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Carsten Schwemmer @cschwem2er.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

1/6 What happens when you tell an AI browser: “Fill out this survey”? It fills out the survey. In our new study, led by @rtopinkova.bsky.social, we tested three consumer-facing agentic browsers without lengthy prompts, custom code, or technical fine-tuning.

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Anna Zamberlan @zamberlanna.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Alisia Bauer and I ran a cross-national survey experiment to test whether name-based status and gender cues actually work as intended, and what else rides along with them—especially age and ethnicity. Results are now out in @actasociologica.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Women's Forum @ INAS @womensforuminas.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The event will conclude with drinks and informal networking before the start of the conference’s two days of parallel sessions. If you plan to attend, please remember to sign up for the Forum when registering for the conference. www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research...

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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

📢 Open positions! I’m recruiting 2 postdocs + 3 PhD positions at C³S, @goetheuni.bsky.social in #ClimateJustice, environmental inequality, #Demography & #ComputationalSocialScience 🌍📊💻 3–4 years + strong support for training🎒 Deadline: 23 June 2026 More: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen...

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Maik Hamjediers @mhamjediers.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Do waitresses receive the same occupational prestige as waiters? Using German gendered occupational titles, we find that feminine job titles receive slightly lower prestige than masculine ones, especially among male-domindated occupations. Out now in Social Forces. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

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Anica Waldendorf @awaldendorf.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Very much looking forward to being in Mannheim tomorrow to present some joint work with @distasioval.bsky.social and Susanne Veit!

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Knife crime! Pronouns! Meat bans! Some political issues lead to "hotter", more emotional and polarizing debates than others. We show how these "trigger points" reveal a contested structure of moral expectations and how they get weaponized by polarization entrepreneurs. OA @bjsociology.bsky.social 🧵

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Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics”

Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordi...

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Joris Frese @fresejoris.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

📄Published Today in Nature: 500 researchers reproduced 100 studies across the social & behavioral sciences to assess their analytical robustness (led by @balazsaczel.bsky.social & @szaszibarnabas.bsky.social). Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Preprint: osf.io/preprints/me... TLDR: 1/11

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Kasimir Dederichs @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

📊 Analytical Sociologists: just over one week left to submit your abstract for this year’s INAS conference at Nuffield College 📚 We look forward to your contributions! 📄✨ www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research... @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social @sociologyoxford.bsky.social

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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

📢 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

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Jonas Wiedner @jwied.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Why did I visit the Facebook pages of 5500 German grocery stores on a grey lockdown day ca. 2021? You can now find out in AJS. Our work on ethnoreligious infrastructures is finally online in the ominous Volume 0: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Paper proposals for the @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions, taking place in beautiful Innsbruck, April 7-10 2026, are now open. If you're working on an exciting gender paper using quants methods, please apply to our workshop: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... @mtplk.bsky.social @sgparliaments.bsky.social

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Nicole Schwitter @nschwitter.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

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...

Two AI generated images showing 1) a boy walking through a disorderly neighbourhood with graffiti and trash and 2) a boy walking through a very similar but cleaned up neighbourhood without trash ad graffiti.

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Maik Hamjediers @mhamjediers.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

New publication with @riazsascha.bsky.social in @bjpols.bsky.social As I’m concerned that the figures in the SI might get too little attention, here are some findings in visual form:

Two side-by-side plots showing how the immigrant penalty in applying JCL varies by
(a) type of crime (the largest penalties appear for minor offenses such as theft or insults, smaller for serious crimes like murder or robbery).
(b) previous convictions (the penalty is strongest for offenders with no previous convictions and remains significant, though smaller, for those with multiple prior convictions).

Scatterplot showing the relationship between the “immigrant penalty in the application of juvenile criminal law (JCL)” and the 2017 AfD vote share across German judicial districts. As AfD vote share increases, the immigrant penalty becomes larger (more negative; r=-0.45).

plot showing judicial bias against immigrants from the Middle East and Africa between 2009 and 2018. The y-axis shows the difference in the probability of being sentenced under juvenile law compared to natives. The bias widens notably in 2014/2015, coinciding with an increase in the number of refugees from these regions (shown as grey bars in the bottom).

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Indira Sen @indiiigo.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Come join next Wednesday if you want to rant about society's love-hate relationship with LLMs!

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Sander Wagner @sanderwagner.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social. It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼💰👩‍💼 are by studying many local labour markets. Thread 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Anica Waldendorf @awaldendorf.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Excited to announce the launch of a new working group at Nuffield College, the Generative² Social Science Lab (co-organised with @pablogerbas.bsky.social). We will have our first meeting tomorrow at 11:00am, come join us! More details here: github.com/gen2socscila...

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Tae Kyeong Meixner-Yun @taekyeong.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Video calls are now fundamental to how we interact. But does gender status bias persist when we move from in-person to video calls? Together with Klarita Gërxhani and @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social, we examined this using a preregistered experiment and follow-up interviews. doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

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Mirko Wegemann @mwegemann.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Very much looking forward to present new joint work with @awaldendorf.bsky.social on the "Politics of Language" at #APSA2025 tomorrow morning (8am). Please reach out for a coffee during the conference :)

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 01/08/2025

Send in your papers for Europe’s biggest political science conference before November 7th The inaugural EPSS conference now has a section for Gender and Sexuality politics chaired by @anacweeks.bsky.social & myself epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

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Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference

Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.

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Jona de Jong @jonadejong.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

New publication in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social with Delia Baldassarri. We show that in the US, social relationships remain politically heterogeneous, and that heterogeneous close ties and acquaintances lower partisan animosity through distinct mechanisms. A thread on the main findings:

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Hendrik Erz, PhD @hendrik-erz.de · 24/06/2025

+++ ANNOUNCEMENT +++ I'm currently on the job market, looking for Postdoc opportunities (end of 2025/early 2026). If you are — or know someone who is — in need of a political sociologist/computational social scientist, please get in touch or share my CV! More info: www.hendrik-erz.de

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Johanna Rickne @johannarickne.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Which occupations carry the highest risk of sexual harassment—and who is doing the harassing? Our new study finds two distinct patterns depending on whether harassment comes from inside or outside the workplace. CEPR WP: cepr.org/publications... Ungated: drive.google.com/file/d/1jPOV... 🧵 1/

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Women's Forum @ INAS @womensforuminas.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

The event will include discussions on topics that matter most to participants. Our goal is to create a space for meaningful exchange and shared reflection. If you have suggestions for discussion themes, we’d love to hear them! Feel free to get in touch here or via email at womensforumINAS@gmail.com

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Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

🚨 working paper (w. @morganlcj.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social): Protesters are not judged equally - even if tactics of groups are similar. We ran an experiment in 🇩🇪 testing how people react to farmers vs. climate activists blocking roads. What we find is disturbing: osf.io/preprints/os...

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Women's Forum @ INAS @womensforuminas.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

This year’s INAS will be hybrid – and so will the Women’s Forum! We will offer online and offline activities so you can join in even if you are not travelling to NYC. Sign up for the Women’s Forum for updates and join our Slack channel for more information.

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Isabell Stamm @isabellstamm.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

📢 Here is an exciting job opportunity at the TU Berlin. Please spread the word and apply! Post-Doc, 5yrs, work on your independent research on ownership and / or wealth inequality, teach 2 courses per semester, collaborate with me and in a supportive team. www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/stellenaussc...

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Stellenausschreibung VI-153/25: Research Associate (PostDoc) - salary grade E13 TV-L Berliner Hochschulen - 2nd qualifi... – Stellenausschreibungen der Technischen Universität Berlin

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Said Hassan @saidhassan.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

🗓️ Excited to share our Sociology Seminar Series for this term at Nuffield College! @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Join us every Wednesday at 4 pm from next week #Sociology #Stratification #Inequality

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Ridhi Kashyap @ridhikashyap.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

*JOB OPENING* Come join me and the Digital Gender Gaps team @sociologyoxford.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social. We study digital gender inequalities and their consequences w/ social media, geospatial, and population data. tinyurl.com/postdoc-oxf Apply by 9 May, noon (UK)

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Sophia Hunger @sophiahunger.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Bremen 🚨 Open to PhD students and early career scholars Fully-funded places available for applicants, deadline 1st of May 📅 summerschoolwpm.org

Image of a building of the University of Bremen with the text "Summer School for Women in Political Methodology" and "20 to 26 July at the University of Bremen" writen on it.

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European Journal of Politics and Gender @ejpgjournal.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Have you checked out our latest issue? It's a unique ✨Themed Issue✨ that's packed with outstanding research on "LGBTQ+ Politics in Contentious Times" 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊ bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

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Politics_Oxford @politicsoxford.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

@politicsoxford.bsky.social introduces Oxford Computational Political Science Group - a non-partisan research initiative dedicated to advancing the study and application of computational methods in political science: ow.ly/yi8E50VwkTk

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Rebecca Kittel @rebeccakittel.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

🚨Publication Alert Very happy to share that my second PhD paper is now out with @govandopp.bsky.social 🤗🎉 Do populist politicians use simpler language? I analyse 30 years of parliamentary discourse to shed light on that question! 👇 Full article: doi.org/10.1017/gov.... #OpenAccess

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Women's Forum @ INAS @womensforuminas.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Hi everyone! We are also on Bluesky! With the Women's Forum, we aim to enhance recognition of the work, perspectives, and expertise of women within the analytical sociology community. Find out more on our webpage and join our mailing list: analyticalsociology.com/womens-forum

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International Network of Analytical Sociology - Women’s Forum

The International Network of Analytical Sociology is an association of sociologists who identify with the Analytical Sociology approach to social explanation.

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Violeta Haas @haasvioleta.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

New working paper! In this research note, @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social, and I present the first systematic test that causally identifies the electoral consequences of state-sponsored homophobia: osf.io/preprints/os... 🧵Thread

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Very happy that our paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social & E Dinas) has been accepted @bjpols.bsky.social . We've seen the center right increasingly adopt far-right rhetoric. Our experiment in 🇩🇪 finds that this erodes anti-prejudice norms *more* than when the far-right employs similar rhetoric. 1/3

Abstract: How does anti-immigrant rhetoric by mainstream politicians affect norms of tolerance? How does this compare to similar statements made by radical-right politicians? Drawing on experimental evidence, we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians. Subsample analyses suggests that this is because statements by mainstream-right politicians erode norm perceptions of right-wing individuals, while those by radical-right politicians induce backlash among left-wing individuals, who hold closer to the norm in place. The latter effect (backlash by the left) disappears when similar statements are made by mainstream right politicians. We argue that this difference occurs because mainstream politicians represent the views of a larger part of the population or have a higher status. Our results highlight the pivotal role of mainstream politicians in enforcing or eroding democratic norms, and that similar political statements can have different effects depending on their sender.

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Audrey Alejandro @audreyalejandro.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

📢 Call for papers 📢 Workshop "Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research" that I organise with colleague @dandekadt.bsky.social at LSE in November 2025. Anyone interested please send us a 250-word abstract by 26 March 2025 ! Learn more➡️ buff.ly/3CCijaY @lsemethodology.bsky.social

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Pleased to share the latest version of my paper with Arthur Spirling and @lexipalmer.bsky.social on replication using LMs We show: 1. current applications of LMs in political science research *don't* meet basic standards of reproducibility...

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Carsten Schwemmer @cschwem2er.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Computational colleagues (I like that phrase!), please help me out. 🚨 I am looking for methods to collect data from Android apps. In particular, I want to extract data from the TikTokShop (not available in every country). Any tips or literature recommendations that could help would be great :)

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Amalia Alvarez-Benjumea @amaliaab.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

📢New Preprint!📢 I argue that the norm against prejudice influences individuals to withhold certain opinions, driven by a desire to avoid being perceived as prejudiced and explore recent empirical studies that shed light on the mechanisms driving norm changes. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Social Norms and the Expression of Prejudice: How the Norm Changes

Social norms influence how opinions are expressed. The norm against prejudice discourages individuals from expressing certain opinions to avoid being …

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

New Gender Update out in @ejpgjournal.bsky.social. With data from the new wave of the EES, I show a strong increase in support for the far right among young voters. Especially the share of young men who consider voting for the far right has exploded. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

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European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Hi there 👋, this is the blue sky over Florence, seen from the European University Institute! We’ve just landed here 🚀 and can’t wait to connect with all of you. Follow us to get the latest on research, events, and EUI campus life! 📲 @eui-eu.bsky.social

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Marc Keuschnigg @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

The 2024 Conference of the International Network of Analytical Sociologists will take place May 30–31 2024 in Leipzig, Germany. Please visit our conference website www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/en/inas-conf... The call for submissions is now open (until Feb. 16). Happy to hear from you!

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