➕➕➕ New Working Paper ➕➕➕ Fixed effects are the workhorse of management and economics for dealing with unobserved confounding. But what if they themselves create bias? 😲 A short thread 🧵 1/6
Do you have some exciting research ideas? Apply for a three-year postdoc position in sociology at Nuffield College starting September 2027. Apply by 21/9. www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Sociology (two posts) - Nuffield College Oxford University
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📄 New paper in PNAS! Using data from ~40,000 Norwegian trios, we extend evocative gene–environment correlation to family demography. Accounting for parental PGIs, most traits showed no associations, but children's ADHD PGI predicted parental separation. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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This paper fills me with joy and hope. After a muted response to the ethical challenges facing the field (e.g., embryo selection), juniors are the ones stepping up. Thank you to the PhD candidates who wrote this commentary calling this out and offering solutions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Early-career-researcher-led best practices for social science and behavioural genetics - Nature Human Behaviour
An emerging market promotes embryo selection for behavioural traits including IQ, but the response of the social and behavioural genetic research community remains muted. We call for unified best prac...
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🚨New in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... Genetic principal components (PCs) are commonly used to adjust for population stratification in genetic studies. In this paper, we quantify how much direct genetic signal is lost when using these “catch-all” adjustments. 🧵
Quantifying direct genetic signal captured by principal component adjustment | PNAS
Contemporary genomic studies of complex traits, such as genome-wide association studies and polygenic index (PGI) analyses, frequently include the ...
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Today's pushes bring in some speed efficiencies to our new model uncertainty library which make it approximately **14** times faster! Check it out now at robustipy.github.io; accompanying paper getting published very soon, super jazzed 🎷
Do a postdoc in Social Science Genetics at @uio.no! You will be part of a postdoc team in Uppsala and Amsterdam funded by @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social Please share! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mental Health Research (297591) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mental Health Research (297591), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, May 4, 2026
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Does anxiety improve economic decision-making? doi.org/10.48550/arX... @arxiv.bsky.social preprint by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow Ian Crawford and Carl-Emil Pless
Does Anxiety Improve Economic Decision-Making?
We study the associations between everyday economic decision-making quality and people's emotional states. Using high-frequency, highly disaggregated consumer "scanner" data, we show that the cost of ...
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New paper out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social! We revisit the college-as-equalizer debate with heckman-style selection models and find little evidence in favor of college being an equalizer! @zhenghaowen.bsky.social @professorholm.bsky.social #sociology sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
Is College Really “the” Equalizer? New Evidence Addressing Unobserved Selection
Article: Is College Really “the” Equalizer? New Evidence Addressing Unobserved Selection | Sociological Science | Posted March 3, 2026
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🚨New data release: BCS70 Activity Histories Looking at employment histories of the 1970 cohort, this dataset is available to access via @ukdataservice.bsky.social [SN 6943]. The latest edition includes data on work and non-work activities from the Age 51 Sweep. Read the user guide 👉 buff.ly/aGg0OxR
If you are interested in all things ✨causal inference✨, please join our multidisciplinary Causal Inference Interest Group (CIIG). We host monthly seminars featuring speakers with various academic backgrounds and research interests. Links below. cc @clscohorts.bsky.social @pwgtennant.bsky.social
Less than a month before my debut book "What We Inherit" gets released! You can place pre-orders now: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... Lucky to have gotten to collaborate (and argue) with Sam Trejo for the last 5+ years on this.
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Debating the use of genomic tools and their societal impact
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Back at work, back to my bi-monthly habit of trying to remember and understand how LDscore regression works. Thank god for the international statistical genetics workshop for sharing their slides eg. ibg.colorado.edu/cdrom2023/fa... and videos www.youtube.com/@isg-worksho...
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“Who Partners With Whom in Diverse Societies?”: @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social & @frankvantubergen.bsky.social use NL register data & find “Muslim groups maintain boundaries for union formation to other national origin groups." @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social @rug.nl read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
New paper in the American Journal of Sociology (with Michael Grätz), and a very good way to close an important chapter! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Does Expanding Free Secondary Education Moderate the Relationship Between Genes and Socioeconomic Outcomes? Evidence from the Education Act of 1944 in England | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, N...
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Looking forward to the 18th INAS conference! Next year's edition will take place at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social. Check out Ozan's post below for more details.
Ozan Aksoy@aksoyundan.bsky.social · 8mo ago📢 Analytical sociology is coming home! Call 4 INAS26 is open 🌍 1-3Jul26 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social and @sociologyoxford.bsky.social (☔) ☢️ Deadline: 1Feb26 🦹 Organisers: @aksoyundan.bsky.social , @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social, D Kretschmer, @awaldendorf.bsky.social Info: tinyurl.com/yc2tusjx
Honored and excited to be giving a talk at New Uzbekistan University! As someone born and raised in Tashkent, this opportunity feels especially meaningful-returning home to share my research with the academic community that shaped my early years is truly special. www.linkedin.com/posts/newuu-...
Research Seminar: How Chronotypes Affect Health and Society | Economics Department, New Uzbekistan University posted on the topic | LinkedIn
Students, faculty and experts are invited 17 December 2 pm Research Seminar of Econ Dept Living Against the Clock: How Chronotypes, Sleep, and Society Interact What happens when our work or relatio...
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Our paper with Ginevra Floridi out in Sociological Science now! We use sequence analysis, LCA & survival models to map how parental financial and co-residential support unfolds across young adulthood. We find 3 distinct pathways & a gendered relationship between marriage and independence. 🏡🧑🧑🧒🧒💸
Pathways to Independence: The Dynamics of Parental Support in the Transition to Adulthood
Article: Pathways to Independence: The Dynamics of Parental Support in the Transition to Adulthood | Sociological Science | Posted November 25, 2025
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Arnout van de Rijt@arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 9mo ago"Using data from the PSID’s Transition to Adulthood Study (2005–2021), we identify trajectories of financial and co-residential support between ages 18 and 28 and relate them to economic and partnership trajectories and events." This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
I heard it's organised by some really dedicated people, who got a location overlooking zürich with a lovely terrace... should be nice in may
RC28 Social Stratification@isa-rc28.bsky.social · 9mo agoECSR Thematic Conference “Mechanisms of Social Mobility” at the University of Zurich 11-12 May 2026 Deadline for Submissions: 18 January 2026 social.mobility@soziologie.uzh.ch www.suz.uzh.ch/socialmobility
📖👨💻🎓 New Courses Alert 🎓👨💻📖 The Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science is launching three upcoming short courses designed for researchers across health, economics, and the social sciences. Led by experts in the field — including @crahal.com — these courses are now open for registration.👇
There’s a new kid in town! Companies are now selling IVF and embryo selection based on genetic testing for traits related to health and even intelligence. We outline methodological and ethical concerns, and warn against risks for social inequality. With the fantastic @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social
Embryo selection based on polygenic prediction risks reinforcing social inequality
The rise of companies offering embryo selection based on genetic testing has triggered heated debate about ethical acceptability, as well as the accuracy and scientific validity of these techniques. W...
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I’ll be leading a new project uniting biomedical and social sciences to learn why neurodevelopmental conditions are rising and how to better support people. We’re hiring soon! @astridsandsor.bsky.social Hedvig Nordeng Krister Fjermestad Alexandra Havdahl Nicolai Borgen www.uio.no/english/rese...
Eight new convergence environments will address major societal challenges in life sciences - UiO:Life Science
The application process initiated a year ago has concluded, eight interdisciplinary research projects have been selected to address major societal challenges in the life sciences at the University of ...
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Interdisciplinary paper with @paulhufe.net Astrid Sandsør and Nicolai Borgen now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.... Causal evidence of gene-environment interaction for reading test scores based on: 🧬 Exogenous within-family genetic differences 🏫 Exogenous variation in school value added
The genetic lottery goes to school: Better schools compensate for the effects of students’ genetic differences
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We're holding brief/extremely informal 15 minute meetings with anyone who is interested in either of these positions, scheduled for 19.11.2025 and 17.11.2025, respectively. Email or DM for more information! Please do share details within your network; I think these projects are pretty cool!
Charlie Rahal@crahal.com · 12mo ago🚨It's that exciting time of year!🚨 Our team has got TWO open DPhil (PhD) positions in #datascience + #health here at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social for 2026🎉! See for details: 1️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/HDS_2026.html 2️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/pophealth_2026.html Please share and help us to find our future teammates ❤️!
🔥Coming July 2: 'Metrics and Models'!🔥 A new seminar series on advanced modelling w/ impact across health/society. 🌍 Open to *ALL*! 🕑 Weds 2pm UK alternating weeks (online) 🔗 metrics-and-models.github.io 📬 metrics_and_models-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk Brilliant speakers. *Please share*!
In case somebody missed this yesterday, while watching a political car-crash unfold: "The Means of Prediction - How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)" is now in the UChicago Press catalog, and available for pre-order online! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Means of Prediction
An eye-opening examination of how power—not technology—will define life with AI. AI is inescapable, from its mundane uses online to its increasingly consequential decision-making in courtrooms,…
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Submission Deadline 15 May! 📮@mpidr.bsky.social
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)@mpidr.bsky.social · last yr.📣Call for Papers‼️Only 2 weeks left! Conference "Climate Change, Environmental Hazards and Population Dynamics" Speakers: J.Ballester, J.Kephart, R.Muttarak, V.Mueller, B.Thiede & D.Balk! 📅Nov 11–12, 2025 🗺️ @mpidr.bsky.social 📰Submission Deadline: May 15, 2025 www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
How do workers learn about and develop resources to enter alternative occupations? A new AJS article finds workplaces organize the division and contagion of labor. Bringing together workers of distinct occupations enables exchange of resources, and mobility unfolds along the nexus of collaboration.
The Contagion of Labor: Linking Workplace Copresence and Occupational Mobility Patterns | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja
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We examined the complex interplay of genetics, family environment, health and intergenerational transmission of occupational status @naturehumbehav.bsky.social Article 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... FAQs unpacking study 👉 tinyurl.com/yckamr7x Graphical summary below 👇
