About to kick off a peer review workshop with our brilliant @sriucl.bsky.social PhD students right now. Thanks to my colleague Alina Pelikh for hosting and I wish something like this was available when I started out.

Full reference: Yulia Evsyukova, Felix Rusche, Wladislaw Mill, "LinkedOut? A Field Experiment on Discrimination in Job Network Formation", The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 140, Issue 1, February 2025, Pages 283–334, doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

1/ My new article in European Sociological Review (@europeansocreview.bsky.social) examines how class-based network segregation and national-level inequality shape support for redistribution, using data from 32,717 individuals across 31 countries. DOI: doi.org/10.1093/esr/... 👇

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Here is the direct link to this new article on bureaucratic discrimination. We show, based on a large sample of caseworkers, that media reports on social welfare fraud influence decisions on unemployment benefits.

I’m plotting some December EpiSky fun. To help, hit me with your favorite *named* bias!

🚨 New working paper! How well do people predict the results of studies? @sdellavi.bsky.social and I leverage data from the first 100 studies to have been posted on the SSPP, containing 1,482 key questions, on which over 50,000 forecasts were placed. Some surprising results below.... 🧵👇

Looking for ways to contribute to open and reproducible research? Want to collaborate on projects (or start your own), develop skills, and connect with fellow enthusiasts from different countries and disciplines? Then join our Steering Committee and become part of a global community!🚀

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Bargaining and Inequality in the Labor Market,” by Caldwell (@sydneecaldwell.bsky.social), Haegele, and Heining: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

🎉 New publication 🎉 Why do #youngpeople vote for the #AfD? This question has kept our research project busy for quite some time, so I'm beyond excited that our first article - co-authored with @timonscheuer.bsky.social - is now out in #GermanPolitics! 🤩 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Early Grade Retention Harms Adult Earnings" by Jiee Zhong. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

New #openaccess study We made >16,000 visa appointment requests at German embassies and consulates worldwide Key finding: The poorer the country, the longer the wait time and the lower the chance to get an appointment. "A time panelty for the Global South?" shorturl.at/ZiAFb

✨Winter School #IT19 ✨ 📢 @cesifo.org @dseunivr and @liser.lu are glad to announce the Nineteenth Winter School on #Inequality and #SocialWelfare Theory (#IT19): Inequality and Big Challenges. 👉January 6-10, 2026 👉Alba di Canazei 🏔️ IT 👉 Call: dse.univr.it/it/documents...

I was going to ask if someone knows of a comprehensive archive of US state policies that changed over the last 50 years. But then I remembered there's this: ippsr.msu.edu/public-polic... So now I'm posting it here for everyone's benefit instead

#CancelCulture: Deutsche Studierende canceln laut Studie in PNAS eher konservative Standpunkte, da sie diese als gesellschaftlich gefährlicher wahrnehmen. Fachleute halten die Studie für robust, kritisieren aber Fragestellungen und Interpretation: www.sciencemediacenter.de/angebote/can...

Now available online and open access! The results of our adversarial collaboration on: Students’ motives for restricting academic freedom: Viewpoint discrimination and prosocial concerns | PNAS @pnas.org @nilsweidmann.bsky.social @kunkakom.bsky.social @drfell.bsky.social

I am sorry.

One of my favourite charts (my only contribution was the annotation)

Unless I miss the point of their paper entirely, Vos & Holbert (doi.org/10.1007/s112...) argue that the "hypothetical sampling" view of frequentism is not required, but can be viewed as chance outcomes with certain proportions. This seems to alleviate these CI-interpretation issues as well.

I don't think this science communication resource gets enough love. OpenMoji offers 4,000+ free, #opensource emojis (CC BY-SA 4.0), with categories for healthcare, climate, UI... Challenge: find Greta Thunberg and a Viennese coffee house. ☕ 🔗 openmoji.org #SciComm #Design

Confidence interval discussion time! The perfect opportunity to repost this blog post answering the question you haven’t dared to ask: www.the100.ci/2024/12/05/w...

Our November newsletter is out! 🌰🍁🎉 🔍 Check out our interview with Suzanne Jak & T. D. Jorgensen on #SEM ✨ Don’t miss updates on #GESISspringseminar, KODAQS, #GESISworkshops, and our look back at the #GESISfallseminar 👀 Enjoy the read: t1p.de/training-nl-... @kodaqs.bsky.social @gesis.org

Want to unlock deeper insights from clustered data? At our #GESISspringseminar, George Leckie @bristoluni.bsky.social teaches multilevel models for continuous & binary outcomes, with hands-on R/Stata practice in focused sessions. 🧩 Info & registration ➡️ t1p.de/spring26-week1 @gesis.org

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

Fantastic new work on the impact of (reported) faculty sexual misconduct. Lurking in the findings of this paper is the reality that reporting hurts survivors (and the broader community) more than it helps.

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

“We propose that scholarly publishing needs to be re-communalized. Universities, libraries, funders ... need to build a system that is community-led and managed, and which works to further research... This should involve active support for federated open infrastructures” arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820

IN OTHER NEWS: check out our new COIN paper on immigrant--native pay gaps in advanced economies published in @nature.com this afternoon! Specifically, we study the relative contribution of within-job unequal pay vs between-job segregation to earnings disparities across immigrant generations. 1/9

Are methodological and causal inference errors creating a false impression that the gut microbiome causes autism? In this strong analysis, Mitchell, Dahly, and Bishop question the evidence. They show that triangulation in science requires multiple robust lines of research.

Ha ha, I like "KI-gestutzt". Seriously, though: Why does the @socarxivbot.bsky.social replace Umlaute (ä, ö, ü) with the corresponding vowel?

Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

Do you have data that sometimes drives you crazy - or a question you have never had the right space to ask? Here’s the right place to ask, share, and learn: 📅 Feb 26 (13:00–17:00) & Feb 27 (09:00–17:00) 📍 IAB, Nürnberg 💻 Bring your laptop & ideas 🆓 Register: eveeno.com/econ-data-wo...

The billions of research funds channeled into the pockets of Elsevier and other commercial publisher in return for very little actual value is one of academia's big inefficiencies that will eventually be replaced by more attractive Community-run alternatives

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

🚀 Level up your regression skills! #GESISspringseminar 2026 – Advanced Regression Modeling 📅 09–27 March 2026 📍 GESIS Cologne | Online Learn advanced techniques, gain insights from experts, and connect with researchers worldwide. Info & Registration ➡️ gesis.org/springseminar & 🧵👇

BERLIN + CAUSAL GRAPHS = HAPPINESS. Agree? Follow: bsky.app/profile/appl... Spoiler: Edition #3 in the making for Q2 2026! Stay tuned!

Fahrt mit autonom steuerndem Auto durch Shenzhen (25 Mio Einwohner). Abbiegen, Überholen, Einparken, alles hands-off. Unternehmensvertreter: „Ihr müsst euch klar machen, dass diese Technologie bereits voll entwickelt ist. Es fehlt nur noch die gesetzliche Regulierung.“ Die nächste Disruption kommt.

Eine gute Einordnung zu einer bestenfalls mittelmäßigen Studie zu Schwangerschaftsabbrüchen und ihren psychischen Folgen, die kürzlich veröffentlicht wurde, findet sich hier: www.apotheken-umschau.de/gesund-bleib...

OK, #socsky, I'm looking for songs about intergenerational mobility (up or down) or class reproduction. E.g., Whiskeytown's Jacksonville Skyline ("I was born in an abundance of inherited sadness"). Or, in a lighter vein, Musgraves' "Merry Go-Round." Examples notwithstanding, the genre is open.

🤣

Doing non-causal inference (and being explicit about it), yet using a causal word as second word in the title. If you pay Nature € 10.690, they will publish this in Nature Ageing. I can tell you what I think of that for free. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

📊 now in English @fesonline.bsky.social: Gender gap in voting behavior in Germany📊 It's about the “big picture” since 1953 & current trends 2021-2025. The gender gap keeps growing, especially among the young. -> Longer trends are continuing & partly accelerating. library.fes.de/pdf-files/a-...

*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings *Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap *Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues

Kulturelle Darstellungen des Holocaust verringern die sog. Holocaust-Müdigkeit und verbessern die Einstellung gegenüber Jüdinnen*Juden und Geflüchteten. Dies zeigt eine neue Studie von @blfirestone.bsky.social (WZB), Ruth Ditlmann & @oguzhanturkoglu.bsky.social (beide @hertieschool.bsky.social). 👇

New evidence on how ICE is affecting student learning https://drive.google.com/file/d/1erU5Oe0vJYdVjuqQi4sfhUGxS0BGjWl8/view?usp=drivesdk

A lot is going on at @forrt.bsky.social! #OER, #metascience, #socialjustice, and much more. If you want to get a glimpse of some of the projects, check out this beautiful booklet at forrt.org/booklet created by @irissmal.bsky.social

This one surely has something on offer for every one: In this cross-sectional mediation analysis, the "effects" of soft drink consumption on depression were "mediated" by abundance of Eggerthela in the gut microbiome. This was sent to me via dm and now you all got to suffer as well.

LAST CALL! #Sociology Professorships in Copenhagen, Denmark! We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area. Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15! Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost! jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Notwendiges, wenn auch nicht hinreichendes, Kriterium guter Satire: Nicht gleich als solche erkannt zu werden.

Many good points. Not sure I agree with the suggestion to "reduce the abundance of review articles (meta analyses) and commentaries", though.