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Gergely Mónus

@gergelymonus.bsky.social

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sociology phd student doing research on migration and urbanization

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ANETI Lab @anetilab.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

"It's who you know — unless you’re famous ✨: professional networks and prestige in scholarly mobility" - check out this new working paper @mpidr.bsky.social from @gergelymonus.bsky.social and coauthors 🔗https://tinyurl.com/4t79mmw3

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Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Rudolf Kalman put it nicely (and provocatively): link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Quote from R. Kalman, "Identification from real data": For an objective outsider, much of the historical development
of statistics is a long series of attempts to dodge the inevitable
implications of uncertainty. Whenever the conventional statistical
treatment of a problem gives a unique (certain) answer, as in
maximum likelihood estimation, in least squares, ... , common sense
should tell us that such a miracle is possible only if additional
assumptions (deus ex machina) are imposed on the data which
somehow succeed in neutralizing the intrinsic uncertainty. We
shall use the technical term "prejudice" for such assumptions.
In other words, statistical methodology has been handicapped
because statisticians have become mesmerized by the deep-seated
hope of giving certain answers to problems where the uncertainty
is intrinsic. This is politics, not science. For example, least
squares is very popular because it always gives a unique answer.
But this is exactly where its fatal weakness lies; when we pose
Nature a question, as in identification problems, we must not
phrase that question in such terms that the answer is
predetermined regardless of the nature of the data.

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Gergely Mónus @gergelymonus.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Nagy bukó spotting a Battyhány téren

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ANETI Lab @anetilab.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

New paper by @gergelymonus.bsky.social and László Lőrincz in Cities: "Rural-urban flows determine internal migration structure across scales" 🔄 🔗 Link to paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ci...

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

this is not meant as a hot take or a unique insight but it's remarkable how a lot of scientific discourse is about methods, data, and findings, whereas what really does most of the heavy lifting happens to be the assumptions

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Over the past 80 years, academic writing has become substantially harder to read 📉🧪 www.economist.com/science-and-... I analysed 350k PhD thesis abstracts and found that they've become more complex in every discipline, especially the humanities and social sciences

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