There will be keynotes by @dynarski.bsky.social (Harvard University) and @mtriventi.bsky.social (University of Milan).
Please send your abstract (500 words max) until March 31st to: helm@iab.de.
Further information is available on the conference website at: eveeno.com/helm-2026. (2/2)
Big congrats, Simone! I’ll be visiting Nuffield in late spring—let’s meet up if you’re already there by then.
Call for Papers: the ISA RC28 Summer Meeting at New York University, New York, USA August 5-7, 2026. Submit your abstract as.nyu.edu/research-cen... by February 15, 2026 (11:59 pm EST).
Gearing up for the RC28 @isa-rc28.bsky.social Online Conference on Educational Inequalities on 20-21 January 2026! We have a great lineup of speakers from different regions who will address current topics in the field of educational stratification and inequalities. www.sciencespo.fr/cris/en/even...
Still time to apply to the #ECSR2026 conference at Trinity College Dublin on June 15-17 @tcddublin.bsky.social
organised by @tcdsociology.bsky.social and @esri.ie
Abstract submission deadline: January 11!
Submit an abstract: www.ecsr2026.net
📢 Happy to announce our newly published article, “No sales after midnight: evaluating the impact of a business curfew on drug-related crime in San Francisco’s Tenderloin,” with Mirko Nazzari (lead) & Marco Calaresu, now out in Security Journal. Open-access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🚨 New Article Drop!
Excited to share that @mtriventi.bsky.social and I have just published a new paper in Higher Education:
Do restricted-access degree programs lead to better academic outcomes?
Short answer: Yes!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Our results suggest the need to look earlier in students’ educational trajectories and family experiences to understand the origins of political interest and civic engagement.
💡 Key findings
-Students in the academic track already showed higher political interest before placement.
-Track placement had no significant causal effect on political interest.
-Upper-secondary tracking seems to maintain rather than create disparities in civic dispositions.
📊 Our approach
Longitudinal German micro-data (NEPS)
Difference-in-Differences design
Multiple observations before, during, and after track placement
We investigate a question relevant for both political sociology and social stratification research:
📚 Does educational tracking—academic vs. vocational upper-secondary tracks—shape students’ political interest?
🚨 New publication alert! 🎉
Proud to share the first paper by my PhD student Yuxin Zhang (Univ. of Trento), coauthored with Mario Quaranta and myself, in Social Science Research:
"Is political interest tracked in schools? Evidence from Germany"
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The 6th TN-Square is coming! 🏔️
This edition we are discussing employment, mobility trajectories and social inequality and we
couldn’t be more excited. ✨
Submit your application by August 25th and spread the news!
For more spoilers, check our website:
event.unitn.it/tn-square/
#TNSquare25
Having conference dinner in front of this beautiful building on campus. Very thankful for the organizers @mtriventi.bsky.social
Ciao Milano ☀️ @isa-rc28.bsky.social @mtriventi.bsky.social
RC28 Social Stratification and Mobility spring meeting will take place at the University of Milan this week starting tomorrow! Check out our program here to learn more out what inequality scholars are working on these days: rc28milan2025.com/event-schedu...
Technologically speaking, we live in an age of miracles.
In the last few years, we finally got malaria vaccines; we finally got an antiviral that prevents HIV infections with 95-100% efficacy.
But it all means nothing if people don't know it and don't use them.
🚨 Deadline Extended! 🚨 The abstract submission deadline for the ISA-RC28 Spring Meeting in Milan (25-27 March 2025) is now 13 Nov 2024. Don’t miss this chance to participate! 🌍📚 Submit here 👉 rc28milan2025.com #ISA #RC28 #Milan2025
Only few days left to apply! Don't forget!
📢 Calling all scholars in #SocialStratification & #SocialMobility! Join us for the 2025 RC28 Spring Conference " at @unimi on March 25-27. 📝 Submit abstracts from Oct 4 to Nov 7 here: rc28milan2025.com #RC28 #Sociology #Inequality #Education
This is worrying: less replicable studies seem to make up the difference with bluster & confidence.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Beware of the science sales job!
#PsychSciSky #polisky #Sociology #AcademicSky #metasci
Reflexivity is the act of examining one's own assumption, belief, and judgement systems, and thinking carefully and critically about how these influence the research process. The practice of reflexivity confronts and questions who we are as researchers and how this guides our work. It is central in debates on objectivity, subjectivity, and the very foundations of social science research and generated knowledge. Incorporating reflexivity in the research process is traditionally recognized as one of the most notable differences between qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Qualitative research centres and celebrates the participants' personal and unique lived experience. Therefore, qualitative researchers are readily encouraged to consider how their own unique positionalities inform the research process and this forms an important part of training within this paradigm. Quantitative methodologies in social and personality psychology, and more generally, on the other hand, have remai
"even if data are quantitative and numerical, the ways in which they are analysed and, to a greater extent, the inferences made from this analysis, will vary depending on who the researcher is."
I LOVE this paper, which talks about reflexivity in quant, not qual, research
tinyurl.com/3r3s39ty
Just out: A blog post for LSE in which I summarize the main patterns and trends in social inequalities in education in comparative perspective and reflect on policy interventions and their limits. Enjoy! blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
BLOG POST: Invalid Conclusions Built on Statistical errors
If you see a small p-value or a large separation in confidence intervals, you may assume that an effect is reliable. But overly simple reporting may be hiding serious conclusion-altering errors.
Here are some example scenarios:
1/🧵 #stats
🚨Last 4 days to apply to two positions on my newly started ERC-CoG project EDUPOL at Univ of Milan!!
Position 1 (18 months), school policies analysis: www.unimi.it/it/ricerca/r...
Position 2 (24 months), analysis of international educational datasets: www.unimi.it/it/ricerca/r...
“Causal inference is not just a statistics problem”
New article by @lucystats.bsky.social, @travisgerke.bsky.social, and @malcolmbarrett.malco.io in the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education
Open access: doi.org/10.1080/2693...
#Stats #DataScience 🧪
"ChartAI, provide an example graph that illustrates the importance of survey methodology in general and question wording in particular."
The calls are available here:
Position 1 (18 months), school policies analysis:
unimi.it/it/ricerca/ric…
Position 2 (24 months), analysis of international educational datasets: unimi.it/it/ricerca/ric
Deadline: February 9, 2024. Learn more by contacting moris.triventi@unimi.it. Join us in shaping the future of education! #EDUPOL #ResearchOpportunity #MilanJobs #EducationResearch #inequality
Explore the impact of educational policies on outcomes and inequality in the EDUPOL Project! Benefits:
🚀Work on a cutting-edge research project
🧠Enjoy a stimulating work environment
✈️Well-connected workplace
🎭Embrace Milan's vibrant culture!
