Rasmus Klokker
@rasmusklokker.bsky.social
Ph.D student at VIVE/University of Copenhagen, department of sociology. Studying teacher sorting and mashing buttons in #rstats, trying to make to make it all work with a large dose of coffee.
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I could have sworn I created this before on our Previous Parish, but couldn't find it so made it fresh.
I present:
OUR BLESSED mixed models // THEIR BARBAROUS fixed effects
I present:
OUR BLESSED mixed models // THEIR BARBAROUS fixed effects
September 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I could have sworn I created this before on our Previous Parish, but couldn't find it so made it fresh.
I present:
OUR BLESSED mixed models // THEIR BARBAROUS fixed effects
I present:
OUR BLESSED mixed models // THEIR BARBAROUS fixed effects
Two nice, among so many negative, things about screening abstracts for systematic reviews:
1) You sometimes run into some strand of literature or facts that you wouldn't otherwise have found
2) You sometimes find some gems that make your officemates ask you why you're chuckling all of a sudden
1) You sometimes run into some strand of literature or facts that you wouldn't otherwise have found
2) You sometimes find some gems that make your officemates ask you why you're chuckling all of a sudden
July 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Two nice, among so many negative, things about screening abstracts for systematic reviews:
1) You sometimes run into some strand of literature or facts that you wouldn't otherwise have found
2) You sometimes find some gems that make your officemates ask you why you're chuckling all of a sudden
1) You sometimes run into some strand of literature or facts that you wouldn't otherwise have found
2) You sometimes find some gems that make your officemates ask you why you're chuckling all of a sudden
More cites for data and package development -> more arguments to convince funding bodies that collecting data and developing scientific software deserve funding on their own!
Cite the data and cite the programmers!
Tools like #coefplot and #reghdfe have quietly powered a huge share of empirical research. Citing them helps give credit where it’s due.
What are some other packages or tools you think are widely used but might be undercited?
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
What are some other packages or tools you think are widely used but might be undercited?
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
July 11, 2025 at 9:14 AM
More cites for data and package development -> more arguments to convince funding bodies that collecting data and developing scientific software deserve funding on their own!
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Update: We submitted the comment to the Journal of Population Economics, and today we got a desk reject with this motivation. However, we do not know their conclusion about the main results and why the paper was not retracted. Clearly, they do not hold. 1/4
May 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Update: We submitted the comment to the Journal of Population Economics, and today we got a desk reject with this motivation. However, we do not know their conclusion about the main results and why the paper was not retracted. Clearly, they do not hold. 1/4
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I created a shiny web tool to play around with OL/TWFE so you can teach how this stuff can get so screwy. You can mess with temporal and cohort heterogeneity, treatment timing, whether you have any controls, etc. Share your worst plots! #econsky cannoncloud.shinyapps.io/TWFE_OLS_Pla...
May 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I created a shiny web tool to play around with OL/TWFE so you can teach how this stuff can get so screwy. You can mess with temporal and cohort heterogeneity, treatment timing, whether you have any controls, etc. Share your worst plots! #econsky cannoncloud.shinyapps.io/TWFE_OLS_Pla...
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When your statistical model "fits the data well" ...
May 9, 2025 at 6:25 AM
When your statistical model "fits the data well" ...
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Claim also doesn't hold up very well.
Pager: firms that discriminated against Black & Hispanic applicants in audit study of hiring in a low-wage labor market were more likely than non-discriminators to be out of business 6 years later but 2/3 still around.
sociologicalscience.com/articles-v3-...
Pager: firms that discriminated against Black & Hispanic applicants in audit study of hiring in a low-wage labor market were more likely than non-discriminators to be out of business 6 years later but 2/3 still around.
sociologicalscience.com/articles-v3-...
Are Firms That Discriminate More Likely to Go Out of Business?
Article: Are Firms That Discriminate More Likely to Go Out of Business? | Sociological Science | Posted September 19, 2016
sociologicalscience.com
May 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Claim also doesn't hold up very well.
Pager: firms that discriminated against Black & Hispanic applicants in audit study of hiring in a low-wage labor market were more likely than non-discriminators to be out of business 6 years later but 2/3 still around.
sociologicalscience.com/articles-v3-...
Pager: firms that discriminated against Black & Hispanic applicants in audit study of hiring in a low-wage labor market were more likely than non-discriminators to be out of business 6 years later but 2/3 still around.
sociologicalscience.com/articles-v3-...
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Trying to figure out how academic publishing works
May 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Trying to figure out how academic publishing works
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New interview on the value of exploratory research.
"My brief explanation of this crisis is that researchers didn't say ‘I found something interesting’, but ‘I found exactly what my fantastic theory had predicted, heureka’.
And then they gave a TED talk."
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky 🧪
"My brief explanation of this crisis is that researchers didn't say ‘I found something interesting’, but ‘I found exactly what my fantastic theory had predicted, heureka’.
And then they gave a TED talk."
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky 🧪
The crucial value of exploratory research » Eiko Fried
Exploratory research is vital for discovery, but often undervalued. Here I argue it is key to scientific progress & needs defending.
eiko-fried.com
April 21, 2025 at 8:24 AM
New interview on the value of exploratory research.
"My brief explanation of this crisis is that researchers didn't say ‘I found something interesting’, but ‘I found exactly what my fantastic theory had predicted, heureka’.
And then they gave a TED talk."
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky 🧪
"My brief explanation of this crisis is that researchers didn't say ‘I found something interesting’, but ‘I found exactly what my fantastic theory had predicted, heureka’.
And then they gave a TED talk."
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky 🧪
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Imperial propaganda if Warhammer 40k was set in academia
3/∞
3/∞
April 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Imperial propaganda if Warhammer 40k was set in academia
3/∞
3/∞
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Us college educated folks are so diverse in our cultural practices, right? Not when it comes to the high-stakes cultural practice of social reproduction: #parenting! We parent much more alike than parents with fewer years of #education: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Hidden patterns of inequality: The heterogeneity in parenting within educational groups
When sociology deals with differences within groups of similar socioeconomic status, research and theorizing tend to focus on the heterogeneity among …
www.sciencedirect.com
April 11, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Us college educated folks are so diverse in our cultural practices, right? Not when it comes to the high-stakes cultural practice of social reproduction: #parenting! We parent much more alike than parents with fewer years of #education: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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My hot take is that saying things that are simultaneously true, novel, and also non-trivial is incredibly difficult, regardless of whether you are a social scientist or a journalist.
March 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
My hot take is that saying things that are simultaneously true, novel, and also non-trivial is incredibly difficult, regardless of whether you are a social scientist or a journalist.
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I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :(
So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
March 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :(
So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
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🏆 Research integrity consultant and image forensics expert @elisabethbik.bsky.social has uncovered fraudulent data in over 7,600 scientific papers and exposed the practices of ‘paper mills’ that produce counterfeit scientific articles. She is honoured with the €200K Individual Award. Congrats!
March 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
🏆 Research integrity consultant and image forensics expert @elisabethbik.bsky.social has uncovered fraudulent data in over 7,600 scientific papers and exposed the practices of ‘paper mills’ that produce counterfeit scientific articles. She is honoured with the €200K Individual Award. Congrats!
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*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...
March 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...
I know "generalized LATE for continous instruments" doesn't roll off the tongue as easily, but it would have saved me more time than I dare admit, trying to figure out the difference between MTE and marginal effects.
Not marginal effects, a generalization of LATE for continuous instruments. You can express other treatment effects (ATE, ATT, etc.) as weighted averages of MTE. www.nber.org/system/files...
February 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I know "generalized LATE for continous instruments" doesn't roll off the tongue as easily, but it would have saved me more time than I dare admit, trying to figure out the difference between MTE and marginal effects.
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I'm reading a lot about "data doesn't lie."
But I'm an expert in statistics, and I say confidently that is incorrect.
It should be "data don't lie."
But I'm an expert in statistics, and I say confidently that is incorrect.
It should be "data don't lie."
February 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I'm reading a lot about "data doesn't lie."
But I'm an expert in statistics, and I say confidently that is incorrect.
It should be "data don't lie."
But I'm an expert in statistics, and I say confidently that is incorrect.
It should be "data don't lie."
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Most academics are terrible mentors because we've just been lucky enough to have a random publication streak or enter the market at a better time
February 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Most academics are terrible mentors because we've just been lucky enough to have a random publication streak or enter the market at a better time
Here's to hoping that users of danish register data can soon say the same @dst.dk
👏 Good news for researchers working with Swedish register data and who want their research to be reproducible 👉 If you include in your ethics application/research plan that replication may be part of the project, then external replicators (e.g. data editors) can be given access to the data!
February 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Here's to hoping that users of danish register data can soon say the same @dst.dk
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Ok sociology, what do you think are genuine breakthroughs that our field has made. Contributions that might convince skeptical but sympathetic *academics* (not the public) of the value of our field? I'll brainstorm some of mine in the thread - I treat sociology very broadly
February 12, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Ok sociology, what do you think are genuine breakthroughs that our field has made. Contributions that might convince skeptical but sympathetic *academics* (not the public) of the value of our field? I'll brainstorm some of mine in the thread - I treat sociology very broadly
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❗New #ESRA Statement on Data Access and Open Science: "ESRA expresses serious concern about recent developments threatening the access to publicly available data and open science in the US with world-wide implications."
www.europeansurveyresearch.org/esra-stateme...
www.europeansurveyresearch.org/esra-stateme...
ESRA Statement on Data Access and Open Science
The European Survey Research Association (ESRA) is the leading professional organisation of survey researchers in Europe, with members from the academic, government, non-profit and commercial sectors
www.europeansurveyresearch.org
February 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
❗New #ESRA Statement on Data Access and Open Science: "ESRA expresses serious concern about recent developments threatening the access to publicly available data and open science in the US with world-wide implications."
www.europeansurveyresearch.org/esra-stateme...
www.europeansurveyresearch.org/esra-stateme...
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Great thread! I’d add that in the social sciences, providing a secure computing environment for large and sensitive data is only possible because of indirects.
Here are some facts about "facilities and administrative" (F&A) costs, what we in the business call "indirects" and what Musk is calling "overhead" as he tries to convince Americans with being ok with cutting billions on dollars from medical and public health research at universities & hospitals
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February 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Great thread! I’d add that in the social sciences, providing a secure computing environment for large and sensitive data is only possible because of indirects.
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How cool is this?! A behind the scenes seminar series on how an economics paper came about - all the invisible work that never gets into the printed version. First event on 17th of February. I am also looking forward to using the recordings for teaching. www.bts-seminar.net
Home | BTS Seminar Series
The Behind-the-Scenes Seminar Series is designed to learn about the production process of research papers, offering an opportunity for students and researchers in all fields and at all career stages t...
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February 10, 2025 at 7:59 AM
How cool is this?! A behind the scenes seminar series on how an economics paper came about - all the invisible work that never gets into the printed version. First event on 17th of February. I am also looking forward to using the recordings for teaching. www.bts-seminar.net
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Interested in a free seminar? To mark our first semester on Bluesky, we’re offering a free seminar from our Spring offerings (through May 31) to one lucky winner. Follow us and repost this message by Monday, February 10 to enter. Winner revealed on Feb. 14—may the odds be in your favor!
February 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Interested in a free seminar? To mark our first semester on Bluesky, we’re offering a free seminar from our Spring offerings (through May 31) to one lucky winner. Follow us and repost this message by Monday, February 10 to enter. Winner revealed on Feb. 14—may the odds be in your favor!
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When estimating a treatment effect with a cluster design, you need to include varying slopes, even if the fit gives warning messages.
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When estimating a treatment effect with a cluster design, you need to include varying slopes, even if the fit gives warning messages. | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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January 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
When estimating a treatment effect with a cluster design, you need to include varying slopes, even if the fit gives warning messages.
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/01/23/s...
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/01/23/s...