Mario Luis Small

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Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty Women faculty are more likely to leave their jobs than men, most often due to workplace climate, rather than work-life balance.

Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a #ScienceAdvances analysis finds.

I did! Thank you!

Best of 'How To': The Infrastructure of Community Physical spaces can either encourage or discourage relationships. But people also have to be willing to slow down and connect.

Great podcast with @ericklinenberg.bsky.social and Kellie Carter Jackson on the importance of physical spaces for community www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

I'm happy to hear that!

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Another: The most he most wretched social isolate is probably not the one with no person to talk to, but the one forced to avoid everyone they are close to.
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Who they avoid depends on which topic they are worried about. One bottom line: Close relationships are not, “We are close, therefore I trust you” but “We are close, therefore it’s complicated.”
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In a national survey, avoidance is so common that it is actually fundamental to strong ties, not incidental to them. The topic matters---e.g., people avoid sex more than any other topic---but people avoid loved ones for most topics they worry about. 2/

Our recent paper, in ASR: While many sociologists assume that people turn to their “strong ties” when they need a confidant, people are actually as likely to avoid as to talk to their closest friends and family.
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In fact, the biggest differences -- including gyms vs grocery stores -- are not within cities but between them. The city’s diversity and residential segregation matter. But there is a lot we still don’t know. 4/4

For the first 10km from home, every additional km takes people to a neighborhood increasingly different from the home. After that, it depends on the city. 3/

When people go to grocery stores, they go to neighborhoods more racially similar to their own than when they go to any other everyday establishment; when they go to the gyms, to places more racially different. 2/

Our latest paper, in PNAS, makes a case for studying what makes people travel to neighborhoods racially different from their own. Maybe some places help counter residential segregation. We found some surprises. 1/
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Are Large-Scale Data From Private Companies Reliable? An Analysis of Machine-Generated Business Location Data in a Popular Dataset - Nikolitsa Grigoropoulou, Mario L. Small, 2024 Large-scale data from private companies offer new opportunities to examine topics of scientific and social significance, such as racial inequality, partisan pol...

Social scientists: Do you use SafeGraph? Our latest paper does a quality assessment of (one aspect of) the popular large-scale dataset. A few serious problems and what to do about them. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

NIAS-symposium Connecting Urban Inequality to the Built Environment | NIAS

🗓️ Register now for the NIAS symposium 'Connecting Urban Inequality to the Built Environment' (June 17-19).

🌆 Explore spatial segregation & urban dynamics with Martin Ruef, Olav Sorenson, @marioluissmall.bsky.social, Nicole Marwell, Sunasir Dutta and Jon Bannister.

nias.knaw.nl/events/conne...

I keep thinking about @marioluissmall.bsky.social’s brilliant book Unanticipated Gains and what the fragmentation of the last 4 years—both IRL and online—means for lost capacity

Interesting piece by @marioluissmall.bsky.social on the implications of new/big data sources in social science. Focused mostly on social media (for good reason), but I think it applies to other data, too.

To me, big idea is: We gotta rethink how we interpret results.

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Yes. And I did not know about it. Thank you.

Loneliness Isn’t Just Bad for Your Health—It’s Deadly People who report often feeling lonely or being socially isolated are at an increased risk of death from any cause, new research suggests

More sociologists should return to this topic. Loneliness, isolation, anomie, the lack of someone to talk to---these are socially structured problems. www.wsj.com/articles/lon...

I wouldn't miss the new book by @marioluissmall.bsky.social and @jessicacalarco.bsky.social "Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research"
www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520...

Toxic workplaces are the main reason women leave academic jobs Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life balance. Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life...

I could not be less surprised by this. I am a data point. I've watched so many (and I mean TOO MANY) of my women colleagues experience the same. Women networks in academia are so fragile because there's never a sense of security or permanence. www.nature.com/articles/d41...