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pengzell.bsky.social
Interested in how the rich stay rich and the poor poor. Sociologist at UCL, Nuffield College and Stockholm Uni. He/him/his. http://perengzell.com Photo bomber @simoneschneider.bsky.social
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European tenure track: string together 2-3 postdocs until you can go full Prof

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Always thought the song line "There's a crack in the roof where the rain pours through" was a metaphor, til I moved to the uk

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Looking forward to presenting my Class Gap work at the RNIM Online Seminar on Zoom this Friday! Anyone can register to attend here: sites.google.com/view/rnim-se...

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Our department is hiring for this prestigious professorship! Applications are welcome from scholars working in any area of the discipline. The position offers a competitive salary. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI980/t... @camsociology.bsky.social

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Trying to get a sense of what is a small/big amount of between-context variance in multilevel models, e.g. from schools, classrooms, neighborhoods. Anyone now of a review or similar with such numbers? #socsky

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"My research sits at the intersection of..." Yeah most fatal accidents happen at intersections

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Had a language dream again. Some language had borrowed English “government”, but they reduplicated the first syllable, reanalyzed the /m/ as a case marker, and got rid of the rest, so it was gogov-m in the accusative or sth

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Academics are the only mammal who carries an idea for 4–7 years, then abandons it at birth.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

Google maps really outdid itself with this one

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i do it but it really grates my nerves to cite men who treated me like shit for no reason

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"My research sits at the intersection of..." Yeah most fatal accidents happen at intersections

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Being an academic means saying “I’d love to collaborate!” and then vanishing into the ether for 14 months

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Sociologists shitting on each other

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in special issues: "you get breadcrumbs, but still we proceed"

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PSA: Don’t trust anyone who tells you that you can identify age or period or cohort effects simply by applying the right statistical model to the right type of data. This is fundamentally misunderstanding the nature of the age-period-cohort problem!>

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Trying to convince reviewers like

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AI is incredibly useful for our Wrong Answers Only Club.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

If AI kills labor market demand for confident bullshitters, I for one welcome our new robot overlords.

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Reviewer: “This paper makes an important contribution” Also reviewer: “Here are 37 reasons it shouldn’t exist”

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There’s always that one citation you relegate to footnote 12 because anything else would collapse the illusion of novelty

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know this: there are people I respect & do not cite. there are people I cite &

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finally transitioned from word to overleaf

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I wish we could see the author submitted file name like final_final_REALLYfinal_plsuse.pdf

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I'll take AI if it can generate file names for article pfds that aren't 1-s2.0-S0052062X51003165-main

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That's my problem as an academic: too much emotional growth

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Writing a paper is repeatedly discovering there was a better version of the paper you thought you were writing

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We must remain silly in these trying times.

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

My body at 3PM:

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Can confirm. Embrace chaos

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I was trying to remember where in the house we keep q-tips and kept remembering all the places they were stored in houses I've lived in the past. Kind of cool how "my house" is a tesseract that can be navigated in space or time. Wish I had those q-tips now tho

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Satiric Karl Arnold parodied the “typical Nazi sympathizer as a foggy-brained beer-swizzling man of the past with his eyes blinded by swastikas.” @nsdoku.bsky.social

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1995: TV is killing bowling alleys 2025: Social media is killing TV

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