Paper with DOI now SocArXiv: osf.io/preprints/so...

🧵on my new paper "Synthetic personas distort the structure of human belief systems" w Roberto Cerina I'm v excited about... 🚨 Do synthetic samples look like human samples? We compare 28 LLMs to the 2024 General Social Survey (GSS) to find out + develop host of diagnostics...

🎬📼 We are launching a new video series, with a fresh episode every 2 weeks, and episode 1 is out now! Listen to doctoral researchers and alumni explain how cohort meetups, feedback circles, and celebrating collective wins translate into stronger scholarship and a more rewarding doctoral journey.

Aim to live in a way that word of your passing is not followed by applause … and celebrations.

We're in a strange situation rn where Google can train freely on books from university libraries—but researchers *at* universities have limited access. I'm optimistic this can be fixed, but if you're in admin or working at a foundation, please know: univs are failing here & resources are needed.

This has "suspiciously many people die near doctors, avoid them at all cost" energy

There's possible reverse causality, there's potential reverse causality, and then there's the fear that young people living with their parents will hurt their job prospects.

As it happens, I’m teaching Persepolis 2 in my “Texts, Tensions, and Globalization” course this semester. I’ve taught Persepolis 1 a number of times, but would welcome any tips, resources, suggestions on 2. For context: My thematic framing for the course. ⤵️

I don’t have that one smart take. I’m still seeing new videos of funerals and morgues in Iran on my ig feed narrated by parents, bereft of their beloved adult child, sometimes their only child. I’m mourning their children and I’m grieving the life we all could have had.

It’s Friday night, baby! Time to sip one herbal tea and politely obey the law

🧺 Paper Picnic 2.0 is here! More journals. New features. An easier way to keep up with the latest research in political science and adjacent fields. 🧵👇

Interesting working paper on wealth mobility in Germany by Markus Grabka, @pmlersch.bsky.social, @smaexie.bsky.social, and @drschnitzlein.bsky.social population-economics.committee.socialpolitik.de/sites/defaul...

Fascinating new paper by and @elena-amaya.bsky.social and Robert Braun on the role of folklore in shaping far-right support in Weimar Germany: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

School psychology scholars: we have a job opening. We are Canadian and very nice humans. You can contact me for more info. mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...

This was sooo tasty, it left a cinnamon-roll-shaped hole in my heart.

I Kogan, Kollegin in der Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften an der Uni Mannheim, erhält den Landes­forschungs­preises Baden-Württemberg 2026 für ihre Grundlagenforschung zu Bildungs- und Berufs­chancen von Migrant*innen. Tolle Nachrichten und well-deserved! www.uni-mannheim.de/news/irena-k...

My colleagues at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Social Policy unit, are seeking a postdoc for 2-3 years. Great opportunity! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

If you have interesting ideas for SI proposals for the PVS/GPSQ @pvs-journal.bsky.social, please let us know 👇

Russia, Venezuela, Iran, China, the Sahel region, the United States ... Want to know why state agents carry out brutal repression — or participate in illegal coups? Our new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship" provides answers — it just got published by @academic.oup.com: tinyurl.com/ystwm3tf

#OpenAccess from @psrm.bsky.social - Measuring inter-party communication: a transformer-based approach - https://cup.org/4aK4Zy7 - @annather-nerd.bsky.social, @okuspokus.bsky.social, Thomas Gschwend, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social#OpenAccess Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Ines Rehbein & Lukas F. Stoetzer #FirstView

📣 Join our ERC LEARN Research Team at CRIS, Sciences Po, Paris, to investigate how major disruptive events affect children's educational development. Apply by 12 April: ⭐️Doctoral Researcher / PhD candidate www.google.com/url?q=https:... ⭐️Postdoctoral Researcher www.google.com/url?q=https:...

You can’t see me, but my entire face just vetoed that!

How strong is the threat to academic freedom? If you are a publishing psychologist, please help us get a better understanding of the threats due to external pressure and self-censorship in the publication process by taking our 5-10 min anonymous survey: t1p.de/t1qof Results will be shared here!

NEW PUBLICATION “How the Media Cordon Sanitaire Crumbles: Lessons from Germany” now out in @prxjournal.bsky.social 🔓 doi.org/10.1080/2474736X.2026.2621808 I’m very happy that this paper is out – this project is particularly important to me.

Been quiet; nothing personal, just busy. To make it up to you, I’m sharing my all-time favorite, iconic “Name-me-one-successful-communist-society-SPAIN”-Twitter exchange. If you know it, you appreciate the artistry. If not, consider this your formal introduction to high art. Happy Weekend!

OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.” You can’t trust chatbots.

University of Manchester is hiring a Lecturer in Sociology (qualitative/theoretical) in the of political sociology of class and culture. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL973/l...

Problem about the loneliness epidemic is, it's everywhere except in representative survey data. Let's look at where the claim comes from. 1/

Honestly, work is the only thing standing between me and my full-time grudge against Emerald Fennell.

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

Now in print (and open access): What happens when voters learn their party disagrees with them? I ran a pre-registered experiment with a representative sample of ~3,000 German voters to find out. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧵

Zur Landtagswahl Baden-Württemberg haben wir (@pluggedchris.bsky.social @marcdebus.bsky.social @nilssteiner.bsky.social T. Bräuninger) die Online-Wahlhilfe Party-Check entwickelt: party-check.org 🗳️ Neben einem Prozentmatch für diverse Themenbereiche gibt es eine Links-Rechts Verortung. #ltwbw 1/

Sometimes I think about all the medical breakthroughs that would become available to us if only someone figured out how to turn us into mice.

⏰👋🏼 Jetzt bis Montag noch schnell anmelden für unsere Jahrestagung des AK Hochschullehre @dvpw.bsky.social an der @unitrier.bsky.social. Auch wenn es nur an einem der beiden Tage passt, wir freuen uns, wenn Ihr Zeit und Lust zum Austausch über gute Lehre und Lehrprojekte habt.

Asian Americans have long histories of violence, discrimination, & exclusion. Much of this behavior is poorly understood. The literature on discrimination against other racial groups is much larger than the literature on anti-Asian animus. A group of my coauthors and I are trying to fill that gap.

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

An der Universität Zürich ist auf den 1. August 2027 eine Professur für Soziologie zu besetzen. The University of Zurich invites applications for a professorship in sociology starting on 1 August 2027.

📣 Working on #intergrouprelations using social network analysis? Submit your abstract to our session at @eusnconference.bsky.social this August in Norrköping, Sweden! 🗓️ Deadline: 1 March 2026 More info & submission: liu.se/en/event/eus... #SNA #SocialNetworkAnalysis #Sociology #EUSN2026

One of the biggest contributors to scientific scepticism among laypeople, IME, is these idiotic nutritional epi studies that come out with conflicting results every year and are uncritically picked up by credulous journos looking for clickbait. Get in the 🗑️. #episky #statsky

Why hasn’t the energy‑intensive manufacturing sector in Germany become more efficient? In this video, CDSE doctoral candidate @joschakrug.bsky.social explains how preferential treatment for large firms can blunt climate policy and increase energy intensity. More in the video. #ClimatePolicy #Econsky

Excited to kick off the @mzes-ssdl.bsky.social Spring series 🙌 I’ll talk about different threats to causal inference in quasi-experimental designs and share hands-on tools to tackle common biases. Hybrid event, so happy to see non-Mannheim folks joining on Zoom as well! 🗓️ Feb 25th, 1.45pm CET

New CIS Position Openings including a Senior Research Coordinator, Postdoc Position with Karsten Donnay in Digital Democracy, and a Postdoc Position in the Political Economy of Low-Carbon Technologies: cis.ethz.ch/news-and-eve...

The Tilburg Uni Econ Dept seeks to hire a Postdoctoral Researcher specializing in Economic History w expertise in causal inference, quasi-experiments & an interest in political preferences & racial attitudes, for the research project "The roots of prejudice in Europe: The role of WW II". 3 year term

🚨 Postdoctoral Position at the University of Konstanz 🚨 We’re hiring a post-doc for our @excinequality.bsky.social project on political elites and decision-making. 4-year position | Deadline: Feb. 20 | Start: Sept 2026 Please share widely 🙏 The ad is here stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f...

Respectfully, aber das ist der Liberalismus bzw. der liberale Konstitutionalismus. Deswegen heißt unser Modell auch freiheitliche/liberale Demokratie. With all respect to Roger Willemsen (RIP), who is deeply missed.

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

Second, we can look at the much more contradictory, less neatly aligned ways in which political reasoning, group identities, etc. *actually* play out in everyday life. This needs qual methods, as Koen Damhuis and I propose in this paper (on European cases): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The US is often seen as an extreme case where polarization erodes democracy bc partisanship now permeates all everyday sociability and affects. But this is now being contradicted by a whole number of studies. Besides the really interesting new work by @jonadejong.bsky.social, there is... (quick 🧵)

Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...

Join us for this year‘s Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology at @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social. Applications are open until March 1.