This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks

Is the UK electorate fragmenting? Not so fast www.ft.com/content/28ea... @financialtimes.com article by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Research Fellow @martamiori.bsky.social, with contributions from Nuffield Fellow @profjanegreen.bsky.social

One of my favourite episodes of Rethink now online - how do we get rid of space junk? Are you interested in satellites that can capture other satellites? Mirrors in space that light the earth? What the laws of space actually are? Listen here. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Sounds - Rethink, Rethink... what we put into space

Are we putting too much material into orbit and is space the next environmental frontier?

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2nd Climate x Health seminar featured insightful flash talks from Heidi Johansen-Berg, Myles Wilkinson, & Tom Heel on strategic & student initiatives and sustainability at the uni @climateoxford.bsky.social. Plenty of discussion! Thanks to @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social continued during a reception 🍰

Fair equality of opportunity, basic liberty, and the constitution of the person doi.org/10.1007/s111... Paper in Res Publica by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow David Miller

Fair Equality of Opportunity, Basic Liberty, and the Constitution of the Person - Res Publica

Rawlsian fair equality of opportunity requires that ‘those who have the same level of talent and ability and the same willingness to use these gifts should have the same prospects of success…

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Why the mortality penalty of smoking is rising over time doi.org/10.1093/pnas... Paper in @pnasnexus.org by Ralph Lawton, @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @drjenndowd.bsky.social, Jonathan Skinner and Ellen Meara

Why the mortality penalty of smoking is rising over time

Abstract. The adverse association between smoking and mortality is well known, yet estimated risks for smokers have risen markedly in recent decades. Expla

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Very much looking forward to presenting this joint project with @markuskollberg.bsky.social and @fraraffaelli.bsky.social at IE this week.

IE Political Science Department@iepolisci.bsky.social · 5d ago

This Thursday (24th, 11h45), we are excited to welcome @tabouchadi.bsky.social (Oxford) in our Seminar Series. He will present a paper entitled "A Party for People Like Me: Voter-Party Linkages and Dynamic Group Identities".

For decades, it's been a truism that younger generations are healthier & live longer (on average) than their parents' generation. Sadly, there are signs that our health may be "drifting" backward. Read more about "generational health drift": jenndowd.substack.com/p/is-50-the-... #demography

In a new paper for Political Insight, DPIR's James Tilley and co-author Sara B Hobolt explore how Brexit created two distinct identities - leavers and remainers - and how that continues to define how people understand politics today: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20419058261491217

Gestern hatte mein Buch „Russland - eine deutsche Erfindung“ @chbeckliteratur.bsky.social in der Bundestagsbibliothek Premiere - was für eine Ehre und was für ein toller Ort! Danke @nouripour.bsky.social für die Idee, Holger Scheerer für die Umsetzung und allen, die dabei waren.Morgen erscheint es.

1/ New in @pnasnexus.org: Demography strikes again! The mortality penalty associated w/ smoking has seemingly grown over time. Speculation centered on biological reasons, like more intensive smoking, or more negative selection of smokers on other characteristics. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Why the mortality penalty of smoking is rising over time

Abstract. The adverse association between smoking and mortality is well known, yet estimated risks for smokers have risen markedly in recent decades. Expla

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New research led by Melinda Mills, Nuffield Professorial Fellow and Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, has been highlighted at an event in Parliament exploring community and cohesion across the UK. Read more: buff.ly/TGfHr9L #NationalConversation #NuffieldCollege

⭕Join us on tomorrow, Wednesday, 23 September, at 15:00 CET for the inaugural lecture of the LECAS seminar series "Foundations and Frontiers of Analytical Sociology", with Peter Hedström. 💠 Social Mechanisms and the Construction of Explanatory Theories 💠 Zoom link and more: liu.se/en/event/fou...

Foundations and Frontiers of Analytical Sociology: Peter Hedström

Welcome to the seminar series Foundations and Frontiers of Analytical Sociology with Peter Hedström, who will speak on Social Mechanisms and the Construction of Explanatory Theories. The seminar is or...

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The impact of an ageing population on pandemic risk in England doi.org/10.64898/202... @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint co-authored by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social members @thomrawson.bsky.social, @dvaldenegro.bsky.social, @drjenndowd.bsky.social & @melindacmills.bsky.social

How political events become demographic: Toward a cumulative demography of conflict and violence doi.org/10.1111/padr... Paper in Population & Development Review by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Mathis Ebbinghaus, Nuffield Alumna Liliana Andriano and Patrick Heuveline

This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks

Enjoyed talking to John Torpey on the International Horizons podcast about public opinion and its relation to the climactic scene from the movie Network: “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore”.

Levelable graphs doi.org/10.1007/s000... Paper in Annals of Combinatorics by Kieran Bhaskara, @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Michael Y. C. Chong, Takayuki Hibi, Naveena Ragunathan and Adam Van Tuyl

Coming up at 4pm on BBC Radio 4 and <transatlantic voice> wherever you get your podcasts, this week's Rethink on the future of warfare and whether Britain is ready for it. With @florencegaub.bsky.social Anthony King, @spettyjohn.bsky.social and @mtsavill.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Sounds - Rethink, Rethink... warfare

Is the UK ready for the challenges of modern war?

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Property tax reform in England: A fresh look www.inet.ox.ac.uk/publications... @inetoxford.bsky.social working paper by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow John Muellbauer

No. 2026-24 - Property tax reform in England: a fresh look

The Starmer government’s 2025 Budget introduced the government’s High Value Council Tax Surcharge (HVCTS), which is an addition to an unchanged Council…

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Unbundling social protection: Sex-specific pathways between social grant receipt and adolescent sexual violence in South Africa doi.org/10.1016/j.so... Paper forthcoming in Social Science & Medicine by...

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119812

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A global mobile network coverage raster product at 1km resolution 1999-2030 arxiv.org/abs/2609.113... @arxiv.bsky.social preprint by Till Koebe, Theophilus Aidoo, Ali El Chami, Ali Kanso, Akansh Maurya, Purushottam Sharma, Ingmar Weber & @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow @ridhikashyap.bsky.social

A global mobile network coverage raster product at 1km resolution, 1999--2030

Where a mobile signal is available shapes who can work, learn, bank, seek health care and respond to crises in the digital age, yet no globally consistent, sub-national record of mobile network…

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War gestern bei frontal dabei, um dt. Ukrainehilfen einzuordnen & Rhetorik von AfD und BSW Fakten entgegenzusetzen. Spoiler: Titelseite meines neuen Buchs ist auch kurz zu sehen - erscheint nächste Woche 😊https://www.zdfheute.de/video/frontal/bsw-und-afd-kritisieren-ukraine-hilfe-100.html

Ukraine-Hilfe auf Kosten des Sozialstaats?

Ukraine-Hilfen kosten Deutschland Milliarden. Doch gefährden sie den Wohlstand, wie BSW und AfD behaupten oder profitiert die Wirtschaft sogar davon?

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Some exciting news: mine and @henrikdku.bsky.social's project on the 'Digital Private Sphere' has been awarded 4.9M SEK by @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social!! www.vr.se/english/appl...

Research project grant within humanities and social sciences

The Swedish Research Council has decided on the applications to be awarded project grants within humanities and social sciences 2026. Our total grant amount for 2026-2030 is nearly 473 million SEK.

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In a @bostonreview.bsky.social article, @pamukz.bsky.social argues Trump’s cuts and political intervention threaten independent US science. But the deeper crisis is decades of distrust, politicisation and privatisation—requiring a more democratic model for science: https://tinyurl.com/2u8atvaj

Informational barriers to compensatory bargains: Why workers defend redundant jobs dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn... @ssrn.bsky.social preprint by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow Alexander Trubowitz

Informational Barriers to Compensatory Bargains: Why Workers defend Redundant Jobs

This paper presents a novel explanation for why workers seek to defend redundant jobs rather than accepting compensation for job loss. While existing scholarshi

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It was good to chat with Chris Caurla from @deutschewelle.dw.com about whether the tide is turning on billionaires and big corporations in politics. A lot of different opinions in the comments.

Is the tide turning on billionaires? | DW News

YouTube video by DW News

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Join us for the second Climate x Health seminar on university strategy on 22 September at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social! There will be a chance for lots of discussion and... scones and coffee. 🍰☕️ Registration link below.

5. Nuffield College by Austen Harrison. Stained glass windows (1961) by John Piper and Patrick Reyntiens.

Nuffield College was planned in 1937 in a mellow Cotswold style but with a striking tower & spire & its chapel with stained glass windows by John Piper that reflect the light of learning are much more modern in tone