Adrian Greiner

The Science of Visual Data Communication: What Works - Steven L. Franconeri, Lace M. Padilla, Priti Shah, Jeffrey M. Zacks, Jessica Hullman, 2021 Effectively designed data visualizations allow viewers to use their powerful visual systems to understand patterns in data across science, education, health, an...

I'm surprised I only came across it now, but this review on improving communication in data visualization is excellent.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I'm facilitating a causal inference reading group next semester for Sociology PhD students. (I will also be learning!) If there are (1) pedagogical articles or (2) empirical examples in soc that you ❤️, will you share in the comments? [And please RT to help me crowd-source!]

I hope working papers are fine:

doi.org/10.31219/osf...
osf.io/x4526_v1/
arxiv.org/pdf/2507.01517

Causal Mediation Analysis Cambridge Core - Research Methods In Sociology and Criminology - Causal Mediation Analysis

Something to look forward to 🤩: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Life satisfaction mostly declines with age. Previous findings (esp. the famous U-shaped age-SWB trajectory) were artifacts of misspecified models. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

If you want to read the review paper by @jenniebrand.bsky.social , Hyunjoon Park, and Michelle Jackson about recent trends in social stratification and mobility. Please check out the paper 👇 #ASA #ISA #RSSM

drive.google.com/file/d/1bgkT...

Understandable, but he is a German philosopher.

Judging by 26., you might enjoy "Moralspektakel". There are tons of podcast/YouTube interviews with him about the book.

Have you read "Moralspektakel" by Hübl?

I can recommend the slides by Brüderl & Ludwig (www.ls3.soziologie.uni-muenchen.de/studium-lehr...) and by Fan Li (chapters 8 & 9: www2.stat.duke.edu/~fl35/Causal...)

Reads like a updated version of the causal description vs. causal explanation distinction in Shadish, Cook & Campbell (2002).

DIW Berlin: Researcher (f/m/x)

We are hiring a 3-year postdoc for the ERC-funded WEALTHTRAJECT project at DIW Berlin. More details here: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...

Can't wait for the Marvel movie

New paper with @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social just out in Demography!
🔗 read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Here’s a short thread on what we found—and why it might be worth a look.

‼️2nd update of MZ-SUF-Panel 2016-19 linking tool‼️Thanks to a user feedback we found an error in the tool and now have uploaded a corrected version of the linking tool. You can find the documenting GESIS paper and the do-file on our MISSY page www.gesis.org/en/missy/mat...

Divorce, Family Arrangements, and Children's Adult Outcomes Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

New NBER working paper with Andrew Johnston and Nolan Pope. We examine family dissolution, proxied by divorce (an observable breakdown), and how family circumstances and children’s outcomes change. www.nber.org/papers/w33776

Haha yes exactly! Next Wednesday they will present on common support and impact functions, so I'm already expecting another eye-opening causal inference sermon 😇
www.ls3.soziologie.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/fo...

Katrin Auspurg, Josef Brüderl and Lena Jost have some nice slides on this, including DAGs and coefficient plots: www.en.soziologie.uni-muenchen.de/venedig/veni...

Figure 3 in Lundberg et al. (2021) is another nice illustration.

The Job Market for Young Grads Is Flashing Red - The Ringer Last month, the unemployment rate for recent college grads surged to nearly 6 percent. Compared to the overall economy’s jobless rate, the unemployment rate for recent grads is higher now than i...

Derek Thompson has also interviewed David Deming on this: www.theringer.com/podcasts/pla...

I have a new paper out! "Should Social Insurance Programs Count as Wealth? Augmented Wealth in Research and Policy." Published yesterday in Socio-Economic Review @sasemeeting.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

Join us for the first
ISI INTERNATIONAL WEALTH CONFERENCE
in Munich, October 9-11 2025

CfP: www.lmu.de/isi/en/lates...

Submit a short abstract or paper by April 28.

Keynotes by Annette Lareau & Lane Kenworthy. And if you arrive a few days early, you can catch the last weekend of Oktoberfest :)

No problem! Let me know if you find anything on academic performance.

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I don't know anything on academic performance. But these articles might still be helpful (although you probably already know them):

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
link.springer.com/article/10.1... link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Upgrade your #causalinference arsenal.

A revision of our book "Causal Inference: What If" is available at miguelhernan.org/whatifbook

Thanks to everyone who suggested improvements, reported typos, and proposed new citations and material.

Enjoy the #WhatIfBook plus code and data. Also, it's free.

Some even argue that there is wide and narrow analytical sociology ...

www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library Objective This study presents initial results from the KINMATRIX survey, a large-scale source of ego-centric network data offering an unprecedented level of scope and detail in mapping family relati...

Radiating exuberant euphoria 🥳🎉🥂, I announce that our study with initial results from the #KINMATRIX survey has been published 👉 doi.org/10.1111/jomf.... KINMATRIX is a unique new source of ego-centric network data that offers unprecedented scope and detail in mapping family relations. #Demography

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Great article on this: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Here is something that might be useful for the outlook part ...

marlonseror.github.io/papers/Persi...
doi.org/10.1093/ej/u...
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
academic.oup.com/qje/article-...

Figure 3. Three graphs where auxiliary variable must be used to recover , using external data on . Left: blocks all paths between and . Intermediate: unobserved confounders do not impede recoverability as long as they do not directly influence . An impact of on is also inconsequential. Right: may be influenced by , instead of the other way around. This too is inconsequential. However, in the intermediate and right graph, adding any additional arrow between or and impedes recoverability.

One un-questioned research practice (UQRP) that does as much harm as QRPs is ignoring sampling bias and selection effects. This is a nice paper that shows one way to be transparent and analytical about the problem. "Graphical Causal Models for Survey Inference" doi.org/10.1177/0049... #stats 🧪

Young women are starting to leave men behind Men’s education deficit is increasingly becoming an employment, earnings and outcomes gap, with significant repercussions

Very interesting by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social on the gender gap in education and employment: women in the UK (and a number of other countries) now marginally more likely than men to employed, and significantly more likely to get a degree. on.ft.com/4gA21OP

Nonparametric Causal Decomposition of Group Disparities We introduce a new nonparametric causal decomposition approach that identifies the mechanisms by which a treatment variable contributes to a group-based outcome disparity. Our approach...

Prof Felix Elwert gave a keynote at the #ecsr meeting in Barcelona yesterday on a paper with Ang Yu that probably will turn out as the most important #sociology methods paper in the 2020s.

Go check it out.

arxiv.org/abs/2306.16591