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Hunter York
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Sociology PhD Candidate @ Princeton
Social Stratification/Work/Organizations
Runner, NUMTOT, bug-catcher, Mississippian

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Today is Décadi the 30th of Brumaire in the year 234.
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate the roller.#JacobinDay

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November 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Today is La fête de la vertu the 1st of Sansculottides in the year 233.
Sansculottides is the month of complementary days.
Today we celebrate virtue.#JacobinDay

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September 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Check out the @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social issue on gun supply! This volume is a tour de force on how the U.S. got to have so many guns and what can be done about it. Thanks to @everytown.bsky.social for their support.
www.vitalcitynyc.org/issues/issue...
www.vitalcitynyc.org
September 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Today is Tridi the 3rd of Fructidor in the year 233.
Fructidor is the month of fruitfulness.
Today we celebrate puffballs.#JacobinDay

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August 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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@hunterwyork.com, PhD Candidate of Sociology at Princeton University , shared his new research on economic outcome stratification among workers by field of study and institutions. Please check out the paper on his website 👆 or email him.
August 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Today is Quintidi the 15th of Thermidor in the year 233.
Thermidor is the month of heat.
Today we celebrate ewes.#JacobinDay

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August 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Finally a take on LLMs in the classroom that points out both their strengths and weaknesses (which is not, primarily AI slop) and offers real solutions. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
Opinion | The Seductions of A.I. for the Writer’s Mind
www.nytimes.com
July 19, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Join us on August 8 at UIC for this year’s Junior Theorists Symposium (JTS)! #asa

(In suppressed voice) Also it’d be great if folks can make a small donation so that we can buy coffee for everyone ☕️
July 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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EXTREMELY BAD NEWS for economic research, per former BLS Commissioner @ericagroshen.bsky.social on LinkedIn.

BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS.
#EconSky
June 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Sad to miss @isa-rc28.bsky.social in Milan, but I'm basically in Europe because a choir I'm in is performing Joby Talbot's Path of Miracles, a ~17 voice part and 4 movement "pilgrimage in music" following the Camino de Santiago. @tenebraechoir.bsky.social has a gr8 recording youtu.be/GPHcqHzzTC8?...
March 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Sciences Po is hiring an Assistant Professor on Digital Inequalities. Candidates should have strong theoretical/methodological skills, and an ambitious research agenda on social stratification and inequality. www.sciencespo.fr/osc/sites/sc...
www.sciencespo.fr
January 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
(Big) Pub day! What was once a replication project for my first-year PhD stats class turned into a different beast. Read on for some thoughts on intergenerational mobility along axes of occupational characteristics. (Coauthors @xisong.bsky.social and Yu Xie) www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Gradationalism Revisited: Intergenerational Occupational Mobility Along Axes of Occupational Characteristics1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 130, No 4
Studies of intergenerational occupational mobility typically characterize occupations quantitatively in one of two ways: gradationally or categorically. Both methods likely grossly oversimplify the co...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
December 21, 2024 at 1:42 AM
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A reminder to submit your abstract to our workshop in May in Amsterdam! Please reskeet/spread the word.
We're organizing a workshop in Amsterdam (26-27 May 2025)! Please submit if you're working on education, skills, or labor markets.

The call for papers can be found below, more info on careerproject.eu/CAREER_works....

The deadline for submitting is December 20. Please spread the word ("retweet")
December 12, 2024 at 10:23 AM
will be presenting at @popassocamerica.bsky.social in April in an overflow session, 705 - “Diverse Forms of Employment and Economic Inequality.” A photo from yesterday of a gingko tree showing off to celebrate.
November 20, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Follow me for sporadic, potentially annual, updates proving that I'm still kicking. I study work, organizations, and social stratification.
November 15, 2024 at 2:26 AM