An Imbens retrospective on experimental v. non-experimental methods — looks like a must-read www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Job! A vacancy at the @eui-eu.bsky.social for a postdoc joining the @learnineq.bsky.social project, for 13 months, starting mid January. We study inequalities in school careers, and we engage with policy makers. The vacancy is here, please forward. DEADLINE 24 NOVEMBER. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

These are mill papers. Further reading, @reeserichardson.bsky.social may have more: www.researchgate.net/publication/... ... and hilariously a 'bibliometric' analysis that doesn't mention paper mills: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Not sure this is much better guys!

Can anyone point me to documented examples of country governments doing content-knowledge assessments with teachers? I've seen analysis from regional tests (eg nicspaull.com/wp-content/u...) & from the World Bank's service delivery indicators (eg tessabold.com/uploads/7/0/...). Others?

Excited to post a new working paper with @instrumenthull.bsky.social and Michal Kolesár: arxiv.org/abs/2511.03572 Will post a thread on it soon, but if you're interested in judge/examiner designs, I think you'll find this guide very helpful!

New publication in @actasociologica.bsky.social! @filippogch.bsky.social and I use a novel decomposition method (@ang-yu.bsky.social and Elwert) to study if and how *childcare arrangements* under age 3 shape disparities in children’s cognitive skills ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/5

Interesting times indeed

Essential knowledge in this thread

"The intervention raised the pass rate in the national exam that determines progression from elementary to secondary school from 51% to 75%." drive.google.com/file/d/1aclW... Big substantive and persistent effects from a teacher professional development intervention in Uganda.

Just sent an email saying punctuation is used "incontinently" when I meant "inconsistently". But hey, both suggest chaos, right?

Just talked to a student who had a burst pipe flood their apartment and a landlord trying to blame them for it. Only in the UK, folks

🧵There's this phenomenon you sometimes see in certain corners of science where a small group of researchers all work on the same narrow topic and mostly just talk to each other. It becomes a really insular community: everyone cites everyone else, ... 1/5

Niche post but I'm amazed that the time-worn ISEI does almost as good a job at explaining earnings as a recent scale designed to explain earnings Treiman constant ftw Read all about it in @europeansocreview.bsky.social academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

they ask what's the minimum to pass? as if i keep a secret rubric of disappointment i say do your best work they hear write more words

Rethinking the Humanities in Light of Wanting People to Read My Stuff

Congratulations to us, and thank you, @kohli-sociology.bsky.social!

Just a few more minutes until this years award ceremony will start. Looking forward to hear Peter Bearman and @philipncohen.com speak. @kohli-sociology.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social

Today at @eui-eu.bsky.social @philipncohen.com receives the infrastructure prize for sociology of the @kohli-sociology.bsky.social Very, very well deserved! #sociology

🚨Job alert!🚨 We are looking for a 🧮 quant postdoc researcher to join the AMAZING Jay Das-Munshi @jdasmunshi.bsky.social George Ploubidis @georgeploubidis.bsky.social & myself at @kingscsmh.bsky.social in collab with @clscohorts.bsky.social All info: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru... Closes 18 Nov!

It's cool how aviation technology changed the topology of such networks.

This is the correct way to address me btw

Half of academic writing is apologising for being slightly different from existing literature

Curious to learn what is behind the European Social Survey? This Podcast with Rory Fitzgerad provides a glimpse behind the scenes of this impressive data set. @ess-survey.bsky.social

Fourth fuel: spite

Academia runs on three fuels: caffeine, impostor syndrome, and poorly documented code from 2017

Fun! "The article's primary dependent variable - purportedly an inverse hyperbolic sine transformation of terrorist attack rates - takes on 292 different values when attack rates equal zero, and negatively correlates with attack rates" Forthcom in Nature Human Behaviour @jackfitzgerald.bsky.social

Jeepers @nature.com I thought we were past this Abstract: "we demonstrated an association between higher physical activity and slower cognitive and functional decline" Press brief: "taking as few as 3,000 to 5,000 steps per day can help to stave off mental decline" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Getting back into the academic groove (filling out an 18-page travel risk assessment form)

Whenever anyone gives me a ‘head’s up’ my natural inclination is to keep my head down.

Academia is what happens when curiosity gets you tenure and empathy doesn’t.

Lol. Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) had a few bangers too, like this: "people publish too much"

🎓 New paper accepted today, on the intergenerational educational mobility among immigrants in Denmark! At first glance, immigrants seem more mobile than natives – but this is largely a data illusion. Poor register data quality drives the pattern. w/ @rlandersoe.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/so...

It's almost as if change-from-baseline scores are mathematically determined by baseline values... 🤔 academic.oup.com/ije/article/...

Academia is what happens when gifted children discover bureaucracy.

read the entire methods section twice still don’t know what they did but cited them anyway

Sometimes the author lets the chatbot speak for itself. Handy!

Amazing. Someone points out that the results of nudge metaanalysis are actually all publication bias. Original authors then brush it off with ”[being] a relatively young field … comes with some methodological growing pains.”

Best spam conference invitation ever: ... Your publication titled " " is truly remarkable and of exceptionally high standard on the core subject. ... Actually, " " is a nice title!

OPEN NOW the call for presenting your work at the @seqanalysisassn.bsky.social webinar series from Jan.2026! info for submission sequenceanalysis.org/saa-webinar-...

Interdisciplinary paper with @paulhufe.net Astrid Sandsør and Nicolai Borgen now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.... Causal evidence of gene-environment interaction for reading test scores based on: 🧬 Exogenous within-family genetic differences 🏫 Exogenous variation in school value added

This was my big news for today - six years of funding to do my own research! I will be recruiting soon, most importantly, a Senior Research Fellow on a five year contract, plus a couple of postdocs for shorter stints: people who know EU-Silc, PSID, SOEP, or have experience on using register data

Surveying the evidence on intergenerational mobility studies that use alternative measures with a focus on health, consumption and life satisfaction, from Jonathan Davis, Nathan Deutscher, and @bhashmazumder.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34407

Anti-LGBTQ resolutions aka "LGBT-free zones" in Poland have increased residents’ intentions to migrate, both within the country and abroad. Together with @paweladrjan.bsky.social, we use unique data on all clicks on the global job site Indeed. Link: docs.iza.org/dp18217.pdf Main findings ⬇️ 1/7

🚨We’re hiring! The Max Weber Institute in beautiful Heidelberg seeks a W3 Professor of Sociology (focus: sociological theory) who connects well with the department’s focus on comparative sociology adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD... Happy to answer any questions! #Sociology #socsky

Why do German job listings always state (m/f/x)? Are there many jobs that *aren't* open to all genders?

We're hiring a Lecturer in Political Science @vuamsterdam.bsky.social (deadline Nov 24): 👉 werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/le...

📢 Vienna Institute of Demography @demographyvienna.bsky.social is seeking a Postdoc Researcher in Population Data and Projections RG 📈 📊 I can't recommend enough working at VID, especially with Anne! 💯 friendly, supportive environment with world-class researchers.🤓 oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs/job/km5kybrq

Hello, Bluesky! We are ODISSEI Social Data Science Team, also known as SoDa. This is our new official Bluesky account and we would love to interact more with you. 👋 We have a mission of 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵. 🤝