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Jan Mewes
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Associate professor, Lund University, Sweden. Research on trust, welfare states, health and migration.
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kbkarlson.bsky.social
LAST CALL! #Sociology Professorships in Copenhagen, Denmark!

We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area.

Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15!

Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost!

jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology
jobportal.ku.dk
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
janmewes.bsky.social
Do you happen to work with data from the Integrated World Values/European Values Study? If so beware: there is a rather influential coding error in the variable on religious denomination (F025). Go and check e.g. Spain and Germany and compare to F025_EVS and F025_WVS @gesis-dataservices.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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pettertornberg.com
In short, the ANES data shows:
📉 Social media use is shrinking
💥 Twitter/X posting has moved ~50 points to the right
🧩 Platforms are splintering
🔊 Fewer people are talking — but those still talking are more politically extreme
October 30, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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chrisbail.bsky.social
The ENSAE-CREST is hiring a computational sociologist -- Assistant or Associate Professor.

Date of appointment: September 2026.
Details here : www.css.cnrs.fr/assistant-or...
www.css.cnrs.fr
October 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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silkegoubin.bsky.social
Shout-out to all #PoliticalTrust researchers interested in attending the first @epssnet.bsky.social conference in #Belfast

@annakern.bsky.social, @danjdevine.bsky.social, @cvalebeek.bsky.social, @hannesbey.bsky.social and I are coordinating 3 trust panels!
October 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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conradhackett.bsky.social
NEW: Say most elected officials in their country are honest
Sweden 36%
Indonesia 31%
Netherlands 30%
Canada 27%
Germany 26%
India 24%
France 22%
UK 21%

US 7%
www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...
A bar chart showing Do people think elected officials are honest? A 47% median of adults across 25 countries say few or none of their elected officials are honest. Roughly a third (36%) say some are honest. Only 14% believe this describes all or most officials in their country. Perceptions of elected officials are especially negative in Greece and most of the African and Latin American countries surveyed. Roughly three-quarters of Greeks say few or none of their elected officials are honest. Majorities also take this stance in Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Kenya, Mexico and Nigeria. In fact, shares in these countries ranging from 15% to 31% of adults say none of their elected officials are honest.
September 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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stefanschubert.bsky.social
"French pensioners now have higher incomes than working-age adults" - extraordinary

By @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

www.ft.com/content/d419...
September 13, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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sbvanoosten.bsky.social
✨Accepted for Publication ✨

"Surveying Citizens with a Migration Background - A Quantitative Study of Identification versus Categorization"

Coming soon in the journal Survey Research Methods.

Read the pre-print here:

doi.org/10.31219/osf...
OSF
doi.org
September 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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thomasp85.com
I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
www.tidyverse.org
September 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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pengzell.bsky.social
When (if ever) is it right to appeal a rejection? This advice offered by AJS seems good more generally
Under what circumstances does it make sense for me to appeal a decision? The answer is that you should appeal only if the following two things are true a) A reviewer made a flagrant error of interpretation as to what you had done, and b) The editors' letter indicates that this error was consequential for the decision. Note that (a) excludes differences of judgment of quality ("Reviewer A says it wasn't good enough, but it was!") and differences of interpretations of the data ("Reviewer A says my finding is due to selection, and I say it isn't!"). Note that (b) excludes times when the editorial letter passes over an error made by a reviewer in silence. The following are not justifications for making an appeal: c) You think a reviewer was biased or unfair. The editorial board understands that they have to contextualize different reviewers' positions to assemble a coherent expert judgment of a manuscript. d) You think that the reviewers in general are supportive. Because we can only publish a fraction of the papers that are submitted, we must reject some papers that are good, and that reviewers think are good, to make space for those that reviewers, and we, think are of outstanding importance. Further, reviewers sometimes use gentler and more supportive language in their comments to the author than they do in their comments to the editor. e) A reviewer found a problem in a revised manuscript that is inherent in the design seemingly acceptable in the first round of review. We do our best never to reject manuscripts upon review for reasons that should have been raised when the manuscript was first submitted. However, one reason we do add new reviewers in the R&R stage is to catch weaknesses that may have been previously missed, and if these are believed to be uncorrectable, a rejection is the only proper decision.
September 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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casmudde.bsky.social
Very powerful statement by 200+ faculty from Bar-Ilan University, not known as the most progressive university in Israel (to put it mildly). Respect! 🙌
August 29, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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ariedamuco.bsky.social
If you use Stata and you want to make nice coefficient plots, this article by @uptonorwell.bsky.social is really fantastic!

medium.com/the-stata-ga...
Making Regression Coefficient Plots in Stata
Traditionally, researchers reported results of regression analyses using tables. A more visually appealing way of presenting these results is by using a coefficient plot. Unlike a typical scatterplot…
medium.com
August 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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iasliu.bsky.social
✨ The IAS Seminar Series returns for the Fall 2025 semester with a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all!

#AcademicSky #Sociology #CSS
Poster for the Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS) Programme Autumn 2025 at Linköping University. The text explains that the seminars feature international scholars, are open to all, and will be broadcast on Zoom.
August 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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filipecampante.bsky.social
Repeat after me, folks: All. Graded. Work. Must. Be. Done. In. Class. Take it from the people who come from cultures where (human) cheating has always been rampant.
theatlantic.com The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Aug 18
A majority of undergraduate students use AI for classwork, several studies show. Ian Bogost spoke with college students to explore their motivations behind using the tool—and the painful revelation professors may face this in classrooms this fall.
College Students Have Already Changed Forever
Members of the class of 2026 have had access to AI since they were freshmen. Almost all of them are using it to do their work.
bit.ly
August 18, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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kbkarlson.bsky.social
New paper reveals widespread decline in intergenerational economic mobility in 🇩🇪 for those born in the 70s and 80s. Similarly, educational inequality by parent income has also been increasing.

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econpapers.repec.org/paper/cesces...
EconPapers: Rising Inequality, Declining Mobility: The Evolution of Intergenerational Mobility in Germany
By Julia Baarck, Moritz Bode and Andreas Peichl; Abstract: This paper is the first to show that intergenerational income mobility in Germany has decreased over time. We provide
econpapers.repec.org
August 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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tromsojonas.bsky.social
UiT lyser ut en svært spennende stipendiatstilling i statsvitenskap. For oss er det viktig å være ledende på samfunn i nord og det er naturlig å forske på valgprosessen til den viktigste institusjonen i det samiske demokratiet. LIK og DEL! www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...
www.jobbnorge.no
August 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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a-gugushvili.bsky.social
🇺🇸-🇺🇦-🇪🇺 As Trump meets Zelensky + European leaders today to discuss ending Russia’s war, it’s important to know: European citizens themselves see the war’s end very differently. My new study in ‪@jei-publication.bsky.social‬ explores these divides 👉 shorturl.at/Mw8KE
When the guns fall silent: the variety of European perspectives on the end of war in Ukraine
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sparked intense geopolitical debates and public reflection across Europe regarding the likely trajectory and resolution of the conflict. Public expectations about t...
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August 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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nilskumkar.bsky.social
I have seen teams of PhD level experts fail at almost everything imaginable, including, but not limited to: agreeing on a place to have lunch, making coffee and finding a bus stop. And I have been on all those teams.
nbcnews.com NBC News @nbcnews.com · Aug 7
OpenAI releases the newest version of the AI model that powers its popular ChatGPT chatbot, with CEO Sam Altman promoting it as like having a “team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket.”
OpenAI releases GPT-5, calling it a ‘team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket’
OpenAI says its latest version of the popular AI model is better at coding, more accurate and less deceptive than previous versions.
nbcnews.to
August 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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pengzell.bsky.social
It's hard to fathom that every 6-8 years UK universities spend years and hundreds of millions doing something that can be done in an afternoon by one person with access to impact-factor weighted citation counts.
pengzell.bsky.social Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Aug 6
Here's a newer study that's even better. VQR = bibliometric algorithm. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
August 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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polstudies.bsky.social
Do generous welfare policies foster political trust? Matthijs Gillissen, @silkegoubin.bsky.social & Anna Ruelens examine the long-term effects of welfare generosity on trust in political institutions. Read more:
buff.ly/tBe6gLG

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com
July 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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khoavuumn.bsky.social
Using time series graphs to make causal claims be like
July 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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drfranksauer.bsky.social
Danke 🙏 - und Repost aus ... aktuell gegebenem Anlass.
June 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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payoub.bsky.social
Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban
June 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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boeckler-stiftung.bsky.social
(1/4) Eine aktuelle Studie des @wsiinstitut.bsky.social zeigt: #Fachkräftemangel führt in vielen Tarifbranchen zu überdurchschnittlichen Erhöhungen der #Ausbildungsvergütungen. 2024/2025 sind diese im 1. Ausbildungsjahr um 6,4 Prozent gestiegen. 🚀 Spitzenreiter sind Pflegeberufe (Öffentl. Dienst). 👇
Vergütungen bei Tarifvertraglichen Ausbildungen steigen: Die prozentuale Erhöhung der tarifvertraglichen Ausbildungsvergütungen im Ausbildungsjahr 2024/2025 liegt bei 6,4 Prozent. Es gibt kaum noch Branchen, in denen Auszubildende im ersten Jahr weniger als 1.000 Euro pro Monat verdienen. Quelle: WSI-Tarifarchiv
June 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM