Max Thaning

YouTube video by Study with J Just give me the grade I know I deserve

Ok, this is actually dope. First real solution I’ve seen to ensuring human writing in the age of LLMs.

Maybe the college essay isn’t dead after all?

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@ifau.bsky.social utlyser forskningsbidrag 2025! Ansök senast 15 september om medel för projekt inom arbetsmarknad eller utbildning. Totalt ca 5,6 miljoner kr delas ut.

👉 Läs mer och ansök: ifau.se/Forskningsbidrag

#forskning #utbildning #arbetsmarknad #IFAU

hear hear!

Luxembourg is going to be unstoppable. The world better get ready for Bouneschlupp and Kniddelen

Job alert! Join us at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a postdoctoral fellow to work on your own research for three years. #sociology

Soon to open offer for a *funded* PhD to study child poverty dynamics at @demosocupf.bsky.social @upf.edu If you have an interest in quantitative methods, social policy and child poverty this may be for you! Feel free to reach out for enquiries

You cannot be truly creative if it is not safe to fail.

Yet modern academic science requires constant short term success.

To survive, you must win grants & 'deliver' on those grants by publishing lots of papers.

That leads to a culture of low risk, iterative research oversold as 'groundbreaking.

Voices from INEQ 🔊
"In bester Gesellschaft" is a podcast co-created by INEQ. In episode 6: Wealth @franziskadbacher.bsky.social joins the discussion.
🎧 Listen (in German): short.wu.ac.at/ineq_podcast_06
#INEQ

The winner of this year’s significant contribution award goes to

The great separation: Top earner segregation at work in advanced capitalist economies

O Godechot, et al
American Journal of Sociology 130 (2), 439-495, 2024

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

It was such an honor to receive this award from @isa-rc28.bsky.social
on behalf of @oliviergodechot.bsky.social and other coauthors.

The families in households typology: searching for families in social surveys Studying families with social surveys is not always as straightforward as it may seem. The reasons for the challenges are both conceptual and methodological, stemming from the specificity of the da...

The families in households typology

In this new paper from the @reusilience.bsky.social project, we improve standard family-type variables in EU-SILC

By @bartovalzbeta.bsky.social, @thaning.bsky.social, @wvlancker.bsky.social and @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Final conference of rEUsilience and this is (parts of) the wonderful crew - here w/ miami vice flair. Thx for a great journey!
@rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social @wvlancker.bsky.social @abrarbawati.bsky.social @amatysiak.bsky.social @cofaceeu.bsky.social and analog 📷 by great @merveuzunalioglu.bsky.social

I asked Chatbox AI for a graph: trends by political party in their attention for educational expansion (with a more elaborate instruction). This is what came out.😱

Congrats and well-deserved, Carlos!

Tech bros pitching machine learning over "conventional stats" be like

🧵1/4

🚨 We have finalized our DID textbook!
You’ve run out of excuses for sketchy pre-trends and mysterious TWFE coefficients.

📘 Credible Answers to Hard Questions: Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments
By Chaisemartin & D’Haultfœuille.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

PhD student in Analytical Sociology

Interested in doing a PhD at the Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social? Look no further: 1-2 fully funded PhD positions now available!

The need and capacity for resilience in European labour markets: an inequalities in resilience framework — rEUsilience Resilience has become a prominent concept in EU social and economic policy, positioned as a response to megatrends such as technological change, labour market deregulation and demographic shifts. This...

The need and capacity for resilience in European labour markets: an inequalities in resilience framework

New @reusilience.bsky.social working paper by @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social, @thaning.bsky.social, @bartovalzbeta.bsky.social and Lovisa Backman.

reusilience.eu/publications...

Why do social class and income still stick together after 100 years?
@thaning.bsky.social has the Swedish data – and the answers.
June 24, 12:15
Hosted by @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social
Because meritocracy is more of a vibe than a reality.
#isimunich #sociology #inequality #lmu

Academia will form these little pockets -- people whose theorizing is outrageous & supported by methods outdated since the 90s -- but once it reaches a critical size those people just review each others papers & grants, form societies, hand out awards etc, like a self-contained parallel society.

👇🏻 @martinhallsten.bsky.social 🤘

What we know and do not know about social mobility https://osf.io/uznr6 This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the field of social mobility research, examining both class/occupational mobility and income mobility. It traces the historical development of sociological and econom #sociology

This is very interesting and I appreciate the simulation, thanks! Do you have any references on this issue in particular?

International PhD students advise against doctoral studies in Sweden - Universitetsläraren Sweden is no longer an attractive country for international early-career researchers, says the SULF Doctoral Candidate Association in a new report.

This is a brutal report on the status of non-EU international PhD students in Sweden. Due to a wave of anti-immigration policies, the Migration Authority is slow, opaque, and inconsistent adding massive burdens to non-EU PhD students' lives.

universitetslararen.se/2025/05/08/i...

On the Distinction Between Interaction and Effect... : Epidemiology tion is defined in terms of the effect of one intervention varying across strata of a second variable. Effect modification can be present with no interaction; interaction can be present with no effect...

Not this one (journals.lww.com/epidem/abstr...)?

🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵

Research at risk: Life-saving heart pumps for babies | Cornell Chronicle After receiving a stop-work order from the federal government, the future of a device to help children with heart defects is uncertain.

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects.

It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this.

The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

Xu in front of a blackboard in a lecture hall, holding a printed copy of her dissertation. She wears a headset microphone and stands next to a bouquet of fresh flowers, a stack of dissertations, and some notebooks.

Last Friday, our PhD candidate Xiaojie Xu defended her dissertation in sociology – congratulations, Xiaojie! 🎉

Her dissertation explores how the impact of education on jobs, income, and social mobility has shifted since the late 20th century.

Great work, Xiaojie!
#PhD #education #sociology

New scoping review shows that literatures on Family resilience and Social Resilience are disconnected. The lens of family inequalities in socioeconomic contexts can bridge these two perspectives. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Family and social resilience: A scoping review of the empirical literature

New publication day, with @abrarbawati.bsky.social, @merveuzunalioglu.bsky.social and @thaning.bsky.social, all part of the @reusilience.bsky.social project.

www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...