Marc Ratkovic
Chair of Political Science, Social Data Science
Departments of Political Science and Data Science
University of Mannheim
Political Science, Data, Causal Inference, recently AI and Linguistics
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- Reposted by Marc RatkovicJOIN us for this year’s Rebecca Morton conference on experimental political science at NYU! March 6-7. We have a great line up of papers and posters! Program (scroll down) here: wp.nyu.edu/cesspolitica... Register (no fee) here: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
- Reposted by Marc Ratkovic"How do class gaps compare to race and gender gaps? Strikingly, we find that the class gaps in tenure-track academia are as large as or larger than analogous race or gender gaps."
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- "The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone."
- Reposted by Marc Ratkovicacademic.oup.com/edited-volum... Please feel free to access The Oxford Handbook of Norms Research in International Relations edited by @sassangholiagha.bsky.social @philorchard.bsky.social @antjewiener.bsky.social 👇🏻👇🏻
- Reposted by Marc RatkovicWho funds NATO budget ⬇️
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- Reposted by Marc RatkovicUCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies Conference invites submissions from all researchers using @clscohorts.bsky.social data. Conference: 22–23 September. Submissions by: 8 April. cls.ucl.ac.uk/events/cls-c...
- Malicious onboarding.
- And Madel's decision makes the silence of every other Republican who does not all the more deafening.
- Republican Chris Madel drops out of MN Gov race, saying he can’t support “retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so” www.startribune.com/chris-madel-...
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- Reposted by Marc RatkovicThis random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
- Reposted by Marc RatkovicICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...
- Reposted by Marc RatkovicThe Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica invites submissions for a special issue on “The Comparative Politics of Gender” - cup.org/4sPDJXh Guest editors - @edegiorgi.bsky.social & @klbeckwith.bsky.social Deadline: 8th of February, 2026.
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- Reposted by Marc RatkovicNehls: I would like to quickly address the police officers from January 6th. And I can tell you that the fault does not lie with Donald Trump. It lies with the US capitol leadership team. Fanone: *Coughs: Go fuck yourself*
- Reposted by Marc RatkovicFBI agent: "I did not go to law school, go to Quantico and work counterterrorism operations overseas to be doing traffic control for arrest-a-brown-person day" FBI agent 2: "I was working an undercover operation on a neo-Nazi group with a long history of criminal activity... they'd have to close"
- Reposted by Marc RatkovicA study on publication time focussing on differences between the gender-composition of authors. "Sample averages show that all female-authored articles take about 9 % longer to accept [...] while female solo-authored articles take about 20 % longer to accept" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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- Reposted by Marc RatkovicThe US withdrawal from #WHO became official today, leaving the world less prepared for dangerous disease outbreaks. “When that will bite us in the ass, it’s impossible to predict. But there is a 100% certainty that it will bite us in the ass,” one expert told me. www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/u...
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- Reposted by Marc Ratkovic3 years into the war, Ukrainians' resistance territorial concessions has weakened slightly (compared to 07/2022 when we first ran this experiment), but they STILL categorically resist Russian control. New paper with @marniehowlett.bsky.social & @carlmc.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jpr/advance-...
- Thrilled to see this Research Note with @janinadill.bsky.social and @carlmc.bsky.social published in @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social! We ran the same and (a slightly modified) experiment as in July 2022 to investigate whether Ukrainians still categorically reject political and territorial concessions.
- Reposted by Marc RatkovicI am happy to announce that I have joined the team of Politische Vierteljahresschrift / German Political Science Quarterly @pvs-journal.bsky.social as Managing Editor alongside the new Editor-in-Chief Marc Debus. I will assist Marc and the team of Associate Editors in managing this great journal.
- Reposted by Marc RatkovicWe are #hiring a #phd student to develop novel #Bayesian #MachineLearning methods and algorithms. A fully funded PhD position at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social. See full ad and apply here: www.umu.se/en/work-with...
- Reposted by Marc RatkovicEveryone talks about the "credibility revolution", but I think one of the most valuable shifts in econ over the last decade has been the rise of rigorous descriptive historical work like this in top journals:
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- I keep seeing US, China, Russia discussed as the Great Powers. But Russia is poor and backwards, GDP < Germany nominally, the same or so in PPP, aging weapons systems, it's running out of soldiers. GDP WAY < EU. What puts it on that list? It seems belligerent, sure, but manageable.
- Reposted by Marc RatkovicComparing registrations to published papers is essential to research integrity - and almost no one does it routinely because it's slow, messy, and time-demanding. RegCheck was built to help make this process easier. Today, we launch RegCheck V2. 🧵 regcheck.app
- Reposted by Marc Ratkovic#OTD 1925 Annie T Randall b (d 16 Aug 2021) Mathematical statistician at NIH Mental Health Biometrics branch. A trailblazer for African American women in federal science agencies, the ASA Annie T. Randall Innovator Award recognizes contributions of early-career statistical innovators.
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- If the manuscript would fail in any undergraduate or graduate seminar, it should not be accepted into NeurIPS. Maybe slow science is the answer? Closer peer review? This is a real issue.
- NEW: NeurIPS,one of the world’s top academic AI conferences, accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims fortune.com/2026/01/21/n...
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- Reposted by Marc RatkovicAre you looking for a postdoc position working on asteroids and comets? Would it help if it's in a beautiful place in southern France? If yes, then consider applying to the following position of my colleague Benoit Carry at the Observatory in Nice: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/402212 #planetSci
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- Reposted by Marc RatkovicJOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project. Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months. Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.
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- A nice update of the LaLonde study! Mixed data with an experimental benchmark and observational component. Our causal methods can work, if done properly.
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- Reposted by Marc RatkovicNEW: AJ Alvero, Dustin S. Stoltz, Oscar Stuhler, Marshall A. Taylor, "Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
- Reposted by Marc RatkovicThis is one of the sharpest analyses of international affairs that I've heard from a Canadian leader - or any national leader - in a long time. And I suspect he wrote the main bits himself. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...
