It's easy to see these men as individual bad apples. But I'd argue--they were enabled by "elite" universities' look-the-other-way approach to dealing with big-name bad actors, and by the fact that, societially, we treat people associated with "elite" schools as automatically deserving of deference.
Desde @uchass.ugr.es buscamos candidat@s para 2 contratos de 2 años de duración para graduados en Comunicación, Biblioteconomía, Traducción e Interpretación o similares
¡Please difundid! El plazo es del 2 al 20 de febrero aquí ➡️ investigacion.ugr.es/recursos-hum...
New paper alert! 🤩 if you have also wondered "how multilingual is scholarly communication?", check out our work where we try to find an answer by mapping the global distribution of languages in publications and citations.
Gros merci @caropradier.bsky.social and @lariviev.bsky.social 💚
#AcademicSky
¡Nueva publicación! Esta vez de parte de uno de nuestros investigadores noveles. Sergio Castro-Cortacero y Nicolas Robinson-Garcia publican para la revista Revista Infonomy como utilizar la herramienta #Quanteda para realizar análisis de textos.
DOI: doi.org/10.3145/info...
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🚨 New paper out in PLOS ONE! w/ @caropradier.bsky.social @benzpierre.bsky.social @natsush.bsky.social @ipoga.bsky.social @lariviev.bsky.social
We studied 43k authors and 264k citation links in U.S. economics to ask:
👉 Why do some papers cite others?
🔗 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Our periodic review of the coverage of the major bibliographic databases (October 2025)
GS no longer the largest due to the huge increase of OpenAlex. New data for Xueshu
One of the things I like very much about this work, besides the messy and yet powerful figure in the beginning, is that all replication materials for this work and other related [3] are open to the public [4].
[3] ced.cat/projectes/in...
[4] dataverse.csuc.cat/dataset.xhtm...
In this work [2], we measure inequality configurations in Spain and argue that isolated policies such as cash transfers, employability aids, etc, will do little to counter structural ineq. configurations, particularly among the younger generations and immigrants.
[2] doi.org/10.6018/area...
This lack of recognition - which potentially stems from the hegemonic use of research frameworks that focus on marginal effects of variables on outcomes [1] - limits our capacity to understand the scope of social inequalities and tackle them from a policy perspective.
[1] doi.org/10.1177/0759...
Multiple Correspondence Analysis of socioeconomic variables among adult population in Spain in 2018. The figure shows the confluence of advantages and disadvantages as a structural feature of social stratification.
A structural feature of social stratification in contemporary societies is the confluence of advantages and disadvantages. It seems an obvious fact, and yet it is not fully recognized. The highly educated have greater income, privileged access to housing, prestigious occupations.... (1/5)
The Graduate Group in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania is now accepting applications for its PhD program in Demography. We look forward to recruiting a strong and diverse cohort for Fall 2026!
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A Swedish summer and a conference! Our colleagues enjoyed the IC2S2 in Norrköping, and also seized the opportunity to catch up with former colleagues and guests of the MPIDR: @afcastr0t.bsky.social, Carolina Coimbra Vieira, Xinyi Zhao, @akbaritabar.bsky.social, Egor Kotov, Ole Hexel & Johannes Mast.
👋 A huge welcome to @ewabatyra.bsky.social, who has just joined us as Associate Professor in Social Demography!
Ewa's research lies at the intersection of demography, sociology, international development and social policy 🌏
www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/people/ewa-b...
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It all comes from concerns and ideas regarding the geometric interpretation of linear models.
doi.org/10.1177/0759...
This hegemony is more apparent in some fields, as indicated by OpenAlex, and even more so in Global South countries. We have previously noted these patterns using Web of Science Data.
doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
This is the % of articles reporting linear models among articles reporting statistical methods according to first author's country of affiliation.
We found that linear modeling frameworks (LMF) are used hegemonnically in the Social Sciences, meaning that LMF are numerically dominant and unequally distributed to the potential detriment of alternative frameworks.
Research questions and their asnwers depend a lot on the methods we have at hand. As the saying goes: "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
I am delighted to see this paper by myself and @akbaritabar published.
"The hegemonic use of linear models in quantitative social sciences." I will present it on Tuesday at #IC2S2 in a session on Theory and Methodology.
doi.org/10.1177/0759...
🌈 New Publication !!!
I'm excited to share our latest article, “A Marriage Premium for Whom? Sexual Identity, Relationship Status and Earnings”, co-authored with Diederik Boertien:
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/jomf...
You can find some of the main results in the thread.
🏅BSC researcher @afcastr0t.bsky.social, winner of the ‘Best lightning talk, oral presentation, and poster’ prize in the #ICSSI2025
📊 Castro presented ‘A global and Cross-Disciplinary Description of the use of #AI in scientific research - 1995 to 2023’
🙌 Congratulations, Andrés!
