Tamkinat Rauf
@tsrauf.bsky.social
Asst. professor of Sociology Interests: happiness, depression, inequality, social psych, genomics, quant methods, open science www.tamkinatrauf.com
This is such a cool analysis of Durkheim's Suicide. (Also maybe a low-key nudge to sociologists to pay more attention to emotions.)
Seth Abrutyn@sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 2w agoMe: reading Durkheim and productively procrastinating sethabrutyn.com/2026/08/20/t...
In the early 2000s, modest weekday social interaction built toward big peaks on Friday & Saturday nights. Friday night now looks like a typical weeknight & Saturday is less elevated than before. Overall, time with friends has fallen by more than half. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
The End of Friday Nights with Friends - Neal Caren, 2026
This study examines how Americans’ time with friends has changed over the week, focusing not on how much social interaction has declined but on when it has. Usi...
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The Austrian socio economic panel takes shape! now with two waves available as easy to access scientific use files.
Matthias Reiter-Pázmándy@reiterpazmandy.bsky.social · 2w agoDaten, Daten, Daten: die zweite Welle von #ASEP, dem Austrian Socio-Economic Panel steht ab sofort als Scientific Use-File über @aussda.bsky.social zur Verfügung: data.aussda.at/dataverse/asep
Two junior research fellowships @kingscollege.bsky.social opening soon due on Oct 1st. The theme is REPLICATION conceived broadly to encompass different research projects in humanities and social sciences. As a philosopher of science I am esp hoping for applications in #philsci #metascience #hps
Current research opportunities
kings.cam.ac.uk
How to choose a data repository? @lakens.bsky.social wrote a great blogpost see daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/whic...
Which Data Repository Should You Use?
The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F...
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As part of our guidance for the upcoming changes to OSF Projects, we developed a help guide on choosing a repository and a list of repository options to help researchers identify potential places to store their research outputs. ℹ️ Guidance on choosing a repository:
Where should I share my Data, Materials, Code now? - OSF Support
This Article Is Licensed Under CCO For Maximum Reuse. The following is a Table of Contents that links directly to specific sections within the guide: Table of R
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ever wondered why mental health is discussed everywhere now? or whether mental illness has really been destigmatized? my first book (out spring 2027) answers those questions!
Our Mental Health, Their Mental Illness
How mental health and illness have transformed from medical concepts into widely shared cultural ideas
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New WP!📄📣 For anyone working with quasi-experiments (especially UESD) and survey data, this is for you. Treatment events may affect not only opinions, but also survey participation and thereby bias causal estimates. I develop a framework to assess and tackle this bias. osf.io/preprints/so...
UW-Madison Sociology is hiring! We're inviting applications for an assistant professor position in the fields of demography, soc of population, and health, to begin August 2027. Come join @uwsoc.bsky.social and the great @cdeuw.bsky.social! Apply here: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor of Sociology - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
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A new Annual Review article by @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social and colleagues worth a read. Don't let the formal modeling of luck fool you. This is one of the more interesting, and all around crazier, articles I've read recently. Super cool. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Luck and Predictability in the Life Course
There is an emerging recognition among sociological theorists that luck may play a substantial role in life course achievement. There is also a nascent empirical literature that finds life outcomes to...
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Excellent news! Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which they publish! A great result by all those proposing this strong solution to publication bias and selective reporting (and getting expert feedback before data collection)! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
“StoryTime” is a hilarious but accurate description of (most) soc talks. So true: “There are lots of pictures in StoryTime—very few of them have a direct connection to the scientific arguments.”
Jason Fletcher@jasonmfletcher.bsky.social · 3mo agoAcademic Talks: StoryTime or Instructional Video open.substack.com/pub/jasonmfl...
Enjoyed reading about the emotional wrestling with the messiness of wrestling. :) So many messy-lovely things out there in the world that evoke similar sentiments.
Tim Gill@timgill924.bsky.social · 3mo agowhy I keep watching wrestling. I only shed a few tears writing it and in including the photos I did within the post. There are a few personal things in it, but I'm glad to share. I hope you enjoy. timgill924.substack.com/p/the-compli...
Interesting comment on using p-values in analyses of non-random samples/pop census data. We typically operate with a “superpopulation” assumption in such cases. But is that assumption relevant when investigating a historical question: i.e. did x lead to y in place z? (Not: does x lead to y?)
David Bartram@dbartram.bsky.social · 4mo agoI worry about adopting a “no effect” conclusion, in particular. Here’s a critique of a similar conclusion, using a data structure with some affinities (different units, though). osf.io/preprints/so...
Political inequality isn't responsible for economic inequality www.niskanencenter.org/political-in... New #ScienceOfPolitics podcast/transcript with Andrew Taylor on holes in the theory that unequal responsiveness to low-income opinion prevents redistributive policy
Political inequality isn’t responsible for economic inequality - Niskanen Center
Jennifer Gaudette finds that election officials can increase trust in elections by informing citizens of basic facts, such as that election machines are not connected to the Internet.
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🚨New in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... Genetic principal components (PCs) are commonly used to adjust for population stratification in genetic studies. In this paper, we quantify how much direct genetic signal is lost when using these “catch-all” adjustments. 🧵
Quantifying direct genetic signal captured by principal component adjustment | PNAS
Contemporary genomic studies of complex traits, such as genome-wide association studies and polygenic index (PGI) analyses, frequently include the ...
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One of the loveliest books I’ve read this year. By @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social. Highly recommend to anyone who loves the craft of writing but also feels terribly insecure. The writing-specific advice is unexpectedly relevant for researchers. The big pictures perspectives are priceless.
agreed! best time to care about emotions and affect and neuroscience as a sociologist!
2 years after schools ban smartphones, subjective wellbeing is higher by .5 SD and attention is *lower* by the same magnitude. Puzzling.
Jay Van Bavel, PhD@jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 4mo agoA new paper evaluated the effects of smartphone bans in schools. Initially, student well-being falls, but the effects on well-being eventually become positive as kids adapt. But there is no clear effect on attendance, self-reported attention or online bullying tom-dee.github.io/files/w35132...
These sessions look really cool. Regretting missing PAA this year.
Ariane Ophir@arianeophir.bsky.social · 4mo agoFamily demographers, need recommendations for #PAA2026 sessions? 1/3 📅 Thursday, May 7 | 9:30–10:45 AM Experimental Methods in Studying Union Formation and Dissolution (@yiangli.bsky.social & I curated four excellent papers using #experimental methods to address key questions in #family #demography)
Family demographers, need recommendations for #PAA2026 sessions? 1/3 📅 Thursday, May 7 | 9:30–10:45 AM Experimental Methods in Studying Union Formation and Dissolution (@yiangli.bsky.social & I curated four excellent papers using #experimental methods to address key questions in #family #demography)
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A big study that was cited as evidence that text generators are good for students has been retracted: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Apologies for any misinterpretation on my part. I was just responding to this earlier post by you where I thought you meant that “the whole project of [behavioral genetics] was intellectually flawed”. Sorry if I misunderstood you.
Jeff Lockhart@jwlockhart.bsky.social · 4mo agoI do think that doing good work on questions of human biology requires understanding and navigating different approaches to it, as well as different schools of criticism (these also have variable quality). Flattening it to blank slate vs not is an unproductive rhetorical move.
I’m very surprised by these comments. I genuinely enjoyed this book. Even if one was skeptical about the proportion of variance explained by genes (no one’s reasonably going to argue that it’s zero), I thought she poses interesting questions that we all should be thinking about.
Jeff Lockhart@jwlockhart.bsky.social · 4mo ago"None of this deepens our understanding of the scientific or religious questions posed, and again, that may not be the point. The book reads like an Eat Pray Love of biotech grifting" - @jonothingeb.bsky.social demonstrating criticism is an art form.
Is social media dying? How much did Twitter change as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has changed Here are the key take-aways 🧵 Full paper out now in in JQD:DM!
Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, and Enduring Polarization | Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media
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#GenderRoles Cumulated #ISSP #Data on “#Family and Changing Gender Roles” out now! ISSP 1988/1994/2002/2012/2022 – “Family and Changing Gender Roles I-V – Cumulation” doi.org/10.4232/1.14750 For the first time, there is now a cumulated dataset on this topic that combines data from all five waves!
