interesting new fellowship for people studying child development, available for early-career folk (10 years since PhD, US$300K over 3 years, worldwide eligibility)

Join us in Vienna to discuss inequality, economic mobility & labor markets! With @franziskadbacher.bsky.social and @izmartinez86.bsky.social I'm stoked to announce this workshop, keynotes by @emilynix100.bsky.social and @natewilmers.bsky.social. Nov 19-20, submit by June 30: www.wu.ac.at/ineq/ws26

The Atkinson Conference on Economic and Social Inequality will take place on 10-11 September at Nuffield College (Oxford). ▶️Plenaries: Philippe Aghion, Janet Gornick & roundable moderated by FT's Sarah O'Connor. 🚩CfP Deadline: 22 May. Join us in Oxford! Details here: atkinsonconference.github.io

Fantastic new article by @yunhanwen.bsky.social that reconceptualizes Chinese urban development as what she calls "party-state urbanism" in IJURR. doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Life update(!): I'm joining Bocconi's Social & Political Sciences Dept. in Milan as an AP of Sociology in the fall. Excited to connect with others in Europe on work/org studies and social strat. I have several working papers ready if anyone needs a seminar speaker. sps.unibocconi.eu

A postdoc position is now available in my project Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity. Start date flexible within the next 12 months, apply by 9 May. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Recruitment: A Full Professor (professeur des universités) in sociology - digital, organisations, work www.sciencespo.fr/cso/en/news/...

New Postdoctoral Research Associate positions at @Princeton's Office of Population Research!

I’m looking for three PhD students for my new ERC project, starting 1 September. The goal is to understand how firms shape inequality in workers’ careers—using population registers. Please spread the word! Deadline is March 8, more info here (see projects 4-6): ics-graduateschool.nl/vacancies/

I'm hiring a post-doctoral researcher to join us at the University of Oxford and our @inetoxford.bsky.social Inequality team. Ideal candidate has experience in the fields of inequality, social mobility, and/or public policy. We can sponsor visas for non-UK applicants. www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project. Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months. Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.

Y'all, I was in Mississippi today for my nephews J-State graduation and got this when I opened Blue Sky

Today is Décadi the 30th of Brumaire in the year 234. Brumaire is the month of mist. Today we celebrate the roller.#JacobinDay More information on the roller

Today is La fête de la vertu the 1st of Sansculottides in the year 233. Sansculottides is the month of complementary days. Today we celebrate virtue.#JacobinDay More information on virtue

Check out the @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social issue on gun supply! This volume is a tour de force on how the U.S. got to have so many guns and what can be done about it. Thanks to @everytown.bsky.social for their support. www.vitalcitynyc.org/issues/issue...

Today is Tridi the 3rd of Fructidor in the year 233. Fructidor is the month of fruitfulness. Today we celebrate puffballs.#JacobinDay More information on puffballs

@hunterwyork.com, PhD Candidate of Sociology at Princeton University , shared his new research on economic outcome stratification among workers by field of study and institutions. Please check out the paper on his website 👆 or email him.

Today is Quintidi the 15th of Thermidor in the year 233. Thermidor is the month of heat. Today we celebrate ewes.#JacobinDay More information on ewes

Finally a take on LLMs in the classroom that points out both their strengths and weaknesses (which is not, primarily AI slop) and offers real solutions. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

Join us on August 8 at UIC for this year’s Junior Theorists Symposium (JTS)! #asa (In suppressed voice) Also it’d be great if folks can make a small donation so that we can buy coffee for everyone ☕️

EXTREMELY BAD NEWS for economic research, per former BLS Commissioner @ericagroshen.bsky.social on LinkedIn. BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS. #EconSky

Sad to miss @isa-rc28.bsky.social in Milan, but I'm basically in Europe because a choir I'm in is performing Joby Talbot's Path of Miracles, a ~17 voice part and 4 movement "pilgrimage in music" following the Camino de Santiago. @tenebraechoir.bsky.social has a gr8 recording youtu.be/GPHcqHzzTC8?...

Sciences Po is hiring an Assistant Professor on Digital Inequalities. Candidates should have strong theoretical/methodological skills, and an ambitious research agenda on social stratification and inequality. www.sciencespo.fr/osc/sites/sc...

(Big) Pub day! What was once a replication project for my first-year PhD stats class turned into a different beast. Read on for some thoughts on intergenerational mobility along axes of occupational characteristics. (Coauthors @xisong.bsky.social and Yu Xie) www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

A reminder to submit your abstract to our workshop in May in Amsterdam! Please reskeet/spread the word.

will be presenting at @popassocamerica.bsky.social in April in an overflow session, 705 - “Diverse Forms of Employment and Economic Inequality.” A photo from yesterday of a gingko tree showing off to celebrate.

Follow me for sporadic, potentially annual, updates proving that I'm still kicking. I study work, organizations, and social stratification.