Amalia Alvarez-Benjumea
Sociology. Social norms. Experiments. Interdisciplinary social science | Ramón y Cajal Researcher at @IPP_CSIC | Former MPI Bonn and Uni Mannheim (she/her)
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- Reposted by Amalia Alvarez-BenjumeaWe are hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science 📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden ⏰Deadline June 3 🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854 Please apply // help us spread the word
- Reposted by Amalia Alvarez-Benjumea📢 Job Alert | Political Science The Social Sciences Dept. at @uc3m.es is hiring a 2-year fixed-term faculty position in Political Science. 📅 Deadline: June 14, 2025 🚀 Start date: Jan 1, 2026 📬 Questions? socialsciences.department@uc3m.es 🔗 Full call & application: www.uc3m.es/ss/Satellite...
- Reposted by Amalia Alvarez-BenjumeaThanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
- Does anybody have a good visualization to explain how interactions can be confounded, and why interactions require interaction controls? @urisohn.bsky.social maybe? (Asking because I have an idea, but want to check out what exists already before investing the effort)
- Very happy to see this out!
- I am very excited to share a new working paper coauthored with @amaliaab.bsky.social. Using a field experiment, we find that, in the real world, it is more costly to express far-right preferences than other political preferences. osf.io/preprints/os... 1/8
- Nos vemos en la UAM esta tarde!
- Reposted by Amalia Alvarez-BenjumeaSTATEMENT: 'Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia' Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29 Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...
- Reposted by Amalia Alvarez-BenjumeaI just signed this and I hope many of my colleagues will too. As academics we need to stand up against the erosion of basic human rights of trans people and other sexual minorities. We need to make sure that our trans students and colleagues know that they are not alone in this.
- STATEMENT: 'Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia' Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29 Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...
- Ioana is an amazing co author and now and amazing podcaster as well
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- ¿Any recommendations on scales measuring relative deprivation and economic insecurity?
- Reposted by Amalia Alvarez-BenjumeaI AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social! German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf Please share
- I can hardly think of a better position and a better supervisor.
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- Reposted by Amalia Alvarez-BenjumeaWe are looking for a new colleague (Research Fellow) at Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim. Very lively, active and intellectually fruitful environment. Join us! Please share! www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/d7/en/news/i...
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- Reposted by Amalia Alvarez-BenjumeaCome be my colleague in one of the best post-doc positions in German academia (imo)! Lovely people, excellent infrastructure, great conditions. Feel free to contact me for questions. #polisky #polscijobs
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- On my way to Mannheim to present joint research with @valentimvicente.bsky.social on the costs associated with expressing far-right political preferences (in Spain). www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/d7/de/events...
- Ah Deutsche Bahn, how much I have missed you!
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- Si os interesa el tema, yo creo que es una oportunidad excelente!
- Next May, I’ll be teaching a two-day seminar on experimental social sciences. I already have a draft of the syllabus, but is there anything you consider essential that I might be overlooking? Any recent books, papers or just advice on what to teach is very welcome. Thanks!
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- Reposted by Amalia Alvarez-BenjumeaNote that these were private messages exchanged with colleagues and friends, not your standard social media search (which would have been enough concerning)
- So on March 9, a French scientist, on a visa to attend a conference in Houston, was denied entry to the US and subsequently expelled because his phone had messages decrying scientific policies put forward by the Trump administration: www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
- Glad to have been part of this project. I think the results here shed light on the intricacies of replication and how we can improve the process. Thanks for all the hard work @breznaunate.bsky.social, Eike Mark Rinke, and @kunkakom.bsky.social!
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- Reposted by Amalia Alvarez-BenjumeaWe crowdsourced 85 teams to indep. computationally reproduce results from a single study in randomized conditions. Reproducibility: • depends heavily on the transparency of materials • high (~95%) for same sign/sig, but low (btw. 48-77% depending on transparency) when requiring within 0.1 effects
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- Reposted by Amalia Alvarez-BenjumeaWe’re beyond thrilled to launch the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy If you’re a fellow political economist annoyed by all-male rooms & gendered comments— join us & share! 🗓️ 22-25 Sept, 2025 in Cologne 🚨 Apply by 25 Apr, 2025 www.mpifg.de/1343511/2025...
- *Call for Applications* We’re excited to announce the Second Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy! Link to the conference website: www.mpifg.de/1343511/2025... Please share widely! @mpifg.bsky.social @palmapolyak.bsky.social
- Hi London! Today I'll be sharing insights from my research on social norms and online hate at the Social Norms Seminar at Royal Holloway. Come by if you're around. www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...
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- Reposted by Amalia Alvarez-BenjumeaWe are very happy to publish the "National Elections Database," including the results of 1,023 presidential and 2,962 parliamentary elections conducted worldwide since 1946! www.nationalelectionsdatabase.com with Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet
- This deeply saddens me, as the Max Planck Society has played such an important role in my life and career. However, the institution is highly hierarchical, and I am not surprised that these abuses exist.
- Oh, there's an English version as well! DW reports about misconduct at Max Planck Institutes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5nE...
- Reposted by Amalia Alvarez-BenjumeaOh, there's an English version as well! DW reports about misconduct at Max Planck Institutes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5nE...
- Thrilled that our article with Ioana Sendroiu and Fabian Winter is now online in the American Sociological Review! We study how climate actions are shaped by beliefs about the past, present, and future—and expectations about others' concern about climate. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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- “audiences of incidental feminist influencers exhibit stronger pro-feminist attitudes, while those of incidental anti-feminist influencers lean toward anti-feminist views”
- 🚨 New article alert! 🚨 Thrilled to share our latest open-access article in Politics & Gender: “Beyond Likes: The Role of Influencers in Promoting Views about Feminism and Anti-Feminism in Spain”, w/ @martafraile.bsky.social and @pzuluaga.bsky.social . 📢 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🧵👇 Thread
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- I just listened to Martin Curri on the Ezra Klein Show state that Europe is as close to China as it is to the US regarding free speech. It was presented as a fact. I'm… surprised to say the least.
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- I'll be teaching a seminar on experimental methods in the 2025 Postgraduate Methodological Seminar Series, organized by the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the Autonomous University of Madrid— in case anyone is interested 😀
- I recently published a review article on how social norms regulating the expression of prejudice change. I guess we will be seeing many of these mechanisms in action in the near future. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- This is important work on how the mainstream right’s adoption of radical right rhetoric legitimizes the extreme right’s position and erodes liberal democratic norms.
- Very happy that our paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social & E Dinas) has been accepted @bjpols.bsky.social . We've seen the center right increasingly adopt far-right rhetoric. Our experiment in 🇩🇪 finds that this erodes anti-prejudice norms *more* than when the far-right employs similar rhetoric. 1/3
- Reposted by Amalia Alvarez-BenjumeaVery happy that our paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social & E Dinas) has been accepted @bjpols.bsky.social . We've seen the center right increasingly adopt far-right rhetoric. Our experiment in 🇩🇪 finds that this erodes anti-prejudice norms *more* than when the far-right employs similar rhetoric. 1/3
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- Reposted by Amalia Alvarez-Benjumea🚨Grrrreat opportunity to join a 2-year research master with us!!! Ideal for students looking for great (and almost free) pre-PhD training. Also: not in the US :)
- 📢 Scholarship opportunities for our prestigious two-year interdisciplinary Master's program in Social Sciences! 💡 Available scholarships: ✅ 4 full scholarships 🗓 Deadline: March 31, 2025. ✅ 3 tuition waiver scholarships 🗓 Deadline: May 31, 2025. 🎓 Apply now! 🔗 www.uc3m.es/master/socia...
- Reposted by Amalia Alvarez-Benjumea📢 Scholarship opportunities for our prestigious two-year interdisciplinary Master's program in Social Sciences! 💡 Available scholarships: ✅ 4 full scholarships 🗓 Deadline: March 31, 2025. ✅ 3 tuition waiver scholarships 🗓 Deadline: May 31, 2025. 🎓 Apply now! 🔗 www.uc3m.es/master/socia...
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- Reposted by Amalia Alvarez-BenjumeaI am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.
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- 📢 This Friday, I’ll be presenting new experimental work (with @valentimvicente.bsky.social) on the enforcement of political norms and the social sanctioning of radical-right preferences. Join us! 👇
- ‼️On Friday, @amaliaab.bsky.social on "The Enforcement of Political Norms" in our Permanent Seminar Series‼️ Join us at 12.30 -- is open to everyone!! 🧐🤗
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