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You really have to admire the French indifference to whether anyone outside France can access their work
Thursday Session Two | 11.30am to 1.00pm Social mobility as a macro-social process | CKK.2.13 Patrick Präg: The Great Gatsby Curve and Perceptions of Intergenerational Mobility Thursday Session Two | 11.30am to 1.00pm Culture and ritual | CKK.2.16 Hesu Yoon: Racialized Tastes: Comparing Evaluative Frames in Expert and Popular Restaurant Reviews Thursday Session Three | 1.45pm to 3.15pm Symbolic boundary drawing | Alumni Theatre Abel Aussant: Distinctive parenting: how families draw symbolic boundaries through children's rules on digital usage Friday Session One | 9.30am to 11.00am Gender and theory | CKK.2.18 Etienne Ollion: The Gender Dimension. Gender as an Analytical Lens in Contemporary French Social Sciences Friday Session One | 9.30am to 11.00am Digital information and the social | CKK.1.04 Samuel Coavoux: Culture filter bubbles? The effect of personalized recommendations on cultural diversity and inequalities on a music streaming platform Friday Session Two | 11.30am to 1.00pm Sociological roots of health | CKK.1.15 Julia Nicolas: Examining Immigrant Healthcare Access Inequalities in France: An Intersectional Approach
This week at the BJS Conference in London: Almost all of CREST Sociology!
Thu 11:30: Patrick Präg
Thu 11:30: Hesu Yoon
Thu 13:45: Abel Aussant
Fri 9:30: Etienne Ollion
Fri 9:30: Sam Coavoux
Fri 11:30: Julia Nicolas
Dear Stata fellow users (R people go away) - has anyone made a successful Stata transition to GitHub and lived to share some tips or insights about it?
Prof. Arnout van de Rijt (EUI). Source: Arnout van de Rijt.
📢 MZES PUBLIC LECTURE ❗️
📆 Wed, 6 May, 2:30-4:00 pm CET
📍 MZES A 231 and via Zoom
Arnout van de Rijt
@arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social , @eui-eu.bsky.social
will talk on
"Luck and Success in Millions of Life Courses"
Please share and join us! 🙂
👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even...
Finally out in Demography! Our study combines INVEST register data and Young Finns Study to study socioeconomic research questions in Finland. @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social @pbockerman.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
Publishing Social Sciences with Nature Portfolio Journals
An event jointly organized by the London Inequality Network and UCL CNET
📍 UCL
🗓️ 12 May, 16:00
👉 Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/publishing...
“this edible ain’t shit”
*30 minutes later
Concentrated academic recruiting. 10% of political science departments produce 60% of all polsci professors in Germany. FU Berlin produced most professors, followed by Mannheim, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Heidelberg. In psychology,...
Do cities reduce inequality or reinforce it?
New research from Anjali Adukia Sam Asher, Kritarth Jha, Paul Novosad, and Brandon Tan finds India’s cities often replicate caste and religious disparities seen in villages, shaping access to public services.
Read more: https://ow.ly/4LFj50YK2Z2
Is this a new policy at Social Forces?
New paper with Alexander Patzina (@patzinaalex.bsky.social) out now in @actasociologica.bsky.social! We investigate the connection between wages and institutional trust in Germany between 2019 and 2023 1/n
What does the MSCA application process really look like in practice?
Mar Facchini and Mijail Figueroa González share their own experiences of applying for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions funding, from first ideas to funded projects at INVEST.
#researchfunding
blogit.utu.fi/invest/2026/...
Europe starter pack 👇
Thrilled to see this out. What started out as a chat several years back with @drfejzo.bsky.social about leveraging publicly available data on hyperemesis gravidarum GWAS turned into a wonderful collaboration with April Shu, @mvaudel.bsky.social, @xwww.bsky.social and many others!
rdcu.be/fdl9k
Los Pollos Hermanos! 🐓 Our new cohort study published in JECH: Parental death is linked to increased psychotropic medication use in adults (ages 35–55), especially among those with fewer siblings, highlighting the role of family as a support network.
jech.bmj.com/content/earl...
Simple black-and-white comic drawing of a person standing beside a desktop computer. The person says, “Say ‘I am alive’.” The computer monitor displays the text “> I AM ALIVE.” The person responds, “oh my god.”
“Simulated surveys” is basically this meme except the person says “Generate a sample from a population where the mean is 4” and then the computer says “>THE SAMPLE MEAN IS 4.03”
🙏🙏🙏🙏
Can we estimate assortative mating for outcomes shared by partners? Yes we can! In a new paper together with @philippdierker.bsky.social, I find that individuals with similar liabilities to divorce are more likely to get married in the first place!
American academics boycotting civilian Israeli academics because of their government seems somewhat rich in 2026. We're going to ban Israeli academics while we welcome not just federally funded academics, but also US government researchers, and even (conceivably) American military academy faculty?
Does Oxford University have a problem with Sticky Toffee Pudding?
One of my favorite PhD thesis chapters is now published in @pnas.org
Using cohort mortality data from 12 countries, I find no evidence that the rate of aging has slowed down. Longevity gains seem more consistent with a later onset of aging.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
“170 Years of Change in Living Arrangements”: @gfloridi.bsky.social & A. Esteve explore the role of mortality decline over time & encourage social scientists to consider how extended life spans can shape arrangements. @uoe-sps.bsky.social @cedemografia.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
Forthcoming article "Unpacking Rising Inequality: The Roles of Markups, Taxes, and Asset Prices" by Stéphane Auray @eyquem2.bsky.social @bgarbinti.bsky.social and Jonathan Goupille-Lebret
@eeanews.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/jeea...
Teaching materials available: www.eeassoc.org/teaching-mat...
In this talk, I show how natural language processing and large language models can be used to detect inequalities in how climate disasters are studied and reported. I focus on systematic biases in what is documented, how events are framed, and whose experiences are made visible. I present two complementary approaches. First, using machine learning to screen over 500,000 peer-reviewed articles, I map global patterns in the scientific literature on the socioeconomic impacts of climate hazards and show where research attention is unevenly distributed. For example, disasters in low-income countries must cause up to 16 times more fatalities and affect 130 times more people to receive comparable scientific attention. Second, drawing on a corpus of 250,000 German news articles, I examine international disaster reporting to uncover structural patterns in which disaster events receive media attention relative to who is affected and where the disaster occurs. Together, these results show how computational text analysis can reveal biases in knowledge production and collective attention, raising critical questions about whose pain counts in the era of escalating climate crisis.
TODAY 12 noon Paris time: Mariana Madruga de Brito at the CREST Sociology seminar! "Whose pain counts? A computational text analysis of inequalities in disaster and adaptation reporting"
On site or on-line: zoom.us/j/9690116553... All welcome!
A postdoc position is now available in my project Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity. Start date flexible within the next 12 months, apply by 9 May.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
NEW WORKING PAPER OUT! 🚨
I provide a detailed accounting of successive reforms that extended compulsory education in Spain. The paper defines precisely affected cohorts, geographical variation, and the impact on enrollment rates
Read it here doi.org/10.31235/osf...
See the thread for more🧵
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How many versions of the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) exist? And how much does this affect research using the IGT? More than you might think. 🧵
