Oh irony...

Werkbaar werk was precies niet echt top of mind bij de onderhandelingen over het zomerakkoord... deze hervormingen zijn een recept voor meer precair werk en ongelijkheid voor wie met een zwakke onderhandelingspositie op de arbeidsmarkt komt... vrtnws.be/p.VLayP9NQE

De democratie wankelt. In de VS, maar ook dichter bij huis. Wat helpt tegen polarisatie? Wat versterkt steun voor de democratie? ‪@bnbakker.bsky.social, @gijsschumacher.bsky.social‬ en ik testen allerlei interventies. Heb jij een goed idee? Laat het ons weten! stukroodvlees.nl/input-gezoch...

📢 We're hiring a 4-year postdoc (0.8 FTE) at Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam for project on climate change meanings Focus: Italian case (focus groups, survey, experiments) PhD in Sociology (or related), fluent in Italian 🗓️ Deadline: June 11 #postdoc #sociology #academicjobs #Italy #climatechange

New paper 🏫! We present the Schooled Society Index: a multidimensional indicator that maps cross-national differences in the centrality of schooling on a global scale. Written with @bramspruyt.bsky.social and @tkupp.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2378... Data is publicly available: osf.io/49xy5/

🏫 How central is schooling in your country? In their new #Socius study, Drs. Kavadias, @bramspruyt.bsky.social & @tkupp.bsky.social introduce the Schooled Society Index—a global measure of how #education acts as a force of #institutionalization and #stratification. Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

🎓 New Publication!🚀 What does autonomy really mean in a PhD journey? Is it the freedom to explore or the burden of navigating uncertainty? Our latest study dives into the complexities of autonomy in doctoral education, 📖 Read our paper here: www.informingscience.org/Publications... #PhDLife

Hoezo is er geen bewijs voor onderwijsgebonden vooroordelen? In @volkskrant.nl met @tkupp.bsky.social en @bramspruyt.bsky.social

Very happy that our project on Democratic governance: challenges and innovations, developed with Silvia Erzeel, has been selected for the next BrIAS programme.

🏁New paper! Social status moderates the effect of belief in meritocracy on economic conflict attitudes. Meritocracy doesn't always legitimize inequality and sometimes it does more :) Published with @bramspruyt.bsky.social Filip Van Droogenbroeck and @tkupp.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1468...

And here's the share without higher education!

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

PhD candidates: students or employees? 🤔 New study reveals role perceptions impact self-efficacy & supervisor expectations. Key findings: teaching assistants & final-phase students lean toward 'employee,' while 'students' feel more self-efficacious. See doi.org/10.1080/0013... #PhDLife #HigherEd

Op zondag aan een rapport werken over work life balance. Ik kan dat.

De evolutie van het lerarenberoep: - sneller ontslag bij vaste benoeming - een continu stroom van regelg. die te laat klaar is of gebrekkig in elkaar zit - Vl. toetsen als motie van wantrouwen. - de hakbijl in het pensioen. Ze kunnen nu wel een fiets leasen om mee door de regen te rijden.

Florida is coming after sociology, as GOP across the country tries to control (higher) education within constraints of First Ammendment. Some (non-)expert thoughts on this piece 🧵

"a crude yet endlessly empirically corroborated proxy" Pure gold! @peter8rberg.bsky.social (quote from 'why there is less supportive evidence for contact theory than they say there is) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Weeral een heel mooi nummer geworden van Sociologie Magazine!

Op vrijdagnamiddag 13 december 2024 presenteert @briobrussel.bsky.social de resultaten van de 3de Taalbarometer van de Vlaamse Rand. Meer info: www.briobrussel.be/node/19193 Deelname is gratis, graag inschrijving vooraf via docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/...

Hoe komt het toch dat beleidsmakers zo vaak grijpen naar maatregelen tegen spijbelen die niet werken en waarvan we ook weten waarom ze niet werken. Het is niet dat er geen literatuur over is. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Alles samen in het NL: torvub.be/torwebdat/pu...

As part of a large collaboration of social psychologists and sociologists, we tried to understand belief system structure across Europe osf.io/9r84f

🏁New paper! We find that affective bias towards 'the higher educated' is associated with more political trust, satisfaction w/ democracy and less populism In @actapolitica.bsky.social with Toon Kuppens, @bramspruyt.bsky.social Leandros Kavadias, Celine Darnon & Medhi Marot doi.org/10.1057/s412...

!! Nieuw nummer van Sociologie Magazine: Klimaat !! sociologiemagazine.nl/magazine/soc...

WORK! My great colleague Samira van Bohemen is looking for a new colleague: A 3-year postdoc position @ Erasmus Uni in her exciting new research project "Unravelling Pornographic Stereotypes" www.academictransfer.com/nl/334120/3-...

They must have thought "you can't be too specific in calculating you IF".

Very interesting thread!

New paper. We compare the life satisfaction of children in the COVID-19 pandemic with that before the pandemic and assess how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the importance of social support regarding children’s life satisfaction. Special attention to gender diff. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New book!! By time use researchers, for time use researchers. Pdf Open access www.aspeditions.be/en/book/time...

How do populist views on science relate to people’s communication behavior? Our global survey project TISP provides comparative evidence on this – which I presented today in @profsanderlinden.bsky.social’s Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab 💬 Thanks a lot for the great discussion! 🙏🏻

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