Are you a sociologist studying social inequality? Come join our awesome sociology department at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social as an assistant professor www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

ASA is ready for NYC! Are you?  Register to participate in topical sessions like “How Can Sociology Build a Better World?” featuring Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Monica Prasad @jhuartssciences.bsky.social, Michelle Jackson @mivich.bsky.social, and Adina Sterling. https://bit.ly/4b8ELXC.

🌍 Introducing the theme for SASE 2027: Rebuilding Foundations and Hope: Creative Reconstruction in a Moment of Disruption 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland 🗓 In person: 30 June to 3 July 2027 💻 Virtual events: 16 to 18 June 2027 Learn more: sase.org/events/2027-...

With this stuff I’m always just like “Release the Cristobal!”, the Millionaire Exodus Kraken of Cornell, equally devastating and let’s face it almost as large (sociology.cornell.edu/cristobal-yo...)

If not meritocracy, then what? Critics of meritocracy challenge the system, but fail to offer alternatives. Instead of dismissing meritocracy as a system that masks injustice, Jahel Queralt says we should make adjustments so it works for us. Listen → bit.ly/4bnD2NM

While I don’t think this quite finds a solution, the problem it identifies is real. “What bit of the division of labor will *you* symbolically reject to create your special identity?” is the personal version of social theories that fantasize about rejecting the DoL while keeping all of its benefits.

Somewhat more constructively, and in lieu of me saying something rude.

"teacher-induced learning inequalities are mainly driven by unequal exposure to highly qualified teachers, rather than unequal returns to qualifications." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

New at PB: Founding editor Caitlin Zaloom interviews author and scholar @ninabandelj.bsky.social about her new book “Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting” (@princetonupress.bsky.social), the latest installment in our partnership with @casbsstanford.bsky.social.

A fascinating article by Blyss Cleveland on the endorsement of anti-obesity drugs among Black celebrity women: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @stanfordsoc.bsky.social

Interested in the crossovers of gender, race, feminism, and open science? @mollymking.bsky.social and I have a new paper forthcoming at Gender & Society! osf.io/preprints/so...

UW-Madison Sociology is hiring! We're inviting applications for an assistant professor position in the fields of demography, soc of population, and health, to begin August 2027. Come join @uwsoc.bsky.social and the great @cdeuw.bsky.social! Apply here: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

NEW: Manuel Schechtl, Florencia Torche, "Changing Opportunity: Rising Local Wealth Inequality and Growing Class Gaps in Income Mobility" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

What’s happened to income-group gaps in parental spending on children in the U.S.? For the last 45 years, they just. keep. getting. wider. In a new @socarxiv.bsky.social working paper, I present updated evidence on trends in spending on childcare, education, and extracurricular activities.

Delighted that this paper with Kristina Butaeva @butaevak.bsky.social and Alexander Shapoval is now public.

📣One week left to apply! Don't forget to submit your application for our Vancouver Summer School on Socioeconomic Opportunity and Inequality hosted at @ubcvse.bsky.social. 🚨Applications close next Friday June 19th! Learn how to apply here: zurl.co/nHIo9

A new Annual Review article by @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social and colleagues worth a read. Don't let the formal modeling of luck fool you. This is one of the more interesting, and all around crazier, articles I've read recently. Super cool. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Delighted that this wonderful conversation with Michelle Jackson @mivich.bsky.social has now posted. Much of the conversation involves two fascinating books she has written: The Division of Rationalized Labor and Manifesto for A Dream: Inequality, Constraint, and Radical Reform.

JSE's Inaugural Issue- Call for Papers 📢jse.scholasticahq.com

Postdoc position with Wiebke Schulz at Uni Bremen on gender inequalities in access to and consequences of AI. Applications due 25 June. www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

Delighted to have had the opportunity to talk to the legend that is @durlauf.bsky.social about inequality and the division of labor.

We're hiring a postdoc at MIT! The Postdoctoral Associate will work closely with @dacemoglumit.bsky.social and @simonhrjohnson.bsky.social to conduct research on the history, social implications and future of technology. Learn more and apply by June 15: shapingwork.mit.edu/careers/jame...

See also Fourcade and Healy (2024)

Do waitresses receive the same occupational prestige as waiters? Using German gendered occupational titles, we find that feminine job titles receive slightly lower prestige than masculine ones, especially among male-domindated occupations. Out now in Social Forces. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

Glad to share this open-access article, based on the Tawney Lecture that I had the honour to deliver in 2025 Economic inequality and social mobility in preindustrial societies: What we know, what we don't (but should) know - The Economic History Review onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Three Decades Since Kathy Edin's Making Ends Meet - two special issues from Russell Sage! @ffcws.bsky.social

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

Prof. @mivich.bsky.social's book The Division of Rationalized Labor is a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award. Congrats, Michelle! @sssp1org.bsky.social www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/m/...

I’m so very excited that this journal is now accepting manuscripts!!

Coser Salon #sociology essay was published this morning in @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social! Check it out. It is a call for an affective turn in the discipline. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This is a great job for someone committed to the development of economic history as a field. You'll be part of a large community of scholars based in both history and economics, with a vibrant seminar life and lots of interesting people coming through. And a fellowship in Nuffield to boot.

Climate change impacts are here, but public support for action remains polarized. Which climate messages move people? In a ~13,500-person megastudy, we tested 10 of the most-cited messages. Six increased pro-environmental attitudes in the U.S.—but only by 1–4 percentage points. 🧵

Out @thejop.bsky.social: measuring shocks like weather or immigrant exposure has vast researcher degrees of freedom. We (@phanxi.bsky.social) show: equally plausible measures diverge + yield spurious results. So, investigate the full set. For us, a null for climate opinion www.doi.org/10.1086/735706

🔔 New pub alert! Caylin Louis Moore. (2026). "Collateral Decision-Making: The Case of Pretrial Detention and the Criminal Courts." American Sociological Review, online first. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

NEW: Marie Labussière, Thijs Bol, "Are Occupations “Bundles of Skills”? Identifying Latent Skill Profiles in the Labor Market Using Topic Modeling" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

April 23-24: Two-day online National Academies workshop on enhancing scientific integrity in the social and behavioral sciences. The program is here (bit.ly/NASprog), including links to (free) registration.

Coding interviews of technologists who were purged from government under DOGE, and the sense of trauma is really palpable. Compared to the private sector orgs like Amazon, the jobs meant more and the way they were treated was way worse. It "felt like our leadership hated us just for existing."

A really great substack by the ever-brilliant @dsilver432.bsky.social charting the rise and fall and sometimes rise again of sociological research areas, discourse, and interests. Sadly, I find myself somewhere in that mid-20th century world... thesilverlining3.substack.com/p/sociologys...

Delighted to find my "Greatest of All Plagues" in such excellent company (including @guidoalfani.bsky.social, @mivich.bsky.social, @aaronreeves.bsky.social, @samfriedman.bsky.social).

Delighted to share our revised paper (w/ @juliaturner.bsky.social & @jacobbastian.bsky.social ) showing that Universal Pre-K has broad effects on local labor markets — effects well beyond only mothers. Larger effects for full-day programs. nber.org/papers/w33767 #EconSky #EarlyChildhood #ECE

Delighted our paper (with an amazing group of co-authors) is forthcoming in the APSR Takeaway for Labour and other centre-left parties: fixing public services is key to reducing support for the populist right 👇

Please join us!

Weaponized interdependence is happening

When schools close, due to COVID-19 lockdown or holidays, the gender gap in reading increases. This is a challenge as boys already struggle more with reading skills than girls. New paper in @pnas.org with Emil Smith, @davidreimer.bsky.social & @madsjaeger.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Great book - here's my review, hot off the @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social press!

New article by CREST Sociology's Hesu Yoon in the American Journal of Sociology: "Exceptions in the Algorithmic Age: Evidence from the Case of Tenant Screening" Link: doi.org/10.1086/739108