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The call for the DGOF Best Paper Award 2027 is out. Submit your published work on methods of online research by Sep 30. www.dgof.de/forschungsfo...

Genuinely interested in your views: What is the future of teaching statistical programming language for data science in the age of AI? Will we even still teach programming R or Python?

With conference season just around the corner, a bit of advice. Yes, you could easily get a gen-AI tool to draw a comic of you at your desk, cartoon thought bubbles over your head, your research question printed in the bubbles in comic sans font. That doesn't mean you should.

Out now! The latest issue of POQ! Read Volume 90, Issue 3, Fall 2026 here: academic.oup.com/poq/issue

#MRevilla kicks off 7th MASS Workshop in collaboration with the @erc.europa.eu funded WEB DATA OPP Project at @recsm.bsky.social in Barcelona. Many thanks to @floriankeusch.bsky.social @peterlugtig.bsky.social and #BStruminskaya for organizing this event with me🤓😎

We are thrilled to announce that the #ESRA27 call for sessions is now open! We invite all interested researchers to submit an abstract for an ESRA conference session by the end of August. More info here: www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference/p...

As part of a data donation project, we are collecting whitelists of "public actors"' (e.g., news, politicians, parties) Instagram handles. We're aware of some databases (HBI Public Speakers, Vienna's Meteor) - but hints to others (or whitelists shared as part of publications) more than welcome 🫶

Grad students, just an FYI, reputable journals in your discipline don’t need to recruit scholars to submit manuscripts to them. So if you‘re getting email invites to submit your work to [journal you never heard of], it belongs in spam.

"10x more evidence based" sounds scientific right up until you spend three seconds thinking about it

📢 Register now!! 📢 Join Johanna Hölzl for our next #CS3Meeting on May 19, 3:15 to 4:00 PM (CEST). Learn about the generalizability, reliability, and validity of #APIs (e.g., #YouTube @nytimes.com) and their implications for reproducibility in #CSS. 🚨 Sign up here: ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...

Sign up‼️ And learn from Johanna Hölzl about her outstanding research on API-based data⬇️

friend: just skim & tell me if it's ready to submit me:

As part of the special issue Explanation and Causality in Sociology, @rubac.bsky.social, @cklamm.bsky.social and I discussed what it takes to do causal inference with text as data - whether we try to explain texts, treat them as causes, or use them as controls 💬🔍👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

❗️📢 Tue, Apr 28, 10:00-11:00 CET 📍 A 231 and ZOOM Mannheim Research Colloquium on Survey Methods #MaRCS with Henning Silber, @umich.edu "Why People (Don’t) Participate in Surveys: Evidence from Multiple Studies and Population" 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even... 1/2

a nonprob college fraternity panel called brolific

🆕 Content alert on Methods Bites ▶️ "Survey Recruitment on LinkedIn: A Step-by-Step Guide to Targeted Outreach" 👤 Zaza Zindel (DeZIM) & Lisa de Vries (FernUniversität Hagen) 🔗 Blogpost: socialsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/article/link...

🚨 Upcoming: "AIn't Nothing But a Survey? Using Large Language Models for Coding Open-Ended Survey Responses" 👤 Leah von der Heyde (GESIS) 🗓️ Wed, April 22, 13:45-15:15 CET 📺 Register for the live stream: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 🔗 socialsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/page/events/

Registration is open for the Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques at ISR! Learn from leading experts, build flexible online coursework, and strengthen your survey research skills this summer. Register now and view the class catalog below.

We opened a new PhD position in our department focusing on CSS research on and with AI agents. Please share the job ad and contact us if you have questions: gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2594220?...

Partisan nonresponse bias in a nutshell

Are you a survey researcher eager to learn data science? In our #GESISsummerschool course, learn how to collect and analyze digital behavioral and traditional survey data using modern data science tools – and how to apply them effectively to real-world research questions. ➡️ t1p.de/GSS26-C4

Don’t randomize response options like this 💀

While we’re doing this, it’s pronounced “lick-ert”. Not “like-ert”.

Someone went to the trouble of creating 5 fake OSF accounts today, linking to 5 fake ORCID accounts, and generating 5 fake papers to submit to SocArXiv, with fake author and emails. Dude, if you are reading this, I hope you get the help you need (or a better job).

🚀Introducing 𝐆𝐔𝐈𝐃𝐄-𝐋𝐋𝐌: A reporting checklist for using LLMs in behavioral & social science ✅GUIDE-LLM is a reporting checklist designed by 80+ experts to improve transparency, reproducibility & ethical accountability of LLM-based research 📄 llm-checklist.com

Interested in causal inference with survey data? Join the GESIS Summer School course with @tobiaswolbring.bsky.social and me: training.gesis.org?site=pDetail... @gesistraining.bsky.social

it set this one back when everyone was doing it go.bsky.app/3H1Pf9z

Another day, another stupid Excel chart.

Hannah Ritchie has built a fun little tool where you can compare energy usage of various products and activities. This is super helpful imho, because it's so hard to develop intuitions even just about the scales involved here. hannahritchie.substack.com/p/does-that-...

We are happy to have been part of the inspiring #GOR2026, where the KODAQS team presented research on data donations, satisficing, recruitment mechanisms, and awareness of data quality. We are especially proud of Leah von der Heyde, who received the best dissertation award👏

The 4th annual NIMLAS plenary meeting is today! Looking forward to updates from our pilot project awardees and a keynote workshop from @jonburton.bsky.social on state-of-the art methods for obtaining consent to additional collection in longitudinal studies of aging. Details: nimlas.isr.umich.edu

I Kogan, Kollegin in der Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften an der Uni Mannheim, erhält den Landes­forschungs­preises Baden-Württemberg 2026 für ihre Grundlagenforschung zu Bildungs- und Berufs­chancen von Migrant*innen. Tolle Nachrichten und well-deserved! www.uni-mannheim.de/news/irena-k...

#BlueShell #EarlyCareer #SpeedNetworking #GOR26 – don’t miss the Early Career Speed Networking Event: www.conftool.org/gor...#BlueShell#EarlyCareer#SpeedNetworking#GOR26SIS supports young scientists! Meet you in Blue Shell in Cologne!

❗📣 Great news: Mannheim sociologist and former MZES director Irena Kogan has been awarded the 2026 research prize of the state of Baden-Württemberg for outstanding achievements in basic research. Congratulations on this high Honour! 👏🥳🏆 Press release (in German): www.uni-mannheim.de/newsroom/pre...

🎉 The KODAQS Data Quality Academy Individual Training is open for registration! ➡️Free and flexible online learning resource ➡️ Content selection based on interests and knowledge level ➡️ Learning paths for survey, digital behavioral, and linked data 👉 Regiser: www.gesis.org/en/gesis-tra...

📚 Special issue in Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie on Explanation and Causality in Sociology. Essential reading on where causal inference in sociology is heading link.springer.com/collections/...

Ranking a strongly agree to strongly disagree scale is a new one for me…

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Really enjoyed writing this piece with @heinzleitgoeb.bsky.social. Helped me structure my own thinking about when and how to use digital behavioral data for causal inference. Hope others find it useful as well!

Love surveys? We're hiring! We're looking for new members of the polling team at @bluelabs.bsky.social. Two roles are focused on execution of day-to-day polling operations (Polling Manager, Lead Polling Manager) while the Survey Scientist is an R&D role! Share & apply! bluelabs.com/careers/

Joint paper with @floriankeusch.bsky.social out now: We discuss opportunities and challenges of causal inference from digital behavioral data, and methodological approaches for making these data fit for purpose: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New paper on causal machine learning with Nanum Jeon @nanum-jeon.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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...