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New blog on the problem of the continued proliferation of eugenic ideology in academia, including "national IQ" data.
(Part of) the solution is to prioritise research integrity, rather than the acquiring of grants, papers & profit (which current academic structures incentivise)
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Thx for the phone calls last January in the middle of it all! 😅
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Indeed, although Switzerland isn’t blessed with Nordic register data 😬
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The questions necessary to answer my research questions are already clear, but the survey should be a resource for other researchers as well. Hence, I’m currently collecting questions, so thx for the idea! :)
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@endavour: In the spirit of ERC grants « No risk, no fun » motto…😅
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I’m very happy to announce that I won the @snsf-ch.bsky.social Starting Grant! Starting in 2025, I’ll set up an employer-employee panel for Switzerland at @sociology-uzh.bsky.social. If you’re interested in a collaboration, send me a mail!
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"The Economics Profession's Socioeconomic Diversity Problem" w/ Robert Schultz is now out in the JEP Here's the paper:
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
and the Twitter thread from Mar 2022 (aka before I was on Bsky - sorry!)
twitter.com/annastansbur...
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I could not be less surprised by this. I am a data point. I've watched so many (and I mean TOO MANY) of my women colleagues experience the same. Women networks in academia are so fragile because there's never a sense of security or permanence. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Women who perceive incident as unambiguously discrimination more likely to say they'd report it. Those who see incident as ambiguous more likely to say they'd lean in, change own behav.
One reason why subtle discrim so hard to root out?
Doering ^2 & Tilcsik sociologicalscience.com/articles-v10...
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Ich finde diese Grafik aus unserem Bericht zur Gleichstellung in Ost und West besonders eindrucksvoll, weil sie zeigt, dass in Haushalten beider Landesteile wirklich unterschiedliche Rollenmodelle gelebt werden. Das modernisierte male breadwinner model ist vor allem ein westdeutsches Phänomen.
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Congratulation!!! 🥳
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New Paper 🔔
We look at the contrasting meanings of merit that elites in the 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇰 deploy when justifying their success. Co-authored with @aaronsreeves @chellersgaard @antongrau
🧵 below…
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
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As someone who loves to cook (but often doesn‘t find the time 😔), this is super interesting!
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Motivation moderates gender differences in navigation performance.
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Hey Stata folks! Want to visually present your regression results? I made a guide. It covers key aesthetics, combining results from multiple models, working w/ logit models, & more. Oh, and I provide all the code. Comments/feedback welcome! drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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