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Talk is cheap, at least for those who will be paying. At the bottom end it just means: would you like more money?

It will be interesting to see whether Dunt ignores it, doubles down or seriously engages. It will tell us something about the character of the man.

It’s called association football because of the observational design. Future experimental studies are needed to determine whether…

If anyone had any doubt about what kind of publisher Frontiers is, this is a shocking whistleblower account

I just returned from two back-to-back conferences. Students, I noticed that a lot of your slide decks had an oddly similar layout structure and I was able to confirm in conversations that these were AI-generated/assisted. Some thought about this for your own professional development: 🧵

I'm not entirely convinced that 18% & 14% answer the "why" question.

This is an abridgement of Michael's academic freedom. There is a right to protest, there is no right to disrupt the business of the university. Nor is there a right to prevent those that wish to listen doing so. It will be interesting to see who on this so kind platform looks the other way.

I've no real idea what it means to be English. I was born in a part of England & have lived in England for most of my adult life, so I suppose I am English, though my dna profile & family history indicate that I have no English direct ancestors after 1680 or so. Who cares? I'm a citizen of the UK.

You don't like the EHRC guidance?Fair enough. If the reason for that is that you don't like what EA 2010 says about the provision of single-sex services then the onus is on you to specify *in detail* the changes you want to make to the Act & how your preferred provisions interact with the GRA.

I have no idea why an engine which just guesses plausible sounding words without any real meaning behind them would be popular in management circles.

What I read in the statement is a description of a predictably defective, potentially unfair appointment procedure that nobody seems to have questioned when it produced outcomes they liked.

Full marks for making a bold claim. No weasel words here. Those of us who were old enough to vote against him Major in 1997 may have a different opinion.

Come teach in Sociology at @universityofessex.bsky.social - 2 one year #lecturer posts to teach #datascience and #criminology vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

Many people on here wasting energy getting angry about the EHRC. Wrong target. If you want a different EA from the one we currently have, then persuade a political party with a chance of governing to put whatever it is you want in its legislative programme. Girning about the EHRC is unproductive,

ChatGPT informs me that "Modern universities often reward, interpretive subtlety, sensitivity to discourse and positional awareness more than analytical clarity." I think it might be onto something there.

Excellent idea to talk to experts. Experts in UK equality law.

In this short, sharp Essay, the professor of economics Alan Manning argues that to take the heat out of the immigration debate, we need to acknowledge the boring nature of creating migration policies that work – shifting from moralistic arguing to fastidious research and number-crunching

FTR I accept you're coming from a position where you want _some_ people to be heard, and I commend that. But from an accedemic perspective, _all reasoned arguments have a right to be heard. Balance in all things.

Seems to be a lot of people who are angry about this. The attack line: this is a charter for purveyors of bigotry, racism...insert bad thing of your choice. I have one question: who gets to decide what is and is not bigotry etc? Is it just you & your mates or do we all get a say?

According to @hepi-news.bsky.social polling: www.hepi.ac.uk/wp-content/u...) while 70% of students agree that 'universities should never limit free speech', 50% want at least one political party banned from campus. 🤷

I'd suggest there's something wrong with a vetting process whereby even if you fail, the people appointing you to a role can't be told.

The Quiet Revival report was retracted after YouGov acknowledged problems with bogus survey respondents. In this NYT story, I comment on why the initial report got so much attention. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/world/europe/britain-christian-revival-survey.html?searchResultPosition=1

Don't say hurty things and give us what we want or we will hit you with a hammer. As all classical "non violent" movements have said.

The idea that subsidising energy bills for everyone can be done without anyone except billionaires/profiteering companies paying, and without any impact on fossil fuel consumption, is fantasy. A serious politician/political party would explain that, not pander to it.. (4/n)

It seems to me there are basically just two coherent positions: 1) Do not organise sport by sex at all & acknowledge that males will win more or les everything apart from tiddliwinks & show jumping; 2) Organise sport where there is clear male advantage by sex. Then set rules for who qualifies for

New #OA at ESR 🌟 What is the income penalty of dropping out of #VET in Germany? With an IV strategy, @kostermann.bsky.social, @patzinaalex.bsky.social & @katymorris.bsky.social show that the causal effect is substantial and especially pronounced for lower SES individuals doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

Just wow! To stop these flag-debasing "patriots", this woman gets under their van like it’s just another day at the garage. Hugely impressed by, and very grateful for, her bravery

New paper by Dr Mathis Ebbinghaus in @qualsoc.bsky.social ✍️ Based on interviews with Black Lives Matter activists, it traces a 3-step process through which riots are legitimised - and argues that this legitimation work shapes what tactics become “available” ⬇️ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Much as I deplore such a ban I think it is true that a fair amount of actually existing sociology is, in fact, advocacy research of one sort or another. This is true in the UK & I've no reason to believe it is less true in the US. You reap what you sow, so not surprising if you give

I'm delighted to forward this to my undergrads in quant soc methods, because I used this example a couple of weeks ago to badmouth web panels. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwjxx5eyn1o

Regional variation of GDP per head within China, 1080–1850: Implications for the great divergence debate doi.org/10.1016/j.ee... Paper in Explorations in Economic History by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow Stephen Broadberry and Hanhui Guan

Problem about the loneliness epidemic is, it's everywhere except in representative survey data. Let's look at where the claim comes from. 1/

My hypothesis is, you only need to look at this platform to find some of the answers.

The Netherlands wants to stop with salary bonus restrictions for the financial sector, that were in place since the crisis taught us that banks are always covered by the tax payer. @volkskrant.nl cites interesting research by SEO that the bonus restrictions have not led to flight of bankers.

I wrote this thing on my substack: open.substack.com/pub/colinmil...

Let me guess. Could it by any chance be people that favour freedom of speech? Just a thought.

Far-right leaders surprisingly often mean what they say. The rest of us, instead of believing them, surprisingly often look for “what they really mean” or call it theater. But it’s usually wiser to take them at their word. If Trump says he wants Greenland, he’ll probably try to get Greenland.

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Depends entirely on what you are denoting as "anti-Zionist". Unless you spell that out clearly, without equivocation, it is impossible to give an honest answer. Maybe that was the point.

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Since the first International Workshop on Analytical Sociology in 2008, INAS is returning to Oxford. The 18th Annual INAS Conference will take place from 1 to 3 July 2026 at the University of Oxford, hosted by Nuffield College and the Department of Sociology. Submission deadline: 1 Feb 2026

Fact check. She did not say that trans people are subhuman. Truth matters.

Fact check. LGBA does not, as far as I know, oppose LGBT+ rights.

My new book, The Division of Rationalized Labor, is now shipping! A brief summary of the argument to follow…

Great interview with my former colleague Tom Snijders

Congrats to Michael Biggs on his full professorship! 👏🎉 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/mich...

Some cool PhD studentships open at Stockholm Sociology: AI/future of work (quant) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Organized labor and care leave (quant/mixed) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Violence and sexual health in Mexico (quant/qual) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

📢 Call for Papers – Hong Kong Sociological Association Annual Conference 6th December 2025. Abstract submissions are open until 19 September. I’m honoured to be giving a keynote at the conference and look forward to engaging with fellow scholars.