Scott Oatley
scottoatley.bsky.social
Scott Oatley
@scottoatley.bsky.social
Research Associate English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)

Website: https://scott0atley.github.io/Scott0atley/

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1533-3214
Last Friday I had a great time presenting on work constructing synthetic cohorts and using linked administrative data using the UKHLS.

See below for a snapshot of those results or follow the link to my website to download the slides and find out more here lnkd.in/eKanfR2a
November 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
As of yesterday, I have officially passed my Viva! Very surreal that the PhD journey has come to an end.
May 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
For those interested in Handling Missing Data Methods, see via the link some SGSSS training materials that cover a wide range of methods and materials in both R and Stata format:

scott0atley.github.io/Scott0atley/...

#sociology #socsky #quant
Scott Oatley - Training
scott0atley.github.io
May 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Fantastic opportunity to network and present with some fantastic quant people!
Conference Announcement:

If you conduct research using large social surveys then we want to hear from you. Do consider attending the LSS 2nd Symposium hosted at the EFI University of Edinburgh on the 27th May 2025.
April 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Very happy to announce that I will be joining the ELSA team as a Research Associate over at the University of Manchester. Super lucky to get the chance to work with some great people!

#academicsky #sociology
March 31, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I've finally been able to set up a Jupyter Notebook that can use Stata, R, Python, and Mplus all at the same time. The base Python kernel means that for Mplus to run, it has to run the Mplusautomation package through R which is then run through Python. The time delay is surprisingly fine so far!
March 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
As of a few days ago I have officially (officially, officially thanks admin) submitted my PhD.

This is my formal apology tweet to all the emails that have gone unanswered over the past few months. An apology email tour is planned.

Now on to submitting this growing pile of paper manuscripts!
February 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Introducing: socstrat

A new command available on ssc for stata users.

This command cleans and generates a full analytical 8-category NS-SEC based on either SOC 90, 00, 10, or 20 as well as RGSC on SOC 90, 00, or 10.

Hopefully this makes life a little easier for people.

#academicsky #stata
January 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Bit of a Hail Mary ask but does anyone have a link to the SOC 2020 derivation of NS-SEC that includes the 1.1 & 1.2 breakdown of NS-SEC 1?

The official documentation appears to have abandoned this practice from SOC 90-2010. Or are you now forced to code into operational classes -> analytical now?
December 28, 2024 at 7:52 PM
NS-SEC Stata program coming circa 2025 possibly...
December 24, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Just reading this article on the use of clusters from SA in modelling and finding it really interesting. I've always avoided (and been told by others) to avoid doing this because of the data reduction issues involved, this method seems... promising?

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Robustness assessment of regressions using cluster analysis typologies: a bootstrap procedure with application in state sequence analysis - BMC Medical Research Methodology
Background In standard Sequence Analysis, similar trajectories are clustered together to create a typology of trajectories, which is then often used to evaluate the association between sequence patter...
link.springer.com
December 20, 2024 at 7:29 PM
Update for the update:

1) Dynamic Button selection improves user quality
2) tied server load to button selection to speed up results
3) slimmed down latent trait code so crashes should now be a thing of the past

please do comment/message any more suggestions. Code available in about us page!
The Class Calculator has been updated!

Check out our new and improved teaching tool here:

eosscc.shinyapps.io/Edinburgh_Cl...

Comes with 7 social class schemas to interact with.

#academicsky #socsky
Class Calculator
eosscc.shinyapps.io
December 12, 2024 at 2:46 PM
The Class Calculator has been updated!

Check out our new and improved teaching tool here:

eosscc.shinyapps.io/Edinburgh_Cl...

Comes with 7 social class schemas to interact with.

#academicsky #socsky
Class Calculator
eosscc.shinyapps.io
December 11, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Had some really great feedback on this talk yesterday. I'm still not entirely convinced myself here, but I think it is a useful exercise nevertheless.

Things to consider:
Gender sensitivity
How to account for women falling out of work?
Negative loading of social intercourse
...
I just gave a talk on social status to the @largesocialsurveys.bsky.social group. To check out the presentation head over the my website and download it:

scott0atley.github.io/Scott0atley/...
Scott Oatley - Presentations
scott0atley.github.io
November 30, 2024 at 12:17 PM
I just gave a talk on social status to the @largesocialsurveys.bsky.social group. To check out the presentation head over the my website and download it:

scott0atley.github.io/Scott0atley/...
Scott Oatley - Presentations
scott0atley.github.io
November 29, 2024 at 3:01 PM
If you want to follow along with tomorrows training “Survey and Questionnaire Construction: the Shiny Package in R” that I’m hosting @edinburghup.bsky.social find the training materials on my website:

scott0atley.github.io/Scott0atley/...

#academicsky #socsky #Rtraining
Scott Oatley - Training
scott0atley.github.io
November 24, 2024 at 8:53 PM
Reposted by Scott Oatley
Wee jaunt to University of Stirling for a super useful and informative weights workshop delivered by Pierre Walthery from the UK Data Service. Cheers @kateohara.bsky.social for organising through the Large Social Surveys group (time to make a blue sky account so I can tag you pls).
November 22, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Reposted by Scott Oatley
Yes, this works very well & easy to do - use ORCID ✌️
#socialpsyc
#psychSciSky
#AcademicSky
Academics wanting to 'verify' their Bluesky profile as genuine might give an ORCID identifier in their profile and link back to their Bluesky profile from ORCID.

#AcademicSky
November 22, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Loving the weights training organised by @kateohara.bsky.social today at Stirling #academicsky #socsky
November 22, 2024 at 12:42 PM
Reposted by Scott Oatley
It seems that there was no Sociology Journals starter pack, so we created one: go.bsky.app/93ta3Gs -- do let us know which journals we missed!
November 22, 2024 at 10:23 AM
I am already foreseeing the papers coming from the Bluesky rev. Who gets sorted into the most prestigious “starter packs” as reifying status etc #socsky
November 18, 2024 at 8:03 PM
I have my Christmas outfit planned
#academicsky
November 18, 2024 at 7:58 PM
Reposted by Scott Oatley
Reminder that we’re hiring an Associate Professor in Sociology at UCL Social Research. Position is open to any applied field, deadline 20 December. (Reposting as the link was broken) www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 18, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Let’s see if I can do this right. I’m just finishing writing up my PhD on youth transitions with a focus on social stratification and handling missing data, say hi and maybe offer me a job?

#academicsky
November 16, 2024 at 4:01 PM