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Kristian Bernt Karlson

@kbkarlson.bsky.social
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Professor of Sociology | Social Science DGS | Education and Social Mobility | ERC Grantee | The K in KHB | Winner of Boudon + Goodman Awards | I Like Quantitative Methods and Great Sociology

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J Dierkes @dierkes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We're hiring at School of Social Sciences at Univ of Mannheim Full Professorship (W-3) in Social Data Science and Social Science Methodology Apply by Oct 22 2026 www.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/en/about/job... @methodsnet.bsky.social
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Sam Friedman @samfriedman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
New! We know elites work hard to be seen as ordinary.But do people believe them?We use experiments to explore what happens when performances of ordinariness are undermined (and why this matters for income inequality) Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Blog: blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Fascinating study of video data on class differences in parenting styles about food and mealtimes. Class differences in parenting styles are fairly weak and the boundaries blurry. #socsky: a good addition to syllabus if you teach Lareau or Bourdieu, or more generally about social class "cultures."
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Social Class Differences in Parenting? Revisiting Classed Childrearing through a Video-Ethnography of Mealtime
Article: Social Class Differences in Parenting? Revisiting Classed Childrearing through a Video-Ethnography of Mealtime | Sociological Science | Posted August 25, 2026
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tenuretracker.info @tenuretracker.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
University of Notre Dame is hiring: Assistant Professor, Sociology of Education (tenure-track) #assistantprofessor #sociosky #sociologyofeducation
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tenuretracker.info @tenuretracker.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
University of Notre Dame is hiring: Open-Rank Position in Sociology #professor #sociosky
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Annual Reviews @annualreviews.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The 2026 volume of the Annual Review of Sociology is now online. The most read article is "Luck and Predictability in the Life Course" by @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social @fabriberna.bsky.social, William Foley, and @scottdoney.bsky.social Read it here arevie.ws/4wyNIBJ
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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Do educational opportunities skip generations? Cousins end up with similar schooling — but not because grandparents matter directly. Why? Bc their parents are siblings, and similar parents raise similar children. New paper in RSSM. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/so... @erc.europa.eu #sociology
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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
#ecsr2026 #sociology @trinitycollege.bsky.social 🥳
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SASE | The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics @sasemeeting.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
📢 Career Opportunity Associate Professorship in Economic Sociology and Market Governance at Copenhagen Business School. ⏰ Apply by 1 September 2026 🔗 sase.org/career-oppor... #SASE #AcademicJobs
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Associate Professorship in Economic Sociology and Market Governance at Copenhagen Business School | Opportunities for SASE Members
Application Deadline: 1 September 2026
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Journal of Family Research @familyresearch.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
#Published: “The historical demography of the multigenerational family: Evidence from crowdsourced genealogies” by Jan Skopek, Thomas Leopold & Oliver Posegga (doi.org/10.20377/jfr...). #JFR #JFamRes #openaccess #openscience #sociology #demiography
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The historical demography of the multigenerational family: Evidence from crowdsourced genealogies: | Journal of Family Research
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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Reinforces something we write in our paper factory work From now on, a publishable contribution must do something that an LLM with standard data and methods can’t osf.io/preprints/so...
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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
just verified that i'm human
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12 Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...
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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Does the KHB Method work in any Generalized Linear Model? 💡 Find out at #ecsr2026 @tcddublin.bsky.social this June! We show how it works, why it works, and we derive an exact decomposition that reveals what "rescaling effects" in the khb method actually consist of! #sociology @erc.europa.eu
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I’m so very excited that this journal is now accepting manuscripts!!
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Pablo Gracia @pablogracia.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
APPLY & SHARE 📢 EOI for PhD in Sociology & Demography at @cedemografia.bsky.social @uab.cat in Barcelona Topics: Families, Inequalities, Life Course, Well-Being Supervisors: @maikevd.bsky.social & me Deadline: 12 May, 2026 Call👇 8d87235d-b140-4b6e-949c-c9606376b3fa.usrfiles.com/ugd/8d8723_a...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Quantitative research in education is scandalously bad
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Hunter York @hunterwyork.com · 15/04/2026
Life update(!): I'm joining Bocconi's Social & Political Sciences Dept. in Milan as an AP of Sociology in the fall. Excited to connect with others in Europe on work/org studies and social strat. I have several working papers ready if anyone needs a seminar speaker. sps.unibocconi.eu
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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
ML for maximum likelihood 🤫
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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Happy to announce that Claude Code can now write my papers for me and I can focus on my core competence: spending hours fiddling with latex until tables fit on a page
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 07/03/2026
I ran a simple model with new public data then used 1 prompt to make ChatGPT guess what the model would produce. With 10 seconds of "thinking," it was very close. The implications of this are catastrophic. The American Sociological Association should do something about this but it doesn't care to /1
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Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
It’s not just that there is no requirement, but ASA prohibits any requirement. This is why I am no longer an ASA member and won’t serve on ASA journal editorial boards.
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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
What kind of a pathetic grievance of a journal has Theory & Society become? "In defense of value-free analysis against a woke-like order of knowledge" has to be the dumbest title in the history of all articles ever written.
A screenshot of what has to be one of the dumbest titles in the history of sociology, "In defense of value-free analysis against woke-like order of knowledge"
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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Do conjoint/factorial/vignette experiments reflect choices in the real world? Are hypothetical scenarios in the artificial survey context externally valid? Do hypothetical bias, intention-behavior gap and social desirability biases undermine validity? Two cautionary studies on this question:
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Birthe Larsen @birthelarsen.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Tidligere vismand Lars Gårn Hansen: “Det er et meget intensivt landbrug. Meget effektivt. Der er stordrift. Men det har store miljømæssige konsekvenser. Landbruget er en af de sektorer, der er mest forureningsintensivt.”
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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Sometimes I feel like academic work is a poor fit for the moment. While the university is under threat, engagement with the public is not incentivized. Along with some friends, we started Society Workshop as a way to bring more social science to the public. www.societyworkshop.org
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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
🤯 My 2012 paper in Sociological Methodology with Breen & Holm on the KHB-method is the most cited article in that journal in 2025 according to @asanews.bsky.social A paper from my PhD thesis. 13 years later. Didn't see that coming. #sociology www.asanet.org/top-cited-ar...
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Top Cited Articles | American Sociological Association
The following table shows the top 5 most cited articles that were published in 2025, across all ASA journals.
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Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics @umichstonecid.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
In this new article out now @sociologicalsci.bsky.social, revisit the college-as-equalizer debate with heckman-style selection models & find little evidence in favor of #college being an equalizer. From our own postdoc @zhenghaowen.bsky.social, @professorholm.bsky.social & @kbkarlson.bsky.social.
Stone CID announces a new article titled “Is College Really ‘the’ Equalizer? New Evidence Addressing Unobserved Selection,” featured in the March 3 issue of Sociological Science. Includes authors’ names and publication details, with a portrait framed in yellow.
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INVEST Research Flagship Centre @invest-flagship.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Do political attitudes skip generations? Professor Kristian Bernt Karlson kicked off the seminar series of our Socioeconomic and Intergenerational Inequalities research theme with his talk “Do Political Attitudes Skip Generations?” — sparking a lively discussion. Tak @kbkarlson.bsky.social !
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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
We often treat education as the primary engine of social mobility, but conventional models may be overestimating its impact. Not correcting for selection into schooling will artificially inflate any indirect effect through schooling... 1/3 #socialmobility #sociology
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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Is College Really “the” Equalizer? New Evidence Addressing Unobserved Selection Haowen Zheng, Robert Andersen, Anders Holm, Kristian Bernt Karlson Sociological Science March 3, 2026 10.15195/v13.a10 Influential research shows that college graduates achieve similar labor marke #sociology link
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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
New paper out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social! We revisit the college-as-equalizer debate with heckman-style selection models and find little evidence in favor of college being an equalizer! @zhenghaowen.bsky.social @professorholm.bsky.social #sociology sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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Is College Really “the” Equalizer? New Evidence Addressing Unobserved Selection
Article: Is College Really “the” Equalizer? New Evidence Addressing Unobserved Selection | Sociological Science | Posted March 3, 2026
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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This paper shows that the interaction between social origin (parental income eg) and education predicting destination (child’s income) is no longer negative once one holds constant for unobservables (using IV methods using local presence of colleges a.o.). >
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Philosophy #FAQ 
Ontology: what the fuck?
Causality: why the fuck?
Epistemology: how the why the fuck?
Phenomenology: the fuck.
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Marc Keuschnigg @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
📚 Special issue in Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie on Explanation and Causality in Sociology. Essential reading on where causal inference in sociology is heading link.springer.com/collections/...
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Special Issue: Explanation and Causality in Sociology
How to explain social phenomena? How to conceptualize causality and draw valid causal inferences? How to incorporate history and culture into explanations? ...
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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 24/02/2026
NEW: Oxford researchers have found that higher temperatures can shift the sex ratio at birth. Temperatures above 20°C are consistently linked to fewer boys being born across multiple regions - with implications for population health and gender balance. Read more from @sociologyoxford.bsky.social ⬇️
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New research shows high temperatures affect sex ratios at birth |
'Temperature and sex ratios at birth', a new study led by researchers at the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford and published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Looking forward to presenting work on the multigenerational transmission of political attitudes next week at @invest-flagship.bsky.social With the outstanding @stephandoc.bsky.social! Based on survey covering 100,000 cousins and their parents! invest.utu.fi/events/krist... #sociology
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Kristian Karlson: Do Political Attitudes Skip Generations? Testing a Formal Model of Intergenerational Attitude Transmission - INVEST Research Flagship Centre
Kristian Karlson, University of Copenhagen Do Political Attitudes Skip Generations? Testing a Formal Model of Intergenerational Attitude Transmission Invest Seminar...
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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social · 17/02/2026
Interesting paper by @natrinh.bsky.social, @dariatisch.bsky.social, & @schechtlm.bsky.social on how the Germans assess division of intergenerational transfers among siblings academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
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Average marginal effects, representative and wealthy sample. Notes: Each color represents one hypothesis. Based on N = 5,600 evaluations in the representative sample and N = 6,368 evaluations in the wealthy sample. Ninety-five percent confidence intervals shown.
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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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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
University of Manchester is hiring a Lecturer in Sociology (qualitative/theoretical) in the of political sociology of class and culture. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL973/l...
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Lecturer in Sociology at The University of Manchester
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in Sociology at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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University of Manchester Sociology Department @uomsociology.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
VACANCY (2 of 2...) Lecturer in Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social with research expertise in the field(s) of racial inequalities, anti-racism and theoretical debates in ‘race’. Please share - thanks! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Lecturer in Sociology:Oxford Road
The Department of Sociology is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Sociology (Teaching & Research) with qualitative or theoretical research expertise in the fields of political sociology of class and economy or cultural interpretations of class.
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University of Manchester Sociology Department @uomsociology.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
VACANCY (1 of 2...) Lecturer in Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social with a qualitative or theoretical research expertise in the fields of political sociology of class and economy or cultural interpretations of class. Please share - thanks! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Lecturer in Sociology:Oxford Road
The Department of Sociology is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Sociology (Teaching & Research) with qualitative or theoretical research expertise in the fields of political sociology of class and economy or cultural interpretations of class.
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International Sociological Association (ISA) @isa-sociology.org · 10/02/2026
#JobOpening ℹ️ Professorship in Sociology at the University of Zurich 📍 Department of Sociology, University of Zurich, Switzerland 🗓️ Applications open until February 26, 2026 🔗 www.phil.uzh.ch/de/fakultaet...
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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Check out this awesome preprint by @martinhallsten.bsky.social on the difficulties in interpreting sibling correlations by observed parental characteristics such as parental income - with an excellent application! #sociology #EconTwitter #socialmobility osf.io/preprints/so...
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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Machines Do See Color: Using LLMs to Classify Overt and Covert Racism in Text Sociological Methods & Research, Ahead of Print. Extant work has identified two discursive forms of racism: overt and covert. While both forms have received attention in scholarly work, research on cove #sociology link
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Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #sociology
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We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025
Four hundred and nineteen experienced qualitative researchers from 32 countries invite readers of Qualitative Inquiry to consider their position on use of gener...
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