A great first day of Week 3 at #GESISsummerschool! From shared lunch vibes 🍽️ to sharp insights 🧠: Fabienne Kraemer discussed whether repeated interviews shape survey responses, and Leon Fröhling explored the journey from survey data to LLM personas. More discussions, exchange & learning to come!

Let's go!!!!!!!!!!! (Good book for social scientists. Classic.)

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Paper Skygest Team@paper-feed.bsky.social · 12mo ago

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One of my empirical-work econ takes is that I think academia should be *more* open to publishing work based on best-we-can-do weak data, as long as there's really no other way to address the question and that work is very clear about what it can and can't actually say.

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1/6 What happens when you tell an AI browser: “Fill out this survey”? It fills out the survey. In our new study, led by @rtopinkova.bsky.social, we tested three consumer-facing agentic browsers without lengthy prompts, custom code, or technical fine-tuning.

New paper with @floswald.bsky.social @lars.vilhuber.com and collaborators on reproducibility with LLMs, including what researchers should document to make LLM-assisted work transparent ✌️ arxiv.org/abs/2607.24372

Nice paper flagging issues that can show up for researchers using LLMs papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

A remarkable public health statistic: the US has now surpassed its highest annual measles case count in more than 30 years. It’s only July.

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Recent case, re-run of the authors' code failed on a first-stage regression, blocked code from completing. Hard to initially diagnose, because "qui do regression_55.do" shows no output... 🤦Back and forth with authors, they provide evidence that it works on their system. We send MWE to Stata support👇

That's a wrap on week 1 of #GESISsummerschool! 🎉 From classroom to Zoom rooms, it's been a pleasure to see participants learning together. Looking forward to welcoming participants and lecturers to our one-week courses next week. @gesis.org

The euro banknotes seem to get a new look, and the @ecb.europa.eu has hosted a survey, asking which desing is the preferred one. I really like the stork on the 50€ banknote. surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknote...

This research plan outlines a study investigating how people perceive researchers who commit questionable research practices (investigators) compared to those who report them (inspectors). 👇 Full evaluation - including reviews, editorial assessment & full research plan text - is on MetaROR [1/3]

From misconduct to reform: Understanding perceptions of those who commit & call out questionable research practices - MetaROR

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Global population growth peaked six decades ago— The increase in the world’s population is not exponential. The global population is growing, but the growth rate has declined since its peak six decades ago.

This 👇 is why we @gesistraining.bsky.social offer a one-week course on "Bots in Web-based Studies" at this year's Summer School in a nutshell: training.gesis.org?site=pDetail...

Charlotte Cavaille@ccavaille.bsky.social · 2w ago

We were excited that LLMs would let us ask more interesting open-ended questions in surveys. Then respondents started using LLMs to answer them. And there goes the excitement.

We were excited that LLMs would let us ask more interesting open-ended questions in surveys. Then respondents started using LLMs to answer them. And there goes the excitement.

Laut PNAS-Studie verhandeln Personen aus niedrigeren sozialen Schichten seltener ums #Gehalt. Wenn sie es doch tun, mindere es ihre Einstellungschancen stärker, als bei anderen. Experten diskutierten, was das für #sozialeUngleichheit bedeutet. sciencemediacenter.de/angebote/soz...

📖 New publication: "The global fertility freefall: trends, drivers and uncertainties". Tomas Sobotka puts the spotlight on very low fertility and its drivers. 🔗 Read now: authors.elsevier.com/a/1nR43_XU-4... #demography @rbmonline.bsky.social

Have you ever #preregistered a #psychometric evaluation of a measure? We’re looking for examples! Shameless self-promotion encouraged! Or if you found one you really liked as an example, send it my way! #OpenScience #measurement

How does education shape the way immigrants respond to discrimination? In a new paper with Constantin Ruhe, out now in @ispp-pops.bsky.social, we try to answer this question by bridging the psychology of social class with discrimination-group identification research (doi.org/10.1111/pops...). 1/6

I'll have to carefully read this myself. PS: I've learned so much from Gary King's work over the years and typically find myself agreeing with his perspective, but here I might actually disagree. We'll see.

Mridul K. Thomas@mridulkthomas.bsky.social · 2w ago

I think there's plenty of scope to improve how we do science and enjoy debating this. But this is one of the more puzzling essays I have read. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We asked mid-career sociologists what they wanted to meet to talk about at this year's BSA conference, this came out as one of the top issues. So here it is: an honest conversation about research failure and friction! We're really looking forward to this free, online event on 16 Sept. #AcademcSky

BSA Mid-Career Forum@bsamcf.bsky.social · 2w ago

Research rarely perfectly follows the plan. Join the BSA Mid-Career Forum for an honest conversation about failures, friction, and what we can learn from the unexpected turns. 16 Sept, 1-2.30pm, online, free (reg required) @britsoci.bsky.social #AcademicBluesky www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Aus Daten Erkenntnisse machen? Der erste Schritt beginnt hier. 👇 t1p.de/quan-datenan...

GESIS Training@gesistraining.bsky.social · last mo.

Du möchtest in die quantitative Datenanalyse einsteigen? Lerne statistische Grundlagen und sammle praktische Erfahrung in R oder Stata in unserem #GESISworkshop – von der Berechnung von Mittelwerten und Korrelationen bis hin zur Aufbereitung & Visualisierung eigener Daten. ➡️ t1p.de/quan-datenan...

A call for papers is now open for a Survey Research Methods (@esrasurvey.bsky.social) special issue on self-completion #data collection. "We welcome contributions that provide methodological insight and practical evidence..." The deadline for submissions is 31 October 2026.

Transitioning to Self-Completion Modes of Data Collection in Social Surveys in Europe | Survey Research Methods

Across Europe, long-standing survey programmes have moved or are in the process of moving from interviewer-administered to self-completion modes of data collection.

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Addressing Health Learning Objectives in German Adult Health Education Course Announcements: A Large-Scale Text Analysis Using Large Language Models: https://osf.io/sd7zy

From the abstract: "By allowing scientists to work more quickly, LLMs raise the opportunity cost of researcher time, creating incentives to refine papers less thoroughly before moving on."

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.

I have a new paper out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social w/ the briliant @aybukeatalay.bsky.social and @aliaelkattan.com We show that what we pay attention to online is a lot more politically diverse than what public engagement signals would suggest... sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

Information Diets Are More Diverse in Attention Than in Engagement

Article: Information Diets Are More Diverse in Attention Than in Engagement | Sociological Science | Posted July 21, 2026

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