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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 3h

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Torkild Hovde Lyngstad @torkildl.bsky.social · 14h

I just used artificial intelligence to pair 50+ socks. #futureisnow

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Torkild Hovde Lyngstad @torkildl.bsky.social · 18h

As always, excellent content in @europeansocreview.bsky.social !

European Sociological Review @europeansocreview.bsky.social · 1d

Volume 41, Issue 5, October 2025 of @europeansocreview.bsky.social is out!

A very nice collection of interesting papers (almost all open access). Browse the index and find your next read

academic.oup.com/esr/issue

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Ellen Braaten @ellenbraaten.bsky.social · 2d

Also if you didn’t vote for her.

John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 13d

If you voted for him, you've done this.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d

👇🎯 This is how governing works in literally every actual democracy around the world. If you don’t have the votes, it’s up to you to make concessions to the minority parties. It’s not their job to save you from your responsibility to govern by giving you things you don’t have the votes for already.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Sounds like Republicans ought to get all the Republicans who form the Republican majorities in the Republican-led House and the Republican-led Senate together to pass the budget that Republicans wrote with the Republican White House and that Republicans now insist absolutely must be passed.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sean Duffy says the safety of the air traffic control system will start being impacted next Sunday if the shutdown continues

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Torkild Hovde Lyngstad @torkildl.bsky.social · 2d

On this topic, the critical reference is Leijunhufvud, A. (1973) "Life among the Econ" in Economic inquiry (frm. Western Economic Journal).

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 2d

Academia turns its eye toward itself

(Source: The art of anthropology: Essays and diagrams / Alfred Gell 1999, edited by Eric Hirsch)

The British-style (anthropology) seminar is a peculiar institution with rules of its own. A regular weekly (term-time) event, the 'ideal' seminar usually brings together some 20 or more participants, around a table, under the chairmanship of an experienced teacher and seminar leader. The chairman introduces, and generally gives moral support to, the speaker, while the audience undertake the role of critics, and may, indeed, ask extremely hostile-sounding questions. In a good seminar, there are usually three or four expert seminar practitioners, who can be relied on to give the speaker something of a grilling. The questioning goes on for an hour, allowing time for the more junior members of the seminar to intervene as well and acquire the interrogatory skills of their seniors. However, the seminar is not as unfriendly an occasion as it sometimes seems to visitors unused to its conventions. There is an implicit rule that really severe questioning is reserved for speakers who have shown, in the course of their papers, either that they possess the dialectical skill to handle even the most destructive questioning, or, on rare occasions, that they are so bumptious and thick-skulled that they are unlikely to comprehend the devastating nature of the questioning they receive.

The mild, tentative, paper from an inexperienced speaker will not be dealt with harshly. Meanwhile, the skilled dialectician relishes the cut and thrust of debate, and exploits the opportunity afforded by hostile questioning to produce additional extemporized displays of wit, turning the questions back on the questioners and making fun of their positions. As the question period draws to a close, the skilled speaker elaborates the main points of the paper in a series of improvisations on themes suggested by the audience. Adrenalin flows copiously through the speaker's bloodstream by this time - now the hard questioning has been overcome - and unusual freedom of expression may be attained. The audience are enjoying themselves too. But the chairman must close the seminar once the time allotted for its duration is over, since, like Cinderella's ball, seminar bonhomie has a fixed temporal compass, which cannot exceed two hours, even by a second. At this point, the chairman thanks the speaker, conducts him to a place of refreshment, where adrenalin is tempered with alcohol, and happy, animated conversations ensue. The point is that the seminar is a social occasion, a game, an exchange, an ordeal, an initiation. To one of a naturally social disposition, to hear a paper in a seminar is intrinsically much more interesting than to read the same paper in cold blood, because one's social proclivities are excited as well as one's strictly academic or intellectual interests. I confess to being a social animal of this type. Consequently, it is much more exciting for me to write a paper for presentation at a seminar than it is to write for an imaginary reader, as one does when writing a book. Books do not give anything like the feedback that one gets from seminars.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 3d

"the quickest way to get a collaborator to return edits on your manuscript is to write down their affiliation wrong" (ancient academic proverb)

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Torkild Hovde Lyngstad @torkildl.bsky.social · 4d

Sociologist-statistician general Richard Berk (UPenn) once described RCTs as "the bronze standard"

Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 5d

I disagree. That's exactly where the "RCT is the gold standard" metaphor goes wrong, in my view. RCTs are a powerful tool, but they don't exist in their Platonic ideal. In reality, you'll need to make trade-offs, e.g., with respect to the population you can expose to randomization.

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Fredrik @barbiche.bsky.social · 4d

Kongenialt

Österlens museum meddelar att föredraget "Stormars påverkan på den skånska kusten" kördag 4/10 på Österlens museum är inställt på grund av stormen Amy

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Torkild Hovde Lyngstad @torkildl.bsky.social · 4d

La for all del den gamle bbq-sausen fra 2023 stå i dag!

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Henrik Dobewall @hdobewall.bsky.social · 6d

Even though the call text is in Finnish, I don't think that this post doc on AI utilization in health and welfare state research requires any other language skills but Stata, R, and Pyhton :-) Join a team of great people to work with at INVEST & THL

Pasi Moisio @pasimoisio.bsky.social · 6d

@thlfi.bsky.social hakee post doc -tutkijaa osaksi @invest-flagship.bsky.social Komiteatyön AI-arviointi -hanketta.

Hankkeessa tutkitaan, miten tekoäly voi vahvistaa lainvalmistelun, parlamentaarisen työn ja sosiaaliturvauudistusten arviointia ja tutkimusta.

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 7d

There's something about the background of bizarrely unseasonal weather that makes the drip-drip-drip of terrible news even worse.

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Torkild Hovde Lyngstad @torkildl.bsky.social · 8d

Har større forventninger til @aftenposten.no enn det de leverer om et USA som tydelig går i fascistisk retning.

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 8d

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
I'm an epidemiologist. Sewage systems are sexy.

Dosco Jones @doscojones.bsky.social
I'm an engineer. Sewage systems are sexy.

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Torkild Hovde Lyngstad @torkildl.bsky.social · 9d

Not at all! Life history interviews do, but quant data do not. We need more data like this! :)

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 10d

🕯️🇺🇦 After the Russian attack of Ukraine, another child died from missiles...

‼️ The world is beginning to ignore the war, for many the deaths of children have become commonplace.

If you have the opportunity, speak out about it and share information, contact politicians.

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Torkild Hovde Lyngstad @torkildl.bsky.social · 13d

You are writing too good reviews!

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Torkild Hovde Lyngstad @torkildl.bsky.social · 13d

Life course researchers, presumably.

Steve Williams @iloatheskies.bsky.social · 14d

7 years ago I won the Swedish lottery. Since then I've developed an addiction to painkillers, took up swinging before getting a divorce, brought my SaaS startup to IPO, and raised triplets who are professional carjackers. For some reason, every 5 mins I get a phone call from a different sociologist.

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Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social · 14d

Xi's new NDC calls for only 7-10% ghg reductions by 2035. This is deeply disappointing, more consistent with 3 degrees C of warming than 2.5, let alone 2 or 1.5. Of course Trump is worse and this is still directionally correct, but this is pathetic for the state that wants to be the climate leader.

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Torkild Hovde Lyngstad @torkildl.bsky.social · 15d

Possibly forever.

Eivind Ystrom @eivindy.bsky.social · 16d

Look forward to US zoom meetings until January 2029

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Eivind Ystrom @eivindy.bsky.social · 16d

Look forward to US zoom meetings until January 2029

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José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 20d

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. wants to find the causes of #autism by September.

Erin McCanlies has spent the past 20yrs studying how parents’ exposure to chemicals at work affects the chance that they will have a child with the condition.

RFK Jr. cut her entire lab.

My latest video for @propublica.org

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 17d

Trumpism will eat itself.

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Maren @gietlitevink.bsky.social · 17d

Hei og velkommen til min rant 🥰

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Ewa Batyra @ewabatyra.bsky.social · 16d

One more week left to apply for a 3-year postdoc in Demography (deadline: Sept 30, 12:00 midday UK time). Join me at the Sociology Department in Oxford to study global fertility change as part of the DIVREP project!👇

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