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ophastings.bsky.social
Sociologist at Colorado State University | Parenting, Inequality, Stratification, Econ Soc, Family Demography, Quantitative Methods, Computational Social Science, whatever seems interesting right now… https://ophastings.com
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New today from me @us.theconversation.com: I talk about my research on how rising housing prices have widened the White-Black wealth gap over the past several decades. theconversation.com/rising-house...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations

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Say you’ve got very good causal IDENTIFICATION. Can you say you have causality, can make a causal general claim, and can say what “THE causal effect” is? NO We explain why in new article at Journal of Causal Inference. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

Next week I'm heading down the Front Range to share my work at the CU Pop Center. Look forward to meeting folks and hopefully having a good discussion! cupc.colorado.edu/event/oreste...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

submitted 24 days ago • 125 comments

Michael Burawoy taught my grad Classical Social Theory class. My interests, methods, favorite theories, and approaches to social science were nothing like his. Yet his passion & excitement for sociology and his genuine care & interest in his students has been an inspiration & model. What a loss.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Interested in a free seminar? To mark our first semester on Bluesky, we’re offering a free seminar from our Spring offerings (through May 31) to one lucky winner. Follow us and repost this message by Monday, February 10 to enter. Winner revealed on Feb. 14—may the odds be in your favor!

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

If you are early career and not connected to a pop center, I highly recommend this! I was in the first cohort, and directly because of the training and mentoring, I wrote and submitted my first NIH proposal. (Didn't get it, but I took my shot, got strong feedback, and am making revisions.)

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 Please help us spread the word to Early Career Scholars! We @pop.psu.edu are happy to welcome our second cohort of External Fellows to Penn State's University Park campus this May for our grant-writing training, networking, and mentoring program. Please see below for more details.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Reading grad school apps Why is any undergrad institution teaching stats with SPSS? Looking at you, psychology depts R is free and knowing it is a marketable skill

submitted 38 days ago • 17 comments

Excited to be part of this lineup and share work later this spring.

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Child poverty in the U.S. is four times as likely to lead to adult poverty than in Denmark and Germany, and twice as likely than in the UK and Australia. Why? I write about our findings on "the intergenerational persistence of poverty" today in The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 51 days ago • 3 comments

My impression is it’s not well understood that Census substantially changed Supplemental Poverty Measure in 2021. It’s now indisputably a relative measure and is also a better measure. www.census.gov/topics/incom...

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Perfect timing to get re-stoked about teaching as the sabbatical wraps up.🙏🥰 sociology.colostate.edu/news/meet-ca...

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

We created a starter pack for family sociologists! Please let us know if you would like to be added. go.bsky.app/E3PGiEm

submitted 73 days ago • 18 comments

Fun new project! The 2006-2014 GSS had rotating 3-wave panels. Only 44% gave the same answer each time about childhood income rank, even though what was being measured couldn't change. We unpack this in a new working paper: osf.io/preprints/so... Feedback welcome!🤗 @socarxiv.bsky.social #sociology

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Social science is so freaking hard.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Nothing useful to add to this R vs Stata debate, but rather than say nothing at all, I’ll just share that I did my first regressions in MATLAB. So take that… someone.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Fun new project! The 2006-2014 GSS had rotating 3-wave panels. Only 44% gave the same answer each time about childhood income rank, even though what was being measured couldn't change. We unpack this in a new working paper: osf.io/preprints/so... Feedback welcome!🤗 @socarxiv.bsky.social #sociology

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Growing up Different(ly than Last Time We Asked): Social Status and Changing Reports of Childhood Income Rank: http://osf.io/9gcwu/

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Here's a preprint version of our (w/ Paulina Erices-Ocampo & Miranda Lubbers, @mirandalubbers.bsky.social) forthcoming paper in ARS on social capital - osf.io/preprints/so...

submitted 86 days ago • 2 comments

Great work by Tom pairing these methods papers. Interesting to see while @pengzell.bsky.social & @martinhallsten.bsky.social critique using within-family parenting variation, @kbkarlson.bsky.social & Jung In are essentially assuming (I think?) the within-family parenting variation can be ingored.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Thanksgiving in 🇬🇧 is obviously not a thing, but it was a nice few days nonetheless. Soaking in the last bits of sabbatical.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

The "other" website is suggesting I read my own paper, so that's definitely another point for Bluesky.

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment