Who would have thought it would be 29C in Wales??

Weet je nog dat we in Nederland een prachtig referendum hadden over de zogenaande sleepwet? Onder aanvoering van christendemocraten probeert de EU dat nu op snode wijze door te voeren. NL steun komt van VVD, CDA en SGP. Mail je Europarlementariërs: fightchatcontrol.eu#contact-tool

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

Ik ben benieuwd of die #Tulpfonds wetenschappers een helder beeld hebben van de onderwijsinzet aan Nederlandse universiteiten.

Wales ❤️

Ha! The South African band #Freshlyground plays in Amsterdam when I’m there. I discovered them recently, but I’m late to the party as they played the 2010 World Cup song with Shakira.

What’s so nice about Oxford is that you easily walk in the green.

New paper out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social on teacher sorting and the impact of teacher qualifications on student achievement. Read more here:

Job alert! @cassandraengeman.bsky.social is hiring a researcher in her MakingTime ERC project, focused on the role of trade unions and organised labour in advocating and shaping care leave policies. A great opportunity to work @sofi.su.se in a collaborative team. su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Back at Nuffield College ❤️ @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social #INAS2026

With some travel hiccups (the smooth Amsterdam-London train of this early morning only left from Brussels so we took the FlixBus to get to Brussels yesterday…) finally on our way to the International Network of Analytical Sociology conference in Oxford. >

Team Van Hag

Heb ik nou de hele dag een kater van het voetbal of van het slaaptekort?

Today’s run

In this research note, Herman G. van de Werfhorst explores how the field of the sociogenomics of inequalities would benefit from discussing what its findings and ambitions mean for core theories of social stratification and mobility. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️

What I wrote about academic freedom recently.

Met my besties in NL 🫶

Interesting analysis of LinkedIn data. The versatility of educational programmes is the reverse of what we call linkage strength. While indeed the SSH fields are indeed more versatile (link less strongly to occupations), which may be useful in today’s AI-affected economies, >

‼️The CEU is set to become a two-campus university again, HUN media reports. While Vienna will remain its main campus, degree-granting programs are expected to return to Budapest once the necessary approvals are completed. A step toward restoring the university's academic presence in Hungary! 2/1

haha ik had dezelfde gedachte toen ik deze advertentie vanochtend zag. Wat een lege managerstaal.

📢 We are hiring 📢 Please spread the word: We are hiring a 🧑‍🎓 Postdoc (up to 6 years, non-tenure track) at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education! Come join our team as junior faculty: www.ifo.de/en/job-offer... Application deadline: July 22

Wat geweldig @claesdevreese.bsky.social, en van harte gefeliciteerd met de Stevinpremie! 🍾

Some remarks and evidence on the interesting report of the Onderwijsraad (Education Council) on standardized testing. Standardized testing in the Dutch educational system > open.substack.com/pub/hermwerf...

🚨 New jobs! 🚨 We're looking for 2 Postdoctoral Research Fellows (1 quant, 1 qual), for a full-time, fixed-term position for up to 4 years! The Fellows will have full control over the nature/direction of their research while here 📝🌏 Deadline: 31 July 2026 🔗 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...

Finally have the chance to visit the In_equality Cluster in Konstanz. I’ll talk about politics and social mobility, using a newly developed Kink Causal Mediation design with Fabian Kratz.

Congratulations to all new @eui-eu.bsky.social PhD graduates! Here the @eui-sps.bsky.social proudly showing their awards! @clic.bsky.social

A few seconds before the 5th Dutch goal I was confused by LiveScore. It knew more than we thought.

Das toch gaaf dat Brobby zo snel scoort. #nedzwe

The end of year June Ball is always a party.

Another honorary doctorate for Antony Anghie, international lawyer.

Guido Imbens received the honorary doctorate at the @eui-eu.bsky.social

Great representation of @learnineq.bsky.social at the #ECSR2026! An excellent talk on school exposure effects by @hermwerf.bsky.social

Keynote by @distasioval.bsky.social at the #ECSR2026 conference on the cumulative impact of discrimination.

The winner of the #ecsr thesis prize 2025: @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social!!! Gaia graduated from the @eui-sps.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social #ecsr2026

Keynote of @mtriventi.bsky.social at the #ecsr2026 conference in Dublin. Are you a computational enthusiast, or a theory-driven stratification researcher?

Today my dad turned 80. Yesterday we celebrated. Next year deo volente my mom.

My research note on the sociogenomics of stratification and general theories of inequality. doi.org/10.1111/1468...

My research note on the sociogenomics of stratification and general theories of inequality. doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Just prepared my talk at the #ecsr2026 conference in Dublin. With @kimstienstra.bsky.social and @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social we present a new method to assess school effectiveness, using register data on primary school tests in the Netherlands. We compare our method with standard value added models.

Ik hou van de Nederlanders. Hun hart ligt op de tong, hun fietspaden zijn veilig en biljartvlak, en hun beleid is onderbouwd door onafhankelijke experts en instellingen. Het contrast met België en Vlaanderen kan niet groter zijn. Nieuwe column voor @sampolmaandblad.bsky.social 🫡

I would have appreciated if research had been done on this, eg by simulating transcripts and a survey respondent, to see whether it’s easier with qualitative research to identify a person from a simulated distribution.

Today’s run

Claude tells me that France will win the World Cup. Final against the US. NL loses in the quarter final against Brazil.

Interesting research job for a quant sociologist at the ESRI in Dublin. 5-year contract with possibility of permanency. €93k. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Some remarks and evidence on the interesting report of the Onderwijsraad (Education Council) on standardized testing. Standardized testing in the Dutch educational system > open.substack.com/pub/hermwerf...

De stelligheid tegen #mondkapjes vanuit het @rivm-nl.bsky.social is een goed voorbeeld waar té strenge causaliteitseisen problematisch kunnen zijn voor beleidsadvies. Ik gebruikte dit voorbeeld, net als onze eerdere discussie met het @cpbnl.bsky.social over hun onderwijsrapport, >

Ah, right now I discover this critical piece on behavioral genetics in the June issue of the @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

My research note on what the sociogenomics of stratification can teach us about broad sociological theories of inequality got accepted by the @bjsociology.bsky.social. My thinking for this note started when @melindacmills.bsky.social came to present her work on status at the @eui-eu.bsky.social. >

After 12 years of service, my term as editorial board member of Social Forces has come to an end. One of my favorite journals, open to comparative research, widely read in Europe and the U.S. I think I must have first heard about this journal through the social capital paper by De Graaf & Flap.

Looking forward to giving talks at Princeton (23 Sept), Columbia University (24 Sept), and Penn (25 Sept).