I was recently part of a panel discussion amongst the authors of papers on methods for new data sources in a special issue of Methods, Data, Analyses (MDA): youtu.be/NryM0GGsXYY I discuss new methods for secondary analyses of linked data sets, where some of the records may be linked in error.

We are delighted to welcome Leah von der Heyde! Leah joined KODAQS as a postdoc in the SDM department at GESIS, focusing on data quality aspects of survey data using AI methods. Leah's research explores AI usability for measuring and representing public opinion. #KodaqsAcademy #AIinSurveys

In addition to official policies that are in place, I've started including this 'personal AI policy' in communications with students I supervise.

Warum bekennen sich viele Menschen zur #Demokratie, wählen aber Politikerinnen & Politiker, die diese untergraben? Damit beschäftigt sich LMU-Politikwissenschaftler Alexander Wuttke, der nun eine #Förderung von 1,17 Millionen aus dem Emmy Noether-Programm der @dfg.de erhalten hat! #LMUMuenchen

Got a great paper on how AI is reshaping public opinion research? Submit it to POQ's special issue on Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Survey Research! Papers are being reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis starting now – full details here: s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/clarivate-sc...

Check out our new paper on the demographic foundations of trust in science in @poqjournal.bsky.social The tldr is that w/ all of the radical shifts in trust in the US over the last 50+ years, the demographic predictors of trust in science have been rock steady(!) academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

"Ten simple rules for teaching data science": arxiv.org/abs/2602.02874 A new preprint by @minecr.bsky.social and myself. We'd love any feedback!

I don't often wear political t-shirts, but I'm proudly sporting this one today. I'm an immigrant. I teach American (and international!) college students, research the U.S. economy, consult with policymakers, write books, raise my kids, pay taxes, and try to make this a better place.

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

Who opts into a data donation study asking for Google Search histories – and more importantly, who actually donates their data? Sina Chen and I found that Green Party and FDP voters were more likely to follow through, hinting at political skew in donated data 👇

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

🚀 KODAQS Data Quality Academy Certificate Program 2026 – Now Open for Applications! 6-month program for early-career researchers: data quality, processing & networking. Online blended learning, Mar–Sep. Apply by 8 Feb ➡️ www.gesis.org/en/gesis-tra...

Today, we celebrate the 80th year of the @um-src.bsky.social at ISR by launching a new web panel starting Fall 2026. It is called M-Panel and will be collecting a national sample representative of the U.S.

🚨 #Bots and #LLMs threaten the integrity of online surveys and public opinion research, but we can identify LLM-generated text in open narrative responses by fine-tuning #BERT. New #OpenAccess article with @jkhoehne.bsky.social @rubac.bsky.social @carohaensch.bsky.social. 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0894...

Last call📢📢 Don't be late😉 MASS workshop meets up with WEB DATA OPP in Barcelona from June 4 to 5 2026😎🤓 Join @floriankeusch.bsky.social @peterlugtig.bsky.social #BellaStruminskaya #MelanieRevilla and me. APPLY APPLY APPLY📮⬇️ massworkshop.org

Postdoc position in CSS/Sociology at @unidue.bsky.social: www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste... EG 13 TV-L for three years Please apply before Feb 5th 2026 Research cluster Anja Weiß, Institute for Sociology, University of Duisburg-Essen #computationalsocialscience

Gentle reminder📢📢 MASS workshop meets up with WEB DATA OPP in Barcelona from June 4 to 5 2026😎🤓 Join @floriankeusch.bsky.social @peterlugtig.bsky.social #BellaStruminskaya #MelanieRevilla and me. Check out the call⬇️ and apply‼️ massworkshop.org

We invite applications for a Research Assistant Professor in the Survey Methodology Program. We are seeking candidates who are developing methods for acquiring & integrating non-traditional sources & applying AI & emerging technologies to survey methodology myumi.ch/R3AWy @umisr.bsky.social

Call for Applications for the Data Quality #Academy Certificate Program 2026 The call for applications for the #KODAQS Academy’s certificate program is open: www.gesis.org/en/ges...#Academy#KODAQSThe program is aimed at early-career researchers from various disciplines who work with social science data.

We are hiring a Research Assistant Professor within the Survey Methodology Program, located in the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. Click on the link below for more details, and join an outstanding group of faculty! apply.interfolio.com/179362

🚨 A recent @pnas.org article raised serious concerns about LLM-based manipulation of online surveys. Good news: We’re not helpless. In a new #OpenAccess article with @jkhoehne.bsky.social #bwolf, we show that LLM-driven bots can be detected using simple prompt injections. 🌐 doi.org/10.1080/1364...

This… Increasingly, the Internet/social media feels like such a horrible place. And then a video like this pops up and gives me hope that not all is lost.

Got a great paper on how AI is reshaping public opinion research? Submit it to POQ's special issue on Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Survey Research! Papers are being reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis starting now – full details here: s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/clarivate-sc...

IC2S2 2026 registration is open! Explore the 2026 conference here ➡️ ic2s2-2026.org ✔️ Submissions open December 15th ✔️ Keynotes will be announced between now and February ✔️ Full program of selected talks and tutorials will be available in late April

interesting paper on application of total survey error framework to biomedical data doi.org/10.21203/rs....

In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps: /1

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.

I believe eigen fly. I believe eigen touch the sky.

🚨 Upcoming: "Brave New Data Access World: What the Digital Services Act (DSA) Means for Researcher Access to Digital Platforms" 👤 @dscheykopp.bsky.social (Weizenbaum Institute Berlin) 🗓️ Wed, December 3, 13:45-15:15 CET 📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

If you work with individual-level data from Very Large Online Platforms or Search Engines (VLOPSEs), then you probably want to read - and hopefully sign - this letter!

This is important for all platform researchers! Please read and sign the OPEN LETTER to the EU Commission and share widely in your networks!

Heads up! If you are interested in pursuing graduate studies in survey and data science (read: all things quantitative social science) at the University of Michigan, please check out these upcoming info sessions!

🚨 Last chance to sign up for the next #CS3Meeting 🚨 Zaza Zindel talks about Social media as a tool for survey recruitment on November 25, 03:15 to 04:00 PM (CET). 🗓️ Sign up until Monday: ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...

📣 Apply Now: Be part of the GESS 📣 🎓 #ApplyNow to our fully funded doctoral programs beginning Fall 2026! 📊 #Business 📊 #Economics 📊 #SocialSciences Application Deadlines: 📬 Early: 15 Jan 2026 📬 Final: 31 March 2026 🔗 Don’t miss your chance to apply via our Online Application Portal:

come work with us! @bluelabs.bsky.social is hiring a survey scientist. we're looking for someone who loves working with survey data and wants to solve tricky problems facing the polling industry. please share widely! job-boards.greenhouse.io/bluelabsanal...

📢 New insights on #GenAI interviewing agents asking sensitive open questions compared to a text-based web survey. Answers to male agent include more topics, but no evidence of social desirability. 👉 New #OpenAccess paper with @jkhoehne.bsky.social #cneuert in #IJMR. 🌐 doi.org/10.1177/1470...

"dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap" hadley.github.io/genzplyr/

Got a great paper on how AI is reshaping public opinion research? Submit it to POQ's special issue on Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Survey Research! Papers are being reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis starting now – full details here: s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/clarivate-sc...

Attention please‼️ MASS workshop meets up with WEB DATA OPP in Barcelona in 2026😎😎 Join @floriankeusch.bsky.social @peterlugtig.bsky.social #BellaStruminskaya #MelanieRevilla and me. Check out the call⬇️ massworkshop.org

Can AI-generated images work as visual vignettes in survey experiments? I argue yes - and discuss how . in my new @sscratsage.bsky.social paper: doi.org/10.1177/0894...

📣 New Social Data Science doctoral track launching in 2026 at our Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences (CDSS)! Applications open mid-November 2025. ℹ️ www.uni-mannheim.de/gess/apply/admission-requirements/for-cdss/ #PhD #DoctoralStudies #DataScience #SocialStudies

@sscratsage.bsky.social received it 1,000th submission today - November 1st. Last year, the journal broke its submission record at 1,020. I wonder what we will do this year?

Interested in understanding #bias in #CSS? ✨Here's our Special Issue editorial in Communication Methods and Measures: "Critical, but constructive: defining, detecting, and addressing bias in Computational Social Science" 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1931... (with @bachl.bsky.social & Nathan TeBlunthuis)

Ever wondered how to get better survey feedback from respondents? 🧐 👉 Check out our new @jssam.bsky.social paper together with @jkhoehne.bsky.social @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social testing different (1) visual designs and (2) answer formats of #FinalCommentQuestions. 🌐 academic.oup.com/jssam/advanc...

Any experiences with data donation of #Spotify listening history? I requested to download my full listening history and it said that it would take 30 days to produce the download. 2 hours later I received the link to the zip file with full JSON records. Any other experiences with this?

New article! About a year ago, I asked ChatGPT 3.5 to calculate the reading level of survey questions. It was totally wrong. And this paper was born! Trent Buskirk and I examine multiple ChatGPT and Claude models for evaluating question reading levels & inputs. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"Representative sample" is a flawed, ambiguous concept and it does not have a precise definition in the technical literature of survey sampling, so you should avoid using it at all costs. /TheEnd