Ergebnisse unserer Dunkelfeldstudie @fseiffert.bsky.social @alexandra-heyden.bsky.social @maxpi.bsky.social waren Anlass einer Landtagsdebatte: shorturl.at/Wr7z9 Zur medialen Berichterstattung hier eine Stellungnahme: lnkd.in/eheeBg2q @unicologne.bsky.social @econtribute.bsky.social

ChatGPT down... I smell natural experiment!

Eine groß angelegte Dunkelfeldstudie untersucht den Anstieg der Jugenddelinquenz in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Die Ergebnisse wurden heute von @clemenskroneberg.bsky.social im Innenausschuss des NRW-Landtags vorgestellt. Zum ECONtribute Policy Brief 👉: www.econtribute.de/RePEc/ajk/aj...

Join us on Thursday, 23 October, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Andrei Boutyline 🔹 Meaning in hyperspace: Word embeddings as tools for cultural measurement 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/int...

+++ NEW ARTICLE +++ What is analytical sociology? After having struggled for two weeks in writing a potential answer up, I have to confess: I don't really know. www.hendrik-erz.de/post/what-is...

My job would be so much easier if correlation was causation😔

The @crestumr.bsky.social AI & Social Sciences seminar resumes. Wednesday 17th at 5pm (CET), we will receive Pr. @emilymbender.bsky.social . She will talk about her latest book, *The AI Con*, co-authored with Dr. @alexhanna.bsky.social. Join us for what will certainly be a lively conversation.

🚔Did George Floyd’s murder change Americans' racial attitudes? ➡️ @amengel.bsky.social & C. D. Kam find attitudes shifted, but unevenly: largest and most lasting for Black Americans and White Democrats, weaker or countervailing for others www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Are digital traces giving us a biased view of polarization? 🤔 New paper by Yijing Chen, @elisaomodei.bsky.social & co-authors shows that APIs capturing only visible engagement (💬 YouTube comments) may suggest stronger segregation than less visible forms (▶️ views). 🔗 bit.ly/3JAp2Fz

This graph is amazing, a better future is completely within pur grasp if we simply care a little.

You can make your treatment variable "as-if random" by sorting the variable randomly in your dataset. Follow for more econometric tips.

✨ The IAS Seminar Series returns for the Fall 2025 semester with a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all! #AcademicSky #Sociology #CSS

Interested in spatial clustering of crime or other ‘rare’ events? Make your life easier. Whatever @mattashby.com does is always solid work. Worth checking out! 👇👇

📍Gastbeitrag im Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger: „Viele Veedel, drei Wahlmuster“🗞️ Ich zeige, wie sich Köln politisch in 3 Wahlmuster aufteilt – mit einer Trennlinie 4,5 Kilometer rund ums Rathaus. Köln steht dabei stellvertretend für westdeutsche Großstädte. Mehr gibt's in meinem Buch „Wo wir wie wählen"!

🕊️ How do social ties shape one of the world’s most secretive elections? New paper by our PhD candidate Leonardo Rizzo et al. reveals hidden influence in the papal conclave through network analysis. 📘 Social Networks 🔗 bit.ly/450YDJn #NetworkScience

If someone asks a question about "AGI", the only reality-based response is to demand a definition of "AGI" before replying. #acl2025

All the keynote recordings are available now, enjoy! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

For those who are going to spend another night in Norrköping, please join us there👇

Sarah Williams capped our keynote series with a powerful call: make data a force for empowerment and public good. What insight resonated most with you? #ic2s2

Absolutely mind blowing results on the impact of genAI on science by @yianyin.bsky.social

If you're interested in the causal effect of the George Floyd killing on sentiment toward the police on YouTube, join my #ic2s2 talk tomorrow in the session Media and Online Discourse I (Vingen 1+2)

If you're interested in where the U.S. parties might be headed, come to my #ic2s2 talk in the session Political Narratives II (Vingen 1+2) at 2:30pm! I'm at position 2. I'll be sharing how the influence of the two parties has evolved over 130 years, and how it might go in the future!

opening slides #ic2s2

Dean Eckles starting off the keynotes #ic2s2

On my way to the @ic2s2.bsky.social

Program? Check! Registration? Check! Beautiful merch? Check! Getting some real conference vibes over here in Norrköping. We’ve spent the day getting ready for Monday — I‘m really excited to see you all over here for @ic2s2.bsky.social!

Want to easily scrape data from news media sites? There's an R package for that! paperboy "paperboy offers writers of web scrap[ers] a clear path to publish their code & earn co-authorship on the package, while deliver[ing] news media data from many websites in a consistent format."

+++ ANNOUNCEMENT +++ I'm currently on the job market, looking for Postdoc opportunities (end of 2025/early 2026). If you are — or know someone who is — in need of a political sociologist/computational social scientist, please get in touch or share my CV! More info: www.hendrik-erz.de

Happy release @hudde.bsky.social

It is impossible to drink “too much” coffee. You have failed the coffee in your weakness. The coffee is not to blame

Economists looking at an idea from sociology literature that they will be the first to write a paper on.

Thank you for participating in the Measuring Culture workshop funded by the Academy of Sciences in Heidelberg @hadw-bw.bsky.social. It was an incredible experience for me due to all the brilliant people attending. Special thanks to keynote speakers @nehagondal.bsky.social and @olizardo.bsky.social

Visiting Max Weber's grave after the measuring culture workshop in Heidelberg

I am very grateful for two days of stimulating intellectual exchange at our workshop funded by the Cologne International Forum. Special thanks to our keynotes @isabellevdv.bsky.social, @christian.czymara.com, and the organisation by @anamacanovic.bsky.social, @maxpi.bsky.social, and Christof Nägel.

Den Zwischenbericht jetzt als neuen #ECONtributePolicyBrief lesen: www.econtribute.de/RePEc/ajk/aj... (2/2)

Die Hinweise auf einen Anstieg der Jugenddelinquenz in der Polizeilichen Kriminalstatistik bestätigen sich auch in einer großen Dunkelfeldstudie. Deren erste Ergebnisse hat Cluster-Mitglied @clemenskroneberg.bsky.social heute im Innenausschuss des NRW-Landtags vorgestellt. (1/2)

Die Jugendgewalt ist nach Corona stark angestiegen, die Polizei registriert mehr Fälle. Was steckt dahinter? Forscher haben nun mögliche Ursachen identifiziert. Und sehen einen starken Anstieg bei gewalttätigen Mädchen.

Published Today in PSRM: Based on a novel “Multiple Unexpected Events during Survey Design” (MUESD), I contextualize previous findings suggesting that Europeans become more empathetic toward migrants when exposed to migrant suffering. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... A Summary Thread: 1/15

Blown away by this erudite book by @valentimvicente.bsky.social 🤯 An exceptional combination of theoretical sophistication and empirical breadth and depth. His theory of normalization not just helps explain recent rise of far right but also warns for overestimating strength of democracy.

📣 Extended Deadline March 15 for "Measuring Culture with Computational Methods" at the @hadw-bw.bsky.social on May 8/9. Amazing keynotes by @nehagondal.bsky.social and @olizardo.bsky.social Beautiful historical venue, no conference fee, free food. Abstract to [email protected]

📣 Extended deadline: March 15 Workshop on online and/or offline data sources to study public opinion, crime, and immigration. Cologne April 28/29. Two great keynotes by @christian.czymara.com and @isabellevdv.bsky.social Interested? Send us an abstract: [email protected]

Neues @taz.de-Interview zur Bundestagswahl. Fokus: Gender Gaps & um regionale Veränderungen. Dabei geht es auch um lokale Wahlmuster – und mein bald erscheinendes Buch dazu: 📚"Wo wir wie wählen – Politische Muster in Deutschlands Nachbarschaften"📚 Stay tuned!🚀 www.campus.de/buecher-camp...

🎺Join us in May 2025 for our conference on "Measuring Culture with Computational Methods" at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences @hadw-bw.bsky.social Including two amazing keynotes by @nehagondal.bsky.social and @olizardo.bsky.social Abstract (max. 750 words) to [email protected] Deadline: 01.03.25

If you are an early career researcher, please get in touch with us as we can subsidize your travels. We are hosting this workshop with Christof Nägel, @maxpi.bsky.social, and @markwittek.bsky.social with the support from the Cologne International Forum.

The workshop strives to bring together scholars using online and offline data sources to study topics such as political discourse, hate speech, voting, political radicalization, or crime. It will take place in-person at the University of Cologne. We will provide coffee, lunch and dinner on the 28th.

If you use online or survey data to study immigration, public opinion, or crime, consider sending an abstract for our workshop on April 28/29 2025 at the University of Cologne. We will have great keynotes by @christian.czymara.com and @isabellevdv.bsky.social! See the call below:

My cartoon for Guardian Books’ autumn reading special.

Exciting workshop alert! 📊 Join our workshop in Cologne as we explore Immigration, Public Opinion & Crime in the Digital Age. Check the full call ⬇️ #cssky #sociology

Exciting workshop alert! 📊 Join our workshop in Cologne as we explore Immigration, Public Opinion & Crime in the Digital Age. Check the full call ⬇️ #cssky #sociology