Weverthon Machado
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Sociologist, postdoc at Radboud University | Families and inequality | weverthon.com
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📊When teaching or giving a talk, do you like presenting plots step by step, revealing e.g. one group at a time? This is often useful for walking through complex results. I made a R package that makes it extremely easy to do this! ggreveal: Reveal a ggplot incrementally
#rstats
#dataviz
#ggplot2
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Reveal a ggplot incrementally
Provides functions that make it easy to reveal ggplot2 graphs incrementally. The functions take a ggplot2 object and return a list of plots showing data incrementally by panels, layers, groups, the va...
https://www.weverthon.com/ggreveal/
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Sofia Gil-Clavel
about 2 months ago
Are you a social scientist that wants to learn R? Then, you may find my course "R for Social Scientists" very useful! I designed this course to give social scientists all that is necessary to start using R in their everyday work.
github.com/SofiaG1l/R_C...
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depths of wikipedia
2 months ago
imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off
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Chloé Lavest
2 months ago
📢 First thesis paper is out! In November 2022 I started my Ph.D. at the University of Utrecht. 📃 Today, my first paper is available on the website of the European Sociological Review (
url.td/Q7kIJ
). I love this paper and hope you will too. I guess I like to take 3 years to publish things. 👩🎓😅
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Deborah Leão 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🇵🇸
2 months ago
Dear friends from other countries: please join the Brazilians as we celebrate this groundbreaking decision.
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Today is a beautiful day 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
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Yang Hu
3 months ago
Wonderful opportunity to join a supportive work environment and collegial colleagues! Come and join us!
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Dr. Camille Desjardins
3 months ago
If you are an early career scholar, consider applying to the Early Career Work and Family Fellowship Program led by the brilliant Nicole Denier and
@yanghu.co.uk
. 🔗
wfrn.org/early-career...
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Early Career Work and Family Fellowship Program - Work and Family Researchers Network
Early Career Work and Family Fellowship Program The Work and Family Researchers Network is committed to mentoring the next generation of work and family scholars. Our Early Career Fellowship Program p...
https://wfrn.org/early-career-fellowship/
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Sociology at Oxford
3 months ago
🚨 New Job Alert! 🚨 Join Dr
@ewabatyra.bsky.social
as a Postdoc Researcher in Demography! Contribute to a global study on disparities in reproductive behaviour, focusing on childbearing age & fertility levels 👨👩👦👦 Apply now 👉
www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...
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New paper in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility! I track long-term trends in educational assortative mating in 🇧🇷. After decades of decline, homogamy rose in the 2000s, due to a balance shift: more fluidity at lower edu levels vs. stronger homogamy at the top. Check it out (open access):
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Trends in educational assortative mating in Brazil: 1960–2015
Using both census and survey data, this study analyzes educational assortative mating trends over half a century in Brazil. Odds of both overall and g…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0276562425000794
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Nadia Steiber 〽️
4 months ago
⭐🎓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...
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Jennifer Hook
5 months ago
The call for
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papers is open! Join us in lovely Montreal June 17-20. The 2026 theme is Centering Care across the Life Course. Preconferences for Early Career Fellows and Predocs, plus plenty of social activities. Submit by Oct 1. All the info here:
wfrn.org/2026-work-an...
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2026 Work and Family Researchers Network Conference - Work and Family Researchers Network
ABOUT THE EVENT Work and Family Researchers Network next conference will be June 17-20, 2026 at Concordia University in Montreal Canada. The WFRN will host preconference events on June 17, including ...
https://wfrn.org/2026-work-and-family-researchers-network-conference/
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Olga Leshchenko
5 months ago
My first PhD article has been published! 🔎 It examines how the relationship between flexible working time arrangements and self-reported work-to-life and life-to-work conflict is moderated by an (un)equal domestic labor distribution within heterosexual couples.
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Fernanda Fortes de Lena
5 months ago
🌈 New Publication !!! I'm excited to share our latest article, “A Marriage Premium for Whom? Sexual Identity, Relationship Status and Earnings”, co-authored with Diederik Boertien: 🔗
doi.org/10.1111/jomf...
You can find some of the main results in the thread.
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https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.70005
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Pablo Gracia
6 months ago
🆕 Paper with
@metzgers.bsky.social
(lead) at Journal of Marriage and Family! We study how
#Parenthood
impacts
#Gendered
#Time.Use
&
#Mental.Health
and how
#Paid
&
#Unpaid
#Work
shape gendered mental health during parenthood transitions. Open access link 👉
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Claudia Brunori
7 months ago
Another piece of my PhD thesis is now published in International Migration Review! How many immigrants get transnationally separated from their children in the migration process, and how does this affect their mental health in the short- and medium- term? Check it out 👇
doi.org/10.1177/0197...
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Alice Evans
7 months ago
Why are So Many Latin American Women Beaten & Murdered? Why is the region such an outlier? My latest essay provides insights from my globally comparative as well as qualitative research in Mexico, Costa Rica, and Brazil
www.ggd.world/p/why-are-so...
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Why are So Many Latin American Women Beaten & Murdered?
Insights from Brazil, Part 1
https://www.ggd.world/p/why-are-so-many-latin-american-women
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Jona de Jong
7 months ago
In the latest issue of
@cpsjournal.bsky.social
, my article with Jonne Kamphorst in which we propose that educationally homogeneous social networks contribute to the stabilization of political conflict on the cultural dimension. A short thread on the main findings: Link:
doi.org/10.1177/0010...
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Julia M. Rohrer
8 months ago
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Gabriele Mari
8 months ago
Frequent income changes can sometimes disrupt parenting. Parents with higher but unstable incomes report more strained relationships. Parents with low and unstable incomes might shield children at the expense of own mental health. A thread
@usociety.bsky.social
@readdemography.bsky.social
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Good take on the integration of causal identification into broader goals of social science research. I also really like this recent paper that touches on similar issues:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Ariane Ophir
8 months ago
🚨 Come research singlehood with me! I’m hiring a 3-year Postdoc w/interest in Family Demography to start this Fall. Please share! 📍 Barcelona (
@cedemografia.bsky.social
) 🔎 ERC-funded project 'SINGLE' 📅 Deadline – April 24, 2025 🔗 More info:
shorturl.at/400eo
#Postdoc
#Demography
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Camille Portier
9 months ago
Can mothers leverage the structural resources of their occupation like autonomy to balance motherhood and work, especially in the absence paid leave? My latest article in the Journal of Marriage and Family suggests so.
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Slate
9 months ago
I'm Still Here just won Best International Feature Film at the Oscars. It has a powerful, unexpected message about life under authoritarianism.
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The Year’s Most Urgent Best Picture Contender Is the One Almost No One Has Seen
I’m Still Here has a warning—and a reason for hope.
https://slate.com/culture/2025/03/oscars-2025-im-still-here-best-picture-actress-brazil.html
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Jeff Nascimento
9 months ago
This was Brazil celebrating the Oscar for Best International Feature Film for I’m Still Here 🎉
#Oscars
📍 Pelourinho, Salvador (via
@neyrocha.bsky.social
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Jeff Nascimento
9 months ago
This is Brazil celebrating the Oscar for Best International Feature Film for I’m Still Here 🎉
#Oscars
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Fernanda Canofre
9 months ago
“Her name is Eunice Paiva” O nome dela é Eunice Paiva🇧🇷💛💚
memoriasdaditadura.org.br/personagens/...
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David Brady
9 months ago
Say you’ve got very good causal IDENTIFICATION. Can you say you have causality, can make a causal general claim, and can say what “THE causal effect” is? NO We explain why in new article at Journal of Causal Inference.
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The necessity of construct and external validity for deductive causal inference
The Credibility Revolution advances internally valid research designs intended to identify causal effects from quantitative data. The ensuing emphasis on internal validity, however, has enabled a negl...
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/jci-2024-0002/html
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The Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)
9 months ago
Women’s sick leave rates increase sharply after having children – unlike men’s. A new research project led by
@ylvamoberg.bsky.social
explores why.
#GenderEquality
#Parenthood
#Health
#SickLeave
#Research
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Vincent Arel-Bundock
9 months ago
Rdatasets is a collection of 2300 free and documented datasets in CSV format. It's a great resource for teaching and exploration! The new `get_dataset()` function from the {marginaleffects} 📦 allows you to search and load them directly in
#Rstats
.
vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets/ar...
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Trenton Mize
10 months ago
Are you tired of analyzing your nominal and ordinal variables like its the 1950s? Then read
@sociologicalsci.bsky.social
today and see if ME inequality and total ME are right for you. We develop new methods for summarizing effects for nominal/ordinal independent and dependent variables.
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Francesca Zanasi
10 months ago
1/ 🚸 *Does grandparental involvement boost school grades?* Our new study (with
@valeriabordone.bsky.social
) explores whether grandchild care, financial support or contact impact grandchildren's school performance. Let's unpack the findings🧵👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The effect of grandparental involvement on grandchildren's school grades: Heterogeneity by the extended family characteristics
As the early years are crucial for individuals' lifelong socioeconomic success, extensive research has examined the impact of non-maternal childcare o…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X24001170
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ian bremmer
10 months ago
good news for the day: amazon deforestation down for the second year in a row
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Helen De Cruz
10 months ago
Let's talk about blue. A piece of received wisdom is that people in the past didn't know the color blue (e.g., Homer says the sea is wine-dark and did not see it as blue). While many cultures lack the word for "blue" or distinguish it from green, many others did have it and made blue e.g., Egypt
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Yue Qian
10 months ago
@yanghu.co.uk
and I have a new article out
@sociologicalsci.bsky.social
!! We bridge two bodies of scholarship, one on demographic approaches to relationship quality & stability and the other on multidimensional sexuality.
sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
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Straight Jacket: The Implications of Multidimensional Sexuality for Relationship Quality and Stability
Article: Straight Jacket: The Implications of Multidimensional Sexuality for Relationship Quality and Stability | Sociological Science | Posted January 15, 2025
https://sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12-3-51/
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The Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)
10 months ago
Research coordinated by SOFI’s Marie Evertsson and the
#GENPARENT
team shows that gender norms and disparities, rather than financial factors, shape how parents divide work and care responsibilities.
cordis.europa.eu/article/id/4...
#Parenthood
#Gender
#Research
#Sociology
#ERC
#StockholmUniversity
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Understanding gender inequalities in parenthood
Entrenched gender disparities – rather than financial concerns – are the key drivers that determine how parents divide up work and...
https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/454813-understanding-gender-inequalities-in-parenthood
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Fabian Pfeffer
10 months ago
Sociologists working on inequality: Still time to apply for this 3yr+ postdoc position in beautiful Munich (no German required) EN:
job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...
DE:
job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f...
Applications are 01/15, but let me know if you need another 1-2 days to put in your materials
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Jennifer Hook
11 months ago
Please join us for the next
WFRN.bsky.social
event "Going Back? Gender, Work, and Family in 2025." Can't wait to hear from our four amazing panelists
pgonalon.bsky.social
gaylekaufman.bsky.social
philipncohen.com
and
jessicacalarco.bsky.social
! Moderated by WFRN Early Career Fellow LaToya Council
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Andreas Filser
11 months ago
New working paper with P Achard, C Frodermann, D Müller &
@sanderwagner.bsky.social
:using harmonized admin data for
#France
&
#Germany
, we study the stratification of maternal employment in 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇪 based on higher pre-birth income, education, and firm-level median earnings.
#sociology
#demography
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John Burn-Murdoch
11 months ago
*sighs* Percentage change should *always* be expressed on a log scale, because it’s multiplicative. A doubling and a halving should be given equal space. I did a whole thread on this at the time
x.com/jburnmurdoch...
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Ansgar Hudde
11 months ago
🎉ECSR Conference 2025 is coming to Cologne!🎉 📅 3-5 September 2025 📅 Abstract deadline: Jan 31st ℹ️ Details:
ecsr2025.eu
I'm happy to be on the organizing team. Theme: "Demography & Social Inequality" – but submissions from *all* sociology fields, methodical approaches etc. are welcome.
#ECSR2025
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Tom Emery
12 months ago
This is really crucial for admin data usage. Too often we work in isolation and reinvent the wheel every day. Now we can build diverse scientific use files to support high quality, collaborative research. And it’s all FAIR!!
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Zoltán Lippényi
12 months ago
Are you using registry data to study inequalities in the labor market and in organizations? Check out the user-written Netherlands Integrated Data Infrastructure of Inequality in Organizations (NIDIO) by
@cjanietz.bsky.social
and me.
@odissei.bsky.social
@cbsstatistiek.bsky.social
www.osf.io/9b2xh
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NIDIO - Netherlands Integrated Data Infrastructure of Inequality in Organizations
Stata code to prepare and analyze Dutch administrative register data in the CBS Microdata RA environment. Hosted on the Open Science Framework
https://www.osf.io/9b2xh
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Philip N Cohen
12 months ago
The tell of the gender affirming care concern trolling is the response. If you really think too many people are transitioning without adequate consideration and review, and you really love the children, what we need is *more/better* healthcare and support, not bans and "regulation"
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Philip N Cohen
12 months ago
familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/12/07/a...
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Are too many children transitioning? That’s the wrong question
The decision whether to slow down or be cautious about changing behavior comes after you let the affected people have the right to make the choice, not before. The clear priority now is to support …
https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/12/07/are-too-many-children-transitioning-thats-the-wrong-question/
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Paul Novosad
12 months ago
The flatter distribution of national leaders is b/c most elites still get educated in their own countries. The U.S. is 2nd place for nationals of every non-U.S. country, with some notable outliers — 34% of elite Brazilians went to U.S. colleges, 36% of elite Indians. 8/N
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Paul Novosad
12 months ago
Fascinating paper on where 6000 global elites went to college. Billionaires, CEOs, heads of state, central bankers, etc. In a word: Harvard. Fully 10% of global elites went to Harvard. Elite US schools are over-represented (23% IvyPlus), but nobody comes close to Harvard. 🧵
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WFRN.bsky.social
12 months ago
Watch
@yanghu.co.uk
powerful Big Ideas Talk on the
WFRN.bsky.social
YouTube Channel, What Can We Learn About Care From AI? --find out what we can learn about care from AI and what we might do about it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jykO...
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WFRN.bsky.social (@wfrn.bsky.social)
The Work and Family Researchers Network is the premier 501(c)(3) nonprofit professional association for work-family scholars and leaders.
https://WFRN.bsky.social
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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥
12 months ago
Sociologie in de #NRC. Onderzoek van Eva Jaspers, Deni Mazrekaj and Weverthon Machado (
@weverthon.com
#NRC
in de
#ASR
naar samenleven met een man of een vrouw. Als men samenwoont met een vrouw gaan de arbeidsuren omhoog.
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@nrc.nl
article about the paper by Eva Jaspers, Deni Mazrekaj and me — in which we show, using Dutch register data, that people work more hours in paid employment when partnered with a woman than when partnered with a man. Paper here (open access):
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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