Reminder that all three books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use (and the fourth will be, too)

Amanda Almstedt Valldor is right this minute defending her dissertation in Lecture Hall 3 at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social. Wishing her the best of luck! #DissertationDefense #PhD #SOFI #Sociology

This spring, several PhD candidates at SOFI will defend their dissertations. - @edvinsyk.bsky.social – April 4 - Amanda Almstedt Valldor – April 25 - Xiaojie Xu – May 2 - Madeleine Eriksson Kirsch – May 28 - Tünde Lénárd – May 30 - @allisongeerts.bsky.social – June 12 Best of luck to all candidates!

Congratulations @roujman.bsky.social, PhD in Sociology, who has been appointed Associate Professor at SOFI! Roujman Shahbazian began his doctoral studies here in 2013 and has been an active researcher at the institute ever since.

Field of study, political attitudes, and support for the radical right in Sweden and Europe Very interesting paper by Amanda Valldor, sociologist at SOFI at Stockholm Uni www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Do we understand the social processes we think we do, particularly for the vulnerable groups? Paper out now: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #computationalsocialscience #machinelearning #sociology #lifecourse

Occupational Earning Potential: A new measure of social hierarchy applied to Europe https://share.osf.io/preprint/E024F-FE9-A87 Social stratification is interested in unequal life chances and assumes the existence of a hierarchy of more or less advantageous occupations. Yet occupations a #sociology

If you're around Barcelona next week, come by the methods section on Saturday at the ECSR meeting and learn more about this really cool (shameless self promo) new measure of R-squared in multilevel models 👇

Submitting almost two hours before grant DL… what’s wrong with me, not taking it to the max?? All the hunger, momentum & ambition gone?

🪧 social scientists! Who would like to visit Centre LIVES @unil.bsky.social or #UNIGE in 2025? 🇨🇭📈🏔️ Travel and accommodation grants of up to CHF 3,000 are available for research stays of at least 2 months ➡️ see 🔗 for details and apply by 15th November 2024 www.centre-lives.ch/en/appel/liv...

Here are a few lists of sociologists in no particular order. Slant towards German and quantitative sociologists. #socsky go.bsky.app/Kr3Rj1D go.bsky.app/EAwwzdk go.bsky.app/EAwwzdk go.bsky.app/Ugw67cP go.bsky.app/9WAVGNd go.bsky.app/4aZkRmJ go.bsky.app/81Hby5t

i'm on the lookout for ethnographies or general sociological work studying statistics as a field and how it relates to other academic disciplines. pointers appreciated! #statistics

Has someone checked in on the "death of class" debate lately? Is the death of class dead?

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!

🤔 How should we view class/occupational maturity? a) Does it happen after a certain age? b) Or is it an ongoing stabilization process; not a fixed state? These questions are explored in a new study w. Bihagen & Kjellsson. Read 🧵 or the article 👇 scholar.google.com/citations?vi...

Yihui Xie, who authored or co-authored many widely used R packages including rmarkdown, shiny, knitr, and bookdown, has been laid off by Rstudio/Posit. (His blog post describes the separation as amicable.) He's looking for work, someone is going to be very lucky to get him yihui.org/en/2024/01/b...

Updating my syllabus again! Please suggest some good readings on 1) value change/postmaterialism and 2) the supposed decline of social capital

Really happy that my article with Jakob Molinder, “Incomes and income inequality in Stockholm, 1870–1970: Evidence from micro data” has been published in Explorations in Economic History! Using a new sample of about 38,000, we provide new evidence and perspectives on the importance of jobs..

Help needed: Are there any studies that have examined what one unit on the ISEI scale amounts to in terms of income? #sociology

“ALL THEORY WORTH READING ARISES FROM REFLECTION ABOUT DATA. Write this phrase on your computer. Paste it on the bathroom mirror. Mention it softly while making love. ‘All theory worth reading arises from reflection about data.’” – Andy Abbott ❤️ #sociology #sts #philsci #philsky #theorizing

There wasn't a sociology feed so I went ahead and made it 😊 Subscribe here: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jzuirp2oahpmr7keujggosnm/feed/aaamchzapws5y To add your posts to the feed, simply tag them with #sociology For an FAQ on feeds, see: https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/7-27-2023-custom-feeds

I make books and online lectures about how to do science instead of statistics - most recent lecture series (2023): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDcUM9US4XdPz-KxHM4XHt7uUVGWWVSus - trailer: https://youtu.be/BYUykHScxj8

Here it is! The ultimate practical guide to Bayesian & frequentist conjoint data analysis w/ #rstats and {brms} and {marginaleffects}, including how to distinguish between marginal effects & means + work with subgroups! https://www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2023/07/25/conjoint-bayesian-frequentist-guide/

I made a feed for statistics on BlueSky. Just add #stats to your post for it to appear on the feed! https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4wwhwq5yy6btl4omycw66gfd/feed/aaaizix3x5clu