🚨 A recent @pnas.org article raised serious concerns about LLM-based manipulation of online surveys.

Good news: We’re not helpless. In a new #OpenAccess article with @jkhoehne.bsky.social #bwolf, we show that LLM-driven bots can be detected using simple prompt injections.

🌐 doi.org/10.1080/1364...

📢 Analytical sociology is coming home!

Call 4 INAS26 is open

🌍 1-3Jul26 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social and @sociologyoxford.bsky.social (☔)

☢️ Deadline: 1Feb26

🦹 Organisers: @aksoyundan.bsky.social , @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social, D Kretschmer, @awaldendorf.bsky.social

Info: tinyurl.com/yc2tusjx

🔬 How has psychology contributed to achieving the 🇺🇳 SDGs?

Our new preprint maps 230,000 psychology articles to the SDGs using our text2sdg R package (www.text2sdg.io) and analyzes historical trends in topics, national and gendered contributions, and citation patterns.

🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2512.08628

The call for applications for the Summer Incubator 2026 at the @mpidr.bsky.social is open!

Deadline: Jan 14, 2026.

Topics/Teams:
1) Spatial Mobility and Scientific Production
2) Digitalization, AI and Inequalities

Check out the brand new website for information:
www.incubator.demogr.mpg.de

Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.

What gets professors into the media?
📢 New open access publication in @europeansocreview.bsky.social together with Raphael Heiberger from @s7css.bsky.social and @bashofstra.bsky.social!
👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

Can AI-generated images work as visual vignettes in survey experiments? I argue yes - and discuss how . in my new @sscratsage.bsky.social paper: doi.org/10.1177/0894...

In many countries, mainstream politicians are adopting rhetoric and policies that typical of the far-right.

Our new paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social and E Dinas), out now in the @bjpols.bsky.social, finds that doing so erodes norms more than when far-right politicians make similar statements.

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🚨 New preprint 🚨

Analyzing the academic trajectories of 78,216 psychology researchers, we demonstrate a persistent gender attrition gap, with women psychologists dropping out of academia at consistently higher rates than men psychologists.

Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.13273

🚨🚨 Application deadline ends tomorrow!

We're hiring a research associate at the intersection of survey methodology and computer science at DZHW (Hannover, Germany).

Do your PhD in an interdisciplinary setting with excellent supervision.

👉 Apply here: karriere.dzhw.eu/jobposting/b...

💡 How can we rethink democracy in a changing world?
This year’s SPS Summer Academy gathered brilliant minds from across the globe 🌍 to debate, challenge, and inspire.

👉Dive into the highlights here:🔗 www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...

What do you think is the biggest challenge for democracy today? ⬇️

I am very grateful for two days of stimulating intellectual exchange at our workshop funded by the Cologne International Forum. Special thanks to our keynotes @isabellevdv.bsky.social, @christian.czymara.com, and the organisation by @anamacanovic.bsky.social, @maxpi.bsky.social, and Christof Nägel.

„Ich bin irgendwie verliebt in #Forschung“, sagt Nachwuchspreisträgerin Lisa Wunsch. Ob Spezialisierung oder Breite den Weg zur Professur ebnet, untersucht sie anhand der Publikationen aller Soziologie-Professor*innen in Deutschland – mit überraschenden Erkenntnissen. 🎧 tinyurl.com/27fxr8or