Assistant professorship in political science at the @eui-sps.bsky.social! Come and work with us. www.eui.eu/About/JobOpp...

📣Job opportunity (d/l Aug 13): @willemdekoster.bsky.social is hiring a 3-yr postdoc to study the different meanings people ascribe to climate change, drawing on survey (experiment) and discrete choice experiment. Open to Sociology and Social Science PhDs! Apply here: www.eur.nl/en/working-a...

Job opportunity for a Teaching Associate @bostonu.bsky.social: jobs.silkroad.com/BU/External/...

Wrote something about a super exciting project with @jrf-uk.bsky.social @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social where we supported storytellers to creatively tackle the problem of wealth inequality

LSE Inequalities@lseinequalities.bsky.social · 4w ago

How can storytelling help – or harm – the problem of extreme wealth inequality? @michaelvaughan.bsky.social Annalena Oppel, @Jonathanmijs.com & @wealtherty.bsky.social offer four simple questions for creative content producers to reflect on. #LSEInequalitiesBlog

Buying is as close as you'll get to living. https://store.theonion.com/products/infowars-mashup-logo-camo-fanny-pack

You know who you are. Now we do too

Andrew Martin@andrewmartin.bsky.social · last mo.

Political ideology is the strongest predictor of Messi-Ronaldo preference. Authoritarians who like short-form video are more likely to think Ronaldo is the GOAT.

“With Raid Immortality Spray, bugs will no longer be granted the sweet release of death, and will instead be burdened with forever walking the Earth watching friends, family, and loved ones slowly wither and expire around them,” said brand representative Sawyer Weidman

New Raid Immortality Spray Curses Insects To Watch Everyone They Love Die

RACINE, WI—Vowing that the new product line was the ideal way to make termites and beetles suffer for all eternity, household chemical manufacturer S.C. Johnson announced Wednesday that its insecticid...

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A fifth of Leave voters have died.

Exclusive: The National Science Foundation is trimming this year’s budgets for hundreds of its traditional basic science programs by roughly 20% to 30%, even though its overall budget is down just 3%. https://scim.ag/4xY2KCm

Exclusive: NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say

Unexpected shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants this fiscal year

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💡What to make of "neither agree nor disagree" responses to Qs about racial attitudes? Our original survey in US & Netherlands suggests the racism/non-racism binary overlooks a crucial category: "ambivalent racism" 📄 @isa-sociology.org paper w/ @jonathanmijs.com: doi.org/10.1177/0268... (1/6)

Ambivalent, biological, and cultural racism and the legitimation of inequality: Original cross-national survey evidence from the United States and The Netherlands - Leping Wang, Jonathan J.B. Mijs, 20...

This article scrutinizes the linkage between racism and legitimizing beliefs about inequality in internationally comparative perspective. Drawing on original na...

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Elon Musk Becomes World’s First Trillionaire https://theonion.com/elon-musk-becomes-worlds-first-trillionaire/

“I want to understand: Where are the taboos? Where are the things that we find difficult to talk about?” – Elif Shafak spoke to @afsee-lse.bsky.social about inequalities – and how literature can expand our worldview #LSEInequalitiesBlog blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

How art and literature can expose inequalities – Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak discusses how art and literature can expose inequalities, break taboos and expand our worldview in an age of populist politics and polarisation

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Regular reminder that re-armament in Germany means enriching the already very rich, sprawling clans who are the quiet shareholders of century-old tank manufacturers whose websites have nothing to say about their Hitler-decorated grandfather's use of forced labor during WWII, or anything else.

The reclusive heirs in line for billions when Europe’s top tankmaker lists

Unlikely cast of characters who own half of KNDS set for a windfall as Berlin prepares to buy in at an up to €20bn valuation

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Running an experiment to study racial discrimination? Going to use names to signal race? Here's a new tool! This helps you to choose the names you want to use based on: 1.) the strength of the racial signal you want to send 2.) whether you want to hold other factors (e.g., class) constant

Our book Trigger Points is now out in open access. Huge thanks to Mike Savage for a terrific foreword and to Michèle Lamont, Silja Häusermann and Daniel Ziblatt for their kind words. Link below: @mikesavagelse.bsky.social @mlamont.bsky.social @siljahausermann.bsky.social @dziblatt.bsky.social

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

Watch out, this might just be the tallest short you'll see all week youtube.com/shorts/H5sZo...

The Reality Of Getting Rich From Poverty

YouTube video by Building Wealth Without Borders

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In case anyone is dying to hear a poor but privileged sociologist give financial advice, this one's for you 😘 www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa2F...

Harvard PhD Professor:The Economy Is Collapsing, It’s Getting Harder To Build Wealth | Jonathan Mijs

YouTube video by Building Wealth Without Borders

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What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12 Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...

I’ll be honest: I’m not loving how this hantavirus situation is looking, and I’m also not loving all the public health scientists out here downplaying it and prematurely telling people not to worry. Even if this turns out to be nothing, it’s not good for building trust.

How has public belief in the importance of merit🥇 and privilege💰 changed over time? 🆕Data viz shows a widening gap b/w the perceived importance of family wealth (privilege) and hard work (merit) in a majority of countries in the West Paper: doi.org/10.1177/2378... Code: github.com/cybe2001/mer...

Come join @stanveuger.bsky.social @colinmbrown.bsky.social Muriel Rouyer and me @europeatharvard.bsky.social today at 2.30 pm to make sense of the 2025 Dutch parliamentary elections! Details: ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/...

Election Day in the Netherlands: The Return of the Center?

On October 29, the Dutch will head to the polls for general elections, after the four-party coalition government collapsed when Geert Wilders, leader of…

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I'm deeply grateful to the American Educational Studies Association for recognizing my book with a Critics' Choice Book Award. @princetonupress.bsky.social @aesatalk.bsky.social Check out "Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education" here: www.amazon.com/Raised-Obey-...

Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

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Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Congratulations to @aspaglayan.bsky.social, whose book Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education was selected as a Winner of the @aesatalk.bsky.social's Critics' Choice Book Award! Learn more about this fascinating history here: hubs.ly/Q03Myyn20

“In the case of the US, CEOs of publicly listed companies earn 269 times more than the average full-time worker. People thought CEOs only earned 18 times as much, and they would prefer it to be just 5 times” – Christopher Hoy in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog

The wage gap and far-right support for redistribution

New study on beliefs and preferences about the wage gap (CEOs vs average worker). When the true gap is revealed, far right voters change their policy views most.

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There’s a Stairway to Heaven, but a Highway to Hell. This implies Heaven is a walkable community, and Hell is a congested interstate.

Why is it so hard to do anything about wealth inequality? In the final episode of this series of Antisocial Economics, Sarah Kerr (@wealtherty.bsky.social) talks to Will Snell, @michaelvaughan.bsky.social, and @jonathanmijs.com about what makes change hard to achieve. buff.ly/pEad8xT

Antisocial Economics

What is wealth? How come so many of us haven’t got any? How does wealth inequality make poverty worse? In the UK and other rich economies, wealth inequality and poverty are at incredibly high…

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Better parks 🌳, tighter communities🧑‍🤝‍🧑!

Mooie kans om te leren van een toponderzoeker in een hele fijne afdeling.

Willem de Koster@willemdekoster.bsky.social · last yr.

🎓 Vacature: Postdoc Sociologie (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam) Bijna 4 jaar aan de slag met onderzoek én onderwijs binnen een fijne onderzoeksgroep? Dan is dit iets voor jou.👇

Can providing facts about ethnic discrimination change people's beliefs and raise support for affirmative action? We put it to the test in new @ispp-pops.bsky.social study with @willemdekoster.bsky.social, Jeroen v/d Waal and Masja van Meteren. A thread! Open access link: doi.org/10.1111/pops...