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Manuel Schechtl @schechtlm.eurosky.social · 20h

Timely new paper in @socioeconreview.bsky.social: Does rising wealth concentration undermine American democracy? Using variation across the 50 U.S. states, results reveal a clear, negative effect of millionaire wealth concentration on democratic performance. doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwag058

Wealth concentration in the United States has reached heights not seen since the Gilded Age, renewing fears that concentrated economic power may undermine democracy. Yet empirical research linking inequality to democratic erosion remains inconclusive, partly because most studies focus on cross-country comparison and examine income rather than wealth. This study exploits variation across fifty U.S. states; each
embedded in a common federal framework but differing in political and economic dynamics. To estimate the exogenous effect of rising wealth concentration on democratic backsliding, I develop a shift-share instrument of state-level millionaire wealth shares. Results reveal a clear, negative effect on democratic performance. Causal mediation analysis demonstrates that the effect is mediated by the share of seats held by
Republicans in state legislatures, pointing to a mechanism of elite influence through partisan channels. These findings demonstrate that subnational wealth disparities, and their convergence with partisan politics, actively erode American democratic institutions.

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Sander Wagner @sanderwagner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Some of the best concerts I've seen were at metal bars. Glad that Nature magazine finally recognizes their importance. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

**Please repost** If you're enjoying Paper Skygest -- our personalized feed of academic content on Bluesky -- we'd appreciate you reposting this! We’ve found that the most effective way for us to reach new users and communities is through users sharing it with their network

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 12/09/2026

Unionization reduces deaths of despair. "Right to work" laws kill. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Labor unions and deaths of despair: Evidence from right-to-work laws☆
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This paper examines the relationship between union membership and deaths of despair. Using state-level variation in the timing of the adoption of right-to-work laws as a natural experiment, I show that right-to-work laws are associated with a decline in union membership and an increase in deaths of despair. Two-way fixed-effects (TWFE) difference-in-differences (DiD) estimates suggest that the adoption of a right-to-work law is associated with a 2.6 percentage point reduction in union membership and an increase in deaths of despair mortality of 13 additional persons per 100,000, implying there are approximately 7.5 additional deaths of despair for every 1,000 workers who lose union membership. An analysis of mechanisms suggests the increase in mortality is largely driven by increased opioid usage and a concomitant increase in overdose deaths. I support the TWFE results with estimates from two alternative estimators robust to concerns about treatment effect heterogeneity and variation in treatment timing. Estimates from the Callaway and Sant’Anna (2021) estimator and the Borusyak et al. (2024) estimator support the TWFE findings: right-to-work laws reduce union membership and increase deaths of despair.

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The American Sociological Review issue with our paper on labor unions and Walmart's buyer power, with @joshuachoper.bsky.social and @zparolin.bsky.social, is now out alongside several other articles that are worth checking out: journals.sagepub.com/toc/asra/91/3

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American Sociological Review - Volume 91, Number 3

Table of contents for American Sociological Review, 91, 3

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Sander Wagner @sanderwagner.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Did the introduction of London's Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) improve childrens' lungs 👶🫁? Comparing children in London (ULEZ introduced) and Luton (no ULEZ) over time shows it improved lung function growth and reduced clinically impaired lung function www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“How do we determine whether some piece of evidence is relevant? As I’ll discuss, existing philosophical work on RTE does not provide an explicit, clear answer.” New work by Feraz Azhar (2026): doi.org/10.1086/743555 #PhilSci

In assessing support for a hypothesis, we must decide what evidence to include. The requirement of total evidence (RTE) says that we ought to include our total relevant evidence. But what fixes relevance? Existing philosophical work on RTE does not explicitly and clearly address this question; nor does this work develop RTE in a way that is sensitive to, and thus readily applicable to, the practice of modern-day science. In this article, I address these challenges. In particular, I introduce and critically analyse a version of RTE that makes precise two conditions for evidence to count as ‘relevant’—namely, ‘admissibility’ and ‘non-redundancy’—in such a way that renders RTE readily applicable to scientific models understood from a practical, modern viewpoint. I dub this viewpoint the ‘effective turn’: wherein scientific models are analysed in light of their limited regimes of applicability. I also provide a contrast with implementations of RTE in more general settings, where model-relative guardrails may be absent and the problem of what fixes relevance is correspondingly more thorny.

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Results blind peer review is good, and so is early feedback (I prefer methodological review boards) www.nature.com/articles/d41... All of these things do not require preregistration. We should not conflate concepts as scientists.

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Is my study useless? Why researchers need methodological review boards

Making researchers account for their methods before data collection is a long-overdue step.

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Tabea Naujoks @tabeanaujoks.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

In my new article, I compare female same-sex and different-sex parent couples and find that female same-sex couples divide paid work more equally. In East Germany, both couple types are relatively egalitarian; in West Germany, different-sex couples remain more specialized ▶️ doi.org/10.5771/0038...

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This feed is a great way to keep up with research from the people you follow

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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social · 03/07/2026

Vllt ne Kleinigkeit angesichts der anderen Probleme, aber auch Forschung wie diese ist von der Abschaffung des Informationsfreiheitsgesetzes betroffen. Die Wissenschaft könnte hier auch mal ihr Interesse anmelden #IFG

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Employer-provided childcare has large and lasting career effects for mothers, finds new study using linked employer-employee data from Germany.

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Jan-Martin Wiarda @jmwiarda.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Langsam zum "Ja, aber" Jan Hesthaven kam aus Lausanne ans KIT und traf auf ein starkes, aber schwer bewegliches Wissenschaftssystem. Ein Gespräch über Bürokratie, KI, Helmholtz, Verteidigungsforschung – und die deutsche Eigenheit, Wandel erst einmal abzubremsen: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/06...

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Are women more attracted to men with resources? It depends. Romantic preferences for people with economic resources are stronger for the sex that is poorer and individuals who are poorer. This suggests that economic preferences are cultural, rather than evolutionary. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 06/05/2026

You called?

A DAG signal broadcast into the sky like a bat signal, except it’s “DAG” spelled out by DAGs

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voegizug @voegizug.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

That dog has skills 🥰

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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social · 29/04/2026

Interesting how-to paper on panel data quantile regression www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Andreas Haupt @andreashaupt.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

POV: you are teaching within a lecture hall of technicians.

A chalkboard with differently colored chalks nearly stacked in order of their size by color

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Jasmin Schreiber @schreibersnaturarium.de · 21/04/2026

++++ EIL ++++ EIL ++++ Die Gänse haben Babys 🥺❤️🪿 ++++ EIL ++++ EIL ++++

Eine Graugans umgeben von ihren Küken. Eins sitzt auf ihrem Rücken und hat sich zwischen die Flügel gekuschelt

Eine Gänsefamilie unter einer rosa blühenden Kirsche

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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social · 18/04/2026

👇Staggering results of expansion of early public children on female employment in Germany

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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social · 08/04/2026

Interesting working paper on effect of CEO having connections ot Epstein. Makes me want to break things papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

A new paper has come out that has Twitter/X afire. It seems to argue that gender-affirming care for transgender youth is not only ineffective, but potentially harmful. It's also a very poorly-done piece of work. My new piece: gidmk.substack.com/p/does-gende...

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Does Gender-Affirming Care Make Mental Health Worse?

The case of a rather poorly-done paper.

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Andreas Haupt @andreashaupt.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

"We find substantial grading bias in Danish reading against boys, ethnically minoritized students, and students of non-university-educated parents and in written mathematics against boys and students of non-university educated parents..." 😱 academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

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Does statistical discrimination explain grading bias? Evidence from a natural experiment

Abstract. Statistical discrimination theory suggests that discrimination arises when gatekeepers lack individual-level information and therefore draw on th

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Andreas Haupt @andreashaupt.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Very nice discussion here about selection into treatment

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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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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

1. @rebeccasear.bsky.social for social science research. 2. @aedwardslevy.bsky.social for survey research & puns. 3. @scientificdiscovery.dev for science news.

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Marie Labussière 🟥 @labussieremarie.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Doing computational social science research on inequality on your own? This special issue is for you! We’re inviting submissions for a Historical Social Research issue on “Computational Social Inequality Research in Practice.” 📅 Deadline: 15 May 2026 #CallForPapers #CompSocSci #Inequality

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CfP_ComputationalSocialInequality.pdf

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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Roses are red, Violets are blue, It was statistically significant (p<0.05) Which means that it's true.

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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

We’d like to believe that effort matters to what we attain in life. In fact our belief in meritocracy depends on that. But what if how much effort people spend itself depends on your social background? “The Social Origins of Effort: How Incentives Reduce Socioeconomic Disparities among Children”

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 21/02/2026

Thumbnail is emptiness, and emptiness is thumbnail. Here's a link to the video tho, in case anybody is wondering what they're apologizing for 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG-6...

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The SHOCKING TRUTH about Causal Inference with Julia Rohrer

YouTube video by Decoding the Gurus

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Zach Parolin @zparolin.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

On Feb 17, our @inetoxford.bsky.social team will launch the INET Oxford Inequality Working Group, an online seminar series that invites discussion on inequality and public policy. Our first speaker: @drodrik.bsky.social presents his new book. Details & registration: www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/share...

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Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World

Dani Rodrik of Harvard University will present his new book, "Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global…

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

An era has come to an end

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 on what we promised? At the outset, we set out a twofold vision. We wanted to keep European Societies a genuinely general sociology journal with a focus on Europe and European sociology, open to all substantive areas and to authors worldwide. At the same time, we wanted to modernize the journal by lowering barriers to participation, moving toward open access and open science, and by running peer review as fairly, comprehensively, and efficiently as possible. Looking back, we believe the direction of travel has been consistent with that agenda, even if some constraints have become more pronounced as submissions have grown.

The most tangible step toward barrier reduction has been the shift in the journal's publishing model. The move to MIT Press and the adoption of a noncommercial, diamond open-access model have made the journal free to read and free to publish in. This has mattered not only as an institutional achievement by ESA, but also as a signal of what a flagship journal of the European Sociological Association can be: a truly public scholarly resource rather than a gated space shaped by the ability to pay. In parallel, we worked to reduce friction in submission and production by making procedures more predictable and less resource-intensive for authors, and by strengthening the journal's commitment to transparency, including the routine expectation of replication materials for quantitative work published in the journal (Präg, Ersanilli and Gugushvili, 2025). We have thought of these changes as working on “access” and “voice” simultaneously. By “access,” we mean making it easier for people to read the journal and to submit their work. By “voice,” we mean that a broader range of scholars, institutions, and regions appears on our pages and shapes the debates. Bot…

European societies in motion, and a commitment to voice

A general sociology journal should reflect the major currents shaping European societies, not by chasing headlines, but by publishing sociological work that helps explain how Europe is changing. Over the past years, the journal has continued to engage research on inequalities and social stratification, climate change and ecological transition, migration and shifting borders, transformations in work and welfare, population aging and health inequalities, and the reconfiguration of social trust and political contestation. The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 further underlined how quickly the horizon of “normal” European development can rupture, and how urgent it becomes to understand societies that have too often been treated as peripheral in general sociological publishing. The Special Issue on understanding Ukrainian society before and after the invasion (Martsenyuk et al., 2024) was therefore an attempt to contribute to that understanding while also practicing what we had argued for from the start: that underrepresented parts of Europe should not appear only through external observation, but should be visible through scholarship that is locally grounded, rigorously theoretical, and fully integrated into European sociology.

Throughout our tenure, we also sought to ensure that the journal provided space for the plurality of sociological traditions across Europe. European sociology remains multi-paradigmatic and unevenly structured by regional and institutional inequalities. We therefore aimed to combine a high threshold for publication with broad openness to different intellectual styles, methods, and substantive agendas, and to keep ourselves accountable by paying attention to patterns in submissions and editorial outcomes across regions and approaches. This is unfinished work, but it is work that cannot be postponed if we want a journal that represents European sociology as it exists, rather th…

the structural reality remains that a general journal with finite capacity cannot publish all of the strong sociology it receives, even when that sociology deserves a wide readership.

This pressure is intertwined with another growing challenge: the difficulty of securing peer reviewers. Reviewing is the central infrastructure of scholarly publishing, but it rests on time and goodwill that are increasingly stretched. Across our term, it has become harder to find the right expertise quickly, particularly for more specialized topics or for underrepresented contexts where the pool of suitable reviewers is smaller. We therefore want to thank reviewers once more, not as a ritual, but as recognition that the journal's quality and fairness depend directly on their labor. We also hope that our community continues to treat reviewing as part of academic reciprocity, because without a sustainable reviewing culture, no editorial team can reliably balance speed, rigor, and equity.
Thanks, acknowledgments, and handover

We owe special thanks to Patrick Präg, who left his editorial role slightly earlier but contributed enormously to the journal's direction and to the everyday work that makes a journal function. His intellectual judgment, practical ambition, and commitment to fairness and transparency shaped many of the changes implemented during our tenure, and the journal is stronger because of his contributions. We also thank our associate editors, without whom our work would have been impossible: Plamen Akaliyski (Lingnan University), Çetin Çelik (Koç University), Roxanne Connelly (University of Edinburgh), Ivana Dobrotić (University of Zagreb), Marta Dominguez Folgueras (Sciences Po), Magne P. Flemmen (University of Oslo), Pablo Gracia (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Mobarak Hossain (London School of Economics and Political Science), Mathieu Ichou (INED), Katya Ivanova (Tilburg University), Cyril Jayet (Sorbonne University), Agnieszka Kubal (University of Oxford), Anna K…

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 29/01/2026

New preprint 🥳 The city of Leipzig conducts large-scale surveys of adolescents. In 2023, the gender gap in life satisfaction has significantly widened, with girls declining more steeply than boys. What's up with that?> (work with @rmcelreath.bsky.social and @gregork.bsky.social)

Mean life satisfaction in the survey years 2010, 2015 and 2023, separately for female and male gender.
In general, girls have lower scores but in 2023, they are drifting even further down

The city of Leipzig in Germany conducts large-scale school surveys of adolescents in secondary education schools. Following the regular surveys in 2010 and 2015, the 2020 survey had to be rescheduled to 2023 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this latest survey wave, the gender gap in general life satisfaction has significantly grown. While in 2010 and 2015 girls were somewhat less satisfied than boys (0.26 to 0.33 SD), in 2023 this gender gap had doubled (with girls 0.57 SD less satisfied). Why? Here, we probe various explanations, aiming to provide a template for researchers who are asking reverse causal questions (“What caused this?”). First, we find that the widening of the gender gap is much more pronounced among students with a migration background. This could plausibly be explained by a shift in the composition of the underlying population, with a strong increase of Syrian students, and a relative decrease of Vietnamese ones. Second, among students without a migration background, part of the increasing gender gap could potentially be attributed to survey mode: In 2023, for the first time, the survey was conducted on tablets—and unexpectedly, girls (but not boys) reported significantly lower satisfaction when surveyed on tablet rather than on paper. Third, beyond these two patterns, we still find significantly widening gender gaps in satisfaction with leisure time activities and relationships to friends. Thus, there may be a substantive increase in the gender gap in satisfaction in those two domains that is not readily attributable to changes in population and survey mode.

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Peder M Isager @isager.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

New blog post introducing Causion - a web app for causal inference teaching and learning: pedermisager.org/blog/causion....

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Introducing Causion: A web app for playing with DAGs | Peder M. Isager

Personal website of Dr. Peder M. Isager

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European Sociological Review @europeansocreview.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

New OA In ESR How do institutions and social norms affect tax payment? @lucaspasin.bsky.social #Aaszekely @squazzoni.bsky.social find that in low-quality institutions contexts, social norms can trigger vicious cycles of evasion, even when evasion is socially disapproved doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf057

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An experimental study on institutions and social norms of tax payment

Abstract. The production of public goods, which are fundamental to well-functioning societies, requires the payment of taxes, but taxpayers have clear ince

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 19/01/2026

Beautiful business research people: The Leibniz Information Centre for Economics has created an accessible introduction to Open Science that you can download in both English and German here: expedition-open-science.org You can even order the German print version for free!

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Open-Science-Land

In the Planning section, clearly structured landscapes dominate the picture: vast research plains where hypotheses are formed, well-mapped paths of methodology and transparent data sources that need to be carefully developed.

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GESIS German Microdata Lab @fdzgml.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Working with EU-SILC, but don't know which variables are available in each year?😵‍💫🤷🆘🏳️ 🛟MISSY can help!🛟 Simply select years, data set, file type & concepts to quickly get an overview, with optional csv export. Details like frequencies across countries also available! 🔗 www.gesis.org/en/missy/mat...

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Andreas Haupt @andreashaupt.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I'm gonna tell my kids that this was Heated Rivalry

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Rudi Bachmann @bachmannrudi.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Mit Jana Münkel im @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy Kultur Studio. Hat - wie immer - einen Heidenspass gemacht.

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 11/01/2026

And you're saying AI has no positive use cases

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

“These findings provide clear evidence that data collected on MTurk simply cannot be trusted.”

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Does social media harm everyone? No. But it harms *most* adolescents. However, not all platforms are harmful. An analysis of 44,211 diaries from 479 adolescents over 100 days finds that 60% of adolescents experienced small, negative effects of social media link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Jasmin Schreiber @schreibersnaturarium.de · 19/10/2025

Buchmesse-People (und Leute mit TV): Heute um 14:50 bin ich auf der ARD/ZDF/3Sat-Literaturbühne für den DLF Kultur Literaturherbst und spreche über DA. WO ICH DICH SEHEN KANN. Kann man dann auch in der Mediathek nachgucken. Forum Ebene 0!

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Martin Neugebauer @neugebauer.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Check out the #LINEup Education Data Explorer — a new open-source map of longitudinal datasets across Europe! 🇪🇺 → Explore what data exist, where, and on what topics. Great tool for comparative education research www.lineup-project.eu/map/

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LINEup Education Data Explorer - An Open-Source Map to Longitudinal Datasets in Europe

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Mirja Nicolas @privilegienschreck.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Vergleiche von COVID und AIDS werden oft sehr populistisch verwendet oder pauschal als "Fear monging" delegitimiert. Dieser Review bietet hingegen eine hervorragende, fundierte Annäherung. V.a. den kurzen sozialpolitischen Abriss finde ich sehr gelungen und gut platziert. 1/

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COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?

COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 is often compared to other pandemics for its societal and global health impact, with some commentators drawing parallels to HIV/AIDS due to the immune dysfunction caused ...

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