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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 17h

This is how I found out I misspelled jus soli again. Again! I never get it right.

Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 18h

Even if you would want to live in a country that doesn't experience changes in ethnic composition (I don't!) and you could reconcile the ethics of it (I can't!) you still have to identify the the "in-group". At best, it would fail. At worst, it would succeed.

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 18h

The other issue is that jus sanguinis without jus solis implies that there is an "in-group" (not officially but usually a de-facto ethnic group), that gets to be a part of a country and others are not given the same consideration. It's a way of limiting demographic change.

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 18h

jus sanguinis is favored by countries that have diasporas and where it's a new country and you want to bring people in quickly. That described Germany (and I think Italy) pretty well at their founding. At some point it becomes much more illogical. jus solis is a blunt instrument but it is rational.

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 18h

Unless you decide to just shut the doors entirely, this ranges from unfair (some immigration streams are more likely to get citizenship than others) to unworkable (you have to process a person when they are born anyway, doing it later is a mess).

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 18h

After reading through it, I found it very hard to make the argument that jus sanguinis (right of blood) is a good or even ethical solution without jus solis (right of soil). Without jus solis you have to make decisions about every single person born in a country.

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 18h

Several years ago I read--for reasons that are hard to explain--Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany. It's academic, so it's not an *easy* read but it's not especially hard either. It does a great job of breaking down jus solis vs jus sanguinis.

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 4d

There was a period of my life when I wanted to be just like Hahrie Han. I still kind of do. This is richly deserved.

Hahrie Han @hahrie.bsky.social · 4d

Totally, completely flabbergasted. #MacFellow

hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/08/h...

Johns Hopkins political scientist Hahrie Han receives MacArthur genius grant

Han, who studies political organizing and collective action and who has led the university's SNF Agora Institute since 2019, among 22 individuals to receive coveted MacArthur Foundation recognition

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · Sep 9

The guys who automated petard production: OMG! You're never going to guess what we've been hoisted by!

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 6d

Check out "Number of people in household"

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 6d

Not only can you pass on your genetics without having sex, and not only can you have sex and never have a kid, but the idea that you're removing people who are predisposed to being unhappy fundamentally misunderstands what causes unhappiness. And also, *why* these people are unhappy.

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 6d

In fairness, the authors do not do this. Instead, the authors frame this in an equally crazy way: That not having sex will remove these sorts of people from the gene pool over time. And not that people who don't have sex are more unhappy because...they don't have sex.

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 6d

I like how this post is framed so that never having sex leads you to do things like become more educated, and make you less likely to drink alcohol. Clearly this is all very causal.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 6d

A study of over 500,000 Brits and Australians finds that people who never have sex are more educated, less likely to use alcohol and smoke, more nervous, lonelier, and unhappier. Regions with high income inequality had more sexless residents. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Phenotypic associations of sexlessness with health, psychological, and behavioral outcomes.

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 7d

RCTs work for medical research (if your sample composition is good enough, big "if") because by randomizing the individuals you are randomizing many contexts. But in behavioral and social science research the context is much broader than "your body" so its generalizability is always in question.

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 7d

RCTs are as useful as the assumption that there aren't any other factors that interact with your treatment. Sample composition is a major confounder, but if people are experiencing the treatment in non-laboratory contexts any of those could also interact with the treatment.

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CSN-RÉC @csnrec.bsky.social · 11d

job

TENURE-TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION IN HEALTH AND THE LIFE COURSE OR WORK AND THE ECONOMY

Department of Sociology, Western University

csn-rec.ca/job-postings...

@westernu.ca #cdnsoci

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ceej @ceej.online · 10d

actress tilly norwood has been deleted after being found unconscious next to a script containing a mistyped wildcard. she was 0

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 10d

When the people who create a graph call it a "visualization" it always looks something like this:

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 10d

Anyone got a running list of universities that have signed this?

Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 11d

A moment that calls for collective action… to reject this transparent attack on academic freedom.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 11d

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

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Roza Meuleman @rozameuleman.bsky.social · Nov 19

✨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/...

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 13d

You could imagine a situation where OA leads to an adjunct industry of people writing up our work for public consumption, which more or less happens in the life sciences and economics. But the scale of sociology research is so small compared to those fields it probably wouldn't.

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 13d

I was like "what is CMAT" and then I googled it and apparently she killed a political comeback attempt in Ireland with a song? That's pretty neat.

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 14d

Research Topics:
"The effect of climate change on between-occupation income disparities."
"A conversation analysis of gene expression."
"The causal effect of drug usage on religious service attendance" (FIELD EXPERIMENT TIME)

Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 19d

Some researchers don't discuss their future research plans for fear of being scooped.

Not me. I drop bad ideas for unscrupulous people to 'steal'.

- What are the neural correlates of Open Science practices?
- What is the role of habits in learning a new skill through repetitive practice?

a man in a leather jacket is looking up and saying `` big brain '' while standing in front of a building .

ALT: a man in a leather jacket is looking up and saying `` big brain '' while standing in front of a building .

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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · 18d

Roshan Pandian's new article in Social Forces: how much of recent global inequality decline is due to autocracies fudging their GDP numbers?

academic.oup.com/sf/article/1...

I saw him give a talk on this paper. It is so. cool.

Overstatement of GDP growth in autocracies and the recent decline in global inequality

Abstract. After rising for almost two centuries, global income inequality declined substantially after 2000. While past scholarship on global inequality ha

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