Billions of 🇪🇺 money flow into regional development. But do citizens trust the EU more in return? 🔬 Find out in this Electoral Studies article with Paul Maneuvrier-Hervieu and Anne-Marie Jeannet. ❗Spoiler: EU 💶 regional funds do build trust in the 🇪🇺 , especially among working-class citizens.

Should the government 🏛️ fight economic inequality? You probably have a strong take. But why do you believe that? 📌 Spoilers from our new Social Science Research paper with Giacomo Melli: it depends jointly on where you think you stand in society🪜 and how unequal your surroundings actually are!

How is political interest developing in higher education? This afternoon our Yuxin Zhang presented new findings on 🇩🇪 (w/ @leoazzollini.bsky.social , M.Quaranta & @mtriventi.bsky.social ).

Our @leoazzollini.bsky.social just presented his contribution on unemployment scars across Europe (w/ @stefanischerer.bsky.social & P.Barbieri). A joint effect of social origin and age might be out there!

The 2025 edition of RC28 has officially started! 🎉 Keep up with us for daily updates from our delegation! #RC28 #Milan2025

Proud co-supervisor moment! If you care about how social stratification affects turnout in elections, check out this fresh solo article by the brilliant Giacomo Melli in RSSM! #SocSky

Out now in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility! Drawing on 19 waves of ISSP data (2002–2021), I explore how social class and subjective status influence electoral participation across 25 European democracies.

🚨I'm advertising for a PhD position (4 yrs) in quant. Sociology/Social Demography (life course, social ineq.) @tcdsociology.bsky.social! 📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025 📄 More info: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va... 🔄 Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity #TrinityCollegeDublin

Our junior members are growing! ✨ Check out @beatricecaniglia.bsky.social (w/ @zamberlanna.bsky.social & P. Barbieri) paper on the gendered role of occupational characteristics for lifelong singlehood in 🇮🇹 !

Just did the proofs for this short methods paper that I really like! Not everyday you get to 'solve' a problem identified 30 years ago in some of the most widely used statistical models in #sociology 👀 - and with two super awesome collaborators, what a blast 🥳

Our article 'A Crisis of Political Trust?' led by @viktorv.bsky.social is now out in @bjpols.bsky.social! We use >3,000 surveys in 143 countries between 1958 and 2019, finding that trust in representative institutions has generally been declining in recent decades. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Excited to share my new paper with Leo Azzollini @leoazzollini.bsky.social (@csisunitn.bsky.social) and Franco Bonomi Bezzo on healthcare provision and attitudes toward redistribution in the Journal of European Public Policy @jeppjournal.bsky.social

Great time at @sisec.bsky.social 2025 presenting new research made in @csisunitn.bsky.social on the differential effect of social origins on unemployment across the life course!

📢Calling all social science scholars from and/or researching Italy: applications for the 2025-26 Jemolo Fellowships are now open. 🗓️Deadline: 21 Feb 2025 ℹ️More info & applications: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research...

Our School is hiring two Assistant Professors (Ad Astra Fellows): five-year tenure-track positions with an annual research budget of €5k, teaching reductions, and a fully-funded PhD researcher. Environmental Politics: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport... Global Governance: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

At @politicsoxford.bsky.social we are launching the Centre for Democratic Resilience. Building on our expertise, we do not only want to produce cutting-edge research but we also want to connect research to important stakeholders. Democracy is under threat. We want to work together to protect it.

📈Poverty today in many OECD countries is higher than in the 1980s - but what would it be without demographic 🏘️changes? Find out in this paper with Richard Breen and Brian Nolan, just out in the Journal of European Social Policy. Spoiler: possibly even higher! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Changing household structures, household employment, and poverty trends in rich countries doi.org/10.1177/0958... Paper in Journal of European Social Policy by @leoazzollini.bsky.social, @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Emeritus Fellow Richard Breen and Senior Research Fellow Brian Nolan #NuffSky

Does the neighbourbood where parents grow up matter for their children's outcomes? I find it does. Very happy that the second chapter of my PhD thesis is now officially out at @bjsociology.bsky.social, exploring and discussing the enduring legacy of neighbourhood disadvantage.

Sociologists working on inequality: Still time to apply for this 3yr+ postdoc position in beautiful Munich (no German required) EN: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5... DE: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f... Applications are 01/15, but let me know if you need another 1-2 days to put in your materials

La SISEC è su Bluesky! Benvenute e benvenuti: da ora, potrete trovare tutte le notizie inerenti alle attività SISEC anche su questo canale social! E intanto, ci vediamo a Pavia per il nostro convegno annuale👇🏻 sisec.it/convegni/

🚨Job Alert🚨 We are seeking to recruit not only 1, but 2⃣ tenure-track Assistant Professors in political science (Politics and policy in/of Europe and the European Union) Description and application guidelines: sciencespo.fr/centre-etude... #AcademicJobs #PolSci

Reminder: From 1st Jan. 2025, the deposit of replication packages will be condition for publication in ESR! Find out more at: academic.oup.com/esr/pages/General_Instructions

Great spring school in a great city, free of charge!

Attention Econ Job Market Candidates! McGill Econ is hiring - apply now if interested

We are delighted to announce a call for papers for a forthcoming special issue on ESR @europeansocreview.bsky.social Education and Social Mobility: Celebrating Richard Breen’s Contribution to Sociology Deadline for submission: 15 of June 2025 More details on the call 👇

New paper published @ajpseditor.bsky.social Showing that reduced access to public services fuelled far right support in 🇮🇹 Existing work on far right highlights globalization & migration grievances, what about people’s experiences with the state? We use 🇮🇹 reform to find out shorturl.at/zQ8bJ

'Experimental Sociology' by Davide Barrera, Klarita Gërxhani, Bernhard Kittel, @luismmiller.bsky.social & @tobiaswolbring.bsky.social. Gives a comprehensive overview of the state of the art, different designs, and methodological controversies in experimental sociology. 📚 cup.org/3Cld4M6 📚

Class consciousness still shapes voting, but in a different way than in the past. That's the key finding of a study with @thomaslux.bsky.social now out in English. We chart how class identity, interests and status link with voting for the left and right in Germany. A🧵 library.fes.de/pdf-files/a-...

Want to keep up with the latest on economics, politics, sociology, biodiversity, the environment, and much, much more from the University of Oxford? Check out our starter pack of departments, programmes and research groups from across the Social Sciences Division. go.bsky.app/E2yvAor

New article accepted at CPS. @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I analyze how rental market risk affects radical right support. Combining data on local rent increases with the SOEP, we find that individuals facing increasing local rents become more likely to support the AfD. 🧵

Wave 14 of Understanding Society is now available! Wave 14 has expanded content on family life and includes new entrants who joined in the latest boost sample. New content includes questions on work illness, generalised trust, non-resident children. www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/news/2024/11...

Using TeO2 data in “Which Degree for Which Occupation,” @rosaweber.bsky.social @mathieuferry.bsky.social & @mathieuichou.bsky.social find immigrants are most likely to experience overeducation while descendants exp. vertical mismatch similar to that of natives. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

New paper in @apsrjournal.bsky.social with @andreasbeerli.bsky.social, Dominik Hangartner, and Dalston Ward about #immigration and voting for the #FarRight in #Switzerland

Looking forward to presenting recent work on Asparagus and Immigration Support in Aarhus @aarhusuni.bsky.social. This is joint work with Gloria Gennaro and Tiziano Rotesi. Latest version: trotesi.github.io/trotesi/JMP_... Thank you for the kind invitation, Kristina! @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social

🆕 2 JOBS at the ERC-funded DIGINEQ project! * Join my team at CED/UAB in Barcelona! * 1 PhD & 1 Postdoc * Topics: Adolescent Wellbeing; Social Inequalities; Digital Media; Computational Social Sciences * Deadline: December 3, 2024 Link: pablogracia-sociology.com/jobs It follows [1/4]

Our paper on trust and trusworthiness is out, where we test a model of competence, benevolence, and integrity in 5 countries. We find these are generally consistent across people and countries, with benevolence being most important in determining trust judgements. doi.org/10.1111/1475...

Another exiting season of Brown Bag Seminars ( #BBS ) is ahead of us! In this first session, we had the pleasure to have E. Murard presenting his work on the role of emigration experience for pro-immigrant attitudes. 🌍

A mapping of how Bluesky is becoming the new Scientific Twitter mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...

Does educational expansion promote social mobility? In my latest study on 40 countries, that just came out in the American Sociological Review, it looks like it does. Integrating decomposition techniques with a comparative framework, 1/n

1 Postdoc (3 years) in my ERC DIGINEQ project! At Centre for Demographic Studies & Dept. of Sociology, Autonomous University of Barcelona "Adolescent Well-Being; Social/Digital Inequalities; Computational Social Science" Deadline: December 3 Apply & share!! ❤️‍🔥🔝 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKO526/p...

A tale of two platforms: BlueSky user numbers have hit a new record high in recent days, while the number of people deleting their accounts on X/Twitter has rocketed 🚀

What an interesting presentation today by @clarawe.bsky.social (and @leoazzollini.bsky.social ) on social origins and electoral participation.

Two 3-year PhD fellowships are available within the remit of my ERC project on the risks and vulnerability of widowhood across ageing societies!!! Deadline for applications - December 10 Start date - September 1 www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...

🚨 Are you interested in how the economy affects democracy? Check out the session on “Economic Sociology and Democracy” (in English), co-organised by Anne-Marie Jeannet and me within the Italian Economic Sociology Conference – last few days to submit! Details below👇

Tomorrow I'll be at the University of Milan to present work in progress on unemployment and political trust with @selinkoksal.bsky.social, Ebru Sanliturk, and @vjdeimantas.bsky.social - also online. Thanks to the GESI Project for the invitation!

Oxford Sociology is recruiting THREE (yes 3!) Postdoc Researchers. Work with Prof Man Yee Kan on her GENTIME project, looking at gender inequalities in time use across East Asian and Western countries. Apply before 31 Oct 2023 t.co/tN9VZPHPsP #sociology #demography

Socioeconomic context matters for pregnancy outcomes. @selinkoksal.bsky.social and I found that a woman or her partner's job loss during the pregnancy is associated with higher risk of miscarriage and stillbirth. The article is available on Human Reproduction doi.org/10.1093/humr...

We are hiring a Postdoc in sociology at SOFI! The postdoc will focus on the conditions under which parenting leaves either promote working-life inclusion, or exclusion – with attention to policy interplay. The position is part of our "sustainable synergies" program. www.su.se/english/abou...