good example of a weak quasi-experimental design that is nonetheless convincing.

🚨 PhD Job Alert/PhD Vacature🚨 English: Come work with Katrijn Van Deun, Katharina Loter, and me on "SEM2.0" in Tilburg! Nederlands: Kom met Katrijn Van Deun, Katharina Loter, and mij werken aan "SEM2.0" in Tilburg! www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3514...

This is one of the most exciting parts of our calendar. Apply to SICSS-ODISSEI!

For those interested in latent class, latent profile, mixture modeling, model-based clustering, all of last year's materials, including R code, are available online: daob.github.io/latent-class...

We have slightly updated our white paper on the future of Social Science Infrastructure in Europe. zenodo.org/records/1456... We would be very interested in hearing thoughts and opinions. The global data landscape is changing dramatically and we need to think critically about what we do next.

🚨 Call for Papers: European Social Survey Netherlands Community Conference 🚨 We invite colleagues from all disciplines using the European Social Survey to leverage our understanding of the social world. Submit your abstract by October 31💻 Learn more and apply👉 edu.nl/f9vmp #Sociology #cssky

Eurobarometer 38.1, 55.2, and 63.1. Provided without further comment.

Very cool paper by Marta Kołczyńska and colleagues that cleverly brings together 1.7million survey responses in Europe over 30 years to show trends in political trust. ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/article/...

You can participate in a new scientific mass collaboration. The aim of the challenge is to measure current predictability of fertility outcomes in the Netherlands to advance understanding of fertility. Apply by March 24 at preferdatachallenge.nl

🥁Hurry! Only two days left to submit your application for the SICSS-ODISSEI 2024 Summer School. 📅Deadline: February 28th Access all details and apply using the following link👉 sicss.io/2024/odissei/ -- ccsky #StatsEd

Apply for SICSS-ODISSEI Summer School 2024 before Feb, 28. 📍 Erasmus University Rotterdam, June, 17-28 💻 Python training and PreFer challenge: preferdatachallenge.nl 🌐 Access to CBS Microdata Participation is free including accommodation! Apply👉 edu.nl/g8kwr -- ccsky #StatsEd

We have written a white paper on what we think European Social Science Infrastructure should look like. Any comments, feedback, or even words of support would be very much appreciated at this stage: zenodo.org/records/1041...

🌐SANE (Secure ANalysis Environment) is now available for research projects! 💻This is a GDPR-compliant solution for analysing sensitive data while the data owner retains full control. SANE is a collaborative effort of SURF, ODISSEI and CLARIAH. Learn more👉 edu.nl/7gp9n ––– cssky

(spoiler: the "secret" is to tune only eta) The clickbaity intro obscures an important point: hyperparameters are not equally "tunable" (same goes for algorithms). This was addressed in Probst, @boulesteixlaure.bsky.social's excellent article www.jmlr.org/papers/volum... (Fig 3) Can recommend!

"Causal inference is a trivial problem if you know the DAG. Research design is outdated." season's greetings!

Holiday tip: follow @odissei.bsky.social the national data infrastructure in social sciences in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 And get a daily December pro-tip from them on available services, data and more 🎄 🎁 socsky polisky csssky commsky

SoDa tutorial on Geoflow, a newly created tool designed to visualize international flows in an interactive way: odissei-soda.nl/tutorials/po...

🚀 This year marks the Netherlands rejoining the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP). 🌍✨ With financial support from @odissei.bsky.social, the Netherlands contributes to cross-national surveys driving social science research.

PhD vacancy to work with my better half at Leiden University (note - Dutch required because of testing) www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

@odissei.bsky.social is now on Blue Sky !!

PSA: I run projects, labs and I am part of teams here in 🇳🇱 which are composed of wonderful, international, smart, engaged and empathetic young scholars. Our success is driven by these young people being with us. We treasure you. I want to say this out loud today! tk2023 polisky commsky eusky csssky

Want to become my colleague? We are looking for a tenured assistant professor in survey methodology in our group at @UniUtrecht. deadline to apply: 3 December. Questions? Send me a dm. For more info see www.academictransfer.com/en/334218/assistant-professors-in-survey-methodology-08-10-tenured/

Apply now for the *SoDa fellowship*! This program offers early-career researchers the opportunity to engage in data-driven social science projects. SoDa fellows will join the ODISSEI social data science team and be employed by Utrecht University for 3-8 months. odissei-data.nl/en/2023/09/s...

🌟Exciting Opportunity in #Mannheim!🌟 Join our team as a Student Assistant for the Survey Quality Predictor (#SQP) project @gesis_org! Enhance survey question quality and gain real-world insights. Apply by 03.12.2023. Details: hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge... #JobAlert #JoinOurTeam

doi.org/10.5281/zeno... here you can find my presentation :)

🚀 Exciting news! The ODISSEI Conference 2023 is officially sold out! 🎉 Featuring two outstanding keynote speakers (David Lazer and Linnet Taylor) and lots of exciting presentations lined up, we are ready to make the conference a big success! Find the full program here 👇