Interesting paper on housing space and inequality in Germany: by 2022, 11% of households were overcrowded, while 39% were underoccupied. Both have risen, pointing to a growing misallocation of housing space. Subjective perceptions diverge sharply from objective measures.

Catch up on our seminar with Miguel Artola Blanco 💻️ He explores how the transition from pre-WWII capitalism to welfare capitalism not only involved a decline in income inequality but also a realignment of capital and labour incomes at the top of the distribution.

Capital and labour at the top: new evidence from the 1936 US income tax project

Part of the Inequalities Seminar Series at LSE 19 May 2026 This seminar explores how the transition from pre-WWII capitalism to welfare capitalism not only involved a decline in income inequality…

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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

New article out with Bev Skeggs and @rogerjburrows.bsky.social in @culsoc.bsky.social on how cultural consumption data's enrolment into insurance, health, housing and other areas that extends symbolic violence and means we nee to think about culture differently

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NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...

A Whole Bunch of People's Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There's Some Wildly Private Stuff in There

A trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.

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Les moyens manquent cruellement pour combattre les incendies, c'est aussi ça le résultat des politiques d'austérité ineptes voulues par Macron pour contrebalancer tous ses cadeaux fiscaux aux plus riches

"C'est scandaleux" d'avoir cinq Canadair disponibles sur 12 pour lutter contre les incendies, déplore un commandant de bord de Canadair

Le pilote considère même que le travail des Canadair face aux incendies d'une telle ampleur est "inefficace".

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📢We're hiring 📢 Short notice, but Melbourne Institute is looking for a Senior Research Fellow (level C) to work on applied industrial microeconomics research using Australian administrative datasets. Apply here: unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UOM_Ex...

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 We're hiring a six-year Postdoc @stawi-univie.bsky.social, starting in Oct 2026 (or thereafter). Research: political representation, party competition, institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields 📅 Deadline: 20 Aug 2026 Apply here: tinyurl.com/dyf9bt7h

📢 Job vacancy - Chair in Intellectual History We welcome applications from scholars working across a broad range of fields, including: 💠 History of political theory, political economy 💠 Knowledge systems and IT 💠 Postcolonial and intersectional thought 💠 Humanist, post-human, and planetary history

New research finds that the for-profit dominated market is at the heart of many of the ECEC system’s ongoing problems, and fails to consistently deliver safe, high-quality care to all children. futurework.org.au/report/the-r... #auspol #ECEC #Childcare #AusEcon #NotForProfit @unitedworkers.org.au

New paper out now 🥳 When psychologists discuss generalisability, they often refer to vague notions of representativeness. We provide an accessible intro to the total survey error framework as a tool to reason about this more rigorously. w @taymalsalti.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci >

"When the Foreign Minister explains that France is prepared to say ‘no’ to the United States on certain issues and Mélenchon defends a non-aligned sovereignty, the entire political landscape shifts."

Future of France: Mélenchon and the French Runoff pt. I

When Hors Série published an article in December entitled ‘Yes, Mélenchon Really Will Win the Presidential Elections Next Year’ (here in English), many readers were won over by the idea that the…

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If students are simply uninterested in the core bargain of a class like this, it’s hard to know what to do. You teach the material because you think it’s important they know it; they don’t give a shit, but want the credential; and the university wants their money. Your main option is “pretend”.

Andrew Heiss@andrew.heiss.phd · 4w ago

woof ≈80% of assignments this summer term have essentially been just raw chatgpt/claude output, including assignments that required designing stuff in illustrator/affinity/canva. The battle is lost for asynchronous online courses.

Il ne manque plus que 6 800 signatures pour que la nouvelle loi « permis de tuer » soit remise en discussion à l’Assemblée nationale !

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Over @ppesydney.bsky.social we are celebrating Martijn Koning's new book *The Bailout State* with this interview on state theory, the Minsky “moment”, the Keynesian revolution, Modern Monetary Theory and so much more @politybooks.bsky.social @mkonings.bsky.social

The Bailout State - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

How did we end up in a world where social programs are routinely cut in the name of market discipline and fiscal austerity, yet large banks get bailed out whenever they get into trouble?

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De récents travaux décortiquent les mécanismes de la pauvreté et confirment sa persistance d’une génération à l’autre. D’ado à jeune adulte, elle grève les parcours de vie, en particulier ceux des femmes.

De l'adolescence à l'âge adulte, la pauvreté imprime sa cicatrice

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Le bilan écolo des macronistes en 2026 : 👉Le Fonds vert, qui aide les collectivités à faire leur transition, est passé de 2,5 milliards € à 850 millions €. 👉L'aide à la rénovation des logements a été baissé de 600 millions €. 👉Le plan vélo (1,25 milliard € sur 5 ans) a été réduit à 31 millions €.

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« On n’a pas été assez loin et assez vite » : La canicule oblige les macronistes à un rare mea culpa

Dans le cadre de l’Alliance écologique et sociale, syndicats et associations dont Attac publiaient l'été dernier un rapport sur l’urgence de rénover le bâti scolaire. ⤵️ alliance-ecologique-sociale.org/lecole-bien-...

L'école bien dans ses murs : pour une rénovation écologique du bâti scolaire - PJC - Alliance écologique et sociale

Dans le cadre de l’Alliance écologique et sociale, des syndicats et des associations (la FSU, Sud Education, la CGT Educ’Action, Greenpeace France, Oxfam France, Les Amis de la Terre, la…

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Israel's crimes in Lebanon, West Bank and Gaza are barely getting reported in the western press.

Le RN propose de contraindre les collectivités à financer davantage l’enseignement privé sous contrat que l’enseignement public sur leur territoire. Vous avez dit « guerre scolaire » ?

Denis Cogneau explains how to understand the French colonial empire: www.politybooks.com/blog-detail/...

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Come work with us! We need a senior researcher to explore how we create good jobs that make economic and fiscal sense through the climate transition. You'll be working with some great union and academic folks - and us!

Centre for Future Work@futurework.bsky.social · 2mo ago

JOB ALERT! We're currently searching for a senior researcher to join the Centre for Future Work team. The senior researcher will lead an ambitious research & policy project, focussing on promoting climate adaptation & export strategies that create quality jobs. futurework.org.au/news/job-ope...

« Pourquoi Decathlon est-il rattrapé par le conflit capital/travail ? Grève inédite dans l’histoire sociale de l'enseigne, qui valorise l'autonomie des salariés et le bien-fondé de son activité économique. » @mquijoux.bsky.social invité d'@alietteh.bsky.social @franceculture.fr tinyurl.com/24ed65ft

Incredibly happy and relieved that our special issue Asset Struggles co-edited with @theobourgeron.bsky.social is now accepted for publication at NPE! More on the issue soon. For now: a heartfelt thank you to everyone who has been involved in this over the past few years – you are the best!

Les enquêtes de la statistique publique se distinguent de la majeure partie des enquêtes d’autres organismes par le fait qu’elles s’inscrivent entièrement dans le cadre du calcul des probabilités. 2/2 blog.insee.fr/il-y-a-sonda...

Il y a sondage et sondage… - Blog Insee

Pour mener leurs enquêtes, les statisticiens publics procèdent par sondage. Mais leur pratique est bien différente de celle des très nombreuses enquêtes publiées quotidiennement, lesquelles interrogen...

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🚨 @sophie.binet.cgt.fr mise en examen pour avoir dénoncé la "répression patronale violente" chez Tefal depuis que la CGT alerte sur les PFAS Il faut une loi sur les libertés syndicales pour protéger les syndicalistes qui s'expriment sur les conditions de travail ou l'impact environnemental

Révélations sur Sainte-Soline : Libération et Mediapart ont identifié le gendarme qui a failli tuer Serge Duteuil-Graziani, enquête classée sans suite par la justice www.liberation.fr/societe/poli...

Révélations sur Sainte-Soline : on a identifié le gendarme qui a failli tuer Serge Duteuil-Graziani

Alors que la justice a classé sans suite l’enquête sur le tir interdit qui a blessé un militant écologiste le 25 mars 2023, «Libération» et «Mediapart» ont remonté les traces du projectile, parti d’un...

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