I think you may have meant Lucas Sage @l-sage.bsky.social
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.
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…
nordiskpost.com
"[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 · last wk.NEW: 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 · 2w 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.bsky.social · 5d 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 · 4w 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 · last mo.NEW: 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 · 4w 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
sociologicalscience.com
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
doi.org
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 · 4w agoam officially in the camp of VAR exists only so they can influence games to produce desired outcomes
"teacher-induced learning inequalities are mainly driven by unequal exposure to highly qualified teachers, rather than unequal returns to qualifications." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
Teacher Sorting and Inequalities in Student Achievement: Unequal Exposures and Differential Returns to Teacher Qualifications
Article: Teacher Sorting and Inequalities in Student Achievement: Unequal Exposures and Differential Returns to Teacher Qualifications | Sociological Science | Posted June 30, 2026
sociologicalscience.com
Sociological Science@sociologicalsci.bsky.social · last mo.NEW: Said Hassan, "Teacher Sorting and Inequalities in Student Achievement: Unequal Exposures and Differential Returns to Teacher Qualifications" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
"Women who attended high school in metropolitan areas hold a clear BA advantage, but not women who attended nonmetropolitan high schools, where girls earn higher grades than boys yet attain bachelor’s degrees at similar rates." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
Sociological Science@sociologicalsci.bsky.social · last mo.NEW: April Sutton, Bernardo Mackenna, Bolun Zhang, Amanda Bosky, "The Exception to Women’s Advantage: How Rurality, Red Counties, and the Local Economy Shape Gender Gaps in Educational Attainment" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
In parallel, IAS will offer an online doctoral course, Foundations and Frontiers of Analytical Sociology (5 ECTS), for a limited number of PhD students. The lecture program will be announced during the summer. Registration and further information about the course are available here:
7FIEI26 Foundations and Frontiers of Analytical Sociology - Forskarstudieinfo, Linköpings universitet
forskarstudier.liu.se
*Upcoming lecture series and PhD course at IAS* 📚 In Fall 2026, IAS will host an online lecture series featuring many of the scholars whose work has been instrumental in the development of analytical sociology.
The confirmed programme of the lecture series on Foundations and Frontiers of Analytical Sociology is now available online. The lectures will take place between September 2 and December 11, 2026. Please find the full programme, and short bios of the lecturers here: liu.se/en/news-item...
World-leading researchers to headline new lecture series in analytical sociology
Some of the world's most influential researchers in analytical sociology, network science, and computational social science will visit Linköping University this autumn as part of a new international l...
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The Institute for Analytical Sociology@iasliu.bsky.social · 2mo ago*Upcoming lecture series and PhD course at IAS* 📚 In Fall 2026, IAS will host an online lecture series featuring many of the scholars whose work has been instrumental in the development of analytical sociology.
"Using AI-generated photorealistic images, we systematically vary the tidiness of domestic spaces, room type, source of mess, socioeconomic status, and the gender and race/ethnicity of occupants" Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
Sociological Science@sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 2mo agoNEW: Léa Pessin, Kevin Munger, "Beyond Text: Using AI-Generated Visual Conjoints to Study Gender and Housework Attribution" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
"First-difference models reveal a consistent negative association between rising local wealth inequality and declining upward income mobility for children from low-income families, but no comparable association for their high-income peers." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
Sociological Science@sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 2mo agoNEW: Manuel Schechtl, Florencia Torche, "Changing Opportunity: Rising Local Wealth Inequality and Growing Class Gaps in Income Mobility" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
"These findings demonstrate a novel configuration of labor market inequality, in which pay rose in low-wage jobs, but underlying inequality structures in the economy persisted." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
Sociological Science@sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 2mo agoNEW: Soohyun Roh, Nathan Wilmers, "Declining Inequality and Persistent Inequality Structures" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
"We find that considering how the child’s great-grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins shape care availability, and modeling their influence using more flexible models, provides small yet significant improvements in predictive ability" Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
Sociological Science@sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 2mo agoNEW: Nicolás Soler, Tom Emery, Agnieszka Kanas, "Family Networks and Childcare Choices: A Predictive Machine Learning Approach" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
🚨I have a new paper out in PNAS with my co-authors, @maxbradley.bsky.social @renschazottes.bsky.social and @ninalopezuroz.bsky.social: "Educational policies can strengthen climate coalitions." A thread on what we found (and a great story about doing ambitious research without funding!) [1/9]
