Mark Lutter

Universities are expected to be places of tolerance, universalism, and open inquiry. Our new study in European Societies finds evidence that visibly Jewish instructors face less favorable evaluations from students than otherwise identical instructors. doi.org/10.1162/EUSO...

What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12 Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...

Why do some minority groups organize around their ethnicity, while others do not? In a new study just out in AJS @amjsoc.bsky.social (w/@mschaeffer.bsky.social, S. Carol and S. Böller), we crunched data on over 25000 immigrant organizations for an answer. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Einrichungsfrist verlängert bis zum 26.4.26

@marklutter345.bsky.social und ich organisieren eine Ad-hoc-Gruppe auf dem @dgskongress2026.bsky.social in Mainz zu: Computational Social Science und die Zukunft der Soziologie. Wir freuen uns über Beitragsvorschläge (gerne provokant und kontrovers) bis zum 15.4.!

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📚 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/...

Looking for a measure of #neighborhoods, micro or macro #segregation? I've got something for you! My newly published paper in Sociological Methods & Research presents a machine-learning-based algorithm to delineate neighborhoods with grid-cell or point data: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Check out our new, open access paper in RSSM. Anne Maaike Mulders expertly led our author team (with Christoph Janietz Jochem Tolsma myself) to find an important piece of the gender inequity puzzle in academia. 🔬Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 📰Press release: www.ru.nl/onderzoek/on...

"Do virtual museums highlighting the experiences of minorities persuade visitors? Evidence from a study on bias toward Asian Americans" This is a work in progress, so feedback is welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

A new publication at www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... We find that religious markers (esp. beards) can reduce perceived trustworthiness in Turkey. (That's why you often see me clean shaven ;-)

Cologne sociologist Clemens Kroneberg invites to the Sociological Ash Wednesday on 18 February at the University of Cologne. This year’s high-calibre panel discussion focuses on how to deal with academic freedom and diversity of perspectives in universities and academic world. bit.ly/soziologisch...

AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail

“These findings provide clear evidence that data collected on MTurk simply cannot be trusted.”

Super excited to announce a new venture, with @danlarremore.bsky.social : Cevian Labs cevianlabs.io provides advanced tools to accelerate faculty work in academia. Our first product CVParsa helps faculty search committees process huge piles of CVs, so they can spend more time evaluating candidates

IC2S2 2026 registration is open! Explore the 2026 conference here ➡️ ic2s2-2026.org ✔️ Submissions open December 15th ✔️ Keynotes will be announced between now and February ✔️ Full program of selected talks and tutorials will be available in late April

Out now! Sociology in the Weimar Republic. 2 Volumes 🥳🤓 some of the structural problems and crises of Weimar society are very similar today, so that the earlier sociological analyses of these problems still remain relevant…

How is ethnic diversity linked to the cohesion of social networks? @glorenz.bsky.social & #C_Rjosk analyse >1,300 adolescent friendship networks to examine how connectivity varies with ethnic diversity, and its consolidation with gender and SES. 👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf051

Needed - larger samples, more realism about (the lack of) heterogeneous treatment effects: -"less than a third of proposed hypotheses were supported... the largest predictor of positive exp. results was sample size" -"moderation hypotheses were rarely significant" academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

Now available online and open access! The results of our adversarial collaboration on: Students’ motives for restricting academic freedom: Viewpoint discrimination and prosocial concerns | PNAS @pnas.org @nilsweidmann.bsky.social @kunkakom.bsky.social @drfell.bsky.social

Returning to the Venice Workshop of Analytical Sociology this week meant a lot to me--smart talks, kind people, and lots of cool ideas. Shout out to the lovely community on Bluesky @kauspurg.bsky.social @marklutter345.bsky.social @verenaseibel.bsky.social @sawalzenbach.bsky.social ...

Universitäten stehen heute in einem intensivierten Wettbewerb um Exzellenz. Richard Münch analysiert, wie der „akademische Kapitalismus“ Forschung, Wissen und institutionelle Dynamiken beeinflusst. @hartmutesser.bsky.social hat „Wissenschaft im Wettbewerb“ gelesen: www.soziopolis.de/wider-die-ve...

Can AI-generated images work as visual vignettes in survey experiments? I argue yes - and discuss how . in my new @sscratsage.bsky.social paper: doi.org/10.1177/0894...

📊 now in English @fesonline.bsky.social: Gender gap in voting behavior in Germany📊 It's about the “big picture” since 1953 & current trends 2021-2025. The gender gap keeps growing, especially among the young. -> Longer trends are continuing & partly accelerating. library.fes.de/pdf-files/a-...

🗳️ 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)

Studying social sciences & humanities makes students more left-leaning, controlling for initial views & major preference, driven by cultural views. Implies that if all students majored in business, college–noncollege ideological gap would shrink by 1/3 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Cool paper on social influence using Spotify data

NYU Abu Dhabi is recruiting a 3-year Postdoctoral Associate for a Computational Social Science project on the coevolution of ingroup bias and group boundaries. For more details and to apply, please visit: apply.interfolio.com/173544.

💼🔎 We are looking for a post-doctoral researcher (100%) to participate in a project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Israeli Science Foundation (ISF). Find all information about the job posting here: www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/soziologie/a...

Assistant 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

Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender Differences in Economics Seminars" by Pascaline Dupas, Amy Handlan, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Mateo Seré, Haoyu Sheng, Justin Wolfers, and Seminar Dynamics Collective. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Analyzing 1M Spotify users, we show how “wide social influence” exposes people to content beyond their usual repertoires—decoupling collective outcomes from initial preferences. The key: partial taste overlap between senders and receivers. Too little similarity, no influence; too much, no novelty.

"We consistently find that COVID-19 did not have more severe consequences on research output for women than for men." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This paper by @savolainen.bsky.social is very interesting! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New article in @socresonline.bsky.social ⤵️ "Cultural Omnivorousness in the Domains of Music, Film and Literature" Findings suggest partial overlap across cultural domains. 🔓 Read it here: doi.org/10.1177/1360... #OpenAccess #CulturalSociology

Just published in Scientometrics: "Who Talks to the Prof? Gender Differences in Interaction with Senior Scholars at Four Academic Conferences." Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Statement of @isa-rc28.bsky.social on the decision of @isa-sociology.org to suspend the Israeli Sociological Association

There's an large uptick in papers published in the year before researchers attain tenure, a new analysis shows. From there it diverges: those in fields that have labs (eg biology, chemistry) keep churning papers, while those that aren't (eg sociology, math) see a decline in papers.

Huh. I like to think I'm often right ... but I'm rarely proven right twice on the same topic in the space of a week! I specifically argued that country level clustering likely explained the gender equality paradox in 2022. And what do you know... durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1187310

⭐🎓The Department of Sociology in Vienna @univie.ac.at‬ invites applications for a Tenure Track Professor in Sociology with focus on Quantitative Social Science Research Methods | #Sociology | quant methods Apply here (17 Sept 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

Klare Position: Akademie für Soziologie teilt Widerspruch der @dgsoziologie.bsky.social gegen den Ausschluss der Israeli Sociological Society und zeigt sich „solidarisch mit der ISS, deren wissenschaftliche Freiheit und wissenschaftliches Wirken durch die Entscheidung der ISA eingeschränkt wird“ 👍🙏🏼

Und auch die Kölner Kolleginnen und Kollegen aus dem Department für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie (dss.uni-koeln.de/de/) positionieren sich klar gegen den Ausschluss der Israeli Sociological Society durch die ISA! 👍🙏🏼 dss.uni-koeln.de/sites/soziol...

Local reactions to wolf attacks in Germany are not powerful enough to influence the election decisions of many voters www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Do male leading authors retract more articles than female leading authors? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... There is a stat significant diff btw retraction rates of 1st-author male and female articles. Substantively, it seems negligible to me w a difference of 1 retraction per 10,000 articles

Open access version of the article here: osf.io/preprints/so... Thank you, @socarxiv.bsky.social

Very excited to share our article on gender and political expression! We explore why women are more likely to say they "don't know" in survey research. This project was in the works for many years-- thanks to the folks at @poppublicsphere.bsky.social for giving it a home. Please give it a read!