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📢 Career Opportunity Associate Professorship in Economic Sociology and Market Governance at Copenhagen Business School. ⏰ Apply by 1 September 2026 🔗 sase.org/career-oppor... #SASE #AcademicJobs

#Published: “The historical demography of the multigenerational family: Evidence from crowdsourced genealogies” by Jan Skopek, Thomas Leopold & Oliver Posegga (doi.org/10.20377/jfr...). #JFR #JFamRes #openaccess #openscience #sociology #demiography

I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.

Reinforces something we write in our paper factory work From now on, a publishable contribution must do something that an LLM with standard data and methods can’t osf.io/preprints/so...

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What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12 Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...

Does the KHB Method work in any Generalized Linear Model? 💡 Find out at #ecsr2026 @tcddublin.bsky.social this June! We show how it works, why it works, and we derive an exact decomposition that reveals what "rescaling effects" in the khb method actually consist of! #sociology @erc.europa.eu

I’m so very excited that this journal is now accepting manuscripts!!

APPLY & SHARE 📢 EOI for PhD in Sociology & Demography at @cedemografia.bsky.social @uab.cat in Barcelona Topics: Families, Inequalities, Life Course, Well-Being Supervisors: @maikevd.bsky.social & me Deadline: 12 May, 2026 Call👇 8d87235d-b140-4b6e-949c-c9606376b3fa.usrfiles.com/ugd/8d8723_a...

Quantitative research in education is scandalously bad

Life update(!): I'm joining Bocconi's Social & Political Sciences Dept. in Milan as an AP of Sociology in the fall. Excited to connect with others in Europe on work/org studies and social strat. I have several working papers ready if anyone needs a seminar speaker. sps.unibocconi.eu

ML for maximum likelihood 🤫

Happy to announce that Claude Code can now write my papers for me and I can focus on my core competence: spending hours fiddling with latex until tables fit on a page

I ran a simple model with new public data then used 1 prompt to make ChatGPT guess what the model would produce. With 10 seconds of "thinking," it was very close. The implications of this are catastrophic. The American Sociological Association should do something about this but it doesn't care to /1

It’s not just that there is no requirement, but ASA prohibits any requirement. This is why I am no longer an ASA member and won’t serve on ASA journal editorial boards.

What kind of a pathetic grievance of a journal has Theory & Society become? "In defense of value-free analysis against a woke-like order of knowledge" has to be the dumbest title in the history of all articles ever written.

Do conjoint/factorial/vignette experiments reflect choices in the real world? Are hypothetical scenarios in the artificial survey context externally valid? Do hypothetical bias, intention-behavior gap and social desirability biases undermine validity? Two cautionary studies on this question:

Tidligere vismand Lars Gårn Hansen: “Det er et meget intensivt landbrug. Meget effektivt. Der er stordrift. Men det har store miljømæssige konsekvenser. Landbruget er en af de sektorer, der er mest forureningsintensivt.”

Sometimes I feel like academic work is a poor fit for the moment. While the university is under threat, engagement with the public is not incentivized. Along with some friends, we started Society Workshop as a way to bring more social science to the public. www.societyworkshop.org

🤯 My 2012 paper in Sociological Methodology with Breen & Holm on the KHB-method is the most cited article in that journal in 2025 according to @asanews.bsky.social A paper from my PhD thesis. 13 years later. Didn't see that coming. #sociology www.asanet.org/top-cited-ar...

In this new article out now @sociologicalsci.bsky.social, revisit the college-as-equalizer debate with heckman-style selection models & find little evidence in favor of #college being an equalizer. From our own postdoc @zhenghaowen.bsky.social, @professorholm.bsky.social & @kbkarlson.bsky.social.

Do political attitudes skip generations? Professor Kristian Bernt Karlson kicked off the seminar series of our Socioeconomic and Intergenerational Inequalities research theme with his talk “Do Political Attitudes Skip Generations?” — sparking a lively discussion. Tak @kbkarlson.bsky.social !

We often treat education as the primary engine of social mobility, but conventional models may be overestimating its impact. Not correcting for selection into schooling will artificially inflate any indirect effect through schooling... 1/3 #socialmobility #sociology

Is College Really “the” Equalizer? New Evidence Addressing Unobserved Selection Haowen Zheng, Robert Andersen, Anders Holm, Kristian Bernt Karlson Sociological Science March 3, 2026 10.15195/v13.a10 Influential research shows that college graduates achieve similar labor marke #sociology link

New paper out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social! We revisit the college-as-equalizer debate with heckman-style selection models and find little evidence in favor of college being an equalizer! @zhenghaowen.bsky.social @professorholm.bsky.social #sociology sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

This paper shows that the interaction between social origin (parental income eg) and education predicting destination (child’s income) is no longer negative once one holds constant for unobservables (using IV methods using local presence of colleges a.o.). >

📚 Special issue in Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie on Explanation and Causality in Sociology. Essential reading on where causal inference in sociology is heading link.springer.com/collections/...

NEW: Oxford researchers have found that higher temperatures can shift the sex ratio at birth. Temperatures above 20°C are consistently linked to fewer boys being born across multiple regions - with implications for population health and gender balance. Read more from @sociologyoxford.bsky.social ⬇️

Looking forward to presenting work on the multigenerational transmission of political attitudes next week at @invest-flagship.bsky.social With the outstanding @stephandoc.bsky.social! Based on survey covering 100,000 cousins and their parents! invest.utu.fi/events/krist... #sociology

Interesting paper by @natrinh.bsky.social, @dariatisch.bsky.social, & @schechtlm.bsky.social on how the Germans assess division of intergenerational transfers among siblings academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Excited to share a new #OA study with @dariatisch.bsky.social and @schechtlm.bsky.social🎉We show that while most people prefer equal inheritance, wealthy individuals are more willing to support unequal transfers when they help preserve wealth across generations ➡️ academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

University of Manchester is hiring a Lecturer in Sociology (qualitative/theoretical) in the of political sociology of class and culture. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL973/l...

VACANCY (2 of 2...) Lecturer in Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social with research expertise in the field(s) of racial inequalities, anti-racism and theoretical debates in ‘race’. Please share - thanks! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

VACANCY (1 of 2...) Lecturer in Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social with a qualitative or theoretical research expertise in the fields of political sociology of class and economy or cultural interpretations of class. Please share - thanks! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

#JobOpening ℹ️ Professorship in Sociology at the University of Zurich 📍 Department of Sociology, University of Zurich, Switzerland 🗓️ Applications open until February 26, 2026 🔗 www.phil.uzh.ch/de/fakultaet...

Check out this awesome preprint by @martinhallsten.bsky.social on the difficulties in interpreting sibling correlations by observed parental characteristics such as parental income - with an excellent application! #sociology #EconTwitter #socialmobility osf.io/preprints/so...

Machines Do See Color: Using LLMs to Classify Overt and Covert Racism in Text Sociological Methods & Research, Ahead of Print. Extant work has identified two discursive forms of racism: overt and covert. While both forms have received attention in scholarly work, research on cove #sociology link

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Motherhood costs Danish women an average of $120,000 in earnings over two decades, according to a sociologist who researches family and economics. Generous government benefits like paid leave, childcare and child allowances recovered about $100,000 of that loss. buff.ly/pAtuCS0

This is the most econ paper ever

JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project. Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months. Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.

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NEW: Omar Lizardo, "The Forward March of Categorical Tolerance in the United States" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

Aalborg University is hiring an Associate Professor in Sociology with quant methods specialization - also an option for advanced PostDocs! Come benefit from the great data infrastructure and local expertise in medical and urban sociology, segregation, and GIS. Application deadline: February 13, 2026

Our Department at Aalborg University is hiring an Associate Professor in Sociology with a focus on quantitative methods: www.stillinger.aau.dk/videnskabeli...

random at the margin 👀 #sociology