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Gesis Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

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Political science 40%
Sociology 23%
👉 Donzowa et al. highlight the impact of ad design in social media surveys on data quality.
👉 Spiegelman & Conrad show that multimodal definitions can boost data quality in online surveys.

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Vol. 19 No. 1 (2025) | methods, data, analyses
methods, data, analyses (mda)
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👉 Conrad et al. find that directive probing in cognitive interviewing may trigger affirmation bias and harm data quality.
👉 Heinritz reveals differences in response behavior when questions are answered in a respondent’s native or non-native language.

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New #mda issue out now!

Explore five brand-new articles touching the fields of #Weighting #CognitiveInterviews #MultilingualSurveys #SocialMediaRecruitment #QuestionDefinitions.

👉 Sand et al. demonstrate how to generate design weights for multiple refreshment samples in the #GESISPanel.
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We look forward to receiving your submissions for presentations and your proposals for tutorials, workshops or interactive formats. Topic: Social media data between research and infrastructure – sustainable archiving, indexing and access

Submission deadline: 31.10.2025
Call for Submissions: Social Media Access Days
Call for Submissions: Social Media Access Days
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#CallforSubmissions #SocialMedia #conference #research #infrastructure #archiving #indexing #access
Join us at the Social Media Access Days from March 17th till 19th, 2026

The conference is organized by DNB in cooperation with GESIS.

#DataMethods #OpenScience

#GESISMethodsHub: An open portal for computational social science research—find tools, tutorials, and code, directly usable in your browser. Methods Hub makes it easy to learn, apply, and reproduce computational methods in the Social Sciences.

methodshub.gesis.org/
Tagung zu "Netzwerke, Kommunikation und Kultur in Online- und Offline-Welten" am 19./20. März 2026 am @gesis.org in Mannheim.
Organisiert mit @lydiarepke.bsky.social Malte Doehne, Haiko Lietz, Philip Roth. #digitalenetzwerke #netzwerkforschung
Wir freuen uns über Beitragsvorschläge bis zum 1.12.!
Netzwerk Tagung
GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
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#ScienceCareer
#CEWSKolloquium am 29.10., 16-17 Uhr (online, auf Englisch): Christiane Spitzmüller (PhD) zu „The Science of (Intersectional) Science Careers: Bias in Academic Promotion Processes”.

Mehr Info & Anmeldung: www.gesis.org/cews/n...
A key theme: how digital change is reshaping these skills.

Special thanks to Andreas Schleicher for highlighting the link between skills, qualifications, and societal outcomes.

Check out the visual recap of both days!
#AdultSkills
The International #PIAAC #Research #Conference 2025 in Mannheim was a great success!
130 researchers from 30+ countries discussed adult skills – literacy, numeracy & adaptive problem-solving – and their impact on well-being, economies, and participation in society.
What are the risks of releasing and publishing data in social science?
A timely and engaging research idea from Oliver Watteler at @gesis.org GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences #ResearchDay
#ResearchDay #GESISforscht #ResearchatGESIS
Today, GESIS is all about research. Numerous colleagues have made their way to the Cologne site to present their research projects.
#ASConference25
Societal Challenges and the important infrastructures for the Social Sciences on the way to get answers. Sebastian Stier shows how to unlock digital behavioral data.

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Today is fully dedicated to all the exciting research happening at @gesis.org. Beatrice Rammstedt opened the GESIS research day this morning and now we have various sessions on computational and survey methods and current social science research.
A presentation slide with a network graph depicting collaborations of GESIS researchers across topics. Beatice Rammstedt standing at a speake's desk in front of a presentation slide, opening the GESIS research day Topics of GESIS research papers depicted as networks
A special day for @gesis.org today. We gather to exchange ideas, present our own research, and discuss next steps. GESIS research day, here we come!
A special highlight will be the panel discussion "Academic Freedom: Foundations for the Future" with Ina Brandes, Minister for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Manfred Bayer, Rektor at TU Dortmund and Katrin Weller from Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf and GESIS.
#CAISdigitalfutures2025 #CAIS
Starting today: The international and interdisciplinary conference "Creating Spaces for Digital Futures".
Researchers from around the world are welcomed to explore how digital spaces – from public to learning to data spaces – are shaping and transforming our societies.
#survey #germany
The English version of the #ALLBUS 2023 is now published. New in '23: attitudes towards #climate change
Younger respondents are more likely to attribute climate change to human causes, whereas older ones tend to assume that natural processes and human causes have an equal influence.
#as-kongress25 #unimainz #SocietalChallenges
We have the data for you, we give support planning &collecting data. Questions? We are happy to answer at our booth.
#gesisreport #news
The current gesis #newsletter is out now: Just read it online...

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@justlena.bsky.social, Teamleiterin des #CEWS bei GESIS, nimmt bis 📅 31.5.26 die Nominierungen entgegen.

Alle Infos hier:
👉 sociohub-fid.de/s/fr...
#preis #award #dissertation
📣Ausschreibung des Dissertationspreises 🏆

Die @gender4dgs.bsky.social (Sektion Frauen- und #Geschlechterforschung) in der @dgsoziologie.bsky.social vergibt Preise für herausragende Dissertationen 2026 auf dem 43. Soziologie-Kongress in Mainz.
#PIAAC #PIAAC2025 #livestream #day2

Join us at the International PIAAC Research Conference 2025 - Tune in today and watch the livestream of conference day 2 starting at 9 a.m.

👉Check out the program:
📌www.gesis.org/en/dat...

👉Watch the livestream:
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#PIAAC #PIAAC2025 #livestream

Join us at the International PIAAC Research Conference 2025 - Starting Tuesday, Sept 30, 9 a.m.

👉Check out the program:
📌www.gesis.org/en/dat...

👉Watch the livestream:
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