Doing computational social science research on inequality on your own? This special issue is for you! We’re inviting submissions for a Historical Social Research issue on “Computational Social Inequality Research in Practice.” 📅 Deadline: 15 May 2026 #CallForPapers #CompSocSci #Inequality

New w/@scottclifford.bsky.social. Lots of work uses agree-disagree scales, and a lit review shows these are 1) frequently just measured in one direction (agree = higher trait) and 2) correlated with each other. This has potentially big issues for conclusions. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📢WORK! At the Sociology department of @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social we are hiring a postdoc who will work on applications of AI in sociological research. Join our vibrant-yet-cohesive research community doing cutting-edge research. Please share or apply! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

✨ I’ve just started as an Assistant Professor at Sciences Po! After 9 years living abroad, I’m returning to my home country. I’ll miss many things—especially my fantastic colleagues at @uva.nl and @maastrichtu.bsky.social —but I’m excited to begin this new position at @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social!

On Thursday we host Claudia Diehl for the year's last AMCIS Seminar: "Explaining Perceptions of Unfair Treatment: Theoretical Arguments & Empirical Evidence from Ethnic Minorities, Women & Students" Info & registration: amcis.uva.nl/content/even... @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social @aissr.bsky.social

Dans un contexte où la #Reproductibilité est clé pour la crédibilité de la science, ces journées rassemblent des scientifiques pour tenter de reproduire des études publiées. 👏 Bravo à toutes et tous ! 👉 Lire l'article : www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...

Every time I think I’ve seen every possible use of administrative registry data, someone proves me wrong. Again ☺️

This is not an anomaly - it’s an echo of the injustices we saw in Windrush. A UK‑born child denied a British passport and asked to prove her right to NHS care is a stark reminder that UK policy still fails Caribbean communities and basic principles of equality. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

➡️New paper out with amazing data: library borrowings of the entire population of Denmark! If cultural tastes are always stratified, the type of stratification depends on the wider inequalities within a context #EH_Blaabæk #S_Friedman #MM_Jæger #A_Reeves academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

✨New (open access) article in ESR with Gerbert Kraaykamp! We demonstrate that cultural capital is positively associated with a higher occupational position due to access to more resourceful networks. Read here: doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

My favorite type of infographic.

A growing share of Americans know about and are using AI tools. Yet many are worried about the growing role of AI in various aspects of our lives. Read all about it in this great new report from my @pewresearch.org colleagues:

Keynote 2️⃣ of the TASKS VII Conference #TASKSVII2025 🗣️ @thijsbol.bsky.social of @aissr.bsky.social presents: Are occupations bundles of skills? Identifying latent skill profiles in the labor market using topic modeling. Co-authored w/ @labussieremarie.bsky.social 🔗Info: www.liser.lu/events/TASKS...

We analyzed leaked data for rare look at the winding journeys of more than 44,000 immigrants detained or deported by the Trump administration... and found that people are being moved around in unprecedented and irregular ways. w/ @wcraft.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The pretty draft is now online. Link to paper (free): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... Our replication package starts from the raw data and we put real work into making it readable & setting it up so people could poke at it, so please do explore it: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

There is so much quote from this article. “There was a sense in some narratives that success was down to individuals, rather than the sector holding responsibility for creating conducive working conditions for academics to flourish and and realize potentials.”

With the recent diff-in-diffs upheaval, you may have asked: When can I get away with using two-way fixed effects? If so, check out this new working paper! It proposes tests for differences in dynamic treatment effects over cohorts, which allows you to explore when TWFE is likely to be biased.

New preprint 💥 In 2020, @ianlundberg.bsky.social wrote a fabulous paper showing that cousin correlations don’t have to imply extended family effects. I put that idea to the test using NLSY data—and he’s right! The patterns fit a dynamic first-order Markov model. #sociology osf.io/preprints/so...

Du poids du racismes dans les inégalités de revenus en France

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

🚨New paper out🚨 First evidence on the returns of citizenship acquisition in Italy 🔎 Naturalized do better, but not because of naturalization 🔗 OA in IOM doi.org/10.1111/imig... w/ @filippogch.bsky.social @rafgrotti.bsky.social ‬@stefanischerer.bsky.social ‬@zamberlanna.bsky.social #MigCitSky

Academia seen by Sørensen (1996)

Excited to be at the #IMISCOE conference in Paris this week! Will present work on intersectionality and stereotypes with new data from the @equalstrength.bsky.social project in the last session on Friday. Last session is the best session right?

@equalstrength.bsky.social team presenting at IMISCOE in Paris. @jeremykuhnle.bsky.social and @danielcapistrano.com show sizeable variation in the recognition of ethnic minority names, depending on both context and respondent demographics, confirming careful pre-testing is crucial in experiments.

🎓 Not just what students expect—but how sure they are. Dr. Stephen Morgan’s #Socius study shows that tapping uncertainty improves predictions of #college access. Insightful for #SurveyMethods and #SociologyOfEducation. Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Expert commentary on proposed amendments to UK citizenship law extending naturalisation period from 5 to 10 years: back to the future reviving Labour's proposals from 2008, and with a similar lack of evidence base for this extension....

Attn: the special issue of SMR on Generative AI in Sociology is now online. The whole issue is fire, but the introduction by @thomasdavidson.bsky.social and Danny Karell is a must read, covering prompting, measurement, and simulations. It's a road map for soc sci research in the genAI era. +

Turnout for the Italian referendum to reduce the residency requirement for #citizenship from 10 to 5 years was 30%, falling short of the 50% threshold needed for validity. A breakout of the results based on earlier discussions with @maartenpvink.bsky.social .and @yajnagovind.bsky.social.

New paper with @fabriberna.bsky.social - part of my PhD thesis! Why are the negative educational consequences of parental separation stronger among high-SES children? → When high-SES parents separate, they lose their ability to compensate for their child’s low genetic propensity for education 🧬👪

It is often said that vocational graduates face long-term disadvantages in the labor market because they perform more routine tasks vulnerable to technological change. But is that really the case? 👉Check the new paper by @vdecker.bsky.social , @thijsbol.bsky.social and myself!

Buongiorno! on.ft.com/4dS9hVr

📚 Ever wondered how unfinished degrees 🧑‍🎓 impact early careers? Join us tomorrow as Christina Ciocca Eller explores how #AmbiguousCredentials shape #LabourMarket outcomes and early career #Inequality. 🗓 Tomorrow 15:30–16:30 www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

Recent research by @profdaviddorn.bsky.social and co-authors finds that self-reported skills on LinkedIn reveal more about earnings and gender gaps than traditional measures of human capital like education or work experience. www.ubscenter.uzh.ch/en/news_even... #EconomicsForSociety #UZH #shareUBS

[🎓SOUTENANCE] Noé Fouilland soutient sa thèse le 4 juillet au GRESCO (@univpoitiers.bsky.social)! Intitulée “Ce que fait une discipline universitaire à ses étudiant∙es”, elle porte sur les effets socialisateurs des licences d’éco, psycho et socio Les infos sur le carnet⤵️ rt50.hypotheses.org/799

🚨 New WP! 📄 "Publish or Procreate: The Effect of Motherhood on Research Performance" (w/ @valentinatartari.bsky.social 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 We investigate how parenthood affects scientific productivity and impact — and find that the impact is far from equal for mothers and fathers.

Day one at the @mpc-eui.bsky.social @globalcit.bsky.social conference on “Contested boundaries”, with a fantastic collection of migration and citizenship scholars. We’ll talk about ius soli in the US and France (Mayotte) together with @camillev.bsky.social this afternoon!

🆕🔥 "Multidimensional Skills on LinkedIn Profiles: Measuring Human Capital and the Gender Skill Gap" w/ @profdaviddorn.bsky.social, Florian Schoner, Moritz Seebacher & Lisa Simon 🔗 www.ifo.de/sites/defaul... 🚀Skills from 9M LinkedIn profiles explain important labor-market patterns! 1/🧵

Commentaar van NRC redactie: "De situatie in Gaza is in één woord ondraaglijk. In n week dat Nederland oorlogsdoden herdenkt met de woorden ‘nooit weer’, worden in een gebied ter grootte van Rotterdam oorlogsmisdaden gepleegd die het voorstellingsvermogen te boven gaan." www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

"We found significant variation in employer mobility preferences, with jobs in human resources, financial reporting, marketing, and IT penalizing high-mobility applicants." This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

Have you ever wondered how parenting activities are influenced by work-related tasks? I'm looking into this question in a new preprint with Katherin Barg (University Bristol): osf.io/preprints/so...

We zijn geïnterviewd door Dylan van Rijsbergen over ons project over klasse en klassenbewustzijn voor Jacobin. Heel toepasselijk is het gepubliceerd op 1 mei. Het artikel: jacobin.nl/waarom-klass... @jonathanmijs.com Agata Troost @dylanvr.bsky.social @rug-gmw.bsky.social @jacobinnl.bsky.social

This is an EXCELLENT article. I teach statistics to public policy students & tell them that data are essential for making the world a better place. We need good data to assess the state of things, see how things have changed over time, & evaluate if policies work. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The #earth science department at #VU Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is being shuttered for allegedly being 'too costly'. advalvas.vu.nl/campus-cultu...

New👇post summarizes main arguments from our Sociology paper (w. @mikesavagelse.bsky.social, @marentoft.bsky.social): how different strands of #class analysis can be easily mobilized to study #wealth and #asset inequalities in its various forms & shapes.💰🏰💸 Original paper: doi.org/10.1177/0038...

New paper in International Migration Review! 📝📈 Our analyses of linked 1900–1940 US Censuses suggest that macroeconomic opportunities do not explain career growth variation variation between multi-gen US men and 1st-/2nd-gen European immigrants. with @mobarakhossain.net 🙌 doi.org/10.1177/0197...

New in European Sociological Review: “Does inequality undermine life satisfaction? Effective identification of country-level controls for a longitudinal investigation”. Economic inequality lowers LS among lower earners – but it *raises* LS among higher earners. academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

"Het is een politieke keuze om dit rapport te negeren en de andere kant op te kijken. Moslimdiscriminatie is geen incidenteel maar een structureel probleem, dat een structurele oplossing vereist." 👇

🧵 Does science look like a sprinkle donut? 🍩👀 In our latest paper with @yannrenisio.bsky.social we map the epistemological tastes of scientists by identifying the main dichotomies in scientific knowledge — Culture–Nature, Life–Non-life, and Materials–Methods. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The ruling emphasises that distinguishing between persons who are only Dutch citizens and those who are dual nationals, in the application of citizenship deprivation rules, "can never be objectively justified in a democratic society" uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/details?id=E...

More on my take on causality, as explained during my discussion of Checchi’s keynote at @isa-rc28.bsky.social #rc28milano #rc28 #rc28milano25, see my blog open.substack.com/pub/hermwerf...