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...

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/...

I am delighted to be working with @buraksonmez.bsky.social and @aksoyundan.bsky.social on this fantastic initiative. The SSA's inaugural project, led by Wojtek Przepiorka and @aronszekely.bsky.social as PIs, is now accepting expressions of interest. Do check it out: tinyurl.com/bd3a44jw

Burak Sonmez@buraksonmez.bsky.social · 3mo ago

👋 Meet the Sociological Science Accelerator (SSA), a network for collaborative experimental sociology. Members propose research ideas 💡, the community votes 🗳️to select projects, and winning studies run across multiple labs/online using shared protocols. experimentalsociology.github.io

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. 🧵

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...

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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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

Martina Testori@mtestori.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New paper out on @europeansocreview.bsky.social with @sergioloiacono.bsky.social on sustainable development & green choices, very proud of this work! When money is not enough: awareness of future generations drives sustainable development academic.oup.com/esr/article/...

📢 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...

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!

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/

🧵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 👇

📄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

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: 🧵

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 ;-)

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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Sociology at Oxford@sociologyoxford.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📝 Research from Turkey finds that visible religious markers like headscarves & beards can reduce perceived trustworthiness among strangers 🤝 This held even among highly religious respondents - challenging the idea that these markers signal trust. 🔗 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/reli...

📢 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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📢 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

INAS Conference 2026 - Nuffield College Oxford University

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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.

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

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

PhD Position in Experimental Sociology

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

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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

Sebastian E. Wenz@sewenz.bsky.social · 11mo ago

And the 1st Replication Award of the Academy of Sociology goes to.. Sergio Lo Iacono, Wojtek Przepiorka, Vincent Buskens, Rense Corten, Marcel van Assen, and Arnout van de Rijt for "The competitive advantage of sanctioning institutions revisited: A multilab replication" #AkadSoz25 #sociology 1/

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

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

Research on Research Institute (RoRI)@rorinstitute.bsky.social · last yr.

🎯 Does early success in science funding shape the rest of your career? New RoRI study says yes. The ‘Matthew effect’ — early winners keep winning — holds across funders & countries. 📄 Read more: researchonresearch.org/largest-stud...

🚨 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...

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...

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...

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

📢 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

Proud and happy to see this in print! 😊🫒

American Political Science Review@apsrjournal.bsky.social · last yr.

Just published on APSR First View: "Without Roots: The Political Consequences of Collective Economic Shocks" by Simone Cremaschi @simonecremaschi.bsky.social, Nicola Bariletto, and Catherine De Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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!

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

Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis@essexsummerschool.bsky.social · 2y ago

Welcome to the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis! 🎉 We’re excited to have you here! Stay tuned for updates on our 58th Essex Summer School this summer, plus insights on data skills, new methods, research connections and more. Thanks for joining us! 👋

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

Chris Bail@chrisbail.bsky.social · last yr.

Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations