Fabrizio Bernardi
@fabriberna.bsky.social
Sociologist at UNED (Madrid) working on educational inequalities, social mobility and social demography, EiC of ESR. https://www.fabriziobernardi.net
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
New ETV out for everyone! I’m joined by @fabriberna.bsky.social to discuss his work on sociology of luck, how luck has been downplayed in the field, and what comes of expanding the concept! Enjoy!
Sociology of Luck with Fabrizio Bernardi — Embrace The Void
My guest this week is Fabrizio Bernardi (@fabriberna.bsky.social), a Sociologist at UNED in Madrid who works on educational inequality, social mobility, and social demography. He’s also the editor at ...
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🌟Celebrating the newly released metrics and a +0.3 increase in the Impact Factor of ESR compared to last year! Now IF is 3.3 #18 of 222 in Sociology We are grateful to everyone who contributes to European Sociological Review and helps shape the Journal’s continued development!
Carlo Ginzburg, one of the great historians of the XXth cen has died. I recently wrote a post on how to nurture serendipity in research based on Carlo G. 's research method (the Venetian roulette). Here the post as a small token of admiration. www.fabriziobernardi.net/rolling-the-...
Rolling the dice and making research » fabrizio bernardi
In different articles and interviews, the historian Carlo Ginzburg, a founder of the field of micro-history and author of fundamental books such as The Cheese and the Worms, explains that chance ... R...
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The winner of the #ecsr thesis prize 2025: @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social!!! Gaia graduated from the @eui-sps.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social #ecsr2026
🔓New #OpenAccess at ESR Do people avoid dating political opponents because of politics itself? #ShannonTaflinger @hudde.bsky.social suggest otherwise! Political affiliation is used as a proxy for non-political characteristics: similarity, character, and social approval! doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcag020
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Why do some students leave school early? 🔥 New #OpenAccess at ESR Lynn L J van Vugt, Rolf van der Velden & @Mark_Levels find that parental early cognitive skills have the strongest contribution (18%) immediately followed by household income (14%)! More at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcag018
Working at home, listening to a cassette from the PhD time, using my old cassette recorder, great playing list, you can copy it for your playlist on Spotify, note Livi Bacci's book on the left...really vintage afternoon
📝Why do Americans avoid cross-partisan dating? New paper w/ Shannon Taflinger in ESR We test 3 mechanisms: •perceived similarity in values & lifestyle •character judgments •fear of social disapproval ➡️All matter, similarity leads And: Dem women penalize out-partisans most doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
Can we foster serendipity in our research? I have written a short post on this: www.fabriziobernardi.net/rolling-the-... Inspired by the work of the great historian C. Ginzburg (and to a less extent by the Dice Man)
Rolling the dice and making research » fabrizio bernardi
In different articles and interviews, the historian Carlo Ginzburg, a founder of the field of micro-history and author of fundamental books such as The Cheese and the Worms, explains that chance ... R...
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New article at ESR! Where refugees are first placed matters in the long run With Swedish register data & refugee placement policy as exogenous treatment #M_Dahlberg #S_Kohl #M_Valeyatheepillay show that initial neighborhood contexts shape future residential integration doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf034
🔉New Dondena Decode Episode is out! 🎙️ In this episode, Nicoletta Balbo (@bocconi.bsky.social) interviews @fabriberna.bsky.social (UNED Madrid) on the role of luck in shaping social inequality and life chances. 🎧 Episode available here: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
Dondena Decode - Episode 14 by Dondena Decode
Does luck play any role in shaping social inequality?In this episode, Nicoletta Balbo, from the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University, interviews Fabrizio Bernardi from UNE...
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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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Tomorrow in Madrid! GEPS/UNED Inequality and Social Demography seminar Arnout van de Rijt (EUI) “What Drives the Matthew Effect in Science Funding: Money or Status?” Jorge Cavodeassi Room, UNED, Calle Bravo Murillo 38, Madrid May 7 (7:00–8:30 pm) Followed as usual by some drinks
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...
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🌱 Our new issue has blossomed, showcasing brand new inspiring evidence on education as one of the most powerful forces shaping inequality and life chances in contemporary societies! Read it at: academic.oup.com/esr/issue with many articles #OpenAccess!
Issues | European Sociological Review | Oxford Academic
Publishes original articles in all fields of sociology ranging in length from short research notes up to major reports. It provides a resource of state-of-the-art quantitative and comparative researc...
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Which must-read book+3 articles would recommend to a first year Sociology PhD student? Which book+3 articles impacted you most, during your own PhD? I have made these questions to a group of colleagues. Here the combined list: www.fabriziobernardi.net/a-sociology-... 1/2🧵
A Sociology PhD Starter Reading List » fabrizio bernardi
I created a kind of academic game and ask some colleagues in social stratification and social demography four short questions: I received answers from 15 colleagues: 6 women and 9 ... Read more
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Today 25th of April is the day of Liberazione. In Italy we celebrate the victory of the Resistenza against fascists and nazis in 1945. In Madrid we brought "un fiore ai partigiani morti per la libertà", some years before in Spain.
Only a matter of time until he does he does a version of the Parks-and-Rec-Andy movie reenactment bit www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bYW...
Andy Describes His Favorite Movie | Parks and Recreation
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Philip N Cohen@philipncohen.com · 4mo agoMy prayer was answered
Just throwing this out there... sfdora.org/2025/03/27/u...
Using lotteries to increase fairness and efficiency in research assessment | DORA
The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) recognizes the need to improve the ways in which the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated.
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European Research Council (ERC)@erc.europa.eu · 4mo agoThe number of grant applications is rising sharply. Our capacity for their evaluation isn’t. ERC President Maria Leptin explains why stricter resubmission limits are being introduced for 2027 calls and what they mean for applicants. 🔗 link.europa.eu/xF7kjc
🎉 An exciting new project just startet in April! #STEMPATHS More info ➡️ www.soz.univie.ac.at/en/detail-ne... Stay tuned! @univie.ac.at #Sociology #STEM #women #career
Project start in April: STEMPATHS
Manuel T. Valdés, Nadia Steiber and Laura Zilian are project leaders for ‘Gendered STEM Pathways: The Role of Family in Women's Field Choice and Career Persistence’
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Manuel T. Valdés@mvaldes1989.bsky.social · 4mo agoHappy to announce that the STEMPATHS project starts today, led by Laura Zilian, @nadiasteiber.bsky.social, and myself at the University of Vienna! 🚀 We employ Austrian register data to study women's underrepresentation in the STEM sector. 🧵 More info 👇 www.oeaw.ac.at/en/funding/d... (1/5)
¿Interesado/a en la investigación científica de las desigualdades sociales? ¡La UNED (@uneduniv.bsky.social) tiene un nuevo máster que te va a interesar! Checkéalo aquí: blogs.uned.es/mads/
Máster en Análisis de las Desigualdades Sociales – Otro sitio más de Blogs UNED
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Fabrizio Bernardi@fabriberna.bsky.social · 4mo agoEntre las nuevas titulaciones de la UNED el proximo año empieza un master semi-presencial de "Investigación sobre desigualdades sociales" Más información: blogs.uned.es/mads/
Muy bien la UNED: haciendo frente al avance de las universidades privadas
EL PAÍS@elpais.com · 4mo agoEl Gobierno presenta una nueva oferta de titulaciones universitarias “de alta demanda y elevado valor estratégico” en la UNED para el período 2026-2029. El resultado son 20.380 plazas nuevas plazas de grado y máster. Además habrá nuevas carreras, como IA y Neurociencia
🚩New experimental evidence by @Asta_B_Lund @AndersTrolle #M_Büchler_Henriksen! Teachers’ grading bias against boys, minoritized students, and those from less educated families persists even when more individual-level information is available! Read it at doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcag005
👏 We are delighted to announce the 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗼-𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗹 (𝗦𝗢𝗘𝗣) as the 2026 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 of the 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆. 👏 Full details: kohlifoundation.eu/news/infrast... #SOEP #ScienceAward #InfrastructurePrize #forSociology @diw.de
✨It is with great honor that we announce 𝗥𝗮𝗲𝘄𝘆𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹𝗹 as the 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗞𝗼𝗵𝗹𝗶 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 laureate.✨ Full details: kohlifoundation.eu/news/kohli-p... @raewynconnell.bsky.social #KohliPrize #RaewynConnell #Sociology #ScienceAward
A review of "The Social Genome" by Dalton Conley is now out in the RES (Spanish Journal of Sociology): recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/re... Lots of ideas for thinking about classic sociological questions, through a sociogenomic lens
Vista de Review of Dalton Conley, 2025, The Social Genome. The new Science of Nature and Nurture. W.W. Norton & Company, New York.
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New #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/...
Stratified scars: social inequality in the labour market consequences of apprenticeship dropout
Abstract. While the association between apprenticeship dropout and negative labour market consequences is well documented, the causal link and social strat
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