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Benita Combet

@benitacombet.bsky.social
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Educational inequality & gender inequality in the labour market. Panel data & experiments. she/her. 🏳️‍🌈 🏫: University of Bern, SNSF 🌏: www.benitacombet.net

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Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Very happy to have won the Swiss Prize for Educational Research!
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Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Join my team in beautiful Berne! ☀️🏔️
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Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Follow us for news! 🔥
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Institute of Sociology · University of Bern @soziologie-unibe.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Welcome to the official Bluesky channel of the Institute of Sociology at the University of Bern! 🎓 Here we share insights into research, teaching, and institute life – and show what moves sociology in Bern. 🌎
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Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
New study alert, just out in SER! 🚨 What really drives gendered occupational choices among adolescents? ➡️It might not be workplace characteristics (e.g., salary), but skill requirements. academic.oup.com/ser/advance-... @sasemeeting.bsky.social, @snsf.ch,‬ @unibe.ch ern.bsky.social, @unisg.ch
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Valentina Di Stasio @distasioval.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Happy to be at this great interdisciplinary conference on Gender Issues in Education & the Labor Market organized by @benitacombet.bsky.social in Zurich. Here @julehauf.bsky.social from @clic.bsky.social presenting fresh experimental results on how to increase men's interest in nursing
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Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Not only acting as gatekeepers for scientific funding at NIH, NSF etc, but now trying to gate keep the entire scientific process.
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This great piece by @badnewshagen.bsky.social really gets into the sexism, racism, and eugenics that make up the very fabric of US pronatalist efforts. www.npr.org/2025/04/25/n...
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They say they want Americans to have more babies. What's beneath the surface?
Pronatalists believe that modern culture has failed to adequately prioritize the value of nuclear families and making lots of babies. They see powerful potential allies in Elon Musk and JD Vance.
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Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Ever wondered whether women really hate programming that much or whether they just have such a huge preference for helping? Join, I’m presenting new work!
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Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
💥💥💥Deadline is approaching fast!!! Apply if you’re interested in promotion inequality! Also open to adjacent disciplines! 💥💥💥
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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
See information below for all precarious female academics at Max Planck Institutes in need of mentorship (confidential, of course) ⬇️ @ngawiss.bsky.social @nnwiss.bsky.social @netzwerkmawi.bsky.social #Machtmissbrauch #Hochschule #Wissenschaft #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan #Befristung #Prekarisierung
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Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
🚨 Open postdoctoral researcher position 🚨: ▪️ PhD in sociology, econ, organiz. psychology, etc. ▪️ 80%, 2-year position @unibern. ▪️ Main tasks: set up + manage Swiss employer-employee panel & doing research on careers in companies ▪️ More infos: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
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Uni Bern: Postdoctoral researcher in sociology or adjacent fields (e.g., economics, organizational psychology)
Institute of Sociology, University of Bern Start of employment: 01.07.2025 or by agreement Employment is for a fixed term of 2 years, with options to extend up to 4 years.
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Silja Häusermann @siljahausermann.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
‼️ Hiring ‼️ Two (!) positions in my group at @ipz.bsky.social in Zurich 📣 1 postdoc position (3+3 years) 📣 1 PhD position (3,5 years) Application deadline in early March. Job ads & details: tinyurl.com/3p6yhptk We are an international and friendly department with excellent working conditions
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Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
In these turbulent times (just, wtf?), I have some good news. 🥳☀️🌈 I’m very happy to announce that I'll be starting as an assistant professor (TT) at @unibern.bsky.social this February!! It's been a long journey and I'm very grateful to everyone who has supported me along the way. 🤍
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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself." Earlier that day:
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Anders Hjorth-Trolle @andershtrolle.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
In a new IZA WP (▶️ docs.iza.org/dp17411.pdf), @rlandersoe.bsky.social and I show that intergenerational income mobility and its underlying mechanisms vary strongly across parents’ income. We present 3 main findings: 1/4 #EconSky #SocSky
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 10/02/2024
Neue Studie: Atlantikströmung "auf Kippkurs". Sie verleiht den jüngsten Berichten noch mehr Gewicht, die starke Warnungen formuliert haben, wie der OECD Climate Tipping Points Report 2022 und der Global Tipping Points Report 2023. scilogs.spektrum.de/klimalounge/...
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Neue Studie legt nahe, dass die atlantische Umwälzzirkulation AMOC „auf Kippkurs ist“
Heute wurde in Science Advances eine neue Studie veröffentlicht. Der Titel sagt schon, worum es geht: „Physics-based early warning signal shows that AMOC is on tipping course.“ Die Studie folgt einer ...
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Olivier Bos @olivierbos.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
Probably the most chilling paper I read in 2023, yet essential reading for all of us. academic.oup.com/qje/advance-... #EconSky 📉📈
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Violence Against Women at Work*
Abstract. In this paper, we link every police report in Finland to administrative data to identify violence between colleagues, and the economic consequences fo
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
New blog on the problem of the continued proliferation of eugenic ideology in academia, including "national IQ" data. (Part of) the solution is to prioritise research integrity, rather than the acquiring of grants, papers & profit (which current academic structures incentivise)
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The persistence of eugenics in mainstream journals highlights major gaps in research integrity
When published, bad data can have long lasting negative impacts on research and the wider world. In this post Rebecca Sear, traces the impact of the national IQ dataset and reflects how its continu…
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Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
I’m very happy to announce that I won the @snsf-ch.bsky.social Starting Grant! Starting in 2025, I’ll set up an employer-employee panel for Switzerland at @sociology-uzh.bsky.social. If you’re interested in a collaboration, send me a mail!
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Anna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
"The Economics Profession's Socioeconomic Diversity Problem" w/ Robert Schultz is now out in the JEP Here's the paper: pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/... and the Twitter thread from Mar 2022 (aka before I was on Bsky - sorry!) twitter.com/annastansbur...
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
I could not be less surprised by this. I am a data point. I've watched so many (and I mean TOO MANY) of my women colleagues experience the same. Women networks in academia are so fragile because there's never a sense of security or permanence. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Toxic workplaces are the main reason women leave academic jobs
Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life balance. Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life...
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
Women who perceive incident as unambiguously discrimination more likely to say they'd report it. Those who see incident as ambiguous more likely to say they'd lean in, change own behav. One reason why subtle discrim so hard to root out? Doering ^2 & Tilcsik sociologicalscience.com/articles-v10...
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Bettina Kohlrausch @bettikohlrausch.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
Ich finde diese Grafik aus unserem Bericht zur Gleichstellung in Ost und West besonders eindrucksvoll, weil sie zeigt, dass in Haushalten beider Landesteile wirklich unterschiedliche Rollenmodelle gelebt werden. Das modernisierte male breadwinner model ist vor allem ein westdeutsches Phänomen.
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Sam Friedman @samfriedman.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
New Paper 🔔 We look at the contrasting meanings of merit that elites in the 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇰 deploy when justifying their success. Co-authored with @aaronsreeves @chellersgaard @antongrau 🧵 below… academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
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The Meaning of Merit: Talent versus Hard Work Legitimacy
Abstract. Elites often use merit to explain, justify, and make sense of their advantaged positions. But what exactly do they mean by this? In this paper, we dra
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Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
As someone who loves to cook (but often doesn‘t find the time 😔), this is super interesting!
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Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
Motivation moderates gender differences in navigation performance.
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Motivation moderates gender differences in navigation performance - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Motivation moderates gender differences in navigation performance
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John V. Kane @uptonorwell.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
Hey Stata folks! Want to visually present your regression results? I made a guide. It covers key aesthetics, combining results from multiple models, working w/ logit models, & more. Oh, and I provide all the code. Comments/feedback welcome! drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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