Sociology professor interested in quality of life and how to increase it. Believes in data. Goes running when confused. https://www.martin-schroeder.de/https://bsky.app/profile/martinschroeder.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/martinschroeder.bsky.social/post/3ms4k2vyd3k23Die AfD ist erfolgreich, weil sie an weit verbreitete Moralvorstellungen anknüpft. Linke Parteien sollten dies auch tun, wenn sie wieder Wahlen gewinnen wollen. https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2026-07/afd-linke-parteien-waehler-strategie-moralvorstellungen02 Aug 2026 17:46 +0000at://did:plc:wshiyvcfvnjvr4fdcbh7jpjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms4k2vyd3k23https://bsky.app/profile/martinschroeder.bsky.social/post/3mirqqf7gyk2jWhat are they smoking at Microsoft? I temporarily turned off OneDrive and upon turning it on it quietly replaced all my changed local files with outdated online versions — no warning, not even a notification. Microsoft really has become the king of enshittification.05 Apr 2026 22:00 +0000at://did:plc:wshiyvcfvnjvr4fdcbh7jpjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mirqqf7gyk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/martinschroeder.bsky.social/post/3midoenvams2pWhy do women leave academia? It is unrelated to merit. [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Mar 2026 07:40 +0000at://did:plc:wshiyvcfvnjvr4fdcbh7jpjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3midoenvams2phttps://bsky.app/profile/martinschroeder.bsky.social/post/3mffq47ko7k2bhttps://www.zeit.de/2026/09/martin-schroeder-soziologe-welt-verbesserung-armut?freebie=22cfd56d21 Feb 2026 23:01 +0000at://did:plc:wshiyvcfvnjvr4fdcbh7jpjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mffq47ko7k2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/martinschroeder.bsky.social/post/3mbtcq7ligk2sWarum wir wieder mehr Freiheit und weniger Fürsorge brauchen archive.ph/Xyi7E https://archive.ph/Xyi7E07 Jan 2026 10:58 +0000at://did:plc:wshiyvcfvnjvr4fdcbh7jpjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbtcq7ligk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/martinschroeder.bsky.social/post/3m7vnn5aru22sReading the book Abundance. Great book about the main problem that plagues virtually every modern economy: „rules have increased, while efficiency has decreased.“ Suggests an easy solution to increase living standards.13 Dec 2025 22:28 +0000at://did:plc:wshiyvcfvnjvr4fdcbh7jpjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7vnn5aru22shttps://bsky.app/profile/martinschroeder.bsky.social/post/3m3ur4t55ik2xScience as social engineering: @natrevpsychol.nature.com now encourages "citation diversity statements" How about Merton's idea of universalism, that particularistic criteria such as race, nationality, religion should be irrelevant in the pursuit of knowledge? nature.com/articles/s44... https://nature.com/articles/s44..23 Oct 2025 16:17 +0000at://did:plc:wshiyvcfvnjvr4fdcbh7jpjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3ur4t55ik2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/martinschroeder.bsky.social/post/3m3fknd4h6s2yContentious and interesting: is wokeness due to The Great Feminization? https://compactmag.com/article/the-great-feminization/ by Helen Andrews17 Oct 2025 15:11 +0000at://did:plc:wshiyvcfvnjvr4fdcbh7jpjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3fknd4h6s2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/martinschroeder.bsky.social/post/3lycqbtr4rc2qEver wondered how to get a professorship in economics? The answer is here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03075079.2024.240555308 Sep 2025 07:59 +0000at://did:plc:wshiyvcfvnjvr4fdcbh7jpjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lycqbtr4rc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/martinschroeder.bsky.social/post/3lu4n4p464c2aAngestellte können oft nicht fassen, wie hoch die Pensionen von Beamten sind. Ihre Empörung ist nachvollziehbar. https://www.zeit.de/2025/30/pensionsantritt-altersgrenze-beamtenversorgung-ruhestand?freebie=d2c3824c17 Jul 2025 00:05 +0000at://did:plc:wshiyvcfvnjvr4fdcbh7jpjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lu4n4p464c2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/martinschroeder.bsky.social/post/3lu3esf474s2wEver more Europeans feel emotionally attached to the EU, consider it as democratically legitimate as well as producing positive outcomes. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edaf02516 Jul 2025 12:04 +0000at://did:plc:wshiyvcfvnjvr4fdcbh7jpjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lu3esf474s2whttps://bsky.app/profile/martinschroeder.bsky.social/post/3ltkkod3ul22gBluesky bubble: Ich schreibe gerade einen Artikel, weswegen es sinnvoll wäre, dass Beamte bis 70 arbeiten, um die volle Pension von 71,75 % des letzten Bruttolohnes zu beziehen. Welche Gründe dafür oder dagegen fallen euch ein?09 Jul 2025 19:33 +0000at://did:plc:wshiyvcfvnjvr4fdcbh7jpjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltkkod3ul22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/martinschroeder.bsky.social/post/3lp4otnkcjk2ahttps://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien-und-film/fernsehfilm/dokumentation-x-y-z-die-generationenluege-auf-3sat-110473994.html?premium=0x2a2c868c916f8cb654b059365b57faeff155e060628e6c7c3ad465d0c8f22fb314 May 2025 09:30 +0000at://did:plc:wshiyvcfvnjvr4fdcbh7jpjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp4otnkcjk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/martinschroeder.bsky.social/post/3lmwm6i2ous25Wenn Moralspektakel Kompetenz angreift: @dpz.bsky.social bezeichnet @ruudkoopmans.bsky.social Forschung als "problematisch" Ruud Koopmans = 30216-mal zitiert https://scholar.google.de/citations?hl=de&user=17eRF2YAAAAJ Daniel-Pascal Zorn = 374-mal zitiert https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=obaCW60AAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao 🤔16 Apr 2025 12:36 +0000at://did:plc:wshiyvcfvnjvr4fdcbh7jpjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmwm6i2ous25https://bsky.app/profile/martinschroeder.bsky.social/post/3lmffp46aqc2r150 Mrd für Infrastruktur, Steuersenkungen für mittlere/niedrige Einkommen, strengere Regeln Bürgergeld, 2000 Euro steuerfrei für arbeitende Rentner, Wechsel Migrationspolitik, nudging zu attraktiverem Wehrdienst... Ist doch gar nicht mal so schlecht. shorturl.at/k56Rk https://shorturl.at/k56Rk09 Apr 2025 16:25 +0000at://did:plc:wshiyvcfvnjvr4fdcbh7jpjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmffp46aqc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/martinschroeder.bsky.social/post/3lm6ci2w7kk2ySad, but I will not to visit @ces-europe.bsky.social Conference of Europeanists in Philadelphia in 2025. I just don't want to wonder if I will be detained for no reason when I arrive in the US. Hope the US becomes a place again that one can visit without fear.06 Apr 2025 20:39 +0000at://did:plc:wshiyvcfvnjvr4fdcbh7jpjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lm6ci2w7kk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/martinschroeder.bsky.social/post/3lm2zeq2igc2kBarack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social finally speaking up: "Imagine if had done any of this." https://youtu.be/xvriwMCa7rE?si=WqeEFKtAGzEMW2bZ05 Apr 2025 13:18 +0000at://did:plc:wshiyvcfvnjvr4fdcbh7jpjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lm2zeq2igc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/martinschroeder.bsky.social/post/3llbu3xkyw223Grüne übernehmen gruppenbezogene Menschenfeindlichkeit der AfD: Zuerst Menschengruppe pauschal abwerten, daraufhin müssen sich deren einzelne Mitglieder durch ihren "Mehrwert für die Gesellschaft" individuell rehabilitieren. Man ersetze "Männer" durch "Flüchtlinge", schon hat man AfD-Diktion.26 Mar 2025 13:07 +0000at://did:plc:wshiyvcfvnjvr4fdcbh7jpjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3llbu3xkyw223https://bsky.app/profile/martinschroeder.bsky.social/post/3lkkmltdbck2xThis is very worrying... Have humans passed peak brain power? https://www.ft.com/content/a8016c64-63b7-458b-a371-e0e1c54a13fc via @ft17 Mar 2025 07:21 +0000at://did:plc:wshiyvcfvnjvr4fdcbh7jpjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkkmltdbck2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/martinschroeder.bsky.social/post/3lhzybtlrys2cWhy are some academics so much more productive than others? Main determinant of later productivity: early publications. Also: women publish less mainly due to getting less practice early on. https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0317673 in #PLOSONE with @isabelmhabicht.bsky.social and @marklutter345.bsky.social13 Feb 2025 05:45 +0000at://did:plc:wshiyvcfvnjvr4fdcbh7jpjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhzybtlrys2chttps://bsky.app/profile/martinschroeder.bsky.social/post/3lgl2h7ih5c2oWhy do people fear crime? Because politicians stoke this fear, independently of actual crime rates. New research article that uses cross-country ESS data and German SOEP data, with Georg Wenzelburger in West European Politics @wepsocial.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Jan 2025 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:wshiyvcfvnjvr4fdcbh7jpjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgl2h7ih5c2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/martinschroeder.bsky.social/post/3koaxyl6xxn2eEs täte allen gut, wenn die Wissenschaft aufhört, sich derart aktivistisch zu betätigen. Wissenschaftler können zeigen, wie die Welt ist. Sie sollten Menschen aber nicht einreden, was moralisch falsch und moralisch richtig ist. https://www.zeit.de/2024/13/aktivismus-wissenschaft-objektivitaet-forschung-soziologie22 Mar 2024 03:33 +0000at://did:plc:wshiyvcfvnjvr4fdcbh7jpjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3koaxyl6xxn2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/martinschroeder.bsky.social/post/3khi5ihzsiu2cWhile many in the news lament the terrible state of the world, most of what really counts has secretly continued to improve massively. "66 Good News Stories You Didn't Hear About in 2023": futurecrunch.com/goodnews2023/ And also see:26 Dec 2023 22:04 +0000at://did:plc:wshiyvcfvnjvr4fdcbh7jpjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3khi5ihzsiu2chttps://bsky.app/profile/martinschroeder.bsky.social/post/3kfsjhufiyq2v100+ years of historical research on WW I have found their greatest expression so far in this amazing video ;-) https://youtu.be/f4WwNcqrUNI?si=0YISSGL2Uxli0PB905 Dec 2023 14:14 +0000at://did:plc:wshiyvcfvnjvr4fdcbh7jpjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3kfsjhufiyq2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/martinschroeder.bsky.social/post/3ker54wfnny2wGenerationen existieren nicht https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/soziologe-martin-schroeder-generationen-existieren-nicht-dlf-8c6bcff0-100.html22 Nov 2023 07:36 +0000at://did:plc:wshiyvcfvnjvr4fdcbh7jpjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3ker54wfnny2w