Mark Lutter

Screenshot of the cevianlabs.io website. Banner says "Accelerating Academic Hiring", followed by The Cevian Advantage, Cevian Labs provides advanced tools to faculty and administrators to make better decisions, faster. Founded by faculty who spent years wishing for a way to automate the tedious parts of faculty hiring (summarizing CVs, tracking publications, synthesizing candidate information) and finally just built the solution we always needed. Our secure platform automates manual error-prone processes to deliver...

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…

Fragmentation or integration? Ethnic diversity and the structural cohesion of adolescent social networks Abstract. This paper addresses a key yet untested proposition in social cohesion research: ethnic diversity fragments social networks and leads to an overa

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

An Audit of Social Science Survey Experiments Abstract. Survey experiments have become a popular methodology for causal inference across the social sciences. We study the efficacy of survey experiment

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"
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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 ...

Cool, thanks!!

Interesting, do you have a paper on this?

Screenshot der Website hinter dem Link: Cover und bibliografische Informationen zum rezensierten Buch.

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...

Two AI generated images showing 1) a boy walking through a disorderly neighbourhood with graffiti and trash and 2) a boy walking through a very similar but cleaned up neighbourhood without trash ad graffiti.

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.

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🗳️ 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
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We have published an English translation of our working paper on the "All Eyes on Gaza/Zusammen für Gaza" demonstration @protestinstitut.bsky.social

You can download it here.

Wide Social Influence and the Emergence of the Unexpected: An Empirical Test Using Spotify Data Article: Wide Social Influence and the Emergence of the Unexpected: An Empirical Test Using Spotify Data | Sociological Science | Posted October 23, 2025

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

Gender Differences in Economics Seminars (Forthcoming Article) - We assess whether men and women are treated differently when presenting their economics research. We collected data across thousands of seminars, job market talks and conferenc...

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.

...and not way earlier?

Interesting, but what is the explanatory mechanism here? If the reasons for the far right shiftgo that far back, why did the shift happened more or less recently?

Knowledge lost, parity gained? COVID-19 and gender gaps in Dutch academia - Scientometrics We investigated the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic impacted long-standing gender inequalities in Dutch academia. Dutch academia is an ideal case to gain insight on exacerbated gender differentials due to COVID-19 on employees, because men and women face comparable institutional contexts and any COVID-19 impact becomes visible and measurable fast through potentially decreased yearly publications. We reconstructed the complete publishing careers up till 2022 of more than 8000 Dutch scientists who received a PhD from 1990 onwards and still had an active publication career before the pandemic started. We compared the publication dip between men and women during COVID-19. Our data allowed us to investigate whether the gendered impact of COVID-19 varied across research domains, different PhD cohorts and type of research output. We consistently find that COVID-19 did not have more severe consequences on research output for women than for men.

"We consistently find that COVID-19 did not have more severe consequences on research output for women than for men."
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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

Who talks to the prof? Gender differences in interaction with senior scholars at four academic conferences - Scientometrics The percentage of women in academia is still lower than what would be expected statistically, especially in the sciences and among faculty (tenured professors). Theories on network closure suggest tha...

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...

Decision by the International Sociological Association (ISA) to suspend the Israeli Sociological Society (ISS) as a collective member Dear RC28-community, As members of the ISA-RC28, we are deeply committed to the values of international scholarly collaboration, academic freedom, and critical engagement. It is precisely because of this commitment that we feel compelled to express our concerns about the decision to suspend the Israeli Sociological Society (ISS) as a collective member. While we share the ISA’s commitment to human rights and solidarity with people affected by violence, we believe that professional scholarly organizations should not be treated as representatives of their governments. We are aware that boycott is a means of applying pressure on governments and societies; however, in the field of academia, it can endanger the space needed for rigorous and principled academic dialogue. Academic boycotts shut down debate and silence diverse voices—precisely the opposite of what academia should represent.

Moreover, the ISS is deeply committed to democratic values, human rights, and academic freedom. Over the past four years, many of its members – including those affiliated with ISA-RC28 – have actively worked to document, critique, and stand against their government’s actions and policies. The ISA’s decision not only weakens these progressive efforts on a broader scale, but also has real, personal, and professional consequences for members of our community. RC28 has a proud tradition of supporting sociologists who were repressed for their progressive views and actions – for example, in Czechoslovakia and Hungary under Soviet rule. In that spirit, we should support, not boycott, the progressive forces within Israel and elsewhere. Questioning the ISA’s decision does not imply support for the actions of the Israeli government, nor does it diminish the destruction, death, and human suffering in Gaza. Rather, it reflects a principled belief that academic boycotts undermine the values of academic freedom, open dialogue, and international scholarly collaboration, and should not be used as a response to governmental actions. We respectfully urge the ISA Executive Committee to reconsider this decision.

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

Do academics publish less after getting tenured? Depends on your field Paper output varies between disciplines, as does the trend after tenure is achieved.

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.

Spannend! Will ich lesen!