Bij extreme winstmarges denk je waarschijnlijk niet aan wetenschappelijke uitgevers. Toch slaan wetenschappers alarm: de tarieven voor ‘open’ publicaties rijzen de pan uit en staan niet in verhouding tot de werkelijke kosten. Publiek onderzoeksgeld verdwijnt zo rechtstreeks naar aandeelhouders.

Boven is onder, vrede is oorlog, je ogen liegen. www.ad.nl/economie/nie...

De eerste paper van mijn PhD is gepubliceerd in EERJ! @ecer-eera.bsky.social Hierin onderzoeken we hoe leerlingen in Nederland onderwijskansen percipiëren binnen ons ‘tracked’ onderwijssysteem. Lees hier het artikel: doi.org/10.1177/1474...

Very happy to see this out in CPS! We study class identities and their social and political relevance over several decades in Britain, Denmark, Norway, and the US. A small thread: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/SIRW4...

New paper out with @kchihaya.bsky.social and @eduardotapia.bsky.social. We show how a tendency to move near kin can preserve patterns of segregation, using a combination of discrete choice models and micro-simulations applied to the case of immigrants and their descendants living in Stockholm.

This smells distinctly like collider bias and/or selection bias and/or regression to the mean... You simply can't select teen prodigies, and world class athletes rom databases, and go run regressions without serious consideration of the selection process!

Vorige week was er een staking in het hoger onderwijs. 7000 academici en studenten trokken naar Amsterdam, maar slechts weinigen leken acht te slaan op de staking. Want hoewel de universiteiten de staking steunden, gingen lessen en tentamens gewoon door. jacobin.nl/een-hoger-on...

Ruim zevenduizend studenten, docenten en onderzoekers staakten dinsdag in Amsterdam tegen de miljoenenbezuinigingen in het hoger onderwijs. De RUG was met ruim 250 man goed vertegenwoordigd. ukrant.nl/duizenden-me...

Universiteiten in crisis: hoe bezuinigingen het bedrijfsmodel ondermijnen Dit is een hoofdstuk uit een bundel van de Burcht: Publicatie nr. 28: 'Hoger onderwijs in verzet'; documentatie van de actiebeweging tegen de bezuinigingen 2024–2025 lnkd.in/efy2MQs8 www.linkedin.com/posts/rodrig...

An English translation of our book "Trigger Points. Inequality and Political Polarization in Contemporary Society" will come out @brisunipress.bsky.social: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/triggerpoints It studies the social bases of political divides over migration, climate, diversity & redistribution

Great job by @agatatroost.bsky.social presenting our research this evening @pakhuisdezwijger.bsky.social @jonathanmijs.com

My review of @alybatt.bsky.social's fantastic book "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" is out in Contemporary Political Theory. I had the pleasure of discussing it at @histmat.bsky.social launch last month in London with Andreas Malm and Søren Mau link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Join us on Wednesday for this special event about the history, present, and future of Marxism in the Netherlands

New publication with Yi-Lin Chiang: The Creation and Implementation of a Dual-Admissions System in Taiwan. Old Wine in New Wineskins. Link: doi.org/10.4324/9781... @rug-gmw.bsky.social @routledgebooks.bsky.social

👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse. 👩🏻‍💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...

📢 Publication Alert! Wir analysieren für alle Berliner Grundschulen von 2010 bis 2020, wie sich Wohn- und Schulsegregation entwickeln – und warum sich beide Systeme immer stärker entkoppeln, obwohl die Stadt durchmischter wird. 1/ (mit @taljab.bsky.social) Open Access: doi.org/10.36900/sub...

Opinie Ahmet Daskapan: Neoliberale invasie met links masker bij de FNV www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...

Marxists in the Netherlands Unite! What can Marxism do today? What can we learn from our past? Join us on December 3rd for a night of struggle, discussion, and socialist socialising. dezwijger.nl/programma/ma...

A new network of scholars, activists and organizers influenced by Marxism in the Netherlands @marxism-nl.bsky.social wil be launched on Dec 3 at an event at Pakhuis de Zwijger. This is the website of the network marxism-nl.org/en This is the event on Dec 3 dezwijger.nl/programma/ma...

🚨new publication🚨 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆 in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025. Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...

How are contemporary cleavage structures stabilized in times of declining mass social and political organizations? In this new paper with @davidattewell6.bsky.social @bjpols.bsky.social, we suggest that homogeneous social (educational) networks provide part of the answer. tinyurl.com/49cs8jwp

Vandaag zonder paywall. Mijn column voor De Groene van deze week. Over de politisering van de rechtsstaat en de linkse respons.

Is childhood exposure to local wealth inequality associated with upward income mobility achieved in adulthood? Yes! Check out my new paper, just published in @natureportfolio.nature.com here: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #EconSky #Sociology #Demography

𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐤𝐢𝐣𝐤𝐞𝐧: 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐤𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧 - 𝐃𝐞 𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐤𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐟 🧠 We blikken terug op een succesvolle avond! Met @tkupp.bsky.social en @jaapnieuwenhuis.bsky.social. 🔗 Bekijk de aflevering hier: youtu.be/NBFlmGkb-4Q?... 👂 Of luister via Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/44Hj...

Gisteren gepresenteerd over "De opleidingskloof in een gedemobiliseerde klassenmaatschappij" bij de Publieksacademie Sociale Wetenschappen in het Forum Groningen. De hele avond is hier terug te kijken: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBFl... @rug-gmw.bsky.social @dvhn.nl

Interview in @dvhn.nl met @tkupp.bsky.social en mij over de aankomende Publieksacademie in Forum Groningen over de kloof tussen hoog- en laagopgeleiden. @rug-gmw.bsky.social dvhn.nl/groningen/pu... (En de link naar de publieksacademie: platform.forum.nl/nl/publieksa...)

Hoe diep is de opleidingskloof? ‘We hebben veel meer gemeen dan we soms denken’

The 13-storey Liuhe Pagoda (Six Harmonies Pagoda) at dusk, c.1925, Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, by Charles H Kragh. located at the foot of Yuelun Hill, facing the Qiantang River, originally constructed in 970, but rebuilt a few times since. Interestingly a pagoda that also served as a lighthouse.

Teacher bias or unobserved ability? @ssreditorial.bsky.social paper w/ @marespadafor.bsky.social Test score error & omitted behavior = 🐘 in the (class)room to identify SES discrimination. Still, beyond "true ability", well-off (low-performing) kids get higher teacher ratings: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

Even in Denmark, cultural tastes are socially stratified. With some quite cool library data we find strong gradients by education and wealth - important as wealth is rarely studied in cultural stratification research doi.org/10.1093/esr/... OA: osf.io/ar2xc_v2/dow... @europeansocreview.bsky.social

Thrilled that my co-authored piece with Xiuyu li from NYU and Kellee Tsai from Northeastern just came out in Comparative Politics, online first. www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny... You can access the accepted version here 81e63e3e-0cc6-43dc-aa7c-35f441eca471.filesusr.com/ugd/f72a2f_d...

Ein weiterer sehr lesenswerter Artikel aus dem Schwerpunkt ist Nicole Mayer Ahujas: "'Class is not a thing'. Ein Plädoyer für die Analyse von Klassenformierungsprozessen": link.springer.com/article/10.1...

OK, a🧵: Our new paper studies workers' political consciousness in times of class demobilization. We show there's more to workers' politics than right-wing resentment. Listening to workers, we reconstruct their moral critiques of money, power & recognition. Link journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This new study shows: in Germany, it has become much harder for children to earn more than their parents, now about as hard as in the US: "parental income has become much more important for educational outcomes of children"

Misschien moeten we het eens hebben over het verdienmodel van de pers, die maar wat graag een slaatje slaat uit dit soort zelf-gefabriceerde 'controverses'. Heel jammer ook dat "Wij Eisen De Nacht Op" zichzelf gaat depolitiseren, onder druk van dat beetje ophef. weesparaat.nl/de-rode-lap-...

The argument that means-tested welfare programs reduce inequality and poverty more than non-means-tested programs is based on an accounting trick. Universal benefits are the best and cheapest way to alleviate poverty.

Een collega-parlementariër en Kamer­medewerkers uitschelden voor ‘stom kutwijf’ en ‘teringlijers’, enkel omdat hij niet aangesproken wil worden op zijn actieve tegenwerking van maatregelen tegen een genocide, is niets minder dan grensoverschrijdend huftergedrag.

A truly egalitarian society would guarantee a dignified existence for us all — regardless of arbitrary measures of how much we deserve it.

In many countries, mainstream politicians are adopting rhetoric and policies that typical of the far-right. Our new paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social and E Dinas), out now in the @bjpols.bsky.social, finds that doing so erodes norms more than when far-right politicians make similar statements. 1/3

Why do people with similar jobs or classes see inequality so differently? My new piece in @theconversation.com explains why where you think you stand in society is key.

Op @jacobinnl.bsky.social schreef ik over de noodzaak van een duidelijke strategie wanneer historische aantallen op straat weinig tot geen invloed heeft.

🎉 The last chapter of my dissertation is out in @ssreditorial.bsky.social! Many schools distinguish themselves with alternative pedagogical concepts or specialty themes. I study how these "profiles" contribute to school sorting by socio-economic status in NL. 🧵1/4 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

Sadly the current right-wing coalition government in Finland has cut the funding for the nation’s “Housing First” success story, & homelessness is now on the rise again. That just reinforces the fact that such programs work, if political ideology doesn’t stand in the way. ysaatio.fi/en/news/home...

In a new article in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social I propose an institution reform to make representative government less oligarchic: having elected politicians held accountable by randomly selected "Constituency Juries"

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

just published (with a super team A Pietrolucci, @nrmllr.bsky.social, @jaschadraeger.bsky.social ) Association btw != wealth components & post-secondary enrollment (a comparison across many European countries) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #rc28 #inequality #wealth #TertiaryEducation #ieo

Another new working paper w/ Kailey White and Xiang Zhou on differences in school quality across nhoods and their link to achievement gaps. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Check it out today at #ASA2025 session on "Place and Inequality"

In the 19th century as the socialist movement grew in Europe, it faced a choice: whether to participate in elections. The anarchists said no. The remaining socialists waded into electoral battle. This book analyzes that decision and its consequences #booksky