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Nhat An Trinh @natrinh.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Excited to share a new #OA study with @dariatisch.bsky.social and @schechtlm.bsky.social🎉We show that while most people prefer equal inheritance, wealthy individuals are more willing to support unequal transfers when they help preserve wealth across generations ➡️ academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Reminder that all three books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use (and the fourth will be, too)

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The Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) @sofi.su.se · 25/04/2025

Amanda Almstedt Valldor is right this minute defending her dissertation in Lecture Hall 3 at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social. Wishing her the best of luck! #DissertationDefense #PhD #SOFI #Sociology

Photo of Amanda outside the lecture hall.

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The Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) @sofi.su.se · 13/03/2025

This spring, several PhD candidates at SOFI will defend their dissertations. - @edvinsyk.bsky.social – April 4 - Amanda Almstedt Valldor – April 25 - Xiaojie Xu – May 2 - Madeleine Eriksson Kirsch – May 28 - Tünde Lénárd – May 30 - @allisongeerts.bsky.social – June 12 Best of luck to all candidates!

Collage of portrait photos. - Edvin Syk, Amanda Almstedt Valldor, Xiaojie Xu, Madeleine Eriksson Kirsch, Tünde Lénárd, Allison Geerts

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The Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) @sofi.su.se · 18/02/2025

Congratulations @roujman.bsky.social, PhD in Sociology, who has been appointed Associate Professor at SOFI! Roujman Shahbazian began his doctoral studies here in 2013 and has been an active researcher at the institute ever since.

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Jens Rydgren @jensrydgren.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Field of study, political attitudes, and support for the radical right in Sweden and Europe Very interesting paper by Amanda Valldor, sociologist at SOFI at Stockholm Uni www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Field of study, political attitudes, and support for the radical right in Sweden and Europe

This study uses three different surveys to investigate the links between various educational fields, radical right support, and political opinions. Lo…

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Sanni Kuikka @sunnyx9.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Do we understand the social processes we think we do, particularly for the vulnerable groups? Paper out now: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #computationalsocialscience #machinelearning #sociology #lifecourse

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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

Occupational Earning Potential: A new measure of social hierarchy applied to Europe share.osf.io/preprint/E024F-FE9-A87 Social stratification is interested in unequal life chances and assumes the existence of a hierarchy of more or less advantageous occupations. Yet occupations a #sociology

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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

If you're around Barcelona next week, come by the methods section on Saturday at the ECSR meeting and learn more about this really cool (shameless self promo) new measure of R-squared in multilevel models 👇

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Jani Erola @janierola.net · 29/08/2024

Submitting almost two hours before grant DL… what’s wrong with me, not taking it to the max?? All the hunger, momentum & ambition gone?

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Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

🪧 social scientists! Who would like to visit Centre LIVES @unil.bsky.social or #UNIGE in 2025? 🇨🇭📈🏔️ Travel and accommodation grants of up to CHF 3,000 are available for research stays of at least 2 months ➡️ see 🔗 for details and apply by 15th November 2024 www.centre-lives.ch/en/appel/liv...

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LIVES Visitor grants 2025 | LIVES Center

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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social · 25/08/2024

Here are a few lists of sociologists in no particular order. Slant towards German and quantitative sociologists. #socsky go.bsky.app/Kr3Rj1D go.bsky.app/EAwwzdk go.bsky.app/EAwwzdk go.bsky.app/Ugw67cP go.bsky.app/9WAVGNd go.bsky.app/4aZkRmJ go.bsky.app/81Hby5t

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alex hayes @alexpghayes.com · 09/06/2024

i'm on the lookout for ethnographies or general sociological work studying statistics as a field and how it relates to other academic disciplines. pointers appreciated! #statistics

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

Has someone checked in on the "death of class" debate lately? Is the death of class dead?

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Dirk Witteveen @dirkwitteveen.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

Social stratification: Is the probability of intergenerational occupational inheritance - i.e., *micro-occ. to micro-occ.* - the same along parental occupational ranking/hierarchy? I assume not, or "it's complicated", but any reference in this direction would be appreciated!

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Roujman Shahbazian @roujman.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

🤔 How should we view class/occupational maturity? a) Does it happen after a certain age? b) Or is it an ongoing stabilization process; not a fixed state? These questions are explored in a new study w. Bihagen & Kjellsson. Read 🧵 or the article 👇 scholar.google.com/citations?vi...

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 05/01/2024

Yihui Xie, who authored or co-authored many widely used R packages including rmarkdown, shiny, knitr, and bookdown, has been laid off by Rstudio/Posit. (His blog post describes the separation as amicable.) He's looking for work, someone is going to be very lucky to get him yihui.org/en/2024/01/b...

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Bye, RStudio/Posit! - Yihui Xie | 谢益辉

Who is down? Me. After more than 10 years at RStudio/Posit, the time has come for me to explore other opportunities. A little over two weeks ago, I was told that I was laid off and my last day would &...

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 26/12/2023

Updating my syllabus again! Please suggest some good readings on 1) value change/postmaterialism and 2) the supposed decline of social capital

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Erik Bengtsson @bengtssonz.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Really happy that my article with Jakob Molinder, “Incomes and income inequality in Stockholm, 1870–1970: Evidence from micro data” has been published in Explorations in Economic History! Using a new sample of about 38,000, we provide new evidence and perspectives on the importance of jobs..

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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Help needed: Are there any studies that have examined what one unit on the ISEI scale amounts to in terms of income? #sociology

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Lars E.F. Johannessen @larsjohannessen.bsky.social · 15/08/2023

“ALL THEORY WORTH READING ARISES FROM REFLECTION ABOUT DATA. Write this phrase on your computer. Paste it on the bathroom mirror. Mention it softly while making love. ‘All theory worth reading arises from reflection about data.’” – Andy Abbott ❤️ #sociology #sts #philsci #philsky #theorizing

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Lars E.F. Johannessen @larsjohannessen.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

There wasn't a sociology feed so I went ahead and made it 😊 Subscribe here: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jzuirp2oah… To add your posts to the feed, simply tag them with #sociology For an FAQ on feeds, see: blueskyweb.xyz/blog/7-27-2023-custo…

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 26/07/2023

Here it is! The ultimate practical guide to Bayesian & frequentist conjoint data analysis w/ #rstats and {brms} and {marginaleffects}, including how to distinguish between marginal effects & means + work with subgroups! www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2023/07/25…

A plot of posterior average marginal component effects (AMCEs)

AMCEs and marginal means and differences in marginal means

Two posterior distributions of causal estimates and the probabilities that they're less than zero

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 25/07/2023

I made a feed for statistics on BlueSky. Just add #stats to your post for it to appear on the feed! bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4wwhwq5yy6…

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