We're pleased to announce that our Inaugural Craig J. Calhoun Prize for an Outstanding Thesis in Sociology has been awarded to @sachahilhorst.bsky.social. Her thesis investigated the shifting politics of ex-mining and manufacturing towns in the Midlands. Read more about the prize 👇

Rumours swirling that Government may try to avoid fully scrapping 2 child limit by changing it to a 3 child limit, only lifting it for some groups or giving lower support to 3rd and subsequent children. Helpfully @resfoundation.bsky.social already crunched the numbers, finding that...1/4

Even in Denmark, cultural tastes are socially stratified. With some quite cool library data we find strong gradients by education and wealth - important as wealth is rarely studied in cultural stratification research doi.org/10.1093/esr/... OA: osf.io/ar2xc_v2/dow... @europeansocreview.bsky.social

@madsjaeger.bsky.social @samfriedman.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social 👩‍🎓 People with higher education & wealth use libraries much more 💼 Differences across income and occupations are smaller ‍🕵️‍♀️ Everyone loves crime novels! 🎨 But the highly educated & wealthy are also drawn to “highbrow” genres

If you’ve been following the RFK Jr autism news, then you’ve probably heard that there’s a systematic review “proving” Tylenol causes autism. Here’s my review of that paper👇🏼 open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

Sir Keir Starmer will be told by senior cabinet ministers that lifting the two-child cap is the most effective way of alleviating child poverty amid mounting pressure from ministers and backbenchers

Small business are avoiding £15 billion in Corporation Tax! 😳

The vacuum at highest levels in talking about this dark turn in British life over the last few months HAS to end.

Hate self promoting posts! And not going to say 'I am delighted' 😂 but also no one will promote this for me 😂. So sod it! Please give my article some love or a repost. This article means a lot to me on food aid beyond the food bank! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📣 We're currently accepting papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference! The conference will showcase cutting-edge research from across the discipline. We invite scholars to submit abstracts of up to 400 words on topics relating to any aspect of sociology➡️ buff.ly/wTaE0fI

We need more in-depth reporting on UK university finances like this. Research , research funding and their relation to teaching and teaching funding could do with a similar level of detail. Here's a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers: on.ft.com/3ImSMWa

The beginning of this post is also a short call for more pubs and terraces along rivers (the Thames in London specifically but presumably applies to other cities too). C’mon Labour, listen to Marie (after you scrap the two child limit, of course)!

Our paper on clusters of schools across the UK is out. We find five clusters: multi-racial & super-diverse middle & working-class schools of towns & cities, suburban white middle class schools, established elite schools & (post-)industrial white working class schools. doi.org/10.1002/berj...

A new paper in @thelancetph.bsky.social with a great team of researchers (inc @katemason.bsky.social). We lay out an updated framework for thinking about housing as a social determinant of health www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

this is really important work!! Out-of-work benefits are not at a record high but they have gone up a bit recently (this only becomes clear if you make appropriate adjustments to the underlying numbers that reflect changes in how the data in this series is compiled).

Journal of Critical Public Health. Vol. 2 No. 2 (2025) Are Place-Based Approaches to Reducing Health Inequalities a Highway to Success or a Policy Dead-End? Gerry McCartney & Jennie Popay journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

🚨It's that exciting time of year!🚨 Our team has got TWO open DPhil (PhD) positions in #datascience + #health here at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social for 2026🎉! See for details: 1️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/HDS_2026.html 2️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/pophealth_2026.html Please share and help us to find our future teammates ❤️!

We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure). You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented! #sociology More 👇 jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

new episode out now! we talk with Nicholas Vrousalis about why we should understand exploitation as a form of domination and why this is a powerful argument for capitalism being unjust. also we lovingly give G.A. Cohen and John Roemer a little bit of a hard time. www.patreon.com/posts/119-ex...

Over last 12 months Times&Telegraph have published nearly 1 article a day on the VAT changes for private schools! But in spite of the uproar, the policy has not weakened the power of Britain’s most elite schools. @aaronreeves.bsky.social & @samfriedman.bsky.social suggest what might actually do it.

I'm biased of course but this was great last time and we are hoping it will be fantastic again.

2024 was hands down the BEST sociology conference I attended in years

💡New! Taxing private schools won’t smash the class ceiling, argue @aaronreeves.bsky.social and @samfriedman.bsky.social. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

I *loved* working on this story: what do Spain’s aristocrats think now Rafael Nadal (as the new Marquess of Llevant de Mallorca) has become one of them? on.ft.com/47o4byZ

Early reviews of INHERITED INEQUALITY are in I couldn’t be happier with its reception. I’ll be posting one each day this week. First up, award-winning author & sociologist, Anthony Jack. THANK YOU!

A case study in how Cowen's uncritical use of GPT/o3 is causing him to spread misinformation on Marginal Revolution, from @pappubahry.com pappubahry.substack.com/p/misinforma...

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

(0/5) New thread on cultural #omnivorousness in 🎶🎬📚 Do music, film & literature omnivorous tastes overlap? Insights from my recent paper in @socresonline.bsky.social 👇 #sociology #socsky

Still recruiting for our study on the ripples of #gunviolence! Are you 18+? Have you experienced firearm violence in the U.S.? Click here to learn more: forms.office.com/e/7HphbRnfQJ

If that's true, tinkering with algorithms and superficial redesigns won't be enough. To fix our politics, we may need to fundamentally rethink what social media can be.

Penultimate episode of this season's Culture & Inequality Podcast, in which @bryanboyle.bsky.social (Free U Brussels) talks with Kristina Kolbe and @aaronreeves.bsky.social about the Sound of Elites: How Elites Navigate a Meritocratic and Anti-Elite World >> pod.link/1533967764/e...

Just finished reviewing the final proofs of my forthcoming book on #techworkers. It sheds light on the high-paid professionals in the tech industry. The book is coming out open-access with @mitpress.bsky.social this December. Very excited about it!

We're pleased to announce this year's BJS Prize has been awarded to David Calnitsky and Kaitlin Pauline Wannamaker for their paper "The revolution next door". Read the open access article in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

We're hiring! Please share with your networks! The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026 jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Woohoo, I have page proofs for my book!

A brilliant piece of work! Check it out.

Amid wealth tax discussion, it's worth reflecting on recent changes in tax takes across the income distribution. Combining all payments (ie income taxes and VAT etc), the richest and poorest pay the most as a share of their gross income. But rates are down markedly in the middle of the distribution

🚨🚨🚨 NEW WORKING PAPER: "The Benefits of UI for Marginally Attached Workers" with Brendan Moore ➡️ We find that UI minimally delays re-employment, but substantially improves labor market outcomes for low-income workers 🧵1/13

'What, just move to the many financially secure institutions of the United Kingdom? If you don’t keep up with UK higher ed news, then you may not recognize that’s a darkly bitter joke.' musgrave.substack.com/p/at-the-coa...

Congratulations @neftalememanuel.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 Barnett Prize for his paper: ‘Damp Places, Unhappy Faces: Analysing the Impact of Housing Repairs & Maintenance Expenditure on Local Authority Residents Wellbeing in England between 2013-2022’ 👏 www.spi.ox.ac.uk/article/barn...

The first #metrics-and-models talk was fantastic🤗! Next: @ramina-sotoudeh.bsky.social on "Antenatal Selection: A novel approach for assessing the genetic and ecological drivers of who survives to birth". Details: metrics-and-models.github.io Sign up: [email protected]

Have written up some of my thoughts about the increasingly sinister use of 'non-UK born' and 'white British' in the British press. The obsession with 'white British' citizens over other British citizens harms all of us and needs to be called out. benansell.substack.com/p/who-counts

“As C. Wright Mills said, each generation must recognise its own elite. The work Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman have done here will be indispensable in this quest .” ‪simonarthur.bsky.social reviews Born to Rule by @aaronreeves.bsky.social‬ and @samfriedman.bsky.social‬ . buff.ly/RIU6ngh

New research note out in @bjsociology.bsky.social on the Power Elite in Greenland. The main finding: There is a highly knit elite network in Greenland. However, there are also clear fracturing lines based on the Greenlandic-Danish divide. A 🧵on findings doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Is a university education still worth the investment? We'll be discussing the future of higher education at LSE Festival next week with @zhamilya-m.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social & David Willets @resfoundation.bsky.social Free tickets (in person/online) 👇 www.lse.ac.uk/Events/LSE-F...

Gracias a Mariana Heredia, de la World Elite Database, a Andrés Villena, de la Complutense; a @aaronreeves.bsky.social, de la @lsepress.bsky.social; a D. Markovits, de Yale; a Rubén Juste y a Peter Turchin por hablar conmigo sobre las élites @elpais.com mastodon.hosnet.fr/@fzarate/114...

How do elites navigate a world with meritocratic expectations and calls for diversity? I had the absolute privilege to talk to both Kristina Kolbe and @aaronreeves.bsky.social about their new books that address these very questions! Listen to the podcast here: open.spotify.com/episode/1t5V...

Upcoming event at LSE Festival 🎉 Join us on Wednesday 18 June for a thought-provoking discussion on the future of technology, work, and inequality with @faizashaheen.bsky.social‬, @hilarycottam.bsky.social @jackstilgoe.bsky.social, and @aaronreeves.bsky.social‬ Find out more: buff.ly/ggvGv5R

This conversation with @bryanboyle.bsky.social from the Culture and Inequality podcast was lots of fun. Really appreciated the chance to chat about 'Born to Rule' but the best bits are Kristina Kolbe discussing her fantastic new book 'The sound of difference'. open.spotify.com/episode/1t5V...