This Thursday UNED/GEPS Inequality and Social Demography seminar with: Lucas Sage (IAST) Starting low to finish high? Reassessing wage growth trajectories in early careers at 19.00-20.30 Room Jorge Cavodeassi, UNED, Calle Bravo Murillo 38, 28013 Madrid and don't miss the post-seminar drinks!

If you read this post, you might be one of those you benefit from cumulative advantage. Learn more with this new article at @europeansocreview.bsky.social

🌟New paper out at ESR! Does more education mean more mobility? Evidence from Brazil by #A_Salata #SY_Cheung shows otherwise! 🚩As university access expanded, its equalizing power faded! ➡️Read the full article at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf049

Hoy en Madrid hay huelga en defensa de la Universidad pública/ today in Madrid we go on strike to defend public univerities ("Today I wake up and strike", writing on a wall, Bologna, some years ago)

@ipp-csic.bsky.social. En un día como el 25N hay que contarlo: La violencia contra las mujeres se esconde en la intimidad de los hogares y se cobra víctimas cada día globalmente con un coste social abrumador: No podemos ignorarlo ni tampoco relativizarlo. @csic.es elpais.com/opinion/2025...

Are citizens supportive of public spending on education when it requires paying more taxes? #ID_Özel #S_Parrado #K_Yıldırım new paper says: No! Yet evaluations of one’s own children’s schooling reduce this cost sensitivity! ➡️Read the full paper at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf043

Off to Mannheim! Tomorrow I’ll be presenting at the MZES: “Unequal Luck: Chance as a Mechanism of Educational Inequality” with @ferraraale.bsky.social @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social where luck= chance+ consequences Here the wp: osf.io/preprints/so... 1/2

🚩New experimental evidence at the European Sociological Review! #Martin_Aranguren advances the conceptualization of discrimination, addressing it as a stressor and highlighting its environmental origin!! Read the full article at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf047

Newly accepted manuscripts at ESR, below. Check it out for continuos updates academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

But then can we non maliciously instruct AI as a direct alternative to online surveys?

AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail

See you in Sevilla! RC28 conference, 20-22 May 2026 Deadline for abstracts: 1st of December eventos.upo.es/137585/secti...

On my way to chair a session at the GEPS (Population and Society) workshop in Madrid. Great line-up today. If you want to drop by: Sala S. Aleksiévich Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, UCM

In Norway, you’ll be lucky if undergrads call you *anything*. Most messages or emails simply begin with, “Hei…”. I’m fine with this personally as it’s the norm here, but it *does* mean I usually need to give “the talk” to more senior students who need to contact researchers outside Norway

¿Hablar de política en una cita romántica? ¿Algo incómodo… o una oportunidad para saber quién tienes delante? Mañana nos visita @lalamur.bsky.social de la @unisouthampton.bsky.social Acércate hasta el @cchscsic.bsky.social o sigue su charla en directo por aquí: www.youtube.com/live/QactHQc...

🔈 *Call for Participation* 🔈 Italian Conference on Computational Social Science – CS2Italy May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++ Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org plz reshare

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

New article in @sfjournal.bsky.social with @mvaldes1989.bsky.social and I. Lievore on the effect of edu expansion among parents on children's achievement Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands among parents? Short answer: yes 1/2 academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

De acuerdo con esta propuesta 👇 Pero para atraer talento es tb indispensable simplificar las gestiones asociadas a la investigación y a la gestión de proyectos. Para empezar: 1. Abolir el requerimiento de usar la agencia de viajes 2. Subir dietas de alojamiento elpais.com/opinion/2025...

There’s a new kid in town! Companies are now selling IVF and embryo selection based on genetic testing for traits related to health and even intelligence. We outline methodological and ethical concerns, and warn against risks for social inequality. With the fantastic @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social

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

I'm wrapping up the case study of Bologna's 1970s - 1990s traffic plans, and I think that there are three main overarching policy takeaways: - a strong initial vision, which is both simple and sophisticated; - incrementalism, but with strong commitment over time. - total pragmatism;

¿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

Damos salida a la organizacion del proximo congreso de sociologia, Julio 2026. Nos vemos en Bilbao

I delivered the laudatio for @socarxiv.bsky.social which won the 2025 @kohli-sociology.bsky.social Infrastructure Prize for Sociology. The ceremony was at the @eui-eu.bsky.social and SocArXiv was represented by @philipncohen.com . My laudatio here: www.fabriziobernardi.net/laudatio-for...

¿Alguien en Presidencia, Prospectiva o alguna Subdirección General que pueda ayudarme a hacer llegar un SOS a la ministra de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (o a algún DG, me vale)? 👇. 1/3

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

🧵There's this phenomenon you sometimes see in certain corners of science where a small group of researchers all work on the same narrow topic and mostly just talk to each other. It becomes a really insular community: everyone cites everyone else, ... 1/5

After an investigation which took >2 years, the journal Cross Cultural Research has retracted a paper which used Lynn's "national IQ" database, on the grounds that "Post-publication review raised serious concerns about the validity of the data & the article findings"

Peter Bearman - Laureate of the Kohli Prize 2025- gives the Max Weber lecture @eui-eu.bsky.social. He speaks about pathways to poverty analysing thousands of letters written to Warren Buffet using LLM. @kohli-sociology.bsky.social

Congratulations to us, and thank you, @kohli-sociology.bsky.social!

Niche post but I'm amazed that the time-worn ISEI does almost as good a job at explaining earnings as a recent scale designed to explain earnings Treiman constant ftw Read all about it in @europeansocreview.bsky.social academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

Curious to learn what is behind the European Social Survey? This Podcast with Rory Fitzgerad provides a glimpse behind the scenes of this impressive data set. @ess-survey.bsky.social

I have written are review of "The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture" by Dalton Conley Pre-print on @socarxiv.bsky.social here: osf.io/preprints/so... I highly recommend it, particularly to graduate students The reasons👇

✨𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗖𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱✨ Join us in honoring the laureates of the Kohli Prize and Infrastructure Prize for Sociology. 📅 4–6 November 2025 📍 European University Institute, Florence 🔗 Register via: kohlifoundation.eu/registration/ @socarxiv.bsky.social @philipncohen.com @incitecolumbia.bsky.social

Yesterday we had the first Inequality and Social Demography Seminar of the Madrid Population and Society Research Network at UNED. Great talk by #NicolettaBalbo, very well attended with researchers from all Madrid research centers: CSIC, UCM, UAM, UCIIIM and UNED

📢𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻!📢 We’re now accepting applications for the 𝗞𝗼𝗵𝗹𝗶 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center @wzb.bsky.social Apply via our online portal: kohlifoundation.eu/programs-koh... 📆 Deadline 16 November 2025

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

Including my paper with Carmel Blank on inequalities in enjoying second chance paths to academic education

🌲Our autumn issue is here to accompany you through the start of the semester with amazing research by @kbkarlson @PFallesen @HallstenMartin @pengzell @fctropf @aliciagsierra @PassarettaG @marespadafor @laurafursich @jungin612 @laui_silva &more! Read it at academic.oup.com/esr/issue/41/5 image.png

Volume 41, Issue 5, October 2025 of @europeansocreview.bsky.social is out! A very nice collection of interesting papers (almost all open access). Browse the index and find your next read academic.oup.com/esr/issue

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

Vergüenza www.eldiario.es/catalunya/mu...

✨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/...

➡️New paper out with amazing data: library borrowings of the entire population of Denmark! If cultural tastes are always stratified, the type of stratification depends on the wider inequalities within a context #EH_Blaabæk #S_Friedman #MM_Jæger #A_Reeves academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

– ¿Qué te llevó a alistarte? – La pobreza. La primera herramienta de reclutamiento del ejército es ir a zonas empobrecidas y ofrecer lo que EEUU no ofrece: sanidad, educación, alojamiento, ingresos, estabilidad... Ofrecemos a nuestros soldados socialismo para ir a luchar por el capitalismo. BRUTAL

@janierola.net and @mjantti.bsky.social presenting the main findings of the Mapineq at roundtable at EU Parliament in Brussels

🍂 Continuamos con los estrenos: ¡ya está aquí la programación de otoño de nuestros seminarios! ⚠ Recordad que: 1️⃣ La asistencia es libre y gratuita. 2️⃣ Se retransmitirán en directo a través de nuestro canal de YouTube. Muy pronto más información sobre cada sesión. ¡Estad atentos!

Bologna today #Stopthewar in #Gaza