In Madrid this week? Don’t miss @ramina-sotoudeh.bsky.social presentation "The Hidden Demographics of Prenatal Selection: Evidence from Family DNA" at the UNED inequality/social demography seminar When: 13th Nov, 19.00-20.30 Where: Room Jorge Cavodeassi (OEI), UNED, Calle Bravo Murillo 38

We conducted a systematic review of the effect of in-utero exposure to ambient air pollution on the sex ratio at birth. Evidence is scarce and we need more studies employing rigorous causal inference designs. Work led by Ursula Gazeley @oxforddemsci.bsky.social, preprint available below.

We're hiring 2 Assistant Professors of Sociology: Gender and Sexuality and Environmental Sociology. At @tcdsociology.bsky.social, we aspire to be a method-agnostic group of solution-oriented sociologists. Join our welcoming community at @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social. Deadline 1 Dec. Link in the comment.

📢 ¡Reserva esta fecha! El XVI Congreso Español de Sociología se celebrará en #Bilbao del 15 al 17 de julio de 2026. Súmate al foro bienal de la investigación social. El plazo para enviar comunicaciones se abre el 19 de enero. Zure zain gaude / Te esperamos.

¿Te interesan los temas de desigualdad y movilidad social? ¿Quieres hacer el doctorado? Va a salir una Beca FPI en el proyecto I+D que dirijo: “Does luck matter? The role of luck in individual life courses and views of redistribution”. La convocatoria oficial de la UNED saldrá en breve. 1/2

New publication in @actasociologica.bsky.social! @filippogch.bsky.social and I use a novel decomposition method (@ang-yu.bsky.social and Elwert) to study if and how *childcare arrangements* under age 3 shape disparities in children’s cognitive skills ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/5

Desde el Comité de Investigación de Sociología de la Población y Demografía de la Federación Española de Sociología estamos organizando un workshop ONLINE abierto a quienes trabajéis en investigación/producción de datos en estos ámbitos. DEADLINE ABSTRACTS 30/11 👇 fes-sociologia.com/noticia/Llam...

New entry on the Universidad, sí blog!📣📣 I summarize recent joint research on how the month of birth 📆 shapes educational outcomes🎓: from early performance to university success and field of study. Read in English here👇 sites.google.com/view/manuelt...

📣📣Hoy publico nueva entrada en el blog Universidad, sí. En esta ocasión, sumarizo un conjunto de investigaciones realizadas a lo largo de los últimos tres años sobre el efecto del mes de nacimiento📅. No te lo pierdas!👇👇 www.universidadsi.es/nacer-a-dest...

The UNED inequality and social demography seminar is back, with @ramina-sotoudeh.bsky.social @l-sage.bsky.social @melindacmills.bsky.social @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social @nicolettabalbo and @danieloesch If you are Madrid, come along! 👇the program for this academic year

NUEVA PUBLICACIÓN🚨 Ya se ha publicado la nueva edición del "Indicadores Comentados sobre el Estado del Sistema Educativo Español", de cuya autoría me encargo desde hace unos años. El informe puede descargarse en: www.fundacionareces.es/fundacionare... Más info👇

Mañana presento un paper en MZES en el que @alvaroszv.bsky.social y yo explotamos un experimento natural que se dio en el trabajo de campo de @equalstrength.bsky.social en España durante los riots de #Torre-Pacheco.

📢 Contrato Inicial de Doctorado (UNED) 📢 🔹7 meses · 10h/semana · 725€/mes 🔹 Remoto o presencial 🔹Tema: socio-demografía, familia, género, estratificación social. 🔹Requisitos: máster afín, inglés alto, análisis estadístico. 📅 Plazo: 13/10/25 📩 Info: files.persona.co/60187/Contra...

Next RC28 Spring Meeting will be 20-22 May in Seville. Submissions until 10 Dec here: eventos.upo.es/137585/detai... If you're wondering if this is your conference, have a look at what we publish in our journal Research in Social Stratification and Mobility: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/rese...

Lab Study in Berlin/Madrid on School Meritocracy: Effort🔨(🧠objective cognitive effort / 👩‍🏫teacher-perceived effort) → + grades & inequality. Net of IQ, High-SES👨‍🎓 + effort & GPA returns when lazy. Low-SES👨‍🎓 - effort; + GPA returns if hardworking. WP👇 Effort-Project econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:fir:ec...

Paper by Cozzani et al. explores a possible mechanism underlying ART birth disparities & highlights that these disparities do not appear to arise from treatment success, at least when treatments are performed in widely subsidized public context in Italy. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

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...

📢 Contrato Inicial de Doctorado (UNED) 📢 🔹7 meses · 10h/semana · 725€/mes 🔹 Remoto o presencial 🔹Tema: socio-demografía, familia, género, estratificación social. 🔹Requisitos: máster afín, inglés alto, análisis estadístico. 📅 Plazo: 13/10/25 📩 Info: files.persona.co/60187/Contra...

PAPER ALERT🚨 With greats @cristinasuero.bsky.social and @fabriberna.bsky.social, we explore how the ed. gradient in the occurrence and timing of first motherhood varies across Spanish provinces (NUTS3). #OA publication at Population, Space and Place: doi.org/10.1002/psp.70106 Want to know more?👇

In many journals associate editors play an important role in the review process but their names don’t appear in communications with authors. At Europ Soc Rev, when we reject a paper the letter is signed by both EiC and AE. In others only the EiC signs. Having the AE in the letter adds transparency

First single-author pub out in SSM! It shows a mechanism underlying the intergenerational transmission of health inequality: high-SES families buffer genetic propensity for obesity & overweight, while low-SES environments trigger it 🌍🧬⚖️ OA: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/5

The 4th edition of our Master in Computational Social Sciences (UC3M) kicks off! We had the pleasure of starting with Prof. Ana Tajadura (@anatajadura.bsky.social) and her inspiring ERC Project BODYinTRANSIT. Big thanks to Ana and a warm welcome to our new students. Excited for a great year ahead!

New article with Helena Troiano in European Journal of Higher Education: “Patterns of university progression and social inequalities: delving into complex trajectories in higher education” 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2156...

📣 New publication in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility! 🔎 Do mothers’ occupation-specific skills shape children’s development? ✅ Yes! When mothers move into jobs with higher skill demands, their kids show stronger skills. Open access here 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.” Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris

"The geography of tertiary education inequality in EU" just out in @europeansocieties.bsky.social with @mvaldes1989.bsky.social and Ilaria Lievore An outcome of the mapineq.eu project

The @isa-rc28.bsky.social #rc28 network organizes an online conference on 20/21 January 2026, without conference fee. It allows scholars from all over the world to submit their work. www.sciencespo.fr/cris/fr/actu...

Job alert! Join us at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a postdoctoral fellow to work on your own research for three years. #sociology

“findings suggest that health in early adulthood is an important determinant, whether direct or indirect, of family life-course trajectories. This paper endorses the inclusion of health as an explanatory variable in studies of fertility in high-income contexts” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Occupational Earning Potential has landed in @europeansocreview.bsky.social Implementable in R (digclass) and Stata (crosswalk), our linear OEP scale measures the median earnings of ISCO occupations and expresses them as percentiles of the earnings distribution academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

Se buscan dos científicos para formar parte del sistema nacional de asesoramiento científico al Gobierno | www.onac.gob.es/novedades/co... @csic.es

📢 *Call for Applications* / 📢 *Convocatoria abierta* Join our project on Prejudice & Discrimination at the Spanish National Research Council (Madrid 🇪🇸) Open to junior scholars at different stages (postdocs, predocs, or MSc grads considering a PhD) 🔗 ⬇️ www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zrur0...

⭐🎓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...

We are pleased to announce that the ISA RC28 Spring Meeting 2026 will be held at the campus of Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO) in Seville. Conference dates: May 20–22, 2026. Theme: Addressing Social Inequalities in the Global North and South Stay tuned! Submissions will begin soon.

Using data on 2.5 million great-grandchildren linked to great-grandfathers (1850–1940) to find strong economic persistence across 4 generations, from Zachary Ward, @kaseybuckles.bsky.social, and Joseph Price https://www.nber.org/papers/w33923

In this NEW study, @javiersoria.bsky.social & @octaviomedina.bsky.social map intergenerational mobility across Spain — and what drives it. Key findings in this thread [1/7]🧵🇪🇸 wid.world/news-article/intergenerational-mobility-in-spain-geographic-analysis-and-causal-neighborhood-effects/

🚨 Are young women becoming more left-wing & young men more right-wing? We analyzed 32 European countries (1990–2023). 📊 Some show growing gaps—others don’t. 📊 Gaps tend to be bigger where gender equality is higher. w/ @hudde.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

A *null* result I'm very proud of! Led by Rustam Romaniuc, 35 coauthors from all over France tested nudge interventions to boost voter turnout. None worked, and we are possibly not surprised -- but a well-powered null result *is* a result! Paper: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

How do parental health shocks affect children’s well-being, personality and NEET status? Our new paper on @jmfncfr.bsky.social l‬ suggests small or null effects in Germany. With @jpheisig.bsky.social , Jonas Radl and Alena Scheinert Open access here: doi.org/10.1111/jomf...

FREE TO READ "The Preparedness Paradox in Climate Attitudes: Democrats Worry, Republicans Prepare" by Katsyris Rivera-Kientz and Evan Stewart (@evanstewart.bsky.social) is free to read now until June 30. Read it at bit.ly/4kqJtSK

📢Entrada en Universidad,sí sobre la PAU y el papel de factores como la calidad del aire😶‍🌫️ Recupero las conclusiones de un paper con @conteristo.bsky.social y @marespadafor.bsky.social sobre el efecto de una ZBE sobre el rendimiento en la PAU Echa un vistazo!👇 www.universidadsi.es/zonas-de-baj...

New paper with @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social just out in Demography! 🔗 read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a... Here’s a short thread on what we found—and why it might be worth a look.

Postdoc position at UNED in Madrid or remotely Full-time 1-year postdoc position to work on a project on gender and social stratification from a comparative and longitudinal perspective Starting date: October 2025. Deadline: June 7th. See details: tomascano.eu/jobs #sociology#postdoc#jobs

New study from my PhD thesis—supervised by @pablogracia.bsky.social—out in Journal of Marriage and Family! 📝 It examines how changes in paid work and housework following birth shape first-time mothers’ and fathers’ mental health trajectories. Read here (Open access): doi.org/10.1111/jomf.13121

🚨 Postdoc position! 🚨 Join MultiMasc — a project on social stratification & masculinities. 📍 Based at UNED (Madrid) / remote possible 🧑‍💻 1-year / €2,250 net monthly / €4,000 travel fund 👉 Apply by June 7 ℹ️More info 👉 files.persona.co/60187/Call-P... 🙏 Share widely 📣📣 #Sociology #Postdoc

Joint work with Daniel Oesch @unil.bsky.social now beautifully formatted in first open access issue of @europeansocieties.bsky.social We ask: have European regions followed similar or divergent trajectories in terms of occupational change over time?

🚀 Our monograph The Geography of Early Dropout In Spain is out! 🌍 #OA 🔗 www.fundacionareces.es/fundacionare... Miguel Requena and I analyze early dropout at the provincial (NUTS3) level using 2011 and 2021 census data. I'll be sharing key findings in the coming days. Starting with some maps! 🗺️👇

Thanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

Happy to present our work @psalasr.bsky.social on the level, trends & mechanisms of unfair educational inequality in Spain in such a high-level workshop/session. We formalise Roemer's normative theory with machine learning, identifying types of ascribed circumstances underlying unequal opportunity.

Tomorrow and Friday at the UNED, in Madrid: meeting of the Spanish Research Committee on Inequality and Social stratification. 👇 the program: it is small RC28/ECSR! Everybody welcome to attend. Or meet the presenters later with a beer at the Mercato San Fermando in Lavapiés