Tomás Cano

Tomás Cano

@tomascano.bsky.social

Associate professor of sociology at UNED in Madrid studying gender, families, and social stratification. PI of masculinities.bsky.social http://www.tomascano.eu

1,682 Followers 504 Following 70 Posts Joined Oct 2023
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1/ Ya está en la calle Nómadas digitales y precarización algorítmica!
Un libro colectivo sobre trabajo, vivienda y ciudad en tiempos de plataformas.

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Non-natalism – Spectre Journal A case for being against pronatalism Leslie Root shows how misguided it is for the left to accept pro-natalist positions. Worry about declining birth rates is based on a misinterpretation of the Total Fertility Rate, and minor social pol...
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The paradox of inequality that isn’t: rising economic inequality depresses and polarizes citizens’ belief in meritocracy Abstract. This study examines how rising income inequality has been impacting individuals’ belief in merit-based success, using three decades of survey dat

🔍 How does economic inequality impact beliefs in meritocracy?

Using comprehensive survey data from 39 advanced capitalist democracies over more than three decades, Markus Gangl & I examine how rising economic inequality has been shaping citizens' belief in meritocracy.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwag016

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Wild that the top sociology journal doesn't require computational replication or open data.

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Mala noticia y peor síntoma

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The political effects of X's feed algorithm
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2
Received: 16 December 2024
Accepted: 4 January 2026
Published online: 18 February 2026
Open access
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Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m
Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects.
Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

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Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives

Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more

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La convergencia de Epstein y Chomsky “Los hombres se deciden antes por el mal que por el bien cuando tienen libertad para elegir”. Nicolás Maquiavelo, Discursos sobre la primera década de

Un gran análisis sobre el poder, el abuso y el daño

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✨ This Thursday! ✨

We’re excited for another UNED-GEPS Seminar with a great talk:

👤 Daniel Oesch (University of Lausanne)
"The closing gender gap in labour markets: cohort evidence from Europe and the US"

📌 Sala Jorge Cavodeassi, UNED. C/ Bravo Murillo 38

See u there!

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El Gobierno de Ayuso suspende en 2026 las ayudas para que 250 científicos trabajen en sus tesis con un salario Las plataformas universitarias critican la decisión de la Comunidad de Madrid porque supone dejar a estas “personas sin empleo, haciendo aún más imprevisible la carrera investigadora”

La política científica de Ayuso es la de una ladilla: parasita la inversión científica del Estado, que inevitablemente chorrea sobre Madrid, y así puede presumir de buenos resultados en investigación en la Comunidad mientras hace recortes salvajes.
elpais.com/educacion/20...

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Natural Disasters Can Increase Maternal Stress This chapter examines the biological pathways through which prenatal maternal stress, triggered by natural disasters, affects maternal and foetal health. Key mechanisms include HPA axis dysregulation ...

New publication with the fantastic @nereabelloiglesias.bsky.social 🎉
We discuss the biological pathways through which natural disasters increase prenatal maternal stress, the role of socioeconomic and institutional factors, and implications for child outcomes
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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Sciences Po is hiring an Associate Professor in Environmental Inequalities Poste à pourvoir au plus tard le 1er septembre 2026

CRIS @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social is hiring!
Sciences Po is recruiting an Associate Professor in Environmental Inequalities and Public Policies who will teach undergraduate and graduate courses at the Climate School of Sciences Po. @sciencespo.bsky.social
www.sciencespo.fr/cris/en/news...

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Does Expanding Free Secondary Education Moderate the Relationship Between Genes and Socioeconomic Outcomes? Evidence from the Education Act of 1944 in England | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, N...

New paper in the American Journal of Sociology (with Michael Grätz), and a very good way to close an important chapter!

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Full Professorship (W3) in Machine Learning Deadline: January 31, 2026

We @uni-konstanz.de are hiring a full professor in machine learning for our MSc program in Social and Economic Data Science: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/6...

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W3-Professur für "Allgemeine Soziologie mit Schwerpunkt Theorie" (w/m/d) - Universität Heidelberg Universität Heidelberg bietet Stelle als W3-Professur für "Allgemeine Soziologie mit Schwerpunkt Theorie" (w/m/d) in Heidelberg - jetzt bewerben!

The Max Weber Institute of Sociology at the University of Heidelberg is seeking a full professor in sociology with a special focus on theory who connects well with the departments comparative focus. The deadline is December 8th, you can find the call www.academics.de/jobs/w3-prof...

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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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ATENEA II - Procesos selectivos

The GEPS (Grupo de Estudios “Población y Sociedad”) research network is recruiting a Research Assistant to join them at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M).

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Using Time Use Data to Investigate Gender Inequalities: Enduring Patterns and New Dimensions Research on the gender revolution highlights the slowing convergence between men and women in paid and unpaid work time. This review considers both seminal studies from the 2000s and more recent anal....

How can time-use data help us better understand gender inequalities? Our latest article in Sociology Compass answers this question — have a look! dx.doi.org/10.1111/soc4... Yucheng Wu, Muzhi Zhou #timeuse

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Assistant Professor in Sociology at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin An opportunity for an academic position as a Assistant Professor in Sociology is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

📣 Trinity College Dublin is hiring 2 #tenuretrack Assistant Professors in Sociology.

👉 Environmental Sociology. Closing Dec 1
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH703/a...

👉 Gender and Sexuality. Closing Dec 2
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI055/a...

@tcdsociology.bsky.social
@isa-rc28.bsky.social @eaps.bsky.social

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In Madrid this week? Don’t miss @ramina-sotoudeh.bsky.social presentation

"The Hidden Demographics of Prenatal Selection: Evidence from Family DNA"

at the UNED inequality/social demography seminar

When: 13th Nov, 19.00-20.30

Where: Room Jorge Cavodeassi (OEI), UNED,
Calle Bravo Murillo 38

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📢 Contrato Inicial de Doctorado (UNED) 📢

🔹7 meses · 10h/semana · 725€/mes
🔹 Remoto o presencial
🔹Tema: socio-demografía, familia, género, estratificación social.
🔹Requisitos: máster afín, inglés alto, análisis estadístico.

📅 Plazo: 13/10/25
📩 Info: files.persona.co/60187/Contra...

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📢 Contrato Inicial de Doctorado (UNED) 📢

🔹7 meses · 10h/semana · 725€/mes
🔹 Remoto o presencial
🔹Tema: socio-demografía, familia, género, estratificación social.
🔹Requisitos: máster afín, inglés alto, análisis estadístico.

📅 Plazo: 13/10/25
📩 Info: files.persona.co/60187/Contra...

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Concursos para la provisión de plazas de PDI (contratado laboral) | Universidad de Salamanca

Convocatoria Profesor Ayudante Doctor, Sociología, en la Universidad de Salamanca @usaloficial.bsky.social
(plaza G070/DB7051) Publicada el 17 de septiembre. usal.es/concursos-pa...

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UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

A fantastic opportunity in our amazing department! Come and join us as Director of our Centre for Longitudinal Studies www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Uneven Ground: Inequality and Planetary Health Can we afford the consumption patterns of the super-rich? Or does human and planetary wellbeing require us to drastically reduce inequality?

The richest 1% emit 100x the greenhouse gas emissions of those in the world’s bottom 50%, notes @profkepickett.bsky.social. “Inequalities of income, wealth and political power sit at the heart of the environmental crisis” @equalitytrust.bsky.social #LSEInequalitiesBlog

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Economists looking at an idea from sociology literature that they will be the first to write a paper on.

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8 months ago

Congrats, very interesting and well done study!

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Does mobile phone use in early adolescence displace enrichment, physical activity, and sleep? A longitudinal examination of the time-displacement hypothesis This study empirically tests the time-displacement hypothesis, examining if early adolescents' mobile phone use displaces time spent on developmentall…

Interesting paper by @leoroe.bsky.social one effect of mobile phone use during early adolescence on time-use www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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En medio de una aguda crisis de vivienda el enfoque de estas noticias es brutal: solo hablan de vivienda en términos de inversión y rentabilidad y apuntan a los barrios más pobres donde la gente utiliza mayor parte de sus ingresos y tiene más problemas para pagar los alquileres.

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