Heinz Brandenburg
@heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social
Political scientist, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
VAR is going fully "Where's Wally".
November 29, 2025 at 10:09 AM
VAR is going fully "Where's Wally".
A German Team is live on the BBC iPlayer in a few minutes. Just so you know.
Against one of those Red Bull creatures.
Against one of those Red Bull creatures.
November 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
A German Team is live on the BBC iPlayer in a few minutes. Just so you know.
Against one of those Red Bull creatures.
Against one of those Red Bull creatures.
Not sure what the standard here is, but I am quite certain the Scottish Premier League is sub that, too.
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/sport/256585...
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/sport/256585...
November 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Not sure what the standard here is, but I am quite certain the Scottish Premier League is sub that, too.
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/sport/256585...
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/sport/256585...
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Ideas to devalue your £2m home:
Install an outdoors glass cubicle toilet on your front drive and make sure you use it regularly. Keep eye contact with anyone who sees you using it.
Install an outdoors glass cubicle toilet on your front drive and make sure you use it regularly. Keep eye contact with anyone who sees you using it.
November 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Ideas to devalue your £2m home:
Install an outdoors glass cubicle toilet on your front drive and make sure you use it regularly. Keep eye contact with anyone who sees you using it.
Install an outdoors glass cubicle toilet on your front drive and make sure you use it regularly. Keep eye contact with anyone who sees you using it.
This is a generally good read about a genuinely and enjoyably weird character in the history of philosophy.
It also contains a great take-down of the genre "literary and intellectual biography, a form beloved of the British", and of its audiences.
It also contains a great take-down of the genre "literary and intellectual biography, a form beloved of the British", and of its audiences.
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This is a generally good read about a genuinely and enjoyably weird character in the history of philosophy.
It also contains a great take-down of the genre "literary and intellectual biography, a form beloved of the British", and of its audiences.
It also contains a great take-down of the genre "literary and intellectual biography, a form beloved of the British", and of its audiences.
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Anyone angry about their income taxes rising due to frozen thresholds, can recommend a career in academia
November 27, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Anyone angry about their income taxes rising due to frozen thresholds, can recommend a career in academia
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This hex-map breaks down the share of 15-24 year-olds in Germany and the regional contrast is hard to miss.
Eastern Germany shows much lower shares except for larger cities, while many western and southern areas have noticeably more young people.
#30DayMapChallenge Day 25: Hexagons #ggplot2
Eastern Germany shows much lower shares except for larger cities, while many western and southern areas have noticeably more young people.
#30DayMapChallenge Day 25: Hexagons #ggplot2
November 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This hex-map breaks down the share of 15-24 year-olds in Germany and the regional contrast is hard to miss.
Eastern Germany shows much lower shares except for larger cities, while many western and southern areas have noticeably more young people.
#30DayMapChallenge Day 25: Hexagons #ggplot2
Eastern Germany shows much lower shares except for larger cities, while many western and southern areas have noticeably more young people.
#30DayMapChallenge Day 25: Hexagons #ggplot2
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I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Precisely the same. Everything aside from 9, 13 and 20. Also for very much then same reasons.
November 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Precisely the same. Everything aside from 9, 13 and 20. Also for very much then same reasons.
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Typically entertaining piece with a review of the research set out here: bsky.app/profile/turn...
Latest piece for the @thehousemag.bsky.social, on the island of strangers speech and similar. Also ft Bob Hawke.
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
The Professor Will See You Now: Island of strangers
Lessons in political science. This week: island of strangers
www.politicshome.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Typically entertaining piece with a review of the research set out here: bsky.app/profile/turn...
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I hope I never forget the revolting feeling of standing at the front of a classroom, warning students that they should carry evidence of immigration status or citizenship, and helping them understand how to respond if federal agents try to kidnap them or their friends off the street.
#ICE
#ICE
November 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I hope I never forget the revolting feeling of standing at the front of a classroom, warning students that they should carry evidence of immigration status or citizenship, and helping them understand how to respond if federal agents try to kidnap them or their friends off the street.
#ICE
#ICE
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Voting in Denmark is difficult, as it requires you to fold these gigantic ballot papers (up to nearly 1 meter long) and somehow stuff them into the ballot box
www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...
www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...
November 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Voting in Denmark is difficult, as it requires you to fold these gigantic ballot papers (up to nearly 1 meter long) and somehow stuff them into the ballot box
www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...
www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...
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For those who didn’t catch it:🚨 We’ve released 3 additional panel waves via @GESIS, bringing the total to 71 waves of survey data. Spanning Sep 2012–May 2024, the GIP dataset is fully accessible for researchers studying trends, attitudes, and social changes over more than a decade.
November 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
For those who didn’t catch it:🚨 We’ve released 3 additional panel waves via @GESIS, bringing the total to 71 waves of survey data. Spanning Sep 2012–May 2024, the GIP dataset is fully accessible for researchers studying trends, attitudes, and social changes over more than a decade.
Con-Lab tribalism 2025: "you can come for a drink but I won't let you use the bathroom."
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
November 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Con-Lab tribalism 2025: "you can come for a drink but I won't let you use the bathroom."
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
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Thought the plan was to smash the smuggling gangs not emulate them.
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Thought the plan was to smash the smuggling gangs not emulate them.
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Empires will come and go, mountains will become dust, great cities will rise from ruins… but British voters will always want Scandinavian public services for American tax rates.
Hiking tax is much more than merely the breach of a manifesto commitment. It is the death of the idea at the heart of Starmer’s project: that Labour would leave its comfort zone and govern by reform and growth, not tax and spend.
economist.com/britain/2025...
economist.com/britain/2025...
November 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Empires will come and go, mountains will become dust, great cities will rise from ruins… but British voters will always want Scandinavian public services for American tax rates.
This is someone who the BBC labels an academic when inviting him onto their programmes.
November 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This is someone who the BBC labels an academic when inviting him onto their programmes.
First Glühwein of the season.
It's not all bad.
It's not all bad.
November 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
First Glühwein of the season.
It's not all bad.
It's not all bad.
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Disabled children are having to wait for nearly four months to receive benefit payments due to government delays, with hardly any applications being processed on time according to the latest figures.
By me, for the Big Issue: www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
By me, for the Big Issue: www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
Disabled children left waiting months for benefits due to DWP delays
Single mother Maryam had to wait three months to get child disability allowance for her seven-year-old daughter, who has kidney cancer.
www.bigissue.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Disabled children are having to wait for nearly four months to receive benefit payments due to government delays, with hardly any applications being processed on time according to the latest figures.
By me, for the Big Issue: www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
By me, for the Big Issue: www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
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Wikipedia says Shaheen is an academic. BBCQT implies you can’t trust what she says b/c she’s an ‘activist’. Someone who Wikipedia calls ‘a former academic’ who now campaigns for Reform & wants to be its first Home Secretary is an ‘academic & author’ who you can trust. Maybe they use Grokipedia now.
October 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Wikipedia says Shaheen is an academic. BBCQT implies you can’t trust what she says b/c she’s an ‘activist’. Someone who Wikipedia calls ‘a former academic’ who now campaigns for Reform & wants to be its first Home Secretary is an ‘academic & author’ who you can trust. Maybe they use Grokipedia now.
Imagine being the most despised party in the country and winning a stonking majority with only just over a quarter of the vote.
There is only one ingenious electoral system that could make that happen.
There is only one ingenious electoral system that could make that happen.
October 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Imagine being the most despised party in the country and winning a stonking majority with only just over a quarter of the vote.
There is only one ingenious electoral system that could make that happen.
There is only one ingenious electoral system that could make that happen.
My first (forced) foray onto Instragram.
And somehow I look like I have blond highlights in my hair, which I don't. Grey patches, more likely.
Also, yes, do come and study Political Communication with us at @strathpolir.bsky.social
www.instagram.com/strathclydeh...
And somehow I look like I have blond highlights in my hair, which I don't. Grey patches, more likely.
Also, yes, do come and study Political Communication with us at @strathpolir.bsky.social
www.instagram.com/strathclydeh...
Strathclyde HaSS on Instagram: "New course Jan 2026 📣 MSc Politcal Communications and Media🗣️
Hear from programme leader Heinz, who tells us more details about the course and its key focus!
#media ...
strathclydehass on October 16, 2025: "New course Jan 2026 📣 MSc Politcal Communications and Media🗣️
Hear from programme leader Heinz, who tells us more details about the course and its key focus!
#...
www.instagram.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
My first (forced) foray onto Instragram.
And somehow I look like I have blond highlights in my hair, which I don't. Grey patches, more likely.
Also, yes, do come and study Political Communication with us at @strathpolir.bsky.social
www.instagram.com/strathclydeh...
And somehow I look like I have blond highlights in my hair, which I don't. Grey patches, more likely.
Also, yes, do come and study Political Communication with us at @strathpolir.bsky.social
www.instagram.com/strathclydeh...
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Napoleon’s assault and retreat is immortalized in the greatest data visualization of all time (h/t Edward Tufte). Minard’s map shows the march on Moscow in brown, and the retreat in black. The width of these lines is the size of the army. They were already decimated before they reached Moscow.
October 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Napoleon’s assault and retreat is immortalized in the greatest data visualization of all time (h/t Edward Tufte). Minard’s map shows the march on Moscow in brown, and the retreat in black. The width of these lines is the size of the army. They were already decimated before they reached Moscow.
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"Within a seminar series, women are interrupted more than men... Interruptions that are negative in tenor or tone, or cutoff the presenter mid-sentence, increase for women presenters"
Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender Differences in Economics Seminars" by Pascaline Dupas, Amy Handlan, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Mateo Seré, Haoyu Sheng, Justin Wolfers, and Seminar Dynamics Collective. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Gender Differences in Economics Seminars
(Forthcoming Article) - We assess whether men and women are treated differently when presenting their economics research. We collected data across thousands of seminars, job market talks and conferenc...
www.aeaweb.org
October 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
"Within a seminar series, women are interrupted more than men... Interruptions that are negative in tenor or tone, or cutoff the presenter mid-sentence, increase for women presenters"
Dispiriting stuff.
But also enjoyable read. 89-year old with strong energy, opinions and language.
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...
But also enjoyable read. 89-year old with strong energy, opinions and language.
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...
October 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Dispiriting stuff.
But also enjoyable read. 89-year old with strong energy, opinions and language.
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...
But also enjoyable read. 89-year old with strong energy, opinions and language.
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...