🕵️ Every step you take, every move you make, Lieferdienst is watching you? Fast jeder zweite Gig-Worker bei App-basierten Lieferdiensten fühlt sich bei der Arbeit überwacht. 👉 Das zeigt eine IAB-Befragung von @martinfriedrich.bsky.social und Kolleg*innen im #IABForum: iab-forum.de/algorithmisc...

when computer people say something has a ‘simple solution’ half the time it’s “change two things in system settings” and the other half it’s “first, install Linux”

The new ggplot2 4.0.0 now supports absolute plot dimensions 🤩 #rstats #dataviz #phd

"Die Veränderung der Welt durch Internetkultur betrifft mittlerweile nicht mehr nur Einzelersonen, die einfach mal Gras anfassen sollten. Internetkultur ist keine Nische mehr, die man wahlweise ignorieren oder als obskuren Quatsch verlachen kann..."

Big update for one of the rockstar #rstats packages 📦 🌠 Running fixed effects models has never been easier (and fun)! 📊💻✨ #sociology #demography

“We explore how transitions from cohabitation to marriage affected working time and income in Europe in the 1990s, as cohabitation was emerging. We find a widening gender gap since women worked less after marrying, even if cohabiting before.” www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Journal publishers *are* bundling your papers up in "data licensing agreements" for big tech companies to use for AI model training. Our publisher, T&F, got £75m from Microsoft for that last year alone.

Die #Teilzeitquote erreicht mit 40,1 Prozent einen Rekordwert. Die Zahl der Teilzeitbeschäftigten stieg im 2.Quartal 2025 um 1,3 Prozent. „In den 90ern war Teilzeit noch die Ausnahme, heute ist sie mit 17 Millionen Beschäftigten Normalität“, so IAB-Ökonom Enzo Weber. ➡️ doku.iab.de/arbeitsmarkt...

📢 We're hiring! 💼 As part of the research project ‘(Non-)utilisation of sick days for children – a challenge from different perspectives’ at Osnabrück University, we are seeking to fill a position as a research assistant (m/f/d) 📊🚀 www.uni-osnabrueck.de/fileadmin/so...

Come work on my new research project! We are studying whether and how #parentalLeave is shared in different types of families, how the use of parental leave has changed in different families since the 2000s, and how parents’ social environments influence their leave uptake. #research #hiring

Wie jedes Jahr fordert das Finanzamt sämtliche Belege für Ausgaben an, weil man sich nicht vorstellen kann, dass Fachliteratur etc. auch Geld kosten. Schon länger nutze ich einen R-Code, um meine Aufstellung systematisch vorzunehmen & teile diesen heute, weil geteilte Freude ja doppelte Freude ist.

The Zotero browser plugins + its integration with RStudio & Quarto is game changing quarto.org/docs/get-sta...

New paper: @katjamoe.bsky.social, @claraoverweg.bsky.social and @apweiland.bsky.social study the motherhood penalty in net wealth and public pension wealth in Germany www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

How I wish I wrote abstracts vs how I write abstracts…

You can use round() to get to tens, hundreds etc. #rstats 🤯 This is so cool!

When they tell you academia is a woke bubble just remember where we came from

I’m (still) trying to get used to harsh reviewer comments, but I definitely wasn’t prepared for our paper and code to be called spam by osf.io & @socarxiv.bsky.social … #sociology #codesharing #iknowthecodeaintpretty

#CallForPapers ➡️ “Perspectives on (Un-)Employment”: Join us for the 17th interdisciplinary Ph.D. workshop bringing together social scientists to discuss the most recent findings in #economics and #sociology. Submit your abstract by 30 Sept. Info: iab.de/en/iab-veran... #EconSky

I have seen teams of PhD level experts fail at almost everything imaginable, including, but not limited to: agreeing on a place to have lunch, making coffee and finding a bus stop. And I have been on all those teams.

So if users want to live without Instagram/TikTok and are willing to pay to have someone delete their account, why don't users quit? Many users are "trapped" in social media use, not because it improves their well-being, but because the alternative—being left out—is even worse.

Remember this #rstats post? I wasn't the only one talking about it & the tidyverse team was listening 😎 #databs New #dplyr functions? They're looking for feedback!! 🤔 replace_when, recode_values, replace_values 👀 Read this: github.com/tidyverse/ti... 🗣️ Comment on PR: github.com/tidyverse/ti...

The President of United States firing the commissioner of the statistics bureau because the unemployment numbers are not good reminds me of that classic Stalin moment, executing the statisticians because they reported too many deaths the 1937 census www.jstor.org/stable/2639947

Maybe AI might fix my inserted table that refuses to stay put - or the table of contents that goes rogue every time I update a heading 📝 🖥️💨🪟

The new reality of climate change. It's raining in Germany, and the tabloid BILD headlines “This summer is an outrage.” The data: So far, the summer has been fairly sunny, very warm, and rather dry.

Friday #rstats #ggplot2 tip for anyone - like me - who’s spent hours trying to get the formatting of their exported plot right 📉🛠️🎨

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "Parenthood and the gender gap in commuting" By Aline Bütikofer, René Karadakic, & Alexander Willén www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky #publiceconomics #gendergap

Wir müssen nicht drüber reden, was rechtlich geht und was nicht: Jeder, der Familie hat fände es wohl schrecklich seine Kinder, Eltern für 2, 4, 6 oder 8 Jahre nicht zu sehen. Das solche Argumente gar nichts mehr zählen, ist Ausdruck einer Gesellschaft, die Empathie verloren hat. #Familiennachzug

This administration wants to eliminate gender studies departments while simultaneously constantly reminding us of the need for them

Und ich denke dabei auch an diejenigen, die sich in den USA kreativ & klar gegen Verbote der Regenbogenflagge wehren. Wie wäre das wohl bei uns in D?

Excited & honored to present at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social next Tuesday! Can’t wait to visit one of the superstar hubs of #demography and discuss our work on parenthood and employment in 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇪 —looking forward to the feedback and conversations!

DEIprograms shape more than just numbers. AnjaAbendroth and I show: in workplaces with gender quotas&mentoring for women, employees hold significantly more egalitarian gender beliefs. At a time of global backlash, this is a reminder of why such policies matter 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Just published in JOSS: 'modelbased: An R package to make the most out of your statistical models through marginal means, marginal effects, and model predictions' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07969

Excited & honored to present at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social next Tuesday! Can’t wait to visit one of the superstar hubs of #demography and discuss our work on parenthood and employment in 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇪 —looking forward to the feedback and conversations!

Who gets the privilege of free time? Across Europe, fathers enjoy more leisure time than mothers, especially in Southern and Eastern countries. New research across 13 countries shows persistent gender gaps in parental leisure. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

In Naumburg kamen Beamte in die Schule, um die 10-Jährige Nadira aus dem Sportunterricht mitzunehmen. Zur Abschiebung. Nadira weinte, krallte sich an die Lehrerin fest, flehte um Hilfe. Chancenlos. Die ganze syrische Familie in den Flieger nach Bulgarien. Na, fühlt ihr euch durch sowas sicherer?

Nice #rstats recoding example to start your Wednesday

Wichtige Zahlen zu sexueller Belästigung am Arbeitsplatz aus dem neuen @iabnews.bsky.social Kurzbericht iab.de/publikatione...

The BSL during Finland was sensational #Eurovision

📍 Ausländische Arbeitskräfte spielen eine immer wichtigere Rolle bei der Abfederung des Arbeitskräftemangels: Ihre Anzahl ist seit 2015 über alle Anforderungsniveaus hinweg gestiegen. Der demografische Wandel verstärkt das Problem des sinkenden Arbeitskräftepotenzials: doku.iab.de/kurzber/2025...

Dieses NBER working papier fasst Ergebnisse von Einführungen von Kita-Platz-Ausweitungen in verschiedenen US-Bundesstaaten zusammen, und findet "1.2% rise in labor force participation, a 1.5% increase in employment, and a 1.6% growth in hours worked", bzw. www.nber.org/papers/w33767

It's bonkers that in academic science we spend hours obsessing over the wording of a paper, but often only one person has seen the code that produced the results! 2/N

Memes have been my coping mechanism this week. 😅

Als 2018 in Ungarn die Geschlechterstudien verboten wurden, erklärten Geschlechterforscher*innen immer wieder geduldig, dass das alle besorgen sollte, weil es ein 1 brutales ideologisches Signal der Regierung war. Das Echo war damals, sagen wir, eher verhalten. #Wissenschaftsfreiheit

Data problems with the Hungarian EU-SILC, a tale for all researchers to look at histograms (of raw variables or composite indicators) before doing any analysis: www.valaszonline.hu/2025/04/11/r...

Contrary to popular belief, what is important in science is as much its spirit as its product: it is as much the openmindedness, the primacy of criticism, the submission to the unforeseen, however upsetting, as the result, however new that may be. – Francois Jacob www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hier entlang für eine Liste großartiger Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforscher*innen aus dem @iabnews.bsky.social! Interested in current insights on labor market research? Follow the experts from this curated @iabnews.bsky.social list! 📊🔍🧑‍💻👩‍💻👨‍💻 ➡️ go.bsky.app/CNDFQxn

Neu im @iabnews.bsky.social - Forum: wie geht es für #Väter nach der #Elternzeit weiter? 👨🧑‍🍼💶 ⬆️ #Teilzeit und weitere Erwerbsunterbrechungen (inkl. weitere EZ), geringe Verdienstunterschiede wenn TZ und Unterbrechungen berücksichtigt - mit AC Bächmann und C Frodermann #sociology #demography

Neat application of @iabnews.bsky.social SIAB data for new insights on how urban-rural differences in earnings developed 1993-2019 💶 🌆 🏞️ 📈 📉