Can we have 8 min of your time please? @siljahausermann.bsky.social @bpalier.bsky.social & I wrote a very brief reflection on why social investment might be a misleading paradigm. Way forward: please distinguish different types of social investments! More here journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Look at the distribution of wealth among politicians around the world relative to the people they represent! The median politician in South Africa's has 200x the wealth of the typical household in that country.

We invite applications for two postdoctoral scholars! These 2-year positions start in Aug. 2026 and are based at the GC CUNY Stone Center in NYC. One is focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth inequality. Apply by Nov. 3! #EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky bit.ly/40TZR6J

Happy to see this paper on welfare privatization in SE and DK in print. Q: Do people align notions of social justice with privatized welfare over time? A: They stick to existing notions and work to avoid being overwhelmed with resentment, even with own use of privatized welfare. shorturl.at/xZAXn

Politiken skriver i dag om Astas, Mikkels og min forskning i karakterer: tegn på for lave std.pkt.kar. til drenge, ikke-vestlige og kort uddannede. Dagen har også budt på præsentation hjemme i @rockwoolfonden.dk og afrundes med en tur i News. Læs om forskningen her: rockwoolfonden.dk/udgivelser/n...

Interesseret i spørgsmål om retssikkerhed i velfærdsstaten? Så se dette temanummer fra tidsskriftet Økonomi &Politik, som er tilgængelig online: tidsskrift.dk/okonomi-og-p...

EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 15! Join us and @samfriedman.bsky.social Friedman (LSE), Annette Zimmer (Uni Münster) and William Genieys (Sciences Po) for a two-day conference/workshop, June 3 and 4. Excellent opportunity for paper feedback. DM me for info and questions. Please share and repost!

Noen på jobb påsto at vi har flere utedass registrert som kulturminner enn vi har slott. Checks out!

We’re beyond thrilled to launch the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy If you’re a fellow political economist annoyed by all-male rooms & gendered comments— join us & share! 🗓️ 22-25 Sept, 2025 in Cologne 🚨 Apply by 25 Apr, 2025 www.mpifg.de/1343511/2025...

Interesting recruitment strategy of US based academics to European universities. Freedom to think… Liberal democracy still intact… #academicchatter Example by U Helsinki from @paulgowder.bsky.social

Sorted. 😉😎

We have an open position for an Associate Professor in Sociology working in the field of quantitative inequality and stratification research at Roskilde University, Denmark. Please share or apply! tinyurl.com/2u4mx2ve

Det er en potentiel skandale, når DR-dokumentaren om kryolit - midt i den grønlandske valgkamp - går ud med et tal på 400 milliarder kr., som dokumentarens egen ekspert "flere gange" har sagt til DR "ikke giver nogen mening". www.berlingske.dk/oekonomi/drs... jyllands-posten.dk/kultur/ECE17...

BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy. Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐 www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social

Come work with us! We are looking to hire an Associate Professor in Business Studies with a focus on Management, Leadership, and Organization at the Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University. Great Department and near Copenhagen. Please share or apply! tinyurl.com/mpura4k9

📖👀book review🚨 @kristofferkropp.bsky.social reviews Georg Steinmetz' "monumental" book 'The Colonial Origin of Modern Social Science, French Sociology and the Overseas Empire' offering "a model for understanding how local sociologies are shaped in transnational relations". doi.org/10.1177/0001...

🧵Curious about "DeepSeek"? Wondering what it is and why it matters for the U.S. and the world in general? Let me break it down in simple terms—no tech background needed! (1/21) 👇👇🌏💾

American social media companies write the algorithms that determine what voters read; moderation systems are opaque; political advertising cannot always be tracked. Do European democracies, or any democracies, really have sovereign elections anymore? www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The elections in Greenland are April 6. The attention to and foreign interest in these elections will be unprecedented. Will platforms take responsibility, act against fake accounts (like fake 🇬🇱 PM below) and ensure integrity in the info ecosystem? Recent developments cast serious doubts on this.

We are looking to hire an Assistant Professor in Business Economics at Roskilde University. Applicants could have a background in microeconomics, accounting, finance, or strategy. The department has a strong, interdisciplinary and international profile. Please share or apply. tinyurl.com/bdfkhf2b

We are looking to hire an Assistant Professor in Business Economics at Roskilde University. Applicants could have a background in microeconomics, accounting, finance, or strategy. The department has a strong, interdisciplinary and international profile. Please share or apply. tinyurl.com/bdfkhf2b

📢 We are hiring a #quantitative researcher to join #MEN4DEM - Masculinities for the Future of European Democracy Horizon Europe. Tasks include a 6-countries survey to study connections between political masculinities and democratic values 📅 Apply by 20/01 (12 CET) www.unibg.it/bandi/codice...

We're hiring: Fully funded 3-year PhD position in Sociology, here in wonderful Copenhagen, Denmark! Come work with us! employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

1/12. Lots of engagement with this Walmart research post. I wanted to follow up on one of the themes I noticed in reactions. This will be a longer thread than I usually write, but I want to weave together a few related points on science (and communication about it), public engagement, and policy.

Come and become my colleague. We have job openings in sociology at UiT! www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...

This! Og skoleaktiviteter, spejder, ejerforeninger mm. Facebook ejer det danske civilsamfund og børn og forældre i offentlige institutioner er fanget på snap og fb.

Med Sune Haugbølle og Christine Crone arbejder jeg lige nu på at organisere en paneldebat om Syrien efter Assad-regimets fald set fra forskernes perspektiv og med geopolitisk udblik til regionen. Mere info følger snart men skriv tidspunktet bag øret: Onsdag d. 18. december kl. 12-14 på KU(A).

I must say Instagram is a gift that keeps giving

When universities hire chief diversity officers, it has *no effect* on the diversity of faculty or university administrator hires. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

What on Earth is this crime against graphs? www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

the bird-namers were really sick of this bird's shit

A Danish study on gender and admin tasks at Danish universities unsurprisingly resonate with academics in other countries.

Sometimes i forget how incredibly fortunate i am to be employed in a country where unions and employers actually collaborate...

Come work with us! We are hiring an ass/assoc professor in leadership at Roskilde University

We have a call out for a FULL PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY here in Copenhagen! Come join me and my awesome colleagues!!! Great department, great city employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...