral Scandinavian ones.
That said, German federalism and its two-chamber system may make a minority government a bit more challenging than the unicameral Scandinavian ones.
February 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
👆 this is so true, unfortunately. A married couple where one is a medical doctor and the other a lawyer is the epitome of German prestige.
That said, German federalism and its two-chamber system may make a minority government a bit more challenging than the unicameral Scandinavian ones.
That said, German federalism and its two-chamber system may make a minority government a bit more challenging than the unicameral Scandinavian ones.
Reposted by Merlin Schaeffer
This work has implications for a radical idea: diseases formerly thought to be biologically non-communicable (e.g., obesity, depression, hypertension, arthritis, etc.) may actually be (somewhat!) communicable, via the spread of the microbiome. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 13/
Gut microbiome strain-sharing within isolated village social networks - Nature
An investigation into the relationship between network structure and gut microbiome composition among people living in 18 isolated Honduras villages reveals that strain-sharing can be mediated by...
www.nature.com
November 21, 2024 at 3:45 PM
This work has implications for a radical idea: diseases formerly thought to be biologically non-communicable (e.g., obesity, depression, hypertension, arthritis, etc.) may actually be (somewhat!) communicable, via the spread of the microbiome. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 13/
Reposted by Merlin Schaeffer
We can actually predict who your friends are based on whether you have similar bacteria in your poop! And that metric outperforms other more usual social features, such as how you resemble your friends on a host of traits like age, sex, wealth, etc. 7/
November 21, 2024 at 3:45 PM
We can actually predict who your friends are based on whether you have similar bacteria in your poop! And that metric outperforms other more usual social features, such as how you resemble your friends on a host of traits like age, sex, wealth, etc. 7/