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Sergio Lo Iacono
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Assistant Professor @universityofessex.bsky.social | Former Max Weber Fellow @eui-eu.bsky.social | Sociologist interested in human cooperation & trust

https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/loiac21900/sergio-lo-iacono
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1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.

There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
Three schematic diagrams. The first illustrates selective publishing of internal resection, the second selective causal focus, and the third selective access and funding for researchers.
October 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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janpfa.bsky.social
Help us strengthen trust in climate scientists in the US! Join our megastudy 👇
October 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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rensec.bsky.social
WORK! At Utrecht University (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) We're recruiting a PhD student in experimental sociology! More info: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
PhD Position in Experimental Sociology
Do you want to apply innovative methods to study fundamental sociological questions?
www.uu.nl
October 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
sergioloiacono.bsky.social
Deeply honoured to receive this award from the Academy of Sociology with my co-authors! I hope we’ll see many more replications in Sociology in the years ahead, along with preregistrations and registered reports as leading journals make more space for them.

#AkadSoz25 #sociology
sewenz.bsky.social Sebastian E. Wenz @sewenz.bsky.social · Oct 9
And the 1st Replication Award of the Academy of Sociology goes to..

Sergio Lo Iacono, Wojtek Przepiorka, Vincent Buskens, Rense Corten, Marcel van Assen, and Arnout van de Rijt

for "The competitive advantage of sanctioning institutions revisited: A multilab replication"

#AkadSoz25 #sociology

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October 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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climateactiontracker.org
COUNTRY ANALYSIS: We have downgraded the #US climate action to "Critically insufficient" - it's the most aggressive, comprehensive and consequential climate policy rollback the CAT has ever analysed.

🔗 bit.ly/CAT_US
September 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social
Great to see our 2018 Matthew effect finding ( tinyurl.com/7ur8akws ) replicated in this fantastic study!
June 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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buraksonmez.bsky.social
🚨 New pre-print with @sergioloiacono.bsky.social

We ran 3 large-scale experiments in 🇬🇧to investigate how perceived asylum-seeking legality, public preferences for refugee relocation, and inclusionary attitudes are shaped by symbolic and strategic boundaries

doi.org/10.31235/osf...
September 11, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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soniaseneviratne.bsky.social
Hot off the press: We can provide for the first time a systematic attribution of recent #heatwaves to the emissions of #carbon_majors. Essential new #Nature article coordinated by @yannquilcaille.bsky.social at @ethz.ch, with numerous contributors @usyseth.bsky.social:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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aufdroeseler.bsky.social
We are creating an academic journal and *you* can shape it!

Make comments and suggest changes to replicationresearch.org 's
- Constitution
- TOP guidelines
- article types
- and reviewer guidelines
until September 5 and be credited as a contributor: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
July 31, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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jrgptrs.bsky.social
Join us @rwi.bsky.social & @i4replication.bsky.social as replicator for a meta-reproduction on deforestation. We pay replicators 2,500 EUR. Experience with geocoded data & background in environmental science are assets. 1/2 bit.ly/4ke2p6o
June 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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aksoyundan.bsky.social
📢 My paper w Aron Szekely on honour-based violence is published online (Open Access): journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

We explain this puzzling phenomenon applying game-theory and testing it using large-scale data on norms and actual femicides.

@sriucl.bsky.social @uclsociology.bsky.social
Details of the publication with abstract which reads: Honor killings, which occur when women are perceived to have broken purity norms and bring “dishonor” to their family, pose profound moral and societal problems and underrecognized sociological puzzles. Given the immense cost, why do families murder their own daughter, niece, or cousin? Conversely, given the tragic consequences, why are norms broken in the first place? Drawing on accounts of honor killings, we characterize the key actors, actions, and incentives, and develop two interlinked theoretical models, one on norm-enforcement and another on norm-breaking. The former specifies the conditions under which honor norms should hold, the latter, counterintuitively, predicts that honor killings occur most frequently when honor norms are contested; not when they are strictest. Analyzing data from 24 countries and ~26,000 individuals and building a unique dataset of honor killings from Turkey, we find support for the hypotheses. Honor norms are stronger when laws offer leniency for honor killings, families’ loss of reputation is more consequential, and community cohesion is higher. Actual killings have an inverse-U-shaped link with the prevalence of honor norms. Our work advances the theoretical understanding of honor norms and killings and offers one of the most comprehensive empirical analyses of the factors influencing honor killings. Figure 1 from the paper. Within-Family Interaction and Probabilities of Interaction Outcomes Note: Panel A shows an interaction within a family. Panel B shows the probability of breaking a norm (p2) in the game tree in panel A; the probability of the existence of an honor norm in the repeated norm-enforcement game (p1, i.e., conditions given in Hypotheses 1, 2, and 3 obtain); and the probability of honor killing (p3), which is the product of the former two probabilities, as a function of repeated norm-enforcement game parameters. Figure 3 from the paper. Support for Honor Killings; Coefficients from Multilevel Regressions with Random Intercepts for Countries Data source: PEW (2013) World Muslims Survey. Note: N (response) = 26,458. N (country) = 24. Countries that adopted laws that allow leniency for honor-based violence: Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Niger, Palestinian Territories. Countries that have adultery laws: Afghanistan, Pakistan. Figure 5 from the paper. Results of Poisson Models Predicting the Monthly Number of Honor Killings Note: Predictive margins for the association between support for honor norms and honor killings (top panel) and the average marginal effect of passing law 6284 according to support for honor norms (bottom panel).
April 12, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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simonecremaschi.bsky.social
Proud and happy to see this in print! 😊🫒
apsrjournal.bsky.social American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · Mar 11
Just published on APSR First View: "Without Roots: The Political Consequences of Collective Economic Shocks" by Simone Cremaschi @simonecremaschi.bsky.social, Nicola Bariletto, and Catherine De Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
March 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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aromano.bsky.social
Hi Everyone,

Angela Dorrough, Giuliana Spadaro, @shuxianjin.bsky.social, and I are guest-editing a special issue at JESP on current directions in social dilemmas research.

More info can be found here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

We look forward to receiving many exciting submissions!
March 7, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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roycecarroll.bsky.social
The Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis is now on Bluesky!

Follow this account for updates. Applications open soon!
essexsummerschool.bsky.social Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis @essexsummerschool.bsky.social · Feb 10
Welcome to the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis! 🎉

We’re excited to have you here!

Stay tuned for updates on our 58th Essex Summer School this summer, plus insights on data skills, new methods, research connections and more.

Thanks for joining us! 👋
February 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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odissei.bsky.social
Just 3 more days left to apply for SICSS-ODISSEI Summer School 2025! Apply by the 28th of Feb📑

📚 Topics: network analysis, ML, ethics
💻 FIRMBACKBONE & SANE (Secure ANalysis Environment)
🎓 Earn 5 ECTS credits

Learn more and apply👉 sicss.io/2025/odissei/

ccsky #StatsEd
chrisbail.bsky.social Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · Feb 24
Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations
February 26, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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briannosek.bsky.social
BIG Opportunity: Deputy Director of Research

This is a very important, new role at COS that might be perfect for someone that has been leading an academic research lab and is excited about the idea of applying those skills to assess & improve the research culture.

ats.rippling.com/cos-careers/...
November 15, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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tomaashby.bsky.social
Funded PhDs! The call is open for PhDs at the European University Institute (pics) in Florence. 4 yrs full funding + generous research funds. History, Law, Pol+Soc Sci, & Econ. Most grants are limited to member states, do check. Some international grants. Due: 31 Jan 25 www.eui.eu/en/services/...
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November 10, 2024 at 9:38 AM
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shuxianjin.bsky.social
🚨Excited that our meta-analysis is out in JPSP @APA_Journals. We synthesized 6 decades (1958-2017) of empirical evidence on social dilemmas and tested which structural features (most strongly) promote cooperation:
doi.org/10.1037/pspi...
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November 5, 2024 at 9:40 AM
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briannosek.bsky.social
A multi-lab replication of a theoretical expectation from Terror Management Theory that death related primes are uniquely impactful after delay, as opposed to other types of semantic priming. Findings do not support that expectation.

osf.io/preprints/ps...
July 5, 2024 at 2:16 PM
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frankvantubergen.bsky.social
Join our research team! We have a vacancy for a Senior Researcher in International Migration and/or Immigrant Integration at NIDI, The Hague, Netherlands. Permanent position. Application deadline: September 1, 2024. Gross monthly salary between € 4,332 - € 8,815, depending on level of experience.
Vacancies - NIDI
Vacancies Are you interested in joining our interdisciplinary team of ambitious researchers studying population issues? Then we welcome you to reply to the vacancies at NIDI advertised below. Are you ...
nidi.nl
June 12, 2024 at 8:50 AM
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qinyuxiao.bsky.social
Robert is a fantastic mentor, colleague, and friend with a perfect mixture of supportiveness, criticalness, and humour. Vienna is a wonderful city to live in. Apply! You will not regret it.
robertboehm.bsky.social Robert Böhm @robertboehm.bsky.social · Jun 5
🚨 WE ARE HIRING! 🚨 Looking for two PhD candidates to join the Social and Economic Psychology group (social-econ-psych.univie.ac.at) at the University of Vienna. t.co/nXif41brr1 Please share. 🧵👇 for more information (1/4).
University assistant (Praedoc)
University assistant (Praedoc)
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June 5, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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briannosek.bsky.social
The Metascience conference is coming to London!

June 30-July 2, 2025
cos.io Center for Open Science @cos.io · May 13
Save the date! COS and @rorinstitute.bsky.social have partnered to bring the Metascience Conference to London!

ℹ️ Learn more: metascience.info
➡️ Sign up for updates: eepurl.com/iPa39k

#metascience2025
May 13, 2024 at 12:19 PM
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iasliu.bsky.social
SweCSS, the Swedish Centre for Computational Social Science, has just introduced its Visiting Fellows Program, designed to foster collaboration between social and computational sciences. Spread the word!

liu.se/en/research/...
Visiting Fellows Program
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April 26, 2024 at 7:36 AM
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llhipp.bsky.social
We welcome full papers but also short contributions and comments!
sewenz.bsky.social Sebastian E. Wenz @sewenz.bsky.social · Apr 19
📢 CfP: "SRM Special Issue: Learning Through Failures"
 
The issue is dedicated to learning from survey experiments that failed or led to unexpected results.
 
🗞️ ESRA’s Survey Research Methods
🧐 Eds: @llhipp.bsky.social & @sewenz.bsky.social
🗓️ Submit by 15 Dec
🌐 ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/article/...
April 20, 2024 at 4:49 AM
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briannosek.bsky.social
The Center for Open Science and Meta are partnering on a pilot project to share social media data related to well-being for academic research.

We hope that this will provide a model for industry-academia partnerships to increase access of important data.

www.cos.io/about/news/m...
Meta Partners with the Center for Open Science to Share Data to Study Well-being Topics
Using innovative methods from the open science movement to promote rigor and transparency of research, Meta and the Center for Open Science will pilot a new approach to industry-academia partnerships ...
www.cos.io
January 29, 2024 at 2:14 PM