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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Os corrijo el titular: el intento de grandes inmobiliarias y fondos de inversión de incumplir la ley y echar a cientos de miles de familias a la calle podría colapsar los juzgados.
Two new positions open @politiquesupf.bsky.social
1. Quantitative Sociology of Work- Tenure Track @demosocupf.bsky.social www.upf.edu/web/politiqu...
2. Lecturer (Lector) Public Administration/Public Policy www.upf.edu/web/politiqu...
Come join us! It's a great department!
We're hiring!
Data Manager (80–100%) at the TREE panel study, University of Bern
🗓️Apply by 19 April 26 | Start 1 May 26 (or by agreement)
🔗More info: jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...
It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ...
1/ Ya está en la calle Nómadas digitales y precarización algorítmica!
Un libro colectivo sobre trabajo, vivienda y ciudad en tiempos de plataformas.
🔍 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
Wild that the top sociology journal doesn't require computational replication or open data.
Mala noticia y peor síntoma
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 • Check for updates 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.
✨ 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!
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...
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...
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/...
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...
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...
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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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).
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
📣 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
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
📢 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...
📢 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...
