🚨 Deadline this Sunday (11 Jan 2026)! 📢 Call for Papers – 4th CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education PhD students & early postdocs: don’t miss this opportunity, apply now! 🚀 👇

Isaac you can’t teach kiddos about the ἀνδρόγυνος, they might realize that gender is fluid

ICYMI: Texas A&M admin is requiring a faculty member to either remove *Plato* from their syllabus for being too woke or be reassigned to teach “Ethics for Engineers” at 8am

We invite applications for a Research Assistant Professor in the Survey Methodology Program. We are seeking candidates who are developing methods for acquiring & integrating non-traditional sources & applying AI & emerging technologies to survey methodology myumi.ch/R3AWy @umisr.bsky.social

We wrote a short piece on conducting participatory workshops to change research culture, given our experiences in teaching workshops on climate activism & open scholarship. With @anne-urai.bsky.social @clarekelly.bsky.social @annaveer.bsky.social 📝 rdcu.be/eXja4 🧪 #AcademicSky

Please share - @pewresearch.org wants to hire a data archivist who will be an advocate for data users, helping to ensure that our datasets are easy to discover and reuse by researchers, journalists, and the public. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CenterExtern...

At the risk of being overly quantitative, I often use tools like this when planning for meetings. It's helpful for thinking about the collective cost of the decision, and about whether it is worth it, given what we hope to achieve. This is not to say that every meeting... hbr.org/resources/ht...

I will never pass an opportunity to share a classic: For those who didn’t get the reference, Glub Shitto is canon!

guys, you need an ORCID *with public information* if you want to your preprints to be posted at SocArxiv!

Define “Happy Acemoglu Day“ as the day citations to Daron Acemoglu’s papers for this year surpass your total citations for the previous year. My Acemoglu day was January 4.

Back to work and thinking ahead to future conferences? This week is the last chance to apply to our (+ @joncollins.bsky.social ) section at ECPRGC in Krakow! Deadline: 9 January As always, feel free to reach out with any comments/questions. :) More details here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

Starting the new year strong by reading about Gordon Flett’s and Paul Hewitt’s (both York University Toronto 🇨🇦) research about perfectionism and its physical and psychological toll in the New Yorker.

Happy 2026! 🎉 Hope the new year brings you all the joy and peace you deserve! But if the first couple of months don’t go as planned, remember, there’s the Iranian New Year on 20 March, and if that also doesn’t work out, you can celebrate Rosh Hashanah in September. Plenty of chances to retry! 🌟

My wish for 2026 is that politicians and political analysts realize that public opinion is endogenous to elite behavior, that polling single issues tells us nothing about electorally successful strategies, that politics means shaping public opinion and that popularism is the death of progressivism.

Bedrückender Bericht zu US-Eliteunis unter Trump: #CancelCulture, aber von rechts „Perhaps seeking to stay ahead of the new conservative cancel culture, some universities have moved swiftly to police syllabuses and disinvite lecturers, all while enforcing ever-stricter bans on unauthorized dissent“

@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social and I are looking for a few testers for something special we've been building! It's an app that lets you view the same content you see here on Bluesky but with extra features — some focused on researchers, some general upgrades. Reach out to us if interested!

I know some of you have strong views on LLMs and might not agree with me on this, but if you genuinely value diversity in academia, e.g., in welcoming neurodivergent researchers and non-native speakers, then I think you should acknowledge the positive influence AI can have in fostering inclusivity.

Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name. "These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."

Happy Shabe-e-Yalda to all who celebrate!

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

❄️ Warm holiday wishes to you and yours, a smooth transition into the new year, and, ideally, fewer emails than usual. Happy Holidays! ☃️

“Hanukkah is the insistence that light is not a metaphor. It is a responsibility. A candle does not negotiate with darkness. It pushes back, stubbornly, flame-first.” — Zvika Klein (quoted from www.jpost.com/opinion/arti...)

A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the release of Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance” and the advent of the late-2000s electro-pop era, which both appeared around the same year, 2008.

‼️We are hiring!‼️ 👉Postdoctoral Researcher in Behavioral / Experimental Economics (Log In required) 👉Postdoctoral Empirical Microeconomics (IO and trade) (Log In required) www.dice.hhu.de/das-dice/ueb...

🚨 A recent @pnas.org article raised serious concerns about LLM-based manipulation of online surveys. Good news: We’re not helpless. In a new #OpenAccess article with @jkhoehne.bsky.social #bwolf, we show that LLM-driven bots can be detected using simple prompt injections. 🌐 doi.org/10.1080/1364...

It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

It is still, after all these years, the best adaptation. No notes.

1/4. The U.S. continues to be a place where people’s life experiences and outcomes differ dramatically by social positioning. How does that affect the way people make meaning of what is happening around them? Those questions guided this new paper. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New post: Labour, a supply side explanation for the rise of populism, and the growing acceptability of xenophobic discourse in the UK mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/12/labo... Labour's 'tougher' stance on immigration/asylum and right wing populists' response has shifted the Overton window.

An der Professur für Wirtschafts-, Sozial- u. Umweltgeschichte des Historischen Seminars @uni-freiburg.de ist eine Stelle als Akad. Rätin auf Zeit zu besetzen. Ein ganz sympathisches Team und bei einer meiner liebsten und klügsten Kolleginnen - gerne teilen! uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

Die Bürokratie, die wir loswerden müssen  Warum Hochschulen effektiver entlastet werden müssen, ohne rechtsstaatliche Standards zu opfern. Ein Gastbeitrag von Paul R. Melcher, Ulrich Möncke, Karla Neschke und Jochen Struwe. Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/12...

In our research on socioeconomic background in academia, we ran a survey. Over 2,000 faculty members responded (thanks if you were one!) Social & cultural capital showed up time and again as key issues. A few findings you might be interested in...🧵

Sorry for being MIA. Took some time off to conclusively determine how many Skarsgårds there actually are.

Alle reden über Entbürokratisierung. Kaum jemand darüber, was wir verlieren könnten. Bürokratie nervt – aber sie schützt auch die Freiheit der Wissenschaft. Warum die Debatte differenzierter werden muss: 👉 Die unterschätzte Kraft der Bürokratie, im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/11...

Deutschlands Hochschulen im Stresstest: Wenn Populismus auf Wissenschaftsfinanzierung trifft Das Wissenschaftssystem ist weniger geschützt, als viele glauben. Programme könnten durch einfache Haushaltsbeschlüsse gestrichen werden. Justus Henke im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/11...

We are hiring! The Department of Network and Data Science of Central European University (Vienna) has an open position for an Assistant Professor in network science and computational social science.

The world gives us two problems: 1. We need to find the truth to the best of our ability. 2. We need long term institutional continuity, even as the search for truth tends to falsify institutional foundations. Universities are an earnest and reasonably successful try at hitting those targets.

🎉 New publication 🎉 Why do #youngpeople vote for the #AfD? This question has kept our research project busy for quite some time, so I'm beyond excited that our first article - co-authored with @timonscheuer.bsky.social - is now out in #GermanPolitics! 🤩 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“foreign states or other grps can easily use [these models]…[to] influence policy decisions, warp electoral strategies, & erode public trust in the democratic institutions that rely on accurate polling. This potentially turns a tool for scientific discovery into a vector for information warfare.”🧪

📣 New op-ed in Süddeutsche Zeitung: What the data say about the “Brandmauer” I summarize key findings from a study with @anninahermes.bsky.social across 57 democracies ➡️ Far-right parties don’t get weaker in government, they get stronger (~6 points by the next election) tinyurl.com/4j6jaud2

In the latest #aBitOfCCS episode, we dig into research showing that LLMs often deliver only marginal gains at major environmental cost. 🌱🌍 Sean-Kelly Palicki breaks down when simpler methods beat large models—and why a CO₂-adjusted F1 score matters.🌱 Listen here ⤵️ aboutccs.net/abitofccs/

I realize that this is not the most important message of the post, but what I enjoyed most about it is that it avoids the stereotypical image of the “entitled, lazy younger generation”, instead acknowledging the systemic and economic challenges students face, when discussing very real problems.

‼️ #Mitglieder aufgepasst: Heute startet der Vorstand seine Mitgliederbefragung zu Erfahrungen mit #Anfeindungen und #Bedrohungen in der #Politikwissenschaft, die Zugangsdaten kommen per Mail. Bitte nehmt Euch 10 Minuten für die #Umfrage! 👉 www.dvpw.de/informatione...

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

This seems like a great opportunity. No one better to help think big and rigorous than @ccavaille.bsky.social

We are waiting for your submissions! The call for the International CSR Communication Conference in Finland closes on March 31, 2026 📢 The conference theme is "CSR Communication in the age of political instability: Building hope in a hopeless world"🕊️ csr-com.org/call-for-pap... #CSRCOM2026 @lut.fi

Got a passion for research and the patience to explain your work at every family gathering? 🧐 📮 #ApplyNow! See you in Mannheim! #UniMannheim #UniversityOfMannheim #GESS #GraduateSchool #DoctoralStudies #Research #ResearchInGermany #PhD #PhDOpportunity #PhDPositions #Scholarships