Bruno Arpino

Screenshot of a Tweet pointing out that academic spam is actually in its own way kind of encouraging.

I think about this post every day 🧪

Shared Content A conversational AI system that listens, learns, and challenges

e qui il report di chatgpt (che è riuscito ad identificare alcuni riferimenti bibliografici):

chatgpt.com/s/dr_690ddf2...

Nonni digitali, tra buongiornissimo e fake news: vita smart e nuove fragilità degli over 60 Un’intera generazione è entrata nello smartphone senza rete di protezione: curiosa, iperconnessa, ma esposta a dipendenze, bufale e illusioni algoritmiche

Qui l'articolo di La Repubblica:

d.repubblica.it/culture/2025...

altre invece sono più generiche o difficili da verificare.

In ogni caso, mi è sembrato un esercizio utile per individuare le affermazioni che più probabilmente si basano su ricerche specifiche

💡 La trasparenza sulle fonti dovrebbe essere la regola, anche nel giornalismo! ...

✔️ trovare le possibili fonti scientifiche originali
✔️ valutare quanto fosse affidabile l’associazione tra ciò che scrive la giornalista e gli studi trovati.

📌 Risultato? Diverse affermazioni si basano su studi specifici che l'AI è riuscita ad individuare ...

Mi sono chiesto quali fossero le fonti di un articolo di
La Repubblica che parla di over 60 e digitale, ma non citando alcuno studio scientifico.

Così ho chiesto a Chatgpt di
✔️ leggere l’articolo
✔️ individuare ogni passaggio in cui si fa riferimento a ricerche/dati ...

¿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.

1/2

An Undergraduate Course in Causality Forthcoming. Now Available: Just Accepted Version.

Awesome text by Lea Bottmer, Guido Imbens, Jason Weitze and Mary Wooters: "An Undergraduate Course in Causality"

hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/uynpjlow...

#EconSky 📉📈

Next week, Nov 10, we organize a small conference on social mobility at the EUI. We collaborate with Georgetown University. The meeting is in person, but if you want to receive the recording, you can register here. global.georgetown.edu/events/works...

Best spam conference invitation ever:

...
Your publication titled " " is truly remarkable and of exceptionally high standard on the core subject.
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Actually, " " is a nice title!

Mapping subnational gender gaps in internet and mobile adoption using social media data | PNAS The digital revolution has ushered in many societal and economic benefits. Yet access to digital technologies such as mobile phones and internet re...

New @pnas.org paper constructing subnational estimates of internet and mobile adoption by gender, including gender gaps, for 117 low- and middle- income countries from 2015 through 2025.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Consider appeal if this was the main reason for rejection!

nel dibattito politico e pubblico degli ultimi mesi si parla molto di fecondità e di inverno dmeografico

#neodemos ha preparato un "vademecum", sul tema

"tutto quello che avreste voluto sapere sulla fecondità e non sapevate dove cercare"

www.neodemos.info/wp-content/u...

Takeaway: Beyond socio-demographic factors, personality influences grandparental childcare

Methodological implication: account for personality in studies on determinants or effects of grandchild care

Fixed-effect model may (partially) account for personality given its stability

Results in brief: Personality matters.

Openness, conscientiousness, extraversion & agreeableness → higher likelihood of grandchild care provision

conscientiousness (and mildly neuroticism) → higher likelihood of weekly care.

Data: SHARE waves 7–8, 27 European countries

New paper out 🎓:

Personality Traits and Provision of Grandparental Childcare: Evidence from Europe (w/ @valeriabordone.bsky.social, Giorgio Di Gessa & @mdkraemer.bsky.social

Using data from @share-eric.bsky.social, we find personality matters for grandhild care provision

doi.org/10.1080/1535...

🚀 2-year Postdoc opportunity with me on older adults, digital technologies & wellbeing.

Flexible location/remote-friendly

Deadline 9 Oct, 13:00 CEST

Details & how to apply (both ITA/ENG):

www.stat.unipd.it/procedura-se...

#Postdoc #Ageing #Demography #DigitalInequality

Nell'ambito della #MilanoDigitalWeek
ti invitiamo al webinar “L’uso del Digitale nella Popolazione Anziana: Ricerca e Applicazioni”, mercoledì 1 ottobre ore 20:00 — un evento promosso da Università di Padova e Università della Terza Età

Iscrizione gratuita

www.milanodigitalweek.com/event/luso-d...

The 1st Conference of the #SustainableAgeing @eaps.bsky.social Working Group has just started, opened by @valeriabordone.bsky.social and @brunoarpino.bsky.social at @unipd.bsky.social

Looking forward to two days of discussions on #SustainableAgeing

These were four very interesting papers on care demand and supply gap, potential intergenerational conflict as well as caregivers well-being

@brunoarpino.bsky.social has just announced next meeting will be at EPC2026

📢 The 1st Conference of the EAPS Working Group on Sustainable Ageing will take place in Padova, Italy, on 11–12 September 2025. The program features around 50 presentations on ageing, intergenerational relations, and digitalization and more.

ℹ️More information:
www.eaps.nl/page/sustain...

Submit your abstracts! 🚀

I especially encourage submissions to the Ageing & Intergenerational Relations theme, which I have the honour of convening.

A great conference in a great location — don’t miss it! ✨

Congratulations to both!

⭐🎓The Department of Sociology in Vienna @univie.ac.at‬ invites applications for a Tenure Track Professor in Sociology with focus on Quantitative Social Science Research Methods | #Sociology | quant methods

Apply here (17 Sept 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

The program for the 1st Sustainable Ageing Conference (EAPS Working Group @eaps.bsky.social) is online!

www.eaps.nl/page/sustain...

📍 Padua, Italy
📅 Sept 11–12
🎤 Keynote: Pearl Dykstra
⚡ 25 flash talks + posters

Free registration (limited spots, first-come-first-served):
forms.gle/kfmk1HFc8eVG...

Wow! It will be compulsory in Spain to make micro data available when publishing electoral polls!

The weather is hot in Germany today... but not as hot as my new paper, out now in Journal of Family Research @familyresearch.bsky.social !

Couples tend to have similar partisan preferences, but is that because of
(a)direct political, or
(b)indirect (eg social) matching, or
(c)alignment over time?
German research by @hudde.bsky.social & Grunow suggests it’s mostly (a), with some (c):

buff.ly/TeGy2UI

@isa-sociology.org executive committee decision on the Israeli Sociological Society --> www.isa-sociology.org/en/about-isa... #StopGenocide