17/11/2021 Data Literacy Essentials Tomorrow, I will give a short talk on data visualization in the Data Literacy Essentials series.
16/11/2021 New article out now! Our article “Lässt sich ‘Cancel Culture’ empirisch belegen?” (with P.-I. Villa & M. Revers) has just been published in Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte.
04/11/2021 Article accepted! Our joint paper (with Tim Hanson, Marc Helbling, Rahsaan Maxwell, Kostas Gemenis, and Levente Littvay) “Developing a COVID-19 module for the European Social Survey” has just been accepted for publication in Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences.
24/08/2021 Proposal Accepted for UNU-WIDER Project on Institutional Legacies of Violent Conflict Our proposal “The Social and Political Legacy of Wartime Sexual Violence” (with Carlo Koos) was accepted for the Project on Institutional Legacies of Violence Conflict of the United Nations University – World Institute for Development Economics Research. The project seeks to increase understanding among policymakers, academics and practitioners of how institutional dynamics that develop... View Article
15/07/2021 Course at Data Science Summer School Today, I taught a four-hour short course on “Data Visualization using R” in the Data Science Summer School hosted by the Hertie Social Data Science Lab. The complete session was recorded – including my door bell ringing and the dog going crazy in the very beginning. Yikes! I will probably... View Article
06/07/2021 DFG Research Group FOR 5173 “Reconfiguration and Internalization of Social Structure (RISS)” Funded! It’s now official: our DFG Research Group FOR 5173 “Reconfiguration and Internalization of Social Structure (RISS)” will be funded by the German Research Foundation! Funding for an initial four years has been approved, and the research group will receive a total of around 3 million euros. The project focuses on multi-dimensional... View Article
05/07/2021 Blog Post on Free Speech at the University 2 Here is part 2 of our discussion of the empirical study of freedom of speech on university campus.
25/06/2021 Blog Post on Free Speech at the University SozBlog – the official blog of the German Sociological Association – features our thoughts on how to improve the empirical study of free speech at the university from a pluralist perspective (with P.-I. Villa and M. Revers). Read part 1 here.
22/06/2021 Data Vis Course at the Mannheim Business School My online data visualization course in the Mannheim Business School starts today.