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Daniele Florean
@daniflorean.bsky.social
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He/Him - Researcher @Goethe University Frankfurt.
Bike mechanic @BLF Bamberg
DF5TB on the air

https://drflorean.github.io/florean/

Interests: Gender inequalities, demography, (pro) cycling, black metal, mobility activism, ham radio, disaster relief
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Daniele Florean @daniflorean.bsky.social · Dec 2
In personal and professional news, i have a personal website! You can visit it here (drflorean.github.io/florean/), the same link you find in my bio.

It is still under developement in some sections, but I have great plans for it. Especially now that I am starting to look for a job.
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laurenleek.eu
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
cannot begin to tell you how happy I am to have stumbled upon the Paris building shared by metal music fans and the union for metal workers, what a delight
December 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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bjpols.bsky.social
From October 2025 -

Green Party Entry and Conservative Backlash: Evidence from Germany - cup.org/48uxlNy

"research suggests that radical right party success can provoke electoral backlash"

- Tom Arend, @fabioellger.bsky.social & @antvalentim.bsky.social

#OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract discussing how radical right party success influences voter behavior and party systems in established democracies, mentioning negative reactions and the role of the Greens' party.
December 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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shaunvids.bsky.social
racists roll their eyes at this, they're not happy with any message short of 'send them all back' & they don't trust labour trying to pander to them. people who aren't racist recognise this as divisive patronising nonsense. labour's approval rating is 12% and i'm surprised it is that high
jonkingh.bsky.social Jonathan Kingham @jonkingh.bsky.social · 2d
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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brandonfriedman.bsky.social
Laws aren't real. They exist solely on account of buy-in from society's participants. Once one side disengages, you no longer reside in a society based on laws. You live in a society based on power and armed force. I am begging folks to accept this so we can get moving.
brendannyhan.bsky.social Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3d
Just legal Calvinball. Obviously lawless.
December 6, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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chanda.blacksky.app
This kind of dataset is a clear indicator that propaganda plays a big role in people's political positions and acting like people are unshiftable is just completely detached from reality
conradhackett.bsky.social Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 15d
Republicans increasingly oppose requiring healthy kids to get MMR vaccines to attend public schools
2016 19%
2019 20%
2023 42%
2025 47%
www.pewresearch.org/science/2025... 🧪
Chart showing that since 2016, a vast majority of U.S. adults have said healthy children should be required to get the vaccine to attend public school because of the potential risks for others when children are not vaccinated. But support for school MMR requirements dropped from 82% in 2019 to 69% in 2025. This decline is largely because of a steep slide in support among Republicans. In 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic, 79% of Republicans said healthy children should be required to get the MMR vaccine to attend school. This share sunk to 57% in 2023, then to 52% in 2025. In contrast, Democrats’ views on school MMR requirements have remained stable, with solid majority support.
December 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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bildoperationen.bsky.social
Es ging nie um die Hochschulen, nie um Wissenschaft, nie um die Freiheit von Forschung und Lehre. Es ging immer schon darum, mit rechtem Kulturkampf Stimmung zu machen, die immer gleichen reaktionären Diskursmuster endlos zu recyclen, mit den immer gleichen Anekdoten Clicks zu generieren
johannesfranzen.bsky.social Johannes Franzen @johannesfranzen.bsky.social · 4d
8000 Artikel über zu viel "Wokeness" an den deutschen Unis; vornehmes Schweigen dazu, dass diese Unis gerade im Rahmen einer harten Austeritätspolitik abgewickelt werden.
December 5, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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johannesfranzen.bsky.social
8000 Artikel über zu viel "Wokeness" an den deutschen Unis; vornehmes Schweigen dazu, dass diese Unis gerade im Rahmen einer harten Austeritätspolitik abgewickelt werden.
December 5, 2025 at 8:31 AM
daniflorean.bsky.social
cloudflare down and apparently 80% of the academic publishers I need to get papers from are inaccessible 😑
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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fuhsejan.bsky.social
An der Uni Leipzig werden nach meinen Infos in 2026 keine (!) Mittelbau-Stellen verlängert oder neu besetzt.
Das hängt natürlich auch an der Landesregierung.
Im letzten Newsletter für Mitarbeitende bekam ich eine Einladung zur Diskussion über Perspektiven für Early Career Researchers ...
Einladung zur Fishbowl-Diskussion mit dem Rektorat über die neue Forschungsakademie und "Perspektiven für Early Career Researchers an der Universität Leipzig"
November 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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johannesfranzen.bsky.social
Nicht mehr verlängert, würde doch bedeuten, dass ein größerer Teil des befristeten Mittelbaus entlassen wird?
fuhsejan.bsky.social Jan Fuhse @fuhsejan.bsky.social · 12d
An der Uni Leipzig werden nach meinen Infos in 2026 keine (!) Mittelbau-Stellen verlängert oder neu besetzt.
Das hängt natürlich auch an der Landesregierung.
Im letzten Newsletter für Mitarbeitende bekam ich eine Einladung zur Diskussion über Perspektiven für Early Career Researchers ...
Einladung zur Fishbowl-Diskussion mit dem Rektorat über die neue Forschungsakademie und "Perspektiven für Early Career Researchers an der Universität Leipzig"
December 5, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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thiliel.bsky.social
Keine Führung eigener Register zur Erfassung von trans* und nichtbinärer Personen vom 14.07.2025. Petition, da geht noch was: epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_...
Petitionen: Verwendung von Cookies nicht aktiviert
epetitionen.bundestag.de
December 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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lauropea.bsky.social
they should pull down the dumb rebuilt stadtschloss and rebuild the palast der republik
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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arissintl.bsky.social
ARISS Ops is anticipating the SSTV Series 30-1 event from satellite RS-38S will start around 00:01 UTC on Friday 05-Dec. (7:01 PM ET Thu 04-Dec).

Event is expected to run until December 13. Details in the graphic.
Alt text for the image:SSTV Series 30 from Satellite RS-38S (International Space Station)Upcoming transmissions of Series 30 images will be from RS-38S on 437.825 MHz in Robot 36 mode.Here’s the latest as of 03-December:Start Date: 05-Dec around 00:01 UTC (04-Dec ~7:01 PM ET) Images: 12 Series-30 images Satellite: RS-38S (NORAD 57189), also known as "VIZARD-meteo" Frequency: 437.825 MHz (+/− Doppler shift) Mode: Robot 36 Timing: 36 seconds on, 2–3 minutes off End Date: 13-Dec around 23:59 UTC (6:59 PM ET) Awards: Certificates will be available via the ariss-usa.org/ARISS_SSTV gallery.Features ARISS logo, Jamboree On The Air October 2025 photo of Frank Culbertson, and ISS 25-year anniversary patch.
December 3, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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arissintl.bsky.social
Ops team also reports that amsat.org/status is tracking this satellite as "VIZARD-meteo Image"

Pass prediction tools can be found at www.amsat.org/pass-predict...
AMSAT OSCAR Satellite Status
amsat.org
December 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.
As a fascist trend, the anti-gender movement supports ever strengthening forms of authoritarianism. Its tactics encourage state powers to intervene in university programs, to censor art and television programming, to forbid trans people their legal rights, to ban LGBTQI people from public spaces, to undermine reproductive freedom and the struggle against violence directed at women, children, and LGBTQI people. It threatens violence against those, including migrants, who have become cast as demonic forces and whose suppression or expulsion promises to restore a national order under duress.
December 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
Why don’t the government act against this? Because their entire philosophy is based on giving our horrific press what they want and siding with powerful, wealthy people to stomp upon troublemakers. Their strategy on culture war matters was always total capitulation and cooperation across the board.
December 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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ulycia.bsky.social
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry

girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
This update includes information you may find upsetting. Please take care when reading. From today, it is with a heavy heart that we announce trans girls will no longer be able to join Girlguiding. This is a decision we would have preferred not to make, and we know that this may be upsetting for members of our community. There will be no immediate changes for current young members, but more information will be shared soon. Most adult roles - including unit helpers, district helpers and administrative support - are already open to all, so we are confident that no volunteers will have to leave the organisation. Girlguiding believes strongly in inclusion, and we will continue to support young people and adults in marginalised groups. Over the next few months, we will explore opportunities to champion this value and actively support young people who need us. We stand in solidarity with trans girls and women.
December 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
It sucks that meeting a new class now involves not just going over the syllabus, setting expectations, and trying to establish a rapport, but also trying to deduce whether any of your new students are vigilante right wing operatives out to seek viral controversy at the expense of your job
jackiantonovich.bsky.social Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 7d
If you are a chair of a department or supervise grad students, it might be important to collaborate with your colleagues on ways to strategize when a "problem essay" comes down the pike. It's one small way of protecting each other.
December 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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hahauenstein.bsky.social
For two years officials and media in Germany dismissed Gaza’s death toll as propaganda. Now the Max Planck Institute released estimates that point to the same patterns seen in past genocides. Latest on my Substack
hannohauenstein.substack.com/p/gaza-genoc...
Germany’s Top Research Institute Confirms What Critics Said All Along About Gaza
For two years officials in Germany dismissed Gaza’s death toll as propaganda. Now the Max Planck Institute released estimates that make such denial impossible – and echo the patterns of past genocides
hannohauenstein.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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harrywallop.co.uk
Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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okwonga.bsky.social
The reasoning is bleak but simple - it is easier to rebuild after flooding in a welcoming community than after the onset of fascism in an unwelcoming one.
garethwatkins.bsky.social Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 8d
This is immensely bleak. They're generally going to be 'remigrating' to places that will be ravaged by climate change caused by the people that fleeing from.
December 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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mbonsma.bsky.social
This explains something that has always mystified me about drivers who rail against bike lanes and transit. Why WOULDN'T you want people to have options not to drive? It would make your own driving better! But they don't just want good traffic, they want to reinforce the NORM of driving
bmhughes.bsky.social Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 8d
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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nadiazaboura.bsky.social
Die staatlich organisierte Gewalt, die jetzt auf zumeist friedliche Menschen niedergeht, die von ihrem grundgesetzlich verbrieften Demonstrationsrecht Gebrauch machen, ist dann auch die exakt gleiche Gewalt, die seit über zwei Jahren gegen die Menschen in Gaza-Demos angewendet wird.

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November 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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floralashes.bsky.social
Most tech companies are loss-making machines, and get funded on the promise of growth rather than profits.
karoline.bsky.social Karoline @karoline.bsky.social · 9d
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM