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Per Engzell

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Interested in how the rich stay rich and the poor poor. Sociologist at @sriucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk. He/him/his. http://perengzell.com Photo bomber @simoneschneider.bsky.social

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Sep 1

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you.

Apply by: 10 Oct

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 1h

peer review is
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 2h

My general intuition is that all interaction models are shaky, and mostly depend on marginal distributions (as demonstrated by @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social @fabriberna.bsky.social)

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 2h

Intriguing! And I say that as someone who has published a paper internationally comparing C components

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 2h

Ah of course I think you mentioned... sorry I scooped you but this is on my mind daily

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 2h

I didn't say I'm open about my expectations

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Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford @inetoxford.bsky.social · 3h

FOUR new positions available at INET Oxford!

@zparolin.bsky.social is hiring:

🠺 1x FT Post-Doctoral Researcher in Inequality, Social Policy, and Social Mobility
🠺 3x PT Rsearchers in Inequality, Social Policy, and Social Mobility

Find out more and apply HERE ➵ https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 3h

Waiting for a paper to show that the morass of GxE studies with PGS is as riddled with false positives as candidate gene studies before them. Anyone?

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 6h

Every grant application is basically “what if I did the same thing, but with a budget and lower expectations”

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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 4h

Today marks 18 years since I arrived in the UK. What a great place to be an immigrant! Thanks, Hostile Environment initiative!

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 5h

Doctor's orders.

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 5h

I feel like this sort of thing should automatically qualify one for British citizenship

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 5h

Had a burnout episode a few years back. Just found the tv schedule from my recovery, which, in retrospect, may be more ambitious than what caused me to burnout in the first place

A History of Britain by Simon Schama
A History of Christianity
A Place by the Sea
A Place in the Sun
Amazing Spaces
Armchair Britain
Beach Live: Jurassic Coast
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild
Best of Both Worlds
Best Walks with a View with Julia Bradbury
Bought with Love: The Secret History of British Art Col
Britain's Best Walks with Julia Bradbury
Britain's Great Rivers
Britain's Greatest National Treasures
Building the dream
Canal Walks with Julia Bradbury
Chris Tarrant's Extreme Railway Journeys
Civilisations
Cornwall and Devon Walks with Julia Bradbury
Countryfile
Culture Show at Edinburgh: Funny Women
Disappearing Britain
English Heritage
Escape to the Country
Escape to the Perfect Town
Face of Britain by Simon Schama
Fake or Fortune?
For the Love of Britain
Garden Rescue
Grand Designs: House of the Year
Great British Journeys
Great British Railway Journeys

Great Houses
Great Canal Journeys
Great Irish Journeys
Handmade in Hull
Help! We Bought a Village
Heritage! The Battle for Britain's Past
Homes Under the Hammer
How We Built Britain
Inside Out Homes
Joanna Lumley's Silk Road Adventure
Julia Bradbury's German Wanderlust
Kevin McCloud's Grand Tour of Europe
Lost Buildings of Britain
Monty Don's Real Craft
Museum Secrets
Penelope Keith's Hidden Villages
Race across the World
Raiders of the Lost Art
Restoring Britain's Landmarks
Rick Stein: From Venice to Istanbul
Rick Stein's Long Weekends
Rory McGrath's Pub Dig
Saving Britain's Past
Sold! Inside the World's Biggest Auction House
The Architecture The Railways Built
The Country House Revealed
The Great British Countryside
The Restoration Man
The Thames With Tony Robinson
The Treasures of Ancient Rome
Village SOS
World's Most Extraordinary Homes

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 22h

Two astronauts looking at earth. One: wait it's all just weird weighted averages? The other, pointing a gun: always has been.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 6h

Every grant application is basically “what if I did the same thing, but with a budget and lower expectations”

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 9h

On a scale of 1 to 100 of which only 40 to 80 is ever used (if you have graded here, you will know)

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 12h

This is where I get my books

They have an ebook shop

Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 17h

$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 14h

New jobs for computational social scientists at UNC and USC: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307... amd uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194...

Assistant Professor

This Assistant Professor position will teach graduate and undergraduate courses, conduct research in the field of Sociology, participate in departmental service, and mentor graduate students.

unc.peopleadmin.com

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 14h

Junior and senior faculty positions in computational social scientists at Bocconi, one of the world's best universiites: Assistant Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=841
Associate/Full Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=843

Job Market - Bocconi University

Recruiting, Faculty, Post-doc Grant, Collaboration Contracts

jobmarket.unibocconi.eu

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 10h

First law of sociology: some people do some people don’t

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 10h

It could have been worse it could have been pubic speaking

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 17h

My job here is done

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 21h

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."

Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.