X is the megaphone of 21st century fascism and authoritariansim. It has poisoned public debate. It is a tool for bullying, abuse, and assault. X needs to disappear from our discourse. When people and institutions post there, it gives X credibility. It keeps it relevant. It's time to stop.

From November 2025 - Regional Labor Markets, Residential Mobility, and Anti-Immigration Sentiment - https://cup.org/3XiB6yD - @denis-cohen.bsky.social & @sergipardos.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Interessante Ausschreibung: Leitung des Forschungsbereichs „Migration und Mobilität“ am Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung (mit W2-Option an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M.). Bewerbungsfrist: 18.02.26. @dgsoziologie.bsky.social

CRIS @sciencespo.bsky.social @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social is hiring! Recruiting postdoc to join the research team led by Prof. Mirna Safi @msafi.bsky.social on the ERC project “The Discrimination-Inequality Cycle (DISEQUAL)." Deadline 8 February 2026. Apply, share! www.sciencespo.fr/cris/files/J...

Best experimental sociology paper you've read in the last five years?

Postdoc position in CSS/Sociology at @unidue.bsky.social: www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste... EG 13 TV-L for three years Please apply before Feb 5th 2026 Research cluster Anja Weiß, Institute for Sociology, University of Duisburg-Essen #computationalsocialscience

The datasets from our @protestinstitut.bsky.social project ‘20 years of protest survey data’ are finally online for scientific re-use. We processed 30+ datasets, covering protests on peace, climate, trade, migration, equality & more. Now available @gesis.org 👇 search.gesis.org?source=%7B%2...

My first working paper is now live! Can minority role models help diversify the bureaucracy of the future?

🥳 New year, new publication 📑"Contested memories: the political effects of de-commemoration proposals" @jeppjournal.bsky.social With Francesco Colombo, we study a street renaming proposal in Berlin and find -contrary to conventional wisdom- no political backlash, but a positive feedback effect.

New research in International Migration Review: US visitor visa rejection rates are more than double for applicants from Africa compared to Europe. And this disparity isn't explained by economics, demographics, or even visa overstay rates. 🧵

👩‍💻 Catch up on our last #CPCCGWebinar of 2025 @jpheisig.bsky.social from @wzb.bsky.social joined us last week to discuss evidence from a large nationwide field experiment to assess #discrimination in accessing #healthcare in #Germany. Grab a coffee and take a look ⤵️ @populationeu.bsky.social

Call for Proposals: Schwerpunktthema „#Immigration und Einstellungen gegenüber ethnischen und religiösen #Minderheiten“ im #ALLBUS 2027 Der ALLBUS 2027 ist als selbstadministrierte Mixed-Mode-Erhebung (schriftlich-postalisch/online) geplant. Die Befragungsdauer beträgt insgesamt ca. 45 Minuten.

Giving what we can has implemented a fun game where you spin a globe to see how your starting point in life would compare if you were reborn today, randomly somewhere on earth. www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery

🎄 Still looking for a gift for your favourite social scientist? How about a #preprint with 717 urban areas, 30 countries, and 16,164 models of #Immigrant #Segregation across Europe? Just published with @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social & David Kretschmer 🎅 🎁 Wrapped up here: arxiv.org/abs/2512.17037

“Who Partners With Whom in Diverse Societies?”: @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social & @frankvantubergen.bsky.social use NL register data & find “Muslim groups maintain boundaries for union formation to other national origin groups." @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social @rug.nl read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

⁉️What do people read into names? ⁉️ ✨New publication in Nature’s Scientific Data ✨ When people see an ethnic minority-sounding name, do they infer race, religion, gender, or social background? 🤓First @equalstrength.bsky.social publication 😅 Check it out here: 🧵

Interessantes Messinstrument zur Erfassung von #Triggerpunkten jenseits klassischer Surveyitems: "This paper aims to transcend the classical methods used in surveys to measure salience (...) with physiological measures." (OA 🔓) @steffenmau.bsky.social @thomaslux.bsky.social @lwestheuser.bsky.social

Interesting new study by Demmrich, @detlef.bsky.social, Müller and Rosta using an unexpected event during survey design (UESD) to study antisemitic attitudes pre-/post Oct 7. It would be interesting to see an RDD/UESD-style implementation around the cutoff date, but in any case, well worth a read.

🏘️ Does local exposure to refugee housing increase far right voting? ➡️ Using granular Berlin data, J Ferwerda & @riazsascha.bsky.social show refugee housing increased support for the far-right, but the backlash was geographically narrow in scope www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Die AfD scheint ihre Potentiale unter den Wählenden aktuell ausgeschöpft zu haben. Ob dies auch so bleibt hängt, insbesondere von den Regierungsparteien und ihren Signalen nach Rechtsaußen ab. @zeit.de mit einem spannenden Beitrag zum Thema, zu dem ich auch einige Einschätzungen beisteuern durfte.

Please share this paper if you're interested in criminal justice research, disparities research, &/or causal inference methods! We hope it will help to settle many methodological arguments and maybe - one day - lead to a fairer criminal justice system. 🧵 10/10 publicera.kb.se/ejels/articl...

📣 Job alert! 📣 For my Emmy Noether group on local digital public spheres, I'm hiring 3 predoc research associates who are interested in doing qualitative/mixed-methods research on local communication environments. Apply until 02 Jan 2026! www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/news/deta...

💫 I need your input! What’s your favorite piece of data journalism? Share it with me in the replies or via DM! Doesn't have to be English, just freely accessible.

🚨📆🤓 One more week to apply for our Data4Good Festival @hertieschool.bsky.social! Now in its third year, we’re bringing a fresh set of datasets for this round’s hackathon challenge. If you teach undergrads who might want to join us in Berlin in January, please help us spread the word.

NEW PREPRINT by CREST Sociology's Julia Nicolas: "Language Barriers and Healthcare Uptake. Causal Evidence From Immigrants in France" AVAILABLE at @socarxiv.bsky.social: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Noch eine Woche bis zum Bewerbungsschluss 🕚 Spannende Stelle im wiss. Stab des @svrmigration.bsky.social in einem Pilotprojekt zu einer sozialwissenschaftlichen Panelbefragung von Kommunen. 📅 Frist: 8. Dezember 2025

This is amazing!

#rstats It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week. He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly. www.john-fox.ca

New meta-analysis by @swebera.bsky.social, Nik Stoop, Peter van der Windt & Haoyu Zhai on attitudes toward migrants and displaced persons (based on 118 survey experiments with ~423k respondents). Saw the pre-print a while ago – great to see it in print 🔓

Neue @dezim-institut.de -Studie zu antisemitischen Einstellungen: Untersucht werden Menschen mit und ohne Migrationshintergrund. Das mehrdimensionale Messinstrument erlaubt differenzierte Einblicke nach Herkunftsgruppen – wichtig für Debatten jenseits von Pauschalisierungen.

Full reference: Yulia Evsyukova, Felix Rusche, Wladislaw Mill, "LinkedOut? A Field Experiment on Discrimination in Job Network Formation", The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 140, Issue 1, February 2025, Pages 283–334, doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

It's quite absurd that there is no funding to keep ParlGov updated: this is essential data infrastructure for political science! No funder is interested in keeping the data backbone of comparative politics alive, while millions get spent on all kinds of BS. Ridiculous!

Why did I visit the Facebook pages of 5500 German grocery stores on a grey lockdown day ca. 2021? You can now find out in AJS. Our work on ethnoreligious infrastructures is finally online in the ominous Volume 0: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

📣 We're hiring a postdoc in political science for our ReJust project @uni-konstanz.de! Project with Dirk Leuffen @leuffen.bsky.social and Urs Fischbacher 3-year position | Deadline: Dec. 15, 2025 | Start: April 2026 Please share widely 🙏

🚨 Applications Now Open for the EUI PhD Programmes 2026-2027! 📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort! Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd #EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity

Fascinating new study (🔓) highlights striking differences in administrative burden—obtaining a visa appointment—across German consulates worldwide. Congrats, @deutschmann.bsky.social, Lorenzo Gabrielli, @alexandra-orlova.bsky.social, @niklas-harder.bsky.social, and Ettore Recchi.

Verlängert bis 20.11. ! Wir freuen uns auf eure Bewerbung!

Now out @apsrjournal.bsky.social with page numbers! 🫒 We advance a new argument on how economic crises fuel support for far-right parties in left-behind places by tapping into long-standing community narratives shorturl.at/bA55v @catherinedevries.bsky.social

Our study on public immigration misperceptions is out! Prior research overstated their prevalence due to flawed measurement. Our new approach separates real misperceptions from uninformed guessing — showing they’re less common than widely assumed and ideologically motivated. doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

People value free and fair elections, and prefer living in a country with free and fair elections but with less desirable outcomes (e.g. low levels of wealth) to living in a country without free and fair elections but with better outcomes journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00104140251392539

Positions in Freiburg, Tuebingen, and Konstanz: academicpositions.com/ad/universit...

🚨New working paper: Compositional Effects, Internal Migration and Electoral Outcomes osf.io/preprints/so... #polisciresearch

The international conference “Integration and #naturalisation of refugees and migrants: agency, bureaucracy and policy change” by the scientific staff of #SVRMigration is taking place. We are looking forward to interesting presentations and debates on #naturalisation processes.

#Zugewanderte #vertrauen der #Bundeswehr mehr als Menschen ohne #Migrationshintergrund. Warum ist das so & welche positiven Effekte könnte die stärkere Einbindung von Deutschen mit Zuwanderungsgeschichte in die Bundeswehr haben? Darüber spricht Dr. Gülzau (@fguelzau.bsky.social) bei WDR5 Politikum👇

Gestern war ich zu Gast bei der WDR5-Sendung Politikum. Thema war der Einbezug von Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund in die #Bundeswehr. Ein Engagement bietet Chancen und besondere Risiken, aber auch hier sollten Repräsentationslücken offen diskutiert werden.

From our latest issue: The Free Movement of People and the Success of Far-Right Parties: Evidence from Switzerland’s Border Liberalization by ALA ALRABABAH, ANDREAS BEERLI, DOMINIK HANGARTNER, DALSTON WARD www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Kulturelle Darstellungen des Holocaust verringern die sog. Holocaust-Müdigkeit und verbessern die Einstellung gegenüber Jüdinnen*Juden und Geflüchteten. Dies zeigt eine neue Studie von @blfirestone.bsky.social (WZB), Ruth Ditlmann & @oguzhanturkoglu.bsky.social (beide @hertieschool.bsky.social). 👇

Great job opportunity for those keen to do *applied* and* impactful* research on the effects of universal basic income at Mein Grundeinkommen e.V. with partners at the @ox.ac.uk, @wuvienna.bsky.social & Frankfurt School of Finance and Management! 👇 mein-grundeinkommen.homerun.co/research-ass...

Tolle Einordnung der Mitte-Studie und deren Ergebnisse durch @kai-arzheimer.com. Solche Formate würde ich mir häufiger wünschen. Schön, dass Raum für so ein aufklärendes Gespräch geschaffen wird. @kathrinkuehn.bsky.social 🙏