Fabrizio Bernardi
@fabriberna.bsky.social
Sociologist at UNED (Madrid) working on educational inequalities, social mobility and social demography, EiC of ESR.
https://www.fabriziobernardi.net
https://www.fabriziobernardi.net
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Fabrizio Bernardi
@fabriberna.bsky.social
· Mar 31
Our paper with @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social is now out at SSR!
Have a look if you are interested in social stratification and/or sociogenomics
Below are the main findings and contributions 1/6
doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
Have a look if you are interested in social stratification and/or sociogenomics
Below are the main findings and contributions 1/6
doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
In Madrid this week? Don’t miss @ramina-sotoudeh.bsky.social presentation
"The Hidden Demographics of Prenatal Selection: Evidence from Family DNA"
at the UNED inequality/social demography seminar
When: 13th Nov, 19.00-20.30
Where: Room Jorge Cavodeassi (OEI), UNED,
Calle Bravo Murillo 38
"The Hidden Demographics of Prenatal Selection: Evidence from Family DNA"
at the UNED inequality/social demography seminar
When: 13th Nov, 19.00-20.30
Where: Room Jorge Cavodeassi (OEI), UNED,
Calle Bravo Murillo 38
The UNED inequality and social demography seminar is back, with @ramina-sotoudeh.bsky.social @l-sage.bsky.social @melindacmills.bsky.social @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social @nicolettabalbo and @danieloesch
If you are Madrid, come along!
👇the program for this academic year
If you are Madrid, come along!
👇the program for this academic year
November 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM
In Madrid this week? Don’t miss @ramina-sotoudeh.bsky.social presentation
"The Hidden Demographics of Prenatal Selection: Evidence from Family DNA"
at the UNED inequality/social demography seminar
When: 13th Nov, 19.00-20.30
Where: Room Jorge Cavodeassi (OEI), UNED,
Calle Bravo Murillo 38
"The Hidden Demographics of Prenatal Selection: Evidence from Family DNA"
at the UNED inequality/social demography seminar
When: 13th Nov, 19.00-20.30
Where: Room Jorge Cavodeassi (OEI), UNED,
Calle Bravo Murillo 38
Reposted by Fabrizio Bernardi
I'm wrapping up the case study of Bologna's 1970s - 1990s traffic plans, and I think that there are three main overarching policy takeaways:
- a strong initial vision, which is both simple and sophisticated;
- incrementalism, but with strong commitment over time.
- total pragmatism;
- a strong initial vision, which is both simple and sophisticated;
- incrementalism, but with strong commitment over time.
- total pragmatism;
October 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I'm wrapping up the case study of Bologna's 1970s - 1990s traffic plans, and I think that there are three main overarching policy takeaways:
- a strong initial vision, which is both simple and sophisticated;
- incrementalism, but with strong commitment over time.
- total pragmatism;
- a strong initial vision, which is both simple and sophisticated;
- incrementalism, but with strong commitment over time.
- total pragmatism;
¿Te interesan los temas de desigualdad y movilidad social? ¿Quieres hacer el doctorado?
Va a salir una Beca FPI en el proyecto I+D que dirijo:
“Does luck matter? The role of luck in individual life courses and views of redistribution”.
La convocatoria oficial de la UNED saldrá en breve.
1/2
Va a salir una Beca FPI en el proyecto I+D que dirijo:
“Does luck matter? The role of luck in individual life courses and views of redistribution”.
La convocatoria oficial de la UNED saldrá en breve.
1/2
November 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM
¿Te interesan los temas de desigualdad y movilidad social? ¿Quieres hacer el doctorado?
Va a salir una Beca FPI en el proyecto I+D que dirijo:
“Does luck matter? The role of luck in individual life courses and views of redistribution”.
La convocatoria oficial de la UNED saldrá en breve.
1/2
Va a salir una Beca FPI en el proyecto I+D que dirijo:
“Does luck matter? The role of luck in individual life courses and views of redistribution”.
La convocatoria oficial de la UNED saldrá en breve.
1/2
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Damos salida a la organizacion del proximo congreso de sociologia, Julio 2026. Nos vemos en Bilbao
📢 ¡Reserva esta fecha! El XVI Congreso Español de Sociología se celebrará en #Bilbao del 15 al 17 de julio de 2026. Súmate al foro bienal de la investigación social.
El plazo para enviar comunicaciones se abre el 19 de enero.
Zure zain gaude / Te esperamos.
El plazo para enviar comunicaciones se abre el 19 de enero.
Zure zain gaude / Te esperamos.
November 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Damos salida a la organizacion del proximo congreso de sociologia, Julio 2026. Nos vemos en Bilbao
I delivered the laudatio for @socarxiv.bsky.social which won the 2025 @kohli-sociology.bsky.social Infrastructure Prize for Sociology. The ceremony was at the @eui-eu.bsky.social and SocArXiv was represented by @philipncohen.com .
My laudatio here:
www.fabriziobernardi.net/laudatio-for...
My laudatio here:
www.fabriziobernardi.net/laudatio-for...
Laudatio for the Award of the Kohli Infrastructure Prize for Sociology to SocArXiv » fabrizio bernardi
On November 5th at the EUI, I had the honour of delivering the laudatio for SocArXiv, which was awarded the Kohli Infrastructure Prize for Sociology for the year 2025. SocArXiv ... Read more
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November 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM
I delivered the laudatio for @socarxiv.bsky.social which won the 2025 @kohli-sociology.bsky.social Infrastructure Prize for Sociology. The ceremony was at the @eui-eu.bsky.social and SocArXiv was represented by @philipncohen.com .
My laudatio here:
www.fabriziobernardi.net/laudatio-for...
My laudatio here:
www.fabriziobernardi.net/laudatio-for...
¿Alguien en Presidencia, Prospectiva o alguna Subdirección General que pueda ayudarme a hacer llegar un SOS a la ministra de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (o a algún DG, me vale)?
👇. 1/3
👇. 1/3
November 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
¿Alguien en Presidencia, Prospectiva o alguna Subdirección General que pueda ayudarme a hacer llegar un SOS a la ministra de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (o a algún DG, me vale)?
👇. 1/3
👇. 1/3
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New publication in @actasociologica.bsky.social!
@filippogch.bsky.social and I use a novel decomposition method (@ang-yu.bsky.social and Elwert) to study if and how *childcare arrangements* under age 3 shape disparities in children’s cognitive skills
➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
1/5
@filippogch.bsky.social and I use a novel decomposition method (@ang-yu.bsky.social and Elwert) to study if and how *childcare arrangements* under age 3 shape disparities in children’s cognitive skills
➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
1/5
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November 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
New publication in @actasociologica.bsky.social!
@filippogch.bsky.social and I use a novel decomposition method (@ang-yu.bsky.social and Elwert) to study if and how *childcare arrangements* under age 3 shape disparities in children’s cognitive skills
➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
1/5
@filippogch.bsky.social and I use a novel decomposition method (@ang-yu.bsky.social and Elwert) to study if and how *childcare arrangements* under age 3 shape disparities in children’s cognitive skills
➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
1/5
Reposted by Fabrizio Bernardi
🧵There's this phenomenon you sometimes see in certain corners of science where a small group of researchers all work on the same narrow topic and mostly just talk to each other. It becomes a really insular community: everyone cites everyone else, ... 1/5
November 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM
🧵There's this phenomenon you sometimes see in certain corners of science where a small group of researchers all work on the same narrow topic and mostly just talk to each other. It becomes a really insular community: everyone cites everyone else, ... 1/5
Reposted by Fabrizio Bernardi
After an investigation which took >2 years, the journal Cross Cultural Research has retracted a paper which used Lynn's "national IQ" database, on the grounds that "Post-publication review raised serious concerns about the validity of the data & the article findings"
Retraction: Likely Electromagnetic Foundations of Gender Inequality, 2025
journals.sagepub.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:59 AM
After an investigation which took >2 years, the journal Cross Cultural Research has retracted a paper which used Lynn's "national IQ" database, on the grounds that "Post-publication review raised serious concerns about the validity of the data & the article findings"
Reposted by Fabrizio Bernardi
Peter Bearman - Laureate of the Kohli Prize 2025- gives the Max Weber lecture @eui-eu.bsky.social. He speaks about pathways to poverty analysing thousands of letters written to Warren Buffet using LLM.
@kohli-sociology.bsky.social
@kohli-sociology.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Peter Bearman - Laureate of the Kohli Prize 2025- gives the Max Weber lecture @eui-eu.bsky.social. He speaks about pathways to poverty analysing thousands of letters written to Warren Buffet using LLM.
@kohli-sociology.bsky.social
@kohli-sociology.bsky.social
Reposted by Fabrizio Bernardi
Congratulations to us, and thank you, @kohli-sociology.bsky.social!
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Congratulations to us, and thank you, @kohli-sociology.bsky.social!
Reposted by Fabrizio Bernardi
Niche post but I'm amazed that the time-worn ISEI does almost as good a job at explaining earnings as a recent scale designed to explain earnings
Treiman constant ftw
Read all about it in @europeansocreview.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...
Treiman constant ftw
Read all about it in @europeansocreview.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...
November 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Niche post but I'm amazed that the time-worn ISEI does almost as good a job at explaining earnings as a recent scale designed to explain earnings
Treiman constant ftw
Read all about it in @europeansocreview.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...
Treiman constant ftw
Read all about it in @europeansocreview.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...
Reposted by Fabrizio Bernardi
Curious to learn what is behind the European Social Survey? This Podcast with Rory Fitzgerad provides a glimpse behind the scenes of this impressive data set. @ess-survey.bsky.social
𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗲𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄!
Kevin Caners sits down with Rory Fitzgerald, Director of the European Social Survey and laureate of the 2024 Kohli Infrastructure Prize, to uncover the story behind one of the most influential social research projects in Europe.
pod.link/1786456001/e...
@ess-survey.bsky.social
Kevin Caners sits down with Rory Fitzgerald, Director of the European Social Survey and laureate of the 2024 Kohli Infrastructure Prize, to uncover the story behind one of the most influential social research projects in Europe.
pod.link/1786456001/e...
@ess-survey.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Curious to learn what is behind the European Social Survey? This Podcast with Rory Fitzgerad provides a glimpse behind the scenes of this impressive data set. @ess-survey.bsky.social
I have written are review of "The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture" by Dalton Conley
Pre-print on @socarxiv.bsky.social here:
osf.io/preprints/so...
I highly recommend it, particularly to graduate students
The reasons👇
Pre-print on @socarxiv.bsky.social here:
osf.io/preprints/so...
I highly recommend it, particularly to graduate students
The reasons👇
osf.io
November 3, 2025 at 7:58 AM
I have written are review of "The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture" by Dalton Conley
Pre-print on @socarxiv.bsky.social here:
osf.io/preprints/so...
I highly recommend it, particularly to graduate students
The reasons👇
Pre-print on @socarxiv.bsky.social here:
osf.io/preprints/so...
I highly recommend it, particularly to graduate students
The reasons👇
Reposted by Fabrizio Bernardi
✨𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗖𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱✨
Join us in honoring the laureates of the Kohli Prize and Infrastructure Prize for Sociology.
📅 4–6 November 2025
📍 European University Institute, Florence
🔗 Register via: kohlifoundation.eu/registration/
@socarxiv.bsky.social @philipncohen.com @incitecolumbia.bsky.social
Join us in honoring the laureates of the Kohli Prize and Infrastructure Prize for Sociology.
📅 4–6 November 2025
📍 European University Institute, Florence
🔗 Register via: kohlifoundation.eu/registration/
@socarxiv.bsky.social @philipncohen.com @incitecolumbia.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
✨𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗖𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱✨
Join us in honoring the laureates of the Kohli Prize and Infrastructure Prize for Sociology.
📅 4–6 November 2025
📍 European University Institute, Florence
🔗 Register via: kohlifoundation.eu/registration/
@socarxiv.bsky.social @philipncohen.com @incitecolumbia.bsky.social
Join us in honoring the laureates of the Kohli Prize and Infrastructure Prize for Sociology.
📅 4–6 November 2025
📍 European University Institute, Florence
🔗 Register via: kohlifoundation.eu/registration/
@socarxiv.bsky.social @philipncohen.com @incitecolumbia.bsky.social
Yesterday we had the first Inequality and Social Demography Seminar of the Madrid Population and Society Research Network at UNED. Great talk by #NicolettaBalbo, very well attended with researchers from all Madrid research centers: CSIC, UCM, UAM, UCIIIM and UNED
October 17, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Yesterday we had the first Inequality and Social Demography Seminar of the Madrid Population and Society Research Network at UNED. Great talk by #NicolettaBalbo, very well attended with researchers from all Madrid research centers: CSIC, UCM, UAM, UCIIIM and UNED
Reposted by Fabrizio Bernardi
📢𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻!📢
We’re now accepting applications for the 𝗞𝗼𝗵𝗹𝗶 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center @wzb.bsky.social
Apply via our online portal:
kohlifoundation.eu/programs-koh...
📆 Deadline 16 November 2025
We’re now accepting applications for the 𝗞𝗼𝗵𝗹𝗶 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center @wzb.bsky.social
Apply via our online portal:
kohlifoundation.eu/programs-koh...
📆 Deadline 16 November 2025
October 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
📢𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻!📢
We’re now accepting applications for the 𝗞𝗼𝗵𝗹𝗶 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center @wzb.bsky.social
Apply via our online portal:
kohlifoundation.eu/programs-koh...
📆 Deadline 16 November 2025
We’re now accepting applications for the 𝗞𝗼𝗵𝗹𝗶 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center @wzb.bsky.social
Apply via our online portal:
kohlifoundation.eu/programs-koh...
📆 Deadline 16 November 2025
The UNED inequality and social demography seminar is back, with @ramina-sotoudeh.bsky.social @l-sage.bsky.social @melindacmills.bsky.social @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social @nicolettabalbo and @danieloesch
If you are Madrid, come along!
👇the program for this academic year
If you are Madrid, come along!
👇the program for this academic year
October 13, 2025 at 7:09 AM
The UNED inequality and social demography seminar is back, with @ramina-sotoudeh.bsky.social @l-sage.bsky.social @melindacmills.bsky.social @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social @nicolettabalbo and @danieloesch
If you are Madrid, come along!
👇the program for this academic year
If you are Madrid, come along!
👇the program for this academic year
Reposted by Fabrizio Bernardi
Including my paper with Carmel Blank on inequalities in enjoying second chance paths to academic education
🌲Our autumn issue is here to accompany you through the start of the semester with amazing research by @kbkarlson @PFallesen @HallstenMartin @pengzell @fctropf @aliciagsierra @PassarettaG @marespadafor @laurafursich @jungin612 @laui_silva &more!
Read it at academic.oup.com/esr/issue/41/5
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Read it at academic.oup.com/esr/issue/41/5
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Volume 41 Issue 5 | European Sociological Review | Oxford Academic
Publishes original articles in all fields of sociology ranging in length from short research notes up to major reports. It provides a resource of state-of-the-art quantitative and comparative researc...
academic.oup.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Including my paper with Carmel Blank on inequalities in enjoying second chance paths to academic education
🌲Our autumn issue is here to accompany you through the start of the semester with amazing research by @kbkarlson @PFallesen @HallstenMartin @pengzell @fctropf @aliciagsierra @PassarettaG @marespadafor @laurafursich @jungin612 @laui_silva &more!
Read it at academic.oup.com/esr/issue/41/5
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Read it at academic.oup.com/esr/issue/41/5
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Volume 41 Issue 5 | European Sociological Review | Oxford Academic
Publishes original articles in all fields of sociology ranging in length from short research notes up to major reports. It provides a resource of state-of-the-art quantitative and comparative researc...
academic.oup.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:56 AM
🌲Our autumn issue is here to accompany you through the start of the semester with amazing research by @kbkarlson @PFallesen @HallstenMartin @pengzell @fctropf @aliciagsierra @PassarettaG @marespadafor @laurafursich @jungin612 @laui_silva &more!
Read it at academic.oup.com/esr/issue/41/5
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Read it at academic.oup.com/esr/issue/41/5
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Reposted by Fabrizio Bernardi
Volume 41, Issue 5, October 2025 of @europeansocreview.bsky.social is out!
A very nice collection of interesting papers (almost all open access). Browse the index and find your next read
academic.oup.com/esr/issue
A very nice collection of interesting papers (almost all open access). Browse the index and find your next read
academic.oup.com/esr/issue
October 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Volume 41, Issue 5, October 2025 of @europeansocreview.bsky.social is out!
A very nice collection of interesting papers (almost all open access). Browse the index and find your next read
academic.oup.com/esr/issue
A very nice collection of interesting papers (almost all open access). Browse the index and find your next read
academic.oup.com/esr/issue
Reposted by Fabrizio Bernardi
ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.
October 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.
Reposted by Fabrizio Bernardi
✨New (open access) article in ESR with Gerbert Kraaykamp!
We demonstrate that cultural capital is positively associated with a higher occupational position due to access to more resourceful networks.
Read here: doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
We demonstrate that cultural capital is positively associated with a higher occupational position due to access to more resourceful networks.
Read here: doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
November 19, 2024 at 2:51 PM
✨New (open access) article in ESR with Gerbert Kraaykamp!
We demonstrate that cultural capital is positively associated with a higher occupational position due to access to more resourceful networks.
Read here: doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
We demonstrate that cultural capital is positively associated with a higher occupational position due to access to more resourceful networks.
Read here: doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
Reposted by Fabrizio Bernardi
➡️New paper out with amazing data: library borrowings of the entire population of Denmark!
If cultural tastes are always stratified, the type of stratification depends on the wider inequalities within a context
#EH_Blaabæk #S_Friedman #MM_Jæger #A_Reeves
academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...
If cultural tastes are always stratified, the type of stratification depends on the wider inequalities within a context
#EH_Blaabæk #S_Friedman #MM_Jæger #A_Reeves
academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...
How are cultural tastes stratified? Evidence from library borrowing for the entire population of Denmark
Abstract. Research shows that cultural tastes are socially stratified. Yet, most of this research relies on small-sample surveys and includes only a few di
doi.org
September 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM
➡️New paper out with amazing data: library borrowings of the entire population of Denmark!
If cultural tastes are always stratified, the type of stratification depends on the wider inequalities within a context
#EH_Blaabæk #S_Friedman #MM_Jæger #A_Reeves
academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...
If cultural tastes are always stratified, the type of stratification depends on the wider inequalities within a context
#EH_Blaabæk #S_Friedman #MM_Jæger #A_Reeves
academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...