Heinz Leitgöb

Soziologischer Aschermittwoch 2026 YouTube video by UniversitaetzuKoeln

Der Soziologische Aschermittwoch 2026 zum Thema „Akademische Freiheit" zum Nachsehen:
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Mit @cdiehl.bsky.social @naikaforoutan.bsky.social, Markus Ogorek, Uwe Schimank, Richard Traunmüller und @jmwiarda.bsky.social

@wisocologne.bsky.social #AdenauerSchoolofGovernment

Data Visualization A Practical Introduction

Here’s a full draft of the upcoming second edition of my “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction”: socviz.co

Now out in the American Sociological Review

We present the first large-scale assessment of the structure and evolution of temporalities expressed in U.S. climate change news coverage (2000 to 2021). For this, we analyzed more than 23,000 statements about climate change effects and actions. 🧵 1/

NEW SKILLS Training

📣 New month, new chances!

Discover our latest #GESISworkshops:
📊 Einführung in die quantitative Datenanalyse
💻 Advanced R Programming
🧪 Using Simulation Studies to Evaluate Statistical Methods
🌍 Field Experiments
📐 Anwendung von Modellen der Item-Response-Theorie

Find yours ➡️ gesis.org/workshops

GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology 22 July to 14 August 2026 Cologne | Online

⏳ Only 6 days left until registration #GESISsummerschool opens on 2 March!
Check out the course overview on our website www.gesis.org/summerschool, pick your favorites, and start planning your summer. 🌞

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Paper on statistical power necessary for interaction effects
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Don't miss your chance to register now!
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Accessible for all here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

📚 Special issue in Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie on Explanation and Causality in Sociology. Essential reading on where causal inference in sociology is heading
link.springer.com/collections/...

Causal Inferences from Digital Behavioral Data - KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie In recent years, digital behavioral data (DBD) have emerged as a powerful resource in social science research. Their ubiquity, granularity, complexity, and continuous collection provide new opportunit...

Joint paper with @floriankeusch.bsky.social out now: We discuss opportunities and challenges of causal inference from digital behavioral data, and methodological approaches for making these data fit for purpose:
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Causal Machine Learning: A Deductive–Inductive Framework for Sociological Research - KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie Causal explanation is central to sociological research, shaping both theoretical development and empirical inquiry. This paper argues that causal machine learning—which integrates deductive identifica...

New paper on causal machine learning with Nanum Jeon @nanum-jeon.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

a graph showing how LLMs do or do not p-hack

While LLMs will try to follow good research practices by default, you can pretty easily convince them to p-hack for you. In one case (out of the 4 tested), the LLM moved the result from p > 0.05 to p < 0.001. github.com/janetmalzahn...

Congrats to my wife Nathalie, Ina Biber, and all colleagues on the nationwide representative LeSuBiA survey on violence victimization in Germany. First results:
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Read our latest special issue in Survey Methodology:
➡️ Advancing Comparative Research: Exploring Error and Quality Indicators in Social Research.
Edited by @heinzleitgoeb.bsky.social, Stefanie Kley, Katharina Meitinger & Natalia Menold.
surveyinsights.org

My colleague Kevin Munger asked me and a bunch of editors to sit and think through AI and peer review. Our take:

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We envision an increased (!) involvement of humans in the evaluation of social science.

Stellen frei!
Derzeit suchen wir mehrere neue Mitarbeitende in verschiedenen Bereichen des infas Instituts, zum Beispiel in der Fragebogenprogrammierung, der Datenpflege- und Rücklaufverarbeitung sowie für Interviewerschulungen (Werkstudentenstelle).
Neugierig? www.infas.de/karriere/

For us, this journey toward explaining *surprising macro outcomes* took many years. Grateful to my amazing co-authors, @martinarvidsson.bsky.social and Peter Hedström, and to all the reviewers who supported us along the way
🚀Out now: sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

#DataQuality #DigitalBehavioralData #DBD
Special Issue Explores the Quality of Digital Behavioral Data, by Weiß, B., Leitgöb, H., & Wagner, C

Most DBD are not generated for research purposes but are a side product of our daily activities. A new special issue addresses key questions:

Happy to report that our study on "Data Donation as a Method to Measure Physical Activity in Older Adults" was just published in JMIR. www.jmir.org/2025/1/e69799 We asked people aged 50+ in the Dutch #LISS panel to donate physical activity (PA) data from their smartphones. We found that...

❗️📢 Tue, Oct 7, 10:00-11:00 CET:
Mannheim Research Colloquium on Survey Methods
#MaRCS

Alexandru Cernat (@manchester.ac.uk):

"Estimating Multiple Types of Error Concurrently Using the Multitrait-Multierror (MTME) Approach"

👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even...
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Thrilled to share: our Special Issue in Social Science Computer Review (@sscratsage.bsky.social) on digital behavioral data quality is out now. Many thanks to all contributing authers and my co-editors @clauwa.bsky.social and Bernd Weiß:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Is there a role for statistics in artificial intelligence? - Advances in Data Analysis and Classification The research on and application of artificial intelligence (AI) has triggered a comprehensive scientific, economic, social and political discussion. Here we argue that statistics, as an interdisciplin...

You can find an English version here:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Excited for the start of the Fall Conference on "Computational Sociology" today, organized by the @dgsoziologie.bsky.social methods section, in collaboration with the working group "Methodologie in den Sozialwissenschaften" of the Akademie für Soziologie (AS)
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Exciting days ahead: @heinzleitgoeb.bsky.social and I welcome the wonderful Analytical Sociology community in Leipzig for the 16th #INAS Conference
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Leipzig sociology is looking for a postdoc at the intersection of qualitative and computational methods www.uni-leipzig.de/en/universit... Full-time, 4+2 years, independent research profile. Please get in touch, we are looking forward to your application. Deadline April 5

My colleague Helmut Hirtenlehner and I propose a model of a subsidiary relevance of deterrence to govern criminal action. If interested, find the full paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We are happy to announce the new DFG-funded longterm German Longitudinal Environmental Study (GLEN).
@glen-study.bsky.social will provide representative, individual level panel data on human-environmental interactions and climate issues.

glen-studie.de
#sciencenews #Klimawandel #climatechange

Subtract 16 days and this is the countdown to INAS 2024

Call for Abstracts is now open: Conference of the International Network of Analytical Sociologists, May 30–31, 2024 in Leipzig, Germany. For details, see: www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/en/inas-conf...

CfP for a new special issue in "Survey Methods: Insights from the Field" (SMIF): Advancing Comparative Research: Exploring Errors and Quality Indicators in Social Research

For details, see: surveyinsights.org/wp-content/u...