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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · 2h

#GESISspringseminar 2026 – Advanced Regression Modeling

📅 09 – 27 March 2026
📍 GESIS Cologne | Online

Dive into advanced regression techniques, learn from international experts, and connect with researchers from all over the world.

👉 Register and find all details here: gesis.org/springseminar

GESIS Spring Seminar – Advanced Regression Modeling
09–27 March 2026
Cologne & Online

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Sergio Lo Iacono @sergioloiacono.bsky.social · 4h

Deeply honoured to receive this award from the Academy of Sociology with my co-authors! I hope we’ll see many more replications in Sociology in the years ahead, along with preregistrations and registered reports as leading journals make more space for them.

#AkadSoz25 #sociology

Sebastian E. Wenz @sewenz.bsky.social · 4h

And the 1st Replication Award of the Academy of Sociology goes to..

Sergio Lo Iacono, Wojtek Przepiorka, Vincent Buskens, Rense Corten, Marcel van Assen, and Arnout van de Rijt

for "The competitive advantage of sanctioning institutions revisited: A multilab replication"

#AkadSoz25 #sociology

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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 3h

A true honor. Thanks Wojtek Przepiorka for leading this and @sergioloiacono.bsky.social for traveling to all these replication sites!

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Sebastian E. Wenz @sewenz.bsky.social · 4h

Full citation with link to the open access paper:

Sergio Lo Iacono, Wojtek Przepiorka, Vincent Buskens, Rense Corten, Marcel van Assen, Arnout van de Rijt, The competitive advantage of sanctioning institutions revisited: A multilab replication, PNAS Nexus, 2023, doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

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Sebastian E. Wenz @sewenz.bsky.social · 4h

And the 1st Replication Award of the Academy of Sociology goes to..

Sergio Lo Iacono, Wojtek Przepiorka, Vincent Buskens, Rense Corten, Marcel van Assen, and Arnout van de Rijt

for "The competitive advantage of sanctioning institutions revisited: A multilab replication"

#AkadSoz25 #sociology

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Sebastian E. Wenz @sewenz.bsky.social · 5h

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

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Sabrina J. Mayer @sabrinajmayer.bsky.social · 8d

Me & my very able former colleague and now doctoral candidate Lisa Walter (not on Bluesky yet) just published a new article in @ersjournal.com
We examine how discrimination shapes immigrants and their descendants’ trust in the police in Germany.
👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Beyond police encounters: everyday racism and trust in the police

Trust in the police is essential for democratic legitimacy, yet it is declining across Western Europe. Immigrants and their descendants, who face disproportionate levels of discrimination, report p...

www.tandfonline.com

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Sebastian E. Wenz @sewenz.bsky.social · 22h

One of many super interesting posters at #AkadSoz25, pitched by one of the authors, @isabelmhabicht.bsky.social.

Cc: @gesis.org @evazschirnt.bsky.social

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Sebastian E. Wenz @sewenz.bsky.social · 22h

#AkadSoz25

Marlene Hilgenstock @marlenehilgenstock.bsky.social · 1d

Find us at the academy of sociology conference @unimainz.bsky.social @gesis.org @dprex.bsky.social!

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Sebastian E. Wenz @sewenz.bsky.social · 1d

First keynote at #AkadSoz25 by Nan Dirk de Graaf.

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Sebastian E. Wenz @sewenz.bsky.social · 1d

#AkadSoz25 it is.

Welcome address by Stefan Müller-Stach at the Conference of the Academy of Sociology in Mainz.

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Sebastian E. Wenz @sewenz.bsky.social · 2d

Really curious who will win the first replication prize from the AS in Mainz for which replication study.

#sociology #replication #openscience #AkadSoz25

Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · Apr 11

The Academy of Sociology (Akademie für Soziologie, not on Bsky wut?) is offering a 1,500 Euro prize for the best #replication study in #sociology as25.sociology.uni-mainz.de #openscience 🧪

AS Conference 2025

as25.sociology.uni-mainz.de

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Lili Vargha @lilivargha.bsky.social · 2d

❓How do mothers’ and fathers’ paid work lives unfold together after the birth of their first child in DE?

✨ This new preprint takes a longitudinal, dynamic, couple-level perspective.

✨ Big differences by East & West German background, periods and couple-level education

🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Sebastian E. Wenz @sewenz.bsky.social · 2d

Welcher Hashtag für die morgen startende Konferenz der Akademie für Soziologie in Mainz?

#AkadSoz25 ? ( #AS2025 und #AS25 führen natürlich auch anderswo hin.)

#Soziologie

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 2d

Working on writing up a short note (and blog post) trying to explain the distinction between model-based and design-based identification.

Any questions regarding this that are burning for you?

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Alexia Katsanidou @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social · 2d

Great paper on the state of political science osf.io/preprints/os... by @guygrossman.bsky.social et. al. We have become more diverse, more quantitative, and more collaborative.

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Joshua Claassen @jclaass.bsky.social · 2d

📢One week left to apply!

DZHW is hiring a research associate at the intersection of survey methodology and computer science (Hannover).

Do your PhD in an interdisciplinary setting with excellent supervision.

I'd apply myself if I weren't already on the team🤓

👉 karriere.dzhw.eu/jobposting/b...

Promotionsstelle

karriere.dzhw.eu

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 2d

📢 Call for papers:

🚀 4th CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🤩

30-31 March 2026, Munich

Keynote: Michela Carlana (Harvard)

PhD students & early postdocs, please apply!

www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev...

Deadline: 11 Jan 2026

@caterinapavese.bsky.social @mtotarelli.bsky.social

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 6d

Open Science Professor ship at HU Berlin
www.academics.de/jobs/w2-prof...

W2-Professur "Open Science" an der Philosophischen Fakultät - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin bietet Stelle als W2-Professur "Open Science" an der Philosophischen Fakultät in Berlin - jetzt bewerben!

www.academics.de

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Alexia Katsanidou @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social · 3d

The relationship between income and vote has reversed in the USA.

Thomas J Wood @thomasjwood.bsky.social · 6d

The last time I posted the income relationship to presidential vote among White respondents to the @electionstudies.bsky.social ANES, people asked for additional estimates among all voters.

Updated estimates here:

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 5d

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 6d

Post a favorite econ paper: Lichter et al. (2021, JEEA) @sigginho.bsky.social

Regions with higher Stasi spy density in East Germany still show lower trust, lower incomes, higher unemployment, and less entrepreneurship decades after reunification.

Open-access link: doi.org/10.1093/jeea...

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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 7d

📚 How Do Psychology Journals Handle Postpublication Critique? A Cross-Sectional Study of Policy and Practice doi.org/10.1177/2515...

How Do Psychology Journals Handle Postpublication Critique? A Cross-Sectional Study of Policy and Practice - Annie Whamond, Simine Vazire, Beth Clarke, Nicholas Moodie, Sarah Schiavone, Robert T. Thib...

Postpublication critique, such as letters to the editor, can contribute to the validity and trustworthiness of scientific research. We conducted a cross-section...

doi.org

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Javi San Millán @javiersanmillan.bsky.social · Sep 5

🚨Publication alert🚨

Housing discrimination undermines a fundamental right and generates distortions that limit collective prosperity.

Today we are happy to publish in Social Forces an article on this phenomenon using experimental methods!

Two highlights ⬇️

academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Rental housing discrimination against Chinese minorities in Spain: a new instant messaging correspondence test

Abstract. Research on rental housing discrimination (RHD) against migrant minorities has overwhelmingly focused on the first generation, paying special att

academic.oup.com

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 7d

"The researchers [...] conclude that the recent decline in fertility likely reflects a reordering of adult priorities where parenthood plays a diminished role in life planning, and that these shifts are likely shaped by broad cultural, normative, and structural shifts." www.nber.org/digest/20251...

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