Danke! Nur als Mini-Korrektur: Einführung des Mietendeckels, nicht der Mietpreisbremse, das sind ja doch zwei Policies mit sehr unterschiedlichem Umfang im Sinne der Mietenregulierung Hier gibt es auch einen kurzen Thread mit einer Kurz-Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse: bsky.app/profile/robe...

Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Der Witz schreibt sich so sehr selbst, er steht da schon.

Striking visualisation of the global mobility divide! Also chance to highlight some relevant research... 🧵

🚨 New paper: “Does Rent Control Turn Tenants Into NIMBYs?” in the Journal of Politics (JOP) (joint work with @anselmhager.bsky.social and @hannohilbig.bsky.social) 👉 Have a look over here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... Most important findings in this thread: 1/11

Congrats congrats congrats for all winners🎉🎉🥳🥳 I just wish they were not 3 men as the committee + 4 men as the winners 🫠🤷‍♀️

I still get angry when I think about all the pseudo intellectual Feuilleton articles warning about left "cancel culture" and now we have real culture and nobody cares...

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"

Did military service in Europe affect men's occupational choices? @mhamjediers.bsky.social presenting at #ECSR2025, very focused and passionate about research, as usual. We investigate selection into armed forces, licensed and male-dominated occupations across multiple countries.

That latex requires you to write \sloppy in your preamble to prevent this from happening remains one of the universe's enduring mysteries

Some call it a meme. I call it facts.

Nothing better than presenting research (on residential (de-)segregation trends and its non-alignment with better healthcare accessibility) that came out of joint ideas with former students and their excellent work on the topic and complex data, kudos to Marlene Steenken and Nele Bittner #ECSR2025

Well well, @ruettenauer.bsky.social also entering the meme game in his #ECSR2025 presentation about two-way fixed-effects estimators Gonna keep you posted if others pop up the next days haha

Btw, in my opinion, the best meme game award within a conference presentation at #ECSR2025 goes to Chenru Hou (University of Potsdam) and her presentation about classroom diversity and friendship ties - for constantly underline all parts of her presentation with cat memes Nice job haha 😸

@hermwerf.bsky.social presenting about a sorting and learning model of educational inequality. Although starting at 9am, packed room What did we learn? Negative effects of the gymnasium for low-SES students (for many outcomes) #ECSR2025

Packed first session at the #ECSR2025 about policies and educational inequality Andrea Pietrolucci presenting on neoliberal and democratic school-level policies and their consequences for achievement Controlled for student composition: neoliberal policies do not have any benefit (surprise...)

And: 2) on Friday morning (9 am), where we present research about differentials in occupational aspirations among 15 year olds by SES type in 68 countries (PISA data, see below) See you there and happy conference! #ECSR2025

On my way to Cologne for ECSR Conference. Excited to see so much interesting research! Also: You can catch me at two occasions: 1) Come to the poster session (Thursday, 5:30 pm), where we show research about residential segregation and related inequalities in healthcare accessibility #ECSR2025

Warum ich die Soziologie so liebe? Weil sie so sein kann: Erhellend, aufklärend, in relevanter Weise die Gegenwart beobachtend, empirisch fundiert, theoretisch reflexiv, locker unverbissen. www.philomag.de/artikel/nils...

The difference between the UK and Germany in this dataset of billionaires is wild to me. The Russian billionaires are only “self made” in name of course.

What was the wording again in announcing GPT-5? "Ph.D.-level expert" in every field? Well, thank you for the insult OpenAI.

(real, one-shot :p )

Others have noted that this means foreign-born people are LESS likely than UK-born people to be in prison. What I want to note is that The Times is now referring to foreign-born UK citizens as ‘foreigners’. This includes Boris Johnson, Sir Mo Farah, Emma Watson, Rory Stewart and little old me.

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage! I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

Shout out to my @sriucl.bsky.social colleague @ruettenauer.bsky.social who's doing an amazing job at bringing methods to the people His recent output includes two handbook chapters (spatial + panel data), a DiD paper, and a treasure trove of teaching materials online: ruettenauer.github.io

Waaaaas

Wissenschaftsministerin ein massiver fail. Ideologisch, dumm, und in der Sache so falsch wie im Amt unprofessionell. Anstatt sachlich nüchtern die Professorin vor Diffamierungen & gegen 1 Kampagne zu schützen, wirft sie diese erneut dem geifernden Polit-Mob zum Fraß hin. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

Diese perfekte Synthese aus Häme und Ressentiment ist selten formschöner aufgeführt worden als hier.

So much would be won if social democratic politicians only understood this single point.

„Does the Context of the School (Re)Produce SES Inequalities in Educational Outcomes?“ We look forward to discuss this question with @sarageven.bsky.social from the University of Amsterdam next Tuesday, 8th of July at 4.15 pm. Join our InFER discussion!

*Register data* results now published for whole Germany: 37% of women under 25 voted for die Linke in the German federal elections in 2025. Also very striking to see that the AfD was the strongest party among *all age groups of men except those older than 60*.

No matter how often I see this data, I always find it shocking. Of all the massive growth in output produced by the world's workers since 1980, more than half of it has been captured by the richest 1%. This is what happens when capital controls production.

Lol so viel Subversion in der FAZ dann doch etwas überraschend 😂 www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Vielleicht nur anekdotisch die Beobachtung: Aber bei meinen ICE-Fahrten sind es wirklich zu 90% deutsche Frauengruppen 60+, die im Ruheabteil übertrieben laut sind und sich nicht an die Regeln halten (heute eine Gruppe auf dem Weg nach Sylt, Albtraum)

Wenn es am Ende genau so spannend geworden ist wie der Vortrag von Ansgar, den ich vor paar Monaten dazu gesehen/gehört habe, dann aber mal ne klare Leseempfehlung ;)

Worth to read what Richard's colleagues say about him and his legacy. And here are my thoughts about his passing :/ bsky.app/profile/robe...

How does the host society influence partnership patterns of refugees? Prof. Dr. Irena Kogan (University of Mannheim) will present her research on "Partnership Formation in the Context of Forces Migration" at our InFER Colloquium! Join us next Tuesday, June 17th at 4.15 pm.

Lol

I was deeply saddened to learn of Richard Alba’s passing today by John's post on Facebook. I had the privilege of being his student during an academic exchange year at CUNY in 2017. His seminar and our conversations left a lasting mark on me both intellectually and personally. 1/4

Es gibt unzählige Gründe, Word zu hassen. Heute durfte ich mich wieder an ein paar erinnern.

Es gibt so Tage, da zweifelt man irgendwie noch mehr an den angeblichen "Leistungkriterien" in academia als an anderen...

my totally unsolicited end-of-the-semester advice to junior scholars is to keep the nice notes that students write to you in a safe place so you can reference them when things get tough in the future.

Was man in schlechten BA-Arbeiten erwartet, ist jetzt genau so in nem offiziellen "wissenschaftlichen" Bericht der US-Gesundheitsbehörde passiert. Es tauchen einfach Fake-Quellen auf, die ins Weltbild passen, sieben wurden einfach frei erfunden. www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

New Likert scale just dropped

🚨 working paper (w. @morganlcj.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social): Protesters are not judged equally - even if tactics of groups are similar. We ran an experiment in 🇩🇪 testing how people react to farmers vs. climate activists blocking roads. What we find is disturbing: osf.io/preprints/os...

me: I won’t get emotionally attached to this year's ESC. also me after all songs: only Estonia’s performance IS ART, the rest is trash #ESC #Eurovision

#jobs 🚨🚨🚨 4 postdocs in Münster: stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/5... I‘m involved in one appointment. More details will follow soon!

At InFER we are regularly visited by leading scholars presenting their latest research. This summer semester we already had the pleasure of welcoming Lucio Baccaro (Max-Planck-Institute) and Jan Jonsson (University of Oxford). See our upcoming events and feel free to join us!