What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12
Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...
@marklutter345.bsky.social und ich organisieren eine Ad-hoc-Gruppe auf dem @dgskongress2026.bsky.social in Mainz zu:
Computational Social Science und die Zukunft der Soziologie.
Wir freuen uns über Beitragsvorschläge (gerne provokant und kontrovers) bis zum 15.4.!
Concentrated academic recruiting. 10% of political science departments produce 60% of all polsci professors in Germany. FU Berlin produced most professors, followed by Mannheim, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Heidelberg. In psychology,...
@marklutter345.bsky.social und ich organisieren eine Ad-hoc-Gruppe auf dem @dgskongress2026.bsky.social in Mainz zu:
Computational Social Science und die Zukunft der Soziologie.
Wir freuen uns über Beitragsvorschläge (gerne provokant und kontrovers) bis zum 15.4.!
Per Engzell
Jan Fuhse
Mark Lutter
Mark Lutter
Jan Fuhse
Universities are expected to be places of tolerance, universalism, and open inquiry.
Our new study in European Societies finds evidence that visibly Jewish instructors face less favorable evaluations from students than otherwise identical instructors.
doi.org/10.1162/EUSO...
... 10% of departments produce more than half of professors. LMU Munich with highest placement power, followed by FU Berlin, Trier, Heidelberg, Marburg, Gießen, Leipzig, Tübingen, HU Berlin, Konstanz.
New paper in Quant Sci St, w T Grabosch, T Heinze
direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Mark Lutter
Abstract. This study examines the extent of anti-Jewish bias in German higher education through a survey experiment conducted among students (N=1,416) at a regional, average-sized German university (a...
Abstract. This paper examines the hiring and placement network of German professors in the fields of psychology and political science. It is well known that in the stratified university system of the ...
📚 Special issue in Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie on Explanation and Causality in Sociology. Essential reading on where causal inference in sociology is heading
link.springer.com/collections/...
Why do some minority groups organize around their ethnicity, while others do not? In a new study just out in AJS @amjsoc.bsky.social (w/@mschaeffer.bsky.social, S. Carol and S. Böller), we crunched data on over 25000 immigrant organizations for an answer.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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