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Dimitris Pavlopoulos

@dimipa.bsky.social
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Associate Professor Labour Market and Research Methods, VU | ERC Laureate | (most imporantly) father | not liking the academic rat race | seeking radical change

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Dimitris Pavlopoulos @dimipa.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Very happy to have received another ERC PoC! In CLEAR STATS, together with Santiago Gómez-Echeverry, Roberta Varriale (Sapienza), Paulina Pankowska (UU), Danila Filipponi, Silvia Loriga and Davide di Laurea (Istat) we are making a major step in detecting data quality. vu.nl/en/news/2026...
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New open-source tool helps make statistics more reliable - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Statistical figures form the basis for policies on housing, healthcare, education and the economy. But how reliable are these figures really?
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Dimitris Pavlopoulos @dimipa.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
The department meeting of the sociology department of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam decided unanimously to support the decision of the @isa-sociology.org to suspend ties with the Israeli Sociological Society.
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Dimitris Pavlopoulos @dimipa.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Do you work at a #Sociology department or are you studying Sociology? Consider supporting the petition shorturl.at/qmkZf of supporting the @isa-sociology.org decision to suspend the Israeli Sociological Society on its failure to take a clear position on the genocide in Gaza.
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Dimitris Pavlopoulos @dimipa.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The identity of my university... #VUAmsterdam defined by students on their own initiative
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Dimitris Pavlopoulos @dimipa.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
My #ERC project has finally it's own website: dynanseproject.eu See there how we study employment trajectories of young and older workers, how we study the role of non-standard employment contracts and how we develop new methods for it using latent variable models!
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Dynanse – Project
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Saskia Bonjour @saskiabonjour.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Commentaar van NRC redactie: "De situatie in Gaza is in één woord ondraaglijk. In n week dat Nederland oorlogsdoden herdenkt met de woorden ‘nooit weer’, worden in een gebied ter grootte van Rotterdam oorlogsmisdaden gepleegd die het voorstellingsvermogen te boven gaan." www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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Wat vindt NRC | Toekijken hoe Israël in Gaza dood en honger zaait is onacceptabel
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Dimitris Pavlopoulos @dimipa.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
A vessel with civilians (including colleague Takis Politis from University of Thessaly) carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza was attacked by drones outside Malta. It seems that Israel's immunity to national and international law has no limits... www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...
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Israeli drones hit Gaza aid flotilla in international waters off Malta, NGO says
A ship carrying humanitarian aid and activists heading for Gaza was attacked by Israeli drones while in international waters off Malta early Friday, said Freedom Flotilla Coalition, an international…
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Dimitris Pavlopoulos @dimipa.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
With this letter, we (208 employees of #VUamsterdam) call the Executive board to stop calling the police to campus to repress student protests shorturl.at/xCcWF
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Open letter to the VU Executive Board: We do not want the VU to call the police on our students
(This open letter has been presented to the VU Executive Board on 17 April 2025; it is now closed for new signatures.) On 9 April, the VU called the police on our students. Seven students were arreste...
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Dimitris Pavlopoulos @dimipa.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
New publication of the ERC DYNANSE research team and the PhD thesis of Anika Chowdhury! Addressing the complexity of pre- and post-retirement pathways in the Netherlands by combining (self-)employment status, working hours and income with the use of a novel method (mixture hidden Markov models)
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Dimitris Pavlopoulos @dimipa.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
An education-related publication is always a particular moment! This is joint work with several colleagues from VU, UvA, UU, EUR on the development of an open-source statistics database. It is useful for anyone teaching statistics especially for social sciences. doi.org/10.1111/test...
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ShareStats: An open statistics item bank developed by a community of instructors in higher education
Gaining knowledge of statistics is important in most (under)graduate programs within the social and behavioral sciences and requires repeated study by students, highlighting the need for good practic...
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Dimitris Pavlopoulos @dimipa.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Excellent course on mixture models at VU Amsterdam in May/June! Starting from logistic regression and reaching Latent Class Analysis vu.nl/en/education...
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PhD course FSS – Typologies in Data - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Typologies in data with Mixture models
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Dimitris Pavlopoulos @dimipa.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Call for panels, Conference, Day of Sociology (19th of June), at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Submit your proposal by January 27th! Call for papers will follow!
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Dimitris Pavlopoulos @dimipa.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
PM and minister of Defence of Israel officially wanted by the International Court of Justice for crimes against humanity. www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...
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Situation in the State of Palestine: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant
Today, on 21 November 2024, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (‘Court’), in its composition for the Situation in the State of Palestine, unanimously issued two decisions rejectin...
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Dimitris Pavlopoulos @dimipa.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
Defend public higher education in Greece. Sign the petition against the privatisation bill! forms.gle/oEmNiMRfXEMw...
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Dimitris Pavlopoulos @dimipa.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
Temporary agency and on-call work are associated with unstable career paths and limited wage growth. doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...  New publication of @lauraeberlein.bsky.social, Mauricio Garnier-Villarreal and me using wonderful register data from CBS!
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Dimitris Pavlopoulos @dimipa.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
Why do Dutch companies use flexible employment contracts? New publication deriving register data from actual company practices doi-org.vu-nl.idm.oclc.org/10.1111/irj....
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Dimitris Pavlopoulos @dimipa.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
My new colleague Prof Reinoud Stoel from Statistics Netherlands. Welcome to the VU www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/corpor...
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VU-hoogleraar onderzoekt meetfouten en selectiviteit nieuwe databronnen
Het CBS heeft een aantal senior-onderzoekers en methodologen in dienst die in deeltijd ook als bijzonder hoogleraar aan een Nederlandse universiteit werken.
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