Nate Breznau
@breznaunate.bsky.social
Social science. Policy. Open science. Inequality. Meta science. Education.
https://sites.google.com/site/nbreznau/
https://crowdid.hypotheses.org
@diebonn.bsky.social
https://sites.google.com/site/nbreznau/
https://crowdid.hypotheses.org
@diebonn.bsky.social
RC20 Best Paper Award 2026:
All RC20 members eligible. Papers should be comparative sociology, in English, and published in journal or chapter > 1 Jan 23. At least one author must b RC20 member.
To submit, send to Fumiya Onaka, at
fonaka@fc.jwu.ac.jp until 31 December 2025. @rc20isa.bsky.social
All RC20 members eligible. Papers should be comparative sociology, in English, and published in journal or chapter > 1 Jan 23. At least one author must b RC20 member.
To submit, send to Fumiya Onaka, at
fonaka@fc.jwu.ac.jp until 31 December 2025. @rc20isa.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
RC20 Best Paper Award 2026:
All RC20 members eligible. Papers should be comparative sociology, in English, and published in journal or chapter > 1 Jan 23. At least one author must b RC20 member.
To submit, send to Fumiya Onaka, at
fonaka@fc.jwu.ac.jp until 31 December 2025. @rc20isa.bsky.social
All RC20 members eligible. Papers should be comparative sociology, in English, and published in journal or chapter > 1 Jan 23. At least one author must b RC20 member.
To submit, send to Fumiya Onaka, at
fonaka@fc.jwu.ac.jp until 31 December 2025. @rc20isa.bsky.social
I now add QR codes presentation slides for citations. It occurred to me I can embed a link in the QR code image, so users can access the URL by clicking too (rather than adding another link somewhere else on the slide). Winnie the Pooh would call this #afishinthesea
December 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I now add QR codes presentation slides for citations. It occurred to me I can embed a link in the QR code image, so users can access the URL by clicking too (rather than adding another link somewhere else on the slide). Winnie the Pooh would call this #afishinthesea
If you miss 'Wordle' (the website that made word clouds before the daily puzzle game 'Wordle' was invented), you can use my app to generate them. nate-breznau.shinyapps.io/word-cloud/
It is a forked and tuned version of Antoine Soetewey's original app.
github.com/nbreznau/wor...
It is a forked and tuned version of Antoine Soetewey's original app.
github.com/nbreznau/wor...
GitHub - nbreznau/word-cloud: Shiny app with an example of word cloud. See https://antoinesoetewey.shinyapps.io/word-cloud/
Shiny app with an example of word cloud. See https://antoinesoetewey.shinyapps.io/word-cloud/ - nbreznau/word-cloud
github.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
If you miss 'Wordle' (the website that made word clouds before the daily puzzle game 'Wordle' was invented), you can use my app to generate them. nate-breznau.shinyapps.io/word-cloud/
It is a forked and tuned version of Antoine Soetewey's original app.
github.com/nbreznau/wor...
It is a forked and tuned version of Antoine Soetewey's original app.
github.com/nbreznau/wor...
I really get a kick out of using Gen AI sometimes. I'm preparing several talks for my six week Japan tour on topics of #openscience #theoriesasdata #metascience, and this came up in my preparations.
December 8, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I really get a kick out of using Gen AI sometimes. I'm preparing several talks for my six week Japan tour on topics of #openscience #theoriesasdata #metascience, and this came up in my preparations.
ChatGPT - [outputs various large pictures of an historical figure I am researching]
Me - "are those pictures in the public domain?"
ChatGPT - "no. you should not use them"
Me - "why do you get to use them?"
ChatGPT - "they are the same as internet search result thumbnails"
Me - facepalm
Me - "are those pictures in the public domain?"
ChatGPT - "no. you should not use them"
Me - "why do you get to use them?"
ChatGPT - "they are the same as internet search result thumbnails"
Me - facepalm
December 7, 2025 at 12:59 AM
ChatGPT - [outputs various large pictures of an historical figure I am researching]
Me - "are those pictures in the public domain?"
ChatGPT - "no. you should not use them"
Me - "why do you get to use them?"
ChatGPT - "they are the same as internet search result thumbnails"
Me - facepalm
Me - "are those pictures in the public domain?"
ChatGPT - "no. you should not use them"
Me - "why do you get to use them?"
ChatGPT - "they are the same as internet search result thumbnails"
Me - facepalm
Using Gen AI to produce knowledge carries long-term risks because it can lead to 'model collapse' - where the data used to train new Gen AI systems is increasingly a product of AI rather than humans. Knowledge and practical functions of AI collapse because semantic meaning is no longer human-based.
December 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Using Gen AI to produce knowledge carries long-term risks because it can lead to 'model collapse' - where the data used to train new Gen AI systems is increasingly a product of AI rather than humans. Knowledge and practical functions of AI collapse because semantic meaning is no longer human-based.
In Japan and want to learn about #openscience, #opendata, #datamanagementplan and The Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility Survey? Come out December 16th to the University of Tokyo @die-bonn.de @meta-rep.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
In Japan and want to learn about #openscience, #opendata, #datamanagementplan and The Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility Survey? Come out December 16th to the University of Tokyo @die-bonn.de @meta-rep.bsky.social
Are we really transparent? Are we really sharing every decision in our research workflow that influenced design and/or results? #openscience #reproducbility #questionableresearchpractices crowdid.hypotheses.org/1822 @openedition.bsky.social
Open science. Back to basics
Are we really sharing all steps in our research? And are we making clear which steps we cannot share and why? There are always hidden steps that influence our research design and reporting. Ask yourse...
crowdid.hypotheses.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Are we really transparent? Are we really sharing every decision in our research workflow that influenced design and/or results? #openscience #reproducbility #questionableresearchpractices crowdid.hypotheses.org/1822 @openedition.bsky.social
Reposted by Nate Breznau
The billions of research funds channeled into the pockets of Elsevier and other commercial publisher in return for very little actual value is one of academia's big inefficiencies that will eventually be replaced by more attractive Community-run alternatives
November 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The billions of research funds channeled into the pockets of Elsevier and other commercial publisher in return for very little actual value is one of academia's big inefficiencies that will eventually be replaced by more attractive Community-run alternatives
Reposted by Nate Breznau
Do you have data that sometimes drives you crazy - or a question you have never had the right space to ask?
Here’s the right place to ask, share, and learn:
📅 Feb 26 (13:00–17:00) & Feb 27 (09:00–17:00)
📍 IAB, Nürnberg
💻 Bring your laptop & ideas
🆓 Register: eveeno.com/econ-data-wo...
Here’s the right place to ask, share, and learn:
📅 Feb 26 (13:00–17:00) & Feb 27 (09:00–17:00)
📍 IAB, Nürnberg
💻 Bring your laptop & ideas
🆓 Register: eveeno.com/econ-data-wo...
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Do you have data that sometimes drives you crazy - or a question you have never had the right space to ask?
Here’s the right place to ask, share, and learn:
📅 Feb 26 (13:00–17:00) & Feb 27 (09:00–17:00)
📍 IAB, Nürnberg
💻 Bring your laptop & ideas
🆓 Register: eveeno.com/econ-data-wo...
Here’s the right place to ask, share, and learn:
📅 Feb 26 (13:00–17:00) & Feb 27 (09:00–17:00)
📍 IAB, Nürnberg
💻 Bring your laptop & ideas
🆓 Register: eveeno.com/econ-data-wo...
Reposted by Nate Breznau
#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #CSS
Work at GESIS and benefit from many advantages.
youtu.be/YnPMagm0GWE
Apply now for a job as #PostDoc / #SeniorResearcher in Computational Social Science
(13 TV-L, working time 100 %, initially limited for 4 ys. with possible tenure)
www.gesis.org/en/ins...
Work at GESIS and benefit from many advantages.
youtu.be/YnPMagm0GWE
Apply now for a job as #PostDoc / #SeniorResearcher in Computational Social Science
(13 TV-L, working time 100 %, initially limited for 4 ys. with possible tenure)
www.gesis.org/en/ins...
Working at GESIS
Benefit from many advantages!
We provide attractive workplaces in Cologne or Mannheim and offer you generous home office arrangements. We attach great importance to work-life balance and our employees benefit from our company health management program.
Get more information:
https://www.gesis.org/
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #CSS
Work at GESIS and benefit from many advantages.
youtu.be/YnPMagm0GWE
Apply now for a job as #PostDoc / #SeniorResearcher in Computational Social Science
(13 TV-L, working time 100 %, initially limited for 4 ys. with possible tenure)
www.gesis.org/en/ins...
Work at GESIS and benefit from many advantages.
youtu.be/YnPMagm0GWE
Apply now for a job as #PostDoc / #SeniorResearcher in Computational Social Science
(13 TV-L, working time 100 %, initially limited for 4 ys. with possible tenure)
www.gesis.org/en/ins...
Wanna do #openscience and get credit for it in your career? Try a #replication at @i4replication.bsky.social i4replication.org. You will contribute to better science, build your skills and get a CV item.
November 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Wanna do #openscience and get credit for it in your career? Try a #replication at @i4replication.bsky.social i4replication.org. You will contribute to better science, build your skills and get a CV item.
Dear potential authors. The purpose of #SocArXiv (like any preprint server) is to offer green open access and early dissemination of ongoing scientific work. It is not a place to hack citations or submit garbage that is unpublishable and/or AI written. @socarxiv.bsky.social #openscience
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Dear potential authors. The purpose of #SocArXiv (like any preprint server) is to offer green open access and early dissemination of ongoing scientific work. It is not a place to hack citations or submit garbage that is unpublishable and/or AI written. @socarxiv.bsky.social #openscience
Reposted by Nate Breznau
In Paris to pick up a trophy today! Honoured that the European Academy of Sociology found my article with Carina Mood interesting enough that they gave it their Best Article Prize.
I look forward to a day of presentations and discussions.
And the article is here
doi.org/10.1177/0003...
I look forward to a day of presentations and discussions.
And the article is here
doi.org/10.1177/0003...
November 8, 2025 at 7:24 AM
In Paris to pick up a trophy today! Honoured that the European Academy of Sociology found my article with Carina Mood interesting enough that they gave it their Best Article Prize.
I look forward to a day of presentations and discussions.
And the article is here
doi.org/10.1177/0003...
I look forward to a day of presentations and discussions.
And the article is here
doi.org/10.1177/0003...
Reposted by Nate Breznau
【Reminder】Call for Papers (deadline: 31 December 2025) for RC20 & RC33 &RC56 Online Joint Conference (24– 28 August 2026). www.comparative-sociology.online/JC2026.htm
mcn-www.jwu.ac.jp/~fonaka/JC20...
#comparative #historical #sociology #methodology #women
mcn-www.jwu.ac.jp/~fonaka/JC20...
#comparative #historical #sociology #methodology #women
November 9, 2025 at 3:51 AM
【Reminder】Call for Papers (deadline: 31 December 2025) for RC20 & RC33 &RC56 Online Joint Conference (24– 28 August 2026). www.comparative-sociology.online/JC2026.htm
mcn-www.jwu.ac.jp/~fonaka/JC20...
#comparative #historical #sociology #methodology #women
mcn-www.jwu.ac.jp/~fonaka/JC20...
#comparative #historical #sociology #methodology #women
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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...
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
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...
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...
Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
November 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Reposted by Nate Breznau
The package formerly known as papercheck has changed its name to metacheck! We're checking more than just papers, with functions to assess OSF projects, github repos, and AsPredicted pre-registrations, with more being developed all the time.
scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/
scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/
Check Research Outputs for Best Practices
A modular, extendable system for automatically checking research outputs for best practices using text search, R code, and/or (optional) LLM queries.
scienceverse.github.io
November 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The package formerly known as papercheck has changed its name to metacheck! We're checking more than just papers, with functions to assess OSF projects, github repos, and AsPredicted pre-registrations, with more being developed all the time.
scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/
scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/
Reposted by Nate Breznau
How did the movement against COVID-19 containment measures take shape? The newly released Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset provides a unique digital lens on this question. It documents 5.6 million public messages posted across 943 Telegram channels between 2020 and 2022.
dprex.hypotheses.org...
dprex.hypotheses.org...
November 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
How did the movement against COVID-19 containment measures take shape? The newly released Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset provides a unique digital lens on this question. It documents 5.6 million public messages posted across 943 Telegram channels between 2020 and 2022.
dprex.hypotheses.org...
dprex.hypotheses.org...
Reposted by Nate Breznau
It's easy for some of you to just never use LLMs and just criticize people who do. I would like to be in that situation. But here I am, with my moderator volunteers, assessing hundreds of papers submitted to @socarxiv.bsky.social, trying to decide how to fairly judge whether to accept them. /1
November 2, 2025 at 2:36 PM
It's easy for some of you to just never use LLMs and just criticize people who do. I would like to be in that situation. But here I am, with my moderator volunteers, assessing hundreds of papers submitted to @socarxiv.bsky.social, trying to decide how to fairly judge whether to accept them. /1
November 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
