Read our latest special issue in Survey Methodology: ➡️ Advancing Comparative Research: Exploring Error and Quality Indicators in Social Research. Edited by @heinzleitgoeb.bsky.social, Stefanie Kley, Katharina Meitinger & Natalia Menold. surveyinsights.org

New draft: "Decline effects, statistical artifacts, and a meta-analytic paradox". In this manuscript I show how a common practice in meta-analysis (eg the 2015 Open Science Collaboration) creates artifactual signatures of poor scientific behavior. PDF: raw.githubusercontent.com/richarddmore... 1/x

The science barometer 2025 is now available! It focuses on the topic of polarisation and the role that science can play in a society that is perceived as polarised. All results and a background paper on polarisation can be found on our website: 📊 wissenschaft-im-dialog.de/ressourcen/#... #scicomm

📢KODAQS Data Quality Academy Certificate Program 2026 open for applications - take the currently last opportunity to register for our six-month program and become a verified data quality steward 📢 Call for Applications: www.gesis.org/en/gesis-tra... 📆Application Deadline: February 8, 2026.

New skills bloom this May with #GESISworkshops 🌸 Explore: 🌐📊 Preprocessing and Analyzing Web Tracking Data 🧩📈 Introduction to Conjoint Survey Experiments 💻⏱️ Introduction to R @gesis.org Full program ➡️ gesis.org/training Workshop details 🧵👇

Does it make sense to preregister simulation studies? This question has sparked a lot of debate. ▶️We* work through the why, when, and how ▶️We discuss different phases of methodological research to clarify where preregistration might (or might not) add value 📝 Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

📢 Finally it is out! Celebrating 40 years of ISSP and what exciting research can be done with this great data.

Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...

Registration is now open! 📢 Join us for the Science:TBD Symposium — a space for exchange and discussion around emerging questions that resonate beyond disciplinary boundaries. 📍 3 & 4 March 2026, Leipzig 📝 Register now: www.idiv.de/science-tbd #Science #Biodiversity #Symposium #ResearchCommunity

New preprint! So, what's a multiverse analysis good for anyway?> With @jessicahullman.bsky.social and @statmodeling.bsky.social juliarohrer.com/wp-content/u...

📢 Call for Hidden Papers & Data on Ingroup Favoritism in Dictator Games We look for unpublished and hard-to-access experimental studies for our meta-analysis! Inclusion criteria: no deception, adults, manipulation of group membership of dictator game recipients. All tips and data very welcome!

I wrote a blog for the Meta-Research Center expressing my infinite frustration about not getting data. What else is new, you might think? Well, I added an extra layer of annoyance directed at the journals who do NOTHING to enforce promised data sharing. metaresearch.nl/blog/2026/2/...

More details (in German only) about the event that also celebrated the Award for Student Engagement and the Promotion of Democracy: www.uni-konstanz.de/universitaet...

🧵 New version of our paper (@bcegerod.bsky.social) is finally online: "How Many is Enough? Sample Size in Staggered Difference-in-Differences Designs" We show that even well-identified DiD studies are often underpowered; sample sizes needed are surprisingly large Paper: osf.io/preprints/os... 1/6

Until we as a species can settle on which modifier key we should use to switch between "newline" and "submit" when hitting ↩ I see no future for us

And... we're off Join us next Spring at the University of Potsdam for the third Applied Causal Graphs workshop: applied-causal-graphs.de Now that the date and place are set and two of the keynote speakers are fixed, all we need is an abstract from you.

The fact that CRAN now automatically generates DOIs is really great. Trivial to slurp up via Zotero and then cite package authors like they should be.

I've always appreciated what FreDA offers on women's and men's attitudes toward family processes! @freda-panel.bsky.social #sociology #demography

Call for Abstracts: multidisciplinary conference “Spatial dynamics in refugees’ multidimensional integration” (Bamberg) Extended abstracts Submission deadline: 30 April 2026 Submission email: [email protected] Further information: www.lifbi.de/de-de/Start/...

ECSR Thematic Conference "Life Course and Social Stratification", University of Trento (Italy), 23-24 April 2026 Submit your abstract to: [email protected] Deadline for abstract submissions: 22 February 2026 For full details, please visit the conference website: sites.google.com/unitn.it/ecs...

#GESISPanel #DBD #Digitalization Dealing with #AI - Topics from the first wave of data from GESIS Panel.dbd In the survey, more than 2.000 people were asked: “What would reassure you about the increasing spread of AI technologies?”

#DatensatzdesMonats #datasetofmonth #Wissenschaftsbarometer2025 #ScienceBarometer2025 Das Wissenschaftsbarometer untersucht fortlaufend das Interesse, das Informationsverhalten und das Vertrauen der Öffentlichkeit in Wissenschaft und Forschung. search.gesis.org/res...

Wow. 🤯 "When two years of academic work vanished with a single click" www.nature.com/articles/d41... #science #research #LLM #ChatGPT #AI #academicchatter #academia #openscience #replicability #nature

We are looking for a doctoral researcher to work with us on a supercool project in collaboration with linguists. The deadline is Feb 15th, contact me if you have any questions! stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/9...

We @uni-konstanz.de are hiring a full professor in machine learning for our MSc program in Social and Economic Data Science: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/6...

For absolutely no reason, let me remind people of this banger of a paper by @caroartc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...

My colleague Kevin Munger asked me and a bunch of editors to sit and think through AI and peer review. Our take: osf.io/9sxnc/files/... We envision an increased (!) involvement of humans in the evaluation of social science.

Users of survey data, lovers of DAGs, and general methodological enthusiasts, gather round! I'm so excited to share this new paper, joint work with my brilliant colleagues @rjsilverwood.bsky.social, @pwgtennant.bsky.social, and Liam Wright. 🧵

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)

If someone paid you $4.75 every night you slept 7+ hours, would you sleep more? And--more importantly--would that increase in sleep change your behavior in other meaningful ways? This new paper ran an experiment to find out.

🚨 We’re hiring! Join the #DigitalEconomy team at #ZEW 🚀 The team led by @bertschek.bsky.social is hiring a Postdoc (6-year position, option for a permanent contract). Develop an independent research agenda in an academically vibrant environment. ➡️ jobs.zew.de/jobposting/3...

📣 Join us on Wed, 25 Mar 2026, 10 –16 h at #GESIS Mannheim. We will explore: ✓ Research integrity & responsible #AI use ✓ Quality standards in AI-assisted publishing ✓ Future opportunities for the scholarly publishing system 📝 Register now: indico3-jsc.fz-juelich.de/event/262/

Just learned about this study looking at methodological trends in psych and econ over time: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art.... Matches my perception well: Nobody in psych bothers to (explicitly) try causal inference unless they conducted an experiment, not a lot of theoretical work either.

📣 We're hiring! 🎓 PhD positions open (start: Oct 2026)! We invite applications in behavioral & experimental economics and economic design, jointly with @wisocologne.bsky.social. Option to work on the evaluation of the @malengo.org program. 📅 Deadline: March 15 🔗 www.coll.mpg.de/419085/appli...

Ready for #LoveDataWeek26? This year's theme is "Where's the Data?" – a way to get people thinking about data’s journey from collection through storage and preservation. To learn how you can participate in #LoveData26, visit http://myumi.ch/ICPSRLoveDataWeek#LoveDataWeek26?

Aktionswoche zum Umgang mit Daten: Love Data Week (09.02.-13.02.2026) Auch 2026 bietet forschungsdaten.info einen Überblick zu Veranstaltungen im deutschsprachigen Raum. forschungsdaten.info/fdm-im-deuts... #FDMPower #LoveData26 #Forschungsdaten #Forschungsdatenmanagement #FDM #RDM #OpenScience

📅 Mark your calendars for #SIPS2027! The 2027 SIPS conference, organized in collaboration with the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science @aimosinc.bsky.social, will be held in November at the University of Melbourne, Australia. We are looking forward to seeing you there!

Collaborative groups often outperform single individuals in complex problem solving. A new paper examined how to create the right incentives to promote this kind of collective intelligence. www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

📢 Call for papers: CESifo Area Conference on Economics of Education co-organized w/ Eric Hanushek (Stanford) 🏛️ 11-12 Sept 2026, Munich 🧑‍🏫 Keynote: John List (Chicago) @johnlist.bsky.social 👉 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev... ⏰ Deadline: 11 May 2026 🖼️ Past programs: sites.google.com/view/woessma...

📣 Our introduction to structural causal models in science studies is now published: doi.org/10.1162/QSS.... @tklebel.bsky.social and I tried to make our introduction as accessible as possible. We illustrate the theory by three case studies based on a simulated model of Open Science. 🧵(1/6)

#CausalInference using #DAGs in #mixedmethodsresearch @gesistraining.bsky.social 👇 #sociology #polsci #causality

Anyone (else) with experiences or opinions on Qeios?

📣 Let’s take a sneak peek at our upcoming talks 🤩 The MZES Speaker Series 2026 will kick off on 📆 Tue, 17 February We are very much looking forward to Fabio Franchino (Università degli Studi di Milano) @melindacmills.bsky.social @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social Olga Stavrova (Uni Mannheim) (...) 1/5

🚨 Are Gen Z gender gaps in gender equality attitudes really as pronounced as perceived? In a new preprint w/ @stinasiegert.bsky.social , we analyzed 82k+ young adults across 24 European countries. 👉 Read here: osf.io/6h9gd_v1

interesting paper on how to measure newly acquired skills www.nber.org/papers/w34737

Mit einer zusätzlichen Georeferenzierung ist es nun möglich, Regionaldaten mit dem Datenangebot des Nationalen Bildungspanels (NEPS) zu verknüpfen. infas erhebt Daten für #NEPS und infas 360 hat kleinräumige Regionalindikatoren zur Verfügung gestellt. Mehr Informationen: www.lifbi.de/de-de/Start/...

🚨 Last chance to sign up for the next #CS3Meeting 🚨 Melanie Revilla talks about integrating new types of data into web surveys on January 28, 3:15 to 4:00 PM (CET). 🗓️ Sign up until Tuesday (January 27): ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...

How many versions of the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) exist? And how much does this affect research using the IGT? More than you might think. 🧵

Habe ich die Links zu den Studien/Veröffentlichungen von Thorsten Otto übersehen, oder war das der @taz.de zu kompliziert?

Das kosten Departments an oeffentlichen (Spitzen-)Universitaeten in den USA. Tolles Tool. www.prof-salary.com