Iván Canzio

Really interesting (and necessary) thread!!

It seems that good mentorship can significantly reduce barriers for many low-SES PhD students.

We, as postdocs, can also help reduce these barriers by informally sharing our knowledge about norms and customs in academia with our younger colleagues.

We should just use standardized test scores + grades to admit students into college.

Everything else is way too easy to game, allowing the extremely rich to dominate access to prestigious colleges. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I've been saying this for a long time, but the data makes it clear.

Use of mental health medications in the population of Swedish PhD students is 40% higher than a matched sample by the fifth PhD year.

Be kind to PhD students. Don't take up PhD students you can't invest in. Alert prospective students of the reality of a PhD.

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Centre LIVES @unil.bsky.social is running the Good Life Data Challenge:

Using existing Swiss Household Panel data, can you predict the feeling of having lived a happy, meaningful, and interesting (psychologically rich) life in 🇨🇭?

These new items will be included in the next wave of SHP

In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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Hoy en Madrid hay huelga en defensa de la Universidad pública/ today in Madrid we go on strike to defend public univerities

("Today I wake up and strike", writing on a wall, Bologna, some years ago)

Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges* Abstract. We use anonymized admissions data from several colleges linked to income tax records and SAT and ACT test scores to study the determinants and ca

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges,” by Chetty (@Oppinsights), Deming, and Friedman: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

11 Km?

My wife was sexually harassed by Miles Hewstone as a phd student. He was still asked to review her (and other women he harassed) for jobs and promotions. This is so fucked up.

Thankfully, she and many other women testified against him and something was finally done. This is her take on his case:

In the meantime, I'm still trying to understand whether my view (and not theirs) changed because I became a sociologist or a bourgeois, as my former self would have pointed out.

14 years later I find myself constantly reminding my relatives that they should keep distance from alarming media narratives. I tell them that institutions generally work well, cohesion is strong, and chaos is rare. Terrible outcomes happen, but they are unlikely.

I decided to study sociology when 15M in Spain was booming. In the middle of a terrible recession we felt that institutions didn't work, that chaos was the rule, and that the worst outcomes were the most likely ones.

see this vacancy to work with me on educational inequalities in Europe. We have extended the deadline by 1 week, now Dec 1st, 2025. #job #postdoc #vacancy #pleaseshare

The patent of this mechanism is for sale. I'm open to negotiations.

Also, nuts fit well with most mainstream foods: sandwiches, pasta, salads, pizza, soups, rice...

Sandwich with vegetables and nuts

Vegan pro tip for eating at conferences:

Most available vegan options in non-vegan places are just a bunch of processed and vegetables.

An easy way to make food healthier and more nutritious is to add nuts.

Nuts contain protein, healthy fats, and don't need refrigeration. Easy!

Lo siento... Imagino que es muy frustrante. No sé si el argumento para mantener este sistema es que "se ha hecho así toda la vida"

702 euros to be precise...por el retraso de la agencia en contestar, imposibilidad de reservar con Ryanair, error en la reserva etc. Lo más absurdo es que la administración no pone ninguna pega a los 702 euros, pero impone buscar un hotel por 65 euros en Madrid

Milán-Madrid a 700€? 😮

You can only notice it in the female voice talking about how to make a claim on the website

Did they hire someone who could speak many languages and this person was French by chance?

Am I just wrong and this is just a very specific Italian accent?

More important: Does Trenitalia need to remind us that we can make a formal claim after each train stop?

Any insights are valued!

On my way to Venice on a @trenitalia.bsky.social train.

Once again, I wonder "why does the voice used in the pre-recorded announcements in English has a French accent?"

Did Trenitalia intentionally try to represent the real spirit of EU travelling without borders?

Wow, what a well-taken photo! To me it seems that the photographer managed to capture the whole essence of the workshop in just one clic. Amazing skills ;)

¿Te interesan los temas de desigualdad y movilidad social? ¿Quieres hacer el doctorado?

Va a salir una Beca FPI en el proyecto I+D que dirijo:
“Does luck matter? The role of luck in individual life courses and views of redistribution”.

La convocatoria oficial de la UNED saldrá en breve.

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¿Alguien en Presidencia, Prospectiva o alguna Subdirección General que pueda ayudarme a hacer llegar un SOS a la ministra de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (o a algún DG, me vale)?

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New paper with @mhamjediers.bsky.social

German judges have discretion to apply rehabilitative juvenile criminal law (Jugendstrafrecht) or punitive adult criminal law to 18–20-year-old offenders. We show that immigrant youths are ~10 percentage points less likely to be sentenced under juvenile law

Once again, let's look at who leaves (and not just who enters) when thinking about labour market segregation 👇

Let's all agree that it's fully ok to present in short pants.

Nearly 40% of professors come from families without university-educated parents.
But across cohorts, professors from low-SES families have become less common in more recent generations.