¿Alguien en Presidencia, Prospectiva o alguna Subdirección General que pueda ayudarme a hacer llegar un SOS a la ministra de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (o a algún DG, me vale)? 👇. 1/3

New publication in @actasociologica.bsky.social! @filippogch.bsky.social and I use a novel decomposition method (@ang-yu.bsky.social and Elwert) to study if and how *childcare arrangements* under age 3 shape disparities in children’s cognitive skills ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/5

🧵There's this phenomenon you sometimes see in certain corners of science where a small group of researchers all work on the same narrow topic and mostly just talk to each other. It becomes a really insular community: everyone cites everyone else, ... 1/5

After an investigation which took >2 years, the journal Cross Cultural Research has retracted a paper which used Lynn's "national IQ" database, on the grounds that "Post-publication review raised serious concerns about the validity of the data & the article findings"

Peter Bearman - Laureate of the Kohli Prize 2025- gives the Max Weber lecture @eui-eu.bsky.social. He speaks about pathways to poverty analysing thousands of letters written to Warren Buffet using LLM. @kohli-sociology.bsky.social

Congratulations to us, and thank you, @kohli-sociology.bsky.social!

Niche post but I'm amazed that the time-worn ISEI does almost as good a job at explaining earnings as a recent scale designed to explain earnings Treiman constant ftw Read all about it in @europeansocreview.bsky.social academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

Curious to learn what is behind the European Social Survey? This Podcast with Rory Fitzgerad provides a glimpse behind the scenes of this impressive data set. @ess-survey.bsky.social

I have written are review of "The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture" by Dalton Conley Pre-print on @socarxiv.bsky.social here: osf.io/preprints/so... I highly recommend it, particularly to graduate students The reasons👇

✨𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗖𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱✨ Join us in honoring the laureates of the Kohli Prize and Infrastructure Prize for Sociology. 📅 4–6 November 2025 📍 European University Institute, Florence 🔗 Register via: kohlifoundation.eu/registration/ @socarxiv.bsky.social @philipncohen.com @incitecolumbia.bsky.social

Yesterday we had the first Inequality and Social Demography Seminar of the Madrid Population and Society Research Network at UNED. Great talk by #NicolettaBalbo, very well attended with researchers from all Madrid research centers: CSIC, UCM, UAM, UCIIIM and UNED

📢𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻!📢 We’re now accepting applications for the 𝗞𝗼𝗵𝗹𝗶 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center @wzb.bsky.social Apply via our online portal: kohlifoundation.eu/programs-koh... 📆 Deadline 16 November 2025

The UNED inequality and social demography seminar is back, with @ramina-sotoudeh.bsky.social @l-sage.bsky.social @melindacmills.bsky.social @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social @nicolettabalbo and @danieloesch If you are Madrid, come along! 👇the program for this academic year

Including my paper with Carmel Blank on inequalities in enjoying second chance paths to academic education

🌲Our autumn issue is here to accompany you through the start of the semester with amazing research by @kbkarlson @PFallesen @HallstenMartin @pengzell @fctropf @aliciagsierra @PassarettaG @marespadafor @laurafursich @jungin612 @laui_silva &more! Read it at academic.oup.com/esr/issue/41/5 image.png

Volume 41, Issue 5, October 2025 of @europeansocreview.bsky.social is out! A very nice collection of interesting papers (almost all open access). Browse the index and find your next read academic.oup.com/esr/issue

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

Vergüenza www.eldiario.es/catalunya/mu...

✨New (open access) article in ESR with Gerbert Kraaykamp! We demonstrate that cultural capital is positively associated with a higher occupational position due to access to more resourceful networks. Read here: doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

➡️New paper out with amazing data: library borrowings of the entire population of Denmark! If cultural tastes are always stratified, the type of stratification depends on the wider inequalities within a context #EH_Blaabæk #S_Friedman #MM_Jæger #A_Reeves academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

– ¿Qué te llevó a alistarte? – La pobreza. La primera herramienta de reclutamiento del ejército es ir a zonas empobrecidas y ofrecer lo que EEUU no ofrece: sanidad, educación, alojamiento, ingresos, estabilidad... Ofrecemos a nuestros soldados socialismo para ir a luchar por el capitalismo. BRUTAL

@janierola.net and @mjantti.bsky.social presenting the main findings of the Mapineq at roundtable at EU Parliament in Brussels

🍂 Continuamos con los estrenos: ¡ya está aquí la programación de otoño de nuestros seminarios! ⚠ Recordad que: 1️⃣ La asistencia es libre y gratuita. 2️⃣ Se retransmitirán en directo a través de nuestro canal de YouTube. Muy pronto más información sobre cada sesión. ¡Estad atentos!

Bologna today #Stopthewar in #Gaza

PAPER ALERT🚨 With greats @cristinasuero.bsky.social and @fabriberna.bsky.social, we explore how the ed. gradient in the occurrence and timing of first motherhood varies across Spanish provinces (NUTS3). #OA publication at Population, Space and Place: doi.org/10.1002/psp.70106 Want to know more?👇

In many journals associate editors play an important role in the review process but their names don’t appear in communications with authors. At Europ Soc Rev, when we reject a paper the letter is signed by both EiC and AE. In others only the EiC signs. Having the AE in the letter adds transparency

Guinness sales will skyrocket with all those sociologists and political scientists around

New article with Helena Troiano in European Journal of Higher Education: “Patterns of university progression and social inequalities: delving into complex trajectories in higher education” 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2156...

First single-author pub out in SSM! It shows a mechanism underlying the intergenerational transmission of health inequality: high-SES families buffer genetic propensity for obesity & overweight, while low-SES environments trigger it 🌍🧬⚖️ OA: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/5

The great Robyn Malcolm in After the Party is the science teacher we all would have liked to have in high school. Or that we would like to have for our children... Here on porno and sex education...👏

Spain's La Vuelta halted in Madrid as police clash with pro-Palestinian protesters reut.rs/4mf5i7O

When it comes to human behavior, it can often be more productive & compelling to ask questions that begin with how rather than why, writes fmr CASBS fellow @ralmeling.bsky.social in @behscientist.bsky.social Read why (about how): behavioralscientist.org/the-power-of...

🚀✨The Editorial Board of ESR is growing! We’re happy to welcome PeterFallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social ( ROCKWOOL Foundation, Denmark) as a new Associate Editor!! We are thrilled to welcome Peter to the Editorial Board and look forward to working together! academic.oup.com/esr/pages/Ed...

Some people call it a minefield. Others call it dangerous, even irresponsible. I call it the most promising field in life sciences. My love letter to social science genetics: communities.springernature.com/posts/a-love...

If you are left-wing, why don’t you enroll your children in a public school?" A very insightful article by #JahelQueralt in El País (in Spanish), which raises a somehow related question: If you are left-wing, why teach at a private university? elpais.com/opinion/2025...

What about academics? Thank You for Boycotting Me. As an Israeli Filmmaker, Here's Why Global Pressure Amid Gaza Matters. archive.md/2025.09.10-1...

🚀We are extremely grateful for the high quality support we receive each year from our reviewers, and have created a Best Reviewer Award to acknowledge this even more! It is with great pleasure that we congratulate 2025 winners: @saidhassan.bsky.social, @katyaoivanova.bsky.social & #Nicole_Schwitter

Laura Loomer in July: attacks Charlie Kirk Loomer today: lets use Kirk's death to shut down dissent

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

El discurso de la derecha sobre los inmigrantes: Hipocresía en estado puro. 👇🏻

"The geography of tertiary education inequality in EU" just out in @europeansocieties.bsky.social with @mvaldes1989.bsky.social and Ilaria Lievore An outcome of the mapineq.eu project

Great paper but not a single sociologist cited. Not. One.

Israeli settler kills Palestinian journalist in act of terrorism. Civilian, not combatant, far from any military operations. Highlights shift in US policy. The attacker had been under US sanctions for violence against civilians in the West Bank. Trump removed him from that list after taking office.

Following an exchange with @marcoalbertini.bsky.social on the @isa-rc28.bsky.social letter to the @isa-sociology.org exec committee, I’m reposting my position on requests to review for the Israel Science Foundation.

Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves' share.google/9qtiQasQ2SAB...

We are pleased to announce that the ISA RC28 Spring Meeting 2026 will be held at the campus of Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO) in Seville. Conference dates: May 20–22, 2026. Theme: Addressing Social Inequalities in the Global North and South Stay tuned! Submissions will begin soon.

The Effect of World War I on Naming Patterns: A Systematic Exploration www.cambridge.org/core/journal... …We present here a method to systematically study variations in name popularity during an event of interest and quantify its “total” effect on naming patterns… (With a shiny companion website)

Another great reason to submit manuscripts to @europeansocreview.bsky.social 🙃

How much of the intergenerational transmission of SES is due to social factors? To answer this, shared 🧬 between parents and children need to be considered. In our new study, we use two designs to account for genetic confounding. We find that roughly 20 percent is due to social factors!