New w/@scottclifford.bsky.social.
Lots of work uses agree-disagree scales, and a lit review shows these are 1) frequently just measured in one direction (agree = higher trait) and 2) correlated with each other.
This has potentially big issues for conclusions.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
📢WORK! At the Sociology department of @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social we are hiring a postdoc who will work on applications of AI in sociological research. Join our vibrant-yet-cohesive research community doing cutting-edge research. Please share or apply! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
12.02.2026 11:11 — 👍 17 🔁 31 💬 0 📌 0
✨ I’ve just started as an Assistant Professor at Sciences Po!
After 9 years living abroad, I’m returning to my home country. I’ll miss many things—especially my fantastic colleagues at @uva.nl and @maastrichtu.bsky.social —but I’m excited to begin this new position at @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social!
On Thursday we host Claudia Diehl for the year's last AMCIS Seminar: "Explaining Perceptions of Unfair Treatment: Theoretical Arguments & Empirical Evidence from Ethnic Minorities, Women & Students"
Info & registration: amcis.uva.nl/content/even...
@codyhochstenbach.bsky.social @aissr.bsky.social
Dans un contexte où la #Reproductibilité est clé pour la crédibilité de la science, ces journées rassemblent des scientifiques pour tenter de reproduire des études publiées. 👏
Bravo à toutes et tous !
👉 Lire l'article : www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...
Every time I think I’ve seen every possible use of administrative registry data, someone proves me wrong. Again ☺️
13.10.2025 14:48 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
This is not an anomaly - it’s an echo of the injustices we saw in Windrush.
A UK‑born child denied a British passport and asked to prove her right to NHS care is a stark reminder that UK policy still fails Caribbean communities and basic principles of equality.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
➡️New paper out with amazing data: library borrowings of the entire population of Denmark!
If cultural tastes are always stratified, the type of stratification depends on the wider inequalities within a context
#EH_Blaabæk #S_Friedman #MM_Jæger #A_Reeves
academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...
✨New (open access) article in ESR with Gerbert Kraaykamp!
We demonstrate that cultural capital is positively associated with a higher occupational position due to access to more resourceful networks.
Read here: doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
My favorite type of infographic.
19.09.2025 10:01 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
A growing share of Americans know about and are using AI tools. Yet many are worried about the growing role of AI in various aspects of our lives.
Read all about it in this great new report from my @pewresearch.org colleagues:
Keynote 2️⃣ of the TASKS VII Conference #TASKSVII2025
🗣️ @thijsbol.bsky.social of @aissr.bsky.social presents: Are occupations bundles of skills? Identifying latent skill profiles in the labor market using topic modeling. Co-authored w/ @labussieremarie.bsky.social
🔗Info: www.liser.lu/events/TASKS...
We analyzed leaked data for rare look at the winding journeys of more than 44,000 immigrants detained or deported by the Trump administration... and found that people are being moved around in unprecedented and irregular ways. w/ @wcraft.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The social sciences face a replicability crisis. A key determinant of replication success is statistical power. We assess the power of political science research by collating over 16,000 hypothesis tests from about 2,000 articles in 46 areas of the discipline. Under generous assumptions, we show that quantitative research in political science is greatly underpow- ered: the median analysis has about 10% power, and only about 1 in 10 tests have at least 80% power to detect the consensus effects reported in the literature. We also find substantial heterogeneity in tests across research areas, with some being characterized by high power but most having very low power. To contextualize our findings, we survey political methodologists to assess their expectations about power levels. Most methodologists greatly overestimate the statistical power of political science research.
The pretty draft is now online.
Link to paper (free): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
Our replication package starts from the raw data and we put real work into making it readable & setting it up so people could poke at it, so please do explore it: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
There is so much quote from this article.
“There was a sense in some narratives that success was down to individuals, rather than the sector holding responsibility for creating conducive working conditions for academics to flourish and and realize potentials.”
With the recent diff-in-diffs upheaval, you may have asked:
When can I get away with using two-way fixed effects?
If so, check out this new working paper!
It proposes tests for differences in dynamic treatment effects over cohorts, which allows you to explore when TWFE is likely to be biased.
New preprint 💥
In 2020, @ianlundberg.bsky.social wrote a fabulous paper showing that cousin correlations don’t have to imply extended family effects.
I put that idea to the test using NLSY data—and he’s right! The patterns fit a dynamic first-order Markov model.
#sociology
osf.io/preprints/so...
Du poids du racismes dans les inégalités de revenus en France
17.07.2025 20:02 — 👍 13 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
IN OTHER NEWS: check out our new COIN paper on immigrant--native pay gaps in advanced economies published in @nature.com this afternoon! Specifically, we study the relative contribution of within-job unequal pay vs between-job segregation to earnings disparities across immigrant generations. 1/9
16.07.2025 15:16 — 👍 64 🔁 28 💬 4 📌 2
🚨New paper out🚨
First evidence on the returns of citizenship acquisition in Italy
🔎 Naturalized do better, but not because of naturalization
🔗 OA in IOM doi.org/10.1111/imig...
w/ @filippogch.bsky.social @rafgrotti.bsky.social @stefanischerer.bsky.social @zamberlanna.bsky.social
#MigCitSky
Academia seen by Sørensen (1996)
14.07.2025 14:59 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Excited to be at the #IMISCOE conference in Paris this week! Will present work on intersectionality and stereotypes with new data from the @equalstrength.bsky.social project in the last session on Friday. Last session is the best session right?
01.07.2025 07:47 — 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1
@equalstrength.bsky.social team presenting at IMISCOE in Paris. @jeremykuhnle.bsky.social and @danielcapistrano.com show sizeable variation in the recognition of ethnic minority names, depending on both context and respondent demographics, confirming careful pre-testing is crucial in experiments.
02.07.2025 11:25 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
🎓 Not just what students expect—but how sure they are.
Dr. Stephen Morgan’s #Socius study shows that tapping uncertainty improves predictions of #college access. Insightful for #SurveyMethods and #SociologyOfEducation.
Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...
Expert commentary on proposed amendments to UK citizenship law extending naturalisation period from 5 to 10 years: back to the future reviving Labour's proposals from 2008, and with a similar lack of evidence base for this extension....
23.06.2025 08:46 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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. +
26.05.2025 21:49 — 👍 89 🔁 41 💬 2 📌 1
Turnout for the Italian referendum to reduce the residency requirement for #citizenship from 10 to 5 years was 30%, falling short of the 50% threshold needed for validity.
A breakout of the results based on earlier discussions with @maartenpvink.bsky.social .and @yajnagovind.bsky.social.
New paper with @fabriberna.bsky.social - part of my PhD thesis!
Why are the negative educational consequences of parental separation stronger among high-SES children?
→ When high-SES parents separate, they lose their ability to compensate for their child’s low genetic propensity for education 🧬👪
It is often said that vocational graduates face long-term disadvantages in the labor market because they perform more routine tasks vulnerable to technological change. But is that really the case?
👉Check the new paper by @vdecker.bsky.social , @thijsbol.bsky.social and myself!
Buongiorno!
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