It's hiring season at @iast.fr! - 2y research postdoc contract - Full autonomy, you are your own PI - Awesome multidisciplinary environment - All social and behavioral sciences welcome - Seed funding for projects and workshops - Gorgeous city in the south of France www.iast.fr/research-fel...

First single-author pub out in SSM! It shows a mechanism underlying the intergenerational transmission of health inequality: high-SES families buffer genetic propensity for obesity & overweight, while low-SES environments trigger it 🌍🧬⚖️ OA: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/5

Radical-right parties are often linked to the “left-behind”. But supporting them when stigma is strong is costly. So who is willing to pay that cost early on, before it’s normalized? In my new WP, I argue that breaking political norms is socially stratified. 🧵👇

Do streaming platforms trap us in cultural filter bubbles? We like to think so but the evidence says otherwise. In a new paper @abelaussant.bsky.social and I find the use of streaming platform to be associated with an increase in consumption diversity. sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

The July 2025 issue of the American Journal of Sociology is now available online: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ajs/2025...

“In 1946 amid persistent racial divisions, popular radio series Adventures of Superman launched Operation Intolerance, a sequence of new episodes promoting equality, rejecting racial discrimination and exposing the KKK’s bigotry. We find lasting impacts…” dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

Congratulations to our 2025 Best Student Paper winner, Juliette Saetre!

Contrairement aux affirmations du ministre des Armées, la France livre « un flux ininterrompu » d'armes à Israël. Dans un rapport, rendu public ce 10 juin, une dizaine d’ONG dénoncent ces livraisons d’armes. Que contient ce rapport ? On fait le point. ➡️ l.humanite.fr/8c2

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 🧬👪

Mon collègue Yanis Mhamdi a été arrêté par l’armée israélienne alors qu’il était à bord de la mission humanitaire @freedomflotilla.bsky.social. Cette arrestation est illégale. Nous demandons sa libération et la restitution de son matériel de tournage. Le droit à l’information doit être respecté.

🚨We’re hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science! 📍The Swedish Excellence Centre for Computational Social Science (SweCSS) 📅 Apply by June 3 🔗 liu.se/en/work-at-l...

🚨 working paper (w. @morganlcj.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social): Protesters are not judged equally - even if tactics of groups are similar. We ran an experiment in 🇩🇪 testing how people react to farmers vs. climate activists blocking roads. What we find is disturbing: osf.io/preprints/os...

How do local expressions of dissent become global? 🌍🪧 In her first PhD paper, @juliettes.bsky.social reveals how historical emigration patterns create latent global infrastructures for diffusion. Now published in the American Journal of Sociology! 🔗 tinyurl.com/44s2wkvp

Fun read for sociologists: Apparently Granovetter's "The Strength of Weak Ties," the most cited paper in sociology, was initially rejected from the American Sociological Review. The reviews are a wild slice of disciplinary history. If you're ever dealing w nasty reviews, this could be reassuring...

How do local protests become global? A new AJS article by @juliettes.bsky.social shows how historical emigration patterns can inadvertently create latent network infrastructures that enable movements to spread across borders. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

NEW: Fossil fuel firms like Chevron and Exxon owe the world trillions of dollars. Today in @nature.com, @jsmankin.bsky.social and I show economic losses from rising heat waves directly traceable to these firms, providing scientific support for climate accountability. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

Interesting. Study finds that people make errors when estimating politically-relevant percentages (eg about minority racial and ethnic group size), but this is due to the format of the question not underlying misinformation about what they are estimating.

New study looks at protests against far right in 2002 French elections. Finds “larger protests reduced number of votes for Le Pen and abstention, while increasing number of votes for the incumbent president, Chirac.” Also finds “effect worked through media exposure.” nicolas-lagios.com/files/fn.pdf

New pub (w/ @fabriberna.bsky.social) highlighting how family socioeconomic background plays a key role in shaping genetic associations: advantaged families both compensate for and amplify their children’s genetic propensities for education doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103174 👇🧵

I promise (hope) I am not as bad at research as I am at football

Powerful explanation of the excellent research by @juliettes.bsky.social at @eui-sps.bsky.social on how political behaviours and ideas spread transnationally through the networks of migrants. #MyEUIResearch www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKzk...

Check out this fascinating new research by the brilliant @juliettes.bsky.social ! And highly relevant in this political context!

14. One of many more stories to come, I fear. 48 (!) “disappeared” — no info on legal status

Note that these were private messages exchanged with colleagues and friends, not your standard social media search (which would have been enough concerning)

Hello world! We at the AJS are pleased to have our bluesky account all systems go!  We’ll be announcing our issues, accepted papers, and other relevant happenings. Watch this space for more.

Brilliant research about the diffusion of protest through historical emigration. 🪧🌎

How do local expressions of dissent become global? 🌎🪧 In the first paper of my PhD—just accepted in the American Journal of Sociology (!!!)—I show how historical emigration patterns can inadvertently create latent global infrastructures for diffusion. 🔗 tinyurl.com/44s2wkvp 🧵 (1/7)

🚨 Action Alert!! Sign the petition now! Add your name to demand the immediate release of Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil from DHS detention and a reversal to Columbia University's protocol permitting ICE on campus without a warrant. actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...

Very happy that my paper has just been published at @apsrjournal.bsky.social! Do insurgents help or hurt genocide targets? Contrary to common belief, I find that insurgent presence reduced Jewish victimisation during the Holocaust in France. Here's what I discovered 👇 1/6

Don't let anyone tell you that there is no protest happening. Our latest Crowd Counting Consortium data update is now available. February saw thousands of events. 50501 days of action, immigration-related protests & Tesla takeovers were key spikes in activity. dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm....

New working paper! In this research note, @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social, and I present the first systematic test that causally identifies the electoral consequences of state-sponsored homophobia: osf.io/preprints/os... 🧵Thread

Sous l’effet du changement climatique, les Alpes et les Pyrénées ont perdu environ 40 % de leur volume glaciaire en vingt ans. En seulement deux années, 2022 et 2023, les glaciers des Alpes et les Pyrénées ont perdu 10 % de leur volume. Hallucinant. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reminder that these protests work: - Evidence from Greece: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... - Evidence from Italy: academic.oup.com/poq/article-... - Evidence from France: academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a...

Do extreme protest tactics help climate movement? New study surveyed 8,001 French citizens for “effects of exposure to four protest actions with different degrees of extremity.” Found “relative to controls, extreme protest actions reduced support for the activist group…” osf.io/preprints/so...

I know the top line result is on young boys but let’s please also stare at that y-scale and take a moment to appreciate that it is men of *all* ages that super consistently are right wing *since the 1980s*

We are hiring: 4-year post doc position at our department, open to all topics in political science. 75% research and 25% teaching, good salary, great department and colleagues, and a beautiful city. Deadline: February 15 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Reading this paper and absolutely loving it. Addresses an important methodological issue, concise and clearly written, methods are implemented in an R package so others can use them easily. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

WORKING PAPER: Short-Term Mobility and Changes in Political Norms with @valentimvicente.bsky.social 🌐Link: osf.io/preprints/os... Our interconnected world fosters unprecedented flows of people, goods, and ideas. Can this also reshape perceptions of what is politically acceptable? 🧵

Happy to share my first publication based on some reflections from my PhD research. In this forum contribution for International Politics, I hold that #far-right parties hold various visions and are spoilers, agnostics, or architects of #EuropeanSecurity. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you."

Reminder that I have created a starter pack for Analytical Sociologists with great colleagues! I‘m also updating it as people join Bluesky. If you want to be part of the AS bundle, just send me a message! go.bsky.app/2X5b3ZL