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Julia M. Rohrer

@dingdingpeng.the100.ci

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)

Mean life satisfaction in the survey years 2010, 2015 and 2023, separately for female and male gender.
In general, girls have lower scores but in 2023, they are drifting even further down

The city of Leipzig in Germany conducts large-scale school surveys of adolescents in secondary education schools. Following the regular surveys in 2010 and 2015, the 2020 survey had to be rescheduled to 2023 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this latest survey wave, the gender gap in general life satisfaction has significantly grown. While in 2010 and 2015 girls were somewhat less satisfied than boys (0.26 to 0.33 SD), in 2023 this gender gap had doubled (with girls 0.57 SD less satisfied). Why? Here, we probe various explanations, aiming to provide a template for researchers who are asking reverse causal questions (“What caused this?”). First, we find that the widening of the gender gap is much more pronounced among students with a migration background. This could plausibly be explained by a shift in the composition of the underlying population, with a strong increase of Syrian students, and a relative decrease of Vietnamese ones. Second, among students without a migration background, part of the increasing gender gap could potentially be attributed to survey mode: In 2023, for the first time, the survey was conducted on tablets—and unexpectedly, girls (but not boys) reported significantly lower satisfaction when surveyed on tablet rather than on paper. Third, beyond these two patterns, we still find significantly widening gender gaps in satisfaction with leisure time activities and relationships to friends. Thus, there may be a substantive increase in the gender gap in satisfaction in those two domains that is not readily attributable to changes in population and survey mode.

January 29, 2026 at 2:57 PM

Georg Henning

@georghenning.bsky.social

Dass linkedin denkt ich bin Therapeut? Geschenkt.
Aber das erste empfohlene Job ist doch ein "bißchen " außerhalb meines Profils

January 29, 2026 at 11:14 AM

Georg Henning

@georghenning.bsky.social

Stellenvergabe in der wissenschaft
🤝
Psychometrik in der klinischen Psychologie

Netzwerke spielen eine größere Rolle als sie meiner Meinung nach sollten

January 29, 2026 at 10:26 AM

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Julia M. Rohrer

@dingdingpeng.the100.ci

May be of interest to the reproducibility folks: New tutorial on computational reproducibility for simulation studies just dropped! felipelfv.github.io/Why-risk-it-...

by @felipefv.bsky.social, Jason Geller & @brodriguesco.bsky.social

Why Risk it, When You Can {rix} it: A Tutorial for Computational Reproducibility Focused on Simulation Studies

January 28, 2026 at 11:26 AM

Reposted by Georg Henning

Mistress Usili (Sage) 🏳️‍⚧️

@usili.bsky.social

Bilbo looking at his phone top

on bottom is ChatGPT

After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?

You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

January 28, 2026 at 1:51 AM

Georg Henning

@georghenning.bsky.social

Postdoc stelle im tollen Wien bei der tollen @lauramkoenig.bsky.social !

www.psychjob.eu/de/job/unive...

January 27, 2026 at 9:09 AM

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Nadiya Kelle

@nadiyakelle.bsky.social

Homeoffice ist gekommen, um zu bleiben. Aber profitierten pflegende Angehörige in der Pandemie davon?

Unsere Studie in den WSI-Mitteilungen zeigt:
Pflegende nutzten Homeoffice nicht häufiger als andere. Pflegende Frauen fühlten sich jedoch weniger einsam und zufriedener.

👉 doi.org/10.5771/0342...

WSI-Mitteilungen

doi.org

January 26, 2026 at 2:55 PM

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Eutychus

@eutychusneindanke.bsky.social

Don't do your research with AI. Don't do research all together. Hallucinate yourself. Saw a dragon the other day. Cool Stuff

January 26, 2026 at 8:30 AM

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Julia M. Rohrer

@dingdingpeng.the100.ci

Today, I covered Daryl Bem's 2011 paper "Feeling the Future."

There's always a number of students who have a hard time believing that it is *not* satire or some sort of Sokal hoax; just look at this section discussing alternative interpretations:

1. Precognition or retroactive influence: The participant is,
in fact, accessing information yet to be determined in the
future, implying that the direction of the causal arrow has
been reversed.
2. Clairvoyance/remote viewing: The participant is accessing already determined information in real time, information that is stored in the computer.
3. Psychokinesis: The participant is actually influencing the
RNG’s placements of the targets.
4. Artifactual correlation: The output from the RNG is
inadequately randomized, containing patterns that fortuitously match participants’ response biases. This produces a spurious correlation between the participant’s
guesses and the computer’s placements of the target
picture.

January 23, 2026 at 3:51 PM

Georg Henning

@georghenning.bsky.social

Workshop zum Thema Bildung und Lernen im, Alter, organisiert von der Sachverständigenkommission für den 10. Altersberichts der Bundesregierung.

Zeit und Ort: 9.-13. März in Freiburg

Ziel: Ausarbeitung von thematisch passenden Preprints

www.zehnter-altersbericht.de/fileadmin/Re...

www.zehnter-altersbericht.de

January 23, 2026 at 2:27 PM

Georg Henning

@georghenning.bsky.social

Just found this old picture from around 2021 or so, when i had long hair due to pandemic etc, and remembered that I once posted it on Twitter and @dingdingpeng.the100.ci commented:

"Mom, can we have Aragorn?" - "We have Aragorn at home."
Aragorn at home:

January 23, 2026 at 9:10 AM

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Katharina

@economista.bsky.social

A study on publication time focussing on differences between the gender-composition of authors.

"Sample averages show that all female-authored articles take about 9 % longer to accept [...] while female solo-authored articles take about 20 % longer to accept"

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The delayed acceptance of female research in economics
lStephan B. Bruns, Anthony Doucouliagos d, Hristos Doucouliagos Johannes König , T.D. Stanley, Katarina Zigova

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105204

Abstract
We explore gender differences in the time taken to accept empirical articles of economics research. On average, female-authored articles take 9 % longer to accept. This gender gap cannot be fully attributed to differences in author affiliation, research productivity, research quality and novelty. The gender composition of editorial boards does not affect acceptance time for female authors. Nevertheless, this gender gap narrows as female representation in an area of research deepens. We find evidence of sub-field differences in this gender gap, consistent with differences in social norms.

January 21, 2026 at 10:13 PM

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David Allsopp

@doublehelix.bsky.social

arrested development "but it might work for us" meme except it goes
tobias fünke: we should do a UBI pilot program like the hundreds of pilot programs people have already done
woman: well did it work for those people
tf: yes it always does the impacts of cash transfers are very well understood
but it might not work for us

January 22, 2026 at 7:55 AM

Reposted by Georg Henning

Nadiya Kelle

@nadiyakelle.bsky.social

New paper out! 📄✨ We (Mareike Bünning, @juliasimonson.bsky.social & I @dza-berlin.bsky.social) explore the buffering effect of volunteering on well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic - specifically its impact on depressive symptoms, loneliness & social exclusion. rdcu.be/ecwCe

COVID-19 Pandemic, Volunteering, and Well-Being: Volunteering’s Role in Mitigating Depressive Symptoms, Loneliness, and Perceived Social Exclusion during the Pandemic

rdcu.be

March 13, 2025 at 8:48 AM

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Nadiya Kelle

@nadiyakelle.bsky.social

Was hat die #Corona-Pandemie mit unserem sozialen Leben gemacht? #Einsamkeit #Exklusion
Dazu haben wir am @dza-berlin.bsky.social im Projekt #CoESI drei Jahre lang geforscht.
👉 Überblick über zentrale Erkenntnisse hier:
www.geistes-und-sozialwissenschaften-bmftr.de/de/News-Wie-...
#GSWRahmenprogramm

Wie Corona unser soziales Miteinander veränderte: Ergebnisse aus dem BMFTR-Projekt CoESI | Geistes- & Sozialwissenschaften

Welche Spuren hat die Corona-Pandemie im sozialen Leben hinterlassen â�� und was folgt daraus? Diese spannende Frage stand bei der Online-Abschlussveranstaltung des CoESI-Projekts Ende November 2025 z...

www.geistes-und-sozialwissenschaften-bmftr.de

January 22, 2026 at 9:55 AM

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Iain Roberts

@slowbikeiain.bsky.social

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"

January 20, 2026 at 6:44 PM

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Sophie Bell

@sophiebell.bsky.social

(1/4) Thrilled to share our new paper out now in @geronsociety.bsky.social Journals of Gerontology. The association between birthweight and cognitive ability declined exponentially across the lifespan. A longitudinal twin study helped us unpack why...
academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...

Nonlinear decline in the association between birth weight and cognitive ability from infancy to midlife in a community sample of twins

AbstractObjectives. Birth weight is a widely used indicator of prenatal experiences in models of the developmental origins of cognitive ability across the

academic.oup.com

January 19, 2026 at 5:15 PM

Georg Henning

@georghenning.bsky.social

Professur KJP (W2) im Duisburg-Essen
www.psychjob.eu/de/job/unive...

January 19, 2026 at 12:08 PM

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Mark Fabian

@markfabian.bsky.social

After a provocation from Todd Kashdan I wrote up some frustrations I have with "wellbeing science", specifically the idea that it was born with life satisfaction scales.

I think this belief is untrue and unhelpful.

profmarkfabian.substack.com/p/airing-my-...

Airing my grievances with wellbeing science

We have a streetlight problem

profmarkfabian.substack.com

January 19, 2026 at 8:12 AM

Georg Henning

@georghenning.bsky.social

Ich lese unlimited salary und debke achso, deshalb muss die FU sparen beim Personal

January 19, 2026 at 7:36 AM

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Guillermo Peris 🧬💻

@waltzingpiglet.bsky.social

AI chatbots miss urgent issues in queries about women's health

AI models such as ChatGPT and Gemini fail to give adequate advice for 60 per cent of queries relating to women’s health in a test created by medical professionals.

AI chatbots miss urgent issues in queries about women's health

AI models such as ChatGPT and Gemini fail to give adequate advice for 60 per cent of queries relating to women’s health in a test created by medical professionals

www.newscientist.com

January 7, 2026 at 11:18 AM

Reposted by Georg Henning

Karim Jebari

@karimjebari.bsky.social

Om denna förklaring är korrekt så är det inte så att USA vill ha Grönland _trots att_ det kan underminera NATO, utan USA vill ha Grönland _just därför_ de planerar att lämna NATO.

January 10, 2026 at 1:29 PM

Reposted by Georg Henning

Holger Klein

@holgi.bsky.social

"Feminismus ist eine Präzisierung des Humanismus und der Angriff auf die Frauen ist immer auch das Versprechen auf weiteren Hass, noch mehr Gewalt auch gegen andere Gruppen."

Alles klar.

Was Maga und den Kreml verbindet/Slimani “Trag das Feuer weiter”/ Doktor und das liebe Vieh S6/ Doku Grönland/Gratin Dauphinois Der Tod von Renée Goode, die Schüsse…

steady.page

January 18, 2026 at 8:09 AM

Georg Henning

@georghenning.bsky.social

Wurde beim Vorstellungsgespräch gefragt ob ich mein DFG Projekt auch selbst geleitet hab. Ich hab gesagt ja, aber das Projekt bestand auch nur aus mir. Alle haben sehr gelacht. In other news ich denke ich krieg die stelle nicht aber konnte mal wieder meinen feinen Mantel tragen.

January 17, 2026 at 1:32 PM

Georg Henning

@georghenning.bsky.social

surprisingly and depressingly many likes for this one

Georg Henning @georghenning.bsky.social · 13d

Loneliness startup or, as some call it, PhD scholarship

January 16, 2026 at 1:47 PM

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