Thank you to everyone who joined us at LSE to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the International Inequalities Institute! Over two days, our conference featured parallel sessions on diverse themes of inequality, alongside two inspiring keynote lectures and a thought-provoking panel discussion.

Welcome to @aksoyundan.bsky.social, who has joined us as Associate Professor in Sociology! 🎉 His research covers religious behaviour, cooperation and trust 🤝 Game theory, statistical and computational methods are amongst his research tools 💻🎲 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/people/ozan-...

Bei Miosga stellt Jens Spahn die republikanische Gleichschaltung der US Medien als bloße Reaktion auf eine angebliche „Cancel Culture“ der Demokraten dar. Und unterstreicht dabei sehr schön, was die Mär vom linken Meinungsdiktat bei vielen ihrer glühendsten Erzähler immer schon vorbereiten sollte.

@sriucl.bsky.social is HIRING 2 permanent Lecturers 🚀 in #QuantitativeSocialScience! It comes with smart and lovely colleagues🌟, a central London office, and many big ideas and questions 🧐 Apply now! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

📣 MORAL APPEALS IN POLITICAL COMMUNICATION 📣 New version of @twidmann.bsky.social and my working paper answering: * Have moral appeals increased over time? * Is the tendency to moralize ideologically patterned? * Are some topics consistently more moralized than others? osf.io/preprints/os...

📢 Trinity College Dublin is hiring an Assistant Professor in Sociology. Full-time, fixed-term role (maternity cover). Early career researchers, including those who’ve just submitted, completed, or are about to complete their PhD are welcome. 🗓️ Deadline: Oct 6, 2025 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a...

This is a fantastic project. So well deserved!

Our #Sociology department is looking for an #AssistantProfessor in the field of Social Inequality (with the possibility for a permanent contract). www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3546... @sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs

💫Very happy to share that my first single-authored paper has been published in @sfjournal.bsky.social. I suggest to combine Life Course Feature Selection with Ñopo decomposition to disentangle which life-course events drive gender inequalities such as Gender Pension Gaps doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... 🧵👇

Unionized careers boost up wealth. Very interesting article by Purdue's Alec Rhodes: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a....

This article also featured prominently in one of Germany's largest newspapers @szde.bsky.social (published yesterday). Pretty irritating that they are amplifying this. Thanks @philipncohen.com for doing the work to debunk it (see here familyinequality.wordpress.com/tag/national...)

🎉 @norawaitkus.bsky.social has received an ERC Starting Grant! Her project explores inequality in household debt across countries, people & time, and the moral economy of debt—how we judge debt, debtors & borrowing. More info 👉 buff.ly/bzMPqmO

👀 Call for Papers 👀 The BJS Conference is back! 23rd and 24th of April 2026 at LSE. Please submit an abstract by October 20th and share widely. It’s going to be 💥 www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...

Excited and grateful to launch my ERC project #SOCIO-CLIMP 🌍🌤️ The project explores how #ClimateChange and #EnvironmentalHazards unequally affect different socio-demographic groups 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 across Europe — combining spatial climate data with demographic detail to uncover patterns of #ClimateInjustice.

🎉Big news! My ERCStG proposal SOCDEBT has been selected for funding @erc.europa.eu! 📚I’ll study how household debt is stratified across countries & over time; how people strategize, evaluate, and morally judge debt(ors). 🙏I'm truly indebted to all my friends, colleagues & mentors for your support!

Do people have less #Kids because of the #ClimateCrisis? 🌍👶 In our preprint, @katyaoivanova.bsky.social and I find that environmentalists are less likely to have kids in their 20s and 30s... But by their early 40s, the gap closes. Maybe it's rather about #Postponement? 🕰️ 🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf...

📣 Call for Papers is open! In_equality Conference 2026 | 15–17 April | Konstanz We invite papers on the political causes & consequences of #inequality Submit Aug 8–Oct 5 ➡️ inequality-conference.de @uni-konstanz.de

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/...

WORK! The Sociology Department at Utrecht University is hiring a new assistant prof, with expertise on migration/integration/polarization/stratification. Come join us! www.uu.nl/organisatie/...

👉 Stories about economic change are never neutral. They make politics. In my new article in Sociological Theory @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social, I show how narratives about economic disruption become a source of legitimacy: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Proper thread after the summer break– but if you were looking for a beach read about political reasoning in today's working class, look no further: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Saskia Ludwig (CDU), war am Freitag Teil eines Panels des MCC - der Orbánschen Kaderschmiede - zusammen mit Max Tichy, Sohn von Roland Tichy, der ebenfalls bei Tichys Einblick arbeitet. In der 1. Reihe im Publikum: Alice Weidel. Ludwig und Weidel schütteln sich die Hand, sprechen 2x miteinander

Bald ist Einschulung. Kindern in Bürgergeld stehen mtl. 390€ zu. Davon kann man kaum gesund Ernährung oder Teilhabe ermöglichen.Wie also eine Schuleinführung finanzieren? Mit eurer Hilfe verschenken wir 150€ Schulbonus an so viele Kinder wie möglich! Mitmachen o. spenden: sanktionsfrei.de/schulbonus

I am soo excited to share my newest article, “Unnatural Wills.” It’s about inheritance disputes!!! Murder, gold diggers, sex work, racial passing, secret lesbian lovers…WOW this was fun to write, and I hope it’s fun to read, too.

Derweil in Deutschland

⭐🎓The Department of Sociology in Vienna @univie.ac.at‬ invites applications for a Tenure Track Professor in Sociology with focus on Quantitative Social Science Research Methods | #Sociology | quant methods Apply here (17 Sept 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

Deadline July 21st! www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

🚨PhD in Quantitative Sociology @tcdsociology.bsky.social Join me for a project on “The Economics of Late-Life Divorce” 📌 €25,000/year + fees 📌 Strong quant skills & soc background needed 📌 Deadline: July 21, 2025 👉 www.tcd.ie/sociology/ab... #PhD #Sociology #Demography #QuantMethods #AcademicJobs

❗ The 𝘞𝘡𝘉 𝘉𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘯 (@wzb.bsky.social‬) establishes a 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 for the 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 and is looking for its future 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 ❗ 📣 Let all the excellent democracy researchers out there know! ⁣ ⁣ wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire... ⁣ #Polisky @epsanet.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social

We are hiring a 3-year postdoc for the ERC-funded WEALTHTRAJECT project at DIW Berlin. More details here: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...

Warum sind nicht alle Medien voll damit, dass unser Innenminister gerade ankündigt, eine juristische Grundsatzentscheidung zu ignorieren? www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/verw...

First draft of a new book sent to the publisher. (And already noticed two typos in the table of contents!)

So telling that German politicians and media think they might plausibly offer shelter to US academics (and profit from a brain drain) while pursuing the very policies and culture war inanities that are making people consider leaving the US in the first place. www.deutschlandfunk.de/kulturstaats...

Interview bei ZEIT ONLINE: Hat die SPD die Arbeiter verloren, weil sie zu viel über das Bürgergeld redet? Unsinn, findet der Soziologe Linus Westheuser. Die SPD brauche ein völlig anderes Konzept. Sie muss bereit sein, sich mit den ökonomischen Eliten anzulegen. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

Die #Exponentialgesellschaft ist da! Noch kann ich gar nicht richtig fassen, dass mein neues Buch ab heute überall in den Läden steht. Was für eine Reise, über vier Jahre Arbeit stecken darin. Ich bin gespannt, wie ihr es findet. Schickt gerne Feedback! www.suhrkamp.de/buch/emanuel...

What's the future of historical political economy in Europe? To find out, we (w/ @cathrinmohr.bsky.social @lhaffert.bsky.social) conducted a survey and workshop. Here are our main take-aways. Special thanks to all who participated!

The burden of climate change on young generations and the emergence of unprecedented lifetime exposure to extreme events www.nature.com/articles/s41...

67% of the emissions driving climate change is attributable to the top 10% of the global income distribution - 20% is due to the top 1%. New paper in Nature Climate Change

Ich habe mit @tabouchadi.bsky.social für @volksverpetzer.de über den Forschungsstand zum Ausgrenzen rechtsextremer Parteien, ihrer Normalisierung in Politik und Medien und darüber gesprochen, was sich ändern muss, um die weitere Unterwanderung unserer Demokratie zu verhindern.

Heute feiert Deutschland den »Tag der Befreiung«. Dabei wollten nicht alle Deutschen 1945 vom Nationalsozialismus befreit werden. Braucht es einen anderen Begriff? Darüber habe ich mit @maxczollek.bsky.social und Christoph Menke gesprochen, Link ohne Paywall: www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-...

Die ARD lässt die afd live aus dem Bundestag kommentieren, wie es nach der gescheiterten Merz-Wahl weitergeht. Ganz normal.

Zur AfD-Hochstufung durch den VS: Es gibt viel Unsinn und Strohmänner in der Debatte. Mal die üblichen Punkte: 👇

Beschämend in der Debatte über den Umgang mit der AfD: Kaum wer berücksichtigt in der Argumentation die Gruppen, die von Rechtsextremisten bedroht werden. Man bringt’s fertig, sich in AfD-Wähler und deren Ängste hineinzudenken, und zeigt null Empathie für die, die tatsächlich verfolgt werden.

Wer nun noch Fantasien äußert, man müsste die AfD wie eine normale Partei behandeln, bekennt sich offiziell dazu, Rechtsextremismus als Teil der politischen Landschaft in Deutschland nicht mehr bekämpfen zu wollen.

This is a shameful decision - my club and the amateur league we're part of are now going to abandon the FA so our trans friends can continue to play.

*The BREATHE project is hiring* BREATHE is a new ANR project on air pollution, inequalities & child development in France. We are a hiring a data manager at @ined.bsky.social (18 months contract) to link geocoded data to child-level admin & survey data. Deadline 8 May www.ined.fr/fichier/rte/...