Nils Witte

@niwitte.bsky.social

Sociologist @Goethe-University Frankfurt and @Federal Institute for Population Research. www.nilswitte.com

"we identify three dominant rhetorical strategies – personalisation, economic alarmism, and ideological framing ... policy outcomes...abandonment of the 65% renewable energy obligation, the cancellation of planned building efficiency standards ... climate legislation in an age of digital populism"

Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW RESEARCH: One German tabloid coined one word. "Heizungshammer" spread to 1,100+ articles and helped to effectively kill Germany's heating law. We analysed 333 BILD articles to trace how tabloid framing became legislation. Out today, open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Umfrage: Z​wei Drittel der Deutschen denken über einen Job im Ausland nach" So überschreibt Indeed eine Pressemitteilung vom 22. Juni 2026. Viele Medien berichten über die Ergebnisse (u.a. dpa, Spiegel, tagesschau, handelsblatt). Wie seriös ist die Studie? Ein Thread 🧵

This is good. The slop tsunami is coming for scholarship at a very bad time. One thing I would add: generating papers is the worst thing LLMs can do in the research ecosystem, where we really need fewer papers to review and publish, not more. /1

How AI use in scholarly publishing threatens research integrity, lessens trust, and invites misinformation

Since 2023, a significant number of published scholarly papers show signs of having been edited using AI tools. These tools are also being used to review papers and search and discovery tools, in ways...

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ECSR Thematic Conference on the Life Course and Social Stratification, 23-24 April, University of Trento. Smaller thematic conferences like these are usually the best place to present and network, imo. Submit by 22 February. sites.google.com/unitn.it/ecs...

Life Course & Social Stratification

Call for Abstracts for the ECSR Thematic Conference Life Course and Social Stratification 23-24 April 2026, University of Trento, Italy The Life Course approach has gained powerful traction across th...

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In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps: /1

"Rund die Hälfte der schon kurz nach Russlands Überfall auf die Ukraine nach Deutschland Geflohenen im erwerbsfähigen Alter hat hier bereits eine Arbeit." www.zeit.de/news/2025-11... Neue BiB Studie zu Ukrainischen Schutzsuchenden in DE. Download hier: www.bib.bund.de/Publikation/...

Flucht: Studie: Hiesige Ukrainer - hohe Jobquote, viele Trennungen

Hier finden Sie Informationen zu dem Thema „Flucht“. Lesen Sie jetzt „Studie: Hiesige Ukrainer - hohe Jobquote, viele Trennungen“.

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It's easy for some of you to just never use LLMs and just criticize people who do. I would like to be in that situation. But here I am, with my moderator volunteers, assessing hundreds of papers submitted to @socarxiv.bsky.social, trying to decide how to fairly judge whether to accept them. /1

This is a highly interesting, timely and great initiative - a new diamond OA journal for #replication research! It is interdisciplinary, but #PolSci is specifically invited. Hence, if you or someone you know has an interesting replication paper, do not hesitate to submit!

Lukas Röseler@aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 10mo ago

ReplicationResearch.org is now open for submissions! Submit replications and reproductions from many different fields, as well as conceptual contributions. With diamond OA, open and citable peer review reports, and reproducibility checks, we push the boundaries of open and fair publishing.

New paper on educational inequalities in declining destination attachment among immigrants in @sfjournal.bsky.social (with Ruedin): doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... (1/3): Tertiary educated immigrants react particularly strong to unmet migration expectations, showing stronger declines emotional attachment

When expectations backfire: educational differences in declining destination attachment among recent immigrants

Abstract. Immigrants with higher levels of education tend to report more discrimination and a weaker attachment to their destination country than immigrant

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Mittwoch um 17 Uhr in LB 107 beim #DGS2025. Ich freue mich auf die Diskussion mit @katharinahppe.bsky.social und @lwestheuser.bsky.social zur #Exponentialgesellschaft Danke @norawaitkus.bsky.social und Monika Eigmüller für die Organisation!

Nils Witte@niwitte.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Bei Lektüre von #Exponentialgesellschaft by @deutschmann.bsky.social viel gelernt über Ökologie, Wachstum, Stabilisierung. Wichtige Denkanstöße. Vor allem bleibt die Frage: Wie soll ich leben? Welche Kompromisse muss ich und muss die Gesellschaft schließen? See you in Duisburg #DGS2025 bei AmC3