We often treat education as the primary engine of social mobility, but conventional models may be overestimating its impact. Not correcting for selection into schooling will artificially inflate any indirect effect through schooling... 1/3 #socialmobility #sociology

The people wearing masks are scanning your face to capture your identity.

Mr. Dan Zak@mrdanzak.com · 8mo ago

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

It begins. Clearly incriminating evidence against president of the United States. Epstein to Maxwell, April 2, 2011: "i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc."

Four (!) three-year postdoc positions available at @au.dk: international.au.dk/about/profil... Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy. Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs

Four three-year postdoctoral positions in the project Slow-Motion Democracy - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

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Out now in @actasociologica.bsky.social: “Momentary symbols: Tracing the visual expressions of collectives” with @nicolemilmandoerr.bsky.social & @mathiaswullum.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... A🧵 on our approach and findings:

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Even in Denmark, cultural tastes are socially stratified. With some quite cool library data we find strong gradients by education and wealth - important as wealth is rarely studied in cultural stratification research doi.org/10.1093/esr/... OA: osf.io/ar2xc_v2/dow... @europeansocreview.bsky.social

How are cultural tastes stratified? Evidence from library borrowing for the entire population of Denmark

Abstract. Research shows that cultural tastes are socially stratified. Yet, most of this research relies on small-sample surveys and includes only a few di

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Dept. of Soc. at the Uni of Copenhagen invites applications for two or more open-rank professorships! We cover a wide range of topics and and methods, and welcome candidates with new research agendas or profiles that complement our existing strenghts. Details here: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology

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Now imagine all your best scientists leaving your country because they’re paid far more across the pond.

Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/?

Du poids du racismes dans les inégalités de revenus en France

NBER@nber.org · last yr.

Substantial earnings penalties exist for racial minorities in France. Compared to the US, lower overall inequality benefits French racial minorities, but rank gaps are comparable, from Yajna Govind, Paolo Santini, and Ellora Derenoncourt https://www.nber.org/papers/w34013

The Supreme Court is out of control. To allow the president, without any explanation, to unilaterally dismantle agencies created by an Act of Congress is to endow the president with sovereignty. There is no justification, because they haven’t given one. Our country is in big trouble.

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last yr.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... From Sotomayor's dissent:

When I got tenure, I decided to use it start a new research agenda, studying US science in the 20th century, how it became dominant, what held it back, and what we can do better. Here's the first pub (with Scott Kim).

Econometrica@ecmaeditors.bsky.social · last yr.

Analyzing scientists' biographies during the baby boom, we find that mothers have a unique life cycle pattern of productivity. Children reduce the productivity of mothers but not fathers, with important implications for promotions and participation. buff.ly/39WbYRH

A 30% tariff on EU exports would hurt businesses, consumers and patients on both sides of the Atlantic. We will continue working towards an agreement by August 1. At the same time, we are ready to safeguard EU interests on the basis of proportionate countermeasures. → europa.eu/!tPvKn8

"...male-dominated STEM programs actually rate female applicants’ written application materials and interviews higher. Female applicants are still less likely admitted to such programs than males..." This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

Sociological Science@sociologicalsci.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: Wei-hsin Yu, Kuo-Hsien Su, "Evaluation Criteria and Women's Attainment of Elite STEM Education: Evidence from College Admission Records." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

Every cut that the government makes to social services is effectively a tax on women. Because they're the ones who will be expected to fill in the gaps.

Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov · last yr.

BREAKING: 1 in 4 nursing homes say they will be forced to close if Republicans pass Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.

It is true that sometimes New York City is frightening. For example today these men were loitering in the hallway of the 12th floor of the federal building.

This is shocking. Pure totalitarianism from DHS, and also blatantly unconstitutional. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation

As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.

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Interesting discussions at our Funders Panel #ICSSI2025

Our first invited speaker Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social just kicked off the conference with a great talk on: Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions? A field experiment #ICSSI2025

Fariba Karimi continues at #ICSSI2025 with gender-related themes in her phenomenal keynote "Inequalities in science and the impact of networks"

The conference was just opened by @hckongsted.bsky.social. Welcome everyone in Copenhagen, and enjoy the next 3 days at #ICSSI2025!

If we are all willing to dig in and sacrifice, by growing our red bars we can do our part in making the green bar even bigger.

📄 Whose expert knowledge informs policymaking around the world? @rsenninger.bsky.social and I analyze data from 1.2 million government policy documents from 185 countries—and find a prominent pattern: 🌍 Policy evidence is overwhelmingly sourced from the Global North. Preprint: osf.io/w8q3y 🧪🧵👇

Economists looking at an idea from sociology literature that they will be the first to write a paper on.

Bernie Sanders' office has put out a report this morning on Trump's NIH cuts: "Trump officials effectively cut $2.7 billion in [NIH] funding in the first three months of 2025 – including a 31 percent cut to cancer research through March, compared to the same timeframe last year."

Is anyone here on the Editorial Board of the Brill journal Comparative Sociology? Raised a concern last year about 2 papers published in the journal which used "national IQ" data. The editor & ethics team dismissed my concern without an investigation. The journal has just published another NIQ paper

there are a lot of good reasons not to use musk's platform but this has always been a big one: you post at the pleasure of the world's richest man, whose project is to punish his political enemies

Brad Heath@bradheath.bsky.social · last yr.

The New York Times found three users on X who feuded with Mr. Musk in December only to see their reach on the social platform practically vanish overnight. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

As we were writing this paper the NSF ADVANCE program was "archived" (cancelled). A heavy moment for us mid-paper. The results are important - check it out: ADVANCE is one of the (if not the) longest running NSF programs, and, unusually for the NSF, is a collaboration among multiple directorates. 🧵

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World@sociusjournal.bsky.social · last yr.

🏛️ Funding #EquityInitiatives = funding academic careers New #Socius study by Drs. Gates, @lauraknelson.bsky.social, Grudt & @kzippel.bsky.social finds #NSF #ADVANCE awards help faculty doing #OrganizationalChange work maintain—or boost—#ResearchProductivity. Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

A longitudinal survey of political scientists shows: experts think we're slipping fast from democracy to dictatorship Which explains the administration's efforts to cut/muzzle research: it's easier to claim they're the good guys without facts/experts to get in the way www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

Hundreds of scholars say U.S. is swiftly heading toward authoritarianism

Most — but not all — political scientists are deeply troubled by the president's attempts to expand executive power, according to a national survey.

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