🌍 EAPS Child & Adolescent Development Autumn Seminar 🗓 Nov 17 | 14:00–15:00 CET |Online Theme: Climate Change, Inequalities & Youth Speakers: @mariarubiocab.bsky.social & Raya Muttarak Zoom link: unil.zoom.us/j/99171418150 Open to researchers/students! cc: @eaps.bsky.social @eapsphd.bsky.social

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term www.gov.uk/government/p...

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📣Do you have experience of using Generative AI in your social science research? Or critical thoughts about the use of Generative AI? Consider contributing an article to our special issue!

📢 New in @sfjournal.bsky.social: We study how parental #education shapes children’s #cognitive development. Accounting for selective parenthood & grandparent & early parent characteristics, we find education largely reflects broader #intergenerational advantages. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure). You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented! #sociology More 👇 jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

📢NEW Vacancy📢 Assistant Professor in Sociology at @tcddublin.bsky.social Specialising in quantitative sociology ⏰Deadline: 6 October Maternity cover MORE INFO: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a... APPLY HERE: www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/

A very significant day for us as our new birth cohort study is announced, the first for quarter of a century. Big congratulations to colleagues in our @clscohorts.bsky.social for all their hard work in getting this off the ground!

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

"Put simply, regardless of whether they played by the rules by raising their hands or broke the rules by calling out or interrupting others in class, working-class children were less likely to be engaged with by their teachers." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

DIW-Bildungsforscher @jaschadraeger.bsky.social hat anhand englischer Schuldaten erforscht, wie Fehlzeiten und Bildungserfolg zusammenhängen. Die Studie zeigt: Insbesondere Fehltage zwischen 6. und 10. Klasse wirken sich negativ auf die Abschlussnote aus. Zum Podcast: t.co/CrH1HsDStz

A new article in AERJ observed the relationship between school choice policy and school segregation, finding that White and Asian families disproportionately used the choice system to avoid schools with large concentrations of Black students. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

New DIW report based on our recent study "Does the impact of pupil absences on achievement depend on their timing?" published in the American Educational Research Journal. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/... #Education #Research #StudentAbsences #Learning

Soon to open offer for a *funded* PhD to study child poverty dynamics at @demosocupf.bsky.social @upf.edu If you have an interest in quantitative methods, social policy and child poverty this may be for you! Feel free to reach out for enquiries

Missing school in the transitional years is much more damaging to academic achievement than absence in the middle years of primary, @unistrathclyde.bsky.social research shows

🚨 Job alert! Join our DFG-funded project on educational inequality & instability for families at @morayhouse.bsky.social, University of Edinburgh 📍 Research Associate/Postdoc | Fixed-term to June 2027 📊 Longitudinal data | Stata/R 🗓️ Apply by 4 Aug 2025 jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX731/research-associate

Latest article from our @nuffieldfoundation.org project: pupil absences particularly harmful during school transition years; unauthorized and authorized absences equally harmful in any year ⬇️

New WP from @tomdee.bsky.social on the impacts of local immigration raids on students --> increased absenteeism edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1202

The cdgd package now accommodates sampling weights! As always, let me know if you run into any issues using the package. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

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

The widely repeated and entirely false claim that teacher experience “doesn’t matter much” after two years did lasting damage to the profession. New report summing up teacher experience, working conditions & retention lit.

New preprint w/ Fabian Kratz: How do different education equalization strategies affect socioeconomic disparities in labor market outcomes in 🇬🇧? 👩‍🎓 Equalizing higher education attainment? ⬇️ 💰 Equalizing returns? ⬇️ for women; ⬆️ for men 🎲 Random assignment? No change osf.io/preprints/so...

New paper with @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social just out in Demography! 🔗 read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a... Here’s a short thread on what we found—and why it might be worth a look.

This depressing new NBER working paper finds that while the returns to a college education are still clearly positive for everyone, the benefits for students from lower-income families have declined over time due to fewer resources going to regional institutions.

christ, what a day to be an immigrant cursed with the ability to read

🚨 We're looking for a Head of Research & Policy! This is a key role in our integrated Communications, Research and Policy team, and it's a great opportunity to play a meaningful part in effecting change for disadvantaged young people. Apply by 21st May ⤵️ recruitment.suttontrust.com/jobs/5909323...

Have you ever wondered how parenting activities are influenced by work-related tasks? I'm looking into this question in a new preprint with Katherin Barg (University Bristol): osf.io/preprints/so...

📢 Join Professor @kathyhirshpasek.bsky.social for a public seminar on 'Active Playful Learning: Where the science of learning meets education' on 19 May. Register to attend in-person ➡️ forms.office.com/e/wzS0F1UJiL Or join us online ➡️ bit.ly/4lSItbo #Edusky #Seminar

*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/...

For once a little bit of self promotion: interesting paper on M mediation of parental social class via wealth transfers on homeownership by @jaschadraeger.bsky.social @nrmllr.bsky.social and myself www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

⏰️Throwback Article Thursday⏰️ School absences hurt achievement, but the impact isn’t equal. Lower SES students suffer more from sickness-related absences, widening the achievement gap, according to this article. #AchievementGap #TBT journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New preprint! We find no evidence that parental mental health influences children's academic achievement when comparing families in the Norwegian MoBa study. osf.io/preprints/ps... Quick thread 👇

"In this article, we introduce causal-graphical normalizing flows (cGNFs), a novel approach to causal inference that leverages deep neural networks to empirically evaluate theories represented as DAGs." 🧐 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Come and work with us in beautiful Bamberg! @uni-bamberg.de Feel free to contact me if you have any questions! www.uni-bamberg.de/fileadmin/ab...

This. An emergency recall of parliament on a weekend for British Steel. Nothing at all for UK HE which employs far more people, has already shed 10,000 academic jobs, with several institutions on the brink of collapse. A reminder: we train all the doctors, teachers, engineers, nurses, lawyers &c &c

🚨Using linked school admin & Census data for Scotland, we show that truancy and sickness absences in secondary school reduce further/higher ed chances; sickness absences raises NEET risk. Achievement mediates some effects, but health & behaviour seems also key. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The core trilma here remains the same - the govt needs to accept one of three things: high student migration, higher domestic student fees (or higher taxes to fund universities) or university bankruptcies. Those are the only options, given where we are. Pick one.

What’s the relationship between education and social mobility? We are holding a public lecture in Edinburgh on this topic with expert Richard Breen. 22 April - register free to watch in person or online www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/lectu...

We are launching the second call for participants in our international conference, "Is Memory Enough in the 21st Century?". It will take place from June 30 to July 2, 2025. This time, we invite teachers, educators, and researchers to apply. Details & registration: www.auschwitz.org/en/museum/ne...

Anomalies & data problems are found in the Hungarian EU SILC income data from around year 2017. It is very likely that the data was manipulated to decrease the poverty rate. Annamaria Tatrai and Andras Gabos conducted a very thorough investigation of the issue: www.valaszonline.hu/2025/04/01/e...

Wie Kinder in der Schule abschneiden, hängt stark von der sozialen Herkunft ab. Das hat DIW-Forscher @jaschadraeger.bsky.social untersucht. Besonders die Bildung der Eltern wirkt sich auf die Kompetenzen der Kinder aus. Gerade in Deutschland ist dieser Zusammenhang groß. www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c....

📣 Are you an Understanding Society (UKHLS) user in Scotland? New Scottish UKHLS User Group - Meeting Online 2nd May @kateohara.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social Opportunity to network with local users, discuss data and statistical data analysis. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1235734377...

We're hiring! 📢 Lecturer in Sociology position now open. We seek a scholar with a strong foundation in sociology, a record of high-profile contributions, and the ability to engage students and colleagues across diverse methodological approaches.

On Monday, 3/31 at 12 PM ET, HEP authors @sarahlenhoff.bsky.social and @jeremylsinger.bsky.social will give a free, virtual talk on their new book, RETHINKING CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM. This event is hosted by the Monroe C. Gutman Library and moderated by @ehutt.bsky.social. https://bit.ly/4k1uuyI

🚨 Open postdoctoral researcher position 🚨: ▪️ PhD in sociology, econ, organiz. psychology, etc. ▪️ 80%, 2-year position @unibern. ▪️ Main tasks: set up + manage Swiss employer-employee panel & doing research on careers in companies ▪️ More infos: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

Skipping small amounts of school can hurt GCSE results 📚 New research shows authorised school absences, even for health reasons, can significantly impact exam success. Research by @strath-ioe.bsky.social & @diw.de 👏 Read tinyurl.com/yp3dbspr #Attendance #GCSEs #School @dfedigital.bsky.social

Has anybody checked if our own UK Universities Superannuation Scheme holds shares in these tech companies?

Great news from the UK that a new Birth Cohort is being commissioned. They have led the world on providing information on their population across the lifespan. www.linkedin.com/posts/stian-...

🆕 3-Year PhD in Quantitative Social Sciences on "Adolescent Social Media, Mental Health & Inequalities"! 🎯 Deadline: March 31 Supervisors: @pablogracia.bsky.social [@uab.cat @cedemografia.bsky.social] & @alinacosma.bsky.social [@tcddublin.bsky.social] Apply & Share!👇 webs.uab.cat/touch/jobs/s...

🚨 Excited to share our latest work with @perlinedemange.bsky.social, Felix Elwert, Nicolai Borgen, @eivindy.bsky.social, and Henrik Zachrisson. Does more schooling increase earnings? We revisit this classic question using multiple genetically informed designs 📚🎓🧬 💰 osf.io/preprints/so...