Interesting analogy of AI as "thoughts and prayers" - an easy out of intellectual or emotional work that demands our whole being

Ask yourself: who am I and what am I doing? Thanks Yogi tea how did you know I’m writing up my PhD

Funny thing about this is that the domain generality (science, music, chess, sports) is meant to instill confidence in the finding but actually makes it seem more likely we’re looking at an artifact

Among NBA players, height is negatively correlated with points scored. Therefore, being short gives you an advantage in basketball. (Not my example & I don't remember where I read it, but it works.)

Agree with the quoted statement by @richarddmorey.bsky.social and disagree with Gelman on that point of asymmetry. Much of what we call metascience today has gained popularity and momentum from scientists/policy makers/funders is by making major positive claims about how science works/doesn't work.

We made a mistake by calling the output of AI ‘slop’. In academia it is now looking much more like toxic pollution, on the verge of laying waste to previously fertile plains. Suing for royalties is only a small part of the battle.

This is only one of two possible meanings of the "fallacy fallacy". So by misapplying it you can lay claim to the fallacy-fallacy fallacy.

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

All the takes about fake LLM citations reminded me of this very good paper, "Academic urban legends" about how "a decimal point error appears to have misled millions into believing that spinach is a good nutritional source of iron." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A vacancy for a professorship in economic sociology at the @eui-eu.bsky.social’s School of Transnational Governance. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

New working paper 🚨🚨🚨 What was the origin of modern economic growth? Joel Mokyr had a Nobel winning answer - growth took off when science and technology began to reinforce each other But can we test this quantitatively? This paper does so – read more ⬇️ 🧵

All research is exploratory if you’re confused enough

Survey experiments have become a popular methodology among social scientists. Has it been effective? In POQ, Rauf et al. study the efficacy of 100 survey experiments. Their results show that a majority of hypotheses were not supported. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Paper paper PaPeR pApEr Paperrrr

Me and @runestahl.bsky.social are hiring a future PhD fellow to study climate and class www.cbs.dk/om-cbs/job-o...

Golden opportunity for anyone interested in labor markets, inequality, orgs in the US context

Publishing is essentially screaming into a void that occasionally sends back major revisions

This year on Bluesky I wrote 914 posts and 1,496 replies. I received 24,863 likes, where 286 were for my most popular post, and apparently I love saying "paper" www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

Precise null results of inequality exposure on educational choices. I actually was writing almost this exact paper at some point during my PhD but got talked out of it. Well, I’m glad someone did.

Nothing humbles you faster than rereading your own methods section and having no idea what you meant

🎉 Good news! We have received funding from Handelsbanken's research foundations for organizing the Nordic Conference in Development Economics (NCDE) 2026 at @linnaeus-econ.bsky.social in Växjö! 🙏 Save the dates: June 15-17. More info soon! w/ @erikprawitz.bsky.social & @jakobenlund.bsky.social

Always wanted to have gini coefficients and other inequality statistics of different sources in one dataset? Here you are. The Integrated Inequality Data, from WIID, Worldbank, LIS, and SWIID. osf.io/5cguq/overview

Academic equivalent of the guy who tells you they would have been an elite footballer if not for their knee injury

We ask the students to submit a digital appendix with the papers they cite as a PDF, highlighting the parts they cite. So we see they read the sources (at least in parts)

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

This remains one of the most important articles to understand what is happening to higher ed. Open access! academic.oup.com/ser/article/...

No bot could ever get past this

Businesses, associations, and places of worship are key aspects of immigrant community life. Why do some groups build dense organizational ecologies but others don’t? A new analysis of 25,117 ethnoreligious organizations in 4900 communities suggests that culture—not social structure—drives density

So one of my huge worries is that AI traps us in loops from the past and doesn't allow jettisoning old knowledge (and prejudice) to move into new worlds. And here's some proof: arxiv.org/abs/2510.20941

Our new study provides rare causal evidence about NYC’s speed camera program. We find large reductions in collisions (30%) and injuries (16%) near intersections with cameras. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... @astagoff.bsky.social ky.social @brendenbeck.bsky.social nbeck.bsky.social 🧪

The Economic History Review has published a virtual issue collecting the contributions of 2025 Nobel Laureate Joel Mokyr in the journal. I had the privilege of writing the introductory essay. You can read it here, together with Joel's articles and reviews. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Great opportunity at @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social: we have 4-year postdoc position on disinformation and European democracy. Possible disciplinary focus includes, e.g., political science and computational social science. Interdisciplinary approaches to disinformation are encouraged.

Mine and @pengzell.bsky.social paper "How Robust Are Country Rankings in Educational Mobility?" was published in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social yesterday edu.nl/y7ct3 More details in the future, but for now short explanation of what we did, and the origin story of the paper. [Thread below]

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🧵

Immensely proud to see two newish publications out that begun their life as masters theses a wee while ago... links below

I think this is good and support it. dailynous.com/2025/12/10/e...

An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...

"i loved your essay" great, now i have to drop everything & reread it through your eyes

In today's JMP blog, @jiaweilyu.bsky.social studies impact of affirmative action for men in China's civil service. Women outperform men in the entry exam, so quotas were introduced to balance gender. Fewer women were hired, quality declined, & tax collected fell. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?

US unis thinking Britain might poach your talent? Don’t worry, we’re far too busy undermining ourselves.

Check out this super cool and all new paper by @elystromberg.bsky.social and @pengzell.bsky.social in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social on how sensitive cross-country comparisons in intergenerational mobility can be to seemingly inconsequential data and measurement decisions. #sociology

Anyway if you're wondering what's keeping journal editors busy these days

Great audience beautiful city would recommend anyone to pay a visit

Amazing visit to IFAU yesterday to meet friends old and new… been a long time stan of how this place balances policy relevance, scientific interest and rigor

I’m taking my business to Norrköping today. Or Linköping. Whichever is which. End of year party has been promised, guess I’m an analytical sociologist now.

Look: it’s amazing how far juice dispenser technology has come, but I’d rather have my juice fresh than come from an iPad

Extremely excited to be visiting @ifau.bsky.social and present work led by PhD student supertalent @danilok.bsky.social

The academic front was just a smokescreen. My true revenue stream is so much darker.

It’s an exciting time to work on employer-employee data. Hats off to Thijs and thanks for hosting me in Amsterdam this year

Iconic. Just iconic. @fabienpetit.bsky.social