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ppraeg.bsky.social
I'm a sociologist working at the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST) I also have a website: patrickpraeg.com
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New study just released: "Overall, the findings indicate a pronounced anti-Israel bias on campus,..." with N. Pech, M. Grimm.

I wonder if there's anyone who reviews for BMC Public Health as their full-time job? The number of invitations I get I could surely start doing that

Here is a new, interesting @gesis.org paper by my team colleague Andrea Lengerer on the problem of identifying same-sex partnerships in the microcensus www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle...

THIS THURSDAY, 12:00 Paris time at the CREST Sociology seminar: @a-gugushvili.bsky.social! Come out to Palaiseau or join us on-line: zoom.us/j/9482848830...

🤖💡 Are LLMs really developing social behaviors—or just reproducing familiar patterns from training? In our new paper, @pettertornberg.com and I take a closer look at recent claims of emergent conventions in AI and offer a different perspective... 🧵

In Oslo? We still have some seats left for our conference on Social Science and Genetics on the 12-13th June! More info and registration: www.sv.uio.no/psi/english/... @uio.no

New paper with @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social just out in Demography! 🔗 read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a... Here’s a short thread on what we found—and why it might be worth a look.

On better vs worse directions for using LLMs to simulate behavioral participants in social science research statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/05/29/l...

New paper: Wives with more education than husband are *more* likely to take his name than education-equal marriages. As women outpace men in education & increasingly keep their names, name-taking provides symbolic way to compensate for her status superiority www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New @nataging.nature.com Our body-wide pace of aging predicts healthspan and lifespan: outcomes of mortality, morbidity, cognitive impairment, and disability in US and UK cohorts www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Why is environmentalism class divided? My new paper in The British Journal of Sociology maps attitudes to green issues in the social space of economic and cultural capital. Spoiler: it’s not just about being rich. 🧵https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-4446.13231

Book bans are rising, but everyday Americans dont want them. We tested ~2000 people, and found broad acceptance, not polarization. The public doesn't echo elite battles. 📄Cultural Polarization & Social Groups: The Case of Book Banning (Childress, Rawlings, Maghbouleh) 🔗 osf.io/zpe8y_v1

"That one toxic friend" might be aging you faster! Our new working paper shows that negative social ties are common and linked to faster epigenetic aging, higher inflammation, and poorer mental and physical health. Link: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Tom is always so good at getting into the guts of academic papers and conveying their methods and meaning in an accessible way. Here is his take on our recent Journal of Public Economics paper that explains why earnings and income inequality in the US are moving in opposite directions. 🔽

Attn: the special issue of SMR on Generative AI in Sociology is now online. The whole issue is fire, but the introduction by @thomasdavidson.bsky.social and Danny Karell is a must read, covering prompting, measurement, and simulations. It's a road map for soc sci research in the genAI era. +

New paper with @paulhufe.net Astrid Sandsør and Nicolai Borgen 📝 Causal evidence for gene-environment interaction based on: 🧬 Exogenous within-family genetic differences 🏫 Exogenous variation in school value added

🆕📄Journal of Marriage and Family w/ M. Jacob📄 Parenthood in Europe: Not More Life Satisfaction, but More Meaning in Life Previous research in soc was very focused on satisfaction & happiness. BUT: many find meaning equally or more important than happiness. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Associations Between Negative Social Ties and Accelerated Biological Aging, Inflammation, and Multiple Morbidities https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.23.25328261v1

highspeed internet - teen mental health paper (exogenous variation through broadband internet expansion) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

guess what, folks: it's GSS 2024 time! as @stephenvaisey.com says, this is the Hubble Telescope of Sociology (hope it remains as it is!):

Important research by @johannarickne.bsky.social @ollefolke.bsky.social and great to see it published in our own @europeansocreview.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

The ESSGN conference is taking place and reading @perlinedemange.bsky.social's posts about it I get the impression that it's an amazing place to be

PGI Repository v2.0 preprint out! A 🧵 on the main results and updates @robel-alemu.bsky.social @paturley.bsky.social @alextisyoung.bsky.social

🧵 There's a common misperception about SocArXiv, unfortunately promoted by the much larger, richer, profit-generating SSRN service (Elsevier). It sounds harsh to say this, but at SocArXiv we serve the scholarly community, and the scholarly record - not individual authors. I can explain. /1

📄NEW PAPER + 📈DATASET + 🌐WEBSITE Please to be able to share our dataset paper: "An enriched, multimodal social media dataset of a UK General Election campaign." The paper builds off the crowd-sourced publication of candidate lists in advance of the last UK General Election...

Academically high-achieving students from the lowest socio-economic group are five times more likely to be arrested and cautioned or sentenced than their wealthiest peers, finds new research by Prof John Jerrim @ioe.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ma...

at this point I mostly study WEIRU populations, Western Educated Industrialized Rich Uhhhhhhh

"Given the explosion of AI-assisted productivity in published manuscripts (the systematic search strategy used here identified an average of 4 papers per annum from 2014 to 2021, but 190 in 2024–9 October alone)" doi.org/10.1371/jour...

TODAY at 12 NOON Paris time: @cbrandtner.bsky.social talking about "From Suites To Streets: Professional Expertise And The Organizational Pursuit Of Urban Integration" Come out to Palaiseau to see him in room 3049 or watch on-line: zoom.us/j/9343399288...

This looks like an exciting paper www.ricardodahis.com/papers/DMNQ_...

I wrote a thing about why 'cultural' class analysis is badly equipped for challenging the cosplaying of working class culture by the far right & why working class formations are best conceptualised as multi-status. Part of a great SI on Beverley Skeggs' work: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This is a so-called academic hat trick

📣Patterns of #intergenerational_educational_mobility from the 1930s to the 1990s across 91 countries 🌏 Join the QSS-CLS Seminar by @mobarakhossain.net Mobarak Hossain: Modernisation and educational mobility: A counterfactual approach 🗓️ Tomorrow 🕐 13:00–14:00 BST www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

This is super addictive. I think the biggest difference I had with the crowd was I was much more likely to vote for "multiple imputation" but upon reflection what I really meant was "target populations and missing data" (which I spend a ton of time on in my courses).

Exciting news! European Societies has put out its first issue with new, open-access publisher MIT press (backdated February 2025, but I think we can all empathize) direct.mit.edu/euso/issue/2...

Going to Paris for work for a week in October. Need temporary childcare (for an 8 year old) recommendations. Arts? Sports?

Behind on your dissertation / paper, but don't know how to tell your advisor / collaborator? Take a page from Dorothy Parker's book.

The SOC-MISC project is hosting a workshop on miscarriage measurement in surveys and administrative data today. We are looking forward to discussing with our invited speakers Beth Sully, Joe Strong and Selin Köksal. Follow this thread for updates throughout the day 👇 1/n

🚨 I just released the alpha-version of my AI in Genomics textbook! It covers (so far!) sequence language models & deep learning for DNA/RNA/proteins. Check it out: biobook.michel.science

Thanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

Recently published in @jpube.bsky.social: "Declining earnings inequality, rising income inequality: What explains discordant inequality trends in the United States?" By @zparolin.bsky.social, @lukaslehner.bsky.social, & @natewilmers.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky

Open call for Associate Editors at our journal!! To find out more about requirements and application procedures 👀 here www.demographic-research.org/files/Call_f...