Delighted that my single visit to Cambridge, MA qualifies me to receive urgent updates about a malfunctioning sliding door in William James Hall three years later.

Under this new @escoeorg.bsky.social project John Forth and I are working with ONS colleagues to construct the first comprehensive LEED spine for the UK www.escoe.ac.uk/projects/dev... @sriucl.bsky.social

That time of year has come to campus again

Minor revisions means: we’d like to see you suffer, but not too much

Our sister institute brings you research-based insights beyond the headline as always

Should coresidence be the ideal? Many happy, committed couples disagree, and not just among the young. Check out Yang Hu's research and coverage in The Telegraph

Today in our quantitative social science seminar, Benjamin Arold (Cambridge) will tell us what we can learn about worker rights from analysing 30,000 collective bargaining agreements. www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

Last week: “Hooray, we ran some experiments and it turns out social desirability doesn’t really have much of an impact on how people answer survey questions!” This week: “We regret to inform you…”

Diane, 11:30 a.m., February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks.

avoiding citation managers is for babies i do wordcount manually

David, Daron, and Simon will be discussing this paper, "Building pro-worker AI" TOMORROW. RSVP here: www.hamiltonproject.org/event/buildi...

Looking forward to presenting work on the multigenerational transmission of political attitudes next week at @invest-flagship.bsky.social With the outstanding @stephandoc.bsky.social! Based on survey covering 100,000 cousins and their parents! invest.utu.fi/events/krist... #sociology

(estimating a nested model) "I am large, I contain multitudes"

I want a museum with every paper that goes looking for a clean linear rank-rank association and finds a curve instead.

Why isn’t the title of this paper “Failing to detect evidence of style transfer by frontier LLMs in scientific publications”? Do we just not want to talk about it?

Looking for a measure of #neighborhoods, micro or macro #segregation? I've got something for you! My newly published paper in Sociological Methods & Research presents a machine-learning-based algorithm to delineate neighborhoods with grid-cell or point data: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Why do unions in Denmark and Sweden—unlike many of their European counterparts—oppose EU involvement in wage-setting? Eriks Ozols, Stefan Ivanov Hristov, and I examine the roots of this opposition in this article in Economic and Industrial Democracy. doi.org/10.1177/0143...

I’m sure this is an aberration. Royal families are not typically associated with scandal.

Gonna incorporate Pivotal, Intricate, Showcasing, Realm into my personal vocabulary just to have plausible deniability

We are pumped to have this paper finally out in these streets!

This is one heck of a study by the Ohio State credit data crew, led by Alec Rhodes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... I've seen him present on it a few times. Very excited to see it out in print.

People who write out their email adress like [dot] [hyphen] [at] to avoid spam, how is that working out for you?

Good news against January blues: 🏹 the Nottingham GEP Labour Workshop is back! 🏹 Small in-person workshop; plenty of interactions. Submit your best labo(u)r paper! 🗣️ Gordon Dahl (UCSD) and Anna Stansbury (MIT) 📅 1-2 June 2026 🌍 University of Nottingham Apply by March 1st! ➡️ tinyurl.com/3kdpb64a

Response to reviewers

Australians on this website keep it down with the fruit shaming please

There’s going to be a generation of disorganised scholars who never experience that feeling of elation I get when, after hours of searching, I finally track down a missing citation I stupidly didn’t note properly when I first saw it, because they are going to let AI make it up instead. Sad.

The real reason people used to look older in the 1970s is that job stability ages your skin

You can’t really do a proper DAG for DiD since it relies on a functional form restriction (additive confounding) which DAGs are explicitly agnostic about. I always liked this Imbens piece on the limitations of the graphical approach (inspired by the old Twitter beefs) arxiv.org/abs/1907.07271

anyone happen to know of any published academic work where a researcher tracked themself being surveilled? surveillance studies autoethnography? or any qualitative research about surveillance systems like Flock or Ring?

Goldsmiths drops three out of five deals with big publishers. University cites “financial and values-based” reasons for not renewing with Elsevier, Springer Nature and Wiley. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...

Just that German HE neoliberalization has *also* been hollow. It has the trappings of neoliberal higher education (funding, precarity, "impact"...) -- BUT without any "benefits"; e.g. streamlined bureaucracy, quick hiring, career opportunities, "students as customers", shiny buildings.

After capitalism, we will tell our grandchildren about the artisanal bread queues

Eradicating child stunting was a central feature of the modern health transition. A new paper reviews 923 child growth studies in 122 countries 1814-2016 to show massive decline in child stunting in the 20th century even in hi income countries & surprising heterogeneity in the regional trajectories.

Paper on statistical power necessary for interaction effects doi.org/10.1177/2515...

Saperstein and Penner (2012) vs Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model (2026)

In 1975-1977, the Swedish Government carried out an official investigation into the future of electronic music. Where is this kind of leadership today I ask

Damn, someone failed 'don't attempt to revive phrenology' challenge once again

🔥 Just accepted for publication at AEJ:Policy 🔥 "Employing the unemployed of Marienthal: Evaluation of a guaranteed job program" maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p...

New @smfthinktank.bsky.social report out today from Jake Shepherd and Niamh O Regan on prisoner health (sponsored by Policy@Manchester) - with shocking findings on the state of health in our prisons, including widespread physical health problems...

Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Nothing ages faster than a dataset described as "newly available".

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Krugman puts his finger on what should be the starting point for any attempt to make sense of our current political moment.

The other thing that comes up is that young people seem more lonely than older people which has been interpreted as a period/cohort effect. But it turns out young people have always been lonely.

New publication! In this paper, I study the skill composition of Swedish labor force throughout 1870-1930. In addition to the typical workshop-to-factory and farmwork-to-factory transitions, I explore how the service sector increased skilled employment. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Student used ChatGPT just to send me a message to let me know they were sick and wont be in class. My frustration towards student ChatGPT use is more heartbreak than anger. I could talk about this for hours

It’s too bad, though sadly unsurprising, that the original ASR paper keeps getting cited, because the debate around it played out pretty much as these things should—the work taken seriously, various problems identified, new evidence adduced, etc. Also, Claude Fischer is a very good sociologist.

Comments seem to be turned off so I can't respond to this thread but here's some more nuance to my claim if you want to go on a deep dive

Crowded Career Ladders? Intra-Firm Spillovers of Raised Retirement Age: Sona Badalyan

University of Manchester is hiring a Lecturer in Sociology (qualitative/theoretical) in the of political sociology of class and culture. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL973/l...