Yes, data is older and were manually coded. We can't rule out possible coding errors and/or missing data. However, we don't believe that the errors run systematically; they are rather missing at random. So, general trends in the paper are valid, hopefully.
We're working on that currently :-)
...we are currently doing a follow up study and your paper will be most relevant to us. So, thanks for pointing us to this
Thanks, very interesting. I think we should have quoted you.... sorry for overlooking such a relevant study!!
Yes, you're right. Only placements in Germany. It is not a perfect study.
... 10% of departments produce more than half of professors. LMU Munich with highest placement power, followed by FU Berlin, Trier, Heidelberg, Marburg, Gießen, Leipzig, Tübingen, HU Berlin, Konstanz.
New paper in Quant Sci St, w T Grabosch, T Heinze
direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Concentrated academic recruiting. 10% of political science departments produce 60% of all polsci professors in Germany. FU Berlin produced most professors, followed by Mannheim, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Heidelberg. In psychology,...
Einrichungsfrist verlängert bis zum 26.4.26
@marklutter345.bsky.social und ich organisieren eine Ad-hoc-Gruppe auf dem @dgskongress2026.bsky.social in Mainz zu:
Computational Social Science und die Zukunft der Soziologie.
Wir freuen uns über Beitragsvorschläge (gerne provokant und kontrovers) bis zum 15.4.!
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📚 Special issue in Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie on Explanation and Causality in Sociology. Essential reading on where causal inference in sociology is heading
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Example for the two staged unsupervised machine learning algorithm using point data as input. Backlayer maps depict Hamburg. The map shows neighborhoods in different sizes and forms, sometimes following administrative borders (black lines) sometimes not. Three differently colored neighborhood types are displayed, each representing a different social group of residents.
xample for the two staged unsupervised machine learning algorithm using 500x500m grid cells as input. Backlayer maps depict Hamburg. The map shows large neighborhoods in different sizes and forms, sometimes following administrative borders (black lines) sometimes not. Three differently colored neighborhood types are displayed, each representing a different social group of residents.
Looking for a measure of #neighborhoods, micro or macro #segregation?
I've got something for you!
My newly published paper in Sociological Methods & Research presents a machine-learning-based algorithm to delineate neighborhoods with grid-cell or point data:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Check out our new, open access paper in RSSM. Anne Maaike Mulders expertly led our author team (with Christoph Janietz Jochem Tolsma myself) to find an important piece of the gender inequity puzzle in academia.
🔬Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📰Press release: www.ru.nl/onderzoek/on...
"Do virtual museums highlighting the experiences of minorities persuade visitors? Evidence from a study on bias toward Asian Americans"
This is a work in progress, so feedback is welcome!
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
A new publication at www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We find that religious markers (esp. beards) can reduce perceived trustworthiness in Turkey.
(That's why you often see me clean shaven ;-)
Poster for the “Sociological Ash Wednesday” event at the University of Cologne on 18 February 2026, 16:00–18:00, in lecture hall A2, with a background photo of the Cologne skyline and cathedral at sunset over the Rhine. Large white text announces the title “SOZIOLOGISCHER ASCHERMITTWOCH”, with green banner slogans reading “Universitäre Diskursräume” and “Zwischen Freiheit und Beschränkung”. The lower left lists a panel discussion with Claudia Diehl (Konstanz), Naika Foroutan (Berlin), Markus Ogorek (Köln), Uwe Schimank (Bremen) and Richard Traunmüller (Mannheim), moderated by Jan‑Martin Wiarda, and organisation credit to Clemens Kroneberg with a website link. The logos of the University of Cologne, the Adenauer School of Government and the WiSo Faculty’s 125‑year anniversary (1901–2026) appear at the top and bottom of the poster.
Cologne sociologist Clemens Kroneberg invites to the Sociological Ash Wednesday on 18 February at the University of Cologne.
This year’s high-calibre panel discussion focuses on how to deal with academic freedom and diversity of perspectives in universities and academic world.
bit.ly/soziologisch...
AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail
“These findings provide clear evidence that data collected on MTurk simply cannot be trusted.”
Screenshot of the cevianlabs.io website. Banner says "Accelerating Academic Hiring", followed by The Cevian Advantage, Cevian Labs provides advanced tools to faculty and administrators to make better decisions, faster. Founded by faculty who spent years wishing for a way to automate the tedious parts of faculty hiring (summarizing CVs, tracking publications, synthesizing candidate information) and finally just built the solution we always needed. Our secure platform automates manual error-prone processes to deliver...
Super excited to announce a new venture, with @danlarremore.bsky.social : Cevian Labs cevianlabs.io provides advanced tools to accelerate faculty work in academia. Our first product CVParsa helps faculty search committees process huge piles of CVs, so they can spend more time evaluating candidates
IC2S2 2026 registration is open!
Explore the 2026 conference here ➡️ ic2s2-2026.org
✔️ Submissions open December 15th
✔️ Keynotes will be announced between now and February
✔️ Full program of selected talks and tutorials will be available in late April
Out now! Sociology in the Weimar Republic. 2 Volumes 🥳🤓 some of the structural problems and crises of Weimar society are very similar today, so that the earlier sociological analyses of these problems still remain relevant…
How is ethnic diversity linked to the cohesion of social networks?
@glorenz.bsky.social & #C_Rjosk analyse >1,300 adolescent friendship networks to examine how connectivity varies with ethnic diversity, and its consolidation with gender and SES.
👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf051
Needed - larger samples, more realism about (the lack of) heterogeneous treatment effects:
-"less than a third of proposed hypotheses were supported... the largest predictor of positive exp. results was sample size"
-"moderation hypotheses were rarely significant"
academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...
Now available online and open access! The results of our adversarial collaboration on:
Students’ motives for restricting academic freedom: Viewpoint discrimination and prosocial concerns | PNAS
@pnas.org
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@kunkakom.bsky.social
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Returning to the Venice Workshop of Analytical Sociology this week meant a lot to me--smart talks, kind people, and lots of cool ideas. Shout out to the lovely community on Bluesky @kauspurg.bsky.social @marklutter345.bsky.social @verenaseibel.bsky.social @sawalzenbach.bsky.social ...
Cool, thanks!!
Interesting, do you have a paper on this?
Screenshot der Website hinter dem Link: Cover und bibliografische Informationen zum rezensierten Buch.
Universitäten stehen heute in einem intensivierten Wettbewerb um Exzellenz. Richard Münch analysiert, wie der „akademische Kapitalismus“ Forschung, Wissen und institutionelle Dynamiken beeinflusst. @hartmutesser.bsky.social hat „Wissenschaft im Wettbewerb“ gelesen:
www.soziopolis.de/wider-die-ve...
Two AI generated images showing 1) a boy walking through a disorderly neighbourhood with graffiti and trash and 2) a boy walking through a very similar but cleaned up neighbourhood without trash ad graffiti.
Can AI-generated images work as visual vignettes in survey experiments? I argue yes - and discuss how . in my new @sscratsage.bsky.social paper: doi.org/10.1177/0894...
📊 now in English @fesonline.bsky.social:
Gender gap in voting behavior in Germany📊
It's about the “big picture” since 1953 & current trends 2021-2025.
The gender gap keeps growing, especially among the young.
-> Longer trends are continuing & partly accelerating.
library.fes.de/pdf-files/a-...