An important paper about protecting science from political interference. Europe needs to defend its science against the kind of attacks unfurling in the US. By Martin McKee, Christina Pagel & Tiago Correia in the European Journal of Public Health: academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic...

Europe must learn from America’s assault on science

In June 2026, several prominent diabetes researchers, including Steven Kahn, editor-in-chief of Diabetes Care, were removed by police from the annual meeti

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🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨 Does escaping in-work poverty reduce the risk of common mental disorders? Our new open-access paper, "Escaping In-Work Poverty and Mental Health: A Longitudinal Study of Swedish Workers”, published in Social Science & Medicine, answers this question: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

@distasioval.bsky.social giving a keynote talk at #ecsr2026 about measuring cumulative discrimination, presenting work by the @equalstrength.bsky.social consortium.

Thrilled this is finally out in its JOP-formatted version! Hope it's useful to anyone working on LGBT politics, (electoral) discrimination, status differentials within & across identity categories, and non-textual experiments. Main findings in quoted thread. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

Martin Naunov@naunovmartin.bsky.social · last yr.

1/ Much has been said about 🇺🇸 becoming more accepting of gay candidates—especially since Pete Buttigieg’s presidential run. But I ask: What kind of gay candidates no longer face discrimination? And, specifically, how does gender presentation affect electoral viability?

New brief report in @jmfncfr.bsky.social We follow earnings of male same-sex couples in 🇩🇰, 🇳🇱, and 🇸🇪 around the time they become parents. Main takeaway: not much changes for them! Also: no signs of long-lasting specialization based on pre-parenthood earnings or biological relatedness to the child.

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Objective This study examines earnings trajectories of male same-sex couples around the time they become parents in Denmark, the Netherlands, and Sweden: three forerunners in advancing same-sex coup...

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Linkedin voice: I just doubled my H-score in one day, here's my top five tips to become a successful researcher.

QUESTION: Is there a magical European dataset including 1. Gender 2. Sexuality 3. Religion 4. Ethnicity / country of birth (+ for parents) 5. Occupation ESS is missing 2, EU-LFS is missing 3, EU LGBTIQ Survey is missing 5. Sharing is caring! #sociologysky #surveydata

Trying to read more Dutch classics, and that they often revolve around WW2 resistance and the dilemmas of cleaning house afterwards seems fitting in these times. 📚⚖️🧑‍⚖️

Two more days to apply!

Nora Waitkus@norawaitkus.bsky.social · 6mo ago

💸🚨I am hiring 2 Postdocs for my ERC-funded project SOCDEBT on #debt dynamics across countries. One position: #SocialStratification + strong quantitative skills. The other: qualitative research and #EconomicSociology. waitkus.github.io/SOCDEBT/ 🚨💸

So how much time are you supposed to spend checking journal submission portals for if anything has changed from "in review"? Like is 45 minutes a day too little? #academicsky

💸🚨I am hiring 2 Postdocs for my ERC-funded project SOCDEBT on #debt dynamics across countries. One position: #SocialStratification + strong quantitative skills. The other: qualitative research and #EconomicSociology. waitkus.github.io/SOCDEBT/ 🚨💸

Did y’all actually read my FIRST! SOLE-AUTHORED! PUBLICATION! 😭 I’m not crying you are

Pratade om vårt nya forskningsprojekt i P1!

Varför växer det politiska gapet mellan män och kvinnor? - Förmiddag i P1

Flera rapporter visar att unga kvinnor går allt mer åt vänster medan de unga männen går åt höger. Vad beror det på och får det några konsekvenser?

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JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project. Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months. Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.

FIRST! SOLE-AUTHORED! PUBLICATION! 🎊 Making myself guilty of self-promotion but my first ever sole-authored article is an Editor’s Choice... still open access for 10 days, get it while it’s hot Link doi.org/10.1332/2631...

damn what is wrong with me, i am having the hardest time concentrating on work, i lament as i compulsively refresh live feeds of unspeakable horrors

Working on my BILF to do list this morning. That’s Book I’d Like to Finish!

Anyone interested should read the whole thread but here's a big headline finding: assortative mating on education is mostly social, not genetic. This has major implications for intergenerational transmission, making models that ascribe a large role to genetics (Clark) look less plausible.

Hans Fredrik Sunde@hfsunde.bsky.social · last yr.

When we apply the iAM-COTS model, we estimate education’s sorting factor (panel d) to be only 29% heritable, whereas 60% (!) could be attributed to sibling-shared environmental factors and gene-environment correlations. (Panel c shows results for observed education).

I've had the honour to convene this seminar series about the politics of immigration and exclusion. Looking forward to learning more about the research by @turnbulldugarte.com @profsob.bsky.social @katharinalawall.bsky.social @distasioval.bsky.social and @stefaniesprong.bsky.social + drinks after!

COMPAS@compasoxford.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Register to our upcoming seminar series, where speakers will explore the causes and consequences of the changing debate on immigration across Europe. 📌 Online & in person (Oxford) ⏰ Thursdays, 3:45–5:00 PM (GMT) 🌍 Free & open to all 🔗 zoom.us/meeting/regi...

There's nothing like a revision deadline to motivate me to bake huge amounts of saffron buns, and no, it's not the "christmas spirit"🙃

And the far right is dropping the Jewish part of Judeo-Christian values, who could have seen this coming?

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The new Polish president, endorsed by Trump, has ended the tradition of lighting a Menorah at Poland's presidential palace, a gesture of coming to terms with Jewish history. He said he ended the lighting because "I take my attachment to Christian values ​​seriously." forward.com/opinion/7919...

As @seanjwestwood.bsky.social's terrifying new PNAS article demonstrates, LLMs can now pass almost every attention check, mirror personas, stay consistent across pages, and systematically bias responses in the aggregate. So here’s a different angle: verify physical presence, not text.

The International Monetary Fund asked me to review the literature on migration economics to draw lessons for low-income countries. In a new @iza.org paper, I argue that policy for the 21st century must discard four outdated ideas. www.iza.org/publications... 🧵 thread—>

Our household has an annual tradition of watching bad Christmas movies. First out: My Secret Santa Small town unemployed single mom meets the scandalous heir to the big resort family that’s trying to shape up his act. 3/10

Awesome project with wonderful people and amazing research! What more could you ask for ?!?! Now check out our first @equalstrength.bsky.social publication!

Dr. Sanne van Oosten@sbvanoosten.bsky.social · 8mo ago

⁉️What do people read into names? ⁉️ ✨New publication in Nature’s Scientific Data ✨ When people see an ethnic minority-sounding name, do they infer race, religion, gender, or social background? 🤓First @equalstrength.bsky.social publication 😅 Check it out here: 🧵

Just published my first article! 🎉 We study inequalities in early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Sweden by immigrant background. Immigrant-background children enroll less often - but the pattern is different from the usual story about disadvantage and access. 1/3

Inequalities in early childhood education and care by immigrant background

Children with foreign-born parents attend early childhood education and care (ECEC) to a lower extent than native-background children in most European…

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Every year it becomes clearer that names carry a multitude of signals, but often they are used as a clear signal of for example race or ethnicity. Untangling this interplay of gender, class, race, and ethnicity will be easier with this extensive dataset!

Dr. Sanne van Oosten@sbvanoosten.bsky.social · 8mo ago

⁉️What do people read into names? ⁉️ ✨New publication in Nature’s Scientific Data ✨ When people see an ethnic minority-sounding name, do they infer race, religion, gender, or social background? 🤓First @equalstrength.bsky.social publication 😅 Check it out here: 🧵

After consacrating a significant part of my PhD to the use of names as signals in experimental designs, i am happy to be part of this inter-country evaluation of signals in names - fresh from the press in Nature Scientific Data. A work that was possible thanks to the hard work of a great group!

EqualStrength@equalstrength.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Check out the very first EqualStrength publication, led by Abel Ghekiere and @billiemartiniello.bsky.social