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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

Interesting to see how you all keep jousting from two not mutually exclusive juxtapositions.

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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

Ik vind het allemaal heel erg goed. Intelligente humor, vernieuwend, en grappig.

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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

Arm Ukraine or strengthen ourselves? #Both #WeCanDoBoth

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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

Het is óók in Nederland tijd voor standvastig universitair verzet tegen dit soort naar binnen gekeerde, ondoordachte, en parochiale politieke manoeuvres, die voorspelbaar schadelijk zijn voor Nederland.

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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

Denounce radicalism or respect voters? #Both #WeCanDoBoth

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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

Have strong societies or have mass migration? #Both #WeCanDoBoth

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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 · 11/12/2023

Yes it was fun while it lasted but it is definitely almost over. For tracking people’s new publications it is still more effective than this site though. Wish people were more active posting their pubs here, too.

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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 · 01/12/2023

Dank! Ik stuur je zo een papertje om eens tegen te lezen als je wilt😃

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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Omarming van de Derde Weg door sociaaldemocraten in de jaren ‘90 betekent denk ik ook hun acceptatie van het utilitarisme als moraalfilosofie, met een verkeerd begrip van de rol van vrijheid. Ik heb een essay in de pen met Tim, dat ik graag met je deel.

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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

I had the same gut reaction. Wonder how much social media plays a role in this.

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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

Dit is wel de spijker op de kop hoor.

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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

More information about the project and its findings: technequality-project.eu

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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

5) there is reason to assume that this AI revolution is qualitatively different from previous revolutions, in the sense that machines can substitute humans in much more and more diverse job tasks. This means that the “alarmists” may very well be right. But also that governments can take action.

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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

4) countries that face mass technological unemployment may want to consider rethinking their social welfare schemes. We found that participation or basic income type systems are about as effective as activating systems, but produce better outcomes for individuals.

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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

3) Adult learning is essential: people need to be able to retrain, and reskill or upskill. But it is develishly difficult to design an effective system, and in most countries the systems are not yet very effective.

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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

2) Education can be a great equalizer but we need to ensure that kids are prepared for a labor market that changes fast. That means that we need them to learn how to learn and promote learning basic skills and basic digital skills. We can design education systems to do this optimally.

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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Here’s five main take aways: 1) AI will impact jobs in all economic sectors, but the extent to which it does depends on the speed of innovation, market diffusion, the potential AI has to affect job tasks, and labor market policies. Fast developments mean higher impact.

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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 · 20/10/2023

Wachten en toekijken, denk ik. Onder de aanname dat de Pottery Barn Rule geldt en het electoraat de GOP een eventuele shutdown niet zal vergeven. Of is dat naïef?

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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Dit lijkt te worden wat de ouwe site was, of had kunnen zijn: een plek om op fatsoenlijke manier over interessante dingen te praten en zo iets te leren van goed ingevoerde mensen. Ik vind het een verademing.

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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 · 28/09/2023

I prefer Lakatos’s refined falsificationism over Popper, but totally agree it is a very helpful way of thinking about the relationship between theory and data. I still teach it to grad students.

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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

I think you get two just by registering?

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Mark Levels @levels.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

You should have some already methinks?

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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

Hey man, good to see you here!!

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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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