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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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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 11h
In my work as a teacher and moderator of SocArXiv, I encounter people who seem deluded, having been led to believe their ideas are brilliant by chatbots, and want my validation. We may need professional guidance for these interactions, as I am sometimes not sure what is the best response. Gift link:
How Bad Are A.I. Delusions? We Asked People Treating Them.
www.nytimes.com

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Laudine Carbuccia @laudine.bsky.social · 17h
{🚨Exiting talk alert} 🍼 They say “Breast is best”… but what happens when mothers don’t (or can’t) comply?

On 📅 19 Feb 2026 | 4 pm (Paris), we will hear Marta Domínguez-Folgueras @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social on breastfeeding norms.

📍 In person & Zoom
🔗Details & registration ⬇️

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 22h
🚨 CLARION EXCLUSIVE 🚨

£10m of Government funding for Oxford was sent back. Could it have paid for the cancelled Dutch-style cycleway on Woodstock Road?

In a deep dive, we ask why a Government grant was returned, and if it could have been spent elsewhere in Oxford.

oxfordclarion.uk/exclusive-10...
Exclusive: £10m of Government funding for Oxford was sent back
A £10m grant for infrastructure in north Oxford was returned to Government unspent – just as a safe cycleway on Woodstock Road, to be funded by the very same Government body, was cancelled due to a £1...
oxfordclarion.uk

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Christoph Kronenberg @ckronenberg.bsky.social · 1d
#econsky et al. I am happy to announce the #call_for_papers for the 2026 Economics of Mental Health Workshop!
The workshop is hosted by @peibich.bsky.social at Paris Dauphine and takes place from June 22-23. They keynotes are @jcmecon.bsky.social & Marco Bertoni. 1/n

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 3d
Mit 180 auf der linken Spur und dann siehst du wie vor dir ein Smart auf deine Spur wechselt

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J @jaseomcn.bsky.social · 3d
The New Yorker wanted this but I said I’d put it up on Bluesky at half 8 in the morning instead.
2 people in bed together, one looking under the sheets says: “But…the photographs?” Other: “Mercator projection”

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Monica Alexander @monjalexander.bsky.social · 5d
The Toronto Population Network @tpn-uoft.bsky.social Seminar Series is happening this semester, with a great line-up, including @lucampesando.bsky.social, Orsola Torrisi, @mdhayward.bsky.social, and @jnobles.bsky.social! Starts next Tuesday. If you're in Toronto please come along!
Poster showing speakers for the TPN seminar series

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 6d
JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project.

Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months.

Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.
Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity Intergenerational mobility, measuring the ability to achieve economic success regardless of family background, is a critical reflection of a society’s commitment to equality of opportunity. Rising income inequality has raised concerns about the potential erosion of upward mobility. While education has traditionally been viewed as the path to mobility, its transformative power is facing challenges in a rapidly evolving job market. This project reorients the focus of intergenerational mobility research by highlighting the labor market as an arena for the reproduction of advantage. It employs a comparative approach, using administrative data from four countries: Sweden, Austria, England, and the United States. It also incorporates evidence from a broader set of nations through cross-national surveys, longitudinal household surveys, labor force surveys, secondary data, and digital trace data. The project employs cutting-edge empirical methods, including quasi- experimental designs, event studies, within-family comparisons, decomposition analyses, counterfactual simulations, and diagnostic checks to rigorously assess the extent of inequalities in the labor market. The research investigates how family background influences the sorting of individuals to employers and workplaces, accounting for education and occupation, and explores variations in career progression within and between employers. It comprehensively catalogues and assesses mechanisms shaping workplace inequality, contributing to the development of social closure theory. Additionally, the project evaluates intervention strategies, encompassing both employer practices and government actions, to promote fair opportunity in the labor market.

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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 6d
📽️ "Increasing computational reproducibility or how to share your research code" / with Camille Maumet @cmaumet.bsky.social

youtu.be/FjHTtCeFm0g?...

The event was organised by ReproducibiliTea UniBasel
Open Science Basel Year 6 #1 - Camille Maumet
YouTube video by BAMM
youtu.be

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Oscar Stuhler @oms279.bsky.social · 6d
Now out in Sociological Science

(How) do sociologists use GenAI for their research? Find out in our paper.

Written with @ajalvero.bsky.social @dustinstoltz.com and Marshall Taylor. Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey!!
Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline
Article: Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline | Sociological Science | Posted January 20, 2026
sociologicalscience.com

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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 6d
New paper out! Using data donation, we provide one of the first, if not THE first, assessment of the structure of the WhatsApp network with a population-wide probability sample (1/) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Assessing mobile instant messenger networks with donated data - Social Network Analysis and Mining
Despite the increasing popularity and societal relevance of mobile instant messenger services (MIMSs) such as WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal, the vast majority of the research on social media is focuse...
link.springer.com

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Kerstin Ostermann @kostermann.bsky.social · 7d
Participating at the #RC28 online conference on educational inequalities?
Come to my talk on the spatial embeddedness of #VET dropout decisions 🚫 and consequences 💸 in Germany at 11 am (Room 1) today!

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Tim Morris @timtmorris.bsky.social · 7d
@fctropf.bsky.social and I are running a 2-day short course in London on 20/21 April that will provide an introduction to polygenic scores. The course will cover creation of polygenic scores, their strengths and limitations, and ethical issues around their use. Further info at shorturl.at/8gUcu.
Introduction to polygenic score analyses in the social, behavioural, and health sciences
This 2-day course will provide social scientists with the knowledge and skills needed to understand the creation of polygenic scores, critically interpret their use in studies, and integrate them into...
shorturl.at

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Abdel Abdellaoui @dr-appie.bsky.social · 8d
One more week before the deadline of the Amsterdam UMC Fellowship (= €750k + tenure track): werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/nieuws/tr...
Nieuws - Amsterdam UMC Fellowship - Amsterdam UMC
Amsterdam UMC Fellowship
werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org

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Tom Bedford @tombedford.bsky.social · 8d
If you are in the Oxford area on Friday evening, I’m presenting a talk about the birds of the Lye Valley area. It’s a one hour multimedia celebration (sounds and pictures!) of some of the amazing birds recorded in this area of the city. All welcome.
@friendlyevalley.bsky.social
#Oxford #birds

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 9d
Congratulations!

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Lars Weisbrod @weisbrod.bsky.social · 10d
Was ist besser eine Risikogesellschaft oder einfach eine „normale“ Gesellschaft??

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Jan Fuhse @fuhsejan.bsky.social · 11d
Steve Borgatti and I invite contributions to a special issue on "Social Network Theory" at the journal Social Networks.
Send us a wide range of approaches and manuscripts, anything really, on the theoretical interpretation, systematization, integration, and reflection of empirical network research!

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 11d
Who would have thought?

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Laurenz Schreiner @laurenzschreiner.bsky.social · 11d
Solche Hasskommentare gegen Frauen gibt es tausendfach im Netz. Häufig ist es unmöglich, die Menschen dahinter zu ermitteln. In einem Fall, den ich für die @taz.de recherchiert habe, sprechen aber zahlreiche Hinweise dafür, dass dahinter ein hochrangiger Jurist aus Niedersachsen stecken könnte: (1)

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 11d
Two more weeks to apply for this job! Tenure track or tenured! Living in Paris! Nice colleagues (and me)!

Let me know if you have any questions! Details: www.shorturl.at/E57le

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 11d
AStA, das Zentralorgan der Quantifa 💪💪💪

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 11d
Oh sorry I genuinely thought that was the official abbreviation

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 11d
Is this maybe for a special issue? (KZfSS is not an outlet where foreigners traditionally publish in or that they would read)

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 11d
CREST is hiring! ⏰ Only two more weeks until the deadline! ⏰

Assistant or Associate Professor in Computational Sociology

Details here: www.shorturl.at/E57le

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Muzhi Zhou @jomuzhi.bsky.social · 11d
When Hukou becomes less important, what's next? New work with one of my students from Shanghai! It is fun to see how daily observations inspire the student and the research!

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Tamkinat Rauf @tsrauf.bsky.social · 12d
This is a belated post about our paper in @poqjournal.bsky.social.

We analyzed 100 survey experiments fielded by TESS (tessexperiments.org), using only information from the proposals to identify intended hypotheses.

Here are some of the things we learned:
An Audit of Social Science Survey Experiments
Abstract. Survey experiments have become a popular methodology for causal inference across the social sciences. We study the efficacy of survey experiment
doi.org

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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 12d
We’d like to believe that effort matters to what we attain in life. In fact our belief in meritocracy depends on that. But what if how much effort people spend itself depends on your social background?

“The Social Origins of Effort: How Incentives Reduce Socioeconomic Disparities among Children”

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 13d
📣Calls of Abstracts‼️Second International Workshop on Life Course Analysis
Theory, methods, & applications
📅August 18-19, 2026
🗺️Hertie School, Berlin
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/calendar_1921/second_international_workshop_on_life_course_analysis_14953
Christian Dudel Carla Rowold

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 14d
ECSR Thematic Conference on the Life Course and Social Stratification, 23-24 April, University of Trento. Smaller thematic conferences like these are usually the best place to present and network, imo. Submit by 22 February. sites.google.com/unitn.it/ecs...
Life Course & Social Stratification
Call for Abstracts for the ECSR Thematic Conference Life Course and Social Stratification 23-24 April 2026, University of Trento, Italy The Life Course approach has gained powerful traction across th...
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