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Mark Levels
@levels.bsky.social
260 followers 130 following 47 posts

Professor of sociology & university dean for lifelong development at Maastricht University. Studies societal impact of automation and how to govern it. Program director ROA. Also army vet. Posts opinions, mostly.

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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · Jan 3
Interesting to see how you all keep jousting from two not mutually exclusive juxtapositions.
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · Dec 31
Ik vind het allemaal heel erg goed. Intelligente humor, vernieuwend, en grappig.
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · Dec 31
Luisterend naar de Pastorale tijdens de #Top2000 komt in mij de behoefte op eindelijk op te biechten: ik vind Shaffy stiekem een enorm overschatte artiest. Dus.
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · Dec 20
Listening to people who confuse arming and aiding a country fighting for it’s very existence with warmongering, I think quite a lot about Patrick Henry.

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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · Dec 17
Arm Ukraine or strengthen ourselves?

#Both #WeCanDoBoth

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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · Dec 17
Het is óók in Nederland tijd voor standvastig universitair verzet tegen dit soort naar binnen gekeerde, ondoordachte, en parochiale politieke manoeuvres, die voorspelbaar schadelijk zijn voor Nederland.
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · Dec 17
Disagree or get along?

#Both #WeCanDoBoth
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · Dec 17
Denounce radicalism or respect voters?

#Both #WeCanDoBoth
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · Dec 17
Strong state or free market?

#Both #WeCanDoBoth
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · Dec 17
Have strong societies or have mass migration?

#Both #WeCanDoBoth
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · Dec 17
Grow the economy or curb climate change?

#Both #WeCanDoBoth
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · Dec 15
Paper using machine learning to analyze tweets.

By Badaan et al (@johnjost.bsky.social lab), w/ shoutout to my former PhD student Mark Hoffarth!

Find many asymmetries: conservatives (vs liberals) nastier online.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
abstract screenshot
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · Dec 11
Yes it was fun while it lasted but it is definitely almost over. For tracking people’s new publications it is still more effective than this site though. Wish people were more active posting their pubs here, too.
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · Dec 7
HUMBLEBRAG: exactly four years ago today I held my inaugural lecture as professor at Maastricht University. Today I received word that the university has appointed me permanently. Could not be more proud!
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John V. Kane @uptonorwell.bsky.social · Dec 4
Hey Stata users, I just published a nicer version of my guide for graphing regression results in Medium’s “Stata Gallery”. 

The article includes all the code directly in the article—simply copy & paste! 😁

Hope it is useful for you!

medium.com/@jvk221/maki...
Making Regression Coefficient Plots in Stata
A concise guide for making publication-quality graphs of regression results using Stata. The guide covers the most common aesthetic…
medium.com
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · Dec 1
Dank! Ik stuur je zo een papertje om eens tegen te lezen als je wilt😃
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · Nov 29
Omarming van de Derde Weg door sociaaldemocraten in de jaren ‘90 betekent denk ik ook hun acceptatie van het utilitarisme als moraalfilosofie, met een verkeerd begrip van de rol van vrijheid. Ik heb een essay in de pen met Tim, dat ik graag met je deel.
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · Nov 28
I had the same gut reaction. Wonder how much social media plays a role in this.

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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · Nov 26
Dit is wel de spijker op de kop hoor.
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · Nov 23
For the past two days the epidemiologists and virologists in my mentions have been frantically chattering about an outbreak of a weird type of pneumonia in China.

Watching this with some concern.
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · Nov 22
Wiegel
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · Nov 22
Mon Dieu, ayez pitié de ce pauvre peuple
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Tom Louwerse @tomlouwerse.nl · Nov 22
Bij de NOS-duiders weer de misvatting dat er meerderheden zijn 'waar de kiezer niet voor gekozen heeft'. Elke zetel is er één en met 76 zetels heb je een meerderheid.
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Leo Lucassen @leol.bsky.social · Nov 22
Dat krijg je als mainstream partijen, de VVD voorop, xenofobische standpunten van extreem rechts normaliseren en veel media daarin meegaan. Gecombineerd met het door Yesilgöz geboden perspectief op regeringsmacht.
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Leo Lucassen @leol.bsky.social · Nov 22
Ook goed om in herinnering te roepen dat Wilders bij de VVD als leerling van Bolkestein is begonnen. Dezelfde Bolkestein die in 1994 besloot asielzoekers als electoraal verdienmodel te gaan gebruiken. De rest is geschiedenis.
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Nov 16
Interesting - partially randomising grant awarding increases diversity of awardees

‘Promising’ results from first year of innovative grant awarding trial show greater diversity of awardees and institutions given funding

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/promisi...
‘Promising’ results from first year of innovative grant awarding trial show greater diversity of...
Early results from an innovative new trial in how the British Academy awards its Small Research Grants suggests that introducing partial randomisation into the selection process could lead to a more e...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · Nov 7
More information about the project and its findings:

technequality-project.eu

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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · Nov 7
5) there is reason to assume that this AI revolution is qualitatively different from previous revolutions, in the sense that machines can substitute humans in much more and more diverse job tasks. This means that the “alarmists” may very well be right. But also that governments can take action.
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · Nov 7
4) countries that face mass technological unemployment may want to consider rethinking their social welfare schemes. We found that participation or basic income type systems are about as effective as activating systems, but produce better outcomes for individuals.
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · Nov 7
3) Adult learning is essential: people need to be able to retrain, and reskill or upskill. But it is develishly difficult to design an effective system, and in most countries the systems are not yet very effective.
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