Workers, the Centre Left and the Extreme Right
In which I’m taking my paper on the election between the Centre Left and the Extreme Right for the working class vote to Academic Wonderland (TM).
Statistical Songs Roundup
Today is clearly a day for statistical songs (are there any other days?), so here are some links to get you started. To kick of the stat song roundup, here are some … interesting insights into the culture that is biostatics, complete with some remarkably dreadful audio material. Obviously, youtube has a whole channel devoted…
Reibungsloser Übergang von Beck zu Dreyer
Interview mit dpa: 100 Tage Regierungschefin Malu Dreyer
The Proposed NPD Ban is Now Officially a Partisan Issue
The German polity tries to deal with an electorally insignificant extremist NPD five months before the election, looks very stupid in the process
My Exodus from Google Reader
Like many fellow information junkies, I was shocked that Google is killing Reader, then realised that I had not used it very regularly lately. This is partly because I rely a bit more on twitter these days, partly because last year I began using feedly, a Reader frontend that looks good on my various devices…
New Publication: Comment on Knowledge Networks in German Human Geography (in German)
Two years ago, a research paper discovered a tight-knit cluster of researchers that dominate German Human Geography. Harald Schoen and I comment on the paper that rocked German Geography (in German, somewhat unsurprisingly).
It Is not over until the Fat Lady Sings …
… which is what she is doing right now. All boxes are packed, all participants have departed. The Joint Sessions 2013 are now officially over. One colleague asked me yesterday night what the incentive was for organising it. The answer is simple: It was a great, if sometimes exhausting experience.
Das TV-Duell als wichtige Informationsquelle
Feature des Deutschlandfunks zum Thema Wahlen und Wahlkämpfe mit Thorsten Faas, Sigrid Roßteutscher und mir
ECPR Joint Sessions 2013 in the Social Media
The ECPR Joint Sessions 2013 in the Social Media (so far)
Träume vom eigenen EU Staat (Luxemburger Tageblatt)
Interview mit dpa/dem Luxemburger Tageblatt zu Katalonien, Schottland und der EU