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Juraj Medzihorsky @medzihorsky.bsky.social · 21h

Shopping for clothes be like

A hand-drawn cartoon of the following dialog box
Pick two: Dress your
☐ age
☐ period
☐ cohort

[This image was made with Gemini 3.6 Fast Extended with post-processing in GIMP]

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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How do people make decisions in complex conjoint experiments of policy choices? When decomposing individual responses into different strategies, most people use a heuristic strategy. Personally, I was surprised how many people are using the rational strategy! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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ASA Medical Sociology @asamedsoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Meet Gabriel, Medical Sociologist on the academic job market this year! #ASA #MedicalSociology

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Stephen Vaisey 🇺🇦 @stephenvaisey.com · 29/09/2026

So happy to see (finally) this truly excellent paper in print!

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Max Weber postdoc program at @eui-eu.bsky.social has its deadline 16 October, for a September 2027 start: www.eui.eu/en/academic-...

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Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies

Making a Difference in Global Academia

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

lol this is how I spent my last year of grad school 😬😬

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

🧮 🧠 🖥️ 🕰️ 💭 Excited to share new preprint with @olivia.science and @blokpoel.bsky.social, see below. This is a brief commentary on Multiple Realisability. We propose formalisations to assist theoreticians in thinking through how MR applies, at what levels, & how it can guide our modeling. 1/🧵

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 24/09/2026

If someone mostly replies by QT, that tells you they are more interested in performing for an audience than having a conversation

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The old line that analytic philosophy is answering questions that come naturally to toddlers via methods that come naturally to lawyers remains undefeated.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 23/09/2026

Just listened to this episode, it’s excellent! You can tell that Paul Allison is an *incredible* teacher. Highly recommended if you’re fixed-effects curious but are new to the party! quantitude.org/s8e03-paul-a...

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S8E03 Control Yourself: Fixed Effects Models with Paul Allison – Quantitude

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Lauren Valentino @sociologylauren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

UNC Sociology is hiring! 🐏 We're looking for someone at assistant or associate level in ANY area, willing to teach in our dept's Management & Society program (i.e. courses on organizations, work and occupations, economic sociology, social psychology, non-profits, work and family, AI and work, etc).

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Assistant or Associate Professor

The Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for an Assistant or Associate (tenure-track or tenured) faculty position to begin July 1, 2027. We w...

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is how introducing a new concept sounds to me half of the time.

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El Espectador @elespectador.com · 20/09/2026

La escalofriante radiografía de una ejecución extrajudicial vista en detalle tras las indagaciones de la JEP. El tribunal de paz enfrenta la asfixia económica, mientras que sus hallazgos son tan estremecedores como indignantes. ok.me/4vZQ1

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La vida en viñetas @lavidaenvinetas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Daniel Clowes

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Jury trials are to law as SPSS is to statistics. I will not elaborate.

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Alex León @donalexbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Martes de FOBI.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 15/09/2026

This is partly an LLM problem and partly an organizational problem. The LLM makes life much, much easier for everyone who wants to just pretend, and much, much harder for everyone who doesn’t.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Really good chicken helmet. Best chicken helmet I’ve ever seen maybe.

A knight’s helmet with, inexplicably, a chicken face coming out the front

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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a new paper forthcoming in Social Forces! focusing on the killing of George Floyd & the BLM, I study the formation of generations, proposing that formative events can create within-cohort differentiation as much as between-cohort differentiation. read here: tkeskinturk.github.io/imprinting.pdf

Generational Imprinting: How Political Events Shape Cohorts
Contemporary narratives of generational politics propose that formative experiences produce shared political opinions across an age cohort. In this article, I advance a theory of cohortization to challenge that view, arguing that large-scale political events produce differentiation within cohorts as much as differentiation between them. I investigate the implications of this framework through the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, analyzing attitudes toward law enforcement among non-Hispanic White Americans from 2016 to 2024. Using survey data from Cooperative Congressional Election Study, American National Election Study, and the Nationscape, I show that younger and older cohorts diverged after the event, but this differentiation was driven exclusively by young Democrats and Independents. The end result was not a unified generation, but one internally divided along party lines. This finding qualifies theories of generational politics, emphasizing that formative experiences may intensify existing political divisions within cohorts.

This is my generation
This is my generation, baby
My, my, my, my generation
— The Who, “My Generation” (1965)

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's a miracle that a lot of social science is really good, given that we cannot agree on even the most basic definitions.

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Never thought about the similarities between the Calvinist doctrine of predestination and the Silicon Valley doctrine of AGI 🤔 weltinnenpolitik.substack.com/p/reading-ma...

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Reading Max Weber in the Age of AI

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Accelerationism

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I will laminate 100 of these and toss them at people's faces in the next ASA Sociology of Law Section meeting.

$"I am not starry-eyed about this at all. This has not been a star-struck book. I am insisting only upon the obvious point, which some modem Marxists have overlooked, that there is a difference between arbitrary power and the rule of law. We ought to expose the shams and inequities which may be concealed beneath this law. But the rule of law itself the imposing of. effective inhibitions upon power and the defence of the citizen from power's all-intrusive claims, seems to me to be an unqualified human good. To deny or belittle this good is, in this dangerous century when the resources and pretensions of power continue to enlarge, a desperate error of intellectual abstraction. More than this, it is a self-fulfilling error, which encourages us to give up the struggle against bad laws and class-bound procedures, and to disarm ourselves before power. It is to throw away a whole inheritance of struggle about law, and within the forms of law, whose continuity can never be fractured without bringing men and women into immediate danger."$

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Robert Alexy just died. He was the second most influential jurist in the Colombian Constitutional Court (if you believe my silly word counts).

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"Bayesian" means "from the Bay Area".

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Too much money wasted on fucking "nudge units" across many governments, wanting to solve poverty with a kind of psychological astrology supported by fraud.

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Big news! 🎉 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 1.0.0 for #Rstats is out. It’s a big number and it feels like a big step. I wrote a blog on the challenges of interpreting statistical models, SPEED, cool new features, the future, and a 5 year package development and writing odyssey. arelbundock.com/posts/margin...

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

many social science "concepts" are essentially square holes, plz stop youtube.com/shorts/dmohs...

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Happy 4 years of the square hole

YouTube video by Tired Actor (Alison Burke)

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If you’re looking to teach survey methods, measurement error and endogeneity all in one fell swoop, look no further

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

¿Ilva Myriam Hoyos? ¿Qué no habían cerrado ya ese antro?

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

What's the ratio of op-eds about Claudine Gay paraphrasing someone vs op-eds about Ariely just straight up fabricating data

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

if only there had been clues

Republicans convention delegates holding “mass deportation now!” signs

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I know there are technically only two data points here, but this is my new favorite example of collider bias

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A big problem with White Liberal America is that it's made up almost entirely by pushovers. – MAGA: Hey "woke" is bad, everyone agrees. – WLA: Ok, gotcha 👌 – MAGA: "👌" means something else now too – WLA: Yessir 🫡

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"...los migrantes irregulares pueden ser deportados, pero tienen derecho al debido proceso, por lo cual, jurídicamente, no pueden ser expulsados masivamente, como parece pretenderlo ADLE" www.elespectador.com/opinion/colu...

elespectador.com

Un tigre al acecho de migrantes

“No hay ninguna evidencia de que nuestros problemas de criminalidad deriven de la migración venezolana”: Rodrigo Uprimny

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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

a new job market paper! using surveys from 10.4 million college students over 40 years, I study the role of ideology in career aspirations. I show that ideology structures what careers people want, a pattern much stronger among high-income students. see here: tkeskinturk.github.io/aspirations.pdf

Ideology as a Luxury Good in Occupational Choice
Turgut Keskintürk
Duke University

Abstract
Career aspirations are formed long before people enter the labor market, but whether and how political ideology is part of that formative process remains poorly understood. Using yearly surveys of 10.4 million college freshmen entering U.S. institutions between 1976 and 2015, I show that ideology systematically structures occupational aspirations. This pattern is two to three times larger among students from the highest socioeconomic backgrounds than among those from the lowest. To explain this difference, I propose a luxury-good interpretation: political congruence, the match between one's politics and an occupation's perceived ideological orientation, constitutes an occupational amenity whose importance increases with material security. This, I theorize, makes ideology an expressive resource for life choices, though one that is unequally distributed.

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"we can’t optimize a trade-off" I mutter to myself as I go about my day making shit decisions

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Seeing Like a State (laudatory).

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Ustedes no se alcanzan a imaginar la importancia de Dolly Parton. Ella era como la Shakira de los gringos.

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I consider it a personal failure whenever one of my posts gets more than a dozen likes 🙈

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