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Sociology sometimes, but being boring all of the time.

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Congratulations! I remember when I stepped onto Stanford's campus a few years ago and was blown away by its beauty.

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Sarah Brayne's avatar Sarah Brayne @sarahbrayne.bsky.social
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This summer, I'm excited to be returning to the West Coast and starting a new position as Associate Professor of Sociology at Stanford! I am so grateful for my time at UT Austin and will miss my colleagues and students there tremendously.

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IMO that means the audience gets to learn a new word! Unless you've scared them off by then.

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH's avatar Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.bsky.social
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Please share: The UC, Riverside School of Public Policy is hiring this Fall up to 2 Asst. Professors who can conduct research & teaching on the politics of the policy process. Ad below. I'm the Search Chair and happy to answer questions (please email, no DMs). Policysky polisky sociology πŸ›ŸπŸ“ˆlawsky

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people want to believe that you can just swap out biden no harm no foul, but there is nothing about this system as constituted that allows that. but rather than grapple with this, the response is basically to scream β€œnuh uh”

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Hm, you might want to let him know that his webpage is getting flagged by Norton Safeweb.

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Congratulations!!!! (It was never really in doubt, but it's still good to have it in hand)

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo's avatar Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social
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CPC is hiring! We're looking for a Training Manager for our T32 programs. This would be a great position for someone w/ advanced doc studies or a PhD in a pop-science related field who wants to be academia-adjacent. To learn more/apply, visit unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/283...

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Matthew Salganik's avatar Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social
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Our new paper explains why some life outcomes are hard to predict. We combined machine learning, a mathematical decomposition, and in-depth qualitative interviews to understand the origins of unpredictability: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Fabian Pfeffer's avatar Fabian Pfeffer @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social
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Introducing ISI, the new Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research:

www.lmu.de/isi

(for a German news announcement: www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/lmu...)

We will support & push forward the study of socioeconomic inequality (esp. wealth inequality) across disciplines & countries. /1

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Kieran Healy's avatar Kieran Healy @kjhealy.bsky.social
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New version of chatbot reaches level of function where it responds to all queries by making a little twisty-wrist gesture with pinched fingers and saying β€œBut isn’t it more *complicated* than that?”

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Now that I'm looking at a trail map, I am realizing that I may have mixed up the Badger State Trail with the Military Ridge Trail. Apparently, the Badger State Trail was unpaved when I lived there, and it is paved now! But that still might have been it, I rode my bike around that area a lot.

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I know that bike path! I rode on there all the time in the summer.

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Jeremy Levine's avatar Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social
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And--speaking from several experiences--the line between "wow, what a cool finding I wanted to hear but also didn't expect" and "We already know this and it also can't possibly be true given what we already know" is very, very fine.

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I would be curious to know what accreditation bodies have to say about all this. That's pretty much the only formal brake on having students do 90 credits instead of 120 if all of the state-level bodies sign off on it. If so, we could be seeing destandardization of what a bachelor's degree means.

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Nathan Hoffmann's avatar Nathan Hoffmann @nathanihoff.bsky.social
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I'm honored that my paper on double robust methods has received the ASA Methods Clifford Clogg Award for Best Graduate Student Paper!

I deeply appreciate the committee's recognition, and I couldn't have done this without the support of Chad Hazlett, @jenniebrand.bsky.social, and Onyi Arah.

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The summary version of my thoughts is that, no, it won't be a calamity but it's really not ideal either.

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These sorts of things are palatable in Canada because school is so much cheaper and because there's a robust 2-year college system that allows you to experiment with courses. Students can do entire second bachelor's programs because they are cheaper here.

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The other thing that I think this changes is that you don't exactly get to switch your major if it isn't working for you. This is more or less what happens in Canada, where you declare you are often admitted into a major program directly rather than the university (or otherwise you declare early).

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It probably will not be a calamity. But since the British students have already taken A-levels, which includes another year of school, I would say that a 3-year program in the US would be suboptimal without students taking courses before entering.

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Of course, if you had to pick the British model or the US model, I think you would pick the US model.

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The British equivalent of the bachelor's degree is three years. Although they also typically have an extra year of what we call "high school" level courses.

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I mostly don't even try to publish something that I haven't stress tested six different ways for this reason. It's easier when they agree!

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But there's an active literature about which *type* of clustered standard errors to use in fixed effects models. The economists have their own solutions, I just bootstrap them.

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Yeah, that to me is a big "it doesn't matter." The big advantage of clustered standard errors is that you can run them in a fixed effects framework easily, while getting random effects in a fixed effects model is kind of a headache.

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Danya Lagos's avatar Danya Lagos @danyalagos.bsky.social
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Pleased and grateful to have received two honorable mentions this year from the ASA section on the Sociology of Population and the ASA section on Race, Gender, Class, for my AJS paper on the Transgender Tipping Point!

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

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𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐒𝐜𝐒𝐚π₯! This fall, I’ll be joining Trinity College Dublin as an Assistant Professor, focusing on quantitative sociology of inequality & life course. Excited for this new chapter & immensely grateful to my friends & colleagues for their unwavering support! πŸš€πŸŽ‰πŸ₯°

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Your six year old has already surpassed my greatest artistic achievements.

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