We often treat education as the primary engine of social mobility, but conventional models may be overestimating its impact. Not correcting for selection into schooling will artificially inflate any indirect effect through schooling... 1/3 #socialmobility #sociology

The people wearing masks are scanning your face to capture your identity.

It begins. Clearly incriminating evidence against president of the United States. Epstein to Maxwell, April 2, 2011: "i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc."

Four (!) three-year postdoc positions available at @au.dk: international.au.dk/about/profil... Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy. Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs

Out now in @actasociologica.bsky.social: “Momentary symbols: Tracing the visual expressions of collectives” with @nicolemilmandoerr.bsky.social & @mathiaswullum.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... A🧵 on our approach and findings:

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

Dept. of Soc. at the Uni of Copenhagen invites applications for two or more open-rank professorships! We cover a wide range of topics and and methods, and welcome candidates with new research agendas or profiles that complement our existing strenghts. Details here: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Now imagine all your best scientists leaving your country because they’re paid far more across the pond.

Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/?

Du poids du racismes dans les inégalités de revenus en France

The Supreme Court is out of control. To allow the president, without any explanation, to unilaterally dismantle agencies created by an Act of Congress is to endow the president with sovereignty. There is no justification, because they haven’t given one. Our country is in big trouble.

When I got tenure, I decided to use it start a new research agenda, studying US science in the 20th century, how it became dominant, what held it back, and what we can do better. Here's the first pub (with Scott Kim).

A 30% tariff on EU exports would hurt businesses, consumers and patients on both sides of the Atlantic. We will continue working towards an agreement by August 1. At the same time, we are ready to safeguard EU interests on the basis of proportionate countermeasures. → europa.eu/!tPvKn8

"...male-dominated STEM programs actually rate female applicants’ written application materials and interviews higher. Female applicants are still less likely admitted to such programs than males..." This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

Every cut that the government makes to social services is effectively a tax on women. Because they're the ones who will be expected to fill in the gaps.

It is true that sometimes New York City is frightening. For example today these men were loitering in the hallway of the 12th floor of the federal building.

This is shocking. Pure totalitarianism from DHS, and also blatantly unconstitutional. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Interesting discussions at our Funders Panel #ICSSI2025

Our first invited speaker Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social just kicked off the conference with a great talk on: Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions? A field experiment #ICSSI2025

Fariba Karimi continues at #ICSSI2025 with gender-related themes in her phenomenal keynote "Inequalities in science and the impact of networks"

The conference was just opened by @hckongsted.bsky.social. Welcome everyone in Copenhagen, and enjoy the next 3 days at #ICSSI2025!

If we are all willing to dig in and sacrifice, by growing our red bars we can do our part in making the green bar even bigger.

📄 Whose expert knowledge informs policymaking around the world? @rsenninger.bsky.social and I analyze data from 1.2 million government policy documents from 185 countries—and find a prominent pattern: 🌍 Policy evidence is overwhelmingly sourced from the Global North. Preprint: osf.io/w8q3y 🧪🧵👇

Economists looking at an idea from sociology literature that they will be the first to write a paper on.

Bernie Sanders' office has put out a report this morning on Trump's NIH cuts: "Trump officials effectively cut $2.7 billion in [NIH] funding in the first three months of 2025 – including a 31 percent cut to cancer research through March, compared to the same timeframe last year."

Is anyone here on the Editorial Board of the Brill journal Comparative Sociology? Raised a concern last year about 2 papers published in the journal which used "national IQ" data. The editor & ethics team dismissed my concern without an investigation. The journal has just published another NIQ paper

there are a lot of good reasons not to use musk's platform but this has always been a big one: you post at the pleasure of the world's richest man, whose project is to punish his political enemies

As we were writing this paper the NSF ADVANCE program was "archived" (cancelled). A heavy moment for us mid-paper. The results are important - check it out: ADVANCE is one of the (if not the) longest running NSF programs, and, unusually for the NSF, is a collaboration among multiple directorates. 🧵

A longitudinal survey of political scientists shows: experts think we're slipping fast from democracy to dictatorship Which explains the administration's efforts to cut/muzzle research: it's easier to claim they're the good guys without facts/experts to get in the way www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause: - 15.2m deaths from AIDS - 2.2m deaths from TB - 7.9 additional child deaths

This is absolutely wonderful news. @hebagowayed.bsky.social is an incredible scholar and the best that sociology has to offer. Seeing Carnegie recognize her work is heartening in these terrible times.

The Canadian Association of University Teachers warns academics against traveling to the United States: “Academics (…) who have themselves expressed negative views about the Trump administration, should be particularly cautious about U.S. travel.” apnews.com/article/cana...

Vaccine mod helvedesild kan have overraskende sideeffekt: Beskytter muligvis mod demens #dkvid #dkforsk

Harvard FTW: "The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government."

Every single person with any sense of conscience whatsoever or even just a basic instinct for self-preservation ought to be opposing this. And not just because this was a "mistake" - we should not be treating anyone this way.

I would like to read more about what this means.

We have a new paper out in Nature titled 'Intersectional analysis for science and technology'. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name. It is blatantly unconstitutional.

One sign that we are living under an authoritarian regime is that a lot of people are acting like they are living under an authoritarian regime.

This is very noticeable among students as well. Especially international students are increasingly reluctant to speak, even inside the classroom, because they are - understandably! rightfully! - frightened they might get punished by the regime. It is heartbreaking and it makes me so fucking angry.

“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.” Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.

Anecdotally, many advisors want their PhD students to go into academia and treat them worse if they want industry job. Does intention to go into industry *cause* less mentorship? Maybe confounded by something else? Inna, Austin, moi ran audit experiment to find out! (1/3)

Thank you so much @simonkuper.bsky.social for your @financialtimes.com piece on "A new who’s who of the global elites". For those who want to know more about varieties of economic elites in 16 countries, check our paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

People are willing to forgo 15-30% of their wage to avoid hostile work environments. Women report a stronger distaste for exclusive workplaces and environments with sexual harassment and value hybrid work twice as much in the presence of sexual harassment. Collis & @clemvaneff.bsky.social

We discuss how to conduct intersectional analysis in science and technology in @nature.com nature.com/articles/s41... I learned a ton from working w/ dream team co-authors! Great job by Londa Schiebinger + Mathias Nielson leading this project 👏 Also thanks @meharpist.bsky.social for guidance!

Wauv!! My beyond awesome colleague in the Copenhagen sociology department, @mathiaswullum.bsky.social, has just published in @nature.com!! A very cool piece that argues for the many benefits of applying intersectional perspectives in science! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

💙 DC never disappoints. #handsoff

Wow. #HandsOff rally in St. Paul, Minnesota is massive!