Lucas Sage
@l-sage.bsky.social
Sociologist interested in economic inequality, social networks, analytical sociology. Research fellow @iast.fr. Checkout my website: https://lsage.github.io
The 2026 volume of the Annual Review of Sociology is now online. The most read article is "Luck and Predictability in the Life Course" by @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social @fabriberna.bsky.social, William Foley, and @scottdoney.bsky.social Read it here arevie.ws/4wyNIBJ
Happy to see this piece out!
Fabrizio Bernardi@fabriberna.bsky.social · 3mo agoNew paper out in Annual Review of Sociology with @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social #W.Foley and @l-sage.bsky.social "Luck and Predictability in the Life Course" We take stock of what we know about luck and its role in shaping life-courses and inequality www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
New paper out in Annual Review of Sociology with @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social #W.Foley and @l-sage.bsky.social "Luck and Predictability in the Life Course" We take stock of what we know about luck and its role in shaping life-courses and inequality www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Luck and Predictability in the Life Course
There is an emerging recognition among sociological theorists that luck may play a substantial role in life course achievement. There is also a nascent empirical literature that finds life outcomes to...
annualreviews.org
🚨Two postdoc positions @tse-fr.eu @iast.fr 🚨 We are recruiting two postdocs as part of the ANR-funded project ENFORCE. Join me, @giuliandr.bsky.social, & @zhgarfield.com, to study punitive systems across societies. Full time, 2 years, no teaching. Deadline: Jan 23 www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
tse-fr.eu
I am hiring a postdoc for a DFF-funded project on social influence, and the decision processes that fuel rich-get-richer dynamics in the online/offline world. The position is for up to a year, competitive Danish salary, remote work possible. Interested or know somebody? DM me or share!
The UNED inequality and social demography seminar is back, with @ramina-sotoudeh.bsky.social @l-sage.bsky.social @melindacmills.bsky.social @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social @nicolettabalbo and @danieloesch If you are Madrid, come along! 👇the program for this academic year
The academic community has looked at how artificial-intelligence tools help researchers to write papers, but not how they distort the literature scientists choose to cite, says Zhicheng Lin go.nature.com/45X3Imr
AI chatbots are already biasing research — we must establish guidelines for their use now
The academic community has looked at how artificial-intelligence tools help researchers to write papers, but not how they distort the literature scientists choose to cite.
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Would it be that bad after all if universities stopped using citation metrics to evaluate candidates?
Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome)@hannahshelley.site · 12mo agoSince search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
Google Scholar Is Doomed
Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?
hannahshelley.neocities.org
D’utilité publique : youtu.be/e5kDHL-nnh4?... Toujours fascinant de voir la qualité de certaines chaînes YouTube alors que certains grands médias ne font pas du tout le boulot. Merci @monsieurphi.bsky.social
Luc Julia au Sénat : autopsie d'un grand N'IMPORTE QUOI
YouTube video by Monsieur Phi
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This is a fabulous response by my colleague Kevin Munger to "that" Economist piece about the EUI. Perhaps @spignal.bsky.social and @jhooper.bsky.social might be interested! kevinmunger.substack.com/p/i-guess-th...
I guess that makes me...Horace Slughorn?
or maybe the centaur named "Firenze"
kevinmunger.substack.com
Terrible.
CNRS Écologie & Environnement@cnrsecologie.bsky.social · last yr.@cnrsecologie.bsky.social regrette profondément l'adoption de cette loi à la vision court-termiste & ses conséquences graves sur l’environnement, qui méprise santé & bien-être de la population & le rôle des espèces sauvages dans la prod. agricole. La communauté scientifique n'a pas été entendue.
As some of you guessed, the two models are statistically indistinguishable. The answer is Model 1, but there was no way to tell from the data. I was very surprised when I first saw this. Here we show that this confounding of heterogeneity and reinforcement is general: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reinforcement generates systematic differences without heterogeneity | PNAS
Inequality in outcomes may emerge through a reinforcement process in which stochastic variation in values is determined by prior values but may als...
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Arnout van de Rijt@arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · last yr.Did Model 1 or Model 2 generate these sequences? Why? Model 1: Pólya urn, starting with one black and one red ball. 1 (0) stands for black (red). Model 2: Empty probit model, random intercepts with mean 0, ICC = 1/2. All 100,000 sequences here: tinyurl.com/35pkyfxa
By opposing the 2% minimum wealth tax on billionaires, the French Senate has revealed just how out of touch it is with the issues of our time. www.lemonde.fr/blog/piketty...
Ultra-wealthy, the Senate beside the story
By opposing the 2% minimum wealth tax on the 1,800 French people whose net worth exceeds €100 million, after the measure was adopted by France's Assemblée nationale (lower house of Parliament), the up...
lemonde.fr
Did Model 1 or Model 2 generate these sequences? Why? Model 1: Pólya urn, starting with one black and one red ball. 1 (0) stands for black (red). Model 2: Empty probit model, random intercepts with mean 0, ICC = 1/2. All 100,000 sequences here: tinyurl.com/35pkyfxa
⛪️ What can 16th century religious refugees teach us about how we welcome others? 📺 Watch the #MyPhDPitch by our researcher @natalia-woszczyk.bsky.social 👇 #skystorians #historysky
European University Institute@eui-eu.bsky.social · last yr.⛪️ What can 16th century religious refugees teach us about how we welcome others? At the @eui-history.bsky.social Department, @natalia-woszczyk.bsky.social explores how emotions shaped refugee experiences — and the politics of compassion — in the Reformation era. #MyPhDPitch 📱 Stay tuned for more!
A perfectly organized RC28, brilliant presentations, and sunny Milan vibes ☀️ As always, truly stimulating and fun to be with the CLIC crew (and several CLICers are missing from the pic!) #RC28 @isa-rc28.bsky.social
« La liberté académique américaine en danger : un enjeu mondial », merci à @sorbonne-universite.fr pour cet entretien qui revient sur l'offensive de l'administration Trump contre la communauté scientifique www.sorbonne-universite.fr/actualites/l...
La liberté académique américaine en danger : un enjeu mondial
Entretien avec le sociologue Michel Dubois
sorbonne-universite.fr
On March 9th, a French researcher was denied entry in the US because of messages found his phone that were critical of the Trump administration (automatic translation) @standupforscience.bsky.social @standupforscifr.bsky.social
Michel Dubois@ejsmdubois.bsky.social · last yr.« Le ministre de la recherche a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. » www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵
"But these are pretexts. Universities are independent centers of ideas and often prominent centers of dissent. Autocrats are allergic to sources of dissent, so they almost invariably seek to silence, weaken, or control them." www.thecrimson.com/a...
First They Came for Columbia | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
First They Came for Columbia | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
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"Yesterday I wrote a piece for the Guardian about my decision to step down as an Associate Editor at the Royal Society’s journal Open Science. The response has been overwhelming." My latest substack. open.substack.com/pu...
Can mothers leverage the structural resources of their occupation like autonomy to balance motherhood and work, especially in the absence paid leave? My latest article in the Journal of Marriage and Family suggests so.
"The universities control the knowledge in our society (...) We have to agressivly attack the universities (...). Fundamental lies that feminism is liberating (...) There is wisdom in what Nixon said, the professors are the enemy " bryanalexander.org/politics/the... www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FR6...
J.D. Vance | The Universities are the Enemy | National Conservatism Conference II
YouTube video by National Conservatism
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"These scientists are especially vulnerable: graduate students, postdocs and scientists who are just starting their own laboratories (...) Some are considering changing jobs, leaving the country, or abandoning research altogether." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science
As US federal grants remain frozen and budget cuts loom, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers.
nature.com
🚨 Serious question: Why do postdocs pay 80% more than PhD students for a conference? 🤔 @isa-rc28.bsky.social Are we really assuming their budget is 80% higher? (If so, please tell me where—I’ll apply immediately! 😅)
Jeudi, l’Assemblée nationale examine la proposition de loi, déjà votée en commission, créant un impôt minimum égal à 2 % du patrimoine pour les foyers fiscaux possédant plus de 100 millions d’€ L’adoption est à portée de main, mais il reste un dernier chausse-trape à éviter 🧵
