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Pablo Bello

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Duke Sociology Grad Student | pablobellodelpon.github.io/

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No, no, this is not a lemon! Just a citrus fruit with homonymously colored rind

13.11.2025 21:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So we can’t use synonyms now? ☹️

14.10.2025 17:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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13.10.2025 15:11 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My guess is that this is similar to other professions. A combination of uncertainty and competition at the junior level and accumulation and concentration of success at the senior level.

And maybe, but some of the best paying universities are in areas where COL might have grown faster, hard to say

10.10.2025 21:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The numbers come from here:

2024-2025 oira.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

2021:2022 oira.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

10.10.2025 18:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One thing to notice is that inequality at the full professor rank (gini = 0.136) is higher than at the AP rank (gini = 0.102)

10.10.2025 18:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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The average salary of faculty by rank at R1 universities.

10.10.2025 18:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Something Strange Happens When You Trace How Connected We Are
Something Strange Happens When You Trace How Connected We Are YouTube video by Veritasium

Cool video, too bad no sociologist made it into the final cut πŸ™ƒ youtu.be/CYlon2tvywA?...

01.10.2025 17:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And they are all right

05.09.2025 18:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The third one will tell you to publish anything you can

05.09.2025 18:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Finally out from @acastroaraujo.bsky.social and @nicolasrestrepo.bsky.social

14.08.2025 17:34 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Sociology's Hiring Network

I wrote another thing, this time about hiring networks in sociology pablobellodelpon.github.io/blog/2025soc...

12.08.2025 19:46 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Another micro finding from my dive into the field of Philosophy: 20% of Princeton’s faculty are academic inbreds, way ahead of the rest

09.08.2025 19:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Philosophers will either have the most extravagant webpage imaginable or no information about them on the internet whatsoever

08.08.2025 15:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Martin & Lembo 2020

07.08.2025 19:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Quantification in Rock Climbing

I wrote this thing about algorithms in rock climbing

pablobellodelpon.github.io/blog/2025qua...

31.07.2025 00:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And publicly implying that someone’s work might be wrong is automatically understood as a personal attack

28.07.2025 01:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Nothing wrong with using the seed that yields the best crop

22.07.2025 16:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | A New Scientific Field Is Recasting Who We Are and How We Got That Way

The reference to Gattaca πŸ”₯

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...

15.07.2025 16:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Transformative experience. I wanted to screen embryos using polygenic scores but now:

15.07.2025 16:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I bet there is three of us at least haha

19.06.2025 21:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Value capturing implies that they would

19.06.2025 20:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

True, maybe academics adopt metrics as part of their values. But is anyone so brainwashed to care about impact factor even if it was a private measure with no effects on your career? I'd hope not many

19.06.2025 20:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy Value capture occurs when an agent’s values are rich and subtle β€” or developing in that direction. The agent enters a social environment that presents simplified β€” typically quantified β€” versions of t...

Great paper by C. Thi Nguyen, but I'd say it overestimates how much we know about people's motivations for action in the presence of scores and rankings.

www.jesp.org/index.php/je...

19.06.2025 20:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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My emotions

07.05.2025 18:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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My meditation app

07.05.2025 18:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

lol

03.05.2025 21:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Another interesting fact is that Granovetter saw a connection with hydrogen bonds, but did not put it in the paper because he thought he would seem "megalomaniacal". Such a good call.

garfield.library.upenn.edu/classics1986...

03.05.2025 17:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0