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Alexia Katsanidou
@alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social
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Political Scientist: democratic crises and political behaviour
Head of Survey Data Curation at @gesisorg.bsky.social
Professor of Empirical Social Research at the University of Cologne
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Keynote by Prof. Monika Kuffer (Twente) on the importance of earth observation in the Social Sciences
November 27, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Linking different sensor data to track conflict lines by Sebastian Schutte (PRIO) in our Earth Observation Data in the Social Sciences workshop @gesis.org
November 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Our first keynote at the EOSS Workshop @gesis.org by Hannes Taubenböck was truly inspiring.
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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danbischof.bsky.social
To anyone who ever worked with municipality level data: this is the gif from hell...Just one needle in your stomach after another...
ansgarw.bsky.social Ansgar Wolsing @ansgarw.bsky.social · 3d
There are 10.990 municipalities in Germany.

From Berlin to the smallest municipality. All their names are shown in this map. The 50 largest cities’ names appear one after the other, after that they appear in chunks of increasing size.

#30DayMapChallenge Day 24: Places and their names #ggplot2
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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markusquandt.bsky.social
Registration for the ISSP user conference (online) on Nov. 24th is still open!
If you are interested in international health (care) attitude research, check here: issp.org/about-issp/i...
#socialresearch #healthcare #internationalsurveys #ISSP
ISSP user conferenceISSP user conference – ISSP
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November 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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pascalsiegers.bsky.social
Please share! Top Gelegenheit Erfahrungen im Maschinenraum der Sozialforschung zu sammeln.
November 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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November 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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perilresearch.bsky.social
In this last episode on the "Man Up: Conversations on Gendered Hate in the Digital Age" podcast, we focus on the topic of exposure to online hate and how parents, educators and administrators can respond. Produced by Long Story Short and hosted by @milleridriss.bsky.social.

Listen Here:
Episode 6: Just Listen
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November 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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mfair.bsky.social
Alarming news/perspective for many social scientists here.
seanjwestwood.bsky.social Sean Westwood @seanjwestwood.bsky.social · 9d
AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail
November 19, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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twanhuijsmans.bsky.social
New publication!📢
@jvanslageren.bsky.social and I study political socialization during adolescence in urban and rural areas, using data from @adkspanel.bsky.social

Discussing politics with parents and peers is positively related to multiculturalist attitudes in cities, but not in rural places (1/3)
November 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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roderikrekker.bsky.social
(1/10) 🚨Preprint alert!🚨

In this article, I challenge claims of a generational rise of conservative men. In the media and recent academic publications, the so-called ‘youth gender gap’ has been interpreted as a generational phenomenon.

doi.org/10.31234/osf...
OSF
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November 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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janmarcmorawe.bsky.social
See here for the full article Operationalising masculinities in theories and practices of gender-transformative health interventions: a scoping review

doi.org/10.1186/s12939-023-01955-x
Operationalising masculinities in theories and practices of gender-transformative health interventions: a scoping review - International Journal for Equity in Health
Gender-transformative health interventions that involve men and boys are gaining global reach, adaptability to specific geographical, population and epidemiological contexts, public endorsement, and c...
doi.org
February 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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ukandeu.bsky.social
"The most common response among men aged 18-25, as with their female peers, is to state that they would never consider voting for Reform."

Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte & Emilia Belknap argue that most British young men reject the right

https://ukandeu.ac.uk/most-british-young-men-reject-the-far-right/
Most British young men reject the far right - UK in a changing Europe
Emilia Belknap and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte explain their analysis on the demographics of Reform UK voters in the UK. They argue that while the dominant narrative is that young men are the most likely to turn to the party, the evidence does not support this.
ukandeu.ac.uk
November 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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We are in Bergamo with the @men4dem.bsky.social Horizon Europe project, discussing democratic masculinities and their impact on the well-functioning of democracy. How men's perceptions of themselves and their roles in society influence the quality of democracy for everyone.
Bergamo Roundtable
Masculinities for the Future of European Democracy
www.men4dem.eu
October 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Educational gap and pay gap in Europe.
October 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Coole Sachen mit dem Allbus. www.gesis.org/en/allbus
October 27, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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"gentrification looks like integration in the data" New ways to look into segregation.
“We All Ended Up in Islington”: The Hidden Multi-Dimensionality of UK Segregation
This post introduces a new Composite Segregation Index combining ethnicity, class, and education to capture spatial sorting - and shows why UK's census architecture hides the social dynamic beneath.
laurenleek.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Please repost:

We're looking for an excellent writer/editor with strong data journalism skills to join the religion team at @pewresearch.org.

pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...
The writer/editor is a position within the Center’s Religion research team, which seeks to promote a deeper understanding of religion and spirituality. The Religion research team conducts surveys, demographic analyses and other social science research in the United States and around the world, studying people’s religious beliefs and practices as well as their views on related issues, including religion’s role in public life. The ideal candidate will have a strong data journalism mindset, with the ability to translate complex quantitative findings into clear and engaging narratives that are nonpartisan and non-advocacy. This position will be embedded within the Religion research team, where the writer/editor will work collaboratively to shape the team’s research agenda, including identifying key research questions; contributing to survey development; and synthesizing findings into accessible and compelling storylines. The writer/editor will also evaluate drafts of research reports to determine whether there are shortcomings in the analysis; edit, rewrite and reorganize drafts as necessary to improve flow and clarity; and work with researchers and designers to create appropriate charts and tables. In addition, the writer/editor will provide guidance and training to the Religion team’s researchers and serve as a writing resource. Following the release of reports, the writer/editor may help disseminate research to the public through the Center’s social media channels, videos, newsletters, and virtual or in-person gatherings, always adhering to the Center’s independent, nonpartisan, non-advocacy stance. 
October 23, 2025 at 11:55 PM
alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social
Interesting findings and best practices on annotation with LLMs.
eddieyang.bsky.social Eddie Yang @eddieyang.bsky.social · Oct 20
New paper: LLMs are increasingly used to label data in political science. But how reliable are these annotations, and what are the consequences for scientific findings? What are best practices? Some new findings from a large empirical evaluation.
Paper: eddieyang.net/research/llm_annotation.pdf
October 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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lhaffert.bsky.social
Why do rustbelts vote radical right? Studying the German Ruhr area, @nilsblossey.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social and I show: it’s not just about deindustrialization, but also about the original industrialization. Where coal is buried deeper and mining started later, the AfD is stronger today 1/12
October 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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bonniefield.bsky.social
Lea Heyne, @rosanavarrete.bsky.social, @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social examine how party conflict and EU politicisation influence public attitudes, finding a negative link between EU polarisation and membership support. In @sespjournal.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Fading EUphoria: party system polarisation and EU attitudes in Greece, Portugal and Spain
Greece, Portugal, and Spain transitioned to democracy in the 1970s and joined the EEC in the 1980s, fostering positive EU attitudes through economic growth. However, the Southern European financial...
www.tandfonline.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social.

It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼💰👩‍💼 are by studying many local labour markets.

Thread 👇

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
October 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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ingorohlfing.bsky.social
I am not sure about how can show that observational regression is often not causal (except that it seems plausible once knows more about causal modeling). Given that, the causal quartet may help:
doi.org/10.1080/2693...
Or simply the www.tylervigen.com charts?
October 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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This is the "leader of the free world".
Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize
US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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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!
October 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM