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Patrick Wagner
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Postdoc at Uni Konstanz Inequality Cluster
Globalization | Inequality | Climate
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Although we're not where we should be, we're on a significantly better trajectory than we were 10 years ago.
10 Years After the Paris Climate Agreement, Here's Where We Are (Gift Article)
Has anything really changed in the decade since the Paris Agreement was reached? Actually, quite a lot.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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🆕 How trade liberalisation erodes the advantage of political connections

Today on VoxDev, @sjavervall.bsky.social‬ (@kiel.institute) & @rkhoban.bsky.social‬ (@econ.uzh.ch) discuss how tariff cuts in India reduced firms' reliance on political connections: voxdev.org/topic/trade/...
How trade liberalisation erodes the advantage of political connections
Tariff cuts in India reduced firms’ reliance on political connections, lowering politically driven misallocation and addressing a common source of inefficiency.
voxdev.org
July 25, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I don’t post, really, but I am very excited to announce the publication of my new paper “The Hole Dug Deeper” in Ecological Economics! In it, I investigate labor market characteristics (e.g., informality) as a channel through which climate hazards worsen income disparities.

doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
Redirecting
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July 11, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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political scientists democratising their institutions in the age of backsliding, talk about leading by example
🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.

🔗 epssnet.org

Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.

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June 27, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 2 exciting PreDoc positions in my team at the University of Bern, starting late summer/early fall! Collaborate on cutting-edge research in Political Economy, Development &Behavioral Economics, using experimental and quasi-experimental methods.
June 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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this is the president of the united states repeating unhinged racist propaganda ginned up by the worst white supremacist ideologues on earth
with the South African president sitting next to him, Trump suggests there is a white genocide happening in his country and says, "I hope you can have an explanation of that"
May 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Die #Exzellenzcluster stehen fest: Heute hat die Exzellenzkommission 70 Projekte zur Förderung ausgewählt. 45 Cluster werden fortgesetzt, 25 neu eingerichtet. Die Förderung beginnt ab 1. Jan. 2026 für 7 Jahre, die Fördersumme beträgt insg. 539 Mio. €/Jahr. Die Liste: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3
May 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Surprise.
NEW: Classmates of the FSU shooting suspect say he harbored white supremacist views: “He espoused so much white supremacist rhetoric and far-right rhetoric," one classmate says.
FSU shooting suspect used mom's service weapon and had white supremacist views, police and classmates say
The 20-year-old is the son of a sheriff’s deputy who had access to one of her weapons, officials said.
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April 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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NEW: Classmates of the FSU shooting suspect say he harbored white supremacist views: “He espoused so much white supremacist rhetoric and far-right rhetoric," one classmate says.
FSU shooting suspect used mom's service weapon and had white supremacist views, police and classmates say
The 20-year-old is the son of a sheriff’s deputy who had access to one of her weapons, officials said.
nbcnews.to
April 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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March 11, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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If organs of state security and demagogues and mob leaders are acting in concert to crack down on dissent it is unequivocally fascist. I don’t mean this to be a polemic: it's the only appropriate term from political science and theory for this practice.
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The Abduction of Mahmoud Khalil
“..the first arrest of many to come.”
www.unpopularfront.news
March 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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breaking via inbox: “On March 8, Department of Homeland Security agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and recent grad student at Columbia, at his place of residence, an apartment building owned by the university. The DHS agents said that the State Dept revoked Khalil’s green card.”
March 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files.

It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.
January 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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January 1, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Jordan Peterson moves to Florida, raising the average IQ of both Canada and Florida.
Jordan Peterson says he’s left Canada and moved to the U.S. - National | Globalnews.ca
Peterson cited his ongoing feud with the College of Psychologists of Ontario as a reason to leave his home country.
globalnews.ca
December 13, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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🆕 Climate change causes conflict: How can policy respond?

Today on VoxDev, @marshallburke.bsky.social , @joelferguson.bsky.social, Solomon Hsiang Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability & @tedmiguel.bsky.social UC Berkeley explore the conflict-climate change relationship
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Climate change causes conflict: How can policy respond?
Climate change is projected to cause an increase in numerous forms of violent human behaviour. Policies like a robust social safety net and political inclusion can help ensure a more peaceful future.
voxdev.org
December 13, 2024 at 10:01 AM
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this is what mass deportation is. people will necessarily be rounded up and processed. there’s no version of that that doesn’t involve camps.
Trump concedes that there will need to be new concentration camps built in the U.S. as part of his "mass deportation" plan:
December 13, 2024 at 5:29 AM