iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

I get that testing the fire alarm requires blasting a siren into my ear for 5 minutes. But does it have to happen specifically on Monday morning the first week of term?

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 6h

vistapro, 3d scenery generator, magazine screenshot, amiga (1991) archive.org/details/cu-a...

low poly 3d greenery, water and hills/mountains. blue sky.

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 20h

What’s the evidence on rent control? I charted the findings from 112 studies: Great for rent-controlled tenants ✅ But: Pushes up rents for other people ❌ Pushes down new housing construction ❌ Pushes down building quality ❌

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”

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ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin @rfberlin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

📢 RFBerlin is hiring Postdoctoral Fellows in Economics. No teaching obligations, up to six years, unique datasets, and dedicated mentoring, a research-first home in Berlin. Apply by 10 November: buff.ly/v9Jz8ru #EconJobMarket #EconSky

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Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics

We at the ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin) invite applications for postdoctoral fellow positions in economics. The position is initially offered for two years with possible renewals subject to…

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I always operate a no-chair policy in my seminars. I like to keep people on their toes.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 03/10/2026

I disagree with this post almost completely. Done right, a reasonable paper limit is not "asking scientists to slow down" because progress isn't measured in the number of "papers." It's the old salami. Write a good, thorough paper, instead of 10 padded slopbombs or inconsequential mini-pies

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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gave a talk in my dept. on the OSF transition. I wrote up a rough script of the session, which could be of interest to others. I synthesize existing resources and provide my own perspectives. Comments and corrections welcome! zenodo.org/records/2306...

the header for a paper describing "Life after OSF" #metascience

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 02/10/2026

"A new observational study has found that..."

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We used to be a culture. We used to be able to plagiarise without 5 trillion parameters.

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 01/10/2026

y'all i'm working on this data collection project looking at dissertations & sometimes I get reminders that we are not all playing the same game (1999 edition)

not the least, I would like to thank my family: my parents, for buying me a lovely condominium at Harvard Street so that I could concentrate on my research with out worrying about paying rents,

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

SocArXiv now has a limit of two papers per week. If authors submit more than that we assume they are LLM-generated and reject them all. Normal humans who need to upload a batch of papers, which sometimes happens, must make arrangements. Also today, ArXiv set a two papers per month limit.

blog.arxiv.org

Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy

arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…

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Thomas S. Dee @tomdee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The new academic year is finally underway at Stanford. Here's a real-time photo of me as I discuss the need for—and feasibility of—preregistering quasi-experimental studies. More here: tom-dee.github.io/files/QED_Pr...

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is a good policy, and I'm waiting for journals to do the same. Next, for all hiring, promotion and grants you should only be able to submit your 5 best or most relevant works.

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Frances: Meh and Loving It @francesmeh.reviews · 01/10/2026

i follow a strict ovo-lacto-carne-pesce vegetarian diet

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Kathleen Weldon @kathleenweldon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Reminder that women built polling. "Intelligent farm women" even. Whose attitudes, amazingly, differ from their husbands'.

Women find the Poll questions interesting and often differ in their answers from men in the family. Polk County, Iowa
Grainy B&W scan of photo of woman at a mailbox.

Wallace-Homestead Poll

Since 1938, Farmers Have Participated in Poll That
Shows Farm Opinions

"We have been lucky enough to get a group of intelligent farm women to do the actual interviewing as a spare-time job."

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

These are my tour dates this fall btw

T-shirt with the dates
24 September, CREST Paris
6 October, MZES Mannheim
8 October, UNED Madrid
2 November, UPF Barcelona
19 / 20 November, WU Vienna
2 December, LMU Munich
11 January, Université Paris 1

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yep that's me in the snug bodysuit and sideswept bangs holding a clicker

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

CRIS/Sciences Po (Paris) and IAB (Grenoble) are recruiting two postdoctoral *or* doctoral researchers to join a project on how pollution and other environmental exposures affect children’s development. Deadline Nov 13. www.sciencespo.fr/cris/en/news...

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tragic epic poem about a postdoc who finally gets tenure only to find that to get there they turned themselves into exactly the sort of clout chasing professionalised neurotic who couldn't possibly actually enjoy the freedom it offers.

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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 30/09/2026

this is what your statements turn into if you add too many hedges

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I enjoy watching people bring exceptional analytic rigour to a lost cause. Like, yes your mediation analysis will be immaculate and no that mediator has not been measured properly and never will

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 29/09/2026

"Replication crisis" reforms like preregistration & pre-analysis plans were developed to control false positives in experimental research. Does that work in observational studies? Our new paper in Sociological Methods & Research argues for a different approach. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A Replication Framework for Observational Research: From Specification Restriction to Specification Expansion
Jonathan Ben-Menachem https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8092-0848 jbenmenachem@gmail.com, Ari Galper https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7909-8837, and Nic Fishman
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Sociology has remained relatively insulated from debates about the “replication crisis.” Heeding calls to consider replication more deeply, we introduce a distinction between two types of research reforms that have emerged in the wake of the crisis: specification-restricting and specification-expanding reforms. Specification restriction is often promoted as a way to increase the repeatability of research findings by controlling false positives. We argue that this statistical justification is less compelling in observational contexts—where the assumptions licensing false-positive control are harder to sustain and rigid ex ante analytical commitments can instead enshrine fragile specifications—than in experimental contexts. We further argue that apparently low replication rates do not necessarily imply a high prevalence of false positive findings. Instead, we propose a replication framework centered on specification-expanding reforms, stronger incentives for confirmatory research, and meta-analysis. This approach equips sociologists to assess the repeatability of findings and build a more cumulative discipline.

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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Come and join us @sriucl.bsky.social We’re looking for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science with a research agenda on the environment and/or climate change, and expertise in causal inference. See full details and apply 👉🏼 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL Social Research Institute recruitment poster for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science at the Centre for Quantitative Social Science. Applications close 30 October 2026.

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

onward! i chased thy footnotes through the night and each new finding led me back to you no DOI e'er dimmed that first delight 'til reviewer two penned, "but what is new?" the academy has priced my comparative advantage, useless rhyming, at a precise zero

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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No, but I've often encountered a cite for sore eyes.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do you believe in love at first cite?

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Max Weber postdoc program at @eui-eu.bsky.social has its deadline 16 October, for a September 2027 start: www.eui.eu/en/academic-...

eui.eu

Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies

Making a Difference in Global Academia

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is serious, but also the no-context reading of this image and caption is way more fun

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

*slaps appendix* "You can fit so many references in this bad boy"

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’d be curious what proportion of original authors agree with the "improves" statement

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reading a PhD dissertation for a university with a MINIMUM REQUIRED LENGTH OF 350 PAGES AT 1.5 SPACING. If this is your university, for the love of god stop, you are making everyone's live worse for no benefit.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One more time for the economists in the back

The Introduction (and the manuscript in its entirety) must not include priority or novelty claims (except in the case of genetic or archaeological discovery).

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Gabriel M Ahlfeldt @ahlfeldt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Who hasn’t wished for consistent European micro-geographic house-price indices? Start: Germany + England & Wales in one dashboard. Data ready to download. Send me yours sites.google.com/view/ahlfeld... Send me your AHS index from your country! @bsoeberlin.bsky.social @heblich.bsky.social

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julia kamin @juliakamin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hi all you researchers looking for ways to conduct independent, ecologically valid research on social media design - Great new paper for you: "Open Platform Field Experiments: Expanding the Design Space of Experimental Research on Social Media" arxiv.org/pdf/2609.21608

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If I ever see the words "That matters because" know that that’s where I stop reading

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

microzine #38, outer space adventures in government, screenshot, apple II (1989) www.mobygames.com/game/154479/...

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The @russellsagefdn.bsky.social Journal of the Social Sciences is publishing a special issue on "the changing college-to-work transition and the rise of precarious graduates" Submit abstracts until Nov 10: www.rsfjournal.org/sites/defaul...

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Limón de Beauvoir @ottomanvampire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I had a panel of faculty in my PhD seminar yesterday and a banal question about how to use AI was asked and every single of my colleagues on the panel said something along the lines of “Don’t use it, your mind is better and it sucks” and I had to pinch myself to see if I were dreaming

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