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In the face of attacks on research, education, and humanity, we're stronger together than we are on our own. So, I'm deeply grateful to get to be part of the ASA leadership team, to serve alongside Dr. Young, and to help members build solidarity and champion the essential work of sociology.

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Reading rational choice theory feels like watching someone explain dating using Excel.

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“Mediating Role of Intergenerational Stratification in the Long Arm of Childhood Income”: With @umpsid & mediation techniques, @davebrady72 et al find "adult income is a key mediator in the...r’ship btw childhood income & mature adult health.” @priceschool.usc.edu read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

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How much of the "long arm of childhood" works thru intergenerational stratification? Almost all for some health outcomes like psychological distress and self-rated health, but a lot less for others like severe chronic conditions. Heart attacks and stroke are in between.

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Measles cases in Alberta, from 1919 to 2025.

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Exciting news. From 2027, @erc.europa.eu stg and cog now covers up to 10 and 15 years after you've obtained your PhD! And it seems that already from next year's call, the B2 will be shorter, and the B1 and B2 will have to include different components. erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

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The proportion of p-values between .01 and .05 declined in psychology over the last decade, a strengthening of credibility. Papers with fewer fragile p-values are cited more. Higher ranked journals assoc. with > improvement, but not higher ranked universities. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Thank you all. A present for you. JOP it is.

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Four University of Copenhagen #UCPH research projects have now lost their US funding, and more are at risk. Rector @daviddlassen.bsky.social describes what is unfolding in the US as »an attack on the established university system«. uniavisen.dk/en/universit... @marchvidkjaer.bsky.social ‬

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OLS be like

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Stop the presses: sociologists agree on something

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This thought-provoking and quite original piece on intergenerational persistence in education by Clark and Kristensen shows incredibly high levels of persistence in 🇩🇰 and 🇸🇪. #sociology #econsky www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-My...

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Reposting this, just because #sociology

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Happy news for one of the leading inequality research environments in Europe

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New paper with @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social just out in Demography! 🔗 read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a... Here’s a short thread on what we found—and why it might be worth a look.

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For 40 years, Americans have lived shorter lives than people in other rich countries. For 10 years, that's been rapidly getting worse. New research: in 2022-2023, there were 1.5 million "missing Americans," who died--but wouldn't have, if America didn't have such uniquely high death rates.

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Dear European colleagues - I'm on sabbatical, and if we make it to Fall I'm going to be in Italy Nov 4-6. I'd love to travel more and extend the trip. By then I'll have new things to say about pronatalism, as well as open social science and engagement etc.

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feelin' quadruply robust, doubly debiased

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Yay! My first multiverse analysis ever just finished its final iteration without any errors! Embarrassingly parallel, but still! 🥳 #sociology

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Please spread the word! Psych Science is recruiting volunteers to help conduct computational reproducibility checks. If you have experience writing reproducible analysis scripts in psychology, and want to join the team, please apply! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

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Important research by @johannarickne.bsky.social @ollefolke.bsky.social and great to see it published in our own @europeansocreview.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

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This was a very interesting book. Moss-Pech makes a compelling case that the big major payoffs can't be fully explained by skills, since lots of folks don't use major-specific skills in their early career jobs! Institutionalized pathways from major to good jobs are key. Recommended.

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and what we ought to know, @martinhallsten.bsky.social 👀

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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

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Just a reminder that we’re currently advertising for a researcher to join @rilleraaper.bsky.social, Tom Fryer and me to work on an exciting new project on @studentspolitics.bsky.social Based at @education.ox.ac.uk Closing date: 9 June www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNC845/r...

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embarrassingly parallel

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Peer review is genuinely not a fraud detection mechanism and shouldn't be taken to be. It's not really a knock against a peer review system for failing to pick up when data is faked. The system is already over worked if we did data forensics at scale as a standard part of review it grinds to a halt.

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Seems like a good use case for preprints: "were it not for the fact that this preprint had gained so much attention, this article would have slipped through peer review, only to embarrass the editors of the top econ journal in the world after being published and reported on."

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LLM adoption boosts the quantity of scientific papers that researchers write by 25.7-89.3%, with the strongest quantity effects for East Asian scholars and in the social sciences. But the papers are worse. Another quantity-quality tradeoff! yianyin.net/index.html

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🚨 “Good Description” with @annagbusse.bsky.social 🚨 What sets 'good' description apart from 'mere' description? We develop a framework for evaluating descriptive research, whether we are doing it as scholars or assessing it as readers. Two main contributions... 🔗📄 tinyurl.com/gooddesc

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Economists looking at an idea from sociology literature that they will be the first to write a paper on.

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We are hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science 📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden ⏰Deadline June 3 🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854 Please apply // help us spread the word

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NEW: Cristobal Young, Benjamin Cornwell, Barum Park, Nan Feng, "Inequality and Social Ties: Evidence from 15 U.S. Data Sets" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

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Wow! Each $1 spent on Universal Pre-Kindergarten generates between $3-$20 dollars in aggregate earnings. That's enough to offset the costs of Universal Pre-Kindergarten through higher tax revenues.

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Asking for a friend: What's the difference between experience and lived experience? #sociology

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Do thou leverage? Or do thou just use?

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Genetic associations with education have increased over time and are patterned by socioeconomic background: a cross-cohort analysis of three British studies born 1946 to 1970 https://osf.io/kr6hc Social scientists have long sought to investigate whether the predictors of educational atta #sociology

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The 1st paper in a sociology journal I read ca. 20 years ago was Delacroix & Nielsen (2001) in Social Forces 👉 doi.org/10.1353/sof.... Today, our paper (with @jaredcrubin.com, Yuan Hsiao and Steve Pfaff) on Erasmus vs Luther was accepted in Social Forces 🎉 🥂 😇

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Does anybody have a good visualization to explain how interactions can be confounded, and why interactions require interaction controls? @urisohn.bsky.social maybe? (Asking because I have an idea, but want to check out what exists already before investing the effort)

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