Fabrizio Bernardi

Which must-read book+3 articles would recommend to a first year Sociology PhD student? Which book+3 articles impacted you most, during your own PhD? I have made these questions to a group of colleagues. Here the combined list: www.fabriziobernardi.net/a-sociology-... 1/2🧵

The 2026 volume of the Annual Review of Sociology is now online. The most read article is "Luck and Predictability in the Life Course" by @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social @fabriberna.bsky.social, William Foley, and @scottdoney.bsky.social Read it here arevie.ws/4wyNIBJ

New ETV out for everyone! I’m joined by @fabriberna.bsky.social to discuss his work on sociology of luck, how luck has been downplayed in the field, and what comes of expanding the concept! Enjoy!

🌟Celebrating the newly released metrics and a +0.3 increase in the Impact Factor of ESR compared to last year! Now IF is 3.3 #18 of 222 in Sociology We are grateful to everyone who contributes to European Sociological Review and helps shape the Journal’s continued development!

Carlo Ginzburg, one of the great historians of the XXth cen has died. I recently wrote a post on how to nurture serendipity in research based on Carlo G. 's research method (the Venetian roulette). Here the post as a small token of admiration. www.fabriziobernardi.net/rolling-the-...

The winner of the #ecsr thesis prize 2025: @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social!!! Gaia graduated from the @eui-sps.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social #ecsr2026

🔓New #OpenAccess at ESR Do people avoid dating political opponents because of politics itself? #ShannonTaflinger @hudde.bsky.social suggest otherwise! Political affiliation is used as a proxy for non-political characteristics: similarity, character, and social approval! doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcag020

Why do some students leave school early? 🔥 New #OpenAccess at ESR Lynn L J van Vugt, Rolf van der Velden & @Mark_Levels find that parental early cognitive skills have the strongest contribution (18%) immediately followed by household income (14%)! More at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcag018

Working at home, listening to a cassette from the PhD time, using my old cassette recorder, great playing list, you can copy it for your playlist on Spotify, note Livi Bacci's book on the left...really vintage afternoon

📝Why do Americans avoid cross-partisan dating? New paper w/ Shannon Taflinger in ESR We test 3 mechanisms: •perceived similarity in values & lifestyle •character judgments •fear of social disapproval ➡️All matter, similarity leads And: Dem women penalize out-partisans most doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

Can we foster serendipity in our research? I have written a short post on this: www.fabriziobernardi.net/rolling-the-... Inspired by the work of the great historian C. Ginzburg (and to a less extent by the Dice Man)

New article at ESR! Where refugees are first placed matters in the long run With Swedish register data & refugee placement policy as exogenous treatment #M_Dahlberg #S_Kohl #M_Valeyatheepillay show that initial neighborhood contexts shape future residential integration doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf034

🔉New Dondena Decode Episode is out! 🎙️ In this episode, Nicoletta Balbo (@bocconi.bsky.social) interviews @fabriberna.bsky.social (UNED Madrid) on the role of luck in shaping social inequality and life chances. 🎧 Episode available here: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

🚨New in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... Genetic principal components (PCs) are commonly used to adjust for population stratification in genetic studies. In this paper, we quantify how much direct genetic signal is lost when using these “catch-all” adjustments. 🧵

Tomorrow in Madrid! GEPS/UNED Inequality and Social Demography seminar Arnout van de Rijt (EUI) “What Drives the Matthew Effect in Science Funding: Money or Status?” Jorge Cavodeassi Room, UNED, Calle Bravo Murillo 38, Madrid May 7 (7:00–8:30 pm) Followed as usual by some drinks

New paper out in Annual Review of Sociology with @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social #W.Foley and @l-sage.bsky.social "Luck and Predictability in the Life Course" We take stock of what we know about luck and its role in shaping life-courses and inequality www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

🌱 Our new issue has blossomed, showcasing brand new inspiring evidence on education as one of the most powerful forces shaping inequality and life chances in contemporary societies! Read it at: academic.oup.com/esr/issue with many articles #OpenAccess!

Only a matter of time until he does he does a version of the Parks-and-Rec-Andy movie reenactment bit www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bYW...

Just throwing this out there... sfdora.org/2025/03/27/u...

🎉 An exciting new project just startet in April! #STEMPATHS More info ➡️ www.soz.univie.ac.at/en/detail-ne... Stay tuned! @univie.ac.at #Sociology #STEM #women #career

¿Interesado/a en la investigación científica de las desigualdades sociales? ¡La UNED (@uneduniv.bsky.social) tiene un nuevo máster que te va a interesar! Checkéalo aquí: blogs.uned.es/mads/

Sociologists interested in socio-genomics should have a look at these great slides

🚩New experimental evidence by @Asta_B_Lund @AndersTrolle #M_Büchler_Henriksen! Teachers’ grading bias against boys, minoritized students, and those from less educated families persists even when more individual-level information is available! Read it at doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcag005

👏 We are delighted to announce the 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗼-𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗹 (𝗦𝗢𝗘𝗣) as the 2026 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 of the 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆. 👏 Full details: kohlifoundation.eu/news/infrast... #SOEP #ScienceAward #InfrastructurePrize #forSociology @diw.de

✨It is with great honor that we announce 𝗥𝗮𝗲𝘄𝘆𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹𝗹 as the 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗞𝗼𝗵𝗹𝗶 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 laureate.✨ Full details: kohlifoundation.eu/news/kohli-p... @raewynconnell.bsky.social #KohliPrize #RaewynConnell #Sociology #ScienceAward

A review of "The Social Genome" by Dalton Conley is now out in the RES (Spanish Journal of Sociology): recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/re... Lots of ideas for thinking about classic sociological questions, through a sociogenomic lens

New #OA at ESR 🌟 What is the income penalty of dropping out of #VET in Germany? With an IV strategy, @kostermann.bsky.social, @patzinaalex.bsky.social & @katymorris.bsky.social show that the causal effect is substantial and especially pronounced for lower SES individuals doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

🌟New #OA at ESR Research by @jlestevez.bsky.social & #ARotkirch shows 2.5G migrants (one native parent) in Finland delay parenthood longer than natives—defying expectations of both maintaining origin-country high fertility and simple convergence to host-country norms ➡️doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcag009

New at ESR #OpenAccess Does violence back home still shape refugees’ plans after reaching safety? #Y_Kosyakova #A_Ette @SchwSilvia show that especially short-term spikes in violence strongly affects Ukrainian refugees’ intentions to settle abroad! Read it at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcag008

The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted. What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards. Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.

Iniesta effects? a spike in fertility in Bodø in 9 months? or In Bergamo? link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New #OpenAccess Bringing economic & family sociology into the digital era, @yanghu.co.uk & @yueqiansoc.bsky.social analyze longitudinal data from @usociety.bsky.social to reveal how the use of online banking shape couples' money management and financial decisions doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcag002

New at ESR! #OpenAccess! Using new data on the establishment of Norwegian colleges 1969–1992 linked to individual register data, #ARogne #TKnutsen @modals.li revisit the role of local access to higher education in shaping gendered educational outcomes! doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf060

New at ESR! Does moving often as a child weaken social capital later in life? #RValente #MVacchiano find a more complex picture: childhood moves reduce place attachment, but can strengthen personal agency, supporting social capital in adulthood! 🔥 #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcag001

Solidarity with the people in Minneaplois protesting agaist ICE from Madrid Spain: ICE OUT!!

New at ESR: The integration paradox reconsidered! @frankvantubergen.bsky.social shows that higher perceived discrimination is not driven by education alone What matters is relative premigration education and status loss, pointing to education as a positional resource! ➡ doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf054

P. Corbetta has passed away. Prof at UniBo, methods teacher, his manual was a bible among PhD students in Trento. My first small teaching job was with him at Bologna, and he later involved me in several research activities at the Istit Cattaneo. I owe him a great deal. Ciao grande Piergiorgio

New in ESR Does educational hypogamy promote gender equality—or does it reflect who selects into these unions? 🌟New #OpenAccess study by @nadiasteiber.bsky.social and #CSiegert constrasts optimistic, pessimistic, and selection-based narratives of hypogamy within couples! 👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

New OA In ESR How do institutions and social norms affect tax payment? @lucaspasin.bsky.social #Aaszekely @squazzoni.bsky.social find that in low-quality institutions contexts, social norms can trigger vicious cycles of evasion, even when evasion is socially disapproved doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf057

New paper #OpAccess Labour market insecurity matters beyond jobs! @vincentrramos.bsky.social @ann-berrington.bsky.social show that unemployment, underemployment, and temporary work are all linked to higher parental co-residence, especially among advantaged young adults! doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf058

I have reviewed 'Orienting to Chance. Probabilism and the Future of Social Theory' by @omarlizardo.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy and @michaelstrand.bsky.social 👇

Una de las universidades privadas recientemente establecidas en Madrid, con una calidad académica cuestionable y una dirección marcada por casos de corrupción vinculados al PP. ¿Por qué no ha recibido la atención que merece? @eldiario.es @elpais.com diazvillanueva.com/la-aventura-...