Àlex 🐢
@alexgdlp.bsky.social
Sociologist. Researching @institutmetropoli.cat. Pre @SociumBremen. PhD in Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social. Segregation dynamics, cities, complex systems.
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Àlex 🐢
@alexgdlp.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Local Social Exposure and Inter-Neighborhood Mobility
liu.diva-portal.org
For those interested in ethnic segregation and residential mobility, my PhD thesis is available for free here: liu.diva-portal.org/smash/record...
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I wrote an Opinion piece for @thelancet.com about James Watson. It's not an obituary - Georgina Ferry did that for them - but offers some thoughts on the problematic aspects of Watson's history.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
James D Watson: a cautionary tale
There was always going to be a complex reckoning in the obituaries of James D Watson
(1928–2025), the American geneticist who co-discovered the structure of DNA. For many
years, Watson was one of the ...
www.thelancet.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I wrote an Opinion piece for @thelancet.com about James Watson. It's not an obituary - Georgina Ferry did that for them - but offers some thoughts on the problematic aspects of Watson's history.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Why did I visit the Facebook pages of 5500 German grocery stores on a grey lockdown day ca. 2021?
You can now find out in AJS.
Our work on ethnoreligious infrastructures is finally online in the ominous Volume 0:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
You can now find out in AJS.
Our work on ethnoreligious infrastructures is finally online in the ominous Volume 0:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
November 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Why did I visit the Facebook pages of 5500 German grocery stores on a grey lockdown day ca. 2021?
You can now find out in AJS.
Our work on ethnoreligious infrastructures is finally online in the ominous Volume 0:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
You can now find out in AJS.
Our work on ethnoreligious infrastructures is finally online in the ominous Volume 0:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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A long time in the making!
This literature review aims to:
1/ illuminate the (multi-)causal connection between economic inequality and economic segregation in the current (segmented) literature(s);
2/ foster the use of up-to-date comparable indices;
...
This literature review aims to:
1/ illuminate the (multi-)causal connection between economic inequality and economic segregation in the current (segmented) literature(s);
2/ foster the use of up-to-date comparable indices;
...
Our new article "Economic inequality and economic segregation: a systematic review of causal pathways" is now out in @sfjournal.bsky.social.
doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
Economic inequality and economic segregation: a systematic review of causal pathways
Abstract. Although economic inequality and economic segregation represent fundamental challenges of contemporary societies, their causal and empirical conn
academic.oup.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
A long time in the making!
This literature review aims to:
1/ illuminate the (multi-)causal connection between economic inequality and economic segregation in the current (segmented) literature(s);
2/ foster the use of up-to-date comparable indices;
...
This literature review aims to:
1/ illuminate the (multi-)causal connection between economic inequality and economic segregation in the current (segmented) literature(s);
2/ foster the use of up-to-date comparable indices;
...
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It's been three (!) years since I last posted something on my blog, but you still gotta love cells, as they say... so here's a little piece discussing philosopher Talbot Brewer's talk/essay "What Good Are the Humanities?"
lovecells.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/w...
#philsky 💙📚
lovecells.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/w...
#philsky 💙📚
What Good Are the Humanities?
This is the title of a recorded talk (2017) and essay by Talbot Brewer, professor of philosophy at the University of Virginia. He proceeds to answer this question by first elucidating what the huma…
lovecells.wordpress.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 AM
It's been three (!) years since I last posted something on my blog, but you still gotta love cells, as they say... so here's a little piece discussing philosopher Talbot Brewer's talk/essay "What Good Are the Humanities?"
lovecells.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/w...
#philsky 💙📚
lovecells.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/w...
#philsky 💙📚
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I was going to ask if someone knows of a comprehensive archive of US state policies that changed over the last 50 years.
But then I remembered there's this: ippsr.msu.edu/public-polic...
So now I'm posting it here for everyone's benefit instead
But then I remembered there's this: ippsr.msu.edu/public-polic...
So now I'm posting it here for everyone's benefit instead
November 21, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I was going to ask if someone knows of a comprehensive archive of US state policies that changed over the last 50 years.
But then I remembered there's this: ippsr.msu.edu/public-polic...
So now I'm posting it here for everyone's benefit instead
But then I remembered there's this: ippsr.msu.edu/public-polic...
So now I'm posting it here for everyone's benefit instead
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New paper with @jordantkemp.bsky.social and Luis Bettencourt is now on arXiv: “Spatial Selection and the Multiscale Dynamics of Urban Change”. We use the Price equation and Chicago data to show how fine-scale spatial sorting shapes macro growth trends. Read it here: arxiv.org/pdf/2511.06165
November 13, 2025 at 8:23 AM
New paper with @jordantkemp.bsky.social and Luis Bettencourt is now on arXiv: “Spatial Selection and the Multiscale Dynamics of Urban Change”. We use the Price equation and Chicago data to show how fine-scale spatial sorting shapes macro growth trends. Read it here: arxiv.org/pdf/2511.06165
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For us, this journey toward explaining *surprising macro outcomes* took many years. Grateful to my amazing co-authors, @martinarvidsson.bsky.social and Peter Hedström, and to all the reviewers who supported us along the way
🚀Out now: sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
🚀Out now: sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
October 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
For us, this journey toward explaining *surprising macro outcomes* took many years. Grateful to my amazing co-authors, @martinarvidsson.bsky.social and Peter Hedström, and to all the reviewers who supported us along the way
🚀Out now: sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
🚀Out now: sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
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I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.
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October 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.
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@joanchecarius.bsky.social i jo hem publicat a Population, Space and Place un article que analitza com la distribució territorial de l’oferta educativa i la mobilitat de l’alumnat construeixen desigualtats i oportunitats a la metròpolis de Barcelona:
🔗https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70107
Obrim fil...
🔗https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70107
Obrim fil...
October 1, 2025 at 8:21 AM
@joanchecarius.bsky.social i jo hem publicat a Population, Space and Place un article que analitza com la distribució territorial de l’oferta educativa i la mobilitat de l’alumnat construeixen desigualtats i oportunitats a la metròpolis de Barcelona:
🔗https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70107
Obrim fil...
🔗https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70107
Obrim fil...
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🙌 Polítiques de #barri i eines de planificació local de #seguretat, sumar esforços o sectorialitzar?
Taula de luxe, moderada per @tinainalaina.bsky.social en la jornada "Barris i polítiques públiques de seguretat".
🔗https://www.institutmetropoli.cat/noticias/jornada-barris-seguretat-25/
Taula de luxe, moderada per @tinainalaina.bsky.social en la jornada "Barris i polítiques públiques de seguretat".
🔗https://www.institutmetropoli.cat/noticias/jornada-barris-seguretat-25/
September 22, 2025 at 7:46 AM
🙌 Polítiques de #barri i eines de planificació local de #seguretat, sumar esforços o sectorialitzar?
Taula de luxe, moderada per @tinainalaina.bsky.social en la jornada "Barris i polítiques públiques de seguretat".
🔗https://www.institutmetropoli.cat/noticias/jornada-barris-seguretat-25/
Taula de luxe, moderada per @tinainalaina.bsky.social en la jornada "Barris i polítiques públiques de seguretat".
🔗https://www.institutmetropoli.cat/noticias/jornada-barris-seguretat-25/
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🙌 Com incorporem els indicadors de #seguretat i #convivència als instruments de planificació local i de #barris? En parlem a la jornada "Barris i polítiques públiques de seguretat", moderada per Àlex Giménez de la Prada.
🔗https://www.institutmetropoli.cat/noticias/jornada-barris-seguretat-25/
🔗https://www.institutmetropoli.cat/noticias/jornada-barris-seguretat-25/
September 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM
🙌 Com incorporem els indicadors de #seguretat i #convivència als instruments de planificació local i de #barris? En parlem a la jornada "Barris i polítiques públiques de seguretat", moderada per Àlex Giménez de la Prada.
🔗https://www.institutmetropoli.cat/noticias/jornada-barris-seguretat-25/
🔗https://www.institutmetropoli.cat/noticias/jornada-barris-seguretat-25/
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La revista @jpdemocracia.bsky.social nos publica un artículo sobre juzgados especializados en violencia de género y la necesaria territorialización del sistema público de justicia
Con @jmartinoy.bsky.social @ricardgoma.bsky.social @institutmetropoli.cat y +
www.academia.edu/144128065/Ju...
Con @jmartinoy.bsky.social @ricardgoma.bsky.social @institutmetropoli.cat y +
www.academia.edu/144128065/Ju...
September 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
La revista @jpdemocracia.bsky.social nos publica un artículo sobre juzgados especializados en violencia de género y la necesaria territorialización del sistema público de justicia
Con @jmartinoy.bsky.social @ricardgoma.bsky.social @institutmetropoli.cat y +
www.academia.edu/144128065/Ju...
Con @jmartinoy.bsky.social @ricardgoma.bsky.social @institutmetropoli.cat y +
www.academia.edu/144128065/Ju...
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Come work with us @crestsociology.bsky.social
We are looking for a post-doc with a background in social sciences, interested in NLP and in media & journalism studies.
Details here: www.css.cnrs.fr/post-doctora...
We are looking for a post-doc with a background in social sciences, interested in NLP and in media & journalism studies.
Details here: www.css.cnrs.fr/post-doctora...
Post-Doctoral Position – Media / Journalism – CSS @ IP-Paris
Site web de l'axe sciences sociales computationnelles du CREST-CNRS. Cours et tutoriels pour l'analyse des données numériques en sciences sociales.
www.css.cnrs.fr
September 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Come work with us @crestsociology.bsky.social
We are looking for a post-doc with a background in social sciences, interested in NLP and in media & journalism studies.
Details here: www.css.cnrs.fr/post-doctora...
We are looking for a post-doc with a background in social sciences, interested in NLP and in media & journalism studies.
Details here: www.css.cnrs.fr/post-doctora...
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🔝 Acabem de publicar la revista #Papers 67!!! Aquesta edició posa el focus en els #barris i les polítiques públiques de #seguretat.
📍 El 30/09, la @mmurri.bsky.social presenta el monogràfic en la jornada que celebrem al Hub Social. Si vols, però, ja pots consultar-la online:
🔗 bit.ly/Papers-67
📍 El 30/09, la @mmurri.bsky.social presenta el monogràfic en la jornada que celebrem al Hub Social. Si vols, però, ja pots consultar-la online:
🔗 bit.ly/Papers-67
September 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
🔝 Acabem de publicar la revista #Papers 67!!! Aquesta edició posa el focus en els #barris i les polítiques públiques de #seguretat.
📍 El 30/09, la @mmurri.bsky.social presenta el monogràfic en la jornada que celebrem al Hub Social. Si vols, però, ja pots consultar-la online:
🔗 bit.ly/Papers-67
📍 El 30/09, la @mmurri.bsky.social presenta el monogràfic en la jornada que celebrem al Hub Social. Si vols, però, ja pots consultar-la online:
🔗 bit.ly/Papers-67
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On the Record: Understanding a Century of Congressional Lawmaking through Speech and Vote Behavior
liu.diva-portal.org
September 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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+++ NEW PREPRINT +++
I have decided to make one of my PhD thesis chapters available as a preprint on #SocArXiv: Policymaking in Times of Crisis: Discursive Dynamics in U.S. Congress, 1960–1990.
You can read it here 🎉
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
I have decided to make one of my PhD thesis chapters available as a preprint on #SocArXiv: Policymaking in Times of Crisis: Discursive Dynamics in U.S. Congress, 1960–1990.
You can read it here 🎉
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
OSF
doi.org
August 29, 2025 at 11:31 AM
+++ NEW PREPRINT +++
I have decided to make one of my PhD thesis chapters available as a preprint on #SocArXiv: Policymaking in Times of Crisis: Discursive Dynamics in U.S. Congress, 1960–1990.
You can read it here 🎉
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
I have decided to make one of my PhD thesis chapters available as a preprint on #SocArXiv: Policymaking in Times of Crisis: Discursive Dynamics in U.S. Congress, 1960–1990.
You can read it here 🎉
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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The latest issue of Scientific American is the 180th anniversary, and they have a series of articles about "180 degree turnarounds" in science. Here's mine on RNA.
August 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The latest issue of Scientific American is the 180th anniversary, and they have a series of articles about "180 degree turnarounds" in science. Here's mine on RNA.
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Happy to see my paper with @andershtrolle.bsky.social on "The different sources of intergenerational income mobility in high- and low-income families" online before print in Journal of Applied Econometrics:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The Different Sources of Intergenerational Income Mobility in High‐ and Low‐Income Families
This paper studies intergenerational income mobility using register data for 630,000 Danish children and their parents. We document substantial mobility differences across parents' income levels. Dec...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Happy to see my paper with @andershtrolle.bsky.social on "The different sources of intergenerational income mobility in high- and low-income families" online before print in Journal of Applied Econometrics:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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✨ The IAS Seminar Series returns for the Fall 2025 semester with a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all!
#AcademicSky #Sociology #CSS
#AcademicSky #Sociology #CSS
August 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
✨ The IAS Seminar Series returns for the Fall 2025 semester with a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all!
#AcademicSky #Sociology #CSS
#AcademicSky #Sociology #CSS
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I've had a few other former astronomers reach out to me lately about transitioning into data science/ML, and I decided to write about it.
This is my personal journey from astro to ocean, and the most useful steps I took along the way.
This is my personal journey from astro to ocean, and the most useful steps I took along the way.
out of academia
Out of Academia
www.annagwenhughes.com
July 30, 2025 at 4:18 AM
I've had a few other former astronomers reach out to me lately about transitioning into data science/ML, and I decided to write about it.
This is my personal journey from astro to ocean, and the most useful steps I took along the way.
This is my personal journey from astro to ocean, and the most useful steps I took along the way.
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🔝Ja tenim aquí el butlletí de juliol! Últimes novetats en #recerca a la #metròpoli. Hi trobaràs:
📊 Discriminació racialitzada #ECAMB
🚸 Mobilitat infantil #Click-Kids
📈 #GEM
🔗 bit.ly/recerca-metropolitana-juliol-25
📊 Discriminació racialitzada #ECAMB
🚸 Mobilitat infantil #Click-Kids
📈 #GEM
🔗 bit.ly/recerca-metropolitana-juliol-25
July 23, 2025 at 9:34 AM
🔝Ja tenim aquí el butlletí de juliol! Últimes novetats en #recerca a la #metròpoli. Hi trobaràs:
📊 Discriminació racialitzada #ECAMB
🚸 Mobilitat infantil #Click-Kids
📈 #GEM
🔗 bit.ly/recerca-metropolitana-juliol-25
📊 Discriminació racialitzada #ECAMB
🚸 Mobilitat infantil #Click-Kids
📈 #GEM
🔗 bit.ly/recerca-metropolitana-juliol-25
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📢S’apropa la jornada “Barris i polítiques públiques de seguretat”!
Parlarem de planificació local de la #seguretat i l’ús d’indicadors a escala de #barri per millorar les #polítiquespúbliques 🏘️
No t’ho perdis!
📅30 de setembre
🕑9:30 h
📍Hub Social Barcelona
🔗 bit.ly/barris-seguretat-25
Parlarem de planificació local de la #seguretat i l’ús d’indicadors a escala de #barri per millorar les #polítiquespúbliques 🏘️
No t’ho perdis!
📅30 de setembre
🕑9:30 h
📍Hub Social Barcelona
🔗 bit.ly/barris-seguretat-25
July 22, 2025 at 9:21 AM
📢S’apropa la jornada “Barris i polítiques públiques de seguretat”!
Parlarem de planificació local de la #seguretat i l’ús d’indicadors a escala de #barri per millorar les #polítiquespúbliques 🏘️
No t’ho perdis!
📅30 de setembre
🕑9:30 h
📍Hub Social Barcelona
🔗 bit.ly/barris-seguretat-25
Parlarem de planificació local de la #seguretat i l’ús d’indicadors a escala de #barri per millorar les #polítiquespúbliques 🏘️
No t’ho perdis!
📅30 de setembre
🕑9:30 h
📍Hub Social Barcelona
🔗 bit.ly/barris-seguretat-25
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Même pour un @nature.com , il ne va pas chez le coiffeur !
Félicitations à @lonnibesancon.bsky.social
Le voilà l'égal du fleuron, qui fait aussi Nature pour raconter ses fraudes criminelles
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Félicitations à @lonnibesancon.bsky.social
Le voilà l'égal du fleuron, qui fait aussi Nature pour raconter ses fraudes criminelles
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The COVID-19 pandemic transformed this scientist into a research-integrity sleuth
Lonni Besançon has faced online abuse, threats and legal challenges. But he remains proud of his service to science and society.
www.nature.com
July 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Même pour un @nature.com , il ne va pas chez le coiffeur !
Félicitations à @lonnibesancon.bsky.social
Le voilà l'égal du fleuron, qui fait aussi Nature pour raconter ses fraudes criminelles
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Félicitations à @lonnibesancon.bsky.social
Le voilà l'égal du fleuron, qui fait aussi Nature pour raconter ses fraudes criminelles
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Neat field experiment providing evidence for a tendency towards triadic closure in social networks, net of homophily and shared opportunities. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Tendencies toward triadic closure: Field experimental evidence | PNAS
Empirical social networks are characterized by a high degree of triadic closure (i.e.,
transitivity, clustering): network neighbors of the same ind...
www.pnas.org
July 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Neat field experiment providing evidence for a tendency towards triadic closure in social networks, net of homophily and shared opportunities. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research has a call for grant proposals for US-based researchers with Swedish citizenship or a degree from Sweden who want to move to a Swedish university. SEK 15 million over 5 years. Aimed at science and tech, so maybe a CSS researcher?
Sök SSF Individual Grants 2025 Ingvar Carlsson Award – Across the Atlantic - Stiftelsen för strategisk forskning
Stiftelsen för strategisk forskning, SSF, ger 45 miljoner kronor i forskningsbidrag till USA-baserade forskare som vill …
strategiska.se
July 3, 2025 at 7:55 AM
The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research has a call for grant proposals for US-based researchers with Swedish citizenship or a degree from Sweden who want to move to a Swedish university. SEK 15 million over 5 years. Aimed at science and tech, so maybe a CSS researcher?