Vi (LNU) söker en forskningsassistent! arbetsformedlingen.se/platsbanken/...

What is known about “peer-review washing”? Cases in which editors invoke independent peer review as a mark of rigor, yet proceed with an R&R or publication despite serious weaknesses or clear red flags identified during review? How common is this, and what are people’s experiences with it?

Interesting paper on sibling correlations by @martinhallsten.bsky.social. "Late-career Swedes": Are you going through a metamorphosis up there? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Good teachers don't just raise the achievement of students they teach. They also shape the teachers of tomorrow. Standard estimates of teacher impact ignore these intergenerational spillovers. Thread on new work led by @danilok.bsky.social. Paper: osf.io/preprints/so... 1/10

Join us in Vienna to discuss inequality, economic mobility & labor markets! With @franziskadbacher.bsky.social and @izmartinez86.bsky.social I'm stoked to announce this workshop, keynotes by @emilynix100.bsky.social and @natewilmers.bsky.social. Nov 19-20, submit by June 30: www.wu.ac.at/ineq/ws26

Yours truly presented work with @martinhallsten.bsky.social and @martinkolk.bsky.social on elites and their historical persistence in Sweden

Nu kan du göra egna analyser av Levnadsnivåundersökningen (LNU). Skapa diagram, följ förändringar över tid och ladda ner data direkt. Ett värdefullt verktyg och ett enkelt sätt att arbeta med en av Sveriges viktigaste datakällor om levnadsförhållanden. levnadsnivaundersokningen.se

Our paper on international educational Mobility in Scandinavia and the US is now open access👇👇👇

Jens-Peter Thomsen@jenspeterthomsen.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We have a new paper out in Sociology of Education @soceducation.bsky.social on Intergenerational educational mobility in Scandinavia and the United States. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📢 We are hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology at SOFI, Stockholm University. Interested in research on the causes and consequences of social policy for individuals and society? Apply by 13 April 2026. More information and application: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... #postdoc #sociology

Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology

The Swedish Institute for Social research (SOFI) is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Stockholm University. The institute is an internationally leading research institute in the field of socia

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🧵 New WP! w/ @selcanmutgan.bsky.social Most segregation research examines neighborhoods, schools, or workplaces separately. But do individuals' exposure align across domains and persist over the life course? We fill this gap using 27 years of 🇸🇪 data. Pre-print: osf.io/eunwc_v1 (1/5)

New WP: Split Sibling Correlations Aren’t What You Think: The Hidden Mean Differences osf.io/preprints/so...

This is a commentary on an article desk-rejected without feedback. The concerns warrant substantive engagement by the journal. JIMI is part of Springer Nature yet it does not seem to implement their “Matters Arising” policy in practice or consistently follow COPE standards. osf.io/preprints/so...

I'm happy to share that our team (@lecoursonnais.bsky.social, Maria Brandén, @martinhallsten.bsky.social and myself) has received 6.8M SEK in funding from the Swedish Research Council for our project: “Paths of Inequality: Life-Course Segregation Across Multiple Domains.”

@pengzell.bsky.social I accidentally misspelled your name when searching my inbox and now I can't unsee it: negzell

Statistics Sweden: "Prices are rising in line with inflation." (source: www.scb.se/hitta-statis...)

Every analysis of the effects of children’s screen time needs to include, as the counterfactual, older generations’ countless hours spent watching TV test cards while waiting for something to come on

Per Engzell@pengzell.bsky.social · last yr.

Accidentally recreated the TV test card of my childhood. And with that folks... I'm off to sleep

@weratedags.com How do you rate this one?

Mine is: Paper I am glad I never wrote (but someone else did).

Per Engzell@pengzell.bsky.social · last yr.

My favorite academic genre is "paper I would’ve written if I’d had the time"

When I submitted this paper, I couldn’t have guessed I’d soon join @europeansocreview.bsky.social as Associate Editor. Glad to see it published in print now, with great company from some other authors I’ve edited over the past year. academic.oup.com/esr/issue/41/5

We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure). You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented! #sociology More 👇 jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology

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Some cool PhD studentships open at Stockholm Sociology: AI/future of work (quant) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Organized labor and care leave (quant/mixed) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Violence and sexual health in Mexico (quant/qual) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Välkommen att söka forskningsbidrag från IFAU senast den 15 september! Läs mer: www.ifau.se/Forskning/Fo...

Excited to see our paper on the immigrant–native pay gap featured in @nature.com’s new policy brief pilot, please take a look!

Pay gap between nationals and migrants mainly due to unequal access to high-paying jobs

Recognizing foreign qualifications and providing language training could improve immigrants’ access to better-paying positions.

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Job alert! Join us at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a postdoctoral fellow to work on your own research for three years. #sociology

Just replaced my 'gone sailing' note

IN OTHER NEWS: check out our new COIN paper on immigrant--native pay gaps in advanced economies published in @nature.com this afternoon! Specifically, we study the relative contribution of within-job unequal pay vs between-job segregation to earnings disparities across immigrant generations. 1/9

Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs - Nature

Data from nine European and North American countries reveal that the disparity in earnings between immigrants and natives is largely a result of segregation of immigrant workers into lower-paying jobs...

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🧵 Should we subsidize elder care more? 1/ A new thesis by IIES’s Patrizia Massner uses Swedish data to explore big social challenges - aging populations, economic inequalities, and the role of public policy. 👇 www.su.se/institute-fo... #econsky

Should we subsidize elder care more? - Institute for International Economic Studies

A new doctoral thesis by IIES graduate student Patrizia Massner looks into some of today’s most pressing social and economic challenges (from aging populations to inequalities in work and family life)...

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Interested in doing a PhD at the Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social? Look no further: 1-2 fully funded PhD positions now available!

PhD student in Analytical Sociology

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What we know and do not know about social mobility https://osf.io/uznr6 This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the field of social mobility research, examining both class/occupational mobility and income mobility. It traces the historical development of sociological and econom #sociology