Important letter from an actual expert

[erster Tag als Statistiker] jetzt bloß keinen Standardfehler machen

2025 best of 1) Oxford congestion charge 2) Mahler: 1st Symphony 3) Caspak & Lanois: Die Kurzhosengang 4) The Fall: This Nation's Saving Grace 5) Jörg Burger: Total Jörg Burger 6) Thomas Bernhard: Frost

🎄 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

How can analytical sociology harness the computational social science revolution? 🔆 👉Observe behavior in actual social environments, capture interdependent dynamics, follow up cumulative effects 🔗Access chapter 5 on strengthening mechanism-based explanations of macro phenomena osf.io/preprints/so...

> We archived around 86M music files, representing around 99.6% of listens. It’s a little under 300TB. This is the largest music metadata database that is publicly available. Many interesting 📊 charts on this page that can only be made by having this scale of data. annas-archive.li/blog/backing...

“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...

vor lauter Stratifizierung wieder zu nichts gekommen

This is what being a continental philosopher feels like and that’s why the analytics hate us

Still waiting for an invite from Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences

Really grateful for the data sleuths, my main takeaway is that I can submit my papers to Nature Aging

🚨 New article with J. Rodríguez-Menés, @dimipa.bsky.social, and @maikevd.bsky.social on the crime trajectories of intimate partner offenders. 📊📈 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper in the American Journal of Sociology (with Michael Grätz), and a very good way to close an important chapter! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

This week Wednesday! Still time to sign up to join: femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...

News from the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health: doi.org/10.1136/jech... Annie Herbert and I will co-chair the new Scientific Review Panel at JECH (read more about it in the editorial). There are new methodological recommendations for authors of quant studies at jech.bmj.com/pages/authors

My year-end book roundup and gift recommendations: 29 books familyinequality.wordpress.com/2025/12/14/y...

Quick please tell me what is "Analytical Sociology" again, need to come up with an abstract

📢 Analytical sociology is coming home! Call 4 INAS26 is open 🌍 1-3Jul26 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social and @sociologyoxford.bsky.social (☔) ☢️ Deadline: 1Feb26 🦹 Organisers: @aksoyundan.bsky.social , @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social, D Kretschmer, @awaldendorf.bsky.social Info: tinyurl.com/yc2tusjx

New theme song just dropped

Honored and excited to be giving a talk at New Uzbekistan University! As someone born and raised in Tashkent, this opportunity feels especially meaningful-returning home to share my research with the academic community that shaped my early years is truly special. www.linkedin.com/posts/newuu-...

THIS THURSDAY, 14:00 Paris time: Mads Meier Jaeger at the CREST Sociology seminar! "Breadth, Depth, or Consecration? Omnivorousness Tastes in Music and Perceptions of Status and Competence" In person at ENSAE (room 3001) or on-line for everyone to watch: zoom.us/j/9841885599...

Peer review wrapped 2025 - Received 74 invitations to review manuscripts - Among those 9 from Social Science & Medicine, 7 from BMC Public Health (BMC journals in total: 12), 6 from Scientific Reports

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📣 New paper alert! Why do politicians feel the need to "act like influencers"? Drawing on fieldwork in the French Assemblée Nationale, I explore the "social media double bind" faced by elected officials. Available in open access in Social Media + Society ⤵️ doi.org/10.1177/2056...

Eins ist klar: 2026 werde ich ziemlich viel jon Elster lesen, darauf könnt ihr euch VERLASSEN

Achievements unlocked

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...

note that this paper has no identification strategy itself

Der Genesung förderlich:

Our new paper: Austerity as reproductive injustice: did local government spending cuts unequally impact births? led by Laura Sochas is out now OA in @sfjournal.bsky.social

Come work with me! Feel free to contact me via email, if you have questions : )

Marshall Taylor and I just signed a contract to write the 2nd edition of "Mapping Texts" (www.textmapping.com) Inter alia, we'll include a couple more chapters on "generative" language tech* If you, or someone you know, has used such tech in social scientific investigation, let us know!

Name assimilation increases immigrants' earnings A LOT. osf.io/preprints/so...

A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs 1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Net migration down 69% YoY. Do we think this will dent Reform's poll numbers at all? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps: /1

My new book, The Division of Rationalized Labor, is now shipping! A brief summary of the argument to follow…

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/...

I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵

I heard it's organised by some really dedicated people, who got a location overlooking zürich with a lovely terrace... should be nice in may

New #openaccess study We made >16,000 visa appointment requests at German embassies and consulates worldwide Key finding: The poorer the country, the longer the wait time and the lower the chance to get an appointment. "A time panelty for the Global South?" shorturl.at/ZiAFb

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Miles "Bad Boy" Hewstone archive.is/M2wK8g

New article in @sfjournal.bsky.social with @mvaldes1989.bsky.social and I. Lievore on the effect of edu expansion among parents on children's achievement Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands among parents? Short answer: yes 1/2 academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

In between things I've been checking in on the emails that mention "university" and uhh did we all know about this connection?

New paper with @jordantkemp.bsky.social and Luis Bettencourt is now on arXiv: “Spatial Selection and the Multiscale Dynamics of Urban Change”. We use the Price equation and Chicago data to show how fine-scale spatial sorting shapes macro growth trends. Read it here: arxiv.org/pdf/2511.06165

There’s a new kid in town! Companies are now selling IVF and embryo selection based on genetic testing for traits related to health and even intelligence. We outline methodological and ethical concerns, and warn against risks for social inequality. With the fantastic @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social

First time on Bsky and first big announcement! I am excited to announce that our new study explaining the missing heritability of many phenotypes using WGS data from ~347,000 UK Biobank participants has just been published in @Nature. Our manuscript is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41....

📢 Call for Abstracts Join us at the Family Diversity & Health Workshop June 29-30 2026 in Berlin! We welcome submissions on intersections of health & family research, especially using register data. 🌏 🫶 No participation fees & hotel costs are covered. 📨 Send us your abstracts by Jan 31 2026