Assistant Professor in Social Data Science at Durham U · Project Manager at V-Dem · Previously at LSE Methodology and U of Gothenburg · CEU PhDhttps://bsky.app/profile/medzihorsky.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/medzihorsky.bsky.social/post/3mx2chroftk2lShopping for clothes be like [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Oct 2026 11:31 +0000at://did:plc:e4zmgx4h2lfistppwfeabtbl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mx2chroftk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/medzihorsky.bsky.social/post/3mx26fuzft22l04 Oct 2026 10:18 +0000at://did:plc:e4zmgx4h2lfistppwfeabtbl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mx26fuzft22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/medzihorsky.bsky.social/post/3mwy7qot3cc2pAutumn on Mount Sitno (1928) by Edmund Gwerk (1895-1956). Oil on canvas, 100cm x 75cm. https://www.webumenia.sk/dielo/SVK%3ASGB.O_136603 Oct 2026 15:37 +0000at://did:plc:e4zmgx4h2lfistppwfeabtbl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwy7qot3cc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/medzihorsky.bsky.social/post/3litu6bakz22rIn the former East Germany, men in their 20s heavily outnumber women of their age, points out @steffenmau.bsky.social in an interview* on today's elections. Brought back to mind this map of male/female surplus across NUTS 2 regions in the EU + Norway and Iceland. * https://dennikn.sk/4479163/vychod-a-zapad-europy-zostanu-odlisne-musime-si-na-to-zvyknut-hovori-nemecky-sociolog23 Feb 2025 12:40 +0000at://did:plc:e4zmgx4h2lfistppwfeabtbl/app.bsky.feed.post/3litu6bakz22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/medzihorsky.bsky.social/post/3mwxn6rwtcc2wThe Claude they mean | The Claude I think of03 Oct 2026 10:05 +0000at://did:plc:e4zmgx4h2lfistppwfeabtbl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwxn6rwtcc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/medzihorsky.bsky.social/post/3mwvjjkrhq22g🎙️⚽📻 A century ago, Europe's first live football broadcast took place on Sunday, 3 October 1926. The Czechoslovak radio service beat the BBC to it by three months. The game was a friendly Slavia Praha 🇨🇿 - MTK Budapest 🇭🇺 2:1 https://english.radio.cz/legendary-sports-journalist-josef-laufer-first-report-live-radio-born-130-years-871466002 Oct 2026 13:54 +0000at://did:plc:e4zmgx4h2lfistppwfeabtbl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwvjjkrhq22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/medzihorsky.bsky.social/post/3mwtapjo2ic22Smer and Republika make another step closer to each other: Smer MEP Ms Laššáková steps down as their candidate for the Prešov governor, making Republika's MEP Mr Mazurek the de facto candidate of the government coalition, even though Republika has no MPs and cannot be its part. https://www.aktuality.sk/clanok/ET3v4mR/lassakova-nebude-kandidovat-za-zupanku-celila-ostrej-kritike-republiky/01 Oct 2026 16:11 +0000at://did:plc:e4zmgx4h2lfistppwfeabtbl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwtapjo2ic22https://bsky.app/profile/medzihorsky.bsky.social/post/3mwt7czstzk22Mr Musk's favorite Slovakian party Republika (ESN) with a bit of a 🎷 pattern in the polls. Since the '23 elections, the range has increased in steps. In the past few months it reaches from 8% (Aug Infostat, quota F2F) to 16% (Sept NMS, online panel). Latest AKO (phone and online mix) has it at 10%.01 Oct 2026 15:46 +0000at://did:plc:e4zmgx4h2lfistppwfeabtbl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwt7czstzk22https://bsky.app/profile/medzihorsky.bsky.social/post/3mwsfuweqak2wIn the EU, there are now far fewer young "Eastern" and Southern Europeans available to migrate than there were in the 2000s. Old news, yet apparently permanently new in the way of paint on ancient Greek statues and feathers on dinosaurs. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Oct 2026 08:11 +0000at://did:plc:e4zmgx4h2lfistppwfeabtbl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwsfuweqak2whttps://bsky.app/profile/medzihorsky.bsky.social/post/3mihgdkbtsk2dWith apologies to Karel Čapek.01 Apr 2026 19:27 +0000at://did:plc:e4zmgx4h2lfistppwfeabtbl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mihgdkbtsk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/medzihorsky.bsky.social/post/3mwqbyvav3c2mThe “highly speculative” could-be rooms of maybe tomb of possibly Nefertiti. Via https://ancientnow.substack.com/p/the-tomb-behind-tutankhamuns-tomb Orig www.academia.edu/175580520/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Sep 2026 11:56 +0000at://did:plc:e4zmgx4h2lfistppwfeabtbl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwqbyvav3c2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/medzihorsky.bsky.social/post/3mwofuatvqc24Snap elections are back on the table in Slovakia. At least rhetorically. Still, it would be a first for Smer, which has already completed three full terms in government (2006-2010, 2012-2016, 2016-2020). The opposite of the coalitions led by EPP members, 2002-2006, 2010-2012, 2020-2023. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Sep 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:e4zmgx4h2lfistppwfeabtbl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwofuatvqc24https://bsky.app/profile/medzihorsky.bsky.social/post/3mwnu7unxu22729 Sep 2026 12:44 +0000at://did:plc:e4zmgx4h2lfistppwfeabtbl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwnu7unxu227https://bsky.app/profile/medzihorsky.bsky.social/post/3mwneqvnhj22wOn this day in 1947: "Summer Landscape" by Max Schurmann (1890-1960). Dated 29.IX 1947. https://www.webumenia.sk/dielo/SVK:SNG.K_714229 Sep 2026 08:07 +0000at://did:plc:e4zmgx4h2lfistppwfeabtbl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwneqvnhj22whttps://bsky.app/profile/medzihorsky.bsky.social/post/3mwlpye23fk2eAldi and Lidl, Germany's and the EU's low-key soft power tools. [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Sep 2026 16:23 +0000at://did:plc:e4zmgx4h2lfistppwfeabtbl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwlpye23fk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/medzihorsky.bsky.social/post/3mwl56pn4j22u“Lush green and warm brown was our world. And then it began to turn pink, bruised or bright, in the 1850s.” Sort of, if not quite.28 Sep 2026 10:47 +0000at://did:plc:e4zmgx4h2lfistppwfeabtbl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwl56pn4j22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/medzihorsky.bsky.social/post/3mwigghx7ls2c“poultry” [1980s] by Ľubo Stacho (b. 1953) https://maps.app.goo.gl/vHg4txNJT7cNXUxe727 Sep 2026 08:54 +0000at://did:plc:e4zmgx4h2lfistppwfeabtbl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwigghx7ls2chttps://bsky.app/profile/medzihorsky.bsky.social/post/3muyx3om7gc2b08 Sep 2026 11:44 +0000at://did:plc:e4zmgx4h2lfistppwfeabtbl/app.bsky.feed.post/3muyx3om7gc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/medzihorsky.bsky.social/post/3mwfqmbt5h222Four 2009 paintings (autoportraits) from the Lebensraum series by Marcel Mališ (b. 1978) Oil on canvas, approx. 90 cm x 62 cm HxW each. More pieces from the series, which Mališ began in 2009: www.marcelmalis.com/works26 Sep 2026 07:18 +0000at://did:plc:e4zmgx4h2lfistppwfeabtbl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwfqmbt5h222https://bsky.app/profile/medzihorsky.bsky.social/post/3mwefbqg3z22iType I Embarrassment: Greeting a complete stranger Type II Embarrassment: Not greeting someone you know Greeting etiquette when nearsighted and astigmatic25 Sep 2026 18:23 +0000at://did:plc:e4zmgx4h2lfistppwfeabtbl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwefbqg3z22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/medzihorsky.bsky.social/post/3mvvdeltsak2bAGI will be achieved in much the same way the Soviet Bloc arrived at Real Socialism: “We've been trying hard for long enough so surely this must be it.”19 Sep 2026 18:39 +0000at://did:plc:e4zmgx4h2lfistppwfeabtbl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvvdeltsak2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/medzihorsky.bsky.social/post/3mvf6vkolic2u"Studying anti-Roma attacks in Hungary, Simonovits et al. find that [the far right] Jobbik gained 11-14 percentage points more support in attacked villages, with effects persisting and spreading to nearby areas" [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Sep 2026 08:36 +0000at://did:plc:e4zmgx4h2lfistppwfeabtbl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvf6vkolic2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/medzihorsky.bsky.social/post/3mvzd6rqock2eA *fixed* effect. Another example of Slovakia's unusual population registration system at work, making its demographic stats challenging to compare, I'm guessing.21 Sep 2026 08:46 +0000at://did:plc:e4zmgx4h2lfistppwfeabtbl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvzd6rqock2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/medzihorsky.bsky.social/post/3mvx6nmlub22oLaci (2016) by Tomáš Cetera (b. 1983) Plastic plate, H 18.8 cm W 18.8 cm D 0.4 cm https://www.webumenia.sk/dielo/SVK%3AGUS.IM_257220 Sep 2026 12:20 +0000at://did:plc:e4zmgx4h2lfistppwfeabtbl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvx6nmlub22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/medzihorsky.bsky.social/post/3mvvdeltsak2bAGI will be achieved in much the same way the Soviet Bloc arrived at Real Socialism: “We've been trying hard for long enough so surely this must be it.”19 Sep 2026 18:39 +0000at://did:plc:e4zmgx4h2lfistppwfeabtbl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvvdeltsak2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/medzihorsky.bsky.social/post/3mvutqccdtc2b20 years ago, the riots and protests of the fall of '06 heralded Hungary's post-2010 turn away from liberal democracy. The first came on Mon 18 Sept 2006, when far-right rioters sacked the public broadcaster's HQ, emboldened by the Socialist PM Gyurcsány's leaked party speech.19 Sep 2026 13:59 +0000at://did:plc:e4zmgx4h2lfistppwfeabtbl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvutqccdtc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/medzihorsky.bsky.social/post/3mvuommgolk2219 Sep 2026 12:27 +0000at://did:plc:e4zmgx4h2lfistppwfeabtbl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvuommgolk22https://bsky.app/profile/medzihorsky.bsky.social/post/3mvrvyqhrls2cŽilina's Hotel Slovakia made it to the list. The contemporary photo doesn't quite convey of what this bit of Late East Modern was like when it opened. Luckily, Webumenia has many photos and blueprints of just that. The user reviews [3.1] and photos on Google Maps give an idea of its current state. [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Sep 2026 10:01 +0000at://did:plc:e4zmgx4h2lfistppwfeabtbl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvrvyqhrls2chttps://bsky.app/profile/medzihorsky.bsky.social/post/3mvq7xefbec2eThe EP adopts a resolution on democracy and human rights in a non-EU state, with a single 👎 vote? Easy to guess whose that 👎 is: Slovakia's Dr Blaha of SMER (NI). The world's regimes may be a large and diverse group. Yet, among non-democracies, only a select few can draw Dr Blaha's criticism.17 Sep 2026 17:54 +0000at://did:plc:e4zmgx4h2lfistppwfeabtbl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvq7xefbec2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/medzihorsky.bsky.social/post/3mvpkoodsvs27And yet, Canada doesn't have this one thing in common with Europe. While the US does. Lidl, that is.17 Sep 2026 11:34 +0000at://did:plc:e4zmgx4h2lfistppwfeabtbl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvpkoodsvs27