If you're around Barcelona next week, come by the methods section on Saturday at the ECSR meeting and learn more about this really cool (shameless self promo) new measure of R-squared in multilevel models 👇
Submitting almost two hours before grant DL… what’s wrong with me, not taking it to the max?? All the hunger, momentum & ambition gone?
🪧 social scientists! Who would like to visit Centre LIVES @unil.bsky.social#UNIGEwww.centre-lives.ch/en/appel/liv...
Here are a few lists of sociologists in no particular order. Slant towards German and quantitative sociologists. #socskygo.bsky.app/Kr3Rj1Dgo.bsky.app/EAwwzdkgo.bsky.app/EAwwzdkgo.bsky.app/Ugw67cPgo.bsky.app/9WAVGNdgo.bsky.app/4aZkRmJgo.bsky.app/81Hby5t
i'm on the lookout for ethnographies or general sociological work studying statistics as a field and how it relates to other academic disciplines. pointers appreciated! #statistics
Has someone checked in on the "death of class" debate lately? Is the death of class dead?
Social stratification: Is the probability of intergenerational occupational inheritance - i.e., *micro-occ. to micro-occ.* - the same along parental occupational ranking/hierarchy? I assume not, or "it's complicated", but any reference in this direction would be appreciated!
🤔 How should we view class/occupational maturity? a) Does it happen after a certain age? b) Or is it an ongoing stabilization process; not a fixed state? These questions are explored in a new study w. Bihagen & Kjellsson. Read 🧵 or the article 👇 scholar.google.com/citations?vi...
Yihui Xie, who authored or co-authored many widely used R packages including rmarkdown, shiny, knitr, and bookdown, has been laid off by Rstudio/Posit. (His blog post describes the separation as amicable.) He's looking for work, someone is going to be very lucky to get him yihui.org/en/2024/01/b...
Who is down? Me. After more than 10 years at RStudio/Posit, the time has come for me to explore other opportunities. A little over two weeks ago, I was told that I was laid off and my last day would &...
Updating my syllabus again! Please suggest some good readings on 1) value change/postmaterialism and 2) the supposed decline of social capital