Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed. Here are the key take-aways 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417

A widely held view is that the Gini coefficient is not decomposable by subgroups. This paper proposes an axiomatic framework that ensures well-behaved within and between-group terms under which the Gini is decomposable with a novel and unique formula. buff.ly/XdnzG6F

Big congratulations to @zethis.bsky.social, whose doctoral thesis has now been published! Outstanding work. And it is almost as thick as Tolstoy's War and Peace...

Indeed! Thanks to the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, Forte 🙏🏻 w/ @pengzell.bsky.social

Just FYI if you are not familiar with Academia, it is at least 50% this

Something to look forward to 🤩: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Applications are open for our postdoctoral scholars program! These 2-year positions start in Aug. 2026 and are based at the GC CUNY Stone Center. One is focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth inequality. Apply by Nov. 3! #EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky bit.ly/40TZR6J

🚨Multigroup Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition working paper out! Extending KBO decomposition for more than two groups by relating group prevalence and estimated coefficients to the sample average - as well as other juicy meth discussions 😎 Joint work together with @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social

With the Inequality Cluster, Alex Ludwig (EUI Economics), Francis Vella (Georgetown U), and I organize a one-day conference on Social Mobility. www.eui.eu/events?id=58.... Looking forward to welcoming speakers @pengzell.bsky.social @xisong.bsky.social, Jo Blanden, Kjell Salvanes and Mikael Lindahl>

And the 1st Replication Award of the Academy of Sociology goes to.. Sergio Lo Iacono, Wojtek Przepiorka, Vincent Buskens, Rense Corten, Marcel van Assen, and Arnout van de Rijt for "The competitive advantage of sanctioning institutions revisited: A multilab replication" #AkadSoz25 #sociology 1/

Join us at INET Oxford (@inetoxford.bsky.social)! I'm hiring one post-doctoral researcher and three research assistants in the field of inequality, social policy, and social mobility to join our research team. Deadline: October 24. Read more and apply: www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

Just because an LLM can produce a report with various figures & charts doesn't mean it is good at statistics. Because good statistics is not about producing code. It's about deep knowledge of study design & conduct. In my opinion, 95% of all data science problems come from poor questions & design.

Ok, this is actually dope. First real solution I’ve seen to ensuring human writing in the age of LLMs. Maybe the college essay isn’t dead after all? youtube.com/shorts/AhA1l...

@ifau.bsky.social utlyser forskningsbidrag 2025! Ansök senast 15 september om medel för projekt inom arbetsmarknad eller utbildning. Totalt ca 5,6 miljoner kr delas ut. 👉 Läs mer och ansök: ifau.se/Forskningsbidrag #forskning #utbildning #arbetsmarknad #IFAU

Luxembourg is going to be unstoppable. The world better get ready for Bouneschlupp and Kniddelen

Job alert! Join us at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a postdoctoral fellow to work on your own research for three years. #sociology

Soon to open offer for a *funded* PhD to study child poverty dynamics at @demosocupf.bsky.social @upf.edu If you have an interest in quantitative methods, social policy and child poverty this may be for you! Feel free to reach out for enquiries

You cannot be truly creative if it is not safe to fail. Yet modern academic science requires constant short term success. To survive, you must win grants & 'deliver' on those grants by publishing lots of papers. That leads to a culture of low risk, iterative research oversold as 'groundbreaking.

Voices from INEQ 🔊 "In bester Gesellschaft" is a podcast co-created by INEQ. In episode 6: Wealth @franziskadbacher.bsky.social joins the discussion. 🎧 Listen (in German): short.wu.ac.at/ineq_podcast_06 #INEQ

The winner of this year’s significant contribution award goes to The great separation: Top earner segregation at work in advanced capitalist economies O Godechot, et al American Journal of Sociology 130 (2), 439-495, 2024 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

It was such an honor to receive this award from @isa-rc28.bsky.social on behalf of @oliviergodechot.bsky.social and other coauthors.

The families in households typology In this new paper from the @reusilience.bsky.social project, we improve standard family-type variables in EU-SILC By @bartovalzbeta.bsky.social, @thaning.bsky.social, @wvlancker.bsky.social and @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Final conference of rEUsilience and this is (parts of) the wonderful crew - here w/ miami vice flair. Thx for a great journey! @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social @wvlancker.bsky.social @abrarbawati.bsky.social @amatysiak.bsky.social @cofaceeu.bsky.social and analog 📷 by great @merveuzunalioglu.bsky.social

I asked Chatbox AI for a graph: trends by political party in their attention for educational expansion (with a more elaborate instruction). This is what came out.😱

Tech bros pitching machine learning over "conventional stats" be like

🧵1/4 🚨 We have finalized our DID textbook! You’ve run out of excuses for sketchy pre-trends and mysterious TWFE coefficients. 📘 Credible Answers to Hard Questions: Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments By Chaisemartin & D’Haultfœuille. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Interested in doing a PhD at the Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social? Look no further: 1-2 fully funded PhD positions now available!

The need and capacity for resilience in European labour markets: an inequalities in resilience framework New @reusilience.bsky.social working paper by @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social, @thaning.bsky.social, @bartovalzbeta.bsky.social and Lovisa Backman. reusilience.eu/publications...

Why do social class and income still stick together after 100 years? @thaning.bsky.social has the Swedish data – and the answers. June 24, 12:15 Hosted by @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social Because meritocracy is more of a vibe than a reality. #isimunich #sociology #inequality #lmu

Academia will form these little pockets -- people whose theorizing is outrageous & supported by methods outdated since the 90s -- but once it reaches a critical size those people just review each others papers & grants, form societies, hand out awards etc, like a self-contained parallel society.

👇🏻 @martinhallsten.bsky.social 🤘

What we know and do not know about social mobility https://osf.io/uznr6 This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the field of social mobility research, examining both class/occupational mobility and income mobility. It traces the historical development of sociological and econom #sociology

This is a brutal report on the status of non-EU international PhD students in Sweden. Due to a wave of anti-immigration policies, the Migration Authority is slow, opaque, and inconsistent adding massive burdens to non-EU PhD students' lives. universitetslararen.se/2025/05/08/i...

🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

Last Friday, our PhD candidate Xiaojie Xu defended her dissertation in sociology – congratulations, Xiaojie! 🎉 Her dissertation explores how the impact of education on jobs, income, and social mobility has shifted since the late 20th century. Great work, Xiaojie! #PhD #education #sociology

New scoping review shows that literatures on Family resilience and Social Resilience are disconnected. The lens of family inequalities in socioeconomic contexts can bridge these two perspectives. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Family and social resilience: A scoping review of the empirical literature New publication day, with @abrarbawati.bsky.social, @merveuzunalioglu.bsky.social and @thaning.bsky.social, all part of the @reusilience.bsky.social project. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

I have a new paper out! "Should Social Insurance Programs Count as Wealth? Augmented Wealth in Research and Policy." Published yesterday in Socio-Economic Review @sasemeeting.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

Many European politicians are trying to attract American researchers. However, sometimes their branding doesn't match their domestic higher education policies. So I've written a guide on recent political developments in Swedish academia for prospective immigrants. joenoonan.se/post/swedish...

Deadline at the end of this week ⬇️

2 weeks away! @margaritamb.bsky.social (Murdoch Children's Research Institute, University of Melbourne) continues the 2025 Methods Series @ki.se. 📆 April 22, 2025 ⏰ 13.00 CEST/7.00 ET 📍 All Methods Series talks virtual Register now 👇 stats.sender.net/forms/e7JD1d... #publichealth #causalinference

Data problems with the Hungarian EU-SILC, a tale for all researchers to look at histograms (of raw variables or composite indicators) before doing any analysis: www.valaszonline.hu/2025/04/11/r...

Hey postdocs, here’s an opportunity to develop your research plan with us - and eventually relocate to Turku with your own grant!

Here's an update on sociology (and some demography) journal editorial polices with regard to sharing preprints before submission and after acceptance. A big improvement from the last edition of this table. With one exception.

My work with Paul von Hippel on treatment effect heterogeneity was recently featured in this great article by Scott Sleek in the @psychscience.bsky.social Observer Magazine Pretty cool article if I do say so myself! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Join us as a sociology lecturer at @sriucl.bsky.social - dare I say one of the most dynamic places to do social science ever? (Now with the correct link)

📣 CALLING ALL QUANT SOCIAL SCIENTISTS! 📣 Do you know of causally identified research that estimates the effect of higher education on political attitudes? @elizabethsim0n.bsky.social and I are currently working on a meta-analysis on this question and we need your help!

Great postdoc opportunity! Join the Segregation of Opportunities (SEGOP) project led by Nicolai Borgen, with methods for causal inference using registry, survey, and genotyped data 📊 Located at CREATE (@uio.no), an exciting environment with many working on similar topics! tinyurl.com/segop-postdoc