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Patrick Präg
@ppraeg.bsky.social
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I'm a sociologist working at the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST)

I also have a website: patrickpraeg.com

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Jonas Wiedner @jwied.bsky.social · 2d
Why did I visit the Facebook pages of 5500 German grocery stores on a grey lockdown day ca. 2021?

You can now find out in AJS.

Our work on ethnoreligious infrastructures is finally online in the ominous Volume 0:

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Reposted by Simon Roux, Alistair Munro, Ben Barr , and 9 more

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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 4d
I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵
The missing heritability question is now (mostly) answered
Not with a bang but with a whimper
theinfinitesimal.substack.com

Reposted by Patrick Präg

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RC28 Social Stratification @isa-rc28.bsky.social · 5d
ECSR Thematic Conference “Mechanisms of Social Mobility”
at the University of Zurich 11-12 May 2026
Deadline for Submissions: 18 January 2026 [email protected]
www.suz.uzh.ch/socialmobility
socialmobility
www.suz.uzh.ch

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 6d
deleuze uns von dem bösen

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 6d
German academia

Reposted by Boris Holzer, Patrick Präg, Baptiste Coulmont

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Dimitri Nakassis @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social · 6d
Delouse and Guitar
Photo of article about Assemblage Theory that refers to Delouse and Guitar

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 6d
Oops archive.is/M2wK8

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 6d
Miles "Bad Boy" Hewstone

archive.is/M2wK8g

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Emanuel Deutschmann @deutschmann.bsky.social · 7d
New #openaccess study

We made >16,000 visa appointment requests at German embassies and consulates worldwide

Key finding: The poorer the country, the longer the wait time and the lower the chance to get an appointment.

"A time panelty for the Global South?"
shorturl.at/ZiAFb
Visas are a key tool for states to regulate incoming mobility from abroad, which can have ramifications for the establishment and perpetuation of global inequalities. In this article, we systematically analyze visa appointment wait times in German embassies and consulates worldwide. Using computational methods, we collect—and publish—fine-grained longitudinal data on the closest available appointment dates for various visa types, covering a total of 16,182 visa appointment requests. Our analysis reveals strong and systematic variance: the poorer the country a diplomatic mission is based in, the longer the wait time and the lower the chances of finding an available appointment (which ranges from almost 0 to 100 percent). We also argue that Germany’s system is quite opaque compared to other established immigration countries such as the U.S. These core findings raise important questions in light of current debates about global justice, legal pathways to migration, and efforts to attract foreign talent. Graph that shows that 44.1 percent of requests did not lead to an appointment that could be selected. For the 55.9 percent where an appointment was available the distribution of wait times follows a steep curve with short wait times in many cases and a long tail of few cases with very long wait times of up to 98 days. The average wait times and chances to find an appointment varied a lot between Germany's diplomatic missions. The latter range from almost 0 to 100 percent. This variance is not random. Rather, economic wellbeing (GDP per capita) is a key predictor of wait times and chances of finding an appointment. The poorer the country a German embassy/consulate is based in, the longer the wait time and the lower the chances of finding an appointment.

Reposted by Patrick Präg, Jani Erola

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Fabrizio Bernardi @fabriberna.bsky.social · 9d
New article in @sfjournal.bsky.social with @mvaldes1989.bsky.social and I. Lievore on the effect of edu expansion among parents on children's achievement

Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands among parents?

Short answer: yes

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Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands? The withering performance and advantage of their children
Abstract. Extensive research has examined the effect of educational expansion in one cohort on educational inequality and occupational returns in that same
academic.oup.com

Reposted by Seema Jayachandran, Maya Sen, Mathew V. Kiang , and 4 more

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13d
In between things I've been checking in on the emails that mention "university" and uhh did we all know about this connection?
Screenshot from the Epstein Document Search which reads: House_Oversight_029401 From: Donald Rubin Sent: 1/22/2017 7:31:32 PM To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] Subject: Republican health care experts dismiss Donald Trump's ideas Importance: High https://www.statnews.com/20 1 6/03/04/trump -repub cans-health-care/? s camp aign=trendmd Jeffrey, This cannot be true, can it? This guy must be as dumb about this stuff as a tampon laced with arsenic!! HELP! Great meeting yesterday — really enjoyed it. And happy birthday again, Don Donald B. Rubin John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics Department of Statistics, Harvard University 1 Oxford Street Cambridge MA 02138 HOUSE OVERSIGHT 029401

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Laura Fürsich @laurafursich.bsky.social · 13d
New paper with @jordantkemp.bsky.social and Luis Bettencourt is now on arXiv: “Spatial Selection and the Multiscale Dynamics of Urban Change”. We use the Price equation and Chicago data to show how fine-scale spatial sorting shapes macro growth trends. Read it here: arxiv.org/pdf/2511.06165

Reposted by Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Fabrizio Bernardi, Patrick Präg

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Arno Van Hootegem 🌱 @arnovanhootegem.bsky.social · 13d
There’s a new kid in town!

Companies are now selling IVF and embryo selection based on genetic testing for traits related to health and even intelligence.

We outline methodological and ethical concerns, and warn against risks for social inequality.

With the fantastic @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social
Embryo selection based on polygenic prediction risks reinforcing social inequality
The rise of companies offering embryo selection based on genetic testing has triggered heated debate about ethical acceptability, as well as the accuracy and scientific validity of these techniques. W...
www.fertstert.org

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loic-yengo.bsky.social @loic-yengo.bsky.social · 14d
First time on Bsky and first big announcement!

I am excited to announce that our new study explaining the missing heritability of many phenotypes using WGS data from ~347,000 UK Biobank participants has just been published in @Nature.

Our manuscript is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41....
Estimation and mapping of the missing heritability of human phenotypes - Nature
WGS data were used from 347,630 individuals with European ancestry in the UK Biobank to obtain high-precision estimates of coding and non-coding rare variant heritability for 34 co...
www.nature.com

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Carla Rowold @crowold.bsky.social · 14d
📢 Call for Abstracts
Join us at the Family Diversity & Health Workshop June 29-30 2026 in Berlin!

We welcome submissions on intersections of health & family research, especially using register data. 🌏

🫶 No participation fees & hotel costs are covered.
📨 Send us your abstracts by Jan 31 2026

Reposted by Philipp M. Lersch, Patrick Präg

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Sasha Killewald @sashakillewald.bsky.social · 14d
I'm facilitating a causal inference reading group next semester for Sociology PhD students. (I will also be learning!) If there are (1) pedagogical articles or (2) empirical examples in soc that you ❤️, will you share in the comments? [And please RT to help me crowd-source!]

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Colin F. Camerer, Ben C. Sheldon , and 35 more

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 15d
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.

Reposted by Philip N. Cohen, Shawn Graham, Silvia Secchi , and 5 more

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18d
100!!!
Ohio State to hire 100 new faculty with AI expertise
The Ohio State University has announced a major Artificial Intelligence (AI) Faculty Hiring Initiative that will add 100 new tenure-track faculty with expertise in AI over the next five years. The ini...
news.osu.edu

Reposted by Sebastian Karcher, Martin Kreidl, Patrick Präg

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Jan Mewes @janmewes.bsky.social · 19d
Do you happen to work with data from the Integrated World Values/European Values Study? If so beware: there is a rather influential coding error in the variable on religious denomination (F025). Go and check e.g. Spain and Germany and compare to F025_EVS and F025_WVS @gesis-dataservices.bsky.social

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Gaia Ghirardi @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social · 20d
New publication in @actasociologica.bsky.social!

@filippogch.bsky.social and I use a novel decomposition method (@ang-yu.bsky.social and Elwert) to study if and how *childcare arrangements* under age 3 shape disparities in children’s cognitive skills

➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
journals.sagepub.com

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 23d
👇 Why do migrants vote for anti-immigrant parties? 👇
conradziller.bsky.social Conrad Ziller @conradziller.bsky.social · 23d
🗳️ New study (w @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social) on AfD success in integration council elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: AfD achieved significant results in councils elected exclusively by voters with migration backgrounds. It's not about economics—it's about political competition. (1/3)

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Conrad Ziller @conradziller.bsky.social · 23d
🗳️ New study (w @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social) on AfD success in integration council elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: AfD achieved significant results in councils elected exclusively by voters with migration backgrounds. It's not about economics—it's about political competition. (1/3)

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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 23d
🎓 New paper accepted today, on the intergenerational educational mobility among immigrants in Denmark!

At first glance, immigrants seem more mobile than natives – but this is largely a data illusion. Poor register data quality drives the pattern.

w/ @rlandersoe.bsky.social

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 24d
There used to be something called plotmatrix

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 26d
How to make a sociological argument
Salt bae sprinkling Simmel all over

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Jani Erola @janierola.net · 27d
This was my big news for today - six years of funding to do my own research!

I will be recruiting soon, most importantly, a Senior Research Fellow on a five year contract, plus a couple of postdocs for shorter stints: people who know EU-Silc, PSID, SOEP, or have experience on using register data
invest-flagship.bsky.social INVEST Research Flagship Centre @invest-flagship.bsky.social · 27d
Our Director Jani Erola has been appointed Academy Professor by the Research Council of Finland 🎉 Congratulations @janierola.net!

He’ll study how AI, digitalization & labour market change shape social mobility and equality of opportunity.

#Research #AI #Inequality
👉 invest.utu.fi/news/jani-er...
Jani Erola appointed Academy Professor - INVEST Research Flagship Centre
The Research Council of Finlandhas appointed Professor Jani Erola, Director of the INVEST Research Flagship Centre at the University of...
invest.utu.fi

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FLUX @flux-consortium.bsky.social · 27d
New paper available:

🗞️ Partner's Education and Mortality in Finland: A Study of Married and Cohabiting Unions Among Cohorts Born Between 1932 and 1970

#Education #Mortality

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Partner's Education and Mortality in Finland: A Study of Married and Cohabiting Unions Among Cohorts Born Between 1932 and 1970 - European Journal of Population
The consequences of educational expansion and changes in couples’ educational distribution on mortality risk remain understudied. Using Finnish full population register data, this study examines the e...
link.springer.com