Per Engzell
@pengzell.bsky.social
Interested in how the rich stay rich and the poor poor. Sociologist at @sriucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk. He/him/his. http://perengzell.com Photo bomber @simoneschneider.bsky.social
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A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Last call to submit - deadline TODAY (seems I was wrong about the date in my initial post)
Next RC28 Spring Meeting will be 20-22 May in Seville.
Submissions until 10 Dec here: eventos.upo.es/137585/detai...
If you're wondering if this is your conference, have a look at what we publish in our journal Research in Social Stratification and Mobility: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/rese...
Submissions until 10 Dec here: eventos.upo.es/137585/detai...
If you're wondering if this is your conference, have a look at what we publish in our journal Research in Social Stratification and Mobility: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/rese...
The Conference
Addressing Social Inequalities in the Global North and South On behalf of the Organising Committee, it is an honour to welcome you to the RC28 Spring Meeting 2026. This academic meeting is proposed a...
eventos.upo.es
December 1, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Last call to submit - deadline TODAY (seems I was wrong about the date in my initial post)
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breaking: reviewer that doesn't share your approach thinks your article manuscript is not ready for publication
December 1, 2025 at 8:39 AM
breaking: reviewer that doesn't share your approach thinks your article manuscript is not ready for publication
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Handwritten and oral exams are making a comeback
AI is accelerating a tech backlash in American classrooms
Handwritten and oral exams are making a comeback
econ.st
November 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Handwritten and oral exams are making a comeback
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This is good. If anyone wants to do something similar in humanities and social sciences give me a shout
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Trading firm XTX donates £26mn for maths research at UK universities
Billionaire Alex Gerko says Britain is missing out on top academic talent
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December 1, 2025 at 6:44 AM
This is good. If anyone wants to do something similar in humanities and social sciences give me a shout
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Lots of doom circulating about university students’ engagement with their courses, and of course every instance or anecdote is unquestionably valid, but I hope I’m not alone in saying that in my recent experience the open-mindedness and curiosity and desire to learn is still very much in evidence.
November 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Lots of doom circulating about university students’ engagement with their courses, and of course every instance or anecdote is unquestionably valid, but I hope I’m not alone in saying that in my recent experience the open-mindedness and curiosity and desire to learn is still very much in evidence.
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Happy to say that I joined the editorial team of @sociologicalsci.bsky.social as Deputy Editor. sociologicalscience.com/about/editte...
Editorial Team
sociologicalscience.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Happy to say that I joined the editorial team of @sociologicalsci.bsky.social as Deputy Editor. sociologicalscience.com/about/editte...
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Providing new tools for linear regressions in a data combination environment and providing easy to compute bounds, which do not rely on exclusion restrictions, from Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Christophe Gaillac, and Arnaud Maurel www.nber.org/papers/w34507
November 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Providing new tools for linear regressions in a data combination environment and providing easy to compute bounds, which do not rely on exclusion restrictions, from Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Christophe Gaillac, and Arnaud Maurel www.nber.org/papers/w34507
This. It’s about setting expectations and following up. It doesn’t happen every time but when a student thanks me for showing what they are capable of, I know I’ve been right in calling out slop
i do believe that covid plus LLMs have had appreciable negative effects on university students, but i find claims like 'there is an across the board inability to process instructions, engage with longer texts, and connect with others' to be completely ridiculous
November 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
This. It’s about setting expectations and following up. It doesn’t happen every time but when a student thanks me for showing what they are capable of, I know I’ve been right in calling out slop
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Now accepting nominations (especially self-nominations) for the year-end Family Inequality book giving guide!
November 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Now accepting nominations (especially self-nominations) for the year-end Family Inequality book giving guide!
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Really baffling that two most common uses of multiverse analysis are: 1. Run a bunch of correlated analyses & use correlation as evidence for the strength of inference, or 2. Run a bunch of different analyses under wildly different model (mis)specifications to show that the 'effect' is not reliable.
November 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Really baffling that two most common uses of multiverse analysis are: 1. Run a bunch of correlated analyses & use correlation as evidence for the strength of inference, or 2. Run a bunch of different analyses under wildly different model (mis)specifications to show that the 'effect' is not reliable.
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Ouch! Hoping this argument doesn’t escalate. I have enormous respect for @dandekadt.bsky.social and @turnbulldugarte.com. Both are phenomenally smart and creative scholars. Some of the very best around.
Some researchers, like myself, care about knowledge production and finding the "right" answer.
Others care more about getting a publication based on saying that others are wrong rather than engaging in a discussion about what the current state of knowledge is and whether it needs to be corrected.
Others care more about getting a publication based on saying that others are wrong rather than engaging in a discussion about what the current state of knowledge is and whether it needs to be corrected.
November 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Ouch! Hoping this argument doesn’t escalate. I have enormous respect for @dandekadt.bsky.social and @turnbulldugarte.com. Both are phenomenally smart and creative scholars. Some of the very best around.
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Our friends at Uni of Sheffield economics department are organising a workshop showcasing research using admin data designed to inform education policy
🕕10am-4pm on Thurs 11th Dec, in person in Sheffield
Programme here: tinyurl.com/bdfawbxf
Sign up to attend for free here: tinyurl.com/yakxb9y6
🕕10am-4pm on Thurs 11th Dec, in person in Sheffield
Programme here: tinyurl.com/bdfawbxf
Sign up to attend for free here: tinyurl.com/yakxb9y6
Education Workshop programme final.pdf
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November 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Our friends at Uni of Sheffield economics department are organising a workshop showcasing research using admin data designed to inform education policy
🕕10am-4pm on Thurs 11th Dec, in person in Sheffield
Programme here: tinyurl.com/bdfawbxf
Sign up to attend for free here: tinyurl.com/yakxb9y6
🕕10am-4pm on Thurs 11th Dec, in person in Sheffield
Programme here: tinyurl.com/bdfawbxf
Sign up to attend for free here: tinyurl.com/yakxb9y6
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Beginning in Summer 2026, I will be one of the co-editors of Journal of Economic History. I will be taking over from Bishnu Gupta, who has done a fantastic job the last four years.
Looking for papers asking big questions. Answers must be convincing, but methodology is secondary IMO
Looking for papers asking big questions. Answers must be convincing, but methodology is secondary IMO
November 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Beginning in Summer 2026, I will be one of the co-editors of Journal of Economic History. I will be taking over from Bishnu Gupta, who has done a fantastic job the last four years.
Looking for papers asking big questions. Answers must be convincing, but methodology is secondary IMO
Looking for papers asking big questions. Answers must be convincing, but methodology is secondary IMO
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Wow I just came across this AI generated sentence in a text from 1953
May 23, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Wow I just came across this AI generated sentence in a text from 1953
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After a semester exploring the challenges posed by the entanglement of data/algorithms/AI and society, I like to end my semester with hope and joy (b/c I'm filled with hope!). What are your best examples of forward-looking, positive, pro-social, uplifting, creative etc. uses of data/algorithms/AI?
November 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
After a semester exploring the challenges posed by the entanglement of data/algorithms/AI and society, I like to end my semester with hope and joy (b/c I'm filled with hope!). What are your best examples of forward-looking, positive, pro-social, uplifting, creative etc. uses of data/algorithms/AI?
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"Teaching is incredibly meaningful, but meaning alone won’t fix shortages. Evidence like this can help government design policies that genuinely attract the graduates our schools need." The @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social team present essential insights on why people choose, or rule out, a career in teaching
Why do people choose to become teachers?
Rigorous new evidence on this vital question for our education system in a new CEPEO working paper out today by @drsamsims.bsky.social & @clareroutledge.bsky.social
econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...
Rigorous new evidence on this vital question for our education system in a new CEPEO working paper out today by @drsamsims.bsky.social & @clareroutledge.bsky.social
econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...
EconPapers: Understanding the decision (not) to become a teacher: evidence from survey experiments with undergraduates in the UK and US
By Sam Sims and Clare Routledge; Abstract: Teacher shortages are widespread, yet the reasons people choose (not) to enter the profession remain poorly understood.
econpapers.repec.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
"Teaching is incredibly meaningful, but meaning alone won’t fix shortages. Evidence like this can help government design policies that genuinely attract the graduates our schools need." The @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social team present essential insights on why people choose, or rule out, a career in teaching
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Last minute push for people to attend the Open Science Retreat on April 7-11, 2026, Wales. Applications close on November 30. This is an unconference / hackathon /activist networking event / retreat. Rest is celebrated and outputs are de-prioritised compared to process. open.science-retreat.org
Open Science Retreat
A space for open research advocates to recharge, connect, and think deeply together.
open.science-retreat.org
November 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Last minute push for people to attend the Open Science Retreat on April 7-11, 2026, Wales. Applications close on November 30. This is an unconference / hackathon /activist networking event / retreat. Rest is celebrated and outputs are de-prioritised compared to process. open.science-retreat.org
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Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
uhero.hawaii.edu
November 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
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my migration policy substack has a gift guide, as you do: www.laurenpolicy.com/p/the-2025-l...
The 2025 Lauren Policy Gift Guide
Why does your migration literature review blog have a gift guide? Because I can.
www.laurenpolicy.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
my migration policy substack has a gift guide, as you do: www.laurenpolicy.com/p/the-2025-l...
Introduce yourself with 5 papers you have rejected
November 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 papers you have rejected
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CogSci in Aarhus is hiring, open rank (assi, asso or full prof).
We want somebody working on and teaching computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or social processes. Students are amazing, work/life balance very satisfactory, and colleagues are nice!
international.au.dk/about/profil...
We want somebody working on and teaching computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or social processes. Students are amazing, work/life balance very satisfactory, and colleagues are nice!
international.au.dk/about/profil...
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Full Professor of Cognitive Science - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University
international.au.dk
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
CogSci in Aarhus is hiring, open rank (assi, asso or full prof).
We want somebody working on and teaching computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or social processes. Students are amazing, work/life balance very satisfactory, and colleagues are nice!
international.au.dk/about/profil...
We want somebody working on and teaching computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or social processes. Students are amazing, work/life balance very satisfactory, and colleagues are nice!
international.au.dk/about/profil...
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Whenever DAGs have numbers attached to them they're just glorified path diagrams. Don't listen to this guy!
A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
November 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Whenever DAGs have numbers attached to them they're just glorified path diagrams. Don't listen to this guy!
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Old style Twitter is back, baby.
A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
November 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Old style Twitter is back, baby.
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Got a domain name for a new project so I’m basically half done
November 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Got a domain name for a new project so I’m basically half done