Alex Patzina
social scientist @university of bamberg & IAB | research interests: social stratification, life course, health, wellbeing, trust.
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- Reposted by Alex PatzinaIMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT As of January 1st 2026, John and I are **no longer** the owners of Complexly (the educational media company we started 15 years ago that makes Crash Course, Eons, SciShow, Study Hall, and a bunch of other shows.) We have been the sole owners for all that time...
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaVance and Trump learned from Renee Good’s murder and have pushed their messaging toward fraud in Minnesota and Tim Walz being the “real reason” for the protests, avoiding saying much about Alex Pretti. Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem have continued lying straight to our face.
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- Reposted by Alex PatzinaWe now check manuscripts for the possibility that AI has been used to produce the paper. Springer's system does some automated checking but doesn't catch everything. So, in certain situations we check the refs for hallucinations. Latest manuscript: multiple hallucinations. Author will be banned.
- Reposted by Alex Patzina📢Apply now for one of our GradAB PhD scholarships beginning 1st Oct 2026. GradAB is a joint program of IAB and @fau.de in cooperation with TU Dortmund. (1/4)
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaEin fatales Dauerzeichen der Regierung: Schuld an der Krise seid ihr, die Bürger - und nicht wir, die Politik, die 20 Jahre lang keine Ideen entwickelt und nichts reformiert hat.
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaAlways wanted to have gini coefficients and other inequality statistics of different sources in one dataset? Here you are. The Integrated Inequality Data, from WIID, Worldbank, LIS, and SWIID. osf.io/5cguq/overview
- family account was definitely worth it 😃 the first representative year since 2015 😅
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaWelche Rolle wird KI in der Schule spielen? Welche Chancen und Herausforderungen bringt sie mit sich? Bitte nehmt an unserer Befragung teil und unterstützt unser Projekt in Kooperation mit der @dkjs.de: www.soscisurvey.de/EQUAL-NET/?q...
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaIn light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps: /1
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaAdded some takeaways from this session in a thread. Happy publishing everyone!
- About to kick off a peer review workshop with our brilliant @sriucl.bsky.social PhD students right now. Thanks to my colleague Alina Pelikh for hosting and I wish something like this was available when I started out.
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaA farmer's walk from correlation to causation: Academic paper: cross-sectional studies find that grip strength is correlated with bone density, depression, heart disease, cognitive functioning, and mortality. Online rags: do these 2 exercises to increase your grip strength and you'll live longer!
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaPositions in Freiburg, Tuebingen, and Konstanz: academicpositions.com/ad/universit...
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaMind-boggling that we've ended up here
- What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaBillions of regressions ≠ robustness. My new PNAS Letter shows how unjustified models can drown out justified ones — and why thoughtful model selection matters👇 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaNew paper with @mhamjediers.bsky.social German judges have discretion to apply rehabilitative juvenile criminal law (Jugendstrafrecht) or punitive adult criminal law to 18–20-year-old offenders. We show that immigrant youths are ~10 percentage points less likely to be sentenced under juvenile law
- NEW - Anti-Immigrant Bias in the Choice Between Punitive and Rehabilitative Justice - cup.org/49vUfVa - @riazsascha.bsky.social & @mhamjediers.bsky.social #OpenAccess
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🗳️ New study (w @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social) on AfD success in integration council elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: AfD achieved significant results in councils elected exclusively by voters with migration backgrounds. It's not about economics—it's about political competition. (1/3) - Reposted by Alex PatzinaApplications open for our PhD program!
- 🚨 Applications Now Open for the EUI PhD Programmes 2026-2027! 📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort! Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd #EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity
- why do journals restrict the number of pages of the online supplementary material? I am confused! 😅
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaJoin my team in beautiful Berne! ☀️🏔️
- 🎓 Two PhD positions at the Institute of Sociology, University of Bern! Join our team (Chair of Social Change and Inequality, Ass. Prof. Dr. Benita Combet) to research career development inequalities by gender, ethnicity & social background. Apply by Nov 21. More: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaOn December 4, 2025, Prof. Sarah Halpern-Meekin from the University of Wisconsin–Madison will hold a lecture with the title: „ Labor force participation among prime-age men in the United States: Considerations of dignity and health“. Registration link eveeno.com/iab-speciall....
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaAssistant or Associate Professor in Computational Sociology at CREST in Paris The position is open to computational sociologists regardless of their research area. Deadline for applications: January 31, 2026. All details here: www.shorturl.at/E57le
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaTwo PhD Positions at the Institute of Sociology, University of Bern (Switzerland) The review of applications will begin on November 21st, and the ideal starting date is January 2026. For more information, and to submit your application, please see 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaTwo Postdoctoral Researcher Positions in Sociology/Social Sciences at the University of Oldenburg (Germany) Position 1 – Computational Text Analysis / LLMs — uol.de/job790en Position 2 – Survey Research / Experiments — uol.de/job791en
- Reposted by Alex Patzina📣New Work Wednesday📣 This study examines how specific study program features affect enrollment intentions. Findings suggest that adjusting program content, flexibility, and support services enhances those intentions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #NewWork
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaMultiverse studies seem doomed to perpetuate a cycle of "look it varies!" "but not that much" "does too!". Here's another exchange that I had missed. "Robustness is better assessed with a few thoughtful models than with billions of regressions" doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaReminder! Calls for Abstracts still open!
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaCheck out the #LINEup Education Data Explorer — a new open-source map of longitudinal datasets across Europe! 🇪🇺 → Explore what data exist, where, and on what topics. Great tool for comparative education research www.lineup-project.eu/map/
- Reposted by Alex Patzina⚡9.-Klässler:innen 2024 vs. 2018: Mathe -24⬇️ Bio -24⬇️ Chemie -24⬇️ Physik -23⬇️ Die neuen Ergebnisse des IQB-Bildungstrends. Ganz grob gesprochen: 9.-Klässler:innen liegen heute etwa auf Niveau der 8.-Klässler:innen noch vor 6 Jahren. 1/3
- Reposted by Alex Patzinathe deadline came like a comet visible but somehow still surprising
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaFirst-time authors: Get the reviewer on your side in the first 3 pages. From there on, they either look for areas to improve or reasons to reject.
- Der Link zur Studie ist dieser: doi.org/10.1007/s115...
- Reposted by Alex Patzinainteresting paper by @benjaminarold.bsky.social @woessmann.bsky.social and Larissa Zirold in the effect of mandatory religious education Germany using NEPS, ALLBUS, and SOEP data jhr.uwpress.org/content/earl...
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaAnd the 1st Replication Award of the Academy of Sociology goes to.. Sergio Lo Iacono, Wojtek Przepiorka, Vincent Buskens, Rense Corten, Marcel van Assen, and Arnout van de Rijt for "The competitive advantage of sanctioning institutions revisited: A multilab replication" #AkadSoz25 #sociology 1/
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaAnd the AS Dissertation Award 2025 goes to... @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social for his dissertation "Who (else) is Involved? How Voluntary Associations Connect and Separate us. Congratulations! #AkadSoz25 #sociology
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaOne of many super interesting posters at #AkadSoz25, pitched by one of the authors, @isabelmhabicht.bsky.social. Cc: @gesis.org @evazschirnt.bsky.social
- Welcher Hashtag für die morgen startende Konferenz der Akademie für Soziologie in Mainz? #AkadSoz25 ? ( #AS2025 und #AS25 führen natürlich auch anderswo hin.) #Soziologie
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaMe & my very able former colleague and now doctoral candidate Lisa Walter (not on Bluesky yet) just published a new article in @ersjournal.com We examine how discrimination shapes immigrants and their descendants’ trust in the police in Germany. 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaIn Zeiten von ständigen Transformationen sollten wir Bildung als Befähigung zu stetigem Wandel verstehen. Mein Einleitungsvortrag in das Bildungspolitische Forum 2025 des @leibnizbildung.bsky.social Livestream: www.youtube.com/@Leibniz_bil... www.leibniz-bildung.de/veranstaltun...
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaDie Universität Tallinn hat dem Bamberger Soziologen Michael Gebel den Titel einer Ehrenprofessur verliehen. Damit ehrt sie seine langjährige und enge wissenschaftliche Zusammenarbeit. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 🤩 Mehr: blog.uni-bamberg.de/menschen/202... 📷 Piret Räni/ Tallinn University
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaEvery time economists discover occupations exist, a sociologist dies
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaWhen (if ever) is it right to appeal a rejection? This advice offered by AJS seems good more generally
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaIt sucks that guys get so caught up in fighting for status among men that they can’t even admit a woman is hot because she isn’t the “male-culture approved” kind of hot. Letting other men decide for you which women you think are hot might sound kinda gay, but it’s actually extremely straight.
- Reposted by Alex Patzina#VET students drop out more often when the local economy is good, but what happens with dropouts' wages if such a good local economy turns bad in the following years? If you want to know more, come to my talk in the "Returns to education" session (today 3:30pm, S12) at #ECSR2025!
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaNew article out! With Laurenz Bärtsch, I examine the effects of a German parental leave reform. The reform increased maternal part-time work during the first 12 months after birth — but interestingly, we find no long-term impact on employment or wages.👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaAll projects go through three stages: enthusiasm, despair, and strategic reframing.
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaDie Berufs- und Studienwahl gehört zu den wichtigsten Entscheidungen junger Menschen, denn sie stellt langfristig die Weichen für ihr künftiges Erwerbsleben. Auf einer Sonderseite hat das IAB Publikationen zum Thema „Jugendliche auf dem Weg ins Berufsleben“ zusammengestellt 👉 iab.de/themen/sonde...
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaInteresting paper by Fabian Kratz on education effects across cohort and age on anti-immigrant sentiments sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaOne-year visiting position for advanced female postdocs in Dresden. I am happy to host anyone broadly interested in applied micro. Salary within the German public sector's pay scale (TV-L, E13-E15). Deadline: Sept 15, 2025. Please share widely! 👇
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaThis is a great paper on causality in the social sciences. While much of the conditionality of causal claims are known and usually well-taken, their weakest link argument goes further than that.
- Say you’ve got very good causal IDENTIFICATION. Can you say you have causality, can make a causal general claim, and can say what “THE causal effect” is? NO We explain why in new article at Journal of Causal Inference. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaNew work Wednesday! A factorial survey experiment finds: study program features like content, a flexible curriculum, and institutionalized support affect enrollment intentions—but don’t reduce social inequalities in these intentions. #CollegeEnrollment journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
- Happy to see our paper out that examines the role of study program characteristics for college enrollment intentions! This ist joint work with Carina Toussaint (lead author), Hans Dietrich and @tobiaswolbring.bsky.social @uni-bamberg.de @fauwiso.bsky.social @iabnews.bsky.social 1/6
- We examine three key elements in a study program: content, flexibility, and support. We argue that these elements shape individuals’ beliefs about costs, benefits, and their success probability, thus affecting enrollment intentions. 2/6
- We use data from a factorial survey experiment conducted with German high school students in their final year of school and apply random-intercept regression models to investigate the causal (socially stratified) effect of study program features on enrollment intentions. 3/6
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View full threadLink to the study: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 6/6
- Reposted by Alex PatzinaFor a change, here is some advertising on my own behalf, as I believe this paper together wiht Tobias Roth, Sandra Mingham and Meike Selbach deserves a little more attention. academic.oup.com/esr/article/...
- Reviving my swedish stoner rock passion. Does anyone know bands from the Skåne region?
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- Reposted by Alex PatzinaOccupational Earning Potential has landed in @europeansocreview.bsky.social Implementable in R (digclass) and Stata (crosswalk), our linear OEP scale measures the median earnings of ISCO occupations and expresses them as percentiles of the earnings distribution academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...
