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Jonas Toubøl @touboel.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

How did covid lockdowns affect different sectors of voluntary civil society and segments of volunteers? We Use a four wave panel running from April 2020 to april 2021 to answer these questions in "Locking Down Civil Society: The Impact of COVID-19" in Voluntas: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧵👇

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Locking Down Civil Society: The Impact of COVID-19 - VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations

This paper examines patterns of volunteering during COVID-19 in different areas of civil society and demographic groups in Denmark. The aim is to understand how differences in the areas of civil socie...

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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Princeton-SMART is now live. A new research tool for studying smartphone usage. Webinar: Wed, Nov 5, 4pm EST mailchi.mp/44580536fe1f...

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Neal Caren @haphazardsoc.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Carolina Sociology is hiring! • Tenure-track in computational sociology or advanced quantitative methods • Open rank in population health. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307... unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

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Assistant Professor

This Assistant Professor position will teach graduate and undergraduate courses, conduct research in the field of Sociology, participate in departmental service, and mentor graduate students.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357 Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

📢JOB ALERT 📢My department at the @ausis.bsky.social is hiring a social scientist who works on disaster!! The specific focus is open so check out the job announcement below (I'm not one the committee, so this is ALL I know) #ComeWorkwithMe! american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-...

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Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) - Department of Environment, Development & Health

American University is a student-centered research institution located in Washington, DC, with highly-ranked schools and colleges, internationally-renowned faculty, and a reputation for creating meani...

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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

New working paper with Tom Robinson, Laura Fung and Caroline Roberts. We use an LLM to classify occupations in surveys in real time, probing 'intelligently' when more info is needed. Results show big reductions in cost, time and respondent burden. osf.io/preprints/so...

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 01/08/2025

If you want to share your story--or share what you'd say to the people responsible for the current changes in the US--you can do so at the link below. And please share widely! It's essential that we document the human toll. tinyurl.com/thehumantoll

The Human Toll

The US is undergoing rapid social, economic, and policy change.

If you've been impacted, we want to hear your story!

To participate, visit: https://tinyurl.com/thehumantoll

Study sponsored under University of Wisconsin-Madison IRB Protocol #2025-1096. PI: Dr. Jessica Calarco

Participants must be at least 18 years of age and reside in the US

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Get the latest on social science methods and AI

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Sarah Engler @saengler.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years. If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply! shorturl.at/kcTbG

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UW-Madison Sociology @uwsoc.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

We're hiring! Please share with your networks! The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026 jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

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Assistant Professor - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

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Hjalmar Bang Carlsen @hjalmarcarlsen.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Super important agenda paper on the use of AI in survey research. Good to see that AI as interviewer is getting the attention it deserves(most have focus on AI as respondent).

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Amir Goldberg @amirgo.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

The Stanford GSB is hiring in macro & micro OB! If you do sociology, psychology, OB, strategy, management, computational social science, please apply. On the macro side, mid-career folks are especially invited to apply. See here👇 www.gsb.stanford.edu/jobs/faculty...

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Faculty Positions in Organizational Behavior

Learn about tenured and non-tenured faculty positions open in the organizational behavior area at Stanford GSB.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Vienna is pretty high on my list of liveable cities and so it should be on yours... consider applying

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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Want to access the slides and the notebook for this session on LLM for Content Analysis in the Social Sciences? Here they are! www.css.cnrs.fr/llm-power-to.... Information about Text classification; Information Extraction, Text Clustering with encoders and decoder models.

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LLM Power to the People – CSS @ IP-Paris

Site web de l'axe sciences sociales computationnelles du CREST-CNRS. Cours et tutoriels pour l'analyse des données numériques en sciences sociales.

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Hjalmar Bang Carlsen @hjalmarcarlsen.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

In the context of #IC2S2 2025: I would like to hear your thoughts on the future of Computational Social Science. What do you see as the biggest opportunities and challenges ahead? It’s a short, AI-led interview. Interested? Start your interview here: www.ainterviewer.dk/interview?id...

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Hjalmar Bang Carlsen @hjalmarcarlsen.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

📢 I’ll be presenting our new work on AI-led vs. human-led chat-based interviews at #IC2S2 in Norrköping this week! Curious about AI-interviewing, large-N qual data, building your own chatbot for research, or collaborating? Please reach out(DM is open) For more see thread. Preprint: osf.io/k7f89

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Hjalmar Bang Carlsen @hjalmarcarlsen.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

🚨 New preprint! "Comparing AI-led to human-led chat-based interviews" Can LLMs collect interview data similar to human RAs? Turns out… yes (mostly). Note: these were text interviews—not directly comparable to in-depth, face-to-face qualitative interviews. Led by Semra Guven & @gaardhus.dk 🧵👇

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Hjalmar Bang Carlsen @hjalmarcarlsen.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I do not hope that citizens are using chatgpt for learning about politics, at least not DK and other smaller countries. It places Enhedslisten together with Danish People party and Ny Borgerlig on the issue of immigration.

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 07/04/2025

Large Language Model-based social simulation has emerged as an exciting new research method. But do LLMs actually resolve the problems that have historically limited use of Agent-Based Models? What do they bring? We review the literature to find out! with Maik Laaroij arxiv.org/abs/2504.03274

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Do Large Language Models Solve the Problems of Agent-Based Modeling? A Critical Review of Generative Social Simulations

Recent advancements in AI have reinvigorated Agent-Based Models (ABMs), as the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to the emergence of ``generative ABMs'' as a novel approach to simula...

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Dean Eckles @eckles.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Postdoc position at MIT IDSS focused on collective judgment & decision-making in human–AI hybrid networks. Please apply or share! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29859

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society

Job #AJO29859, Postdoctoral Associate, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Hiring again! Lecturer in Sociology. We're looking for someone strongly anchored in sociology through high-profile contributions, and with the ability to appeal to students and colleagues of various methodological orientations. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

🔬🧪🧬 SCIENTISTS! we are collecting stories from folks whose research has been disrupted by the Trump admin. Whether you’re a grad student, postdoc, faculty, we want to hear from you! ty to everyone who has already shared. my signal: caitlingilbert.24 thewashingtonpost.formstack.com/forms/scient...

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Are you a scientist who has lost funding or grants in recent weeks? - Formstack

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Marc Keuschnigg @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Join our group in Leipzig: 3-year fully funded postdoc intersecting climate research + text analysis + sociology 🔗https://uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/19cb49183f1e25db8462734e444cb5dd476862ea0

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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

📣Call for papers! 1️⃣ week left to send your 250-word abstract for @audreyalejandro.bsky.social and ‪@dandekadt.bsky.social‬'s two-day workshop on "Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research" Learn more➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/... @lsedatascience.bsky.social

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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Join us for the first SODAS Lecture of the spring on March 21! 📅 Kevin Munger will kick off the lecture series with a talk on the effects of TikTok edits on evaluations of politicians📱 Event🔗: sodas.ku.dk/events/sodas...

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SODAS Lecture with Kevin Munger

SODAS Lecture on the effects of TikTok on the evaluation of politicians with Kevin Munger.

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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Come work with us! Assistant prof. Clara Vandeweerdt is hiring a three-year post-doc on a project using machine learning and survey experiments to understand who advocates for climate action in the media, and why it matters. 👩‍💼 Job call here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

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Anders Sevelsted @aludvig.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 15! Join us and @samfriedman.bsky.social Friedman (LSE), Annette Zimmer (Uni Münster) and William Genieys (Sciences Po) for a two-day conference/workshop, June 3 and 4. Excellent opportunity for paper feedback. DM me for info and questions. Please share and repost!

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Jonas Toubøl @touboel.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

on the 21st of March in Copenhagen, Lærke Høgenhaven defends her PhD-thesis, "The Dual Structure of Volunteering during Crises", in which she takes a pragmatic approach to volunteering supplementing the dominant neo-tocquevillian paradigm. All are welcome to attend www.soc.ku.dk/instituttet/...

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Lærke Høgenhaven forsvarer sin Ph.d.-afhandling på Sociologisk Institut

Alle er velkomne, når Lærke Høgenhaven forsvarer sin Ph.d.-afhandling. Titel: Dual Structure of Volunteering during CrisesA Quantitative Exploration of Work Patterns and Employment. Practices in ...

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Nicole Kapelle @nicolekapelle.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

🚨I'm advertising for a PhD position (4 yrs) in quant. Sociology/Social Demography (life course, social ineq.) @tcdsociology.bsky.social! 📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025 📄 More info: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va... 🔄 Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity #TrinityCollegeDublin

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Toni Rodon @tonirodon.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Trade with less developed countries reduces unionization in rich democracies. Global value chains lead to union decline even in countries with the most union-friendly institutions journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Global Value Chains and Union Decline in Rich Democracies - Matthew C. Mahutga, Manjing Gao, Roshan K. Pandian, 2025

This article reassesses the classic thesis linking the globalization of production to union decline. Our argument is three-fold. First, prior literature does no...

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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Just did the proofs for this short methods paper that I really like! Not everyday you get to 'solve' a problem identified 30 years ago in some of the most widely used statistical models in #sociology 👀 - and with two super awesome collaborators, what a blast 🥳

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

send me your applications by Sunday!

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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

We're hiring a fully funded PhD student in #sociology here in wonderful Copenhagen! Please share! Learn more 👇 employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

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PhD scholarship at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen (UCPH)

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Hjalmar Bang Carlsen @hjalmarcarlsen.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

People interested in Social Data Psychology please apply! We are (co-)hiring! We are looking for an assistant/associate professor, to be employed at both the Psychology Department and SODAS. Apply by: 31/3📅 Read more🔗: employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...

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Tenure-track Assistant Professorship or Associate Professorship in Psychology and Social Data Science

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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Sloan Foundation/UKRI postdoc on metascience and AI. For researchers in the social sciences & humanities who are interested in building a career in understanding the implications of AI for the science & research ecosystem. sloan.org/programs/dig...

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Call for submissions: Metascience and AI postdoctoral fellowship | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Our mission is to make the world a better place through the advancement of scientific knowledge.

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Evan Stewart @evanstewart.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Cool postdoc alert: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-P... #socsky

Post-Doctoral Associate

Religion and Social Change Lab

Duke University

Start Date: July 1st, 2025

The Religion and Social Change Lab (RaSCL) at Duke University is seeking a postdoctoral research associate. You will join a team of researchers studying religious leaders, with a particular emphasis on seminary training. You can read more about our team and our research on our website. RaSCL is closely allied with the Duke Clergy Health Initiative and the Duke Divinity School.

Description of Duties

The position will entail writing original research articles and stakeholder reports broadly on clergy formation, the dynamics of politics and polarization in Mainline Protestant churches, clergy health, and the religious trends impacting churches and those who lead them. In addition, the successful candidate can devote a small portion of their time to publishing research from their dissertation. We expect the successful candidate to publish in peer-reviewed journals and contribute to stakeholder reports.

Responsibilities will include qualitative data collection, quantitative and qualitative analysis, and writing. It will also involve developing research protocols, participant interactions and scheduling, manuscript preparation, IRB submissions, and the supervision of students and research assistants.

Applicants must have completed a PhD in sociology or psychology prior to the start date.

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Sinisa Malesevic @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Fully funded PhD Scholarship in Sociology at the University of Copenhagen, starting 1 Sep 2025: employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

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PhD scholarship at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen (UCPH)

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Alessia Galdeman @alessianetwork.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

🚨Deadline extension🚨 If you’re interested in Temporal Networks, don’t miss the chance to submit your work to the TENET satellite @NetSciConf in Maastricht! 📅New deadline: 14 February 📝Submit One page abstract More info here: tinyurl.com/27ntstep

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TENET@NetSci25

Temporal networks are powerful models for understanding dynamical systems where entities and interactions appear and vanish as time goes by. Unlike static networks, which simply provide a snapshot of ...

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International Conference on Computational Social Science @ic2s2.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

🚨 #IC2S2’25 Call for Abstract deadline is just around the corner—Feb 24, 2025 Submit your abstract now: www.ic2s2-2025.org/submit-abstr... and join us in Norrköping, Sweden. Tutorials announcement coming soon!

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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Struggling with ever-evolving social dynamics? Join @leszczensky.bsky.social & Sebastian Pink for a deep dive into longitudinal social network analysis. Learn study design, data management, and powerful models like SAOM to uncover network formation and effects. ➡️ tinyurl.com/03-25-Collec...

GESIS Workshops
Collecting and Analyzing Longitudinal Social Network Data
11 to 13 March 2025 | Online
Lars Leszczensky, Sebastian Pink

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Hjalmar Bang Carlsen @hjalmarcarlsen.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Super nice inspiration for people developing AI and Social Science courses..

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 13/02/2025

📣 Call for abstracts at #ICSSI2025! #CFP 📥 Submit here: www.icssi.org/guidelines ⏳ Deadline: March 14th On any topic relevant to #SciSci #Innovation #ScienceofScience #Metascience #STS

Submissions Are Now Open!
The Program Committee welcomes submissions on any topic related to the field of science of science and innovation, broadly defined. We seek abstracts and papers from researchers across many disciplines from academia, government, as well as the private sector, and we especially welcome submissions from early-career scholars and researchers from underrepresented groups. Major conference topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

AI applications to science and innovation

Societal impacts of science and innovation

Funding risky ideas

Failures in science and innovation

Ethics in scientific production and reward

Diversity, equity, and inclusivity in science and innovation

Evolution, predictability, and uncertainties of scientific careers

Drivers for scientific achievement

Idea generation and unpacking the fitness of ideas

Replicability and reproducibility

Theoretical discussions and conceptualizations of science

Causal inference in the science of science and innovation

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Sinisa Malesevic @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

16 PhD scholarships in POLITICAL SCIENCE AND SOCIOLOGY Faculty of Political Science and Sociology Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence, Italy) Closing date: 13th March 2025 www.sns.it/en/phd-admis...

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Phd admission competition | ScuolaNormaleSuperiore

Faculty of SciencesCall for admission to) Ph.D. positions at the Scuola Normale Superiore for the academic year 2025-2026 (41st cycle) The application process will be available at this link starting f...

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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

🚩 NEW PAPER 🚩 Income volatility is associated with many adverse outcomes in today’s economy but we know almost nothing about how exposure to volatility depends on family background. @filippogch.bsky.social and I show … 1/2 #erc #sociology #EconTwitter academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

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Family background and life cycle earnings volatility: evidence from brother correlations in Denmark, Germany, and the United States

Abstract. While stratification scholars have extensively examined intergenerational associations in lifetime income, they have mostly disregarded how famil

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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Where are cabinet members most likely to study abroad? The answer is 1) the US, 2) their neighbor or 3) their former colonizer. We gathered data on the educational history (and much else) on more than 45k cabinet members globally from 1966-2021. The data is not public but will be later this year.

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