Notes & Observations

Narrative CV and LLM · 2025-03-19

Using ChatGPT for coding — do I still have to learn anything? · 2025-01-03

Glorifying journals, not content · 2024-08-26

Inclusivity · 2024-08-05

I won’t review for commercial publishers. · 2024-08-01

Country selection · 2024-05-10

Southern perspectives and our obsession with countries · 2024-04-29

Narrative CV · 2024-03-15

Colour Wars? · 2023-12-08

Using an iPhone charger for a MacBook Pro: Works · 2023-02-14

The association between attitudes and political representation under different electoral systems · 2022-11-15

Living with DORA · 2022-11-05

DORA … are we getting there? · 2022-10-22

Academic age · 2022-10-22

Decolonizing [insert your discipline here] · 2022-04-04

Rejecting candidates · 2021-06-20

Co-writing — Authorea, Overleaf, SciFlow, Google Docs, Sharepoint · 2021-06-19

Getting started with Bayesian in R · 2021-05-22

Ethics versus Permissions · 2021-03-18

Peer-reviewing encourages p-hacking · 2020-05-04

What is a maître d’enseignement et de recherche (MER)? · 2020-02-28

Open Access Options for Migration Studies · 2019-10-31

What is the claim to representation for immigrants? · 2019-09-28

Taking the Bus to Tirana’s Airport · 2019-05-15

Ensuring Development by Linking Countries? · 2018-08-11

Who is an author? · 2018-07-01

Why PR systems might be good for women · 2018-05-26

A migration-mobility nexus · 2018-05-19

Stop using population estimates as evidence of racism · 2017-12-02

Understanding p-hacking through Yahtzee? · 2017-11-10

Education as a Career? · 2017-11-04

Another use for pre-registration plans (PAP): help yourself · 2017-09-30

Education and Attitudes — Not So Fast · 2017-07-08

Use Interpolated Median Values to Measure Brain Waste · 2017-05-20

Member Commitment in Political Parties · 2017-05-06

Level of Descriptive Representation Unrelated to Population Size · 2017-04-17

That hairy caterpillar · 2016-12-26

What is individual representation? · 2016-12-24

Taxing immigrants is likely to deter them: some data · 2016-12-10

Should I pay my interview respondents? · 2016-09-17

This is how we do research ethics at the SFM · 2016-09-13

Did I just find these “missing” papers in the meta-analysis on hiring discrimination? · 2016-07-30

Legislative Power and the Representation of Ethnic Groups · 2016-05-15

Are Low-Skilled Minorities Discriminated More? · 2016-04-12

A Modified Shapefile for Plotting Swiss Cantons · 2015-11-21

Easternization and Westernization as Simulacra · 2015-08-29

Switzerland’s Cantons as a Most-Similar Design? · 2015-08-22

How I ended up with R · 2015-07-04

The paradox of multiculturalism · 2014-11-01

Brain Drain Beyond the Buzzword · 2014-05-31

Divide Text Files by Keyword · 2014-05-17

Anti-Immigrant Parties in Switzerland · 2014-04-26

Use Graphs not Tables, BUT… · 2014-02-22

The Discrimination of Multilingual People — A Gem from Coding Manifestos · 2014-02-15

The Concept of Capital in Sociology · 2014-01-11

Just How Diverse is the Immigrant Population · 2013-12-14

Identity Points in Bosnia and Herzegovina · 2013-11-16

Is the Immigration Debate Becoming Europeanized? · 2013-10-05

Women in National Legislatures · 2013-08-09

The ‘Effect’ of New Zealand’s Electoral Formula on the Proportion of Women in Parliament · 2013-07-20

Media Quality and Claims-Making about Immigration · 2013-06-29

Cronbach’s Alpha with Zero-Inflated Data · 2013-06-22

Measuring Descriptive Representation · 2013-05-22

Party Positions on Ethnonationalism (EPAC) · 2013-04-27

MIPEX Over Time · 2013-03-09

Quotas in Costa Rica · 2013-01-12

POS: Are Federal Systems More Open? · 2012-11-17

Splitting Groups and the Gallagher Index · 2012-10-14

Quantitative analysis in R

videos on using R: YouTube · PeerTube

Stacked barplot for only one categorical variable in R · 2025-02-04

Drawing a simple map in R: Step by step · 2024-03-02

Quarto “forgets” ggplot theme · 2023-12-08

Using merge() to recode in R · 2023-06-08

Plot and boxplot in R without borders · 2022-12-07

How to specify RGB colours and transparency in R plots · 2022-07-02

Combining two strings in R when they are in a vector · 2022-04-29

Plotting a normal distribution in R · 2021-11-27

How to add text labels to a scatter plot in R? · 2021-06-03

Error: `quantile.haven_labelled()` not implemented. · 2020-05-30

Visualize correlations in R · 2020-03-28

Contour Plot Breaks Off? · 2020-01-10

Getting Qualtrics data into R · 2019-12-01

Counting Articles in Nexis Uni · 2019-11-24

brms and mice · 2019-08-03

Correlations Graphics in R · 2018-10-20

Custom Tables of Descriptive Statistics in R · 2018-02-04

Calculating Standard Deviations on Specific Columns/Variables in R · 2017-04-22

Set Encoding When Importing CSV Data in R Under Windows · 2017-01-28

Access to knitr cache · 2016-12-20

How to run a regression on a subset in R · 2016-12-03

How to Calculate the Mode in R · 2016-09-26

Getting Rid of Page Numbers in split.screen 2016-03-29

Predicted Probabilities in R · 2016-01-16

Same Explanatory Variables, Multiple Dependent Variables in R · 2015-11-28

Barplots across variables in R · 2015-10-07

Mapping Ethnic Representation Scores in R · 2015-09-19

R: empty cells in weighted cross-tabs across multiple variables · 2015-09-08

Plotting Gradients in R · 2015-05-23

Using Shading in Coefficient Plots · 2015-03-26

How to Create Coefficient Plots in R the Easy Way · 2015-02-28

Using splines to fill holes (Interpolation) · 2014-10-04

Moving averages or LOESS? · 2014-09-13

Survival analysis in R · 2014-07-26

Combining three date variables in R · 2013-11-23

Double sapply() · 2013-10-12

Swiss postcode to canton · 2013-09-28

Moving average to fill holes (interpolation) · 2013-06-15

Plotting connected lines with missing values · 2013-01-19

Bootstrapping in R · 2012-11-10

Interpolated median in R · 2012-09-21

Scatterplot() with scales · 2012-08-17

Moving averages in R · 2012-08-11

Academic skills

videos on navigating academia: YouTube · PeerTube

How to become a sociology professor · 2024-12-27

Write in the first person to avoid unintended causal claims · 2024-08-27

How to find untagged items in Zotero · 2024-07-11

Quarto reveal.js themes gallery · 2023-03-25

Atkinson Hyperlegible in Quarto Presentations · 2023-03-22

Quarto HTML themes gallery · 2023-03-07

Cleaning up Zotero’s “The attached file could not be found at the following path” · 2022-10-12

The One Book You Really Need · 2019-12-01

Most important academic skill? English! · 2017-11-18

Anonymizing your manuscript may make it easier to identify who you are · 2017-10-21

Read Your Manuscript Aloud · 2017-04-01

This is a PhD · 2015-07-25

Which Journal to Submit to? · 2015-01-31

Keeping Notes of What You Are Reading · 2015-01-24

Don’t Write Just Yet: Writing Doesn’t Have to Be (That) Painful · 2014-10-18

How to write an abstract · 2014-08-30

Taking notes on readings/papers · 2014-08-16

A guide to better essay writing · 2011-11-14

Updated 20 July 2025