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Silke Goubin @silkegoubin.bsky.social · 21h

Shout-out to all #PoliticalTrust researchers interested in attending the first @epssnet.bsky.social conference in #Belfast

@annakern.bsky.social, @danjdevine.bsky.social, @cvalebeek.bsky.social, @hannesbey.bsky.social and I are coordinating 3 trust panels!

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Jan Mewes @janmewes.bsky.social · 14d

Herzlichen Glückwunsch und viel Spaß!

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Jan Mewes @janmewes.bsky.social · Sep 15

Reminder to myself: look up social trust scores for India and Indonesia tomorrow.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Sep 15

NEW: Say most elected officials in their country are honest
Sweden 36%
Indonesia 31%
Netherlands 30%
Canada 27%
Germany 26%
India 24%
France 22%
UK 21%

US 7%
www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...

A bar chart showing Do people think elected officials are honest?

A 47% median of adults across 25 countries say few or none of their elected officials are honest. Roughly a third (36%) say some are honest. Only 14% believe this describes all or most officials in their country.

Perceptions of elected officials are especially negative in Greece and most of the African and Latin American countries surveyed. Roughly three-quarters of Greeks say few or none of their elected officials are honest. Majorities also take this stance in Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Kenya, Mexico and Nigeria. In fact, shares in these countries ranging from 15% to 31% of adults say none of their elected officials are honest.

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Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · Sep 13

"French pensioners now have higher incomes than working-age adults" - extraordinary

By @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

www.ft.com/content/d419...

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Dr. Sanne van Oosten @sbvanoosten.bsky.social · Sep 11

✨Accepted for Publication ✨

"Surveying Citizens with a Migration Background - A Quantitative Study of Identification versus Categorization"

Coming soon in the journal Survey Research Methods.

Read the pre-print here:

doi.org/10.31219/osf...

OSF

doi.org

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · Sep 11

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

ggplot2 4.0.0

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

www.tidyverse.org

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Sep 9

When (if ever) is it right to appeal a rejection? This advice offered by AJS seems good more generally

$Under what circumstances does it make sense for me to appeal a decision? The answer is that you should appeal only if the following two things are true a) A reviewer made a flagrant error of interpretation as to what you had done, and b) The editors' letter indicates that this error was consequential for the decision. Note that (a) excludes differences of judgment of quality ("Reviewer A says it wasn't good enough, but it was!") and differences of interpretations of the data ("Reviewer A says my finding is due to selection, and I say it isn't!"). Note that (b) excludes times when the editorial letter passes over an error made by a reviewer in silence. The following are not justifications for making an appeal: c) You think a reviewer was biased or unfair. The editorial board understands that they have to contextualize different reviewers' positions to assemble a coherent expert judgment of a manuscript. d) You think that the reviewers in general are supportive. Because we can only publish a fraction of the papers that are submitted, we must reject some papers that are good, and that reviewers think are good, to make space for those that reviewers, and we, think are of outstanding importance. Further, reviewers sometimes use gentler and more supportive language in their comments to the author than they do in their comments to the editor. e) A reviewer found a problem in a revised manuscript that is inherent in the design seemingly acceptable in the first round of review. We do our best never to reject manuscripts upon review for reasons that should have been raised when the manuscript was first submitted. However, one reason we do add new reviewers in the R&R stage is to catch weaknesses that may have been previously missed, and if these are believed to be uncorrectable, a rejection is the only proper decision.$

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Aug 29

Very powerful statement by 200+ faculty from Bar-Ilan University, not known as the most progressive university in Israel (to put it mildly). Respect! 🙌

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Arieda Muço @ariedamuco.bsky.social · Aug 24

If you use Stata and you want to make nice coefficient plots, this article by @uptonorwell.bsky.social is really fantastic!

medium.com/the-stata-ga...

Making Regression Coefficient Plots in Stata

Traditionally, researchers reported results of regression analyses using tables. A more visually appealing way of presenting these results is by using a coefficient plot. Unlike a typical scatterplot…

medium.com

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · Aug 19

✨ The IAS Seminar Series returns for the Fall 2025 semester with a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all!

#AcademicSky #Sociology #CSS

Poster for the Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS) Programme Autumn 2025 at Linköping University. The text explains that the seminars feature international scholars, are open to all, and will be broadcast on Zoom.

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · Aug 18

Repeat after me, folks: All. Graded. Work. Must. Be. Done. In. Class. Take it from the people who come from cultures where (human) cheating has always been rampant.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Aug 18

A majority of undergraduate students use AI for classwork, several studies show. Ian Bogost spoke with college students to explore their motivations behind using the tool—and the painful revelation professors may face this in classrooms this fall.

College Students Have Already Changed Forever

Members of the class of 2026 have had access to AI since they were freshmen. Almost all of them are using it to do their work.

bit.ly

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Jan Mewes @janmewes.bsky.social · Aug 18

The worrisome problem is how to change higher education programs whose whole point is to train students how to write. If the goal is to learn academic writing, then in-class assignments are strictly speaking „un-aligned“ with the learning outcomes. But all writing at home is now under AI suspicion

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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · Aug 18

New paper reveals widespread decline in intergenerational economic mobility in 🇩🇪 for those born in the 70s and 80s. Similarly, educational inequality by parent income has also been increasing.

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EconPapers: Rising Inequality, Declining Mobility: The Evolution of Intergenerational Mobility in Germany

By Julia Baarck, Moritz Bode and Andreas Peichl; Abstract: This paper is the first to show that intergenerational income mobility in Germany has decreased over time. We provide

econpapers.repec.org

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Jonas Stein @tromsojonas.bsky.social · Aug 18

UiT lyser ut en svært spennende stipendiatstilling i statsvitenskap. For oss er det viktig å være ledende på samfunn i nord og det er naturlig å forske på valgprosessen til den viktigste institusjonen i det samiske demokratiet. LIK og DEL! www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...

www.jobbnorge.no

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Jan Mewes @janmewes.bsky.social · Aug 18

How big is the field though

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Alexi Gugushvili @a-gugushvili.bsky.social · Aug 18

🇺🇸-🇺🇦-🇪🇺 As Trump meets Zelensky + European leaders today to discuss ending Russia’s war, it’s important to know: European citizens themselves see the war’s end very differently. My new study in ‪@jei-publication.bsky.social‬ explores these divides 👉 shorturl.at/Mw8KE

When the guns fall silent: the variety of European perspectives on the end of war in Ukraine

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sparked intense geopolitical debates and public reflection across Europe regarding the likely trajectory and resolution of the conflict. Public expectations about t...

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Nils C. Kumkar @nilskumkar.bsky.social · Aug 7

I have seen teams of PhD level experts fail at almost everything imaginable, including, but not limited to: agreeing on a place to have lunch, making coffee and finding a bus stop. And I have been on all those teams.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · Aug 7

OpenAI releases the newest version of the AI model that powers its popular ChatGPT chatbot, with CEO Sam Altman promoting it as like having a “team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket.”

OpenAI releases GPT-5, calling it a ‘team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket’

OpenAI says its latest version of the popular AI model is better at coding, more accurate and less deceptive than previous versions.

nbcnews.to

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Jan Mewes @janmewes.bsky.social · Aug 8

So this is meant by „large language“ models!

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Aug 6

It's hard to fathom that every 6-8 years UK universities spend years and hundreds of millions doing something that can be done in an afternoon by one person with access to impact-factor weighted citation counts.

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Aug 6

Here's a newer study that's even better. VQR = bibliometric algorithm. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · Jul 16

Do generous welfare policies foster political trust? Matthijs Gillissen, @silkegoubin.bsky.social & Anna Ruelens examine the long-term effects of welfare generosity on trust in political institutions. Read more:
buff.ly/tBe6gLG

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · Jul 14

Using time series graphs to make causal claims be like

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Frank Sauer @drfranksauer.bsky.social · Jun 30

Danke 🙏 - und Repost aus ... aktuell gegebenem Anlass.

Martin Jähnert @mjaehnert.bsky.social · Jun 30

Lehrreiches Interview des DLF mit @drfranksauer.bsky.social zu Atomwaffen:

Brauchen wir die Atombombe?

Wackelt das atomare US-Schutzversprechen? Kann Frankreich in die Bresche springen und was könnte Deutschland tun? Fragen an den Sicherheitsexperten Frank Sauer.

www.deutschlandfunk.de

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Phillip Ayoub @payoub.bsky.social · Jun 28

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

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