Doing computational social science research on inequality on your own? This special issue is for you! We’re inviting submissions for a Historical Social Research issue on “Computational Social Inequality Research in Practice.” 📅 Deadline: 15 May 2026 #CallForPapers #CompSocSci #Inequality

Roses are red, Violets are blue, It was statistically significant (p<0.05) Which means that it's true.

We’d like to believe that effort matters to what we attain in life. In fact our belief in meritocracy depends on that. But what if how much effort people spend itself depends on your social background? “The Social Origins of Effort: How Incentives Reduce Socioeconomic Disparities among Children”

Thumbnail is emptiness, and emptiness is thumbnail. Here's a link to the video tho, in case anybody is wondering what they're apologizing for 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG-6...

On Feb 17, our @inetoxford.bsky.social team will launch the INET Oxford Inequality Working Group, an online seminar series that invites discussion on inequality and public policy. Our first speaker: @drodrik.bsky.social presents his new book. Details & registration: www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/share...

An era has come to an end

New preprint 🥳 The city of Leipzig conducts large-scale surveys of adolescents. In 2023, the gender gap in life satisfaction has significantly widened, with girls declining more steeply than boys. What's up with that?> (work with @rmcelreath.bsky.social and @gregork.bsky.social)

New blog post introducing Causion - a web app for causal inference teaching and learning: pedermisager.org/blog/causion....

Was hat die #Corona-Pandemie mit unserem sozialen Leben gemacht? #Einsamkeit #Exklusion Dazu haben wir am @dza-berlin.bsky.social im Projekt #CoESI drei Jahre lang geforscht. 👉 Überblick über zentrale Erkenntnisse hier: www.geistes-und-sozialwissenschaften-bmftr.de/de/News-Wie-... #GSWRahmenprogramm

New OA In ESR How do institutions and social norms affect tax payment? @lucaspasin.bsky.social #Aaszekely @squazzoni.bsky.social find that in low-quality institutions contexts, social norms can trigger vicious cycles of evasion, even when evasion is socially disapproved doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf057

Beautiful business research people: The Leibniz Information Centre for Economics has created an accessible introduction to Open Science that you can download in both English and German here: expedition-open-science.org You can even order the German print version for free!

Working with EU-SILC, but don't know which variables are available in each year?😵‍💫🤷🆘🏳️ 🛟MISSY can help!🛟 Simply select years, data set, file type & concepts to quickly get an overview, with optional csv export. Details like frequencies across countries also available! 🔗 www.gesis.org/en/missy/mat...

I'm gonna tell my kids that this was Heated Rivalry

Mit Jana Münkel im @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy Kultur Studio. Hat - wie immer - einen Heidenspass gemacht.

And you're saying AI has no positive use cases

“These findings provide clear evidence that data collected on MTurk simply cannot be trusted.”

Does social media harm everyone? No. But it harms *most* adolescents. However, not all platforms are harmful. An analysis of 44,211 diaries from 479 adolescents over 100 days finds that 60% of adolescents experienced small, negative effects of social media link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Buchmesse-People (und Leute mit TV): Heute um 14:50 bin ich auf der ARD/ZDF/3Sat-Literaturbühne für den DLF Kultur Literaturherbst und spreche über DA. WO ICH DICH SEHEN KANN. Kann man dann auch in der Mediathek nachgucken. Forum Ebene 0!

Check out the #LINEup Education Data Explorer — a new open-source map of longitudinal datasets across Europe! 🇪🇺 → Explore what data exist, where, and on what topics. Great tool for comparative education research www.lineup-project.eu/map/

Vergleiche von COVID und AIDS werden oft sehr populistisch verwendet oder pauschal als "Fear monging" delegitimiert. Dieser Review bietet hingegen eine hervorragende, fundierte Annäherung. V.a. den kurzen sozialpolitischen Abriss finde ich sehr gelungen und gut platziert. 1/

Just finished reading this *excellent* article by Gabriel et al. which discusses which effects can be identified in randomized controlled trials. With DAGs!> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Hilft ja nix.

Important research by our very own @alexbryson.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/se...

Calling it a novel contribution bc "mildly different from three others but messier" was too long to fit the abstract

Quite amazed by the articles that @sociologicalsci.bsky.social puts out on a regular basis -- this one here by Lewis Anderson: imaginative, bold, well-informed, an incredible eye for detail, this will really be moving the field forward doi.org/10.15195/v12...

Sociology instructors, take note: classic sociological theory makes an appearance on the menswear guy's account! (Actually, many of his posts have sociological content.)

Das ist echt kein Witz: Viele Frauen verzichten auf Kinder, weil die Aufwände der Elternschaft ungleich verteilt sind. Nach diesem Artikel müssten aber nicht die Männer mehr übernehmen, sondern die Frauen einsehen, dass sein höheres Gehalt doch auch was wert ist 😂 www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...

Good to see growing support for abduction or 'inference to the best explanation', recently by Spirling and Stewart in @thejop.bsky.social. This is... www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Very excited that our paper (joint with Jarkko Harju and ‪@schoefer.bsky.social‬) on "Voice at Work" is published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. We study what happened when workers in Finnish firms got a right to worker voice on the corporate board. 👇

How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...

🚨 Are young women becoming more left-wing & young men more right-wing? We analyzed 32 European countries (1990–2023). 📊 Some show growing gaps—others don’t. 📊 Gaps tend to be bigger where gender equality is higher. w/ @hudde.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

I got an exciting box in the mail today! Looks like The Effect: Second Edition is live! I've updated the website as well, so you can check out the changes and the new Partial Identification chapter (+ a new mini-chapter on finding material in the book) at theeffectbook.net

after the review and soon to be published: C. Meier zu Verl & C. Meyer (fc): Caressing, scuffling, playful slapping: Haptic #socialization and the #negotiation of corporeal boundaries in #family #intimacy. In: J. Streeck & J. Katila (eds.): #Touch and #Affect in #Interaction. OUP #emca #sociology

I’ve seen a few of David’s prints on the interwebs but I’m not familiar with him at all. His YouTube channel is an absolute delight of process videos. If you need a diversionary rabbit hole 🐇 🕳️ today.. this is a very good one.

Lavender fields & lone tree… From one of our workshops in Provence.

🚨 Thrilled that our 🆕 paper “Age and Cognitive Skills: Use It or Lose It” just came out in #ScienceAdvances @science.org 💡 Longitudinal evidence: age pattern of literacy+numeracy not as bleak as cross-section suggests + strongly differs by skill usage www.science.org/doi/full/10.... 🧵A thread 1/7

🚨Now published in issue 🚨 What happens to female labor market supply when their male partner starts to earn payroll tax exempt income? Joint work w/ @andreashaupt.bsky.social, now open access at JMF: doi.org/10.1111/jomf... #sociology #gendersky #polisky #econsky

New paper with Kamila Cygan-Rehm (@tudresden.bsky.social) and Regina T. Riphahn (@fauwiso.bsky.social) out now in Socio-Economic Review (@sasemeeting.bsky.social)! We investigate how Minijobs (subisidized small jobs) affect motherhood penalties in the long run 1/13

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From tiny aha's to big realizations: The bigger the conflict, the deeper the insight💡 🌩️ We propose a new theory of mental breakthroughs bridging insights from problem-solving, psychotherapy, psychedelics, and meditation. out now in Cognition Free access: authors.elsevier.com/a/1ka-O2Hx2-...

Pro tip: when explaining the NIH cuts to friends and family, use "research infrastructure" rather than "indirect costs" or, godforbid, "overhead." DOGE just slashed the budget for research infrastructure. It's accurate and it drives home that the fight is over jobs and facilities, not "waste."

What is VALIDITY? My coauthor philosopher @eschwitz.bsky.social explains it is a property of claims. In the process, he previews our forthcoming paper on the subject. Hint it is NOT just internal validity, and one gets into trouble assuming it is. schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2025/02/a-ta...

{tinyplot} 0.3.0 is out! 🚨 It's a lightweight #Rstats 📦 to draw beautiful and complex plots, using an ultra-simple and concise syntax. This is a massive release! @gmcd.bsky.social @zeileis.org and I worked hard to add tons of new themes and plot types. Check it out! grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/

💙💙💙 #Macro #Nature #Photography

… and I have not. The Twitter screenshot blocker labeler is honestly fantastic, cannot promote it enough. You can free yourself here: bsky.app/profile/xblo...

not to brag but my teaching slides for international economic law are 🔥🔥🔥