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Sebastian E. Wenz @sewenz.bsky.social · 1d

Full citation with link to the open access paper:

Sergio Lo Iacono, Wojtek Przepiorka, Vincent Buskens, Rense Corten, Marcel van Assen, Arnout van de Rijt, The competitive advantage of sanctioning institutions revisited: A multilab replication, PNAS Nexus, 2023, doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 1d

The @europarl.europa.eu just made a fool of itself with this ban. Is there evidence that consumers think a "veggie burger" contains meat? Utterly ridiculous, and just (further) undermines the credibility of the institution (at the behest of the EPP).
www.bbc.com/news/article...

EU parliament votes to ban meat names for plant-based foods

Pressure to ban meat labels for plant-based products comes from Europe's livestock farmers.

www.bbc.com

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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 1d

A true honor. Thanks Wojtek Przepiorka for leading this and @sergioloiacono.bsky.social for traveling to all these replication sites!

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Sebastian E. Wenz @sewenz.bsky.social · 1d

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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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 1d

More humor on Bluesky please!

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Marc Keuschnigg @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social · 4d

Great reception for our work on online misinformation in Chile!
Thanks to my collaborators @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social & Jonas Stein

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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 9d

"This article documents a surprising reversal in the long-standing gender gap in academic achievement."

This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 10d

NEW: Mood, "Equalization through Deterioration: The Shrinking Gender Gap in Swedish School Grades" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

sociologicalscience.com

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Rene Almeling @ralmeling.bsky.social · 10d

Yale Sociology is hiring an associate or full professor in quantitative sociology. Come work with me! Applications open tomorrow. Details available here:

apply.interfolio.com/174709

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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 11d

We're hiring for a senior appointment at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor!

Apply here: facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Senior appointment in the Department of Sociology at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor

facultypositions.stanford.edu

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Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · Aug 28

A new piece I wrote appearing in FOREIGN AFFAIRS today

www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/warn...

Warnings From Weimar

Why bargaining with authoritarians fails.

www.foreignaffairs.com

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Opiniestukken @opiniestukken.bsky.social · 15d

In NRC: Waarschuwingen uit Weimar

Waarschuwingen uit Weimar

Extremisten kunnen alleen aan de macht komen met hulp van partijen die uit ambitie of lijfsbehoud met ze samenwerken. Dat is de les van de Weimarrepubliek, zegt Daniel Ziblatt.

www.nrc.nl

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EUI Department of Political and Social Sciences @eui-sps.bsky.social · 16d

✨ SPS Welcome 2025 ✨

Yesterday evening, we welcomed our new cohort of #SPS researchers.

Head of Department @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social, together with our academic faculty, greeted the first-year researchers and celebrated the start of a new academic journey.

Cheers to a fruitful year ahead! 🥂📚

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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 19d

This did not age well.

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Defending the One Percent

(Summer 2013) - Imagine a society with perfect economic equality. Then, one day, this egalitarian utopia is disturbed by an entrepreneur with an idea for a new product. Think of the entrepreneur as St...

www.aeaweb.org

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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 22d

"This article offers an alternative framework for studying optimal policy design that replaces the dominant economic model’s emphasis on individual utility with a sociological emphasis on unequal life chances."

This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 22d

NEW: Elias Nosrati, "The Political Economy of Optimal Taxation" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

sociologicalscience.com

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 23d

Well you're lucky... apparently reading a grant proposal does not meaningfully affect how it's ranked.

Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions? A field experiment - Scientometrics

Scientists and funding agencies invest considerable resources in writing and evaluating grant proposals. But do grant proposal texts noticeably change panel decisions in single blind review? We report...

link.springer.com

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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 25d

Brextinction!

From our student @fresejoris.bsky.social and colleagues @juhoharkonen.bsky.social @simonhix.bsky.social

ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Brextinction? How cohort replacement has transformed support for Brexit

Public support for Brexit has declined since the 2016 referendum. We argue that part of this decline is due to cohort replacement where many older voters (who support Brexit) have passed away, while ...

ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Dead McCoy 💀 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 25d

My department, Sociology at the University of Calgary, is hiring FOUR (4) tenure track professors this fall in the areas of systemic justice and structural harm. Please help us to circulate this widely within your scholarly networks!

Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ...

careers.ucalgary.ca

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Jen Heerwig @drjenh.bsky.social · 25d

🚨 We’re HIRING! 🚨
The Department of Sociology at Stony Brook University (SUNY) is seeking two tenure-track Assistant Professors in Global Inequality & Justice (start Fall 2026).

Come join a vibrant, growing department at New York’s top public university!
📍 Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/172669

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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 26d

"We find a...positive effect of using streaming platforms on the diversity of cultural consumption as well as on cosmopolitanism, on three domains, music, movies, and TV shows."

This week in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · Sep 4

Reposting with correct link! sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 26d

"Consonant with findings of low reliability and high, non-random non-response when a “Don’t know” option is available, the interviews highlight that Topbot is worded ambiguously, leading to varied interpretations and often puzzlement."

This week in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 29d

NEW: Anderson, "An Unreliable Ladder: Top–Bottom Self-Placement, Subjective Social Status, and Political Preferences sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

sociologicalscience.com

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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 29d

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗

📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

we're hiring assistant professor in computational social science, applications close 26/10/2025

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 28d

Quite amazed by the articles that @sociologicalsci.bsky.social puts out on a regular basis -- this one here by Lewis Anderson: imaginative, bold, well-informed, an incredible eye for detail, this will really be moving the field forward

doi.org/10.15195/v12...

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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · 28d

I wrote about @hermwerf.bsky.social 's excellent ASR article last year on education expansion and intergenerational mobility.

Hope you find it useful!

asocial.substack.com/p/inequality...

Inequality Readers. On the merits

Education expansion merits optimism, and other puns

asocial.substack.com

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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 29d

We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰

Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure).

You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented!

#sociology

More 👇

jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology

jobportal.ku.dk

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Jan Lorenz @janlo.de · 29d

If you are interested in doing a PhD on Agent-based models of Protests consider this call:

2 Doctoral Scholarships (48 months) ‘Contentious Politics in the Digital Age’ (CoPoDi), funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Visit: www.bigsss-bremen.de/academic-pro...

CoPoDi: Research and Faculty

www.bigsss-bremen.de

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