I also study AI.

Democracy Now! is seeking an experienced leader to join our team as Director of Technology. More details: democracynow.hire.trakstar.com/jobs/fk0plq3/

📢Out now! Weihua Li, @jenniebrand.bsky.social, @aaronclauset.bsky.social, and colleagues show that researchers’ early training in diverse environments is strongly correlated with nurturing diverse groups in the established period. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #cssky #NetSci

Following the 10-vote win that made him mayor of Burlington 43 years ago, @sanders.senate.gov took to national television for the very first time to explain his socialist politics.

Tell 'm Bernie.

⬇️ NEW publication from Dr Dirk Witteveen (Departmental Lecturer) in International Migration Review: 'What Drives Immigrant Inequalities in Career Growth in the Age of Mass Migration?' Read in full: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

WE ARE HIRING!! Senior Research Fellow Demographic Science (Associate/Full Professor) @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @reubencollege.bsky.social See: lnkd.in/e_Gw84JN #demography in Oxford: www.demography.ox.ac.uk Our recent celebration: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIu4... DM or reach out *PLEASE RE-POST*

What Drives Immigrant Inequalities in Career Growth in the Age of Mass Migration? Dirk Witteveen & @mobarakhossain.net examine the association between modernization & career growth of American men & European immigrants in this Open Access article:

New paper in International Migration Review! 📝📈 Our analyses of linked 1900–1940 US Censuses suggest that macroeconomic opportunities do not explain career growth variation variation between multi-gen US men and 1st-/2nd-gen European immigrants. with @mobarakhossain.net 🙌 doi.org/10.1177/0197...

Some RC28 @ Milan impressions

Very interesting presentation by @dirkwitteveen.bsky.social at #RC28 on the match between college majors and jobs in the US. What seems to matter most is getting into the occupation that matches degree, not as much the skills or whether you train further.

New in Social Forces: Breathing Unequal Air😷 Our study shows that immigrant minorities in England & Germany face higher air pollution exposure🏭—and moving doesn’t help🚶. In England, disparities are 3x larger than in Germany 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... #EnvironmentalJustice #Inequality #AirPollution

Are you a social scientist or historian whose work includes analysis of the offshore finance system? Then please submit a paper to the special issue of Socio-Economic Review I'll be guest editing w/Kimberly Kay Hoang & @vanessahistory.bsky.social. Due May 15th. academic.oup.com/ser/pages/cf...

🚀Bluesky, we are hiring! 4 days left to apply. 2.5 y postdoc on the role of relocations in refugee integration @WZB in Berlin Please share! DM for further info wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/342...

"In short, QCA often finds complexity where none exists." This is a great new ETP editorial by my coauthor Mikko Rönkkö, Markku Maula, and Karl Wennberg, illustrating the massive false positives problem in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). doi.org/10.1177/1042...

This is pretty shocking. Make sure you look in the lower right hand corner.

Spent a fantastic week with colleagues and friends at Stockholm University's @sofi.su.se, despite the slightly disappointing weather ☁️ 👀

I'm very excited to give a talk about ethnic earnings inequality in football at UCL this coming week. Hybrid format! 🧑🏻‍💻👀

New blog: @carmenvillaecon.bsky.social on crime rates and why youth clubs could be valuable investments, based on her @theifs.bsky.social research

📣 @bjsociology.bsky.social is seeking reflections by sociologists from across the world on the ongoing managerial and ideological attacks on higher education. Find out more about the project and the call for submissions ➡️ buff.ly/3XOrZXx

📢 Job: Sabino Kornrich and I are hiring a 3-year Postdoc to join us at #NYUAD to work on parenting, childhood inequalities, and parenting norms in international and comparative perspective using experimental methods. Deadline to apply: February 14, 2025. To apply: apply.interfolio.com/160976

When I looked at this for sociology I found that a higher journal impact factor successfully predicted which paper would be cited more 54% of the time. (Sociologists, be sociological!) familyinequality.wordpress.com/2020/12/15/d...

My department has just advertised 5 salaried PhD positions. Projects within the fields of religion, culture studies, environmental humanities, and/or Asian/Middle Eastern studies are welcome. 3-4 years, full-time, fully funded. Candidates must have finished their MA. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Universities should have a special travel fund for international students so they can visit their families before Jan 20. Especially the students who already went through 2+ years of not seeing family & friends back home b/c of pandemic-era travel restrictions and quarantine mandates.

Despite what many folks falsely said, research on the pandemic was rock solid: COVID studies were more likely to use stronger designs, larger samples, justify their sample sizes based on power analysis, pre-register their hypotheses and analysis plans + make their data, materials & code available!

My new article with Caitlyn Collins and Shamus Khan on constructing cases, generating claims, and generalizing conceptually in qualitative research is out in the @AnnualReviews. A big thank you to the qualitative scholars who inspired and informed our work! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

If you are interested in #inequality, how it shapes economic opportunities, and the implications for both public policy and economic research, then listen to this engaging conversation I had with Steven Durlauf, director of @ucstonecenter.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t... #econsky

Sports Blue sky! Quote Post with your favorite teams MLB: Mets 🟠🔵 NFL: Jets 🟢⚪ College: n/a NBA: Knicks 🟠🔵 NHL: n/a Soccer: Ajax 🔴⚪

One reviewer said my manuscript submitted to an interdisciplinary journal reads like an "economist's fantasy about social relations". I'm not sure if this was an economist's critique of fantasies or a sociologist's critique of economists. Either way, I take it.

Inheritance explains more than 60% of wealth inequality nationwide Any serious attempt to address inequality should start there. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/13/o...

Social stratification: Is the probability of intergenerational occupational inheritance - i.e., *micro-occ. to micro-occ.* - the same along parental occupational ranking/hierarchy? I assume not, or "it's complicated", but any reference in this direction would be appreciated!

We wrote a LIS Data Center newsletter article on the role of college majors in earnings inequality. It discusses collective benefits (via "closure") and individual payoffs (via major-occupation "matching") Find it here: www.lisdatacenter.org/newsletter/n... Article: doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

Please submit a paper to the summer 2024 RC28 meeting @BrownUniversity! sites.brown.edu/rc28/

New LSE Summer School course on "Inequality and Poverty Analysis", with yours truly as the lecturer. (Over 3 weeks starting 2023-07-29.) Further details and application portal: see course pages at www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

We're hiring! 3-year postdoc position at NIDI within the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) project. NIDI conducts leading, high-level scientific research in the broad field of population studies. The institute is part of The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

New paper on the Social Impact of #ExtremeWeather🌪️ in @europeansocieties.bsky.social 🙌 It unpacks the link between extreme weather events, climate beliefs, and behaviour. Spoiler alert: belief shifts happen, but actions? 🤔 Check out OA: doi.org/10.1080/1461... #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange

"The Economics Profession's Socioeconomic Diversity Problem" w/ Robert Schultz is now out in the JEP Here's the paper: pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/... and the Twitter thread from Mar 2022 (aka before I was on Bsky - sorry!) twitter.com/annastansbur...

New paper in Socio-Economic Review! We examine the relationship between the density of college majors in occupations and occupation-level earnings. This "major specialization" of occupations boosts earnings, over and above closure mechanisms and skills. doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

We zoeken een nieuwe UD interdisciplinaire sociale wetenschappen aan de Universiteit Utrecht. Nederlands en onderwijservaring zijn vereist; zwaartepunt functie ligt op onderwijs (30/70 aanstelling). www.uu.nl/organisatie/...

Great job opportunity: 3-year postdoc position with Ridhi Kashyap on computational methods to understand demographic change & implications for kinship & intergenerational overlap. Apply by 17/11. Details and apply: tinyurl.com/2skdt98w #demography #sociology

4/ First, at every career age, we find that women are more likely to leave than men 👉 gender parity at hiring won’t persist. These empirical rates imply a hypothetical 50-50 cohort would fall to 40% women over 35 yrs — both hiring and retention are critical for achieving parity.

1/ New paper! “Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty” w/ N Laberge KH Wapman @samzhang AC Morgan M Galesic BK Fosdick @danlarremore @aaronclauset: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A systematic study of gendered rates & reasons for faculty attrition in US academia 🧵

The *amazing* Ridhi Kashyap is post-doc in in Computational Demography! The postdoc will use computational methods to understand demographic change & implications for kinship & intergenerational overlap. Apply now: tinyurl.com/2skdt98w #demography #popsky

I just got an article accepted by a journal I've always wanted to publish in! 🎉 Looking forward to sharing it here soon.

SOFI is a wonderful place for any social scientist. Do consider:

We are hiring a Postdoc in sociology at SOFI! The postdoc will focus on the conditions under which parenting leaves either promote working-life inclusion, or exclusion – with attention to policy interplay. The position is part of our "sustainable synergies" program. www.su.se/english/abou...

Oxford Sociology is recruiting THREE (yes 3!) Postdoc Researchers. Work with Prof Man Yee Kan on her GENTIME project, looking at gender inequalities in time use across East Asian and Western countries. Apply before 31 Oct 2023 t.co/tN9VZPHPsP #sociology #demography

New Paper 🔔 We look at the contrasting meanings of merit that elites in the 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇰 deploy when justifying their success. Co-authored with @aaronsreeves @chellersgaard @antongrau 🧵 below… academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

A problem in economics research: Null results are considered less relevant and less publishable than statistically significant results, especially when they go against expectations. 📉📈 doi.org/10.1093/ej/u...