🤔 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
Really happy that my article with Jakob Molinder, “Incomes and income inequality in Stockholm, 1870–1970: Evidence from micro data” has been published in Explorations in Economic History! Using a new sample of about 38,000, we provide new evidence and perspectives on the importance of jobs..
Help needed: Are there any studies that have examined what one unit on the ISEI scale amounts to in terms of income? #sociology
I also have five if you need any more
If by "The Academic Mob" you mean "HBS's Research Integrity Officer, who found unexplained discrepancies between a replication package and the raw data collected on Qualtrics, which when corrected made the published result disappear", then sure I guess.
Harvard Business School Professor Francesca Gino has been subjected to brutal academic mobbing over charges that she committed research fraud
Haha äntligen något som enar, fantastiskt
“ALL THEORY WORTH READING ARISES FROM REFLECTION ABOUT DATA. Write this phrase on your computer. Paste it on the bathroom mirror. Mention it softly while making love. ‘All theory worth reading arises from reflection about data.’” – Andy Abbott ❤️ #sociology #sts #philsci #philsky #theorizing
