Lucas Sage @l-sage.bsky.social · 15/09/2026If you work with agent-based models, formal/mathematical models, behavioral or field experiments, network methods, or digital-trace data, and you're interested in mechanisms behind of all sorts of inequality please consider submitting. Deadline 14 October. Please contact me if you have questions! 010
Lucas Sage @l-sage.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I'm putting together a session for the XXI ISA World Congress of Sociology (Gwangju, Korea, 4-10 July 2027) on how micro-level behavior adds up to stable macro-level inequality. I'd love to see diverse and unconventional approaches in the room. isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc20...isaconf.confex.comSession: Mechanisms of Inequality: Models, Experiments, and Consequences (XXI ISA World Congress of Sociology (July 4 - 10, 2027)) 173
Lucas Sage @l-sage.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I tried to be constructive the best I could! What else would you have said? 110
Lucas Sage @l-sage.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Indeed! Thanks for spotting it, I did not know. I will make an edit. 000
Lucas Sage @l-sage.bsky.social · 21/08/2026A note in response to Lionel Page, “Why has sociology become so politicised?” lsage1.substack.com/p/a-note-in-...lsage1.substack.comA note in response to Lionel Page, “Why has sociology become so politicised?”From a quantitative sociologist 1217
Reposted by Lucas SageAnnual Reviews @annualreviews.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The 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 2157
Reposted by Lucas SageFabrizio Bernardi @fabriberna.bsky.social · 28/04/2026New paper out in Annual Review of Sociology with @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social #W.Foley and @l-sage.bsky.social "Luck and Predictability in the Life Course" We take stock of what we know about luck and its role in shaping life-courses and inequality www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...annualreviews.orgLuck and Predictability in the Life CourseThere is an emerging recognition among sociological theorists that luck may play a substantial role in life course achievement. There is also a nascent empirical literature that finds life outcomes to... 29638
Reposted by Lucas SageCatherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social · 01/12/2025🚨Two postdoc positions @tse-fr.eu @iast.fr 🚨 We are recruiting two postdocs as part of the ANR-funded project ENFORCE. Join me, @giuliandr.bsky.social, & @zhgarfield.com, to study punitive systems across societies. Full time, 2 years, no teaching. Deadline: Jan 23 www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...tse-fr.euDepartment of Social and Behavioral Sciences 02230
Lucas Sage @l-sage.bsky.social · 28/12/2025But doesn't he actually address the credibility revolution through Morgan/Winship + Deaton/Cartwright's work on RCT? I agree that he is not discussing the latest methodological trends but I don't think it would fundamentally change his point(s) 020
Reposted by Lucas SagePantelis P. Analytis @pantelispa.bsky.social · 01/12/2025I am hiring a postdoc for a DFF-funded project on social influence, and the decision processes that fuel rich-get-richer dynamics in the online/offline world. The position is for up to a year, competitive Danish salary, remote work possible. Interested or know somebody? DM me or share! 22024
Lucas Sage @l-sage.bsky.social · 30/10/2025I use the ristretto button! I just haven't had enough time to leave a mark yet... 020
Reposted by Lucas SageFabrizio Bernardi @fabriberna.bsky.social · 13/10/2025The UNED inequality and social demography seminar is back, with @ramina-sotoudeh.bsky.social @l-sage.bsky.social @melindacmills.bsky.social @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social @nicolettabalbo and @danieloesch If you are Madrid, come along! 👇the program for this academic year 04216
Reposted by Lucas SageNature @nature.com · 09/09/2025The academic community has looked at how artificial-intelligence tools help researchers to write papers, but not how they distort the literature scientists choose to cite, says Zhicheng Lin go.nature.com/45X3Imrgo.nature.comAI chatbots are already biasing research — we must establish guidelines for their use nowThe academic community has looked at how artificial-intelligence tools help researchers to write papers, but not how they distort the literature scientists choose to cite. 04723
Lucas Sage @l-sage.bsky.social · 15/08/2025That being said there are already some interesting AI based websites like semantic scholar or elicit. In any case I am quite confident that good alternatives would emerge rapidly. For instance openalex could develop a web search interface 110
Lucas Sage @l-sage.bsky.social · 15/08/2025I did not mean to say that some good functionalities wouldn’t be lost… 110
Lucas Sage @l-sage.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Would it be that bad after all if universities stopped using citation metrics to evaluate candidates? 120
Reposted by Lucas SageHannah Shelley, MLIS (Maggots, Lycanthropes & Ice Skeletons) @hannahshelley.site · 13/08/2025Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT preparedhannahshelley.neocities.orgGoogle Scholar Is DoomedAcademia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong? 54971411
Lucas Sage @l-sage.bsky.social · 12/08/2025D’utilité publique : youtu.be/e5kDHL-nnh4?... Toujours fascinant de voir la qualité de certaines chaînes YouTube alors que certains grands médias ne font pas du tout le boulot. Merci @monsieurphi.bsky.socialyoutu.beLuc Julia au Sénat : autopsie d'un grand N'IMPORTE QUOIYouTube video by Monsieur Phi 010
Reposted by Lucas SageSimon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 11/08/2025This is a fabulous response by my colleague Kevin Munger to "that" Economist piece about the EUI. Perhaps @spignal.bsky.social and @jhooper.bsky.social might be interested! kevinmunger.substack.com/p/i-guess-th...kevinmunger.substack.comI guess that makes me...Horace Slughorn?or maybe the centaur named "Firenze" 13314
Reposted by Lucas SageArnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 24/06/2025As some of you guessed, the two models are statistically indistinguishable. The answer is Model 1, but there was no way to tell from the data. I was very surprised when I first saw this. Here we show that this confounding of heterogeneity and reinforcement is general: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgReinforcement generates systematic differences without heterogeneity | PNASInequality in outcomes may emerge through a reinforcement process in which stochastic variation in values is determined by prior values but may als... 01111
Reposted by Lucas SageThomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social · 17/06/2025By opposing the 2% minimum wealth tax on billionaires, the French Senate has revealed just how out of touch it is with the issues of our time. www.lemonde.fr/blog/piketty...lemonde.frUltra-wealthy, the Senate beside the storyBy opposing the 2% minimum wealth tax on the 1,800 French people whose net worth exceeds €100 million, after the measure was adopted by France's Assemblée nationale (lower house of Parliament), the up... 15718
Reposted by Lucas SageArnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Did Model 1 or Model 2 generate these sequences? Why? Model 1: Pólya urn, starting with one black and one red ball. 1 (0) stands for black (red). Model 2: Empty probit model, random intercepts with mean 0, ICC = 1/2. All 100,000 sequences here: tinyurl.com/35pkyfxa 324
Reposted by Lucas SageEUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 24/04/2025⛪️ What can 16th century religious refugees teach us about how we welcome others? 📺 Watch the #MyPhDPitch by our researcher @natalia-woszczyk.bsky.social 👇 #skystorians #historysky 064
Reposted by Lucas SageCLIC @clic.bsky.social · 01/04/2025A perfectly organized RC28, brilliant presentations, and sunny Milan vibes ☀️ As always, truly stimulating and fun to be with the CLIC crew (and several CLICers are missing from the pic!) #RC28 @isa-rc28.bsky.social 0216
Lucas Sage @l-sage.bsky.social · 26/03/2025I was happy to present my work at @isa-rc28.bsky.social meeting in Milan 1130
Reposted by Lucas SageMichel Dubois @ejsmdubois.bsky.social · 24/03/2025« La liberté académique américaine en danger : un enjeu mondial », merci à @sorbonne-universite.fr pour cet entretien qui revient sur l'offensive de l'administration Trump contre la communauté scientifique www.sorbonne-universite.fr/actualites/l...sorbonne-universite.frLa liberté académique américaine en danger : un enjeu mondialEntretien avec le sociologue Michel Dubois 0106
Reposted by Lucas SageFlo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 19/03/2025On March 9th, a French researcher was denied entry in the US because of messages found his phone that were critical of the Trump administration (automatic translation) @standupforscience.bsky.social @standupforscifr.bsky.social 78460
Reposted by Lucas SageKelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · 18/03/2025There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵 932028824
Reposted by Lucas SageKit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 18/03/2025"But these are pretexts. Universities are independent centers of ideas and often prominent centers of dissent. Autocrats are allergic to sources of dissent, so they almost invariably seek to silence, weaken, or control them." www.thecrimson.com/a...thecrimson.comFirst They Came for Columbia | Opinion | The Harvard CrimsonFirst They Came for Columbia | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson 14213
Reposted by Lucas SageKit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 05/03/2025"Yesterday I wrote a piece for the Guardian about my decision to step down as an Associate Editor at the Royal Society’s journal Open Science. The response has been overwhelming." My latest substack. open.substack.com/pu... 13444136
Reposted by Lucas SageCamille Portier @camilleprtr.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Can mothers leverage the structural resources of their occupation like autonomy to balance motherhood and work, especially in the absence paid leave? My latest article in the Journal of Marriage and Family suggests so. 33616
Reposted by Lucas SageValérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · 03/03/2025"The universities control the knowledge in our society (...) We have to agressivly attack the universities (...). Fundamental lies that feminism is liberating (...) There is wisdom in what Nixon said, the professors are the enemy " bryanalexander.org/politics/the... www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FR6...youtube.comJ.D. Vance | The Universities are the Enemy | National Conservatism Conference IIYouTube video by National Conservatism 83670475
Reposted by Lucas SageMichel Dubois @ejsmdubois.bsky.social · 25/02/2025"These scientists are especially vulnerable: graduate students, postdocs and scientists who are just starting their own laboratories (...) Some are considering changing jobs, leaving the country, or abandoning research altogether." www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comPostdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on scienceAs US federal grants remain frozen and budget cuts loom, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers. 111
Lucas Sage @l-sage.bsky.social · 24/02/2025(I’m of course not asking to raise PhD fees—I’m asking to lower postdoc fees) 010
Lucas Sage @l-sage.bsky.social · 24/02/2025🚨 Serious question: Why do postdocs pay 80% more than PhD students for a conference? 🤔 @isa-rc28.bsky.social Are we really assuming their budget is 80% higher? (If so, please tell me where—I’ll apply immediately! 😅) 162
Reposted by Lucas SageGabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Jeudi, l’Assemblée nationale examine la proposition de loi, déjà votée en commission, créant un impôt minimum égal à 2 % du patrimoine pour les foyers fiscaux possédant plus de 100 millions d’€ L’adoption est à portée de main, mais il reste un dernier chausse-trape à éviter 🧵 28240
Lucas Sage @l-sage.bsky.social · 29/01/2025absolument tout est faux helloquittex.com/Comment-sont...helloquittex.comHelloQuitX - Comment sont traitées vos données personnelles ? 000