Batman slapping Robin with speech bubbles: "It hurts when you slap me" and "correlation does not imply causation".
The one thing that my students remember from stats
Batman slapping Robin with speech bubbles: "It hurts when you slap me" and "correlation does not imply causation".
The one thing that my students remember from stats
An excellent thread on why population doomerism is a gateway drug to genocide
We're thrilled to open registration for the Utrecht Replication Games. The event will be at the at the University of Utrecht on June 4th. Psych, public health, pol sci and econ studies will be reproduced!
Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...
Happy to share my new paper w/J.Huinink on "Refitting the Lower Decks of the Coleman Boat" where we argue for the necessity of an extension of the macro-micro-macro model of sociological explanation to account for the bio/evo corpus on human behavior (open access): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
This is a remarkable article on Minnesota, goes far beyond the headlines and videos.
Humorous piece from The Onion that #NetworkScience people, in particular, may appreciate.
Dear #sociology #socialscience colleagues, please share: application for 4-5y postdoc in HearingTogether project still possible until next Thursday, Oct. 9. Looking for candidates w/experience in survey/panel analytics and interest in interdisciplinary collaboration. Apply here: uol.de/job731en.
Bitte teilen, liebe SoWi-Kolleg:innen: Bewerbung auf 4-5j Postdoc-Stelle (E13, 100%) im Projekt HearingTogether, affiliiert m. Exzellenzcluster "Hearing4All", noch bis Do., 9. Okt, möglich. Kandidat:innen sollten Erfahrungen mit Survey-/Panel-Analyse & Interesse an interdiszipl. Zus.arbeit haben.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
Die @unileipzig.bsky.social, @maxplanck.de & @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social bauen ihre Zusammenarbeit in Forschung & Lehre aus: 5 gemeinsame Professuren & geplanter Master-Studiengang f. evolutionäre Anthropologie an der Fakultät f. #Lebenswissenschaften der Uni Leipzig. www.eva.mpg.de/de/presse/ak...
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Big update for one of the rockstar #rstats packages 📦 🌠
Running fixed effects models has never been easier (and fun)! 📊💻✨
#sociology #demography
“Wir kennen das aus den USA und hier von der AfD: Wenn Rechtsextreme und Autoritäre sich Meinungsfreiheit auf die Fahnen schreiben, dann meinen sie nichts anderes als Widerspruchsfreiheit für ihre autoritäre Politik und ihre Menschenfeindlichkeit.
I just called Disney+ to cancel my account and had the most joyful interaction with an operator who was laughing the entire time about how many people had canceled today.
I can only imagine how it feels to spend an entire day witnessing how many people want to stop fascism.
Jon Stewart's Post-Kimmel Primer on Free Speech in the Glorious Trump Era
youtu.be/_GXNJ3V9lzg
uol.de/job731
SoWis & @dza-berlin.bsky.social, bitte teilen: Du hast Erfahrung m. d. Analyse soz.wiss. Panels/Surveys & vllt schon mal mit dem Deutschen #Alterssurvey gearbeitet? Dann könnte diese 4-5j **Postdocstelle** in unserem interdisziplinären Projekt "HearingTogether" was für dich sein: uol.de/job731.
https://uol.de/job731en
Please share: Looking for soc scientist experienced in survey research & interested in interdisciplinary work to join our soc/neuro team @UniOldenburg in "HearingTogether" project, associated w/Hearing4All Excellence Cluster, for 4-5y postdoc (TVL13, 100%). Deadline: Oct. 9 uol.de/job731en
Picture of welcome by Dean of Studies, picture credit: Markus Hibbeler 2025
Congrats to all edu/soc science BA/MA graduates at U of Oldenburg uol.de/fk1. It was a pleasure to celebrate this eve with you! Tnx to all colleagues & students who contributed with a ceremonial address or words of welcome and to all who supported this event in the background.
In my view, this is one of the most informative opinion pieces analyzing the strategy of Trump’s second term—and the key dangers to its success by @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...
Thank you!
Interesting. Can you share which paper you are referring to?
Leicht korrigierte Version unseres HB-Kapitels "Zur Evolution sozialer Ungleichheit" ab sofort verfügbar als Download: link.springer.com/referencewor.... Im großartigen 2025er HB Sozialstrukturanalyse von Petra Böhnke & @dirkkonietzka.bsky.social
Thanks, @olsonkm.bsky.social, for highlighting our paper. This was fun to write because it forced us to really think deeply about the connection between self-reports and sensor data, and it helped me clarify my own thinking about how we can combine the two.
(h/t @guzoch.bsky.social )
Fascinating and spooky: 45m AI-generated audio conversation by NotebookLM on our 50p special issue intro on Bio/evo approaches in sociology". Hear for yourself: notebooklm.google.com/notebook/4ff.... Take it w/a grain of salt. Here is the source article (for free): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Zu Risiken und Nebenwirkungen fragen Sie Ihre Ärztin oder Ihren Bibliothekar ;-)
Wir haben als Wissenschaftler:innen viele Jahre vor diesem Effekt - Normalisierung durch den Versuch der abgeschwächten Übernahme von AfD Positionen - gewarnt, er ist empirisch so oft belegt. Aber Politik hat es, ob wissentlich oder willentlich, ignoriert. Bitter.
www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/stra...
Impressively creative use of Scopus bibliometric data to infer on scholars' migration events after Brexit, by @ezagheni.bsky.social and others
Gut, dass es mal jemand (@mafaalani.bsky.social) so klar sagt: Wie kriegen wir angesichts des gesellschaftlichen Alterns mehr "Power in's System"? : 1. Bildung für unsere Kinder & Jugendlichen verbessern & 2. Zuwanderung/Integration Zugewanderter stärken!