Andrei
@andrei-wonge.bsky.social
PhD student, Flâneur, Photographer and robust skeptisist. All about inequality, culture and territorio/space/place/networks. Tweeting in English, Español and Français
Can artists change neighborhoods? 🎨🏘 Presented joint work with @ninaglaeser.bsky.social at #INAS2026! Using German administrative data and an IV approach, we show that artists don't gentrify neighborhoods themselves but they attract early high-status in-movers. Stay tuned for the preprint! :)
Glad to have contributed to this piece on the decline of Labour under Starmer. We have plenty of evidence on why Starmer's strategy failed. Yet, social democrats still remain convinced that they can only win elections when they moderate and when they appeal to workers with social conservatism.
Zack Beauchamp@zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · last mo.Keir Starmer is the fail case for moderation as a political strategy www.vox.com/politics/492...
Honored to have received the Third Prize for Best PhD Thesis at #ECSR2026 🏆✨ thanks to the @iabnews.bsky.social for the support 🙏
IAB@iabnews.bsky.social · last mo.🏆Unsere Forscherin Dr. Kerstin Ostermann erhält den Preis des „European Consortium for Sociological Research“ für die drittbeste Abschlussarbeit in der empirischen #Soziologie. Herzlichen Glückwunsch zu dieser tollen Leistung und der verdienten Auszeichnung kostermann.bsky.social! (1)
New preprint out with @mfphilipp.bsky.social & @eileenpeters.bsky.social ✨️ From #neighborhood exposure to #genderbeliefs? We find that local female employment patterns are linked to beliefs about when mothers should return to full-time work. Read more here: osf.io/preprints/so...
Painting by Kate Jarvik Birch ‘Summer Rain’ 2025. Gouache on paper. Dimensions 6 x 6 Inches.
These guys from the NYC subway have turned down Freedom 250.
Leo P & Lucky Chops Subway Saxophone Performance
ALT: Leo P & Lucky Chops Subway Saxophone Performance
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A real privilege to be co-hosting André Sorensen for a talk and panel discussion tomorrow in #Tokyo —exploring path-dependency, timing, contingency, and emergence in the context of #Tokyo's urbanisation. If you happen to be around, please do join us. All welcome! #urbanhistory #theoriesofchange
This year’s El Niño could be absolutely brutal. And the worrying part is that it won’t just be a relatively local phenomenon, its effects are likely to be felt across the globe, from extreme weather to disruptions in ecosystems and agriculture. 1877 was extreme. 2026 may redefine the scale.
This Tuesday, Hannes announced Quack, our new protocol that turns DuckDB into a client-server database. Watch his talk, recorded at the AI Council, where he explained how Quack works in practice, what stack it's built on, how it performs, and what our long-term ambitions are. youtu.be/L_lttD-d1wc
DuckDB-Quack announcement at AI Council
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"Times of crisis offer the biggest opportunities to rethink, to do things differently." Watch our Director, Anuradha Joshi, introduce our new strategy, Knowledge and solidarity for a just world ⬇️ https://youtu.pulse.ly/xbrkqmziws
Anuradhu Joshi on the IDS Strategy 2026-35
"Times of crisis offer the biggest opportunities to rethink, to do things differently."We've just launched our new strategy, Knowledge and solidarity for a j...
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Schools are continuing to make cuts in staff because of squeezed budgets. In particular, teaching assistants are being cut - with big impacts for SEND support. Our latest @suttontrust.bsky.social polling.
Quarto 2 is coming, and it’s a total rewrite in Rust. 🦀 The headline feature? Native collaborative editing. Don't choose between Google Docs ease and Git rigor! You get real-time, conflict-free collab directly in your .qmd files. #RStats #Python Coming soon! ✨ opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04...
What's next: Quarto 2
We've started working on [`quarto-dev/q2`](https://github.com/quarto-dev/q2/), a full rewrite of Quarto in Rust.
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How does Posit Assistant compare to Claude Code for data analysis in #RStats? We put them side-by-side to show how the experience differs on three dimensions: 💻 R session access 📊 Plotting 🔍 Iterative EDA Watch the full comparison here! youtu.be/7GI6-4J0AXA
Comparing Posit Assistant and Claude Code
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The latest Glimpse newsletter is packed with open source #RStats and #Python updates from Posit! Quarto 1.9, introducing Great Docs, orbital 0.5.0, devtools uses pak, and more. Read it here: posit.co/blog/glimpse...
posit::glimpse() Newsletter – April 2026 - Posit
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arXiv📈🤖 fixest: A fast and feature-rich framework for econometric estimations in R By Berg\'e, Butts, McDermott
And another Quarto announcement; I've alluded to it before, but we're making it "official". We've started work on Quarto 2. The blog post has an overview: quarto.org/docs/blog/po... We'll share more in future blog posts, but here's what you can expect from the Quarto 2 dev effort: (1/)
What’s next: Quarto 2 – Quarto
We’ve started working on quarto-dev/q2, a full rewrite of Quarto in Rust.
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India's Muslim and Scheduled Caste neighborhoods face systematically worse access to schools, clinics, and basic infrastructure. Asher et al. use new administrative data to document the extent of neighborhood segregation, currently invisible in the aggregate data policymakers use. bit.ly/4saLvJH
Lecturing on discrimination this week and this study will be one discussion point: ideas.repec.org/p/feb/natura... Big data show that minority drivers are 24–33% more likely to be cited and paid 23–34% higher fines, not explained by differences in offense rates, accident risk, or re-offense rates.
High-frequency location data shows that race affects the lik
Prior research finds that, conditional on an encounter, minority civilians are more likely to be punished by police than white civilians. An open question is whether the actual encounter is related to
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Metapackage that brings together a collection of R packages providing access to APIs functions and curated datasets from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. While also offering extensive curated collections of open datasets #r #latinamerica #datascience #surveys #API
CRAN Package Updates Bot@cranberriesfeed.bsky.social · 10mo agoNew CRAN package Latamverse with initial version 0.1.0 #rstats https://cran.r-project.org/package=Latamverse
The 𝙇𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙣 𝙎𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙧 𝙎𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 at NU London begins with Maria Giulia Preti (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). Her talk explores how MRI and connectome harmonics reveal brain structure–function links. Join us in #London (please register) or online #AOE—we’d love to see you! tinyurl.com/4nt43jaa
For the #spatial folks among you: we exploited random distances between residential locations and large firms within German local labor markets to identify the causal effect of #dropout due to attractive alternatives 🚙💸⬆️
European Sociological Review@europeansocreview.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew #OA at ESR 🌟 What is the income penalty of dropping out of #VET in Germany? With an IV strategy, @kostermann.bsky.social, @patzinaalex.bsky.social & @katymorris.bsky.social show that the causal effect is substantial and especially pronounced for lower SES individuals doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
