Fabrizio Bernardi
Sociologist at UNED (Madrid) working on educational inequalities, social mobility and social demography, EiC of ESR.
https://www.fabriziobernardi.net
- Reposted by Fabrizio BernardiNew 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
- Reposted by Fabrizio BernardiNew 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!!
- Reposted by Fabrizio BernardiNew 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
- Reposted by Fabrizio BernardiNew 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/...
- Reposted by Fabrizio BernardiNew 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
- Reposted by Fabrizio BernardiNew 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 👇
- NEW BOOK REVIEW 👀 Fabrizio Bernardi is reviewing 'Orienting to Chance. Probabilism and the Future of Social Theory' by Strand and Lizardo. Read here 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Fabrizio BernardiUna 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-...
- This Thursday UNED/GEPS Inequality and Social Demography seminar with: Lucas Sage (IAST) Starting low to finish high? Reassessing wage growth trajectories in early careers at 19.00-20.30 Room Jorge Cavodeassi, UNED, Calle Bravo Murillo 38, 28013 Madrid and don't miss the post-seminar drinks!
- If you read this post, you might be one of those you benefit from cumulative advantage. Learn more with this new article at @europeansocreview.bsky.social
- 📢 New #OpenAccess! Why do some professors appear in the media far more than others? #RH_Heiberger @BasHofstra #S_Unger find both patterns of cumulative advantage & gender inequality, with men more likely to become “short-listed”! ➡️ Read it ungated at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf037 image.png
- Reposted by Fabrizio Bernardi🌟New paper out at ESR! Does more education mean more mobility? Evidence from Brazil by #A_Salata #SY_Cheung shows otherwise! 🚩As university access expanded, its equalizing power faded! ➡️Read the full article at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf049
- Hoy en Madrid hay huelga en defensa de la Universidad pública/ today in Madrid we go on strike to defend public univerities ("Today I wake up and strike", writing on a wall, Bologna, some years ago)
- Reposted by Fabrizio Bernardi@ipp-csic.bsky.social. En un día como el 25N hay que contarlo: La violencia contra las mujeres se esconde en la intimidad de los hogares y se cobra víctimas cada día globalmente con un coste social abrumador: No podemos ignorarlo ni tampoco relativizarlo. @csic.es elpais.com/opinion/2025...
- Reposted by Fabrizio BernardiAre citizens supportive of public spending on education when it requires paying more taxes? #ID_Özel #S_Parrado #K_Yıldırım new paper says: No! Yet evaluations of one’s own children’s schooling reduce this cost sensitivity! ➡️Read the full paper at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf043
- Off to Mannheim! Tomorrow I’ll be presenting at the MZES: “Unequal Luck: Chance as a Mechanism of Educational Inequality” with @ferraraale.bsky.social @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social where luck= chance+ consequences Here the wp: osf.io/preprints/so... 1/2
- ❗️ Tue, Nov 25, 13:45-15:15 CET 📍 A 231 and ZOOM MZES Speaker Series with @fabriberna.bsky.social "Luck and Educational Attainment" 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even... 1/2
- We use: - Variance function regressions - Siblings fixed models - Sociogenomic data for propensity for educational attainment We show that the effect of luck is socially stratified: it is larger for low SES students with high PGI for education 2/2
- Reposted by Fabrizio Bernardi🚩New experimental evidence at the European Sociological Review! #Martin_Aranguren advances the conceptualization of discrimination, addressing it as a stressor and highlighting its environmental origin!! Read the full article at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf047
- Newly accepted manuscripts at ESR, below. Check it out for continuos updates academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...
- But then can we non maliciously instruct AI as a direct alternative to online surveys?
- Reposted by Fabrizio BernardiAI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail
- See you in Sevilla! RC28 conference, 20-22 May 2026 Deadline for abstracts: 1st of December eventos.upo.es/137585/secti...
- On my way to chair a session at the GEPS (Population and Society) workshop in Madrid. Great line-up today. If you want to drop by: Sala S. Aleksiévich Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, UCM
- Reposted by Fabrizio BernardiIn Norway, you’ll be lucky if undergrads call you *anything*. Most messages or emails simply begin with, “Hei…”. I’m fine with this personally as it’s the norm here, but it *does* mean I usually need to give “the talk” to more senior students who need to contact researchers outside Norway
- Reposted by Fabrizio Bernardi¿Hablar de política en una cita romántica? ¿Algo incómodo… o una oportunidad para saber quién tienes delante? Mañana nos visita @lalamur.bsky.social de la @unisouthampton.bsky.social Acércate hasta el @cchscsic.bsky.social o sigue su charla en directo por aquí: www.youtube.com/live/QactHQc...
- Reposted by Fabrizio Bernardi🔈 *Call for Participation* 🔈 Italian Conference on Computational Social Science – CS2Italy May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++ Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org plz reshare
- Reposted by Fabrizio Bernardinew paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
- New article in @sfjournal.bsky.social with @mvaldes1989.bsky.social and I. Lievore on the effect of edu expansion among parents on children's achievement Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands among parents? Short answer: yes 1/2 academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
- Key findings: 1. The parental advantage associated to children's achievement in PISA declines as parental education expands. 2. Two mechanisms drive this decline: - parental over-qualification and - reduced positive selection of parents who attain tertiary education, with expansion. 2/2
- De acuerdo con esta propuesta 👇 Pero para atraer talento es tb indispensable simplificar las gestiones asociadas a la investigación y a la gestión de proyectos. Para empezar: 1. Abolir el requerimiento de usar la agencia de viajes 2. Subir dietas de alojamiento elpais.com/opinion/2025...
- Ejemplo del esperpento actual: invitar a un ponente extranjero para un seminario Un mes de correos entre organizadores, ponente, administración y agencia Resultado: – Vuelo Madrid–Milán: 700 €. – Hotel: tope 65 € (con la clásica cadena de memorias para aprobar “la excepción que es regla”)
- Reposted by Fabrizio BernardiThere’s a new kid in town! Companies are now selling IVF and embryo selection based on genetic testing for traits related to health and even intelligence. We outline methodological and ethical concerns, and warn against risks for social inequality. With the fantastic @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social
- 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 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
- Reposted by Fabrizio BernardiI'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;
- ¿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
- Perfil: conocimiento en desigualdades educativas, movilidad social y análisis del curso de vida; manejo de métodos cualitativos y/o cuantitativos. Para manifestaciones de interés, contactarme por email: fbernardi@poli.uned.es Pasad este mensaje a estudiantes de master/doctorado🙏
- Reposted by Fabrizio BernardiDamos 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.
- 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...
- ¿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
- ¿Queréis ayudar a la investigación? 1. Cambiad la norma y permitid reservar viajes y alojamientos sin agencias. 2. Subid la dieta (65,97 € si se invita a un ponente a Madrid… ¡casi no da ni para un cápsule!). ¡Para eso no hacen falta ni presupuestos ni votos de Junts! 2/3
- El sistema actual es un colosal despilfarro de dinero público (los billetes con la agencia a veces se triplican) y de tiempo (perdido en "memorias justificativas"). Una burocracia absurda que desincentiva pedir proyectos europeos y que otros investigadores traigan los suyos aquí. Hazed algo! 3/3
- Reposted by Fabrizio BernardiNew 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
- 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
- Reposted by Fabrizio BernardiAfter 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 BernardiPeter 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
- Reposted by Fabrizio BernardiCongratulations to us, and thank you, @kohli-sociology.bsky.social!
- Reposted by Fabrizio BernardiNiche 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-...
- Reposted by Fabrizio BernardiCurious 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👇
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Reposted by Fabrizio BernardiIncluding 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 image.png
- 🌲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 image.png
- Reposted by Fabrizio BernardiVolume 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
- Vergüenza www.eldiario.es/catalunya/mu...
- 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/...
- 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-...
- @janierola.net and @mjantti.bsky.social presenting the main findings of the Mapineq at roundtable at EU Parliament in Brussels
- A few more pics of the mapineq paricipants in the roudtable at the EU parliament on Brussels also with @melindacmills.bsky.social @edel-population.bsky.social
- Reposted by Fabrizio Bernardi– ¿Qué te llevó a alistarte? – La pobreza. La primera herramienta de reclutamiento del ejército es ir a zonas empobrecidas y ofrecer lo que EEUU no ofrece: sanidad, educación, alojamiento, ingresos, estabilidad... Ofrecemos a nuestros soldados socialismo para ir a luchar por el capitalismo. BRUTAL
- Reposted by Fabrizio Bernardi🍂 Continuamos con los estrenos: ¡ya está aquí la programación de otoño de nuestros seminarios! ⚠ Recordad que: 1️⃣ La asistencia es libre y gratuita. 2️⃣ Se retransmitirán en directo a través de nuestro canal de YouTube. Muy pronto más información sobre cada sesión. ¡Estad atentos!
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- Bologna today #Stopthewar in #Gaza
- Reposted by Fabrizio BernardiPAPER ALERT🚨 With greats @cristinasuero.bsky.social and @fabriberna.bsky.social, we explore how the ed. gradient in the occurrence and timing of first motherhood varies across Spanish provinces (NUTS3). #OA publication at Population, Space and Place: doi.org/10.1002/psp.70106 Want to know more?👇
- In many journals associate editors play an important role in the review process but their names don’t appear in communications with authors. At Europ Soc Rev, when we reject a paper the letter is signed by both EiC and AE. In others only the EiC signs. Having the AE in the letter adds transparency
- Peer review is not (only) a publication game or lottery. It is also about academic exchange of ideas. As authors, we want to know who read our ideas. As EiC and AE we take difficult decisions and piss off many authors, but we try to be polite, provide reasons, and put our faces under our decisions.
- Guinness sales will skyrocket with all those sociologists and political scientists around
- The next ECSR conference is brought to you by @tcdsociology.bsky.social and @esri.ie! Trinity College Dublin, 15-16 June 2026 www.ecsr2026.net #ECSR2026 Abstract submission deadline: 11 January 2026
- Reposted by Fabrizio BernardiNew article with Helena Troiano in European Journal of Higher Education: “Patterns of university progression and social inequalities: delving into complex trajectories in higher education” 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2156...
- Reposted by Fabrizio BernardiFirst single-author pub out in SSM! It shows a mechanism underlying the intergenerational transmission of health inequality: high-SES families buffer genetic propensity for obesity & overweight, while low-SES environments trigger it 🌍🧬⚖️ OA: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/5
- The great Robyn Malcolm in After the Party is the science teacher we all would have liked to have in high school. Or that we would like to have for our children... Here on porno and sex education...👏
- Reposted by Fabrizio BernardiSpain's La Vuelta halted in Madrid as police clash with pro-Palestinian protesters reut.rs/4mf5i7O
- Reposted by Fabrizio BernardiWhen it comes to human behavior, it can often be more productive & compelling to ask questions that begin with how rather than why, writes fmr CASBS fellow @ralmeling.bsky.social in @behscientist.bsky.social Read why (about how): behavioralscientist.org/the-power-of...
- Reposted by Fabrizio Bernardi🚀✨The Editorial Board of ESR is growing! We’re happy to welcome PeterFallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social ( ROCKWOOL Foundation, Denmark) as a new Associate Editor!! We are thrilled to welcome Peter to the Editorial Board and look forward to working together! academic.oup.com/esr/pages/Ed...
- Reposted by Fabrizio BernardiSome people call it a minefield. Others call it dangerous, even irresponsible. I call it the most promising field in life sciences. My love letter to social science genetics: communities.springernature.com/posts/a-love...
