No, no, this is not a lemon! Just a citrus fruit with homonymously colored rind

The average salary of faculty by rank at R1 universities.

Cool video, too bad no sociologist made it into the final cut 🙃 youtu.be/CYlon2tvywA?...

Finally out from @acastroaraujo.bsky.social and @nicolasrestrepo.bsky.social

I wrote another thing, this time about hiring networks in sociology pablobellodelpon.github.io/blog/2025soc...

Another micro finding from my dive into the field of Philosophy: 20% of Princeton’s faculty are academic inbreds, way ahead of the rest

Philosophers will either have the most extravagant webpage imaginable or no information about them on the internet whatsoever

I wrote this thing about algorithms in rock climbing

pablobellodelpon.github.io/blog/2025qua...

Transformative experience. I wanted to screen embryos using polygenic scores but now:

a new article in Political Psychology: osf.io/rhf4q

we argue that studies of belief change have an identifiability problem much like the APC problem: the composition of change (who changed or how much they changed) is observationally confounded.

with @pablobellode.bsky.social & @stephenvaisey.com:

Great paper by C. Thi Nguyen, but I'd say it overestimates how much we know about people's motivations for action in the presence of scores and rankings.

www.jesp.org/index.php/je...

My meditation app

My new favorite example of the "nobody knows anything" theory of success is how the ASR rejected The Strength of Weak Ties because Granovetter included the word "alienation" in the title, which, according to the reviewer, was a "eximious sociological cul-de-sac."

It was only about 500 years ago that some due said: "We must always take heed that we buy no more of strangers than we do sell them; for so we should impoverish ourselves and enrich them"

"After reading Parsons, I decided sociology was just too difficult for me" Gary S. Becker 🫡

"Racial bias eliminated when ratings switch from five stars to thumbs up or down." The research is cool, but in the thumbs condition, 92% of people gave a thumbs-up. So the rating system does not convey much information anymore, neither about racism nor about work quality.

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Due to icy conditions
The Jensen is through - boo

Me every time the oranges start to get moldy after a month sitting in the fruit bowl