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Martin Hällsten

@martinhallsten.bsky.social
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Professor of Sociology at SOFI (Swedish Institute for Social Research), Stockholm University

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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Vi (LNU) söker en forskningsassistent! arbetsformedlingen.se/platsbanken/...
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Sök lediga jobb i Platsbanken
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What is known about “peer-review washing”? Cases in which editors invoke independent peer review as a mark of rigor, yet proceed with an R&R or publication despite serious weaknesses or clear red flags identified during review? How common is this, and what are people’s experiences with it?
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's a rorschach test then. Reveals the inner self.
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
They even display the data outside; a full replication package is available at the bike rack.
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Finally, the truth comes out: Manuscript Central has been fine all along. You’ve just been submitting revisions from a C64 at 1200 baud.
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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social · 08/07/2026
Interesting paper on sibling correlations by @martinhallsten.bsky.social. "Late-career Swedes": Are you going through a metamorphosis up there? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Haha! No metamorphosis, just the usual rutabaga aging process: early-career Swedes are tender, late-career Swedes are mostly root effects
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
never to work weekends again...
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Why is drinking Miller Lite like having sex in a canoe?
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Good teachers don't just raise the achievement of students they teach. They also shape the teachers of tomorrow. Standard estimates of teacher impact ignore these intergenerational spillovers. Thread on new work led by @danilok.bsky.social. Paper: osf.io/preprints/so... 1/10
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Join us in Vienna to discuss inequality, economic mobility & labor markets! With @franziskadbacher.bsky.social and @izmartinez86.bsky.social I'm stoked to announce this workshop, keynotes by @emilynix100.bsky.social and @natewilmers.bsky.social. Nov 19-20, submit by June 30: www.wu.ac.at/ineq/ws26
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Yours truly presented work with @martinhallsten.bsky.social and @martinkolk.bsky.social on elites and their historical persistence in Sweden
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Oh. Oh... I guess it was inevitable.
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Sorry, I couldn't read past "Toward"
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The Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) @sofi.su.se · 01/04/2026
Nu kan du göra egna analyser av Levnadsnivåundersökningen (LNU). Skapa diagram, följ förändringar över tid och ladda ner data direkt. Ett värdefullt verktyg och ett enkelt sätt att arbeta med en av Sveriges viktigaste datakällor om levnadsförhållanden. levnadsnivaundersokningen.se
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LNU-visualiseringar
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
👀
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Jens-Peter Thomsen @jenspeterthomsen.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Our paper on international educational Mobility in Scandinavia and the US is now open access👇👇👇
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The Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) @sofi.su.se · 03/03/2026
📢 We are hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology at SOFI, Stockholm University. Interested in research on the causes and consequences of social policy for individuals and society? Apply by 13 April 2026. More information and application: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... #postdoc #sociology
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology
The Swedish Institute for Social research (SOFI) is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Stockholm University. The institute is an internationally leading research institute in the field of socia
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Maël Lecoursonnais @lecoursonnais.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
🧵 New WP! w/ @selcanmutgan.bsky.social Most segregation research examines neighborhoods, schools, or workplaces separately. But do individuals' exposure align across domains and persist over the life course? We fill this gap using 27 years of 🇸🇪 data. Pre-print: osf.io/eunwc_v1 (1/5)
Title page of the paper.
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
"a colleague" 😎
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
A recent Swedish paper shows attenuating sibling correlations at high parental earnings, meaning more mobility at the top. But the gradient in children’s earnings by parental earnings is steep. Add the mean component and the conclusion becomes more, not less, persistence at the top.
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Splitting sibling correlations (ICCs) by parental rank quietly conditions out the mean advantage that is intergenerational reproduction. Group-specific (within) ICCs aren’t “total family influence” when you split by parental rank—they’re residual sibling similarity around group means.
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
New WP: Split Sibling Correlations Aren’t What You Think: The Hidden Mean Differences osf.io/preprints/so...
osf.io
OSF
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The commentary examines an article studying the relationship between (aggregate) immigration levels and crime in Sweden. I review the article and show that its conclusion is not supported by the results presented.
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
This is a commentary on an article desk-rejected without feedback. The concerns warrant substantive engagement by the journal. JIMI is part of Springer Nature yet it does not seem to implement their “Matters Arising” policy in practice or consistently follow COPE standards. osf.io/preprints/so...
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Selcan Mutgan @selcanmutgan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I'm happy to share that our team (@lecoursonnais.bsky.social, Maria Brandén, @martinhallsten.bsky.social and myself) has received 6.8M SEK in funding from the Swedish Research Council for our project: “Paths of Inequality: Life-Course Segregation Across Multiple Domains.”
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
@pengzell.bsky.social I accidentally misspelled your name when searching my inbox and now I can't unsee it: negzell
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Who would have thought ...
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Tell us which "different field" ...!
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I just resubmitted a paper where the EDITOR provided a long list of articles from their own journal "that might be of interest"...
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
How many times can a myth be busted and someone receive a prize for it? The US-immigrant-crime myth was busted 130 years ago www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
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University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
"Bursting Pipes" is great rock band name!
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
You asked a cow but its calf replied
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Statistics Sweden: "Prices are rising in line with inflation." (source: www.scb.se/hitta-statis...)
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Every analysis of the effects of children’s screen time needs to include, as the counterfactual, older generations’ countless hours spent watching TV test cards while waiting for something to come on
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
@weratedags.com How do you rate this one?
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Mine is: Paper I am glad I never wrote (but someone else did).
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Wait: if C is random, then what about AE? Because it is a zero-sum game, right?
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
When I submitted this paper, I couldn’t have guessed I’d soon join @europeansocreview.bsky.social as Associate Editor. Glad to see it published in print now, with great company from some other authors I’ve edited over the past year. academic.oup.com/esr/issue/41/5
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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure). You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented! #sociology More 👇 jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
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Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Some cool PhD studentships open at Stockholm Sociology: AI/future of work (quant) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Organized labor and care leave (quant/mixed) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Violence and sexual health in Mexico (quant/qual) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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IFAU @ifau.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Välkommen att söka forskningsbidrag från IFAU senast den 15 september! Läs mer: www.ifau.se/Forskning/Fo...
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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Excited to see our paper on the immigrant–native pay gap featured in @nature.com’s new policy brief pilot, please take a look!
nature.com
Pay gap between nationals and migrants mainly due to unequal access to high-paying jobs
Recognizing foreign qualifications and providing language training could improve immigrants’ access to better-paying positions.
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Still counts as a review!
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Christiaan Monden @cmonden.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Job alert! Join us at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a postdoctoral fellow to work on your own research for three years. #sociology
nuffield.ox.ac.uk
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Also, my first use of GPT-5
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Just replaced my 'gone sailing' note
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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
IN OTHER NEWS: check out our new COIN paper on immigrant--native pay gaps in advanced economies published in @nature.com this afternoon! Specifically, we study the relative contribution of within-job unequal pay vs between-job segregation to earnings disparities across immigrant generations. 1/9
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Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs - Nature
Data from nine European and North American countries reveal that the disparity in earnings between immigrants and natives is largely a result of segregation of immigrant workers into lower-paying jobs...
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Haha, ingen tillbakakaka!
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Martin Hällsten @martinhallsten.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Fixed it!
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