The seven least unread blogs in 2022
This year’s 7 most read blog-posts, ranked.
Category: Political Science
Definitive version of article on measuring political secularism published (yay!)
Santa came early and brought me a volume, an issue & even some page numbers. In other word, my Politics & Religion article on the ๐บ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐น๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐บ is out in print (how very old school!). [bibtex file=ka.bib key=arzheimer-2022] But hey, it is still ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ป ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐๐ and digitally yours at https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755048322000104.
I asked the AI chatbot to channel Ronald Inglehart, and the result is good enough to fool Google
In 2022,AI is good enough to write a paragraph in the style of Ronald Inglehart. This is disruptive, to say the least.
Reviewer #3 is reviewer #2
Sometimes, reviewer 3 turns out to be reviewer 2. But at least it’s unintentionally funny.
Working paper: the east-west divide in support for Alternative for Germany & the Left in 2021
Here is a new working paper about the disproportionate success of the AfD and the Left in Germany’s eastern states
Educated trolls
Is it proper trolling when the troll in question calls me Professor Dr and does not even threaten my physical safety? You be the judge
The singularity is not what I expected it to be
Opening an article on the site of a Springer journal, I was presented with this. Enough already, AI. Bloody machines, stop reading my mind.
I’m no longer a urologist
I’m happy to report that my sojourn in pay-to-play urology is over. I’m reverting to my old ways and will publish more dodgy stuff in archaeology and anthropology. Why do they have an IF? Must be all self-cites
I’m a urologist now
The marginal cost of spamming people is effectively zero, but fake editors have a better chance to get past the filters than Nigerian princes or Russian beauties.
A reading list: populism, euroscepticism & foreign policy attitudes
Here is the new reading list on populist, eurosceptic and foreign policy attitudes for my MA seminar