When we think rationally about the data we do have, we simply cannot say that migrants as a whole are more likely to commit crime than everyone else. We await better data. Until then, bad data and bad interpretations threaten to fill the void www.thetimes.com/article/72b6...

Entramos en modo ‘beta’ global: aún no hemos domado las redes y las mismas tecnológicas van a someter a la humanidad a un experimento masivo desplegando con avaricia sus ineficientes herramientas de IA en nuestras vidas. Aquí trato de explicar porqués y consecuencias: elpais.com/tecnologia/2...

🔴New working paper with @marcocozzani.bsky.social and @juhoharkonen.bsky.social. We describe the temporal link between conception timing and preterm birth rates. When conception rates fluctuate, preterm birth proportions shift predictably but with different magnitudes depending on baseline risk. 1/4

Pedro Salas-Rojo, Carlos J. Gil-Hernández, Guillem Vidal-Lorda, and Davide Villani have won the Aldi Hagenaars Memorial Award for their paper 'Wealth Inequality and Stratification by Social Classes in 21st-Century Europe.' Congratulations to the authors for their recognition!

Thanks @psalasr.bsky.social & #DIGCLASS (@guillemvidal.me & D.Villani) for the @lisdata.bsky.social Award! Wealth is stratified by class💸—Class isn't dead 🧟 📝Article @socialindicators.bsky.social: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 📰Post @lseinequalities.bsky.social: blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

We are pleased to announce that the ISA RC28 Spring Meeting 2026 will be held at the campus of Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO) in Seville. Conference dates: May 20–22, 2026. Theme: Addressing Social Inequalities in the Global North and South Stay tuned! Submissions will begin soon.

Brilliant session about “The Surprises of Population Studies” at #SIS2025 in Genova! Thanks to speakers and participants for the stimulating discussion! 👏 @karlosj89.bsky.social @florenceups.bsky.social @comochia.bsky.social

🚨 Postdoc position! 🚨 Join MultiMasc — a project on social stratification & masculinities. 📍 Based at UNED (Madrid) / remote possible 🧑‍💻 1-year / €2,250 net monthly / €4,000 travel fund 👉 Apply by June 7 ℹ️More info 👉 files.persona.co/60187/Call-P... 🙏 Share widely 📣📣 #Sociology #Postdoc

New @florenceups.bsky.social WP 📄🔨! Italian panel tax data shows a positive 💸 income-first-child 👶 link for both men and women within couples. This finding challenges traditional gender roles 🚻 but warns of the (rising) economic stratification of parenthood 👇 labdisia.disia.unifi.it/wp_disia/202...

Extremely excited to share the first effort of the Revived Genomics of Personality Consortium: A highly-powered, comprehensive GWAS of the Big Five personality traits in 1.14 million participants from 46 cohorts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#CallforPapers #EconSky #EconConf 📣Workshop on Socio-emotional skills & education | Sept 11-12 Trento, Italy Keynotes @gabriconti.bsky.social Giuseppe Sorrenti & @emmatominey.bsky.social 🚨Deadline 6 June Please repost, share & submit your work bit.ly/4da5dzq

Happy to present our work @psalasr.bsky.social on the level, trends & mechanisms of unfair educational inequality in Spain in such a high-level workshop/session. We formalise Roemer's normative theory with machine learning, identifying types of ascribed circumstances underlying unequal opportunity.

Waiting for you to come at the next poster session (P07) to see Carlos’ poster about educational inequality in the World! @karlosj89.bsky.social @paolobrunori.bsky.social @mtriventi.bsky.social

Check out my new new paper with @marcocozzani.bsky.social on Population Studies: doi.org/10.1080/0032... We show that immigrants’ educational selectivity improves their children’s health at birthin Spain, but just for some outcomes and some migrant groups

Our paper with @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social is now out at SSR! Have a look if you are interested in social stratification and/or sociogenomics Below are the main findings and contributions 1/6 doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

Still a couple of weeks left until the submission deadline for the Workshop on Inequalities in Bari, jointly organized with Sapienza and LISER. See you guys there! :)

The deep roots of our egalitarian psychology: Why we strive for equality and why it is always at risk from would-be social bullies. www.optimallyirrational.com/p/the-deep-r...

Great to see "The Social Genome" by my colleague Dalton Conley now in print. A wealth of evidence and insights, challenging the old "nature vs. nurture" debate and showing how genes and social contexts interact to shape our lives.

New paper out with @karlosj89.bsky.social, @guillemvidal.me and Davide Villani! We had already discussed the main findings at the @lseinequalities.bsky.social blog: blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities... Some notes in a very short thread:

No class death/decomposition—Wealth accumulation is firmly stratified by social classes in Europe, harming equal opportunity: new @socialindicators.bsky.social📝 by @psalasr.bsky.social @guillemvidal.me Villani 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... @florenceups.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social

#convegnoSISEC2025 quest’anno il premio giovani per il miglior articolo va a Gaia Ghirardi con il suo lavoro “Interaction of family SES with children’s genetic propensity for cognitive and noncognitive skills: no evidence of the Scarr-Rowe hypothesis for educational outcomes”. Congratulazioni!

Can a public wealth transfer to young people reduce inequality? New article out in the Journal of European Social Policy with Andreas Thiemann, Leire Salazar and @josenoguerauab.bsky.social! 🧵 Thread 👇

The Occupational Earnings Potential (OEP) scale is also now fully integrated into the DIGCLASS R package, so you can construct OEP from ISCO-88 or ISCO-08 with just a couple of lines of code

ICYMI: Do parents' SES moderate the link between genetic propensity for (non)cognitive skills and education? @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social @fabriberna.bsky.social @perlinedemange.bsky.social @ntrbiopsy.bsky.social No evidence of the Scarr-Rowe hypothesis for educational outcomes doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

Really enjoyed doing this Q&A on complex traits, heritability, twins, and GWAS. Psychiatry At The Margins is a gem!

La desigualdad en grandes empresas Estas son las compañías que cuentan con directivos que ganan hasta 1.200 veces el salario de sus empleados 👇 www.eldiario.es/economia/des...

Remember Monopoly was originally created to say capitalism was bad?

OpenAI has just released a new AI model that it believes is the future of the technology: a computer program that can reason. Is it a magic trick, a genuine step forward, or both? @matteowong.bsky.social reports:

📢 New III working paper: Francisco H G Ferreira and Paolo Brunori discuss the differences between inequality of opportunity and meritocracy, and their possible roles in a fair society and growing economy. 🔗 https://buff.ly/3OFU5yU

He publicado una tribuna el El País: "Defender la universidad publica" #UniversidadPublica #DefendPublicUniversity elpais.com/opinion/2024...

Man I cannot endorse this abstract more

I wrote about Eric Turkheimer's recent book on "the nature-nurture debate", which should be of interest to people thinking not just about the genetics of behavior but complex traits more broadly. A 🧵:

Otro starter pack: go.bsky.app/5vnvpMR Si alguien se quiere añadir solo tiene que comentarlo abajo

New paper in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social We run a factorial experiment on a large sample of (future) teachers to causally test for discrimination/bias in academic evaluations by student-ascribed status (sex, class, ethnicity, cultural capital), net of ability sociologicalscience.com/articles-v11...

NEW: Gil-Hernandez et al, "Teacher Bias in Assessments by Student Ascribed Status: A Factorial Experiment on Discrimination in Education."

We are Sociological Science, and we have finally joined BlueSky! Sociological Science is the leading online open-access journal in sociology. Quick turnaround times, no R&Rs, and ... great sociological science. Check us out at https://buff.ly/4fXoPYv. Spread the word!

New paper! 🥳 I had so much fun working on this interdisciplinary project, and proud it is part of @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social's great thesis! This started from a chat with @karlosj89.bsky.social during online ECSR in 2020, proof that online conferences can lead to collaboration too 😃

A low genetic 🧬 propensity for (non)cognitive skills is less consequential for educational outcomes 🎓 among high-SES students. A twin study 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 with molecular data (children-parents) we just published in RSSM by a great interdisciplinary team of sociologists and psychologists 👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

First publication of my thesis is out w/ this fantastic & interdisciplinary team: @karlosj89.bsky.social @fabriberna.bsky.social E. van Bergen @perlinedemange.bsky.social!✨ Do parents' SES moderate the link between genetic propensity for (non)cognitive skills and education? doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

An elephant in the classroom? Teachers assign -6% Z-GPA & -5% acad. track advice to low-SES pupils than equally skilled, well-off peers. IV design shows 40% teacher bias overestimation by ability measurement error: @florenceups.bsky.social 📄WP with @marespadafor.bsky.social 👇 tinyurl.com/unifi-disia

🆕 3-year Postdoc in Quantitative Sociology & Population!! - Topics: Social Stratification, Adolescent Wellbeing, Digitalisation, Life Course. - Place: Centre for Demographic Studies & Department of Sociology at UAB, Barcelona. -Deadline: June 17th. Share & apply!! 😃👇 Link: ced.cat/recursos/DIG...

Today, the LSE-inequalities blog features our work (with @karlosj89.bsky.social, P. Salas-Rojo & D. Villani) on wealth and social class: blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

We all have biases, and merit evaluators in the educational system are no exception. In a large experiment on 20 Faculties of Education, we identify biased assessments of (future) teachers by student's gender, class, ethnic origin, and cultural capital 👇 publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...

Class death ⚰️? Most economists dismiss class, while sociologists overlook wealth in class analysis. Still, big occupational classes fairly capture high/rising wealth inequality trends in Europe. Yet, class measures need sharpening beyond labour market attachment 👇 t.co/IDJvLawa8I

🚨 New #DIGCLASS working paper just out! With @karlosj89.bsky.social, p. S. Rojo and D. Villani we study wealth inequality and stratification across social classes. Although often neglected, wealth is critical to understanding class inequality! publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...

The Piketty/Saez/Zucman versus Auten/Splinter debate: come for the big social questions (what has happened to inequality in the US?) and stay for the wonky ones (how to treat underreported income? and retirement income?) www.vox.com/future-perfe...

🧵1/10 Are online job ads skewing our view of the labor market? In a recent policy brief, Matteo Sostero and I deep dive into this data to assess its prmises and pitfalls. A short thread on this #LabourMarket #Skills #BigData publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...

☀️Join us on Thursday for the next CLIC seminar 🔥Carlos J. Gil Hernández @karlosj89.bsky.social (EU Commission - Research Centre) with a factorial experiment on teacher's bias in essay grading 📅25/01, 13:30-15:00 ✉️[email protected] for the Zoom link

[SAVE THE DATE] The 4th session of the 2023-24 #DIGCLASS seminar series on "A Brief History of Equality" by Thomas Piketty will take place next January 23rd, from 15.00 to 16.00 (CET) in an open-access online format. More info here 👇 joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/digclass/dig...

Looking forward to showing the findings of our factorial experiment on teacher-biased assessments by student gender, SES, ethnicity, & cultural capital (with @irenepaneda.bsky.social, L. Salazar & J. Castaño) at the great EUI-CLIC Seminar Series @clic.bsky.social c.bsky.social next week in Florence!