¿Te interesan los temas de desigualdad y movilidad social? ¿Quieres hacer el doctorado? Va a salir una Beca FPI en el proyecto I+D que dirijo: “Does luck matter? The role of luck in individual life courses and views of redistribution”. La convocatoria oficial de la UNED saldrá en breve. 1/2

¿Alguien en Presidencia, Prospectiva o alguna Subdirección General que pueda ayudarme a hacer llegar un SOS a la ministra de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (o a algún DG, me vale)? 👇. 1/3

New paper with @mhamjediers.bsky.social German judges have discretion to apply rehabilitative juvenile criminal law (Jugendstrafrecht) or punitive adult criminal law to 18–20-year-old offenders. We show that immigrant youths are ~10 percentage points less likely to be sentenced under juvenile law

Once again, let's look at who leaves (and not just who enters) when thinking about labour market segregation 👇

Let's all agree that it's fully ok to present in short pants.

Nearly 40% of professors come from families without university-educated parents. But across cohorts, professors from low-SES families have become less common in more recent generations.

Totally agree with the diagnosis, not sure about the suggestion of the two track system. it might create weird selection and sorting. cepr.org/voxeu/column... we should change the reward and publication system.

Current state of running playlist. Probably more coherent than my list of research interests.

This is my own thread for weirdly absurd observed use of AI (1) Last week at the airport, someone asked ChatGPT which conveyor belt their suitcase would come from. Told the father Chat GPT said # 8. The baggage-claim screen, right behind their head, clearly said #1, right in front of us.

I have a friend in Spain with a PhD teaching 4 courses a week (8h in total) for ~500€/month gross. This happens in a university in one of the main cities in the country.

1/ So you’re thinking about applying for an academic job in the UK but don’t know how? This thread will walk you through the essentials.

The thing about interdisciplinary work is everyone gets to misunderstand you from a unique angle

How much do managers contribute to wage inequality? He and Le Maire use Danish (!) data and find that managers explain about 4% of the total variation in wages. Very cool paper that was finally published this summer (working paper has been around for 3 years): doi.org/10.1162/rest...

New Open Access paper published in PNAS Nexus! “Ingroup preferences, segregation, and intergroup contact in neighborhoods and civic organizations” with my co-authors Rob Franken, @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social, and Jochem Tolsma. doi.org/10.1093/pnas... Thread below.

🔊 We’re looking for researchers working on migration at universities, research institutes, and think-tanks in Africa and Europe. 👉 We’re conducting a study to understand how researchers think about the drivers of international migration. 📋 Take the survey here: mpcsurveys.limesurvey.net/acd

Quite a useful feature to know what's going on behind our paper submissions. The editor has been inviting new reviewers for about 3 consecutive weeks and only one reviewer has accepted the request 👌

Did military service in Europe affect men's occupational choices? @mhamjediers.bsky.social presenting at #ECSR2025, very focused and passionate about research, as usual. We investigate selection into armed forces, licensed and male-dominated occupations across multiple countries.

(Most of) our attendants at the #ecsr2025 in Cologne @clic.bsky.social 😃

Our center’s research is well represented at the #ecsr2025! On my way!

Great start of my trip to ECSR from Firenze to Cologne. It was pouring in Florence and tram was cancelled, so my clothes are already wet, also those in the baggage.

Nice piece by the FT. After 8+ years being vegan, a common question I get is why. Regarding health, a vegan diet compares to a healthy omnivore one. Regarding climate, my individual impact is minimal. www.ft.com/content/866a...

I don't have much by way of productivity hacks, but here's one: feeling crappy tends to make your work crappy, so consider not tormenting yourself

This is a great piece about why declining fertility may be less harmful than pro-natalists want us to believe.

Please share this thread. It is important that political scientists, in Europe and across the world, understand why EPSS exists and why we are encouraging people to attend our inaugural conference, in Belfast next June.

Forthcoming in JOLE: "Do Recruiters Penalize Men Who Prefer Low Hours? Evidence from Online Labor Market Data" by Daniel Kopp www.journals.uchicag... #EconSky

📣 New article out! With @sedovicmicha.bsky.social we look at not just how the majority thinks about immigration, but also what (first and second generation) migrants' attitudes are Full piece in European Journal of Population: 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #migration #socialcohesion #europe

Israeli sociologists and anthropologists call for immediate ceasefire, ending the starvation of Gaza, stop the ethnic cleansing, the return of the hostages, restoring electricity and water, and the rehabilitation of hospitals and universities. www.facebook.com/share/16v4Xv...

All killed journalists, 1992-2024. With a spike in 2024, due to Gaza.

HOW DO I LOG IN TO EDITORIAL MANAGER TO SUBMIT MY REVIEW

Cool work from two colleagues ✌️

📢 *Call for Applications* / 📢 *Convocatoria abierta* Join our project on Prejudice & Discrimination at the Spanish National Research Council (Madrid 🇪🇸) Open to junior scholars at different stages (postdocs, predocs, or MSc grads considering a PhD) 🔗 ⬇️ www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zrur0...

New preprint out with @aleksandermadsen.bsky.social, where we show that later-arriving childhood immigrants have lower earnings, are more likely to enter manual occupations, and are less likely to enter analytical and language-intensive jobs and be employed in high-wage firms as adults.

The reserve army of PhD students is single handedly holding peer review afloat during summer season

Still much better than trying to read articles in the APA website

Reviewer needs a reference to justify the use of logit when analysing a binary outcome. Any recommendations? The older, the better

right before submission i realized i had mislabelled every table and still uploaded the paper because i too believe in revisions

Not sure if it's just me, but the word "alert" (especially if 🚨follows) makes me think something urgent and (likely) dangerous is happening. So I propose we leave the usual "new publication alert 🚨" just for urgent and dangerous stuff. E.g. "We found that 2 asteroids will impact Earth next week!"

Seeing too many diff-in-diff reviews and and summary articles but not sure where to start? We propose a new way to synthesize this growing literature using a Review in Reviews approach.

Reviewer: “Have you considered…?” Me: Not only have I considered it, I cut 900 words on it last night.

Are there more of you social scientists accepting every connection request on LinkedIn because you suspect the requests are part of an experiment on bias in networking?

Wrote something on Zohran Mamdani and something I had been thinking about before: the imperialism of US ethnic categories: alexandreafonso.substack.com/p/26-on-the-...

I don't have impostor syndrome I have "everyone else is faking it better" syndrome

The person you knew in grad school who was never broke, never unsupported, and never rejected is now an academic authority on grit

Sunday mood

I recently spoke to a postdoc employed in a project that was dead on arrival. Everyone knew it but it dragged on for years just to keep up appearances for funders. 2/4

Keep your summer clothes 😎

Living in Florence in summer: compulsively checking the email to receive the quote to get AC as if I was waiting for the results of a grant application and two R&R

You haven’t really written an academic paper until you’ve cut the paragraph you built the entire paper around.

How is it possible to get burned out as a PhD student, says person who owes their entire career to survivorship bias