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Weverthon Machado @weverthon.com · Jul 24

📊When teaching or giving a talk, do you like presenting plots step by step, revealing e.g. one group at a time? This is often useful for walking through complex results.

I made a R package that makes it extremely easy to do this!

ggreveal: Reveal a ggplot incrementally
#rstats #dataviz #ggplot2

Reveal a ggplot incrementally

Provides functions that make it easy to reveal ggplot2 graphs incrementally. The functions take a ggplot2 object and return a list of plots showing data incrementally by panels, layers, groups, the va...

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Sofia Gil-Clavel @sof14g1l.bsky.social · 15d

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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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 16d

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

In early 2025, beaver activity in the Brdy Protected Landscape Area, Czech Republic, contributed to the restoration of a wetland ecosystem. A family of beavers constructed a series of dams that coincidentally accomplished environmental goals of the Czech government, which had delayed its proposed project since 2018 for bureaucratic and financial reasons. The beaver-built dams saved the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million,

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Chloé Lavest @chlolv.bsky.social · 16d

📢 First thesis paper is out!

In November 2022 I started my Ph.D. at the University of Utrecht. 📃 Today, my first paper is available on the website of the European Sociological Review (url.td/Q7kIJ). I love this paper and hope you will too.

I guess I like to take 3 years to publish things. 👩‍🎓😅

Validate User

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Deborah Leão 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @deborahleao.bsky.social · 27d

Dear friends from other countries:

please join the Brazilians as we celebrate this groundbreaking decision.

CNN @cnn.com · 27d

A majority of Brazil's Supreme Court judges have voted to convict former President Jair Bolsonaro of plotting to overturn the 2022 election. https://cnn.it/3VIY1Cn

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Weverthon Machado @weverthon.com · 27d

Today is a beautiful day 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 27d

Brazil’s supreme court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup

Former president faces decades-long jail sentence for seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing 2022 election * Anatomy of a coup plot: why Jair Bolsonaro is on trial A majority of Brazil’s supreme court judges have voted to convict the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a military coup, leaving the far-right populist facing a decades-long sentence for leading the criminal conspiracy. Justice Cármen Lúcia Antunes Rocha ruled on Thursday that Bolsonaro – a former paratrooper who was elected president in 2018 – was guilty of seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing the 2022 election, meaning three of the five judges involved in the trial had found Brazil’s former leader guilty. Continue reading...

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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · Sep 1

Wonderful opportunity to join a supportive work environment and collegial colleagues! Come and join us!

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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Dr. Camille Desjardins @camdesj.bsky.social · Aug 22

If you are an early career scholar, consider applying to the Early Career Work and Family Fellowship Program led by the brilliant Nicole Denier and @yanghu.co.uk.
🔗 wfrn.org/early-career...

Early Career Work and Family Fellowship Program - Work and Family Researchers Network

Early Career Work and Family Fellowship Program The Work and Family Researchers Network is committed to mentoring the next generation of work and family scholars. Our Early Career Fellowship Program p...

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Sociology at Oxford @sociologyoxford.bsky.social · Aug 20

🚨 New Job Alert! 🚨

Join Dr @ewabatyra.bsky.social as a Postdoc Researcher in Demography!

Contribute to a global study on disparities in reproductive behaviour, focusing on childbearing age & fertility levels 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦

Apply now 👉 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...

We're hiring: Postdoctoral Researcher in Demography, deadline: 30 September 2025

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Weverthon Machado @weverthon.com · Aug 19

New paper in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility! I track long-term trends in educational assortative mating in 🇧🇷. After decades of decline, homogamy rose in the 2000s, due to a balance shift: more fluidity at lower edu levels vs. stronger homogamy at the top.

Check it out (open access):

Trends in educational assortative mating in Brazil: 1960–2015

Using both census and survey data, this study analyzes educational assortative mating trends over half a century in Brazil. Odds of both overall and g…

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Nadia Steiber 〽️ @nadiasteiber.bsky.social · Jul 18

⭐🎓The Department of Sociology in Vienna @univie.ac.at‬ invites applications for a Tenure Track Professor in Sociology with focus on Quantitative Social Science Research Methods | #Sociology | quant methods

Apply here (17 Sept 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

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Jennifer Hook @jenlhook.bsky.social · Jun 30

The call for @wfrn.bsky.social papers is open! Join us in lovely Montreal June 17-20. The 2026 theme is Centering Care across the Life Course. Preconferences for Early Career Fellows and Predocs, plus plenty of social activities.

Submit by Oct 1. All the info here: wfrn.org/2026-work-an...

2026 Work and Family Researchers Network Conference - Work and Family Researchers Network

ABOUT THE EVENT Work and Family Researchers Network next conference will be June 17-20, 2026 at Concordia University in Montreal Canada. The WFRN will host preconference events on June 17, including ...

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Olga Leshchenko @olgaleshchenko.bsky.social · Jul 1

My first PhD article has been published!

🔎 It examines how the relationship between flexible working time arrangements and self-reported work-to-life and life-to-work conflict is moderated by an (un)equal domestic labor distribution within heterosexual couples.

Journal of Family Research @familyresearch.bsky.social · Jun 30

#Published: "Flexible working time arrangements and work-life conflict: The role of gender and housework" by @olgaleshchenko.bsky.social & Susanne Strauß (doi.org/10.20377/jfr...). #JFR #JFamRes #openaccess #openscience #sociology #demography

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Fernanda Fortes de Lena @ferfortes.bsky.social · Jun 20

🌈 New Publication !!!
I'm excited to share our latest article, “A Marriage Premium for Whom? Sexual Identity, Relationship Status and Earnings”, co-authored with Diederik Boertien:
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/jomf...
You can find some of the main results in the thread.

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Weverthon Machado @weverthon.com · Jun 19

Congrats, Jona! 🎉

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Pablo Gracia @pablogracia.bsky.social · May 27

🆕 Paper with @metzgers.bsky.social (lead) at Journal of Marriage and Family!

We study how #Parenthood impacts #Gendered #Time.Use & #Mental.Health and how #Paid & #Unpaid #Work shape gendered mental health during parenthood transitions.

Open access link 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Claudia Brunori @claudiabrunori.bsky.social · Apr 29

Another piece of my PhD thesis is now published in International Migration Review!

How many immigrants get transnationally separated from their children in the migration process, and how does this affect their mental health in the short- and medium- term?

Check it out 👇
doi.org/10.1177/0197...

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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · Apr 26

Why are So Many Latin American Women Beaten & Murdered?

Why is the region such an outlier?

My latest essay provides insights from my globally comparative as well as qualitative research in Mexico, Costa Rica, and Brazil

www.ggd.world/p/why-are-so...

Why are So Many Latin American Women Beaten & Murdered?

Insights from Brazil, Part 1

www.ggd.world

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Weverthon Machado @weverthon.com · Apr 25

I'd like to be included, thanks!

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Jona de Jong @jonadejong.bsky.social · Apr 22

In the latest issue of @cpsjournal.bsky.social, my article with Jonne Kamphorst in which we propose that educationally homogeneous social networks contribute to the stabilization of political conflict on the cultural dimension. A short thread on the main findings:

Link: doi.org/10.1177/0010...

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Apr 8

Kombucha girl maybe meme.
On the left, frowny face: working on an important manuscript
On the right, intrigued: spending two hours to create a figure that came to my mind quite randomly

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Gabriele Mari @gmari.bsky.social · Mar 31

Frequent income changes can sometimes disrupt parenting.

Parents with higher but unstable incomes report more strained relationships.

Parents with low and unstable incomes might shield children at the expense of own mental health.

A thread @usociety.bsky.social @readdemography.bsky.social 1/

Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · Mar 26

“Income Volatility & Parenting Styles During Hard Times”: @gmari.bsky.social studied whether volatility affects parenting, finding it associated w/ ↓ warmth & ↑ harshness in families w/ ↑ incomes & the opposite in fams w/ ↓ incomes. @essb-erasmusuni010.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

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Weverthon Machado @weverthon.com · Mar 26

Good take on the integration of causal identification into broader goals of social science research.

I also really like this recent paper that touches on similar issues: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Ariane Ophir @arianeophir.bsky.social · Mar 25

🚨 Come research singlehood with me! I’m hiring a 3-year Postdoc w/interest in Family Demography to start this Fall. Please share!

📍 Barcelona (@cedemografia.bsky.social)
🔎 ERC-funded project 'SINGLE'
📅 Deadline – April 24, 2025
🔗 More info: shorturl.at/400eo
#Postdoc #Demography

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Camille Portier @camilleprtr.bsky.social · Mar 3

Can mothers leverage the structural resources of their occupation like autonomy to balance motherhood and work, especially in the absence paid leave?

My latest article in the Journal of Marriage and Family suggests so.

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