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Hunter York
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Sociology PhD Candidate @ Princeton
Work/Organizations/Social Stratification
Runner, NUMTOT, Mississippian

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zparolin.bsky.social
I'm hiring a post-doctoral researcher to join us at the University of Oxford and our @inetoxford.bsky.social Inequality team. Ideal candidate has experience in the fields of inequality, social mobility, and/or public policy. We can sponsor visas for non-UK applicants. www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
Vacancies
Jobs and Vacancies at INET Oxford, The Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
www.inet.ox.ac.uk
January 21, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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pengzell.bsky.social
JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project.

Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months.

Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.
Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity Intergenerational mobility, measuring the ability to achieve economic success regardless of family background, is a critical reflection of a society’s commitment to equality of opportunity. Rising income inequality has raised concerns about the potential erosion of upward mobility. While education has traditionally been viewed as the path to mobility, its transformative power is facing challenges in a rapidly evolving job market. This project reorients the focus of intergenerational mobility research by highlighting the labor market as an arena for the reproduction of advantage. It employs a comparative approach, using administrative data from four countries: Sweden, Austria, England, and the United States. It also incorporates evidence from a broader set of nations through cross-national surveys, longitudinal household surveys, labor force surveys, secondary data, and digital trace data. The project employs cutting-edge empirical methods, including quasi- experimental designs, event studies, within-family comparisons, decomposition analyses, counterfactual simulations, and diagnostic checks to rigorously assess the extent of inequalities in the labor market. The research investigates how family background influences the sorting of individuals to employers and workplaces, accounting for education and occupation, and explores variations in career progression within and between employers. It comprehensively catalogues and assesses mechanisms shaping workplace inequality, contributing to the development of social closure theory. Additionally, the project evaluates intervention strategies, encompassing both employer practices and government actions, to promote fair opportunity in the labor market.
January 21, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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literarybeardo.blacksky.app
Y'all, I was in Mississippi today for my nephews J-State graduation and got this when I opened Blue Sky
Screenshot of a message in the BlueSky app explaining that it does not work in Mississippi because of the state's age verification laws.
December 6, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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sansculottid.es
Today is Décadi the 30th of Brumaire in the year 234.
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate the roller.#JacobinDay

More information on the roller
An old time-y illustration of a the Roller.
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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sansculottid.es
Today is La fête de la vertu the 1st of Sansculottides in the year 233.
Sansculottides is the month of complementary days.
Today we celebrate virtue.#JacobinDay

More information on virtue
An old time-y illustration of a Virtue.
September 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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mkang.bsky.social
Check out the @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social issue on gun supply! This volume is a tour de force on how the U.S. got to have so many guns and what can be done about it. Thanks to @everytown.bsky.social for their support.
www.vitalcitynyc.org/issues/issue...
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September 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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sansculottid.es
Today is Tridi the 3rd of Fructidor in the year 233.
Fructidor is the month of fruitfulness.
Today we celebrate puffballs.#JacobinDay

More information on puffballs
An old time-y illustration of a Puffballs.
August 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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isa-rc28.bsky.social
@hunterwyork.com, PhD Candidate of Sociology at Princeton University , shared his new research on economic outcome stratification among workers by field of study and institutions. Please check out the paper on his website 👆 or email him.
August 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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sansculottid.es
Today is Quintidi the 15th of Thermidor in the year 233.
Thermidor is the month of heat.
Today we celebrate ewes.#JacobinDay

More information on ewes
An old time-y illustration of a Ewes.
August 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Finally a take on LLMs in the classroom that points out both their strengths and weaknesses (which is not, primarily AI slop) and offers real solutions. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
Opinion | The Seductions of A.I. for the Writer’s Mind
www.nytimes.com
July 19, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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yunhanwen.bsky.social
Join us on August 8 at UIC for this year’s Junior Theorists Symposium (JTS)! #asa

(In suppressed voice) Also it’d be great if folks can make a small donation so that we can buy coffee for everyone ☕️
July 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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aaronsojourner.org
EXTREMELY BAD NEWS for economic research, per former BLS Commissioner @ericagroshen.bsky.social on LinkedIn.

BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS.
#EconSky
June 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Sad to miss @isa-rc28.bsky.social in Milan, but I'm basically in Europe because a choir I'm in is performing Joby Talbot's Path of Miracles, a ~17 voice part and 4 movement "pilgrimage in music" following the Camino de Santiago. @tenebraechoir.bsky.social has a gr8 recording youtu.be/GPHcqHzzTC8?...
March 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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pengzell.bsky.social
Sciences Po is hiring an Assistant Professor on Digital Inequalities. Candidates should have strong theoretical/methodological skills, and an ambitious research agenda on social stratification and inequality. www.sciencespo.fr/osc/sites/sc...
www.sciencespo.fr
January 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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(Big) Pub day! What was once a replication project for my first-year PhD stats class turned into a different beast. Read on for some thoughts on intergenerational mobility along axes of occupational characteristics. (Coauthors @xisong.bsky.social and Yu Xie) www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Gradationalism Revisited: Intergenerational Occupational Mobility Along Axes of Occupational Characteristics1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 130, No 4
Studies of intergenerational occupational mobility typically characterize occupations quantitatively in one of two ways: gradationally or categorically. Both methods likely grossly oversimplify the co...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
December 21, 2024 at 1:42 AM
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thijsbol.bsky.social
A reminder to submit your abstract to our workshop in May in Amsterdam! Please reskeet/spread the word.
thijsbol.bsky.social Thijs Bol @thijsbol.bsky.social · Nov 13
We're organizing a workshop in Amsterdam (26-27 May 2025)! Please submit if you're working on education, skills, or labor markets.

The call for papers can be found below, more info on careerproject.eu/CAREER_works....

The deadline for submitting is December 20. Please spread the word ("retweet")
December 12, 2024 at 10:23 AM
hunterwyork.com
will be presenting at @popassocamerica.bsky.social in April in an overflow session, 705 - “Diverse Forms of Employment and Economic Inequality.” A photo from yesterday of a gingko tree showing off to celebrate.
November 20, 2024 at 11:16 AM
hunterwyork.com
Follow me for sporadic, potentially annual, updates proving that I'm still kicking. I study work, organizations, and social stratification.
November 15, 2024 at 2:26 AM