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Ramina Sotoudeh

@ramina-sotoudeh.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at Yale interested in health, culture, sociogenomics.

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Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Instead of needing a village to raise a child, PGT-P’s commercial logic suggests it takes only sufficient capital and the right consumer decisions to conceive a child who will not need the solidarity of the village to be healthy." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Embryo screening and the new reproductive divide - Nature Human Behaviour
Nature Human Behaviour - Embryo screening and the new reproductive divide
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Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · 04/08/2026
We'll shortly be advertising *four* of our doctoral projects for 2027 entry 🎉📢 (stay tuned 👀)! If you have other projects in applied health and social data science that you'd like me to point people towards, let me know! Happy to help amplify, or even form a small colloquium of resharing 🤝❤️💬.
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Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
In “Influence of Societal Changes on the Contribution of Genetics to Fertility Behavior,” @agnesfauske.bsky.social examines the heritability of age at 1st birth & no. of children across Norwegian generations from 1950s onward, finding diffs. by gender & outcome. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
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Ewa Batyra @ewabatyra.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Job alert! 📣 I’m recruiting a 3-year postdoc for my ERC Stg project DIVREP, which examines within-country variation in reproductive behaviour and its determinants across the globe. 🗓️ Deadline: 16 September 2026 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/events/postd... Please share and apply!
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Demography
Closing Date: 12.00pm Wednesday 16th September 2026
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Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) @fimm-uh.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Job opportunity! 📢 The Faculty of Science and FIMM @helsinki.fi are recruiting a Research Fellow / University Researcher in AI for Population Health and Genomics for a fixed-term appointment of maximum 4 years. Apply by July 31: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... @andganna.bsky.social
Promotional graphic for a Research Fellow (University Researcher) position in AI for population health and genomics at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), HiLIFE Unit, University of Helsinki. The left side features the FIMM and University of Helsinki logos alongside a large blue, chromosome-like 3D illustration. On the right, bold black text announces the position title, followed by the subtitle "In AI for Population Health and Genomics." At the bottom, bold text states: "Apply by 31 July."
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Said Hassan @saidhassan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
New paper out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social on teacher sorting and the impact of teacher qualifications on student achievement. Read more here:
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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The winner of the #ecsr thesis prize 2025: @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social!!! Gaia graduated from the @eui-sps.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social #ecsr2026
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Moritz Oberndorfer @moberndorfer.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
New paper finally published! Using data on 78 million births from 15 countries, we found that babies conceived during the COVID-19 pandemic have a different parental socioeconomic composition than expected had the pandemic not occurred. doi.org/10.1038/s414... @natcomms.nature.com @helsinki.fi
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Parental socioeconomic composition of birth cohorts changed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic offers opportunities to study effects of in-utero and early life exposure to environmental changes. However, inferences from such studies may be flawed if the pandemic has changed the socioeconomic composition of parents. Analysing over 77.9 million live births from 15 countries, we estimate changes in the socioeconomic composition of the cohort born between December 2020 and December 2021 using interrupted time series analysis. We find that, compared with their counterfactual compositions, the December 2020-December 2021 birth cohort has a higher proportion of babies born to socioeconomically advantaged parents in Austria, England, Finland, the Netherlands, Scotland, Spain, Wales, and the United States while we observe the opposite change for Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico. These changes in cohort composition may cause between-cohort differences in life course outcomes that are influenced by parental socioeconomic circumstances even if early life exposure to the pandemic had no direct effect on this birth cohort.Figure 4 in the article. Figure caption:
The black dots are percentage-point differences derived from the estimated mean counterfactual number of live births using interrupted time series Poisson regressions on the number of live births. 95% confidence intervals presented as horizontal lines around the point estimates are estimated using a three-step approach (see method section). Estimates are based on 596,276 live births for Austria; 19,995,228 for Brazil; 4,329,577 for Colombia; 413,903 for Denmark; 1,965,574 for Ecuador; 4,391,999 for England; 330,063 for Finland; 12,876,945 for Mexico; 1,167,024 for the Netherlands; 343,379 for Scotland; 134,874 for South Australia; 2,229,935 for Spain; 758,034 for Sweden; 22,306,054 for the United States; 216,797 for Wales. For Spain, only births with maternal age over 25 are included (see methods and suppl. material). Quintiles of equivalised household income and area deprivation are abbreviated by the letter Q. Q5 (highest income, lowest deprivation) denotes the fifth quintile, Q4 the fourth quintile, and so forth. For countries, where only parental educational attainment was available, “Post-Second./ Tert.” denotes post-secondary or tertiary educational attainment, “Upper Second.” denotes upper secondary educational attainment, “Lower Second.” denotes lower secondary educational attainment, and “Prim.” denotes primary educational attainment.
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Patrick Turley @paturley.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Very excited about this preprint that we just posted. It introduces the Genomic-Relatedness Matched Association (GRMA) study. It’s an extension to family-based GWAS that uses extended relatives beyond only siblings in diverse-ancestry data with very little bias. (Link below.)
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Konrad @konradjk.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
🧬 New preprint! We present an All by All analysis in All of Us: common and rare variant association testing across 392,030 whole genomes and 3,602 phenotypes. 1.337 trillion tests, ~50k significant signals, all publicly browseable. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Systematic common and rare variant association testing in 392,030 whole genomes in All of Us
Large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and rare variant association studies (RVAS) from population biobanks provide valuable resources for gene discovery in complex human traits. We presen...
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Michel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
PLEASE SHARE: Serious request for a future scientific collaboration. Do I know any historians/sociologists who works with, or love working with historic ego documents. Diaries, letters, notes, etc. Especially those that describe real, or wished for, romantic partners/interests? email me, DM me!
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Nuffield College, Oxford @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Last month, Ian Jewitt, Senior Research Fellow, and Andy Thompson, Professorial Fellow, brought together a group of economists from Oxford and beyond, with several members of the Global Commission of Modern Slavery, for a one-day workshop in Nuffield College. #NuffieldCollege
A group of economists including Theresa May, Ian Jewitt, and Andrew Thompson at Nuffield College
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Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · 11/05/2026
Two weeks left until our Call for Papers closes for the 7th International Conference on Social Computing (ICSC'26). Please do submit your papers! Optional conference proceedings, great keynote speakers, nice conference dinner @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social, and more. Details: icsc-conf.github.io!
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Ramina Sotoudeh @ramina-sotoudeh.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
🚨New in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... Genetic principal components (PCs) are commonly used to adjust for population stratification in genetic studies. In this paper, we quantify how much direct genetic signal is lost when using these “catch-all” adjustments. 🧵
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Quantifying direct genetic signal captured by principal component adjustment | PNAS
Contemporary genomic studies of complex traits, such as genome-wide association studies and polygenic index (PGI) analyses, frequently include the ...
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Shay O’Brien @shayobrien.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
My latest article is online now at American Sociological Review: “Kinship Interlocks.” It’s about how some elite families manage to stay rich and powerful for many generations while others don’t. 🧵 (1/16)
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Kinship Interlocks: How the Intimate Exchange of Wealth, Status, and Power Generates Upper-Class Persistence - Shay O’Brien, 2026
How do some families manage to entrench themselves in the upper class for many generations while others do not? Bringing together economic sociology, political ...
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Fabrizio Bernardi @fabriberna.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Which must-read book+3 articles would recommend to a first year Sociology PhD student? Which book+3 articles impacted you most, during your own PhD? I have made these questions to a group of colleagues. Here the combined list: www.fabriziobernardi.net/a-sociology-... 1/2🧵
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A Sociology PhD Starter Reading List » fabrizio bernardi
I created a kind of academic game and ask some colleagues in social stratification and social demography four short questions: I received answers from 15 colleagues: 6 women and 9 ... Read more
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Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · 05/04/2026
Delighted to be helping chair ICSC '26 🤖. Hosted: @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social 🏰 When: Sept ’26 🕰️ Details: CfP live 🎉 Optional proceedings, all welcome. More: icsc-conf.github.io. Please consider sharing your work📜! Kindly help us spread the word, and follow @i-c-s-c.bsky.social for updates📣!
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Behavior Genetics Association @behaviorgenetic.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
💼 Three postdoc positions: Genomics and life paths (Uppsala, Amsterdam and Oslo) bga.org/content.aspx...
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Three postdoc positions: Genomics and life paths (Uppsala, Amsterdam, Oslo) - Behavior Genetics Association
Genomics and life paths is a three-node consortium between Uppsala University, Amsterdam UMC, and University of Oslo funded by the Swedish Research Council. In this project, we will conduct several st...
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
"This study investigates variability in women’s experiences balancing work and family, focusing on the association between early childhood investments and work trajectories." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Sociology at Oxford @sociologyoxford.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
🌡️ New research published in @pnas.org finds that high temperatures may influence the sex ratio at birth. Analysing 5+ million births, researchers show that exposure to temps above 20°C during pregnancy is linked to fewer boys being born 📊👶 🔗 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/new-...
Quote from Jasmin Abdel Ghany: "Extreme heat is not only a major public health threat. Temperature fundamentally shapes human reproduction by influencing who is born and who is not born.

Our findings show that temperature has measurable consequences for foetal survival and family planning behaviour, with implications for population composition and gender balance.

Understanding these processes is essential for anticipating how the environment affects societies in a warming climate."
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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
We have a cool post-doc opportunity in #HNL to study human social chemosignaling and olfaction: jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/676477/p... Please re-post.
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Postdoctoral Associate in Biosocial Science (Human Chemosignaling) - Human Nature Lab of Nicholas Christakis at Yale University job with Yale Institute for Network Science | 676477
Postdoctoral researcher position available in human olfaction and social behavior for outstanding candidate
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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
A 2500 year old letter from a soldier named Hananyahu, deciphered through super-modern multispectral imaging, begins with “If there is any wine, send” journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #grunts #invinoveritas #dogsofwar #pluscachange
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Ramina Sotoudeh @ramina-sotoudeh.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Our paper with Ginevra Floridi out in Sociological Science now! We use sequence analysis, LCA & survival models to map how parental financial and co-residential support unfolds across young adulthood. We find 3 distinct pathways & a gendered relationship between marriage and independence. 🏡🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒💸
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Pathways to Independence: The Dynamics of Parental Support in the Transition to Adulthood
Article: Pathways to Independence: The Dynamics of Parental Support in the Transition to Adulthood | Sociological Science | Posted November 25, 2025
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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Job! A vacancy at the @eui-eu.bsky.social for a postdoc joining the @learnineq.bsky.social project, for 13 months, starting mid January. We study inequalities in school careers, and we engage with policy makers. The vacancy is here, please forward. DEADLINE 24 NOVEMBER. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
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Hakhamanesh Mostafavi @hakha.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Very excited for our paper in @nature.com on what genes association studies discover and why. It was a privilege to work closely with @jeffspence.github.io, @jkpritch.bsky.social, and our collaborators.
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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
We're hiring 2 Assistant Professors of Sociology: Gender and Sexuality and Environmental Sociology. At @tcdsociology.bsky.social, we aspire to be a method-agnostic group of solution-oriented sociologists. Join our welcoming community at @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social. Deadline 1 Dec. Link in the comment.
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Christiaan Monden @cmonden.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I'm biased, but this looks like a brilliant job opportunity to me. Join us at the Department of Sociology & Nuffield College. www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
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Associate Professorship in Sociology - Nuffield College Oxford University
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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
A new and very accurate technique called mind captioning’ generates descriptive sentences of what a person is seeing or picturing in their mind using a read-out of their brain activity and AI tools. This could also be used to reveal what animals are thinking. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Mind captioning: Evolving descriptive text of mental content from human brain activity
Nonverbal thoughts can be translated into verbal descriptions by aligning semantic representations between text and the brain.
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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
🇫🇷 We are hiring 🇫🇷 Assistant or Associate Professor Position in Computational Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social @ipparis.bsky.social Details here (please RT) www.shorturl.at/E57le
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Fabrizio Bernardi @fabriberna.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
The 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
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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Please RT 2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD! Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all! We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
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Molly Fee @molly-fee.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
So happy to share that my book, Believing in Light After Darkness: Displacement and Refugee Resettlement, will be out in March with @ucpress.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/books/believ...
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Believing in Light after Darkness by Molly Fee - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Ramina Sotoudeh @ramina-sotoudeh.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
So happy to be spending the fall in Florence/Fiesole. Thank you for having me, @eui-eu.bsky.social 😊
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Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
📢 Interested in excess mortality methods, and want a challenge? I'm organising the "One Epidemic, Many Estimates" (1EME) project! Register *now* as a many analyst team (submissions due 15 March 2026), and then join us at LSE for a workshop on 21-22 May 2026! (1/n) www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...
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One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)
One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)
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Ewa Batyra @ewabatyra.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
I am looking for a postdoc to join my ERC StG project DIVREP to work on global, quantitative analyses of fertility and reproductive behaviour. The post is based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Let me know if you have any questions. More details below👇
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Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · 02/07/2025
The first #metrics-and-models talk was fantastic🤗! Next: @ramina-sotoudeh.bsky.social on "Antenatal Selection: A novel approach for assessing the genetic and ecological drivers of who survives to birth". Details: metrics-and-models.github.io Sign up: metrics_and_models-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk
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Ramina Sotoudeh @ramina-sotoudeh.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Excited to be speaking at a very cool seminar series — Metrics & Models seminar organized by the brilliant Charlie and others at Oxford 🥳
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Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · 10/06/2025
🔥Coming July 2: 'Metrics and Models'!🔥 A new seminar series on advanced modelling w/ impact across health/society. 🌍 Open to *ALL*! 🕑 Weds 2pm UK alternating weeks (online) 🔗 metrics-and-models.github.io 📬 metrics_and_models-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk Brilliant speakers. *Please share*!
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Juan Galeano @juangaleano.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🚀 Call for Papers! 🚀 I’m coordinating the sessions on AI, Big Data, and Demographic Challenges at the next Conference of the Association of Historical Demography of Spain! 🌍📊 📢 Got research to share? Submit your 300-word abstract by April 25 here: 🔗 adeh.org/untitled-pag... See you in Málaga! ☀️
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Amir Goldberg @amirgo.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
New paper from the computational culture lab, forthcoming @amjsoc.bsky.social! Building on (largely untested) sociological intuitions, we show how positions in the organizational network relate to identification with the organization, using a language model: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
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Nicole Kapelle @nicolekapelle.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
🚨I'm advertising for a PhD position (4 yrs) in quant. Sociology/Social Demography (life course, social ineq.) @tcdsociology.bsky.social! 📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025 📄 More info: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va... 🔄 Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity #TrinityCollegeDublin
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Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · 04/03/2025
📢🎉🤖 Published today in natcomputsci.bsky.social /w @jiani-y.bsky.social📢🎉🤖: A new framework for (ir)reducible errors. We argue that it's impossible to know how 'predictable' things are (until we've collected every epsilon of information). ReadCube: rdcu.be/eb9IL arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2411.19223
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The socio-organisational embeddedness of work-life mobility www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Paper forthcoming in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility by Associate Member @perblock.bsky.social and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow Jan O. Jonsson #NuffSky
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The socio-organisational embeddedness of work-life mobility
There has recently been renewed interest in occupational mobility over the life-course. We argue that such studies should place greater emphasis on or…
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Juan Galeano @juangaleano.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
A sneak peek of the Global Living Arrangements Database (GLAD) I'm working on these days. At the rate at which the US is deteriorating, maybe this is the last data we see from this country. #demography #rstats #data #population #US
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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
📢 Join us this Thursday 27 February to learn about mode effects in the UK cohort studies and discover methods for handling them. Sign up now for this free webinar: buff.ly/41A9Cbe
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
There are only three weeks left to apply for International Fellowships 2025. The scheme allows early career researchers from outside of the UK to collaborate on a research project alongside a UK partner. Learn more and apply now: buff.ly/42Dbd0o
White banner with an image of a person working on notes. The words 'International Fellowships 2025' are written on the right-hand side.
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations
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Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · 24/02/2025
📝Registration for events at the Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship still open to all (March 3rd-13th, 2025)!📝 Great speakers like @briannosek.bsky.social & many others👀; looking forward to chairing a @pkp.sfu.ca / @elife.bsky.social session, too! Registration/Schedule: ⬇️ openaccess.ox.ac.uk/oxfos25
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Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · 24/02/2025
In an age when so much modern scientific conversation surrounds 'Artificial General Intelligence', lets not forget that René Descartes -- in De homine (1662) -- claimed that non-human animals could be explained reductively as automata.
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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Extraordinary. We are stardust. The asteroid Bennu contain all 5 of the nucleobases that form DNA and RNA on Earth and 14 of the 20 amino acids found in living organisms (though Bennu contains equal amounts of these structures and their right-handed counterparts). www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu - Nature Astronomy
Rocks and dust from the asteroid Bennu contain some of the molecular building blocks of life on Earth, such as amino acids and nucleobases. They also carry ammonia that formed billions of years ago in...
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