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Robert Vief
@robertvief.bsky.social
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sociologist, Postdoc @goetheuni.bsky.social. Ph.D from @humboldtuni.bsky.social

interested in: educational decisions & stratification, neighborhoods, segregation, spatial data/mapping

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angelamli.bsky.social
👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.

👩🏻‍💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
Abstract for "The truly isolated: Spatial isolation of advantage in the United States" by Shannon Rieger, Angela Li, and Patrick Sharkey, published at Urban Studies
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
robertvief.bsky.social
📢 Publication Alert!

Wir analysieren für alle Berliner Grundschulen von 2010 bis 2020, wie sich Wohn- und Schulsegregation entwickeln – und warum sich beide Systeme immer stärker entkoppeln, obwohl die Stadt durchmischter wird. 1/
(mit @taljab.bsky.social)

Open Access:
doi.org/10.36900/sub...
https://doi.org/10.36900/suburban.v13i2/3.1030
November 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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dpzollinger.bsky.social
In this new paper, we use open-ended survey questions to study how people perceive (changes in) social hierarchies. 

We show how and among whom status gains of women, ethnic minorities, or LGBTQ+ people are saliently perceived–namely among progressives, not just conservatives!
mabreyer.bsky.social Magda Breyer @mabreyer.bsky.social · 6d
New article out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Tabea Palmtag and @dpzollinger.bsky.social 📝
We use open-ended survey questions (in Germany) to assess how and among whom social status shifts are perceived. This tests cultural backlash narratives in voters' perceptions.

🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...
Abstract It is widely accepted in political science – and remarkably established in public discourse – that status anxieties fuel a far right backlash against progressive politics. This narrative suggests that right-wing conservatives perceive the status of women, racial, or sexual minorities as threatening. Using open-ended survey questions fielded in Germany, we show that women and minorities indeed figure in people’s perceptions of status hierarchies, but in very specific ways: First, overall, people still perceive status as largely socioeconomically determined. Second, sociocultural groups figure in perceptions of who is gaining/losing status, less so in perceptions of the top/bottom of society. Third, more than conservative voters, it is social progressives who mention women and minorities as “winners”. While on race/ethnicity, we find evidence for a backlash, on gender and sexuality we find more evidence for a progressive momentum. This matters for progressive politics today and for how we empirically study status concerns.
November 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
robertvief.bsky.social
Die Goethe-Uni mit neuem Sonderforschungsbereich [in:just], der sich mit vielen spannenden Projekten anschaut, wie es wie es um Gerechtigkeit und Teilhabe im deutschen Bildungs- und Erziehungssystem steht.

Glückwunsch an alle beteiligten Kolleg:innen :) Wichtiges Thema, wichtige Forschung!
November 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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paolocrosetto.bsky.social
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.

It's *scientific publishing*.

We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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pengzell.bsky.social
Pushing for open access is not enough. We need a push to end profit.
hansonmark.bsky.social 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.
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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hermwerf.bsky.social
Job! A vacancy at the @eui-eu.bsky.social for a postdoc joining the @learnineq.bsky.social project, for 13 months, starting mid January. We study inequalities in school careers, and we engage with policy makers. The vacancy is here, please forward. DEADLINE 24 NOVEMBER. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
November 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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pengzell.bsky.social
Academia runs on three fuels: caffeine, impostor syndrome, and poorly documented code from 2017
November 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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riazsascha.bsky.social
New paper with @mhamjediers.bsky.social

German judges have discretion to apply rehabilitative juvenile criminal law (Jugendstrafrecht) or punitive adult criminal law to 18–20-year-old offenders. We show that immigrant youths are ~10 percentage points less likely to be sentenced under juvenile law
bjpols.bsky.social British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 22d
NEW -

Anti-Immigrant Bias in the Choice Between Punitive and Rehabilitative Justice - https://cup.org/49vUfVa

- @riazsascha.bsky.social & @mhamjediers.bsky.social

#OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract of a study on bias in judicial decisions affecting juvenile criminal offenders, emphasizing the impact on immigrant offenders and suggesting reforms for a more equitable justice system.
November 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM
robertvief.bsky.social
The Atlantic detailedly covered our study (w. @hannohilbig.bsky.social & @anselmhager.bsky.social) about the effects of rent control on NIMBYism together with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ideas about rent control.

Have a read:
www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

More here: bsky.app/profile/robe...
November 3, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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erik-marquardt.eu
Überraschend, dass das ZDF-Politbarometer diese Umfrage so verzerrt darstellt: Statt nach der Originalaussage von Merz zu fragen, die tagelang diskutiert wurde, wird in der Umfrage seine späte Rechtfertigung ergänzt. In der Grafik wird das aber gar nicht erwähnt. So geht Framing.
October 24, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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cihancelik.bsky.social
Ja dann fragen wir doch mal die Töchter:
October 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
robertvief.bsky.social
very interesting article!

"[...] economic segregation appears as roughly three times bigger when considering wealth instead of income. When disaggregating for percentiles, higher values of wealth segregation appear to be mostly driven by the segregation of the most affluent segments of society."
October 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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inabeintner.bsky.social
Was mich am #Stadtbild stört:
Überall die gleichen Geschäfte
Zubetonierte Plätze
Viel zu viele Autos
Zu wenig Sitzgelegenheiten
Zu wenig Mülleimer
Zu viele Reklametafeln

Was mich nicht am Stadtbild stört:
Menschen
October 17, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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stephananpalagan.bsky.social
Vor ziemlich genau 8 Jahren hat Jörg Meuthen, ehem. Vorsitzender der AfD, gesagt, er sehe in den Innenstädten "noch vereinzelt Deutsche". Die Vorsitzende der CDU, Angela Merkel, hat ihm umgehend widersprochen. Friedrich Merz hat heute die Sprache und Position der AfD übernommen.
October 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
robertvief.bsky.social
Ohne Witz, die Regios und S-Bahnen zwischen Frankfurt und Mainz/Wiesbaden sind so ziemlich das Unzuverlässigste, was ich im Nahverkehr bisher erlebt habe.
Dagegen ist der Berliner S-Bahn-Betrieb ein Traum.

Bei der nächsten Konferenz in Mainz dann doch lieber vor Ort ins Hotel... #AkadSoz25
October 10, 2025 at 6:01 AM
robertvief.bsky.social
Wieso gibt es eigentlich gefühlt nur zwei Personen, die zur #AkadSoz25 tweeten?
Irgendwie schwach und hätte ich bei der Community auch anders erwartet
October 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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sewenz.bsky.social
And the AS Dissertation Award 2025 goes to...

@kasimirdederichs.bsky.social

for his dissertation "Who (else) is Involved? How Voluntary Associations Connect and Separate us.

Congratulations!

#AkadSoz25 #sociology
October 9, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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garritzmannj.bsky.social
The week ends with excellent news: the @dfg.de grants the renewal of our research group #RISS "Reconfiguration and Internalization of Social Structure" for a second funding phase!

Thus, more fascinating research ongoing & more jobs opening up at @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social!
September 26, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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jessicacalarco.com
quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods
Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.
October 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
robertvief.bsky.social
Danke! Nur als Mini-Korrektur: Einführung des Mietendeckels, nicht der Mietpreisbremse, das sind ja doch zwei Policies mit sehr unterschiedlichem Umfang im Sinne der Mietenregulierung

Hier gibt es auch einen kurzen Thread mit einer Kurz-Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse:

bsky.app/profile/robe...
klauspforr.bsky.social Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.bsky.social · Oct 1
Interessantes Papier von @anselmhager.bsky.social @hannohilbig.bsky.social und @robertvief.bsky.social
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1..., die zeigen, dass Einführung der Mietpreisbremse in Berlin NIMBYism, also die Ablehnung von Bauarbeiten und Migranten in der Nachbarschaft, reduziert hat
Does Rent Control Turn Tenants Into NIMBYs? | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja
www.journals.uchicago.edu
October 1, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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tabouchadi.bsky.social
Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
September 25, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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nilskumkar.bsky.social
Der Witz schreibt sich so sehr selbst, er steht da schon.
September 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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fguelzau.bsky.social
Striking visualisation of the global mobility divide! Also chance to highlight some relevant research... 🧵
nrennie.bsky.social Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · Sep 9
There was lots of data to play with for #TidyTuesday this week where we're looking at the power of different passports! ✈️

I decided to try out the idea of using small multiples and highlighting to untangle a spaghetti chart with lots of lines 📊

#RStats #DataViz #ggplot2
Chart showing how rankings of passports have changed over time, split by region with top one in each highlighted. European are ranked high, and UAE has had a dramatic rise.
September 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM
robertvief.bsky.social
🚨 New paper: “Does Rent Control Turn Tenants Into NIMBYs?” in the Journal of Politics (JOP)

(joint work with @anselmhager.bsky.social and @hannohilbig.bsky.social)

👉 Have a look over here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Most important findings in this thread:

1/11
September 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM