Pat Hastings

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Two astronauts looking at earth. One: wait it's all just weird weighted averages? The other, pointing a gun: always has been.

This is a paper I really care about. I feel the core message is very important for social scientists in general, and political scientists in particular.

"Quantitative Research in Political Science is Greatly Underpowered."

(with A+ co-authors)

Assistant Professor of Sociology Assistant Professor of Sociology with an expertise in Criminology, tenure track, nine-month position beginning August 16, 2026. Competitive salary for an entry-level position. The Department offers un...

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Criminology (in our Sociology department)! Tenure track. 2/2 teaching load. Great colleagues. Fantastic location.

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I only tested your Bluesky-registered hypothesis. 😉 But agree if there's indeed a null effect (or even if there is something) to publish, would want to try some other religion measures and some subgroup analyses (class, age, race...).

Figure showing no relationship between religious service attendance and physical attractiveness.

Here's attendance vs looks by gender with all three years. Not a lot of action...

Forthcoming!🍾

If you want to tag I think you have to write it all out: @socarxiv.bsky.social

Thank you, Herman. It was fun to put it together and I find the contributions impressive. The last few will be coming online shortly and then the full special issue will be out soon. Complete line-up below, quick summaries here: doi.org/10.1177/0049...

homer simpson from the simpsons is standing in a grassy field ALT: homer simpson from the simpsons is standing in a grassy field

“Let me look into that and get back to you soon…”

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In our new #OA article, we studied the drivers of ethnic school segregation.
Research on segregation often points to parental preferences, but what if it's not just about what parents want, but also what options they actually have?

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf027

How much of the "long arm of childhood" works thru intergenerational stratification?

Almost all for some health outcomes like psychological distress and self-rated health, but a lot less for others like severe chronic conditions. Heart attacks and stroke are in between.

Good news! Release 1 of the 2024 GSS is available for download.

The 2024 GSS, like 2022, uses web, in-person, and phone modes. For some variables this can complicate analyses of trends. See documentation.

Still a prob sample & gold standard survey w/ high resp rates (by contemporary standards).

Integrating Generative Artificial Intelligence into Social Science Research: Measurement, Prompting, and Simulation - Thomas Davidson, Daniel Karell, 2025 Generative artificial intelligence (AI) offers new capabilities for analyzing data, creating synthetic media, and simulating realistic social interactions. This...

Attn: the special issue of SMR on Generative AI in Sociology is now online. The whole issue is fire, but the introduction by @thomasdavidson.bsky.social and Danny Karell is a must read, covering prompting, measurement, and simulations. It's a road map for soc sci research in the genAI era. +

Analytical Sociology Seminar: Parenting and Socioeconomic Status Välkommen till Analytisk Sociologi Seminar med Orestes P. Hastings från Colorado State University. Seminariet är öppet för allmänheten och hålls på engelska. Kontakta madelene.topfer@liu.se för Zoom-l...

Join us on tomorrow, 22 May, at 14.30 CET for the Analytical Sociology Seminar with @ophastings.bsky.social🔹Why does parenting vary by socioeconomic status? Insights from expenditure surveys and computational text analysis 🔹More info: liu.se/en/event/202...

I'm presenting tomorrow (early morning for me in Colorado; afternoon for Sweden). This is a Zoom talk, so anyone is welcome!

Great stuff. Thanks for connecting so much current research together!

But got to say it… isn’t this figure you posted one of those bar graphs where the x-axis doesn’t start at zero and so visually it massively exaggerates the change?

The IPM section will once again be hosting a mentoring event at ASA in Chicago this year - Saturday, August 9 (12:00-1:30pm). Registration for the event is open to the first 40 graduate students who sign up.

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My spot for the week. Excited to see some co-authors, make connections, share new work, and explore somewhere I’ve never been!

Counterpoint is all the times I've seen scholars dismiss work (verbally or in article reviews) because "that's been done before." If that wasn't happening, I think we'd write this a lot less. Work important enough to do once is probably important enough to do again.

Totally. And I always leave and start thinking about everyone I didn’t see while I was there! Hoping to be at the UCLA RC28 in August.

Before every academic conference I doubt whether it's worth the time, energy, and cost to go. And then I go and have a great time, connect with friends and make new ones, and get excited about a bunch of new research. #PAA2025 was no exception. And the sun finally came out at the end.

That’s saying a lot from someone whose office is essentially across the street from the British Museum

The Table 2 Fallacy: Presenting and Interpreting Confounder and Modifier Coefficients Abstract. It is common to present multiple adjusted effect estimates from a single model in a single table. For example, a table might show odds ratios for

writing another review where I point to the Table 2 Fallacy (doi.org/10.1093/aje/... and doi.org/10.1017/psrm...) and say stop interpreting every single coefficient

My department has created this wonderful norm that if you go on sabbatical, when you come back you have to give a talk about it.

<em>Population and Development Review</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library To mark the Population and Development Review's (PDR) 50th anniversary, we analyze its contributions to the landscape of population research. We examine the trajectory of research published in PDR an...

The Population and Development turns 50 this year! To mark the occasion, w/ @aasli.bsky.social, we conduct a computational analysis of research themes and author characteristics in PDR and compare with @readdemography.bsky.social and Population Studies. doi.org/10.1111/padr...

You did use the biterm topic modeling! Another great application for it.

Rising house prices don’t just make it harder to become a homeowner – they also widen the racial wealth gap Housing market appreciation has been the primary driver of growing white-Black wealth disparities since the mid-1980s.

New today from me @us.theconversation.com: I talk about my research on how rising housing prices have widened the White-Black wealth gap over the past several decades. theconversation.com/rising-house...