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Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · 4d

In Germany, many doctoral students do not have control over this as many are workers hired to work on specific projects.

Sinisa Malesevic @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social · 6d

A sociology job in Ireland:

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOX816/a...

Assistant Professor in Sociology (Racism(s), Criminology, Cultural Sociology) at University of Limerick

Apply for the Assistant Professor in Sociology (Racism(s), Criminology, Cultural Sociology) role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now...

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · 10d

media.suub.uni-bremen.de/entities/pub...

Communism, slavery and social policy: Investigating the role of worker agency in the development of work-injury laws globally

This paper discusses the impact of worker agency on adoption of national policies to protect against work-injury. It uses the lenses of communist revolution and colonial forced labour to shed light on...

media.suub.uni-bremen.de

Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · 10d

Do you have papers or other things published on this subject? I would find it highly useful in studying welfare state development across the globe, especially including the Global South and colonies using enslaved labor. @sfb1342.bsky.social

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Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · 10d

arxiv.org/abs/2509.184... A different kind of tragedy of the commons #openscience #replication @retractionwatch.com #retractions

When Collaborative Maintenance Falls Short: The Persistence of Retracted Papers on Wikipedia

Wikipedia serves as a key infrastructure for public access to scientific knowledge, but it faces challenges in maintaining the credibility of cited sources, especially when scientific papers are retra...

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Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · 13d

www.nature.com/articles/d41... #python #behindthemusic

Python, the movie! The origin story of the programming language comes to the silver screen

The creator of the NumPy and SciPy libraries reflects on their supporting role in the story of Python, now the subject of a documentary.

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Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · 15d

#openscience

Erick Turner @eturnermd1.bsky.social · 16d

"Ending publication bias: A values-based approach to surface null and negative results"

Paper out today in PLoS Medicine by many of us who would like to see publication bias reduced or eliminated.

Especially happy that Registered Reports got shout-outs.

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Ending publication bias: A values-based approach to surface null and negative results

Sharing knowledge is a fundamental principle within the scientific community, yet null and negative results are still being underreported. This Consensus View discusses the problem of such publication...

journals.plos.org

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Erick Turner @eturnermd1.bsky.social · 16d

"Ending publication bias: A values-based approach to surface null and negative results"

Paper out today in PLoS Medicine by many of us who would like to see publication bias reduced or eliminated.

Especially happy that Registered Reports got shout-outs.

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Ending publication bias: A values-based approach to surface null and negative results

Sharing knowledge is a fundamental principle within the scientific community, yet null and negative results are still being underreported. This Consensus View discusses the problem of such publication...

journals.plos.org

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NBER @nber.org · 18d

Documenting the growth of ChatGPT since its launch in November 2022 and exploring usage patterns by conversation topic and user characteristics, from Aaron Chatterji, Thomas Cunningham, David J. Deming, Zoe Hitzig, Christopher Ong, Carl Yan Shan, and Kevin Wadman https://www.nber.org/papers/w34255

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Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · 20d

LOL, tell me about it journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Research That Is Not Published Is Not Worth Doing - Rajshekhar Bipeta, 2025

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Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · 20d

If you look at the @datacolada.bsky.social blogpost. There's no other explanation. We don't need Occam's logic here, there's one thing that can cause Excel rows to move like that. datacolada.org/109. This is an excellent resource for teaching #openscience & #reproducibility @retractionwatch.com

[109] Data Falsificada (Part 1): "Clusterfake" - Data Colada

This is the introduction to a four-part series of posts detailing evidence of fraud in four academic papers co-authored by Harvard Business School Professor Francesca Gino. In 2021, we and a team of a...

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Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you Francesca Gino for teaching us how not to handle getting caught faking data - namely by faking more data. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

www.thecrimson.com

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 20d

'Violence has never been a distortion in American politics. It has been one of its recurring features, not an aberration but a persistent force, destructive and yet oddly creative'

Yes, this is who we are: America’s 250-year history of political violence

The US has long fused politics and violence, often through firearms. To claim that such shootings betray ‘who we are’ is to forget that the US was founded on this form of political violence.

theconversation.com

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Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · 22d

Like the nation state based world system "the scientific system was never built for equity". So it seems unrealistic to expect this. They are inseparable political economies. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Equity in science is a beautiful lie — and I’m done pretending

Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system.

www.nature.com

Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · Sep 3

av.tib.eu/media/70996 #smashthepaywalls #openaccess #openscience @die-bonn.de

AI and Open Access: Why Paywalls Are Not the Solution

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is currently transforming the research landscape. While many people hope for significant benefits, there are also valid concerns. Some authors believe that they can protec...

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APSA Preprints @apsa-preprints.bsky.social · Aug 30

Working Class Support for Right Wing Nationalism: A Comparative Analysis

https://dx.doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2025-5rvnx?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

#polisky

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Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · Aug 29

LOL. I started with Civ 2.

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Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · Aug 27

Civ II?

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Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · Aug 21

I'm really excited that @klauspforr.bsky.social joined team @socarxiv.bsky.social as a moderator to support #openscience! @gesis.org

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Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · Aug 20

retractionwatch.com/2025/08/04/f... #openscience #replication #perverseincentives #QRPs

Fighting coordinated publication fraud is like ‘emptying an overflowing bathtub with a spoon,’ study coauthor says

The observed and forecasted growth rate of paper mill papers outpaces corrective measures, a new study finds. R. Richardson et al./PNAS 2025 Systematic research fraud has outpaced corrective measur…

retractionwatch.com

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Open Research Funders Group @orfg.bsky.social · Aug 12

@creativecommons.bsky.social has released this new video on open licenses. 🎥 Take a peek and share with others who want/need to understand how CC licenses work. 🔁 #OpenAccess #copyright #OpenLicense #OpenScience #OpenResearch

Open Licensing for Research with Creative Commons

YouTube video by Creative Commons

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Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · Jul 31

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Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · Jul 31

#openscience #metascience #measurement #error 🧪

Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · Jul 31

How many chips are in a bag of chips? Measurement and conceptualization can lead to radically different outcomes. www.nature.com/articles/s44... @justanormaldino.bsky.social

We urgently need a culture of multi-operationalization in psychological research - Communications Psychology

Analysis of different operationalizations shows that many scientific results may be an artifact of the operationalization process. A culture of multi-operationalization may be needed for psychological...

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Er-Te Zheng @ertezheng.bsky.social · Jul 28

How is science discussed on Bluesky? 🤔
Our new study finds higher textual originality on Bluesky scholarly posts than previously observed on X ✨
A fresh platform for science 📢
For more: arxiv.org/abs/2507.18840
#ScienceCommunication #Altmetrics #Bluesky

New source, new possibilities: An exploratory study of Bluesky posts referencing scholarly articles

Amid the migration of academics from X, the social media platform Bluesky has been proposed as a potential alternative. To assess its viability and relevance for science communication, this study pres...

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Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · Jul 28

Why saying "please" to Gen AI might matter more than we think (not be a waste of energy). #GenAI #ChatGPT #OpenAI @die-bonn.de @hunghvnguyen.bsky.social #Prompting
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...