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Xavier St-Denis

@xavierst-denis.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) in Montréal. Sociologist and demographer researching social inequality and mobility, education, careers, families, social policy, administrative data, and other obsessions...

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Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
I've found one of the hardest thinking habits to cultivate is the distinction between "everything is ideological" and "everything is bullshit"
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Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Starting a thread about the books I’ve read in 2025, focusing on novels Feel free to comment with recommendations on what to read next! #books #booksky
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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Here's how I understand eugenics, as a demographer who studies reproduction: Eugenics is the idea that science can tell us two things: (1) which population(s) are best and (2) how to manipulate birth, migration, and death to achieve a desirable population.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 05/08/2025
Unions reduce sexism.
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Peter Ellis @freerangestats.info · 31/07/2025
Just over a week left for applications for this role. Would suit an earlyish career demographer or demography-adjacent statistician who wants to live and work in the Pacific!
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Démographie et sciences de la population UdeM @demo-udem.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
🏅 Bravo à Béatrice Morselli pour sa mention d'honneur lors du Colloque Excellence en Relève @ciqss-qicss.bsky.social ! Sa présentation portait sur son mémoire « Residential Proximity of Canadian Siblings in Adulthood », dirigé par les professeur.e.s Solène Lardoux et @xavierst-denis.bsky.social
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Nadia Steiber 〽️ @nadiasteiber.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
⭐🎓The Department of Sociology in Vienna @univie.ac.at‬ invites applications for a Tenure Track Professor in Sociology with focus on Quantitative Social Science Research Methods | #Sociology | quant methods Apply here (17 Sept 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...
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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Some people have wondered why the hell a political scientist (me) is writing a book about the sociodemographic data collected on things like death certificates, census forms, and health surveys. THIS IS WHY.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 28/06/2025
We’re lighting the I-35W bridge green tonight and tomorrow in honor of Melissa Hortman, who found joy and peace in trees and gardens 🌳
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Johanna Rickne @johannarickne.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Which occupations carry the highest risk of sexual harassment—and who is doing the harassing? Our new study finds two distinct patterns depending on whether harassment comes from inside or outside the workplace. CEPR WP: cepr.org/publications... Ungated: drive.google.com/file/d/1jPOV... 🧵 1/
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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
LLM adoption boosts the quantity of scientific papers that researchers write by 25.7-89.3%, with the strongest quantity effects for East Asian scholars and in the social sciences. But the papers are worse. Another quantity-quality tradeoff! yianyin.net/index.html
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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
NEW ARTICLE: CREST Sociology's @scoavoux.bsky.social, @eollion.bsky.social, and @ppraeg.bsky.social's Machine Bias in Sociological Methods & Research, on why we can't use LLMs to generate meaningful survey data Link: doi.org/10.1177/0049... Preprint at @socarxiv.bsky.social: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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Xavier St-Denis @xavierst-denis.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
New paper out at @sociologicalsci.bsky.social! Using an audit study design, we show that in non-tech occupations, job hoppers receive fewer callbacks than those with résumés showing stable careers. For tech occupations, we find the opposite pattern: job hopping increases the probability of callback!
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The biggest project I've worked on for the last chunk of years was just published. It asks, how big are US Black-white lifespan differences? This might seem like a narrow question. I hope to convince you by the end that there are answers you didn't anticipate. And I hope some of them will move you.
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Three Ways of Looking at Black–White Mortality Differences in the United States | Annual Reviews
Everyone agrees that US Black deaths happen earlier than white deaths on average, but it is surprisingly challenging to find the best ways to summarize, quantify, and compare this gap. This review arg...
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 28/04/2025
"A new dataset, visualized as maps, reveals the extent to which African workers are indirectly employed in the tech sector, doing content moderation, customer service, and data annotation for AI models, among other jobs." restofworld.org/2025/big-tec...
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Xavier St-Denis @xavierst-denis.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This paper is studying economic inequality in the very long term (thousands of years) "using Gini coefficients calculated on total house area including storage." Really interesting analysis of inequality using archeological data!
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Some cool German/Swiss postdoc opportunities for a quantitative sociologist or similar in this thread:
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Ariane Ophir @arianeophir.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🚨 Come research singlehood with me! I’m hiring a 3-year Postdoc w/interest in Family Demography to start this Fall. Please share! 📍 Barcelona (@cedemografia.bsky.social) 🔎 ERC-funded project 'SINGLE' 📅 Deadline – April 24, 2025 🔗 More info: shorturl.at/400eo #Postdoc #Demography
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Elaine Hernandez @emhernandez.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Pregnancy is a particularly sensitive period, & exposure to wildfire smoke may lead to smaller than average babies. Smoke isn’t the only concern, stress alone can alter physiological processes during pregnancy. www.latimes.com/lifestyle/st...
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Should pregnant people evacuate L.A. to escape the smoke?
Los Angeles' smoke levels pose unique risks to pregnant people and their fetuses. Here's what expectant parents should do to stay safe.
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Throughout American history, immigrants have consistently had similar or lower incarceration rates than US-born citizens, say researchers at Stanford, Princeton, Northwestern, and UC Davis. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...
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The immigration–crime link
Nearly two centuries of data show that immigrants commit fewer crimes than US-born citizens.
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Xavier St-Denis @xavierst-denis.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
In a new paper just published in Demographic Research, we demonstrate how administrative data (Canadian tax data) open possibilities for studying partnership histories, income, and family dynamics of people across sexual minority status. Read here! www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
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Jennifer Hook @jenlhook.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I made a Starter Pack! But I got tired after 70 names. Intended to be inclusive of the #work-family adjacent and interdisciplinary Reply if you'd like to be added and please RT @wfrn.bsky.social @cwfjournal.bsky.social go.bsky.app/63Jq944 #Sociology #Demography #hdfs #PoliSky #academicsky
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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
This is a good time to share my starter pack filled with researchers in the areas of Stratification, Education, and Labor Market. Mostly sociology, a little on the economics side because that's who I know. Feel free to share; any omissions are accidents. go.bsky.app/PeigPc9
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