Andrei
@andrei-wonge.bsky.social
PhD student, Flâneur, Photographer and robust skeptisist. All about inequality, culture and territorio/space/place/networks. Tweeting in English, Español and Français
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New net migration figures at 930am.
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
New net migration figures at 930am.
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
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Thesis:
research in our field is driven more by new methods than by theories.
research in our field is driven more by new methods than by theories.
November 27, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Thesis:
research in our field is driven more by new methods than by theories.
research in our field is driven more by new methods than by theories.
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🌟New paper out at ESR!
Does more education mean more mobility?
Evidence from Brazil by #A_Salata #SY_Cheung shows otherwise!
🚩As university access expanded, its equalizing power faded!
➡️Read the full article at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf049
Does more education mean more mobility?
Evidence from Brazil by #A_Salata #SY_Cheung shows otherwise!
🚩As university access expanded, its equalizing power faded!
➡️Read the full article at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf049
Does more education lower the barriers to social mobility? An analysis of three birth cohorts during a period of educational expansion in Brazil
Abstract. Research in social stratification has long posited that the direct effects of social origin on destination are diminished for individuals with hi
doi.org
November 27, 2025 at 8:58 AM
🌟New paper out at ESR!
Does more education mean more mobility?
Evidence from Brazil by #A_Salata #SY_Cheung shows otherwise!
🚩As university access expanded, its equalizing power faded!
➡️Read the full article at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf049
Does more education mean more mobility?
Evidence from Brazil by #A_Salata #SY_Cheung shows otherwise!
🚩As university access expanded, its equalizing power faded!
➡️Read the full article at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf049
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📣 Call for Papers: Weizenbaum Conference 2026
🤖 “Generative AI and Society: What is at stake?”
📅 Berlin, June 10–11, 2026
📌 Submit papers by Jan 31, 2026
🔗 More: t1p.de/wa2nc
🤖 “Generative AI and Society: What is at stake?”
📅 Berlin, June 10–11, 2026
📌 Submit papers by Jan 31, 2026
🔗 More: t1p.de/wa2nc
Weizenbaum Conference 2026: Call for Papers
The Weizenbaum Institute will host its 8th annual Conference on the topic “Generative AI and Society: What is at stake?“ We invite interested scholars to submit papers for presentations. The conferenc...
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November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
📣 Call for Papers: Weizenbaum Conference 2026
🤖 “Generative AI and Society: What is at stake?”
📅 Berlin, June 10–11, 2026
📌 Submit papers by Jan 31, 2026
🔗 More: t1p.de/wa2nc
🤖 “Generative AI and Society: What is at stake?”
📅 Berlin, June 10–11, 2026
📌 Submit papers by Jan 31, 2026
🔗 More: t1p.de/wa2nc
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How culturally wise psychological interventions can help reduce poverty | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪
How culturally wise psychological interventions can help reduce poverty | PNAS
Poverty is characterized by multidimensional economic, social, and psychological constraints
that undermine people’s agency to pursue new opportuni...
www.pnas.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
How culturally wise psychological interventions can help reduce poverty | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪
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the blank document heckling me
November 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
the blank document heckling me
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👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
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🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
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Network Medicine is entering a new phase: one that demands we rethink how we study, model and ultimately treat complex diseases.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience #Medicine #MedSky 🧪🧬🌐
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#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience #Medicine #MedSky 🧪🧬🌐
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November 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Network Medicine is entering a new phase: one that demands we rethink how we study, model and ultimately treat complex diseases.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience #Medicine #MedSky 🧪🧬🌐
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#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience #Medicine #MedSky 🧪🧬🌐
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If this means the decades of sociology using twins to estimate heritability is wrong, has someone written that up for non-genetics people to understand? Seems important
I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵
The missing heritability question is now (mostly) answered
Not with a bang but with a whimper
theinfinitesimal.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
If this means the decades of sociology using twins to estimate heritability is wrong, has someone written that up for non-genetics people to understand? Seems important
Studies of neighbourhood transition that focus on individuals in
neighbourhoods may be missing important processes operating household level (Catney et. al, 2023).
neighbourhoods may be missing important processes operating household level (Catney et. al, 2023).
November 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Studies of neighbourhood transition that focus on individuals in
neighbourhoods may be missing important processes operating household level (Catney et. al, 2023).
neighbourhoods may be missing important processes operating household level (Catney et. al, 2023).
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Londres. 1973.
«Las casas están vacías mientras cada vez hay más gente sin casa. ¿Quien se está beneficiando?»
flashbak.com/london-squat...
«Las casas están vacías mientras cada vez hay más gente sin casa. ¿Quien se está beneficiando?»
flashbak.com/london-squat...
November 22, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Londres. 1973.
«Las casas están vacías mientras cada vez hay más gente sin casa. ¿Quien se está beneficiando?»
flashbak.com/london-squat...
«Las casas están vacías mientras cada vez hay más gente sin casa. ¿Quien se está beneficiando?»
flashbak.com/london-squat...
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November 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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link 📈🤖
LASPATED: a Library for the Analysis of SPAtio-TEmporal Discrete data () We describe methods, tools, and a software library called LASPATED, available
on GitHub (at https://github.com/vguigues/) to fit models using spatio-temporal
data and space-time discretization. A video tutorial for t
LASPATED: a Library for the Analysis of SPAtio-TEmporal Discrete data () We describe methods, tools, and a software library called LASPATED, available
on GitHub (at https://github.com/vguigues/) to fit models using spatio-temporal
data and space-time discretization. A video tutorial for t
November 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
link 📈🤖
LASPATED: a Library for the Analysis of SPAtio-TEmporal Discrete data () We describe methods, tools, and a software library called LASPATED, available
on GitHub (at https://github.com/vguigues/) to fit models using spatio-temporal
data and space-time discretization. A video tutorial for t
LASPATED: a Library for the Analysis of SPAtio-TEmporal Discrete data () We describe methods, tools, and a software library called LASPATED, available
on GitHub (at https://github.com/vguigues/) to fit models using spatio-temporal
data and space-time discretization. A video tutorial for t
Conceptos, enfoques y perspectivas iberoamericanas de la sociologia del territorio #sociology #sociologia
Sociología del territorio
Sociología del territorio invita a repensar el espacio más allá de mapas y fronteras, mostrando cómo los territorios son construcciones sociales en constante transformación. La obra reúne aportes de d...
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November 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Conceptos, enfoques y perspectivas iberoamericanas de la sociologia del territorio #sociology #sociologia
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It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation:
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
November 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation:
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
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Weekly Recap: Gemini 3, R updates (R Data Scientist, R+AI conference, R weekly), R+AI talks, biology+science essays, jailbreaking LLMs with poetry, Python for DS (or not), Profluent-E1, DuckDB encryption blog.stephenturner.us/p/weekly-rec... #Rstats
November 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Weekly Recap: Gemini 3, R updates (R Data Scientist, R+AI conference, R weekly), R+AI talks, biology+science essays, jailbreaking LLMs with poetry, Python for DS (or not), Profluent-E1, DuckDB encryption blog.stephenturner.us/p/weekly-rec... #Rstats
Trying out new toys…
November 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Trying out new toys…
New coding agent for data science in RStudio |> sidekick
A Coding Agent for RStudio
A coding agent for data science in RStudio, implemented entirely in R. It can interact with your files, talk to your active R session, and run code.
simonpcouch.github.io
November 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
New coding agent for data science in RStudio |> sidekick
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Emmanuel Flachaire, Bertille Picard: Decomposing Inequalities using Machine Learning and Overcoming Common Support Issues https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13433 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.13433 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.13433
November 18, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Emmanuel Flachaire, Bertille Picard: Decomposing Inequalities using Machine Learning and Overcoming Common Support Issues https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13433 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.13433 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.13433
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Recent study by Inès Malroux et al. in Population shows how gender and social-class inequalities shape early development. We also find cumulative effects from the interaction of gender and social class. @lidiapanico.bsky.social @mkellyirving.bsky.social @ehess.fr doi.org/10.3917/e.po...
November 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Recent study by Inès Malroux et al. in Population shows how gender and social-class inequalities shape early development. We also find cumulative effects from the interaction of gender and social class. @lidiapanico.bsky.social @mkellyirving.bsky.social @ehess.fr doi.org/10.3917/e.po...
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This is correct! Researchers find that a) most people underestimate the administrative burdens of immigration, and b) when informed about these burdens become more supportive of immigration.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This is correct! Researchers find that a) most people underestimate the administrative burdens of immigration, and b) when informed about these burdens become more supportive of immigration.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Maybe you've missed the crushing, DAG-wielding critique. Of course, not by a star scholar... www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Double machine learning and automated confounder selection: A cautionary tale
Double machine learning (DML) has become an increasingly popular tool for automated variable selection in high-dimensional settings. Even though the ability to deal with a large number of potential co...
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November 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Maybe you've missed the crushing, DAG-wielding critique. Of course, not by a star scholar... www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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1/ Very pleased to release this paper with extraordinary coauthors David McMillon and Scott Page, which outlines ideas on how complex systems methods can enrich the study of inequality. A key idea is that persistent inequalities may be an emergent property for a range of socioeconomic environments.
Arguing that complexity methods can augment the study of inequality, with particular value in understanding the meaning of systemic determinants of disparities, from @durlauf.bsky.social, David McMillon, and Scott Page www.nber.org/papers/w34381
November 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
1/ Very pleased to release this paper with extraordinary coauthors David McMillon and Scott Page, which outlines ideas on how complex systems methods can enrich the study of inequality. A key idea is that persistent inequalities may be an emergent property for a range of socioeconomic environments.