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Patrick Präg
@ppraeg.bsky.social
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I'm a sociologist working at the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST)

I also have a website: patrickpraeg.com

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Gabriel Yoran @yoran.com · 9h
[erster Tag als Statistiker]
jetzt bloß keinen Standardfehler machen

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 2d
2025 best of

1) Oxford congestion charge
2) Mahler: 1st Symphony
3) Caspak & Lanois: Die Kurzhosengang
4) The Fall: This Nation's Saving Grace
5) Jörg Burger: Total Jörg Burger
6) Thomas Bernhard: Frost

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ruettenauer.bsky.social
Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 4d
🎄 Still looking for a gift for your favourite social scientist?

How about a #preprint with 717 urban areas, 30 countries, and 16,164 models of #Immigrant #Segregation across Europe? Just published with @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social & David Kretschmer 🎅

🎁 Wrapped up here: arxiv.org/abs/2512.17037

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Marc Keuschnigg @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social · 4d
How can analytical sociology harness the computational social science revolution? 🔆
👉Observe behavior in actual social environments, capture interdependent dynamics, follow up cumulative effects
🔗Access chapter 5 on strengthening mechanism-based explanations of macro phenomena osf.io/preprints/so...

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aman.bh
Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 5d
> We archived around 86M music files, representing around 99.6% of listens. It’s a little under 300TB. This is the largest music metadata database that is publicly available.

Many interesting 📊 charts on this page that can only be made by having this scale of data.

annas-archive.li/blog/backing...
Chart showing that 70% of songs are ones almost no one ever listens to (stream count < 1000). A chart titled "Stream Count Analysis by Popularity" showing a histogram of total streams peaking at popularity scores of 60–70, overlaid with a line graph showing average streams per song spiking exponentially at scores of 90–100. Below, a table lists the top three songs by stream count: "Die With A Smile," "BIRDS OF A FEATHER," and "DtMF." A matrix grid with the title "Audio Features Correlation Heatmaps" showing histograms of musical traits (Tempo, Energy, Valence, etc.) along the diagonal and 2D density heatmaps showing correlations between paired features in the intersecting cells.

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readdemography.bsky.social
Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · 7d
“Who Partners With Whom in Diverse Societies?”: @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social & @frankvantubergen.bsky.social use NL register data & find “Muslim groups maintain boundaries for union formation to other national origin groups." @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social @rug.nl read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

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Gabriel Yoran @yoran.com · 7d
vor lauter Stratifizierung wieder zu nichts gekommen

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Emily is taking a break from social media see you in 2026 @emilyherring.bsky.social · 8d
This is what being a continental philosopher feels like and that’s why the analytics hate us
Neo and Trinity on set smoking in between Matrix takes (probably the roof scene)

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 8d
Still waiting for an invite from Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 9d
Really grateful for the data sleuths, my main takeaway is that I can submit my papers to Nature Aging

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Marti Rovira @mrovira.bsky.social · 9d
🚨 New article with J. Rodríguez-Menés, @dimipa.bsky.social, and @maikevd.bsky.social on the crime trajectories of intimate partner offenders. 📊📈
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Generalists or specialists? Unpacking crime trajectories of intimate partner violence offenders
This study examines the heterogeneity of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) perpetrators by distinguishing IPV specialists, whose violence is limited to …
www.sciencedirect.com

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Alicia García-Sierra @aliciagsierra.bsky.social · 10d
New paper in the American Journal of Sociology (with Michael Grätz), and a very good way to close an important chapter!

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Does Expanding Free Secondary Education Moderate the Relationship Between Genes and Socioeconomic Outcomes? Evidence from the Education Act of 1944 in England | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, N...
www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Moritz Oberndorfer @moberndorfer.bsky.social · 11d
News from the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health: doi.org/10.1136/jech...
Annie Herbert and I will co-chair the new Scientific Review Panel at JECH (read more about it in the editorial).
There are new methodological recommendations for authors of quant studies at jech.bmj.com/pages/authors
Reflecting on the year passed and the year ahead
For many of us, the start of a new calendar year is a time for reflection—of the things that we have to be grateful for and our goals and ambitions for the year ahead. In our first editorial of 2026, ...
doi.org

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 12d
My year-end book roundup and gift recommendations: 29 books
familyinequality.wordpress.com/2025/12/14/y...
Book covers Book covers Book covers

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 13d
Quick please tell me what is "Analytical Sociology" again, need to come up with an abstract

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paleofuture.bsky.social
Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14d
Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
Steve Bannon laughing next to Noam Comsky in a photo release by the Epstein estate

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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · 14d
📢 Analytical sociology is coming home!

Call 4 INAS26 is open

🌍 1-3Jul26 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social and @sociologyoxford.bsky.social (☔)

☢️ Deadline: 1Feb26

🦹 Organisers: @aksoyundan.bsky.social , @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social, D Kretschmer, @awaldendorf.bsky.social

Info: tinyurl.com/yc2tusjx
INAS Conference 2026 - Nuffield College Oxford University
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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 14d
Or maybe not?

www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentatio...

www.diw.de/en/diw_01.c....

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 14d
More or less, you need to register

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 14d
New theme song just dropped
Money Boy - Monsieur Money Boy
YouTube video by Money Boy Reups
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evakimova.bsky.social
evakimova.bsky.social @evakimova.bsky.social · 15d
Honored and excited to be giving a talk at New Uzbekistan University!
As someone born and raised in Tashkent, this opportunity feels especially meaningful-returning home to share my research with the academic community that shaped my early years is truly special. www.linkedin.com/posts/newuu-...
Research Seminar: How Chronotypes Affect Health and Society | Economics Department, New Uzbekistan University posted on the topic | LinkedIn
Students, faculty and experts are invited 17 December 2 pm  Research Seminar of Econ Dept Living Against the Clock: How Chronotypes, Sleep, and Society Interact What happens when our work or relatio...
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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 17d
I have no idea how it is for other people tbh

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 17d
I did run the numbers just now and I was invited to re-review 8 times (accepted: 7) and I recommended acceptance in 70% of cases

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 17d
I didn't count higher-round invitations (or reviews) at all for this exercise, thank you for your interest!

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 17d
THIS THURSDAY, 14:00 Paris time: Mads Meier Jaeger at the CREST Sociology seminar! "Breadth, Depth, or Consecration? Omnivorousness Tastes in Music and Perceptions of Status and Competence"

In person at ENSAE (room 3001) or on-line for everyone to watch: zoom.us/j/9841885599...
This study examines whether omnivorous music tastes—broad preferences spanning multiple genres—create more favorable perceptions of status and competence compared to traditional highbrow–lowbrow distinctions. Using a pre-registered survey experiment, researchers presented respondents with vignettes of hypothetical individuals' top 10 most-streamed artists, manipulating four key attributes: number of genres (omnivorousness), genre consecration level, listening volume (voracity), and artist consecration. Data on genre and artist consecration came from a separate survey of 1,284 respondents. Results reveal distinct patterns in how musical taste affects social perceptions. Omnivorous tastes (listening to more genres) enhanced perceptions of sociability and cosmopolitanism, with people viewing omnivores as more social, creative, and open-minded. Conversely, preferences for more consecrated genres like classical music and jazz improved perceptions of traditional status markers—social rank, economic competence, cultural sophistication, and trustworthiness—but decreased sociability ratings. Artist-level consecration and listening volume showed minimal effects on perceptions. These findings suggest that omnivorous and consecrated tastes operate through different mechanisms: omnivorous preferences signal modern social capital (creativity, sociability), while consecrated genre preferences signal traditional cultural capital (wealth, sophistication). This supports theories that contemporary cultural distinction involves both traditional highbrow-lowbrow hierarchies and newer omnivore–univore divisions. This study is joint work with Rikke Haudrum Rasmussen and Mikkel Haderup Larsen.

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 17d
"And now a word from one of your favorites"

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 17d
- Invitations accepted: 14, most frequent recommendation: R&R (80%)
- Avg. no. of days until I submitted my review: 14.3

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 17d
Peer review wrapped 2025

- Received 74 invitations to review manuscripts
- Among those 9 from Social Science & Medicine, 7 from BMC Public Health (BMC journals in total: 12), 6 from Scientific Reports

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Lars Weisbrod @weisbrod.bsky.social · 18d
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