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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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Zsófi Boda @zsofiaboda.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

last minute PhD opportunity on stereotypes, social networks, and social inequalities at @ucl.ac.uk @ioe.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social, two fully funded 4-year positions are available! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Our new study, just published in Migration Studies, draws on a large-scale survey experiment to identify when the US public condones Border Patrol’s violent response to unauthorised border crossings. @vdonna.bsky.social @sergioloiacono.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Join our Many-Analysts Simulation Study—yes, you read that correctly—accepted as Stage 1 Registered Report in (AMPPS) @psychscience.bsky.social. We're trying to find out how researchers' simulation design choices shape methodological conclusions. Further info: osf.io/8vcxh/files/...

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Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Climate change impacts are here, but public support for action remains polarized. Which climate messages move people? In a ~13,500-person megastudy, we tested 10 of the most-cited messages. Six increased pro-environmental attitudes in the U.S.—but only by 1–4 percentage points. 🧵

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perfandersson.bsky.social @perfandersson.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Scheidel's "Great Leveler" argued equality has historically come from violence. Can peaceful redistribution do the same? In our lab experiment, redistribution doesn't reduce punishment — it shifts it from 'punish the rich' to 'punish free-riders.' 🧵 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Inequality aversion and prosocial punishment: Evidence from a one-shot public goods game

The willingness to engage in costly punishment of free riders (prosocial punishment) is crucial to foster group cooperation and understand public goods provision. While prosocial punishment is common ...

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Sergio Lo Iacono @sergioloiacono.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

In two large-scale CPR experiments, we assess the impact of intergenerational awareness and monetary incentives on sustainable choices. Results show that the simple introduction of awareness of intergenerational transmission leads participants to make more sustainable choices and... 1/N

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MZES Uni Mannheim @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

📢 MZES PUBLIC LECTURE ❗️ 📆 Wed, 6 May, 2:30-4:00 pm CET 📍 MZES A 231 and via Zoom Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social , @eui-eu.bsky.social will talk on "Luck and Success in Millions of Life Courses" Please share and join us! 🙂 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even...

Prof. Arnout van de Rijt (EUI). Source: Arnout van de Rijt.

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Martina Testori @mtestori.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Excited to share our new paper now out in @pnas.org: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... In an ABM with Bayesian agents, we challenge the idea that more information exchange necessarily improves epistemic gain. Thanks to @dvdgrossi.bsky.social, J. Stein & S. Cruz for one of the best collaborations ever!

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Many think LLM-simulated participants can transform behavioral science. But there's been a lack of accessible discussion of what it means to validate LLMs for behavioral scientists. Under what conditions can we trust LLMs to learn about human parameters? Our paper maps the validation landscape. 1/

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science. Here’s what we found 👇

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Joris Frese @fresejoris.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

📄Published Today in Nature: 500 researchers reproduced 100 studies across the social & behavioral sciences to assess their analytical robustness (led by @balazsaczel.bsky.social & @szaszibarnabas.bsky.social). Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Preprint: osf.io/preprints/me... TLDR: 1/11

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Dean Yang @deanyang.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

New in the American Economic Review: migration doesn't hollow out the home economy — it builds it up. More than 75% of the long-run income gains from migration are domestic. The home economy itself grows. Here's what we found: 🧵

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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

A new publication at www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... We find that religious markers (esp. beards) can reduce perceived trustworthiness in Turkey. (That's why you often see me clean shaven ;-)

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Religious markers reduce perceived trustworthiness in a Muslim-majority country | PNAS

First impressions often hinge on visible cues, leading people to infer the trustworthiness of strangers from their appearance and dress. While reli...

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Miranda Lubbers @mirandalubbers.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

📢 Call for 3-year postdoctoral grants in Catalonia, Spain, is open (until Feb. 4th) for candidates who obtained their PhD in 2018-2023 & have 2 years of postdoctoral experience outside Spain. The coalesce-lab.com/en would be happy to support a candidacy if thematically aligned. Call: bit.ly/3MKu2c7

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LABORATORY FOR THE COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF EGONETWORKS, SOCIAL COHESION, AND EXCLUSION

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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

📢 Analytical sociology is coming home! Call 4 INAS26 is open 🌍 1-3Jul26 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social and @sociologyoxford.bsky.social (☔) ☢️ Deadline: 1Feb26 🦹 Organisers: @aksoyundan.bsky.social , @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social, D Kretschmer, @awaldendorf.bsky.social Info: tinyurl.com/yc2tusjx

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INAS Conference 2026 - Nuffield College Oxford University

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/10/2025

1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv. There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

Three schematic diagrams. The first illustrates selective publishing of internal resection, the second selective causal focus, and the third selective access and funding for researchers.

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Jan Pfänder @janpfa.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Help us strengthen trust in climate scientists in the US! Join our megastudy 👇

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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

WORK! At Utrecht University (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) We're recruiting a PhD student in experimental sociology! More info: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

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PhD Position in Experimental Sociology

Do you want to apply innovative methods to study fundamental sociological questions?

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Sergio Lo Iacono @sergioloiacono.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Deeply honoured to receive this award from the Academy of Sociology with my co-authors! I hope we’ll see many more replications in Sociology in the years ahead, along with preregistrations and registered reports as leading journals make more space for them. #AkadSoz25 #sociology

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Climate Action Tracker @climateactiontracker.org · 22/09/2025

COUNTRY ANALYSIS: We have downgraded the #US climate action to "Critically insufficient" - it's the most aggressive, comprehensive and consequential climate policy rollback the CAT has ever analysed. 🔗 bit.ly/CAT_US

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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Great to see our 2018 Matthew effect finding ( tinyurl.com/7ur8akws ) replicated in this fantastic study!

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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

🚨 New pre-print with @sergioloiacono.bsky.social We ran 3 large-scale experiments in 🇬🇧to investigate how perceived asylum-seeking legality, public preferences for refugee relocation, and inclusionary attitudes are shaped by symbolic and strategic boundaries doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Prof. Sonia I Seneviratne @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Hot off the press: We can provide for the first time a systematic attribution of recent #heatwaves to the emissions of #carbon_majors. Essential new #Nature article coordinated by @yannquilcaille.bsky.social at @ethz.ch, with numerous contributors @usyseth.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

We are creating an academic journal and *you* can shape it! Make comments and suggest changes to replicationresearch.org 's - Constitution - TOP guidelines - article types - and reviewer guidelines until September 5 and be credited as a contributor: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Join us @rwi.bsky.social & @i4replication.bsky.social as replicator for a meta-reproduction on deforestation. We pay replicators 2,500 EUR. Experience with geocoded data & background in environmental science are assets. 1/2 bit.ly/4ke2p6o

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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

📢 My paper w Aron Szekely on honour-based violence is published online (Open Access): journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... We explain this puzzling phenomenon applying game-theory and testing it using large-scale data on norms and actual femicides. @sriucl.bsky.social @uclsociology.bsky.social

Details of the publication with abstract which reads: Honor killings, which occur when women are perceived to have broken purity norms and bring “dishonor” to their family, pose profound moral and societal problems and underrecognized sociological puzzles. Given the immense cost, why do families murder their own daughter,
niece, or cousin? Conversely, given the tragic consequences, why are norms broken in the first place? Drawing on accounts of honor killings, we characterize the key actors, actions, and incentives, and develop two interlinked theoretical models, one on norm-enforcement
and another on norm-breaking. The former specifies the conditions under which honor norms should hold, the latter, counterintuitively, predicts that honor killings occur most frequently when honor norms are contested; not when they are strictest. Analyzing data from 24 countries and ~26,000 individuals and building a unique dataset of honor killings from Turkey, we find support for the hypotheses. Honor norms are stronger when laws offer leniency for honor killings, families’ loss of reputation is more consequential, and community cohesion is higher. Actual killings have an inverse-U-shaped link with the prevalence of honor norms. Our work advances the theoretical understanding of honor norms and killings and offers one of the most
comprehensive empirical analyses of the factors influencing honor killings.

Figure 1 from the paper. Within-Family Interaction and Probabilities of Interaction Outcomes
Note: Panel A shows an interaction within a family. Panel B shows the probability of breaking a norm (p2) in the game tree in panel A; the probability of the existence of an honor norm in the repeated norm-enforcement game (p1, i.e., conditions given in Hypotheses 1, 2, and 3 obtain); and the probability of honor killing (p3), which is the product of the former two probabilities, as a function of repeated norm-enforcement game parameters.

Figure 3 from the paper. Support for Honor Killings; Coefficients from Multilevel Regressions with Random Intercepts for Countries
Data source: PEW (2013) World Muslims Survey.
Note: N (response) = 26,458. N (country) = 24. Countries that adopted laws that allow leniency for honor-based violence: Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Niger, Palestinian Territories. Countries that have adultery laws: Afghanistan, Pakistan.

Figure 5 from the paper. Results of Poisson Models Predicting the Monthly Number of Honor Killings
Note: Predictive margins for the association between support for honor norms and honor killings (top panel) and the average marginal effect of passing law 6284 according to support for honor norms (bottom panel).

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Simone Cremaschi @simonecremaschi.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Proud and happy to see this in print! 😊🫒

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Angelo Romano @aromano.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Hi Everyone, Angela Dorrough, Giuliana Spadaro, @shuxianjin.bsky.social, and I are guest-editing a special issue at JESP on current directions in social dilemmas research. More info can be found here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... We look forward to receiving many exciting submissions!

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Royce Carroll @roycecarroll.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis is now on Bluesky! Follow this account for updates. Applications open soon!

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Just 3 more days left to apply for SICSS-ODISSEI Summer School 2025! Apply by the 28th of Feb📑 📚 Topics: network analysis, ML, ethics 💻 FIRMBACKBONE & SANE (Secure ANalysis Environment) 🎓 Earn 5 ECTS credits Learn more and apply👉 sicss.io/2025/odissei/ ccsky #StatsEd

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

BIG Opportunity: Deputy Director of Research This is a very important, new role at COS that might be perfect for someone that has been leading an academic research lab and is excited about the idea of applying those skills to assess & improve the research culture. ats.rippling.com/cos-careers/...

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Tom Ashbyトムアシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Funded PhDs! The call is open for PhDs at the European University Institute (pics) in Florence. 4 yrs full funding + generous research funds. History, Law, Pol+Soc Sci, & Econ. Most grants are limited to member states, do check. Some international grants. Due: 31 Jan 25 www.eui.eu/en/services/...

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The view into a cloistered courtyard with a tower right and tree centre

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Shuxian Jin | 金淑娴 @shuxianjin.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

🚨Excited that our meta-analysis is out in JPSP @APA_Journals. We synthesized 6 decades (1958-2017) of empirical evidence on social dilemmas and tested which structural features (most strongly) promote cooperation: doi.org/10.1037/pspi... 1/10

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

A multi-lab replication of a theoretical expectation from Terror Management Theory that death related primes are uniquely impactful after delay, as opposed to other types of semantic priming. Findings do not support that expectation. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Frank van Tubergen @frankvantubergen.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

Join our research team! We have a vacancy for a Senior Researcher in International Migration and/or Immigrant Integration at NIDI, The Hague, Netherlands. Permanent position. Application deadline: September 1, 2024. Gross monthly salary between € 4,332 - € 8,815, depending on level of experience.

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Vacancies - NIDI

Vacancies Are you interested in joining our interdisciplinary team of ambitious researchers studying population issues? Then we welcome you to reply to the vacancies at NIDI advertised below. Are you ...

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Qinyu Xiao @qinyuxiao.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

Robert is a fantastic mentor, colleague, and friend with a perfect mixture of supportiveness, criticalness, and humour. Vienna is a wonderful city to live in. Apply! You will not regret it.

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 13/05/2024

The Metascience conference is coming to London! June 30-July 2, 2025

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

SweCSS, the Swedish Centre for Computational Social Science, has just introduced its Visiting Fellows Program, designed to foster collaboration between social and computational sciences. Spread the word! liu.se/en/research/...

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Visiting Fellows Program

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Lena Hipp @llhipp.bsky.social · 20/04/2024

We welcome full papers but also short contributions and comments!

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

The Center for Open Science and Meta are partnering on a pilot project to share social media data related to well-being for academic research. We hope that this will provide a model for industry-academia partnerships to increase access of important data. www.cos.io/about/news/m...

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Meta Partners with the Center for Open Science to Share Data to Study Well-being Topics

Using innovative methods from the open science movement to promote rigor and transparency of research, Meta and the Center for Open Science will pilot a new approach to industry-academia partnerships ...

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Jens Rydgren @jensrydgren.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

We are hiring a senior lecturer in sociology at Stockholm University. It is an open position, we welcome all kinds of sociologists. (But I would personally be very happy if political sociologists applied.) www.su.se/english/abou...

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Eleanor Power @eapower.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

A few more days to apply for our 2-year postdoc post joining a collaborative, cross-cultural study into the dynamics of wealth inequality, based @sfiscience.bsky.social! Help develop core models grounded in social, econo & demog data from around the 🌏! Deadline 16 Jan www.santafe.edu/about/jobs/a...

Santa Fe Institute Jobs: Applied Fellow, Social and Economic Inequality

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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 05/01/2024

Hello everyone! We're thrilled to announce that COS is now part of the Bluesky community! 🚀 Join us in this space for updates and discussions. Your voices matter, and we're all ears.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

Stoked to start at Oxford this week and kick off the Climate Vulnerability project w/ 3 postdocs: -Mats Ahrenshop (Africa, polecon of dev) -Hayley Pring (IPE, climate coop) - @acalacino.bsky.social (Latin America, enviro polecon) If you work on the topics of the project & come to Ox, be in touch!

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Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

Cooperation Colloquium this Friday! Joshua B. Plotkin @jplotkin.bsky.social How to design institutions that promote cooperation Friday, Nov 17 15:00 UTC+1 (Vienna) / 9:00 ET (Boston) Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

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Sergio Lo Iacono @sergioloiacono.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

🔥 Interested in exact replications, cooperation, and peer-punishment? We conducted an exact multilab replication (N=1,008; 7 labs × 12 groups × 12 participants) of an experiment by Gürerk et al. published in Science in 2006. 👇👇👇 doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

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