www.theguardian.com/politics/202... More cases of British citizens being deprived of their statutory right to enter their country because they “can’t prove” they’re citizens, even though the reason they’re being refused entry is because the state knows they *are* British citizens.

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.

JOB: Research Scientist at Wikimedia "We’re hiring a Research Scientist strongly committed to the principles of free knowledge, open source, privacy, and collaboration to join the Research team. As a Research Scientist, you will conduct applied research on the integrity of Wikipedia knowledge […]

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.

Note, too, the logical inconsistency: the Trump administration wants Brown to collect information (on skin color) that it wasn't collecting before, based on gvt's evidence-free claim that Brown has been discriminating against students on the basis of skin color information that it didn't have. 9/9

Also, neither the Common App nor internal university systems are set up to collect information on skin color. Requiring universities to report data by skin color is effectively a massive, unfunded mandate to collect what will end up being low-quality data on a difficult-to-measure construct. 8/9

Do I think professional organisations should expel or boycott constituent associations from states whose governments do or advocate bad things? No, not unless the association is state controlled or acts as an arm of the state. I said that in 1989 about the SASA & say it today about the ISS.

Excellent debunking of Matt Goodwin and GB News pretence that a British Army veteran was forced out of army housing because of the Afghan info cock-up

Paid research assistant opportunity with the British Election Study for UK-based graduate students. Help us validate turnout in our surveys against Electoral Commission records

It's nice to be cited. Less so when the citation gets what you wrote back to front. Like the guys fussing about the interpretation of a logit model who tell us they are interested in an unobserved continuous outcome, which turns out to be,...whether or not an infant is alive or dead.

I'm in two minds...

The real power of administrative register data: Each person-year has an anonymized address ID, which lets me measure how much siblings actually lived together growing up. Just did that—and linked it to survey data on 15,000 siblings! #sociology @erc.europa.eu

MIT philosopher Alex Byrne responds with restraint and reason to colleagues' hamfisted condemnation: "Encouraging individuals on social media to join a public condemnation of a colleague is inimical to the mission of the university." web.mit.edu/abyrne/www/D...

The Telegraph obit for Lord Lipsey is excellent and contains this corker www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Thank you, Herman. It was fun to put it together and I find the contributions impressive. The last few will be coming online shortly and then the full special issue will be out soon. Complete line-up below, quick summaries here: doi.org/10.1177/0049...

My colleague Cristobal Young and co-author Erin Cumberworth just released their book on multiverse analysis, a set of tools that help resolve the "garden of forking paths" and "file-drawer" problems and, in the process, improve quantitative social & behavioral science. Highly recommend.

Jolyon Maugham KC has blocked me, but posted that the guardian article about Melanie Field shows UKSC in FWS v Scottish ministers is constitutionally wrong. For a KC to suggest something so legally illiterate in statutory interpretation is bizarre. My explanation why medium.com/@scott-wortl...

I must admit to finding the first line of the second paragraph an odd criticism. The UK SC is an apex appellate Court. It does not hear evidence, it hears legal argument. If Amnesty or the Scottish government chose not to instruct a trans barrister, is that not on them, rather than the UKSC?

Hard facts. I want to spend a night on George Street with @charlieangus104.bsky.social 😬😆🍻

This is very good.

💼 🇪🇺 Our Associate Professors @patmcgovern.bsky.social and Eiko Thielemann have co-authored a new publication with former @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social Fellow @omarhgallego.bsky.social discussing #immigration and #labourmarket access. comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/articles/10....

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-...

If you want to hear more about our recent @nuffieldfoundation.org funded research on inequalities in access to professional occupations, join us at LSE on Thurs where I will present our work - joint with @clairetyler.bsky.social and Catherine Dilnot

Some great job opportunities at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute: vacatures.knaw.nl/job/The-Hagu...

This is good. OED guys take note.

New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words! If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance. www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...

Ukraine needs support from Europe now more than ever before. This is out way of maintaining that. Pass on the word!

The MAGA damage to US and worldwide science is going to be mega. Why risk collaborating with US based colleagues on grants that can be cancelled any moment? We need to support US colleagues, but opportunity costs are becoming huge, and without extra £€ most UK/EU unis can't underwrite risky grants

Many congratulations to Honorary Fellow Mark Carney (DPhil Economics, 1993) on winning the race to become Canada’s next prime minister, having previously served as Governor of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England. We wish Mark well! Read more: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🔸 Unpaid work limits women's careers 🔸 Gender gaps in time use narrowed in 1980s-2000s but have now stalled 🔸 Men still do little unpaid work & change is too slow To close these gaps, we need paid parental leave, flexible work & cultural shifts. #InternationalWomensDay

For more info: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...

By going to lectures & seminars, reading books, completing assignments, taking exams & going to the SU bar. That was my lived experience. Nobody told me how to do it, but somehow I figured it out.