Hey, Dem candidates: When you are asked about “Boys in girls’ locker rooms,” here’s what you should say: (1/11)

CE PhD Alert! 🚨 Funded PhD at Anglia Ruskin University, UK., investing the role of culture in human biological evolution: culturalevolutionsociety.org/jobs/funded-...

Plainte en diffamation ? C'est audacieux. En 2025, Mediapart a fait le décompte : Sur les 340 procès subis en 17 ans d’existence, il n'en a perdu que... 5 (sur des sujets mineurs). Et il n'a *jamais* été condamné pour une enquête menée sur un responsable politique.

Agence France-Presse@afp.com · 3w ago

🇫🇷 Jordan Bardella, président du RN, a annoncé que son avocat "a déposé une plainte en diffamation", après la parution d'un article de Mediapart qui lui attribue des propos antisémites datant de 2013 quand il était un jeune adhérent du parti.

Gosh, that feels good!

This Wednesday: join the mass lobby for trans rights at Parliament. Trans people’s legal protections are under attack. We need MPs to hear clearly that we will not accept rights being rolled back. THIS Wednesday, 1–5pm, Houses of Parliament www.transsolidarityalliance.com/mass-lobby-2...

Mass Lobby for Trans Equality - 9th September 2026

The law around trans equality is fundamentally broken. Government inaction is hanging trans people and organisations out to dry - with a confusing mess of challenging rules and lawfare.

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The rollout of faith-based initiatives across US states from 1996-2009 led to increased church attendance among protestants, new faith-based organisations, & the hardening of views against abortion & homosexuality. The rest of the population continued to secularise. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

Very much spot on my experience of interacting with sociology!

Optimally Irrational@lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 2mo ago

Why has sociology become so politicised? • On the underlying reasons behind the ideological drift of the field

Absolutely mind blowing

Data Colada@datacolada.bsky.social · 2mo ago

An influential paper by Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002) reported two studies with tampered data. Post 1 of 2. datacolada.org/138

I submitted a project to FNRS to get a post-doc to work with me. Will advertise here if and when I get the funding💸 . Wish me luck! 🤞🏼

Philippe Bocquier@phbocquier.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Despite limitations (data remains national, indicator choices matter…), combining relational approach and SEM open new avenues: sub-national power analysis, combining trade, migration and information matrices... Interested? Get in touch! #EPC2026 #GlobalHealth #trade #mortality

📢 Presenting today at the Royal Economic Society conference in Newcastle! Special Session: Transforming Working Lives 🗓️ 14:30–15:45, Urban Sciences Building G.003 I'll present findings from our ESRC project on parental leave & gender gaps in UK SMEs #RES2026 #EconSky

🚨 New paper: Can light-touch information reduce tolerance of sexual harassment? We tested this in a randomized controlled trial with recruits in the Norwegian Armed Forces. doi.org/10.1016/j.je... with @ollefolke.bsky.social , Torbjørn Hanson, @kotsadam.bsky.social and @johannarickne.bsky.social

We find that social stigma against working mothers accounts for around 73% of the gap in working hours between East and West German mothers — even when working would be financially better off for the family.

IZA@LISER@iza.org · 5mo ago

📖 World of Labour - New opinion piece "The social norms that keep West German mothers at home" by @bastiencf.bsky.social, Z. Iftikhar, J. Park. Why do #EastGerman mothers work ~2 mos./yr. than #WestGerman ones? The answer may lie in reg’l #SocialNorms, not incentives. 🔗 wol.iza.org/opinions/soc...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics “University as a Melting Pot: Long-term Effects of Internationalization” Debates on international students often focus on capacity, funding, or competition. My paper shows the main effects on natives are not academic or economic, but social.

Come and join the NIHR Policy Research Unit Behavioural and Social Sciences! We're a recruiting a Research Assistant/Research Fellow to be based @ucl-cbc.bsky.social. For more details - and to apply by Tuesday 3rd March - visit the link below: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Billionaires

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8mo ago

Trump: "I believe the tariffs, paid for by foreign countries, will like in the past substantially replace the modern day system of income tax, taking a great financial burden off the people that I love"

Is there a name for that colleague who "replies to all" using the email just before the one you sent, thus making your answer really difficult to find in the thread? Bonus point if they use that message to suggest exactly what you were recommending ;-/ #AcademicSky

a close up of a dog 's face with its eyes closed and looking at the camera .

ALT: a close up of a dog 's face with its eyes closed and looking at the camera .

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Super important findings for everyone running surveys to evaluate knowledge!!

Carly Urban@carlyurban.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New research alert! Are smartphones changing knowledge measures on surveys? tl;dr YES! This is work with my awesome coauthors Olivia Valdes and Jeremy Burke--probably one of the most fun papers I've been a part of.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Very excited we have five funded PhD fellowships, open to all fields of political science and economics, so please do spread the word to prospective political theory students! www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

PhD Studentships in Political Economy at King’s College London on FindAPhD.com

PhD Programme - PhD Studentships in Political Economy at King’s College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

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I'm looking for people who would like to co-create a resource helping EDI organisations in academia to be more trans and non-binary inclusive. Ideas include:

Featured on INOMICS: Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in Economic Development & Quantitative Economics #Econsky

Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in Economic Development & Quantitative Economics

Fixed-term four-year appointment, to begin in Fall 2026. The department seeks an applicant with exceptional teaching and research records in Development Economics, broadly defined. We particularly welcome candidates whose research addresses contemporary development challenges. Candidates are expected to transcend traditional mainstream approaches by engaging with new emerging development issues.

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#Démographie | En l’espace de 8 ans, l’espérance de vie des personnes dont le niveau de vie est compris entre 800 et 1 300 euros diminue. 👉 www.insee.fr/fr/statistiq...

my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing. they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors. their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen. their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.

Jonathan Kingham@jonkingh.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This is so disgusting.

[1/8] Pierre Breteau montre pourquoi le train reste structurellement + cher que l’avion. L’article compare coûts, fiscalité et infrastructures. Il explique que l’aérien bénéficie de prix artificiellement bas grâce à des exonérations fiscales qui faussent la concurrence. #geography #transport #train

Pourquoi le train est toujours plus cher que l’avion

Si voyager sur rails se révèle être structurellement plus cher que par les airs, c’est notamment parce que l’aérien bénéficie d’un coût artificiellement bas grâce à des exonérations fiscales.

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Happy to say our paper (w/ Lisa Marzano) evaluating a suicide prevention campaign in Barnet (London) is now published in BMC Public Health and featured on BBC Radio London www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... at 1h20'

Shay Kaur Grewal - 25/11/2025 - BBC Sounds

Celebrating Londoners and a recap of the day's news.

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Bastien Chabe-Ferret (he/his/him)@bastiencf.bsky.social · 2y ago

Really proud to have taken part in this evaluation of a #SuicideAwareness raising campaign as my first dip into the analysis of #MentalHealth outcomes. On #WorldSuicidePreventionDay, here is a very timely🧵explaining what we did and what we found ! 1/N www.publicsectorexecutive.com/articles/cou...

‪ With @jeromevalette.bsky.social & Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, we are happy to announce the CfPapers for the 4th edition of the Junior Workshop on the Economics of Migration on May 26-27, 2026 @uc3meconomics.bsky.social, Spain. Submit until February 1, 2026 on economig2026.sciencesconf.org

Monty Python understood p-hacking

Non, mais c'est sans doute qu'on ne les a pas baissé assez. Justement au budget 2026...

Christian Chavagneux@chrisaltereco.bsky.social · 12mo ago

L'IPP a mesuré l'impact des 10 Mds de baisse des impôts de production dont ont bénéficié les entreprises. Impact sur chiffre d'affaires ? Nul. Sur l'investissement ? Nul. Sur la création d'emploi ? Nul. Sur les exports ? Nul. Budget : 10 Mds de perdus. www.alternatives-economiques.fr/baisser-impo...

🧬Exciting new genetic data release! Polygenic scores for more than 30,000 people across four CLS cohort studies are now available, making cross-cohort analyses using derived genetic measures possible. Find out more about the accessible data on the CLS website👉 buff.ly/iI8iq9n

Polygenic scores released for four national cohort studies | CLS

The research community can now access a range of polygenic scores from more than 30,000 people taking part in four of the UK’s national cohort studies.

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NEW DATA! Harmonised fertility histories of four British cohorts – born in 1946, 1958, 1970 and 1989-90 – are now available for the scientific community to download from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social Find out more on the CLS website – bit.ly/42CN0qr

Research on fertility and families enhanced with new harmonised cohort data | CLS

Harmonised data on the fertility histories of four British cohorts are now available for the scientific community to download from the UK Data Service.

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