it set this one back when everyone was doing it go.bsky.app/3H1Pf9z

🎧 New podcast episode: making use of ODISSEI infrastructure! @drtomemery.bsky.social talks with @kasiakarpinska.bsky.social about how ODISSEI can improve your research and make it easier 💡 ➡️ They also introduce the ODISSEI Early Career Board 🔗 Listen to the podcast episode here: edu.nl/dvdcf

Interested in causal inference with survey data? Join the GESIS Summer School course with @tobiaswolbring.bsky.social and me: training.gesis.org?site=pDetail... @gesistraining.bsky.social

📣 The program of the #GESISsummerschool is out & registration is open! 🗓️ 22 July – 14 Aug 2026 Venue (depending on course): 🏢 GESIS Cologne 💻 Online More info at gesis.org/summerschool. Full program & registration at t1p.de/GSS26-Program.

A highly-recommendable state-of-the-art discussion of computational text analysis for theory building and testing by @mhbodell.bsky.social , @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social , @anamacanovic.bsky.social , and @anmen.bsky.social: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and identify new research partners across academic fields? Apply to one of the 2026 Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (described in yellow in the attached map) here: sicss.io/locations

Introducing the German General Social Survey Personas (GGSSP) – a #persona collection derived from the German General Social Survey (#GGSS #ALLBUS). This data release provides plug-and-play persona descriptions to steer the generations of LLMs towards individual members of the German population.

How far can you get in 60 minutes? European cities offer vastly larger areas reachable by public transit than US cities of comparable population size. Source: lconwell.github.io/lucasconwell...

Der Soziologische Aschermittwoch 2026 zum Thema „Akademische Freiheit" zum Nachsehen: youtu.be/AOZd4tmwrvU?... Mit @cdiehl.bsky.social @naikaforoutan.bsky.social, Markus Ogorek, Uwe Schimank, Richard Traunmüller und @jmwiarda.bsky.social @wisocologne.bsky.social #AdenauerSchoolofGovernment

Here’s a full draft of the upcoming second edition of my “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction”: socviz.co

Now out in the American Sociological Review We present the first large-scale assessment of the structure and evolution of temporalities expressed in U.S. climate change news coverage (2000 to 2021). For this, we analyzed more than 23,000 statements about climate change effects and actions. 🧵 1/

📣 New month, new chances! Discover our latest #GESISworkshops: 📊 Einführung in die quantitative Datenanalyse 💻 Advanced R Programming 🧪 Using Simulation Studies to Evaluate Statistical Methods 🌍 Field Experiments 📐 Anwendung von Modellen der Item-Response-Theorie Find yours ➡️ gesis.org/workshops

⏳ Only 6 days left until registration #GESISsummerschool opens on 2 March! Check out the course overview on our website www.gesis.org/summerschool, pick your favorites, and start planning your summer. 🌞 @gesis.org

Paper on statistical power necessary for interaction effects doi.org/10.1177/2515...

Don't miss your chance to register now! 👉 t1p.de/Intro_Geospa...

Accessible for all here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

📚 Special issue in Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie on Explanation and Causality in Sociology. Essential reading on where causal inference in sociology is heading link.springer.com/collections/...

Joint paper with @floriankeusch.bsky.social out now: We discuss opportunities and challenges of causal inference from digital behavioral data, and methodological approaches for making these data fit for purpose: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New paper on causal machine learning with Nanum Jeon @nanum-jeon.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

While LLMs will try to follow good research practices by default, you can pretty easily convince them to p-hack for you. In one case (out of the 4 tested), the LLM moved the result from p > 0.05 to p < 0.001. github.com/janetmalzahn...

Congrats to my wife Nathalie, Ina Biber, and all colleagues on the nationwide representative LeSuBiA survey on violence victimization in Germany. First results: www.bka.de/SharedDocs/D...

Read our latest special issue in Survey Methodology: ➡️ Advancing Comparative Research: Exploring Error and Quality Indicators in Social Research. Edited by @heinzleitgoeb.bsky.social, Stefanie Kley, Katharina Meitinger & Natalia Menold. surveyinsights.org

My colleague Kevin Munger asked me and a bunch of editors to sit and think through AI and peer review. Our take: osf.io/9sxnc/files/... We envision an increased (!) involvement of humans in the evaluation of social science.

Stellen frei! Derzeit suchen wir mehrere neue Mitarbeitende in verschiedenen Bereichen des infas Instituts, zum Beispiel in der Fragebogenprogrammierung, der Datenpflege- und Rücklaufverarbeitung sowie für Interviewerschulungen (Werkstudentenstelle). Neugierig? www.infas.de/karriere/

For us, this journey toward explaining *surprising macro outcomes* took many years. Grateful to my amazing co-authors, @martinarvidsson.bsky.social and Peter Hedström, and to all the reviewers who supported us along the way 🚀Out now: sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

#DataQuality #DigitalBehavioralData #DBD Special Issue Explores the Quality of Digital Behavioral Data, by Weiß, B., Leitgöb, H., & Wagner, C Most DBD are not generated for research purposes but are a side product of our daily activities. A new special issue addresses key questions:

Happy to report that our study on "Data Donation as a Method to Measure Physical Activity in Older Adults" was just published in JMIR. www.jmir.org/2025/1/e69799 We asked people aged 50+ in the Dutch #LISS panel to donate physical activity (PA) data from their smartphones. We found that...

❗️📢 Tue, Oct 7, 10:00-11:00 CET: Mannheim Research Colloquium on Survey Methods #MaRCS Alexandru Cernat (@manchester.ac.uk): "Estimating Multiple Types of Error Concurrently Using the Multitrait-Multierror (MTME) Approach" 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even... 1/2

Thrilled to share: our Special Issue in Social Science Computer Review (@sscratsage.bsky.social) on digital behavioral data quality is out now. Many thanks to all contributing authers and my co-editors @clauwa.bsky.social and Bernd Weiß: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Excited for the start of the Fall Conference on "Computational Sociology" today, organized by the @dgsoziologie.bsky.social methods section, in collaboration with the working group "Methodologie in den Sozialwissenschaften" of the Akademie für Soziologie (AS) www.dgs-methoden.de/fileadmin/co...

Exciting days ahead: @heinzleitgoeb.bsky.social and I welcome the wonderful Analytical Sociology community in Leipzig for the 16th #INAS Conference www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/en/inas-conf...

Leipzig sociology is looking for a postdoc at the intersection of qualitative and computational methods www.uni-leipzig.de/en/universit... Full-time, 4+2 years, independent research profile. Please get in touch, we are looking forward to your application. Deadline April 5

My colleague Helmut Hirtenlehner and I propose a model of a subsidiary relevance of deterrence to govern criminal action. If interested, find the full paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We are happy to announce the new DFG-funded longterm German Longitudinal Environmental Study (GLEN). @glen-study.bsky.social will provide representative, individual level panel data on human-environmental interactions and climate issues. glen-studie.de #sciencenews #Klimawandel #climatechange

Subtract 16 days and this is the countdown to INAS 2024

Call for Abstracts is now open: Conference of the International Network of Analytical Sociologists, May 30–31, 2024 in Leipzig, Germany. For details, see: www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/en/inas-conf...

CfP for a new special issue in "Survey Methods: Insights from the Field" (SMIF): Advancing Comparative Research: Exploring Errors and Quality Indicators in Social Research For details, see: surveyinsights.org/wp-content/u...

Link to paper: sociologicalscience.com/articles-v10...