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Social Science Research @ssreditorial.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

New research from @mhamjediers.bsky.social, @ppraeg.bsky.social, and @a-gugushvili.bsky.social investigates whether large-scale geopolitical shocks causally reshape how individuals perceive their intergenerational mobility. Read this article open access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

NEW ARTICLE by CREST Sociology's Patrick Präg in Social Science Research: "Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and perceived intergenerational mobility in Czechia and Uruguay. An unexpected event during survey design study" OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

1/ Can AI help researchers check whether published social science results actually reproduce? In our new PNAS paper, we tested this directly in the AI Replication Games: 288 researchers, 103 teams, and real replication packages from quantitative social science.

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Alexi Gugushvili @a-gugushvili.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

@dailymail.co.uk coverage of our study on subjective social status and mortality risk in the United States published in Health Psychology @apadivision38.bsky.social

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Self citations ftw 💪💪💪💪

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The flagship journal of the European Sociological Association, European Societies, makes published articles free for everyone & does not charge authors a publication fee. Authors of quantitative work are required to openly share data & code. No @asanews.bsky.social journal shares all these traits.

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Editorial: What we promised, and what we delivered

As we write our final editorial for European Societies, we return to the spirit of our first editorial (Präg, Ersanilli and Gugushvili, 2022) and to the question that guided our tenure: did we deliver...

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Alexi Gugushvili @a-gugushvili.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Thank you, Arno @arnovanhootegem.bsky.social , for your excellent work on this👍

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Alexi Gugushvili @a-gugushvili.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Many thanks to Evelyn and Patrick @ppraeg.bsky.social for the great work, it was quite a ride🫶👋

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ETUI @etui.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

🔍 ...a new analysis by @dafnoukos.bsky.social, @a-gugushvili.bsky.social and Tim Vlandas shows that the experience of class decline is a more powerful predictor among a key segment of far-right voters

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Moritz Oberndorfer @moberndorfer.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Great research and great fun in our international team awaits you! If you have any informal questions about the team, feel free shoot me a message.

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JHSB @jofhsb.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

In light of International Overdose Awareness Day #IOAD2025, read about the effects of college education on indicators of deaths of despair including hard drug use: bit.ly/3HEMC3j By Grzegorz Bulczak @a-gugushvili.bsky.social Jonathan Koltai @asamedsoc.bsky.social @overdoseday.bsky.social

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Alexi Gugushvili @a-gugushvili.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

🆕 Out in Social Science & Medicine with @gruelig.bsky.social: Do anti-discrimination laws improve the lives of people with disabilities in the Nordics? 🇩🇰-🇫🇮-🇳🇴-🇸🇪 👉 Our study finds little evidence of impact on well-being, trust, jobs, or income. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The effect of anti-discrimination legislation on individuals with disabilities in Nordic countries

Nordic countries are renowned for progressive welfare systems and a high quality of life, yet disparities persist between individuals with and without…

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Alexi Gugushvili @a-gugushvili.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

🇺🇸-🇺🇦-🇪🇺 As Trump meets Zelensky + European leaders today to discuss ending Russia’s war, it’s important to know: European citizens themselves see the war’s end very differently. My new study in ‪@jei-publication.bsky.social‬ explores these divides 👉 shorturl.at/Mw8KE

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When the guns fall silent: the variety of European perspectives on the end of war in Ukraine

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sparked intense geopolitical debates and public reflection across Europe regarding the likely trajectory and resolution of the conflict. Public expectations about t...

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Alexi Gugushvili @a-gugushvili.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

🧵1/ What do Europeans think: does Putin resemble Stalin? In my new article, I look at how people in 5 countries compare the two leaders, and what shapes these views: history, politics, the media, and the war in Ukraine. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2374...

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How Europeans compare Putin and Stalin in the context of Russia's war in Ukraine

This study examines public perceptions of similarities between Vladimir Putin and Joseph Stalin across five European countries: Austria, Denmark, Finland, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The analysi...

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Is downward class mobility linked to far-right party voting and how? @dafnoukos.bsky.social, @a-gugushvili.bsky.social‬ & Tim Vlandas argue it significantly affects far-right voting but only under specific conditions. Read OPEN ACCESS in @polbehavior.bsky.social‬: buff.ly/Cljvggt 🧵 1/2

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

THIS THURSDAY, 12:00 Paris time at the CREST Sociology seminar: @a-gugushvili.bsky.social! Come out to Palaiseau or join us on-line: zoom.us/j/9482848830...

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Kristian Kiehling @kristiankiehling.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

As part of its ongoing war, Moscow has set up another political party in Norway, aiming to divide and conquer the minds of gullible Europeans. The Party for Peace and Justice (FOR), which is supposedly left-wing, is calling for an end to military aid for Ukraine and is financed by dubious donations.

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New party's ads stirred up a storm - Norway's News in English — www.newsinenglish.no

UPDATED: Norwegians riding public transportation to 17th of May celebrations in the Oslo area over the weekend got a bit of a shock on the way: Metro cars were plastered with advertising calling for a...

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Daphne Halikiopoulou @dafnoukos.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

How and why actual class decline leads to far-right party support: our new blog post for @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social with @a-gugushvili.bsky.social and Tim Vlandas, based on our Political Behavior article blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

NEW ARTICLE: CREST Sociology's @scoavoux.bsky.social, @eollion.bsky.social, and @ppraeg.bsky.social's Machine Bias in Sociological Methods & Research, on why we can't use LLMs to generate meaningful survey data Link: doi.org/10.1177/0049... Preprint at @socarxiv.bsky.social: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Alexi Gugushvili @a-gugushvili.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Great work with @dafnoukos.bsky.social and (Blueskyless) Tim Vlandas, will write a thread about this shortly

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Tarjei W. Havneraas @tarjeiw.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Great postdoc opportunity! Join the Segregation of Opportunities (SEGOP) project led by Nicolai Borgen, with methods for causal inference using registry, survey, and genotyped data 📊 Located at CREATE (@uio.no), an exciting environment with many working on similar topics! tinyurl.com/segop-postdoc

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Postdoctoral Fellow - SEGOP (277092) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow - SEGOP (277092), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, April 15, 2025

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V-Dem Institute @vdeminstitute.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

📢 Out now! Democracy Report 2025: 25 Years of Autocratization - Democracy Trumped? Read the Report: v-dem.net/publications... Download the V-Dem Dataset v15: v-dem.net/data/the-v-d... #DR25 #DemocracyReport2025 #VDemDatasetV15 #Polisky #PoliSciSky #PoliticalScienceData #PoliticalScience

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Alexi Gugushvili @a-gugushvili.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

🚨🔍 New research on Russian public opinion! Despite sanctions, political turmoil & economic strain, many Russians remain surprisingly optimistic about the war. Why? My latest study unpacks this paradox & what it reveals about authoritarian resilience. 🧵👇 (1/4) 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1478...

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Russian public perceptions of the war in Ukraine: a paradox of optimism amid crisis

This study examines public perceptions of the Ukraine war, with a particular focus on Russian attitudes toward its economic and political impacts in comparison to other countries. Drawing on theore...

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Remarkable clarity in Britain.

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Alexi Gugushvili @a-gugushvili.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

1️⃣ New @sfjournal.bsky.social study on disability discrimination in Europe with @gruelig.bsky.social 📢 Despite anti-discrimination laws, perceived disability discrimination remains high. Policy alone isn't enough - structural barriers must be addressed academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 28/02/2025

Look, obviously my emotional reaction to that press conference is to punch a wall so hard either it or my knuckles break. But let put that on hold for a moment and ask, very dispassionately and calmly: What American national interest objective or foreign policy goal was served by that shit-show?

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 25/02/2025

3 years after @vtraag.bsky.social suggested it to me, I am finally managing to sneak his paper on Inferring the causal effect of journals on citations (doi.org/10.1162/qss_...) in one of my lectures (on science of science). Cool read!

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Inferring the causal effect of journals on citations

Abstract. Articles in high-impact journals are, on average, more frequently cited. But are they cited more often because those articles are somehow more “citable”? Or are they cited more often simply ...

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Olga Onuch @oonuch.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Make this @OfficialUoM press release viral “Trump … echoed Kremlin talking points, by falsely claiming …Zelensky’s approval rating stands at a mere 4%…polling…puts his approval rating at 63% - making him the most popular politician in the country.” www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/t...

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Trump is making false claims about Zelensky's popularity, say experts

US President Donald Trump has once again echoed Kremlin talking points, by falsely claiming that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s approval rating stands at a mere 4%. In reality, polling by ex...

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Cool new paper in JOLE arguing that there is no 'best' age for measuring parental resources when examining social mobility. It depends on which outcomes and which parental resources. #sociology #econsky

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Alexi Gugushvili @a-gugushvili.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The debate between Sandy Jencks and Thomas Piketty at Harvard was one of the best academic events I’ve ever attended.

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Alexi Gugushvili @a-gugushvili.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Good job @michaelgentile.bsky.social I also wish the title was what's really happening.

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Jana Krause @janakrause.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

My depart is hiring 2-4 (!!) Associate Profs, with tenure & promotion track. Open call - but we're particularly looking for a profile in IR, security studies, conflict - and qualitative methods + fieldwork. Great place - happy to answer questions! Deadline soon ⤵️ www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science (271034) | University of Oslo

Job title: 2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science (271034), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, February 3, 2025

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

"Each dollar of government expenditure on [universal pre-kindergarten] yields $10.04 in benefits." www.nber.org/papers/w33038 Evidence from the USA (Connecticut)

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