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Florian Keusch @floriankeusch.bsky.social · 1h

I will start a new group at @wuvienna.bsky.social next spring and am recruiting. - Assistant Professor (non-tenure track) Social Data Science tinyurl.com/ykfsctp8 - Research and Teaching Associate (PhD candidate) Survey Method/Social Data Science tinyurl.com/4k7sandh Deadline: Nov. 4

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Job opportunity Assistant Professor, non-tenure track at think:impact - Dabei sein, wenn Denken zur Zukunft wird. An der WU Wirtschaftuniversität Wien finden Sie Jobs, um Ihr Potenzial zu entfalten.

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KODAQS @kodaqs.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It has been two intense days. Three teams at our KODAQS Data Quality Challenge investigated: What information on response quality can be drawn from metadata of the @gesis-panel.bsky.social ? The good news: The analysis did not show any systematic differences induced by people leaving between waves.

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Julia Partheymüller @schnizzl.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

📢 Call for abstracts! #ESRA2027 meets #WAPOR in Paris, 19–23 July 2027! We are co-organizing a session on "Advances and Innovations in Online Panel Research" and welcome contributions! 🗓️ Deadline: 12 January 2027 🔗 www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conf2027/ses...

Screenshot of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) website showing the ESRA 2027 session “Advances and Innovations in Online Panel Research,” coordinated by Katharina Pfaff (University of Vienna) and Andrea Orazio Spinello (CNR-IRCrES, Italy). The session invites research on online panel design, recruitment, retention, survey errors, data quality, innovative applications, and Open Science.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

University of Mannheim is hiring a W3 Professor in Social Data Science and Social Science Methodology. Start: 1 February 2027. Application deadline: 22 October 2026. www.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/en/about/job...

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KODAQS @kodaqs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Kickoff of the KODAQS Data Challenge 2026! For two days, the KODAQS Academy participants meet at @gesis.org Cologne. Here they apply the knowledge and skills on research data quality, that they obtained throughout the last 6 months in the KODAQS Academy Certificate Program.

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SCOPE @scope-rptu.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We’re hiring a W3 Professor in Computational Social Science at RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau (campus Landau). Application deadline: 14 October 2026 Please share with anyone who might be interested. jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/0...

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W 3-Professur für "Computational Social Science" (m/w/d)

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KODAQS @kodaqs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yesterday, the KODAQS Academy visited the @iwkoeln.bsky.social in Cologne. During our so-called Safari, our KODAQS Academy attendees exchanged with the institute on data quality challenges in practice.

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Stephen Vaisey 🇺🇦 @stephenvaisey.com · 07/10/2026

BTW this means no funding for GSS, ANES, or PSID. GSS 2026 is in the field now, but then it looks like that's it. Devastating for social science.

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Brady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Interested in studying survey and data science at U-M? PhD Info Sessions (sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/...) Sess 1: Oct 9, 9-10AM ET Sess 2: Nov 9, 7:30-8:30 PM ET MS Info Sessions (sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/...) Sess 1: Oct 23, 9-10AM ET Sess 2: Nov 23, 7-8PM ET

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Sessions @ Michigan - MPSDS PhD Info Sessions (2026)

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 02/10/2026

early-career academics, if you don't have a website, make yourself one. yes it's annoying but just do it it can be plain text on a white background, or google sites, or even a free Wix one with ads. nobody cares we just need to be able to look you up, quickly, bc there's like 100 other apps here

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J Dierkes @dierkes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We're hiring at School of Social Sciences at Univ of Mannheim Full Professorship (W-3) in Social Data Science and Social Science Methodology Apply by Oct 22 2026 www.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/en/about/job... @methodsnet.bsky.social

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Job Vacancies

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J Dierkes @dierkes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wir suchen nach einer/einem neuen Kolleg*in in der Soziologie in Mannheim: W-3 "Social Data Science und sozialwissenschaftliche Methodenlehre" Bewerbung bis 22.10.2026 Ausschreibung: www.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/fakultaet/st...

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Stellenangebote der Fakultät

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Brady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A new version of the nonprobsvy package in R, and an article in JSS to boot! There is no better tool for the analysis of data from non-probability surveys, implementing all of the latest advances in this literature. If you analyze data from NP surveys, please read: www.jstatsoft.org/article/view...

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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The 1972 ANES is a trip

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We are hiring at LMU Munich: two PhD positions and one postdoc on democracy, political psychology and computational social science. Start: January 2027 or as soon as possible. We review applications on a rolling basis until October 20. Details below. Reposts very welcome! 1/7

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MZES Uni Mannheim @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Reminder 👇🙂

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

All college students should take at least one course that covers (at a conceptual level) selection and attrition bias, causal inference, and basic survey and item design. If you're not teaching this in Intro to Soc, often the only sociology course non-majors will take, please start.

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Raphael Nishimura @rnishimura.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Want to better understand how statistical sampling works in a visual and interactive way? Take a look at this learning tool I created (with help from Claude): websites.umich.edu/~raphaeln/sa... All feedback is welcome!

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Claudia Diehl @cdiehl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Zur Zufriedenheit mit der @deutschebahn.com: ein zu bestätigender Hinweis beim Buchen, dass man im Ruheabteil reserviert hat, u eine Durchsage, dass man dort weder telefonieren noch reden sollte wären wichtiger als Hinweise, dass der Zugchef Karl-Heinz heißt und man bitte nix im Zug vergessen soll 📢

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Simon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's incredible how many AI generated figures I've seen over the last few days at a conference. Most of them unnecessary, optional illustration that could be skipped or a proper image could be used. Do you/did you see this as well this year?

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Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology @jssam.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

📢 Call for Papers: JSSAM 2028 Special Issue Guest Editors: Tobias Gummer & Joseph W. Sakshaug Full Call: academic.oup.com/jssam/pages/call-for-papers-adaptive-survey-design

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Heinz Leitgöb @heinzleitgoeb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The special issue on “Explanation and Causality in Sociology” in the Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie has now been published! Many thanks to all authors for their valuable contributions and to my co-editors for the constructive collaboration. link.springer.com/journal/1157...

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KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie

Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie / Cologne Journal of Sociology and Social Psychology Founded in 1948, with a focus on theory ...

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Questionnaire design is my passion

"Please give a score for importance between 1 and 7, where 1 is the lowest and 7 is the highest:" Entered value is hundred billion.

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German Internet Panel (GIP) @gip.uni-mannheim.de · 24/08/2026

Looking to analyze long-term social trends? 📈 GIP Waves 74, 75 & 76 were just published, extending the data from Sep 2012 to Mar 2025. Access 76 waves of high-quality panel data via the @gesis.org data archive! 🔍 www.uni-mannheim.de/gip/gip-date...

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Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences - GESS @gessunimannheim.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Congrats to CDSS alumnus Oliver Rittmann on his appointment as Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science at LSE! Oliver’s research combines computational methods and #polisci to study inequalities in representation, discrimination among political elites, and political communication. 🎉

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CDSS Alumnus Oliver Rittmann appointed Assistant Professor at LSE |

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Survey Methods: Insights from the Field @surveymethods.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

👉 Volume 4, Issue 2 is out! Check out the latest research: 🖍️Postponement in web surveys & communication experiments 🖍️Panel retention among Ukrainian refugees 🖍️ 'Most Important Problem' Measure of Issue Salience vs Google Trends 🖍️Mode change & migrant survey participation ➡️ www.surveyinsights.org

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 13/08/2026

Nice second sentence. arxiv.org/abs/2608.113...

Disclosure of AI Use
The lower bound proof in Section 2 for domain {±1}n was AI assisted; see Remark 2.1 for details.
All text in this paper was handcrafted with love and care by humans, by the ancient traditional method of pushing buttons on keyboards and then arguing about it.

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Florian Keusch @floriankeusch.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Sehr schöne Visualisierungen! Ich verstehe aber diese Grafik hier nicht. Tropennächte sind doch definiert als Nächte, in denen die Temperatur 20 Grad NICHT unterschreitet. Hier ist aber alles (Tag und Nacht?) blau, was unter 20 Grad liegt. Oder interpretiere ich die Grafik falsch?

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Georg Ahnert @ahnert.eurosky.social · 22/07/2026

Excited to present a tutorial on simulating survey responses with LLMs at @ic2s2.bsky.social next week! ✨ 👉 central themes: analytic flexibility & hybrid samples with @gligoric.bsky.social, @indiiigo.bsky.social, @maximiliankreutner.bsky.social, @jrupprec.bsky.social, and @mstrohm.bsky.social – 🧵

Cover image for our IC2S2 Tutorial titled "An Introduction to Simulation Human Survey Responses with LLMs: Potentials and Pitfalls", happening on Tuesday, July 28 between 1:15pm and 4:30pm. The image features a few of the choices researchers can take when simulating survey responses with LLMs: questionnaire presentation and prompt perturbations, amongst others.

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Ralph Janik @ralphjanik.com · 20/07/2026

Wir haben in Österreich eher das Problem, dass es zu viele Doktoren gibt bzw. Doktortitel zu schnell vergeben werden. Das wird im Zeitalter von KI nicht besser. Im Moment scheinen mir viele im Umgang damit ratlos zu sein. Denke, dass genau jetzt einige KI-Doktorarbeiten durchschlittern. 1/3

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Fachhochschulen sollen Doktorate vergeben können

Das Promotionsrecht ist der letzte fehlende Punkt bei der institutionellen Gleichstellung mit Universitäten

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 20/07/2026

New paper out now 🥳 When psychologists discuss generalisability, they often refer to vague notions of representativeness. We provide an accessible intro to the total survey error framework as a tool to reason about this more rigorously. w @taymalsalti.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci >

Thinking Clearly About Sampling and Representation With the Total Survey Error Framework

Collecting a sample that represents the population of interest well constitutes a challenge across the social and behavioural sciences. Psychology in particular frequently relies on convenience samples—most notably students and, increasingly, online participants—with a tendency to either (implicitly) assume representativeness without substantive justification, or to acknowledge a lack of it only in passing. In contrast, researchers rarely engage with the actual implications for their inferences, which undermines the generalisability of psychological findings. Critically, representativeness must be defined with respect to variables relevant to the target of inference, rather than superficial demographic diversity. Here we present the Total Survey Error (TSE) framework as a methodological tool that systematically addresses the multifaceted sources of error—particularly those related to representation—that emerge throughout the research cycle. Although TSE originated in survey research, its principles are broadly applicable to any psychological study seeking inference from sample to population. We offer practical strategies for identifying, preventing, and mitigating representation errors to improve the credibility and generalisability of psychological research.

Illustration of the total survey error framework with the representation strand highlighted. It shows how coverage error, sampling error and non-response error arise during the sampling process.

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Korinna Lindemann @korinlind.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

One week left to apply!

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Florian Keusch @floriankeusch.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The call for the DGOF Best Paper Award 2027 is out. Submit your published work on methods of online research by Sep 30. www.dgof.de/forschungsfo...

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Genuinely interested in your views: What is the future of teaching statistical programming language for data science in the age of AI? Will we even still teach programming R or Python?

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

With conference season just around the corner, a bit of advice. Yes, you could easily get a gen-AI tool to draw a comic of you at your desk, cartoon thought bubbles over your head, your research question printed in the bubbles in comic sans font. That doesn't mean you should.

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Florian Keusch @floriankeusch.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Thanks. Someone from the organizing committee reached out and solved the issue.

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Florian Keusch @floriankeusch.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Hi, @ic2s2.bsky.social conference organizers. I have been trying to reach you via email three times about the scheduling of my talk but have not received a response. How can I get in touch with someone who is in charge of the program? Thanks!

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Public Opinion Quarterly - POQ @poqjournal.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Out now! The latest issue of POQ! Read Volume 90, Issue 3, Fall 2026 here: academic.oup.com/poq/issue

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Florian Keusch @floriankeusch.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

“Hi, my name is Katrin and I have a data access problem!”

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Jan Karem Höhne @jkhoehne.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

#MRevilla kicks off 7th MASS Workshop in collaboration with the @erc.europa.eu funded WEB DATA OPP Project at @recsm.bsky.social in Barcelona. Many thanks to @floriankeusch.bsky.social @peterlugtig.bsky.social and #BStruminskaya for organizing this event with me🤓😎

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European Survey Research Association (ESRA) @esrasurvey.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

We are thrilled to announce that the #ESRA27 call for sessions is now open! We invite all interested researchers to submit an abstract for an ESRA conference session by the end of August. More info here: www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference/p...

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ESRA27 Call for Sessions

The European Survey Research Association (ESRA) is the leading professional organisation of survey researchers in Europe, with members from the academic, government, non-profit and commercial sectors

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Florian Keusch @floriankeusch.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Congratulations, Brady! So well deserved!

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Valerie Hase @valeriehase.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

As part of a data donation project, we are collecting whitelists of "public actors"' (e.g., news, politicians, parties) Instagram handles. We're aware of some databases (HBI Public Speakers, Vienna's Meteor) - but hints to others (or whitelists shared as part of publications) more than welcome 🫶

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Grad students, just an FYI, reputable journals in your discipline don’t need to recruit scholars to submit manuscripts to them. So if you‘re getting email invites to submit your work to [journal you never heard of], it belongs in spam.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

"10x more evidence based" sounds scientific right up until you spend three seconds thinking about it

AI for Scientiﬁc Research: Elicit helps researchers be 10x more evidence-based

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Joshua Claassen @jclaass.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

📢 Register now!! 📢 Join Johanna Hölzl for our next #CS3Meeting on May 19, 3:15 to 4:00 PM (CEST). Learn about the generalizability, reliability, and validity of #APIs (e.g., #YouTube @nytimes.com) and their implications for reproducibility in #CSS. 🚨 Sign up here: ww3.unipark.de/uc/cs3_meeti...

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Jan Karem Höhne @jkhoehne.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

friend: just skim & tell me if it's ready to submit me:

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