This work by Pieter Buegel is probably the very first painting of a White Christmas. The pregnant, blue-cloaked Mary rides a donkey led by Joseph, but they are inconspicuous as part of the throng (The Census at Bethlehem, 1566) www.artinsociety.com/bruegelrsquo...

Ein fatales Dauerzeichen der Regierung: Schuld an der Krise seid ihr, die Bürger - und nicht wir, die Politik, die 20 Jahre lang keine Ideen entwickelt und nichts reformiert hat.

The "smartphones/social media" discourse suffers from some amazing historical amnesia. There was no 2008 financial crisis and no global pandemic starting in 2020, it's all SCREENS SCREENS SCREENS. Major world events? Just the backdrop against which SCREENS happened.

Ich am Jahresende:

📢 New dataset for researchers! The new European Parenting Leave Policies (EPLP) Dataset tracks parenting leave regulations over five decades! It provides harmonised data on maternity, co-parent, paid parental, and job-protected leave across 21 countries from 1970 to 2024. 🔗 eplp-dataset.org

"I wish I could apply to this amazing opportunity" ‐ tenured academic reposting a 12 months Postdoc offer

How is separation after childbirth linked to the labour earnings trajectories of mothers in Sweden and West Germany? Are there differences by mothers’ socioeconomic position? 👉 New paper by @sschmauk.bsky.social & A.-K. Nylin! 🔗 genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Verkehrsexperte Prof. Hermann Knoflacher: "Pervers dass wir Kinder in Gitterkäfigen einsperren, damit Autos rundherum fangen spielen können. Schaffen wir eine Stadt, in der sich Kinder selbstbestimmt und sicher bewegen können." #PlatzfürKinder

I think there is a fundamental tension with full open APIs and information and an increasingly autocratic US as well as LLMs needing training data. Anything you post here can be used by both.

Been tweaking color palettes for hours? 🎨🧑‍🎨📊 Same. This package looks like a shortcut so we can go back chasing typos that break the code #dataviz #rstats

New #dataviz in @sociusjournal.bsky.social: how closely linked are motherhood penalties🤰💶📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼👩‍💼 in local labour markets in 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇪? Link btw♀️ ♂️earnings gap and 🤰 penalty holds across borders,but is even stronger within countries 🧵👇 w/ @sanderwagner.bsky.social,P Achard,I Amend

"Man, I really wish RStudio respected hierarchy in code-folded section headers... I wonder how easy it would be to..." (inner voice: DON'T DO IT! IT'S NOT WORTH IT! JUST GET BACK TO WORK! THE YAK IS BEST LEFT UNSHORN!) "... I'm gonna do it." #RStats #RStudio

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving." Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

Sichere und vertrauliche Kommunikation ist elementar für eine Demokratie und muss zugänglich für alle sein. #Chatkontrolle

Wichtige Stimmen wie Amnesty, Reporter ohne Grenzen und der CCC appellieren an die Bundesregierung, die #Chatkontrolle zu verhindern. Sie warnen vor einem Angriff auf die Pressefreiheit, einem IT-Sicherheitsalptraum und einer Gefahr für die Demokratie. netzpolitik.org/2025/eu-uebe...

Kulturkampfstaatsminister Wolfram Weimer erzählt also mittlerweile, ARD, ZDF und DLF seien insgesamt zu links umd benutzt das rechte Buzzword von den „Zwangsgebühren“. Ich kann diesen demokratiegefährdenden Unfug nicht mehr.

„Solange aber Diesel billig bleibt und das Deutschlandticket teurer wird, erzählt die Politik den Menschen eine doppelte Lüge: Sie behauptet, die Verkehrswende sei gewollt – und finanziert gleichzeitig deren Scheitern.“ @spdfraktion.de

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🕵️ 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/...