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Jan Mewes
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Associate professor, Lund University, Sweden. Research on trust, welfare states, health and migration.
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johnholbein1.bsky.social
Name assimilation increases immigrants' earnings A LOT.

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November 29, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social
📢New publication:

The poor want redistribution regardless of whether they think society is meritocratic.

🎉 Big congrats to my former supervisees — now co-authors, @irenepaneda.bsky.social, @jonnekamphorst.bsky.social, and Bala Battu!

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The relevance of meritocratic beliefs for redistributive preferences increases with income
A leading explanation for why in democratic societies the rich are not taxed more is that meritocratic beliefs breed tolerance for inequality. We prob…
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November 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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jayvanbavel.bsky.social
My wife was sexually harassed by Miles Hewstone as a phd student. He was still asked to review her (and other women he harassed) for jobs and promotions. This is so fucked up.

Thankfully, she and many other women testified against him and something was finally done. This is her take on his case:
November 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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philipncohen.com
If this means the decades of sociology using twins to estimate heritability is wrong, has someone written that up for non-genetics people to understand? Seems important
sashagusevposts.bsky.social Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 7d
I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵
The missing heritability question is now (mostly) answered
Not with a bang but with a whimper
theinfinitesimal.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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sashagusevposts.bsky.social
For nearly two decades the field has been asking why heritability estimates from molecular studies are so far below estimates from twin studies (nature.com/news/2008/08...). Are molecular studies missing important genetic variation or are twin studies biased by strong assumptions?
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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mascakir.bsky.social
Do policy preferences of voters and non-voters differ in European democracies?

My new article in @ejprjournal.bsky.social finds: Yes, sometimes, but this is not the norm.

Let's break it down. 🧵 1/10
November 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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ppraeg.bsky.social
Miles "Bad Boy" Hewstone

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November 20, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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danneidle.bsky.social
NEW - we've data showing huge numbers of people reducing their income to avoid high marginal income tax rates. Not just at the £100k point (as previously reported). But at the £50k point:
November 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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kai-arzheimer.com
In move that surprises absolutely no one, the leader of the eponymous party leaves the humdrum of actually leading behind to focus on her career in TV and social media. Meanwhile, voters are much less interested in left authoritarianism than political scientists.
What will become of Sahra Wagenknecht's party? – DW – 11/11/2025
German politician Sahra Wagenknecht will no longer play a role in leading the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), a party founded in 2024 with several prominent former Left Party lawmakers.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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kbkarlson.bsky.social
LAST CALL! #Sociology Professorships in Copenhagen, Denmark!

We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area.

Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15!

Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost!

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Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology
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November 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
janmewes.bsky.social
Do you happen to work with data from the Integrated World Values/European Values Study? If so beware: there is a rather influential coding error in the variable on religious denomination (F025). Go and check e.g. Spain and Germany and compare to F025_EVS and F025_WVS @gesis-dataservices.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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pettertornberg.com
In short, the ANES data shows:
📉 Social media use is shrinking
💥 Twitter/X posting has moved ~50 points to the right
🧩 Platforms are splintering
🔊 Fewer people are talking — but those still talking are more politically extreme
October 30, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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chrisbail.bsky.social
The ENSAE-CREST is hiring a computational sociologist -- Assistant or Associate Professor.

Date of appointment: September 2026.
Details here : www.css.cnrs.fr/assistant-or...
www.css.cnrs.fr
October 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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silkegoubin.bsky.social
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!
October 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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conradhackett.bsky.social
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.
September 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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stefanschubert.bsky.social
"French pensioners now have higher incomes than working-age adults" - extraordinary

By @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

www.ft.com/content/d419...
September 13, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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sbvanoosten.bsky.social
✨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
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September 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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thomasp85.com
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
September 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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pengzell.bsky.social
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.
September 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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casmudde.bsky.social
Very powerful statement by 200+ faculty from Bar-Ilan University, not known as the most progressive university in Israel (to put it mildly). Respect! 🙌
August 29, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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ariedamuco.bsky.social
If you use Stata and you want to make nice coefficient plots, this article by @uptonorwell.bsky.social is really fantastic!

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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…
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August 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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iasliu.bsky.social
✨ 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.
August 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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filipecampante.bsky.social
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.
theatlantic.com 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.
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August 18, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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kbkarlson.bsky.social
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
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August 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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tromsojonas.bsky.social
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...
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August 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM