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Sergio Lo Iacono @sergioloiacono.bsky.social · 2d

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Sergio Lo Iacono @sergioloiacono.bsky.social · 2d

Deeply honoured to receive this award from the Academy of Sociology with my co-authors! I hope we’ll see many more replications in Sociology in the years ahead, along with preregistrations and registered reports as leading journals make more space for them.

#AkadSoz25 #sociology

Sebastian E. Wenz @sewenz.bsky.social · 2d

And the 1st Replication Award of the Academy of Sociology goes to..

Sergio Lo Iacono, Wojtek Przepiorka, Vincent Buskens, Rense Corten, Marcel van Assen, and Arnout van de Rijt

for "The competitive advantage of sanctioning institutions revisited: A multilab replication"

#AkadSoz25 #sociology

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Climate Action Tracker @climateactiontracker.org · 19d

COUNTRY ANALYSIS: We have downgraded the #US climate action to "Critically insufficient" - it's the most aggressive, comprehensive and consequential climate policy rollback the CAT has ever analysed.

🔗 bit.ly/CAT_US

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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · Jun 17

Great to see our 2018 Matthew effect finding ( tinyurl.com/7ur8akws ) replicated in this fantastic study!

Research on Research Institute (RoRI) @rorinstitute.bsky.social · Jun 12

🎯 Does early success in science funding shape the rest of your career?

New RoRI study says yes.

The ‘Matthew effect’ — early winners keep winning — holds across funders & countries.

📄 Read more: researchonresearch.org/largest-stud...

Largest study of its kind shows that the ‘Matthew effect’ in science funding holds true - Research on Research

New RoRI paper shows that researchers who win funding early in their career are more likely to get funded in the future

researchonresearch.org

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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · Sep 11

🚨 New pre-print with @sergioloiacono.bsky.social

We ran 3 large-scale experiments in 🇬🇧to investigate how perceived asylum-seeking legality, public preferences for refugee relocation, and inclusionary attitudes are shaped by symbolic and strategic boundaries

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Prof. Sonia I Seneviratne @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social · Sep 10

Hot off the press: We can provide for the first time a systematic attribution of recent #heatwaves to the emissions of #carbon_majors. Essential new #Nature article coordinated by @yannquilcaille.bsky.social at @ethz.ch, with numerous contributors @usyseth.bsky.social:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · Jul 31

We are creating an academic journal and *you* can shape it!

Make comments and suggest changes to replicationresearch.org 's
- Constitution
- TOP guidelines
- article types
- and reviewer guidelines
until September 5 and be credited as a contributor: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · Jun 29

Join us @rwi.bsky.social & @i4replication.bsky.social as replicator for a meta-reproduction on deforestation. We pay replicators 2,500 EUR. Experience with geocoded data & background in environmental science are assets. 1/2 bit.ly/4ke2p6o

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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · Apr 12

📢 My paper w Aron Szekely on honour-based violence is published online (Open Access): journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

We explain this puzzling phenomenon applying game-theory and testing it using large-scale data on norms and actual femicides.

@sriucl.bsky.social @uclsociology.bsky.social

Details of the publication with abstract which reads: Honor killings, which occur when women are perceived to have broken purity norms and bring “dishonor” to their family, pose profound moral and societal problems and underrecognized sociological puzzles. Given the immense cost, why do families murder their own daughter,
niece, or cousin? Conversely, given the tragic consequences, why are norms broken in the first place? Drawing on accounts of honor killings, we characterize the key actors, actions, and incentives, and develop two interlinked theoretical models, one on norm-enforcement
and another on norm-breaking. The former specifies the conditions under which honor norms should hold, the latter, counterintuitively, predicts that honor killings occur most frequently when honor norms are contested; not when they are strictest. Analyzing data from 24 countries and ~26,000 individuals and building a unique dataset of honor killings from Turkey, we find support for the hypotheses. Honor norms are stronger when laws offer leniency for honor killings, families’ loss of reputation is more consequential, and community cohesion is higher. Actual killings have an inverse-U-shaped link with the prevalence of honor norms. Our work advances the theoretical understanding of honor norms and killings and offers one of the most
comprehensive empirical analyses of the factors influencing honor killings.

Figure 1 from the paper. Within-Family Interaction and Probabilities of Interaction Outcomes
Note: Panel A shows an interaction within a family. Panel B shows the probability of breaking a norm (p2) in the game tree in panel A; the probability of the existence of an honor norm in the repeated norm-enforcement game (p1, i.e., conditions given in Hypotheses 1, 2, and 3 obtain); and the probability of honor killing (p3), which is the product of the former two probabilities, as a function of repeated norm-enforcement game parameters.

Figure 3 from the paper. Support for Honor Killings; Coefficients from Multilevel Regressions with Random Intercepts for Countries
Data source: PEW (2013) World Muslims Survey.
Note: N (response) = 26,458. N (country) = 24. Countries that adopted laws that allow leniency for honor-based violence: Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Niger, Palestinian Territories. Countries that have adultery laws: Afghanistan, Pakistan.

Figure 5 from the paper. Results of Poisson Models Predicting the Monthly Number of Honor Killings
Note: Predictive margins for the association between support for honor norms and honor killings (top panel) and the average marginal effect of passing law 6284 according to support for honor norms (bottom panel).

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Simone Cremaschi @simonecremaschi.bsky.social · Mar 11

Proud and happy to see this in print! 😊🫒

American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · Mar 11

Just published on APSR First View: "Without Roots: The Political Consequences of Collective Economic Shocks" by Simone Cremaschi @simonecremaschi.bsky.social, Nicola Bariletto, and Catherine De Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Angelo Romano @aromano.bsky.social · Mar 7

Hi Everyone,

Angela Dorrough, Giuliana Spadaro, @shuxianjin.bsky.social, and I are guest-editing a special issue at JESP on current directions in social dilemmas research.

More info can be found here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

We look forward to receiving many exciting submissions!

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Royce Carroll @roycecarroll.bsky.social · Feb 10

The Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis is now on Bluesky!

Follow this account for updates. Applications open soon!

Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis @essexsummerschool.bsky.social · Feb 10

Welcome to the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis! 🎉

We’re excited to have you here!

Stay tuned for updates on our 58th Essex Summer School this summer, plus insights on data skills, new methods, research connections and more.

Thanks for joining us! 👋

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · Feb 26

Just 3 more days left to apply for SICSS-ODISSEI Summer School 2025! Apply by the 28th of Feb📑

📚 Topics: network analysis, ML, ethics
💻 FIRMBACKBONE & SANE (Secure ANalysis Environment)
🎓 Earn 5 ECTS credits

Learn more and apply👉 sicss.io/2025/odissei/

ccsky #StatsEd

Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · Feb 24

Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · Nov 15

BIG Opportunity: Deputy Director of Research

This is a very important, new role at COS that might be perfect for someone that has been leading an academic research lab and is excited about the idea of applying those skills to assess & improve the research culture.

ats.rippling.com/cos-careers/...

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Tom Ashbyトム ∙ アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · Nov 10

Funded PhDs! The call is open for PhDs at the European University Institute (pics) in Florence. 4 yrs full funding + generous research funds. History, Law, Pol+Soc Sci, & Econ. Most grants are limited to member states, do check. Some international grants. Due: 31 Jan 25 www.eui.eu/en/services/...

A historic villa at dawn with a tower and crenellations

The view into a cloistered courtyard with a tower right and tree centre

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Shuxian Jin | 金淑娴 @shuxianjin.bsky.social · Nov 5

🚨Excited that our meta-analysis is out in JPSP @APA_Journals. We synthesized 6 decades (1958-2017) of empirical evidence on social dilemmas and tested which structural features (most strongly) promote cooperation:
doi.org/10.1037/pspi...
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · Jul 5

A multi-lab replication of a theoretical expectation from Terror Management Theory that death related primes are uniquely impactful after delay, as opposed to other types of semantic priming. Findings do not support that expectation.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Frank van Tubergen @frankvantubergen.bsky.social · Jun 12

Join our research team! We have a vacancy for a Senior Researcher in International Migration and/or Immigrant Integration at NIDI, The Hague, Netherlands. Permanent position. Application deadline: September 1, 2024. Gross monthly salary between € 4,332 - € 8,815, depending on level of experience.

Vacancies - NIDI

Vacancies Are you interested in joining our interdisciplinary team of ambitious researchers studying population issues? Then we welcome you to reply to the vacancies at NIDI advertised below. Are you ...

nidi.nl

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Qinyu Xiao @qinyuxiao.bsky.social · Jun 5

Robert is a fantastic mentor, colleague, and friend with a perfect mixture of supportiveness, criticalness, and humour. Vienna is a wonderful city to live in. Apply! You will not regret it.

Robert Böhm @robertboehm.bsky.social · Jun 5

🚨 WE ARE HIRING! 🚨 Looking for two PhD candidates to join the Social and Economic Psychology group (social-econ-psych.univie.ac.at) at the University of Vienna. t.co/nXif41brr1 Please share. 🧵👇 for more information (1/4).

University assistant (Praedoc)

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · May 13

The Metascience conference is coming to London!

June 30-July 2, 2025

Center for Open Science @cos.io · May 13

Save the date! COS and @rorinstitute.bsky.social have partnered to bring the Metascience Conference to London!

ℹ️ Learn more: metascience.info
➡️ Sign up for updates: eepurl.com/iPa39k

#metascience2025

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · Apr 26

SweCSS, the Swedish Centre for Computational Social Science, has just introduced its Visiting Fellows Program, designed to foster collaboration between social and computational sciences. Spread the word!

liu.se/en/research/...

Visiting Fellows Program

liu.se

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Lena Hipp @llhipp.bsky.social · Apr 20

We welcome full papers but also short contributions and comments!

Sebastian E. Wenz @sewenz.bsky.social · Apr 19

📢 CfP: "SRM Special Issue: Learning Through Failures"

The issue is dedicated to learning from survey experiments that failed or led to unexpected results.

🗞️ ESRA’s Survey Research Methods
🧐 Eds: @llhipp.bsky.social & @sewenz.bsky.social
🗓️ Submit by 15 Dec
🌐 ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/article/...

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · Jan 29

The Center for Open Science and Meta are partnering on a pilot project to share social media data related to well-being for academic research.

We hope that this will provide a model for industry-academia partnerships to increase access of important data.

www.cos.io/about/news/m...

Meta Partners with the Center for Open Science to Share Data to Study Well-being Topics

Using innovative methods from the open science movement to promote rigor and transparency of research, Meta and the Center for Open Science will pilot a new approach to industry-academia partnerships ...

www.cos.io

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Jens Rydgren @jensrydgren.bsky.social · Jan 16

We are hiring a senior lecturer in sociology at Stockholm University.
It is an open position, we welcome all kinds of sociologists.
(But I would personally be very happy if political sociologists applied.)

www.su.se/english/abou...

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Eleanor Power @eapower.bsky.social · Jan 10

A few more days to apply for our 2-year postdoc post joining a collaborative, cross-cultural study into the dynamics of wealth inequality, based @sfiscience.bsky.social! Help develop core models grounded in social, econo & demog data from around the 🌏! Deadline 16 Jan www.santafe.edu/about/jobs/a...

Santa Fe Institute Jobs: Applied Fellow, Social and Economic Inequality

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