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European Sociological Review @europeansocreview.bsky.social · 8d

➡️New paper out with amazing data: library borrowings of the entire population of Denmark!
If cultural tastes are always stratified, the type of stratification depends on the wider inequalities within a context
#EH_Blaabæk #S_Friedman #MM_Jæger #A_Reeves

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How are cultural tastes stratified? Evidence from library borrowing for the entire population of Denmark

Abstract. Research shows that cultural tastes are socially stratified. Yet, most of this research relies on small-sample surveys and includes only a few di

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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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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 19d

My favorite type of infographic.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 20d

A growing share of Americans know about and are using AI tools. Yet many are worried about the growing role of AI in various aspects of our lives.

Read all about it in this great new report from my @pewresearch.org colleagues:

How Americans View AI and Its Impact on People and Society

Americans are worried about using AI more in daily life, seeing harm to human creativity and relationships. But they’re open to AI use in weather forecasting, medicine and other data-heavy tasks.

www.pewresearch.org

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LISER's Labour Market department @liser-lm.bsky.social · 26d

Keynote 2️⃣ of the TASKS VII Conference #TASKSVII2025

🗣️ @thijsbol.bsky.social of @aissr.bsky.social presents: Are occupations bundles of skills? Identifying latent skill profiles in the labor market using topic modeling. Co-authored w/ @labussieremarie.bsky.social

🔗Info: www.liser.lu/events/TASKS...

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Maanvi Singh @maanvisingh.bsky.social · 27d

We analyzed leaked data for rare look at the winding journeys of more than 44,000 immigrants detained or deported by the Trump administration... and found that people are being moved around in unprecedented and irregular ways. w/ @wcraft.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Plane to purgatory: how Trump’s deportation program shuttles immigrants into lawless limbo

44,000 immigrants, 1,700 flights, 100 days: a Guardian investigation of leaked flight data and government detention data reveals the inhumane journey of immigrants shuttled around and outside the US

www.theguardian.com

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 27d

The pretty draft is now online.

Link to paper (free): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

Our replication package starts from the raw data and we put real work into making it readable & setting it up so people could poke at it, so please do explore it: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

The social sciences face a replicability crisis. A key determinant of replication success is statistical power. We assess the
power of political science research by collating over 16,000 hypothesis tests from about 2,000 articles in 46 areas of the
discipline. Under generous assumptions, we show that quantitative research in political science is greatly underpow-
ered: the median analysis has about 10% power, and only about 1 in 10 tests have at least 80% power to detect the
consensus effects reported in the literature. We also find substantial heterogeneity in tests across research areas, with
some being characterized by high power but most having very low power. To contextualize our findings, we survey
political methodologists to assess their expectations about power levels. Most methodologists greatly overestimate the
statistical power of political science research.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · Sep 8

There is so much quote from this article.

“There was a sense in some narratives that success was down to individuals, rather than the sector holding responsibility for creating conducive working conditions for academics to flourish and and realize potentials.”

Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Sep 8

"The academic career is framed as a privileged but high-risk venture that ppl knowingly choose to embark on so they must endure the consequences or find a way to cope, thus obscuring deliberate adoption of biz models that [deprioritize] investment in staff + render large sections of the workforce 🗑️"

‘You just have to learn to play the game’: survival, resentment and resignation in women academics’ narratives of precarity

This paper discusses precarious academic labour and its implications for gender and interrelated inequalities, drawing on narrative interviews with temporarily employed UK women academics. It ident...

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Jul 19

With the recent diff-in-diffs upheaval, you may have asked:

When can I get away with using two-way fixed effects?

If so, check out this new working paper!

It proposes tests for differences in dynamic treatment effects over cohorts, which allows you to explore when TWFE is likely to be biased.

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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · Jul 11

New preprint 💥

In 2020, @ianlundberg.bsky.social wrote a fabulous paper showing that cousin correlations don’t have to imply extended family effects.

I put that idea to the test using NLSY data—and he’s right! The patterns fit a dynamic first-order Markov model.

#sociology

osf.io/preprints/so...

OSF

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Pierre Bataille @pierrebat.cpesr.fr · Jul 17

Du poids du racismes dans les inégalités de revenus en France

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · Jul 16

IN OTHER NEWS: check out our new COIN paper on immigrant--native pay gaps in advanced economies published in @nature.com this afternoon! Specifically, we study the relative contribution of within-job unequal pay vs between-job segregation to earnings disparities across immigrant generations. 1/9

Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs - Nature

Data from nine European and North American countries reveal that the disparity in earnings between immigrants and natives is largely a result of segregation of immigrant workers into lower-paying jobs...

www.nature.com

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Davide Gritti @davgritti.bsky.social · Jul 14

🚨New paper out🚨
First evidence on the returns of citizenship acquisition in Italy

🔎 Naturalized do better, but not because of naturalization
🔗 OA in IOM doi.org/10.1111/imig...

w/ @filippogch.bsky.social @rafgrotti.bsky.social ‬@stefanischerer.bsky.social ‬@zamberlanna.bsky.social

#MigCitSky

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Marie Labussière 🟥 @labussieremarie.bsky.social · Jul 14

Academia seen by Sørensen (1996)

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Ely Strömberg @elystromberg.bsky.social · Jul 1

Excited to be at the #IMISCOE conference in Paris this week! Will present work on intersectionality and stereotypes with new data from the @equalstrength.bsky.social project in the last session on Friday. Last session is the best session right?

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Valentina Di Stasio @distasioval.bsky.social · Jul 2

@equalstrength.bsky.social team presenting at IMISCOE in Paris. @jeremykuhnle.bsky.social and @danielcapistrano.com show sizeable variation in the recognition of ethnic minority names, depending on both context and respondent demographics, confirming careful pre-testing is crucial in experiments.

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Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World @sociusjournal.bsky.social · Jun 23

🎓 Not just what students expect—but how sure they are.

Dr. Stephen Morgan’s #Socius study shows that tapping uncertainty improves predictions of #college access. Insightful for #SurveyMethods and #SociologyOfEducation.

Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

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Bronwen Manby @bronwenmanby.bsky.social · Jun 23

Expert commentary on proposed amendments to UK citizenship law extending naturalisation period from 5 to 10 years: back to the future reviving Labour's proposals from 2008, and with a similar lack of evidence base for this extension....

Adrian Berry KC @berryadrianc.bsky.social · Jun 23

Earned Settlement and Citizenship: The pursuit of virtue in the White Paper ‘Restoring Control over the Immigration System’
#Britishcitizenship #earnedcitizenship #immigrationwhitepaper
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Earned Settlement and Citizenship: The pursuit of virtue in the White Paper ‘Restoring Control over the Immigration System’

The earned settlement and earned citizenship provisions in the UK government’s White Paper, Restoring Control over the Immigration System (May 2025) are advanced by the Home Office as part of its a…

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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · May 26

Attn: the special issue of SMR on Generative AI in Sociology is now online. The whole issue is fire, but the introduction by @thomasdavidson.bsky.social and Danny Karell is a must read, covering prompting, measurement, and simulations. It's a road map for soc sci research in the genAI era. +

Integrating Generative Artificial Intelligence into Social Science Research: Measurement, Prompting, and Simulation - Thomas Davidson, Daniel Karell, 2025

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) offers new capabilities for analyzing data, creating synthetic media, and simulating realistic social interactions. This...

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Lorenzo Piccoli @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social · Jun 11

Turnout for the Italian referendum to reduce the residency requirement for #citizenship from 10 to 5 years was 30%, falling short of the 50% threshold needed for validity.

A breakout of the results based on earlier discussions with @maartenpvink.bsky.social .and @yajnagovind.bsky.social.

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Gaia Ghirardi @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social · Jun 10

New paper with @fabriberna.bsky.social - part of my PhD thesis!

Why are the negative educational consequences of parental separation stronger among high-SES children?

→ When high-SES parents separate, they lose their ability to compensate for their child’s low genetic propensity for education 🧬👪

Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · Jun 10

“SES, Genes & Differential Effects of Parental Separation on Educational Attainment”: @fabriberna.bsky.social & @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social find the largest penalty for “high-SES students whose parents separate is…among those w/ a low PGI EA.” @eui-eu.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

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Marie Labussière 🟥 @labussieremarie.bsky.social · Jun 11

It is often said that vocational graduates face long-term disadvantages in the labor market because they perform more routine tasks vulnerable to technological change. But is that really the case?
👉Check the new paper by @vdecker.bsky.social , @thijsbol.bsky.social and myself!

Viktor Decker @vdecker.bsky.social · Jun 11

📄 Happy to announce that my second PhD paper on how routine tasks affect education-based inequalities on the labor market was just published in Social Science Research—joint work with @labussieremarie.bsky.social and @thijsbol.bsky.social.

Full article:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · Jun 8

Buongiorno!

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Italy votes on speeding up citizenship for foreigners

Referendum seeks to shorten residency requirement for citizenship, but may not reach required turnout

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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · May 26

📚 Ever wondered how unfinished degrees 🧑‍🎓 impact early careers?

Join us tomorrow as Christina Ciocca Eller explores how #AmbiguousCredentials shape #LabourMarket outcomes and early career #Inequality.

🗓 Tomorrow 15:30–16:30

www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

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Economics. For Society. @ubscenter.uzh.ch · May 23

Recent research by @profdaviddorn.bsky.social and co-authors finds that self-reported skills on LinkedIn reveal more about earnings and gender gaps than traditional measures of human capital like education or work experience.

www.ubscenter.uzh.ch/en/news_even...

#EconomicsForSociety #UZH #shareUBS

What your professional skills on LinkedIn reveal about human capital and inequality

### A new working paper by UBS Foundation Professor David Dorn and co-authors finds that self-reported skills on LinkedIn reveal more about earnings and gender gaps than traditional measures of human ...

www.ubscenter.uzh.ch

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