Happy to see our paper, with Andreas Eberl and Tobias Wolbring published in Social Forces! We investigate scarring effects of unemployment on life satisfaction. A thread 1/n doi.org/10.1093/sf/soa…

BREAKING: Uncovered IRS tax records of 26 U.S. billionaires show they paid an average tax rate of just 4.8% from 2013 to 2018, despite collectively gaining $500 billion in wealth Effective tax rates Buffett: 0.1% Bezos: 1.1% Zuckerberg: 1.1% Koch: 1.3% Bloomberg: 1.8% Musk: 2.1%

Do you do research on the science of science? Amazon is funding new research in this area up to $80k: amazon.science/research-award…

This 👇👇 And „Even if you don’t care about the moral aspect of this, you should care about your own security interests. So, we should stop complaining, but step up and provide support. Full stop.“

In a culture without transparency, replication, and reporting null results, the risk and potential impact of fraud can be devastating. This may become the prototype. A popular hypothesis, millions invested--so much needless waste in time, $, and lives. science.org/content/articl…

I just reviewed the 20 most recent empirical papers in American Journal of Sociology. Not one offered data, code, or other research materials, an explanation of why not, or how to get them. I added most recent papers citing GSS, CPS, ACS, Add Health, and NELS - same result. N=24.

Bruno Latour died on October 9, 2022. Death released him from pain. I treasured him as a friend. He was and will remain a great figure, bridging the social and the natural sciences.

CfA out now: Frühjahrstagung der DGS -Methodensektion 2023 "Prozessproduzierte Daten, insb. administrative Daten und Record Linkage, in den Sozialwissenschaften" in Nürnberg, organisiert von Matthias Collischon 🇺🇦🇪🇺, Alexander Patzina & Tobias Wolbring dgs-methoden.uni-konstanz.de/fileadmin/cont…

Neues @DFG_public Infrastrukturschwerpunktprogramm „New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences“(SPP 2431) eingerichtet! dfg.de/foerderung/inf… #Call for Proposals: Projektvorschläge können ab sofort eingereicht werden! ➡ new-data-spaces.de

Wie soll eine zukunftsfähige soziologische Methodenlehre ausgestaltet sein? Für erste Vorschläge siehe die Diskussionspapiere von Andreas Diekmann sowie Knut Petzold, Annelies Blom, Tobias Wolbring und mir in der DGS Zeitschrift Soziologie, Jg. 52 Hefte 1 & 3

Looking for a exciting PhD position in Soc? Come join our Emmy Noether project on gender inequality, digitization, and technological change (GenDiT) at FAU Erlangen-Nbg FAU WiSo   - fully funded for up to five years - no teaching obligations - international network - great team

The #fraud investigation at Harvard and lawsuit from Francesca Gino is in the NYT The article confirms that Dan Ariely is under investigation for fraud at Duke. She claims she barely knows Ariely, he says they are good friends (they published 10 papers together)

Wie seine Familie bekanntgab, ist der deutsche Soziologe, Philosoph und Wissenschaftstheoretiker Hans Albert heute im Alter von 102 Jahren verstorben. hans-albert-institut.de/zum-tode-des-p…

✨ New in by #S_Prechsl & Tobias Wolbring: Shelter from the storm: do partnerships buffer the well-being costs of unemployment? Read the answer here: academic.oup.com/esr/advance-ar…

Der langjährige Leiter des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) und ehemalige DIW-Vorstandsvorsitzende Gert G. Wagner verstarb am 28. Januar 2024 plötzlich und unerwartet im Alter von 71 Jahren. Zur Pressemitteilung: diw.de/de/diw_01.c.89…

🚨Neue Stellungnahme: RatSWD äußert Besorgnis über die Gebührenerhöhung bei den Forschungsdatenzentren der Statistischen Ämter des Bundes und der Länder. Hohe Gebühren gefährden die wissenschaftliche Forschung, besonders für kleinere Einrichtungen ➡️Link: buff.ly/4b8MX6Z

🚨New paper with Andreas Eberl and Tobias Wolbring (Tobias Wolbring FAU WiSo) out now in Advances in Life Course Research! We investigate how children moving out affects parental life satisfaction. A thread 1/n doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr…

Experimental Sociology by Davide Barrera, Klarita Gërxhani, Bernhard Kittel, Luis Miller and Tobias Wolbring Gives a comprehensive overview of the state of the art, different designs, and methodological controversies in experimental sociology. 📚 cup.org/3Cld4M6

Call for abstracts for a Special Volume on Computational Social Science (of the journal "Soziale Welt")! Mark Lutter and I are looking for contributions presenting new research, discussing CSS methods, giving overviews of applications ... janfuhse.de/css.htm