Arnout van de Rijt
@arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology. Head of the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (EUI). President of the International Network of Analytical Sociology (INAS). Editor-in-Chief of Sociological Science.
"Although young women still lag behind young men, particularly mothers, our findings show steady convergence and challenge the narrative of stalled progress." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
Sociological Science@sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 5d agoNEW: Oliver Lipps, Daniel Oesch, Roujman Shahbazian, "No Stalled Revolution: The Closing Gender Gap in Early Careers in Europe and the United States" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
"It has become more difficult for developing countries to offset migratory losses with the spillovers from circulation." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
Sociological Science@sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: Andrew C. Herman, Jens Peter Andersen, Mathias Wullum Nielsen, "Developing Countries Face Falling Circulation Rates and Rising Migration Losses in Science " sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
"Why do natural resources fuel ethnic conflict in some ethnic homelands but not others?" Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
Sociological Science@sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 3w agoNEW: Wali Reheman, "Ethnopolitical Exclusion and Resource Conflict." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
Well, from Organization Science I thought this was pretty remarkable: pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/...
1/6) Back after an absence from social media, with a few new papers to share. Out now in PSRM with @alexanderdavenport.bsky.social, @marcushagley.bsky.social, @eliasdinas.bsky.social, & @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social: is winning the first primaries of primary importance? 🧵 doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
Is winning the first primaries of primary importance? A regression-discontinuity approach | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core
Is winning the first primaries of primary importance? A regression-discontinuity approach
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"In the US, overwork migrated up the class structure, and its hourly wage association turned from penalty to premium...Neither is supported as a broad durable pattern [in China]." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
Sociological Science@sociologicalsci.bsky.social · last mo.NEW: Chen Ouyang, "Overwork Without Premium: The Persistent Class Gradient of Long Hours in China, 2006–2023." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
"[D]eterioration in men’s labor-market conditions raises the spousal earnings correlation within local labor markets, with the increase concentrated among couples with children." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
Sociological Science@sociologicalsci.bsky.social · last mo.NEW: Yifan Shen, "Men’s Labor-Market Decline and the Rising Correlation between Spouses’ Earnings in the United States" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
"College-educated individuals seem to reject effort-based meritocracy while strongly supporting skill- and education-based meritocracy." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
Sociological Science@sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 2mo agoNEW: Hye Won Kwon, Jani Erola, "Access to Higher Education and Support for Meritocracy: Effort, Skill, and Education as Components of Merit" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
"We find that [wealth] stratification declined along several dimensions, with education being the main exception." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
Sociological Science@sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 2mo agoNEW: Jake Burchard, Lisa A. Keister, "Decoupling Inequality and Stratification in the American Wealth Distribution, 1989–2022" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
"Through simulations, stylized examples, and an empirical application, the article shows that explicitly defining the quantity of interest and selecting appropriate models is essential for valid interaction analysis." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
Sociological Science@sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 2mo agoNEW: Josep Serrano-Serrat, "Quantities of Interest for Interactions and the Pitfalls of Assuming Linear Treatment Effects" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
"We extend the canonical mathematical framework to derive skill-specific return trajectories, incorporating two key parameters governing declines in (a) human capacity to learn and (b) skill relevance over the life course." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
Sociological Science@sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 2mo agoNEW: João M. Souto-Maior, Mitchell L. Stevens, "Bending the Heckman Curve: Competing Declines in Learning Capacity and Skill Relevance Over the Life Course" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
I think you may have meant Lucas Sage @l-sage.bsky.social
The 2026 volume of the Annual Review of Sociology is now online. The most read article is "Luck and Predictability in the Life Course" by @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social @fabriberna.bsky.social, William Foley, and @scottdoney.bsky.social Read it here arevie.ws/4wyNIBJ
Fascinating experiment: current AI systems lack creativity to reliably pursue research arxiv.org/abs/2607.27191 - poor judgment about the bar for publishable research - uncreative responses in research design - ineffective backtracking from dead ends - poor resource awareness - instruction drift
Can AI agents conduct open-ended AI research? Early evidence from two case studies
Forecasts of explosive AI progress hinge on AI agents automating AI research. But evidence on whether agents can carry out open-ended AI research is thin. Current evaluations either test agents on nar...
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Iván Szelényi (1938-2026), a towering figure in sociology, one of the finest global intellectuals Hungary and Eastern Europe has ever produced, has died. Rest in peace and solidarity. 1/6
Princess Isabella will begin 11 months of military service in August under Denmark’s expanded conscription model #denmark
Princess Isabella will begin military service in August
Princess Isabella military service will begin in August, when Denmark’s 18-year-old princess is due to start an 11-month conscription term at the Gardehusarregimentet in Slagelse after completing upper secondary school. The announcement, published by the Danish Royal House on Tuesday, places the second-in-line to the throne among the first cohort affected by Denmark’s expanded military service model. Why Princess Isabella’s military service matters in Denmark The Danish Royal House said Princess Isabella will begin her service after graduating from Øregård Gymnasium in Hellerup. She is expected to serve at the…
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"[T]ypicality strongly predicts selection when goals and categories misalign but becomes irrelevant when they align well." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
Sociological Science@sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 2mo agoNEW: Alex Tyulyupo, Balázs Kovács, "Categorical Engagement and the Contingent Nature of Typicality Effects" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
"[W]e found that the ideology-engagement association is significantly larger than the ideology-attention association." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
Sociological Science@sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 2mo agoNEW: Christopher Barrie, Aybuke Atalay, Alia ElKattan, "Information Diets Are More Diverse in Attention Than in Engagement" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
On the positive side, Dutch wine is getting better with the day.
Henning Best@besthenning.eurosky.social · 2mo agoDon’t worry about these details. If we don’t stop fossil capital and the climate catastrophe, we will destroy so much more of human civilisation.
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference reut.rs/4x9eTCW
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screenshots and posted them online.
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"Strikingly, we find the survey’s screener race variable, ubiquitous in prior research, is never empirically preferred based on model fit." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
Sociological Science@sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 3mo agoNEW: Emma Williams-Baron, Aliya Saperstein, "A Roadmap for Inequality Research: Transparency, Intersectionality, and Multiple Measures of Race" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
"[T]hose with precarious work schedules are less likely to benefit from the buffering effect of social support that attenuates the negative consequences of unstable and unpredictable schedules on well-being." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
Sociological Science@sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 3mo agoNEW: Tyler Woods, Kristen Harknett, Daniel Schneider, "The Double Bind of Precarious Work: Creating Need and Undermining Support" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
"Our findings highlight the existence of substantial attractiveness penalties related to having higher levels of Sub-Saharan African (as opposed to European) genetic similarity." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
Sociological Science@sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 3mo agoNEW: Beza Taddess, Luyin Zhang, Sam Trejo, "Leveraging Genomic Data to Document Within-Race Attractiveness Penalties Among Black Americans" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
NEW: Emma Williams-Baron, Aliya Saperstein, "A Roadmap for Inequality Research: Transparency, Intersectionality, and Multiple Measures of Race" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
The Double Bind of Precarious Work: Creating Need and Undermining Support
Article: The Double Bind of Precarious Work: Creating Need and Undermining Support | Sociological Science | Posted July 1, 2026
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Concepts are never politically innocent. We must call things what they are. It's not polarization; it's the radicalization of the political right. Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/S153... @poppublicsphere.bsky.social
It’s Not Polarization; It’s the Radicalization of the Political Right | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
It’s Not Polarization; It’s the Radicalization of the Political Right
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Updating my intro to STS slides to make VAR my chosen example for why technology is never "just a tool"
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 3mo agoam officially in the camp of VAR exists only so they can influence games to produce desired outcomes
