Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender Differences in Economics Seminars" by Pascaline Dupas, Amy Handlan, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Mateo Seré, Haoyu Sheng, Justin Wolfers, and Seminar Dynamics Collective. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes,” by Barwick, Chen, Fu, and Li: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/

Almost 2026. Randomised. Balanced. Still rejected for omitted variable bias. Formal training in sociology keeps failing the peer review system 🫠

And the 1st Replication Award of the Academy of Sociology goes to.. Sergio Lo Iacono, Wojtek Przepiorka, Vincent Buskens, Rense Corten, Marcel van Assen, and Arnout van de Rijt for "The competitive advantage of sanctioning institutions revisited: A multilab replication" #AkadSoz25 #sociology 1/

I’m a newbie on Substack 🚀 I show how simulating donation behaviour data through LLMs can generate false positives. LLMs rationalise, but human behaviour is noisy. buraksonmez.substack.com/p/silicon-sa...

I’m a newbie on Substack 🚀 I show how simulating donation behaviour data through LLMs can generate false positives. LLMs rationalise, but human behaviour is noisy. buraksonmez.substack.com/p/silicon-sa...

Scholarship opportunities for studying MSc/MA Sociology (shorturl.at/RiL2P) @sriucl.bsky.social: 📌Master's Bursary: shorturl.at/gKkvx 📌Global Master's Scholarship: shorturl.at/sift7 📌Humanitarian Scholarship: shorturl.at/y9qsL 📌Chevening: www.chevening.org Applications open from October 13!

🚨 Job alert: Postdoc at NYU Abu Dhabi. You’ll uncover how group boundaries form online using virtual experiments + digital trace data and work with a fantastic trio: Mario Molina, Minsu Park & Blaine Robbins. Apply by 1 Nov 2025. 👇🏼 apply.interfolio.com/173544

Welcome to @aksoyundan.bsky.social, who has joined us as Associate Professor in Sociology! 🎉 His research covers religious behaviour, cooperation and trust 🤝 Game theory, statistical and computational methods are amongst his research tools 💻🎲 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/people/ozan-...

New paper, using conjoint experiments to study ingroup preferences across multiple settings (neighborhoods, civic orgs, sports clubs) and social dimensions (age, ethnicity, education). We also link people's choices in the experiments to the real-world contexts they are embedded in. More info 👇

thinking is a tankless job

Recruiters on LinkedIn keep pitching me their MBA programmes. Either it’s a bad algorithm, or they think I’ve possibly made terrible life choices

Each year I shelve those *work* folders into desktop_YEAR in the cloud and never look at them again, where they quietly decay into digital compost

🚨 New pre-print with @sergioloiacono.bsky.social We ran 3 large-scale experiments in 🇬🇧to investigate how perceived asylum-seeking legality, public preferences for refugee relocation, and inclusionary attitudes are shaped by symbolic and strategic boundaries doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Come join me in wonderful Copenhagen! 🇩🇰 My department is looking to fill at least two positions - any specialization and any level! The University of Copenhagen aims to be the best place for the best ideas. What’s yours? Apply by Nov 15.

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗ 📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

🚨 New pre-print with @sergioloiacono.bsky.social We ran 3 large-scale experiments in 🇬🇧to investigate how perceived asylum-seeking legality, public preferences for refugee relocation, and inclusionary attitudes are shaped by symbolic and strategic boundaries doi.org/10.31235/osf...

👀 Call for Papers 👀 The BJS Conference is back! 23rd and 24th of April 2026 at LSE. Please submit an abstract by October 20th and share widely. It’s going to be 💥 www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...

🧠 September is #WorldAlzheimersMonth; a time to spotlight dementia awareness and research. At UCL, we are driving innovation in prevention, care & cure. Follow @uclbrainscience.bsky.social to see how we’re tackling the global dementia challenge. 🔗 https://bit.ly/3UMiYvZ #UCLDementia

🚨We are hiring 2 Lecturers/Assistant profs in Quant Social Science at UCL🚨 What we look for: 🐍 R/Python proficiency 🤖 Teaching and/or doing ML and/or social networks 🌍 Research on inequality, climate, education, social norms & more Circulate this or apply by 10-Oct 👉 tinyurl.com/5djcc35z

New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357 Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!

Congrats to the field of Deprecable Model Research aka vibe researching

📢 IAS is looking for new PhD students! There are still 3 more weeks to apply! deadline: August 31st. Read more: liu.se/en/work-at-l... #Sociology #AcademicSky

A fantastic opportunity in our amazing department! Come and join us as Director of our Centre for Longitudinal Studies www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

we would be in a much better state in this country if we stopped focusing on anointing a chosen few working class students into Oxbridge, and instead properly funded all the different sorts of universities that attract students from a wide range of backgrounds already

Cool paper with an great title. Across the world, boys are much more likely to overestimate their math ability than girls. People from high SES backgrounds do the same www.iza.org/publications...

We had our farewell to @aksoyundan.bsky.social at UCL yesterday! Ozan has been such a big part of our journey, from building our Quant Sociology group to being an incredible mentor and collaborator along the way. We’ll miss his presence & humour a lot, but we’re excited to see what he does next 👀

Survey invitations often describe the topic of the survey. A simple, classic example of how this biases results: survey recruitment materials about bird watching led to higher estimates of the % of people who engage in bird-watching. doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Wrong answers only

Tbh I was already persuaded by the earlier study (Ruperez Micola et al. 2019), despite its questionable IV approach. This case is especially helpful for understanding how reinforced learning can benefit from information processing in cognitively constrained environments

New WP w/ @riazsascha.bsky.social: via >42 million placebo tests, we show type I error inflation in Unexpected Event during Survey Designs (UESD), propose an adjustment, implement via new R package uesdRobust, and demonstrate utility by replicating two top UESD studies. osf.io/preprints/os... 1/9

If cities were soundtracks, London would be three stolen Lime bikes screaming in disharmony

Is there a religious revival in England? @sriucl.bsky.social's David Voas raises questions about a recent report claiming that Gen Z is leading a rise in church attendance after decades of religious decline. It appears the devil is in the data. Read more here: tinyurl.com/2zptnnw3

A simple but clever use of the OLG framework to explain why some cohorts become more polarised while others remain more cohesive

I didn’t know people who drink instant coffee are even allowed in London

🧵1/8 In our new #OA article, we studied the drivers of ethnic school segregation. Research on segregation often points to parental preferences, but what if it's not just about what parents want, but also what options they actually have? 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf027

💬 What happens when you give a group of citizens control over €25 million? This Wednesday, @franziskadbacher.bsky.social will discuss a citizens' council charged with deliberating wealth inequality and redistribution. Join the QSS-CLS seminar from 13:00! www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

Academics: Using LLMs for peer review is outrageous! Also academics: Skims the method, skips appendix, mad about missing citations. Writes a 3-sentence review: “Reject”

What would go wrong with AI-closed epistemology? 🤔 AI generates questions ↓ Humans using AI assistance to answer ↓ AI analyzes responses ↓ AI generates insights ↓ Insights feed into new AI-generated questions ↓ (repeats cycle)

My new paper doi.org/10.1093/esr/... explains that personal networks expose us to different degrees to economic distress, which shapes public opinion (here, institutional trust). Yet institutional trust research has largely overlooked networks. #sociology #netsky

Each new adaptive design often sparks initial excitement until the complexities of the explore-exploit tradeoff become clear 🤷🏻‍♂️

I keep seeing studies like AI chatbots change people’s minds on x,y,z, but I think this framing distracts from the underlying mechanisms. Using the lens of game theory may better shed light on the theoretical framework behind these studies 1/

Very exited to share the amazing 🚀line-up for our QSS and CLS Seminar series @sriucl.bsky.social🎓 Weekly talks on #SocialScience topics like #Inequality, #Protests, #Migration, #EducationalMobility, #Ethnicity, and #Eugenics 📊 Wednesdays, 1–2pm (hybrid). Register: forms.microsoft.com/e/fHEP73Jdmz

Hard to agree with this post. Scientists should already know how to critically evaluate research whether it’s peer-reviewed or not. Preprints aren’t the problem. They’re a tool. And like any tool, how we use them matters. Also, overhyped preprints are a media issue, not a science issue!

📢 My paper w Aron Szekely on honour-based violence is published online (Open Access): journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... We explain this puzzling phenomenon applying game-theory and testing it using large-scale data on norms and actual femicides. @sriucl.bsky.social @uclsociology.bsky.social

Worrying new findings on how safe young people feel at school in England from @johnjerrim.bsky.social and Neil Kaye. blogs.ucl.ac.uk/cepeo/2025/0...

Ever dreamed of joining a vibrant social science department with brilliant colleagues, cutting-edge research, and an unlimited supply of decent coffee and tea (no tariffs here)? We’re hiring a Lecturer/Assistant prof. in Sociology (permanent post) Apply by 17th April www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI116/l...

Great research, a very supportive PI, and a city with unbeatable charm. What more could you ask for?

🚨Job alert! Two-year postdoc to join the Rep2SI project at @lsemethodology.bsky.social! We're looking for a modeller to join our team of ethnographers & experimentalists studying the role of reputation and reputational concern in perpetuating social inequality. Apply by 4 May: tinyurl.com/yjccd3vv