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Enes Ataç

@ienesatac.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate in Sociology and Social Data Analytics at Penn State | Prev. University of Mannheim & Bogazici University www.enesatac.org

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Pat Hastings @ophastings.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
How well can we predict which children will end up poor adults or rich adults? Or how much education they'll earn? In a new working paper, @zparolin.bsky.social and I show the predictability of life outcomes depends on the country and outcome. www.inet.ox.ac.uk/publications... Highlights below! 🧵👇
Title: Rags or Riches? Predicting Life Outcomes from the Birth Lottery Across Five High-Income Countries

Authors: Orestes P. Hastings and Zach Parolin

Abstract: The stratification of life outcomes is a central concern of sociology, but to what extent can adult outcomes be predicted from childhood circumstances? Although decades of research have identified important family and socioeconomic factors associated with mobility and attainment, these models explain only a modest share of individual variation in outcomes. Using harmonized longitudinal data from the Cross-National Equivalent Files (CNEF) and an ensemble of machine-learning models, we estimate the predictability of adult outcomes in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and South Korea. Predictability varies substantially across outcomes and national contexts: educational attainment is more predictable than economic outcomes, poverty is far more predictable in the U.S., and income mobility is substantially less predictable than overall attainment outcomes. Additional U.S. analyses show that adding race, wealth, parental incarceration, and other variables improves predictions only slightly. We further show that predictability captures a distinct dimension of stratification not fully captured in other traditional measures of mobility, inequality, and opportunity. Together, these findings provide new insights into where and how the birth lottery most strongly shapes life chances.
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Excited to attend #ASA2026 and present two of my papers: one on religious nationalism and authoritarian leadership, and another on elections and anti-refugee sentiment in Turkey. Come and join us if you have time tomorrow morning and/or afternoon! @asapolisoc.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Excited to attend #ASA2026 and present two of my papers: one on religious nationalism and authoritarian leadership, and another on elections and anti-refugee sentiment in Turkey. Come and join us if you have time tomorrow morning and/or afternoon! @asapolisoc.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
As I prepare to enter the academic job market this fall, I’m excited to share some good news: Our paper, “Cultural Solidarity, Economic Threat: How Discrimination Influences Anti-Immigrant Attitudes,” has been published in Current Sociology. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Cultural solidarity, economic threat: How discrimination influences anti-immigrant attitudes - Ibrahim Enes Atac, Charles Seguin, Brandon Gorman, 2026
Studies on the attitudes of minorities toward immigrants have produced mixed results, as while some suggest that minorities are more tolerant of immigrants, oth...
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
As I prepare to enter the academic job market this fall, I’m excited to share some good news: Our paper, “Cultural Solidarity, Economic Threat: How Discrimination Influences Anti-Immigrant Attitudes,” has been published in Current Sociology. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Cultural solidarity, economic threat: How discrimination influences anti-immigrant attitudes - Ibrahim Enes Atac, Charles Seguin, Brandon Gorman, 2026
Studies on the attitudes of minorities toward immigrants have produced mixed results, as while some suggest that minorities are more tolerant of immigrants, oth...
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Thrilled to share our new paper, "What Would Jesus Fund? Christian Nationalism and Americans' Views on Government Spending," just out in Socius! 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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What Would Jesus Fund? Christian Nationalism and Americans’ Views on Government Spending - Ibrahim Enes Atac, Lena Kunjan, Forrest Lovette, Samuel L. Perry, 2026
Research on government spending focuses primarily on the roles of partisanship, ideology, and in-group self-interest. Beyond these, the authors propose that rel...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The "hydration break" really is a perfect American capitalist innovation: a nakedly commercial play to insert more ad revenue into a game that doesn't have ads anywhere else in the world, all under the guise of some humanitarian interest in the players' wellbeing.
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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Sarah Brothers @sarahbrothers.bsky.social (Pennsylvania State University) is a recipient of the inaugural Early Career Award for Community-Engaged Scholarship,
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Alexandre Afonso @alexandreafonso.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Very happy to see this out on perceptions of welfare deservingness for different categories of migrants, together with @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social and Samir Negash @fggaleiden.bsky.social, open access in EPSR:
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Kurbs @kkurbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Please Use AI
PLEASE USE AI
Shawn Smucker
Be sure to use Al when making your next, I don't know, meal plan, for example. Definitely do not call your friend who loves to cook and ask her for her favorite recipes or tips or ways to save time making meals, because you will end
up talking for longer than you had hoped, hearing, perhaps, about her father's cancer diagnosis or how lonely she's been or even what she's planted in her spring garden and then lost with the early frost.
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Thrilled to share our new paper, "What Would Jesus Fund? Christian Nationalism and Americans' Views on Government Spending," just out in Socius! 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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What Would Jesus Fund? Christian Nationalism and Americans’ Views on Government Spending - Ibrahim Enes Atac, Lena Kunjan, Forrest Lovette, Samuel L. Perry, 2026
Research on government spending focuses primarily on the roles of partisanship, ideology, and in-group self-interest. Beyond these, the authors propose that rel...
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Joshua Tucker @jatucker.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
1/ Excited to report we have a new paper out @nature.com today! The bottom line: training data for LLMs does not just fall from the sky - it is created in the context of existing social political institutions - and that has consequences for LLM output. nature.com/articles/s41...
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State media control influences large language models - Nature
Government-controlled media influences the output of large language models via their training data, and models queried in the languages of countries with lower media freedom show a stronger ...
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
New study @sfjournal.bsky.social: Initial work on my theory of "rulling class religion," which I'll developfurther at @russellsagefdn.bsky.social next year. Using 3 data sets, we link Christian nationalism with endorsing economic inequality BUT only among higher earners. 1/3 doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I am thrilled to share that our article "Moral Intuitions and Support for Immigration" has just been published at Social Science Quarterly! In this paper, we examine the association between moral intuitions and support for immigration.
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Moral Intuitions and Support for Immigration
Introduction Attitudes toward immigration are often shaped by whether immigrants are perceived as a threat to one's racial, ethnic, or nativity group status. Yet recent research shows that such perc...
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I am thrilled to share that our article "Moral Intuitions and Support for Immigration" has just been published at Social Science Quarterly! In this paper, we examine the association between moral intuitions and support for immigration.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Moral Intuitions and Support for Immigration
Introduction Attitudes toward immigration are often shaped by whether immigrants are perceived as a threat to one's racial, ethnic, or nativity group status. Yet recent research shows that such perc...
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Our recent article tackles this question directly. TL;DR: Turkey is not secularizing like Europe, where each younger generation is less religious. Instead, religiosity is being reshaped by political polarization, with decline concentrated among non-AKP supporters. A 🧵
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Our recent article tackles this question directly. TL;DR: Turkey is not secularizing like Europe, where each younger generation is less religious. Instead, religiosity is being reshaped by political polarization, with decline concentrated among non-AKP supporters. A 🧵
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
NEW: How Measurement Changes Can Exaggerate the Growth of Religious “Nones” from Matthew Conrad & me sociologicalscience.com/articles-v1…
“AUSTRALIANS ditch religion at rapid rate” declared the 2017 CNN headline of an article reporting that Australia’s 2016 census was the first in which the share of people identifying with “no religion” exceeded the Catholic share of the population (Berlinger 2017). However, the CNN story didn’t report on another first—in 2016, Australia made “no religion” the first response category presented to people answering the census religious identity question. Previously, “no religion” was the last option offered in the list of choices. How many people chose “no religion” because it was the first option rather than the last? Would the number of Australians identifying as Catholic in the 2016 census have remained higher than the “no religion” count if this measurement change hadn’t made it easier for those with weak Catholic identity to choose “no religion”? Unfortunately, no one knows for sure. The Australian Bureau of Statistics didn’t publish a study on the effect of this change in wording.
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
🚨 New publication: “The Wages of Ethnic Power: Socioeconomic Status, Group Threat, and Anti-Immigrant Attitudes in Western Europe” 🚨 Just published in the International Journal of Comparative Sociology with Charles Seguin and Brandon Gorman. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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The wages of ethnic power: Socioeconomic status, group threat, and anti-immigrant attitudes in Western Europe - Ibrahim Enes Atac, Charles Seguin, Brandon Gorman, 2025
Group threat theories explain anti-immigrant attitudes as emerging from threats to the perceived or actual power of one’s ethnic group. Studies also show that i...
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James Dennison @jamesrdennison.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Thrilled to share my new article in Political Psychology: “The psychology of political attitudinal volatility.” In it, I attempt to answer why do some people change their political views more than others? Open access at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... @ispp-pops.bsky.social
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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
NEW - A Meta-Analysis of Attitudes Towards Migrants and Displaced Persons - cup.org/3K67rG6 - @swebera.bsky.social, Nik Stoop, Peter van der Windt & Haoyu Zhai #OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract of a scientific study related to social science research on migration, cultural bias, and economic impacts from the 2010s, using survey data from 428,881 respondents globally. The text elaborates on the findings and mentions the influence of migrants on professional education, cultural concerns, and public perception.
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Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR) @sssreligion.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Congratulations to @ienesatac.bsky.social & Gary J. Adler Jr, winners of the SSSR’s 2025 Distinguished Article Award for ‘Religious rebound, political backlash, and the youngest cohort: understanding religious change in Turkey,’ published in @sfjournal.bsky.social sssreligion.org/awards-grant...
SSSR’s 2025 Distinguished Article Award for ‘Religious rebound, political backlash, and the youngest cohort: understanding religious change in Turkey
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
🚨 New publication: “The Wages of Ethnic Power: Socioeconomic Status, Group Threat, and Anti-Immigrant Attitudes in Western Europe” 🚨 Just published in the International Journal of Comparative Sociology with Charles Seguin and Brandon Gorman. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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The wages of ethnic power: Socioeconomic status, group threat, and anti-immigrant attitudes in Western Europe - Ibrahim Enes Atac, Charles Seguin, Brandon Gorman, 2025
Group threat theories explain anti-immigrant attitudes as emerging from threats to the perceived or actual power of one’s ethnic group. Studies also show that i...
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Thrilled to share that our paper (w/ @garyadler.bsky.social) in Social Forces, “Religious Rebound, Political Backlash, and the Youngest Cohort: Understanding Religious Change in Turkey,” received the Distinguished Article Award from @sssreligion.bsky.social!
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Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Research + teaching + student = great partnership. Also why I love my job @pennstateuniv.bsky.social Keep an eye on @ienesatac.bsky.social! It was a fun weekend at @sssreligion.bsky.social
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Thrilled and honored that my book Religion for Realists was given the 2025 Distinguished Book Award by @sssreligion.bsky.social last night. It’s vital that we understand religion and religious people. The social sciences are remiss to ignore either. Hire more religion specialists.
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Thrilled to share that our paper (w/ @garyadler.bsky.social) in Social Forces, “Religious Rebound, Political Backlash, and the Youngest Cohort: Understanding Religious Change in Turkey,” received the Distinguished Article Award from @sssreligion.bsky.social!
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I’m teaching a Social Problems class this summer and wondering how others address AI use in their syllabi. I don’t want to ban it because it feels inevitable and not realistic. But I want students to focus on their ideas and use AI only for minor things. Maybe this is too naive I don’t know.
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Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel @minecr.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
This is up there with the craziest survey design I’ve seen.
Scale from 0 - Not Likely to 10 - Very Likely organized as rectangles for 0 and 10 that span the width of three squares, with numbers 1 - 9 organized in three rows.
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I am thrilled to share that I received the Lombra Outstanding Graduate Research Award from @psuliberalarts.bsky.social for the best article published by a graduate student in the social sciences. I’m incredibly grateful to Charles Seguin and @garyadler.bsky.social for their support and nomination.
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Daniel Tavana @danieltavana.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Excited to share my new article in the American Journal of Political Science (@ajpseditor.bsky.social)! "Endogenous Opposition: Identity and Ideology in Kuwaiti Electoral Politics" explores how authoritarian elections generate opposition to incumbent autocrats. Link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ukrer...
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Claire Adida @claireadida.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Fascinating paper: partisan segregation is not due to sorting/migration. Counties trending Democratic tend to so because of generational change; Counties trending Republican tend to do so because of party switching. www.nber.org/papers/w33422
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Causes and Extent of Increasing Partisan Segregation in the U.S. – Evidence from Migration Patterns of 212 Million Voters
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Evan Stewart @evanstewart.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
There's a new invite from @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social to submit to @sssreligion.bsky.social's 2025 Annual Meeting in your email inboxes. I'm the program chair this year! Wanted to highlight one key quote for #socsky people here interested in religion - we want your cool ideas!
Quote from email: "SSSR has always been about both advancing cutting-edge research and building a diverse and supportive community, and I am looking forward to more opportunities for this in Minneapolis. The 2025 Annual Meeting will feature paper sessions, discussion and book panels (formerly known as "author-meets-critics" sessions).  We are also open to other creative ideas for how to share and germinate research, foster community, and stimulate innovation. If you would like to propose something new along these lines, please contact our Program Chair Evan Stewart at program@sssreligion.org."
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 19/07/2024
I’m thrilled to share that my first academic publication is out @sfjournal.bsky.social In this paper, with @garyadler.bsky.social, we analyze religious identity and behavior over time to analyze the secularization question in Turkey. 1/n academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
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Religious rebound, political backlash, and the youngest cohort: understanding religious change in Turkey
Abstract. We distinguish two streams of theory that dominate explanations of religious change: cohort-based cumulative decline theory, which emphasizes sma
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David FitzGerald @fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
go.bsky.app/6x2jymf
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I’ve decided it’s time to invest in an ergonomic office setup (as a broke grad student). Despite exercising regularly, I’ve been dealing with shoulder and lower back pain, likely from long hours of sitting. What are your fav desks, chairs, monitors, etc. Would love to hear what’s worked for you!
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 30/11/2024
Ok: 1 like = 1 demographic fact* * may include estimates, generalizations, dataviz, or unsubstantiated claims
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
In a classic experiment, 12 articles were resubmitted to same journals in which they had already been published - - 3 were recognized as resubmissions. ✅ - 8 of the 9 articles reviewed again were rejected, often due to "serious methodological flaws"! 😮 😕 ⁉️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🧪
Abstract from article titled, "Peer-review practices of psychological journals: The fate of published articles, submitted again" by Douglas P Peter and Stephen J Ceci.

Abstract says, "The present investigation was an attempt to study the peer-review process directly, in the natural setting of actual journal referee evaluations of submitted manuscripts. As test materials we selected 12 already published research articles by investigators from prestigious and highly productive American psychology departments, one article from each of 12 highly regarded and widely read American psychology journals with high rejection rates (80%) and nonblind refereeing practices.

With fictitious names and institutions substituted for the original ones (e.g., Tri-Valley Center for Human Potential), the altered manuscripts were formally resubmitted to the journals that had originally refereed and published them 18 to 32 months earlier. Of the sample of 38 editors and reviewers, only three (8%) detected the resubmissions. This result allowed nine of the 12 articles to continue through the review process to receive an actual evaluation: eight of the nine were rejected. Sixteen of the 18 referees (89%) recommended against publication and the editors concurred. The grounds for rejection were in many cases described as “serious methodological flaws.”
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
If you ever get curious about how it’s like to drive during the lake effect 😅 and with the best snow song ever #iykyk
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Now, I know what ‘lake effect’ means :)
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Landon Schnabel @landonschnabel.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Our study on religiosity during the pandemic was just assigned an issue: academic.oup.com/socrel/artic... We show how a switch to web surveys during COVID-19 skewed estimates, creating a misleading illusion of rapid religious decline driven by nonresponse bias among the most religious.
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
okay everybody, I just created a new starter pack on scholars (probably mostly sociologists for now) who work on religion, culture, and/or politics. Please let me know if I missed you or if you want me to add anyone else: go.bsky.app/EAV2G9G
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
A quick #intro 🦋: I study intergroup relations, religion, and politics in both Western and non-Western contexts, using quantitative and computational methods. Check out my first publication @sfjournal.bsky.social with @garyadler.bsky.social, where we explore religious change over time in Turkey.
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
okay everybody, I just created a new starter pack on scholars (probably mostly sociologists for now) who work on religion, culture, and/or politics. Please let me know if I missed you or if you want me to add anyone else: go.bsky.app/EAV2G9G
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work with me at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for creative students with interests in #NLP and #CulturalAnalytics. Boulder is a lovely college town 30 minutes from Denver and 1 hour from Rocky Mountain National Park 😎 Apply by December 15th!
A photo of Boulder, Colorado, shot from above the university campus and looking toward the Flatirons.
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Alexander Kustov @akoustov.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Here's my starter pack on immigration public opinion. Let me know if I missed you or if you want me to add anyone else: go.bsky.app/BaL6ypv
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Mikey Pasek @mikeypasek.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Excited to share a new preprint (accepted for publication in Group Processes and Intergroup Relations)! In prior work, we've found that thinking about God increase cross-religious prosociality. Here we ask: But what about when intergroup conflict is salient? osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Any updates on bookmarks? @bsky.app @support.bsky.team
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