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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 1d

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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Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market | PNAS

There is a widespread belief, in both the scholarly literature and the popular press, that polygyny prevents large numbers of men from marrying by ...

www.pnas.org

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 1d

New policy at SocArXiv: We now require the submitting author to have an ORCID linked from the OSF profile page, with a name that matches that on the paper and the OSF account.
@orcid.org @cos.io
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 2d

Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈

You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...

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Peter Eibich @peibich.bsky.social · 19d

We're hiring a Full Professor of Economics - below you can now see the ad on our website!
@univdauphine.bsky.social

leda.dauphine.fr/fr/recruteme...

Full Professor position in Economics | Laboratoire d’Économie de Dauphine (LEDa)

leda.dauphine.fr

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 4d

I'm excited to share my new paper with a former student, Tommy Smith. "'This Work Would Not Have Been Possible without...': The Length of Acknowledgments in Sociology Books"

Open Access in @sociusjournal.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Main figure from the paper. Violin plots showing the length of acknowledgments sections in books by sociologists, broken out by gender, race, sexuality, parents’ education, millennium of author’s PhD, and publisher type.

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Lars Weisbrod @larsweisbrod.det.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Gute Nachrichten

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Atheendar Venkataramani @atheendar.bsky.social · 5d

Missing data means AI will be as dumb as we are?

Interesting paper: arxiv.org/abs/2509.12388

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 New paper: Who climbs the Ivory Tower? 🏛️ Together with Nicolai Borgen and Astrid Sandsør (@astridsandsor.bsky.social), we find that the chances of becoming a professor differ enormously by family background. Here’s what we find 👇

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Dingeman Wiertz @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social · 6d

A reminder that there is about 1 week left to apply for these 2 positions in Quantitative Social Science @sriucl.bsky.social!

Application deadline: 10 October.

Further details in the link below.

Dingeman Wiertz @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social · Sep 2

We have 2 posts available in our Quantitative Social Science centre at @sriucl.bsky.social.

It is a wonderful place to work, with great colleagues, exciting degrees, and good promotion prospects. The posts are open to anyone working in the broad space covered by our centre.

Deadline + link 👇

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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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 7d

TOMORROW 12 NOON Paris time: CREST Sociology seminar by @sungju.bsky.social: "The Paradox of Place: How Emotional Connections Shape Community Responses to Flood Risks"

In person at ENSAE or on-line on Zoom!

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 7d

Oh wow could this (mutatis mutandis) also apply to European sociology

Pietro Biroli @pietrobiroli.bsky.social · 7d

Totally agree with the diagnosis, not sure about the suggestion of the two track system. it might create weird selection and sorting.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...

we should change the reward and publication system.

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 7d

good openly accessible qualitative interview question response transcript datasets?

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 7d

Any submission rule we make will be ingested by LLMs and used to make AI slop submissions that comply. However, it is helpful for us when authors accidentally leave in the ChatGPT comments.

Please take such work elsewhere.

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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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Carlos J. Gil @karlosj89.bsky.social · 9d

Teacher bias or unobserved ability? @ssreditorial.bsky.social paper w/ @marespadafor.bsky.social Test score error & omitted behavior = 🐘 in the (class)room to identify SES discrimination. Still, beyond "true ability", well-off (low-performing) kids get higher teacher ratings: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.bsky.social · 9d

Interesting paper on teacher bias by student SES www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Teacher bias by student SES or measurement error in ability? A cautionary tale for observational studies

Teachers act as judges of academic merit, but unfair evaluations beyond students' true abilities may perpetuate inequality based on socioeconomic stat…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social · 12d

LSE and @bspsuk.bsky.social are hosting a workshop on "Being an academic in population studies" on 3 November! It'll be a nice mix of methods training and career advice with great talks by @ericbschneider.bsky.social, Wendy Sigle, José Manuel Aburto, and others!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/being-an-a...

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European Sociological Review @europeansocreview.bsky.social · 12d

📢 New OA Paper

Does education similarly foster reports of discrimination for women and ethno-racial minorities?

@chlolv.bsky.social and co-authors try to answer this question, extending previous findings on the integration paradox with French survey data.

📃Read at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

Beyond the ‘integration paradox’: educational attainment similarly predicts gender discrimination among women and ethnic discrimination among minorities

Abstract. Highly educated individuals of immigrant origins perceive more ethnic discrimination than their less educated counterparts—a now well-established

doi.org

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 10d

This one will make waves. Based on an original longitudinal data set, Darci Schmidgall documents a *positive* link between states funding crisis pregnancy centers & abortion rates. IOW, such ”pro-life” alternative-to-abortion measures may backfire. FREE to read.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Do state-funded “Alternatives to Abortion” programs reduce abortion rates? A longitudinal analysis

During the era of federal protection of abortion rights in the U.S., many majority-conservative state governments sought to oppose abortion by impleme…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Marti Rovira @mrovira.bsky.social · 11d

On October 1st the call opens for a funded PhD student position in the project "Contextualized Multi-Intervention Strategies to Break the Vicious Cycle of Intimate Partner Violence". Contact me if you’d like to know more!

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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.bsky.social · 12d

Interesting paper by @blaabaek.bsky.social and colleagues about cultural tastes using libary borrowing data in Denmark academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

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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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · 13d

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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Sofia Gil-Clavel @sof14g1l.bsky.social · 14d

Are you a social scientist that wants to learn R?

Then, you may find my course "R for Social Scientists" very useful!

I designed this course to give social scientists all that is necessary to start using R in their everyday work.

github.com/SofiaG1l/R_C...

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Eivind Ystrom @eivindy.bsky.social · 15d

Look forward to US zoom meetings until January 2029

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