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Mark Levels

@levels.bsky.social
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Professor of sociology & university dean for lifelong development at Maastricht University. Studies societal impact of automation and how to govern it. Program director ROA. Also army vet. Posts opinions, mostly.

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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
Luisterend naar de Pastorale tijdens de #Top2000 komt in mij de behoefte op eindelijk op te biechten: ik vind Shaffy stiekem een enorm overschatte artiest. Dus.
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
Listening to people who confuse arming and aiding a country fighting for it’s very existence with warmongering, I think quite a lot about Patrick Henry.
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
Paper using machine learning to analyze tweets. By Badaan et al (@johnjost.bsky.social lab), w/ shoutout to my former PhD student Mark Hoffarth! Find many asymmetries: conservatives (vs liberals) nastier online. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
Grow the economy or curb climate change? #Both #WeCanDoBoth
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
HUMBLEBRAG: exactly four years ago today I held my inaugural lecture as professor at Maastricht University. Today I received word that the university has appointed me permanently. Could not be more proud!
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John V. Kane @uptonorwell.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
Hey Stata users, I just published a nicer version of my guide for graphing regression results in Medium’s “Stata Gallery”.  The article includes all the code directly in the article—simply copy & paste! 😁 Hope it is useful for you! medium.com/@jvk221/maki...
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Making Regression Coefficient Plots in Stata
A concise guide for making publication-quality graphs of regression results using Stata. The guide covers the most common aesthetic…
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
For the past two days the epidemiologists and virologists in my mentions have been frantically chattering about an outbreak of a weird type of pneumonia in China. Watching this with some concern.
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
Mon Dieu, ayez pitié de ce pauvre peuple
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Leo Lucassen @leol.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
Dat krijg je als mainstream partijen, de VVD voorop, xenofobische standpunten van extreem rechts normaliseren en veel media daarin meegaan. Gecombineerd met het door Yesilgöz geboden perspectief op regeringsmacht.
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Leo Lucassen @leol.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
Ook goed om in herinnering te roepen dat Wilders bij de VVD als leerling van Bolkestein is begonnen. Dezelfde Bolkestein die in 1994 besloot asielzoekers als electoraal verdienmodel te gaan gebruiken. De rest is geschiedenis.
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Tom Louwerse @tomlouwerse.nl · 22/11/2023
Bij de NOS-duiders weer de misvatting dat er meerderheden zijn 'waar de kiezer niet voor gekozen heeft'. Elke zetel is er één en met 76 zetels heb je een meerderheid.
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Interesting - partially randomising grant awarding increases diversity of awardees ‘Promising’ results from first year of innovative grant awarding trial show greater diversity of awardees and institutions given funding www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/promisi...
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‘Promising’ results from first year of innovative grant awarding trial show greater diversity of...
Early results from an innovative new trial in how the British Academy awards its Small Research Grants suggests that introducing partial randomisation into the selection process could lead to a more e...
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
In 2016, we kicked off a long term research program on how to govern the way #AI automation impacts work. Our Technequality program brought together a consortium of top social-scientists from top-notch EU universities. We predicted that mass job destruction was plausible and explored options.
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Polling data like these make many of us quite nervous, this side of the Atlantic.
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Tom van der Meer @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on political trust and skepticism in my ERC-funded research project CRITICALTRUST. vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Post... Please contact me if you have any questions!
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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · 22/10/2023
seems like big news in Markov chains Quantitative bounds on convergence times are very difficult to get outside the case of reversible chains. This is a new approach. arxiv.org/abs/2310.10876
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
I have been teaching sociology classes on social order for 15 years and could not make sense of the seemingly erratic disruptive actions of the international populist right, unless I accepted one assumption: The chaos is the main objective.
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
This seems about right
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
WANT
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
Amazed by the current #ai panic. In this interview from 2019 (in which I discuss our research on the impact of ai on work) I warned that underestimating ai’s disruptive potential would be a mistake. It got lukewarm and sceptic responses, if any. Now, the other extreme. Don’t panic. Just prepare.
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
Anyone know how I can get more invite codes? I posted on the old site I still have some (I do) but demand is much larger than supply now…
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 05/09/2023
BlueSky Resources for Scientists There are now more than 50 science-related feeds in this list, with more being added every day! If you’ve created a science-related feed and want it included, please let me know. #AcademicSky 🧪 🧵👇 1/4
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Sheet1 Likes,Name (Click to visit feed),Tags,Contact to ask to be added to contributor list 17,<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l72uci4styb4jucsgcrrj5ap/feed/aaajz7nwzubec">#iTeachBio</a>,An...
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 30/08/2023
PLEASE HELP I would like to follow academics in the following fields on this platform: - sociology - economics - econometrics - political science - IR - natsec - history - epidemiology - law - statistics Who do you recommend? Please repost so I can cast a wide net… Thx 😊
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Leo Lucassen @leol.bsky.social · 30/08/2023
In contrast to what many people think, the number of asylum seekers in the Netherlands in the past 40 years is not increasing, but follows the ups and down in conflict areas.
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 08/08/2023
On the day of the funeral of the great Sinéad O’Connor, remember how small acts of true human kindness make the world a little better.
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 07/08/2023
Unpopular opinion: the fact that a majority of voters agrees with you, does not mean you are right.
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 05/08/2023
Ouch
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 04/08/2023
A propos of nothing, but we’re not very good at predicting the future impact of new tech.
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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 04/08/2023
Hmmm let’s see if this is better than the old thing
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