Properly published now: Leonie Mugglin, Brian Murahwa, Didier Ruedin, When politicians feel pressure to represent: Evidence from South Africa, Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 78, Issue 4, October 2025, Pages 789–815, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsae046 #politics #representation #minorities #pressure #experiment #southafrica

Call for papers: Immigrant Exclusion and Solidarities in Times of Polarizing
Societies, SSA Conference 2-4 September 2026 in Fribourg, Switzerland; papers by 10 November 2025. https://www.sgs-sss.ch/de/forschungskomitees/migration-minderheiten/ #c4p #call #sociology #migration #Switzerland @sociology #migration #immigration #polarization #Solidarity #exclusion #populism #socialCohesion #belonging #qualitative #quantitative #experimental

📢 #jobalert #hiring
#Postdoc opportunity for a qualitative scholar for 14.5 mo (fte) at the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw to work on the political impact of new Russian emigrants on host countries and the RF in the DemEx project. Details and application instructions available under the following link: https://www.migracje.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Ogloszenie-o-konkursie_DemExII_OBM_ENG-JL-1.pdf
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Open Science Workshop - detecting errors and misconduct in science
Dates: 20-22 October
Location: Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Registration link: https://tinyurl.com/3xkd8twf
ONLY PHYSICAL ATTENDENCE POSSIBLE! NO ONLINE POSSIBILITIES.

New publication:

https://academic.oup.com/sf/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/sf/soaf157/8267020

When expectations backfire: educational differences in declining destination attachment among recent immigrants

#migration #education #immigrationParadox #wellbeing #publication #attachment

@albertcardona Unless I'm mistaken, that funder doesn't pay reviewers... But maybe the reviewer expected to be paid and then took a shortcut?

Why would anyone use #AI for reviewing a grant application? I just had one back which included references to non-existing articles (and OpenAI IDs), and otherwise felt like heavy use of #ChatGPT. I just don't get the incentives, I mean if it's too much work, just don't accept the review? #peerreview #academia #LLM

@kaiarzheimer Maybe this will help: https://panbibliotekar.github.io/gaidet-declaration/index.html Can ChatGPT help me find made-up references that my co-authors added?

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of listening to Dorothy Bishop emphasize the responsibility of editors during the 12th PCI Webinar! If you weren't able to join, you can catch her talk and the following Q&A session at this link: https://youtu.be/0NJ87tYE8_s

This should have been big news!

Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in English:
https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/news/detail/joint-commitment-to-strengthening-open-research-europe
https://www.fccn.pt/en/atualidade/fct-assina-declaracao-fortalecimento-open-research-europe-ore/
and one more, NWO from 🇳🇱 considers joining:
https://www.nwo.nl/en/news/nwo-endorses-joining-open-access-platform-open-research-europe-ore
Why is this BIG? 1/4
#openscience #openaccess

@tomstafford @LeoVarnet works here, too. Easy to synchronize across platforms, and that no-lock-in thing! 🙂

It's incredibly disappointing to hear that a quarter of UK schools don't have a specialist physics teacher. It's essential that we can all see the basics of how the world works & it's fun to satisfy that very basic curiosity. Physics gives us all agency in a complex world.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/sep/02/quarter-schools-england-lack-physics-teacher

@neuSoM

@MPIDR Max Plank Demographers 🙂

@tomstafford Are we surprised? There are companies selling synthetic respondents...

Thanks for sharing!

@infobeautiful p.78 how to create a "cosmograph" is fascinating: making a flow chart using paper strips!

Part 2 of blogpost on the hypocrisy behind Gold Standard Science
https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/08/gold-standard-science-isnt-gold_27.html
I'm curious to know if anyone has come across NIH's "Autism Data Science Initiative" - which popped up very briefly before closing to applications.
#autism #NIH #GoldStandardScience

Anyone interested in question of whether government should pay for article processing charges might like to read this: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-138.html
and respond to this survey: https://osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form-maximizing-research-funds-by-limiting-allowable-publishing-costs/
#publishers #APC #research

@wviechtb cool, you didn't mention the eraser tool :-)

The plotannotate package (#RStats) is now officially on CRAN:

https://cran.r-project.org/package=plotannotate

The package allows users to interactively annotate 'base R graphics' plots with freehand drawing, various symbols (points, lines, arrows, rectangles, circles, ellipses), and text. This is useful for teaching, for example to visually explain certain plot elements, and creating quick sketches.

It can be so frustrating to read STS research. Here are Bartscherer and Reinhart https://osf.io/rbyt6_v1/ Look at their flawed logic: Replication is *used as a career strategy*. The evidence? People were not known for earlier research. The clear confound? ECR’s drove the replication movement! 1/x