For us, this journey toward explaining *surprising macro outcomes* took many years. Grateful to my amazing co-authors, @martinarvidsson.bsky.social and Peter Hedström, and to all the reviewers who supported us along the way
🚀Out now: sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

#DataQuality #DigitalBehavioralData #DBD
Special Issue Explores the Quality of Digital Behavioral Data, by Weiß, B., Leitgöb, H., & Wagner, C

Most DBD are not generated for research purposes but are a side product of our daily activities. A new special issue addresses key questions:

Happy to report that our study on "Data Donation as a Method to Measure Physical Activity in Older Adults" was just published in JMIR. www.jmir.org/2025/1/e69799 We asked people aged 50+ in the Dutch #LISS panel to donate physical activity (PA) data from their smartphones. We found that...

❗️📢 Tue, Oct 7, 10:00-11:00 CET:
Mannheim Research Colloquium on Survey Methods
#MaRCS

Alexandru Cernat (@manchester.ac.uk):

"Estimating Multiple Types of Error Concurrently Using the Multitrait-Multierror (MTME) Approach"

👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even...
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Thrilled to share: our Special Issue in Social Science Computer Review (@sscratsage.bsky.social) on digital behavioral data quality is out now. Many thanks to all contributing authers and my co-editors @clauwa.bsky.social and Bernd Weiß:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Excited for the start of the Fall Conference on "Computational Sociology" today, organized by the @dgsoziologie.bsky.social methods section, in collaboration with the working group "Methodologie in den Sozialwissenschaften" of the Akademie für Soziologie (AS)
www.dgs-methoden.de/fileadmin/co...

Exciting days ahead: @heinzleitgoeb.bsky.social and I welcome the wonderful Analytical Sociology community in Leipzig for the 16th #INAS Conference
www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/en/inas-conf...

Leipzig sociology is looking for a postdoc at the intersection of qualitative and computational methods www.uni-leipzig.de/en/universit... Full-time, 4+2 years, independent research profile. Please get in touch, we are looking forward to your application. Deadline April 5

My colleague Helmut Hirtenlehner and I propose a model of a subsidiary relevance of deterrence to govern criminal action. If interested, find the full paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We are happy to announce the new DFG-funded longterm German Longitudinal Environmental Study (GLEN).
@glen-study.bsky.social will provide representative, individual level panel data on human-environmental interactions and climate issues.

glen-studie.de
#sciencenews #Klimawandel #climatechange

Subtract 16 days and this is the countdown to INAS 2024

Call for Abstracts is now open: Conference of the International Network of Analytical Sociologists, May 30–31, 2024 in Leipzig, Germany. For details, see: www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/en/inas-conf...

CfP for a new special issue in "Survey Methods: Insights from the Field" (SMIF): Advancing Comparative Research: Exploring Errors and Quality Indicators in Social Research

For details, see: surveyinsights.org/wp-content/u...

Link to paper: sociologicalscience.com/articles-v10...