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Sociology sometimes, but being boring all of the time. https://sites.google.com/view/jonathan-horowitz/
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I’m thrilled this is out! Job seekers are often hired into their contacts’ workplaces. We show that contacts’ informal networks in their workplace help job seekers get hired, but optimal networks look different in these settings.

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

This is so important. And especially in non experimental studies where bias - not variance - is the first order concern.

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

The people who figure this stuff out should get free coffee for life from everyone who uses the dataset. Just a huge public service.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The Department of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame is proud to announce the appointments of two exceptional scholars—Tim Hallett and Catherine Riegle-Crumb—as Full Professors. Welcome to the department! @timhallett.bsky.social sociology.nd.edu/news-and-eve...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the TRUE emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."

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Has anyone looked at whether a lack of subgroup heterogeneity is predictive of effects generalizing over time or contexts?

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

The one thing I'm never going to get over in Canada is how government entities of various types (federal, school district, etc) will contact you out of the blue, demanding you schedule an appointment immediately, and be like "oh, so you don't have any time over the next 48 hours? too bad!"

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Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

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We should require license for regression users.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

All 3 fandoms will revolt simultaneously but I think he's perfect

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

NEW ARTICLE: CREST Sociology's @scoavoux.bsky.social, @eollion.bsky.social, and @ppraeg.bsky.social's Machine Bias in Sociological Methods & Research, on why we can't use LLMs to generate meaningful survey data Link: doi.org/10.1177/0049... Preprint at @socarxiv.bsky.social: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Presented without comment, from the people sitting behind us at the Blue Jays game this weekend: Person A: My first ever Blue Jays game was against the Expos. Person B: What are you, 70 years old? The Expos left in 2004!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Why is Japan’s fertility rate falling—and what’s really behind it? We wrote a 10,000+ word guide on it in plain English with data + research insights. No jargon, just clarity. Please share this piece if you find it useful! rmogi.medium.com/all-you-need...

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If you've ever wanted to see someone SHRED on the shamisen (traditional Japanese instrument) check out Beni Ninagawa from Wagakki Band here from 2:27 to 2:48 (link to timestamp at 2:26). You can almost see her leveling up as she's playing. youtu.be/ponTbDDMYjw?...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Good thread. FWIW there's a great irony which is that although liberal arts majors have lost a large share of graduates to professional programs in US / UK / Canada, their share of the labor market overall has gone up or stayed the same in most cases because of educational expansion.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

It is an honour to receive this award with a group of scholars I admire. I'm not sure what I'll be talking about at the ceremony yet, but it's likely I'll go a bit off script and talk about the importance of the DHS and other surveys in measuring demographic outcomes.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Bonkers chart from Canadian election polling.

submitted 9 days ago • 115 comments

** Researchers using US Natality Data: Code to read & label restricted-access CDC natality data into Stata/R now includes 2019–2023 (in addition to 2010–18): florenciatorche.github.io/ReadNatality... Please share—no need for us all to write the same code! Thanks to @RussellSageFdn for funding

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Killing your greatest export is an unusual tactic in the midst of a trade war. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 10 days ago • 24 comments

"Harvard University...welcome to the resistance"

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Soooo, every professor in every discipline?

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Adjacent to this, I'd encourage everyone to read Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany. The politics of both countries have changed a ton since 1992 but the book helped me think through citizenship by place of birth and citizenship by descent in useful ways.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

"In this article, we introduce causal-graphical normalizing flows (cGNFs), a novel approach to causal inference that leverages deep neural networks to empirically evaluate theories represented as DAGs." 🧐 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments