This is such an incredibly important study countering claims that cutting research funds is no big deal.

Just learned that a stepfather in Swedish is "bonuspappa" and I love it.

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This Brit nails it. #Immigration

Does anyone know whether the European Social Network Conference (EUSN) will be organized in 2026, and when and where...? #NetSci

I say we stage scenes like this everywhere tomorrow. #Rapture

“While many of them have been willing to support the president out of patriotic duty..” - oh, so patriotic duty huh? Whatever makes you sleep at night….

💙New paper!💙 How is knowledge transmitted across generations in a foraging society? With @danielredhead.bsky.social we found: In BaYaka foragers, long-term skills pass in smaller, sparser networks, while short-term food info circulates broadly & reciprocally academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

NEW: Anderson, "An Unreliable Ladder: Top–Bottom Self-Placement, Subjective Social Status, and Political Preferences sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

Thrilled to announce our 1st Interdisciplinary conference on "The Future of Democracy"— Oct 8–10 @ WZB Berlin @wzb.bsky.social for researchers (and practitioners), co-hosted w/ Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln & Michael Zürn. 🔗 Program: www.wzb.eu/en/events/1s... 📝 Register: events.wzb.eu/dialogue81025/

Excited to announce the publication of my article in Comparative Political Studies on how crises shape the ideological legitimation strategies of authoritarian regimes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The @crestumr.bsky.social AI & Social Sciences seminar resumes. Wednesday 17th at 5pm (CET), we will receive Pr. @emilymbender.bsky.social . She will talk about her latest book, *The AI Con*, co-authored with Dr. @alexhanna.bsky.social. Join us for what will certainly be a lively conversation.

Our last in-person INCLUSIVITY project meeting in Barcelona. We worked hard, confirmed the seawater is warm, had tapas & spent some nights at the rooftop bar with pretty views. But the most amazing of all is the team, although quite a few couldn’t make it this time. I will miss working together! 😢

🚨🚨📢📢 New open-access article (co-authored w/ @nuriatargarona.bsky.social & @mirandalubbers.bsky.social), just out in American Behavioral Scientist: “The Relational Toll of Political Involvement in Polarized Times: Relationship Decay Within Activists’ Personal Networks” doi.org/10.1177/0002...

As long as we continue to give them the notoriety they crave, this will keep happening. Volume 62 Issue 2, February 2018 Special Issue: Media Coverage of Mass Killers: Content, Consequences, and Solutions Guest Editors: Adam Lankford and Eric Madfis

These are really insane numbers. Even if we only look at formal political offices, billionaires are more than 10,000x more likely to hold a national political position than the average person.

As part of the @ec.europa.eu 🇪🇺 funded project, Infra4NextGen, a searchable #inventory of #survey #questions has been published. The inventory features over 10,000 items fielded in major #surveys on each of the NextGenEU themes: Make it… Digital, Equal, Green, Healthy, and Strong.

Meta-perceptions matter -- they drive behaviour and sometimes lead to spirals of silence.

Did you ever wonder why governments don’t do more to counteract wealth inequality? In our new @worldpolitics.bsky.social article, we seek to answer this question, studying the electoral politics of inheritance taxation muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... 1/n

In many countries, mainstream politicians are adopting rhetoric and policies that typical of the far-right. Our new paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social and E Dinas), out now in the @bjpols.bsky.social, finds that doing so erodes norms more than when far-right politicians make similar statements. 1/3

This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Or maybe you could teach your kids to treat all people as deserving of respect and dignity. And maybe you could talk to your kids about homelessness, the unaffordability of housing and healthcare, the stigma around mental illness, and why it's not okay to call people crazy.

True famine grips Sudan. “With the world’s attention focused on crises elsewhere, Sudan’s war-induced famine is growing in what used to be productive farmlands.” Darfur has suffered two true genocides in the last 20 years. Why doesn’t Sudan matter? www.wsj.com/world/africa...

🌅📙 64.3 Are poor people poorly heard?👂 These authors (🧵⬇️) use citizen surveys in 🇧🇪🇨🇭🇨🇦 & 🇩🇪 to claim that politicians hold biased views of what citizens want & shows that politicians perceptions parallel the rich for the most pressing economic issues. buff.ly/5UlH75b

Vicente Valentim, Elias Dinas, & I came together to do this paper because we have all long shared an intution: mainstream center-right rhetoric shapes democratic norms. The hard part? Showing it empirically. We make some headway in this new paper. Grateful to @bjpols.bsky.social for publishing.

In what teachings of Christ is the lesson to give the rich more money, kidnap, starve, or beat the immigrant for more profit, and fuck over the sick because they were going to die eventually?

it never fails to gall me that Americans who believe that foreign nationals crossing the border illegally to work jobs US citizens will not take is the greatest violation of national sovereignty in human history also want Ukraine to just cede 25% of its landmass to an actual invading army

Feels like a good time to share this call for papers. Can't wait for EPSS 2026!

Now out in Social Networks Network analysis aspires to be “anticategorical,” yet its basic units—relationships—are usually readily categorized ('friendship,' 'love'). Thus, a nontrivial cultural typification is asserted in the very building blocks of most network analyses. doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

Reunited is now available in Spanish, first as a greatly produced and narrated book as: REUNIDOS: Separación Familiar y Migración de Menores por Ernesto Castañeda y #DanielJenks. Disponible en varias plataformas.

Spanish Ministry rejection report: Were I a Spanish national, I would never have been asked to show my "competence at the national level", as a catedrática (prof), having led projects here, written many articles about Spanish society, participated in evaluation committees,teams, conference etc. OMG

Oh Spanish Ministry. Why do you think that a team that conducts a 2,5 million grant would not be able to pull off a much smaller grant too, even if they don´t have the typical 3-4 tenured staff because it's hard for people below 50 to get tenure in Spain. It was so innovative 💔.

Dit is geen ‘oorlog’ en zeker geen ‘zelfverdediging’. Dit is de systematische uitroeiing van een volk, haar cultuur, erfgoed, landschap en geschiedenis. Precies zoals Israëlische leiders vanaf het begin openlijk bepleitten. En wie daartegen protesteert, wordt nog altijd weggezet als antisemiet.

When is the EU going to do more than "keeping a close watch", whatever the hell that is, on the genocide that is taking place right under our eyes? Paul Farmer said it, 'The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world'.

Dat is dus sinds vanmorgen. Israël vermoordt elke dag gemiddeld twee volle schoolklassen. Elke dag verliezen tien kinderen één of beide benen door hun bommen. En de EU? Die kijkt het nog aan. Wat valt er nog te zeggen dat niet allang is geschreeuwd?

UN's Albanese calls out 'appalling' EU failure to sanction Israel as 32-nation summit in Bogota kicks off - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/bogota-summit-palestine-begins-more-30-states-discuss-concrete-measures-against-israel

Someone e-mailed me because they've tried to reach two of my colleagues (in other countries) a few weeks back but they didn´t answer, could I be so kind as to check with them if person's email ended up in their spam folders? I am now busy unflabbergasting. Greetings, Professor Not-Your-Secretary

This is an excellent article on the depressing similarities between EU and U.S. (anti-)immigration policies and practices. I gave some comments for it.

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

New study finds that politically diverse social networks, even casual acquaintances, reduce partisan hostility by exposing people to others with opposing views, correcting stereotypes, and fostering understanding. sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

“The fact that organized protest can break the spiral of silence, and correct our impressions of what other Americans think, is one of the most immediate and important values of protesting in the first place. Scientists have [shown] protests update our impressions of what other citizens believe.”

The whole idea that #first-gens lack the cultural capital to thrive in academia seems horribly one-sided. We have other cultural capital, maybe others don´t recognize or value it, but isn´t that also their problem? They'll sure feel it when you activate it. So just be you.

'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'

The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.

The New York Times was more skeptical of the academic qualifications of a black woman who had secured tenure and become the president of Harvard than they were of a white man who washed out of a grad program with a massive scandal and then became a white nationalist troll.

Two decades after the civilised world agreed we have a responsibility to protect victims of atrocity crimes, why are we doing nothing whilst this catastrophe unfolds?

👩‍🎓 Work in Sweden: The Institute for Analytical Sociology offers 2 fully funded PhD positions! liu.se/en/work-at-l...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.