Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! The Library will be unstaffed (but open to College members) until 5th January. See you all in 2026!

Freue mich sehr auf die Diskussion mit Luisa Doerr und @juliusk.bsky.social -- herzlichen Dank an @econlessmann.bsky.social fuer die Einladung! tu-dresden.de/bu/wirtschaf...

EVENT: Blavatnik Book Launch: Billionaire Backlash Join Vice Dean Prof Pepper Culpepper for a conversation on the surprising story of how corporate scandals can change the way the world works for the better. 📆 29 Jan, 5:30pm Register ⬇️ https://ow.ly/XPfm50XN2Uc

backlash potential of structural change. See below for our first attempt to get at this. osf.io/9usd2/files/...

🎄 Still looking for a gift for your favourite social scientist? How about a #preprint with 717 urban areas, 30 countries, and 16,164 models of #Immigrant #Segregation across Europe? Just published with @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social & David Kretschmer 🎅 🎁 Wrapped up here: arxiv.org/abs/2512.17037

DPIR alumni 🌍 Join 25,000+ peers across 26 countries as we celebrate 25 years of impact. Help shape the next chapter—share your reflections in our 5–10 min survey and stay connected to Oxford’s research excellence. 👉 ow.ly/Zugq50XKWqi

The most-read PQ article of 2025 was.... .... Drumroll.... 'The Most Disproportionate UK Election: How the Labour Party Doubled its Seat Share with a 1.6Point Increase in Vote Share in 2024' Congrats, @martamiori.bsky.social @profjanegreen.bsky.social!

This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks

📣📣 New paper with #JoergFriedrichs, @florianschaffner.bsky.social, @niklasstoehr.bsky.social , “Populism and governmentalism as thin-centered ideologies: Emotions and frames on social media” is out at @ejprjournal.bsky.social Read more: doi.org/10.1017/S147...

Primary factors in intergenerational social class mobility: persistence or change? doi.org/10.1162/EUSO... Paper in @europeansocieties.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social student Martina Beretta

Freue mich sehr über den FNA-Forschungspreis für meine Dissertation zu Gender Pension Gaps – besonders in Zeiten aktueller Rentenreformdebatten. 🙏🎄 Very grateful to receive the FNA Research Prize from the Research Network on Old-Age Security for my dissertation. #GenderPensionGap

If you've recently completed your PhD, or are close to completion, applications for mentees in the RES Women’s Committee Mentoring Programme are closing soon! Applications close at the end of the year. Find out more and apply: https://bit.ly/43jQYEz

Coming to the Library soon! This book includes the chapter "How Credible Nuclear Security Guarantees Backfire: Evidence from the United Kingdom" by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow @laurensukin.bsky.social

New book co-edited by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow Stephen Broadberry, coming to the Library soon!

Great read and similar in story to my, er rather briefer, take in this @prospectmagazine.co.uk piece. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...

📢 The Royal Economic Society is delighted to announce the appointment of our newest cohort of #Fellows. We warmly congratulate our new Fellows and thank all those who submitted applications! Read more here: bit.ly/45bEH5S #EconSky #Economics

British politics in 2025 is now bloc politics. @profjanegreen.bsky.social new co-authored article shows how Leave–Remain divides shape vote switching, whether Reform has hit a ceiling, and how viability and voter intensity—using BES data—will shape what comes next: ow.ly/1ygG50XJwag

Did you know that you can select up to 5 of your most important papers as featured works on your @orcid.org record?

New paper in the American Journal of Sociology (with Michael Grätz), and a very good way to close an important chapter! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Excited to have just finished this pre-analysis plan with @larahankeln.bsky.social, @johannesbrehm.bsky.social, and Henri. It will be interesting to see which, if any, of our predictions will be borne out by the data. More on that in the new year. In the meanwhile, let me tell you about our theory.

Don’t forget! ⏰ The first deadline for 2025–26 MSc, MPhil & DPhil applications is 9 January. It’s also the latest deadline for most Oxford scholarships - apply by then to be considered 🎓

Introducing our 2025 Job Market Candidates – meet Tanisha Mohapatra. Tanisha studies how material inequality and social identity interact to shape democratic representation and redistribution. Find out more about our candidates: www.politics.ox.ac.u...

DPIR's @laurensukin.bsky.social has co-authored a new article in the @ejisbisa.bsky.social exploring who really shapes nuclear decision-making: www.politics.ox.ac.u...

New year, new job? Join us at the Department of Sociology & Nuffield College. The post is open to candidates from different areas of empirical specialisation and at different levels of experience. Please consider applying! closes Jan 5th. www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/associ...

10 nuggets from the new "British General Election of 2024" book, courtesy of @timbale.bsky.social theconversation.com/the-ten-most...

Our annual Carol Service took place today, continuing one of Nuffield’s longest-standing traditions. The service was made especially meaningful by the voices of members of the College, who came together to sing a programme of traditional and much-loved carols.

Short new post from me about Bloc Politics. A lot of commentators have argued, with evidence from @profjanegreen.bsky.social, @robfordmancs.bsky.social and others, that British politics has split into blocs. So what does that mean for electoral strategy? 1/n benansell.substack.com/p/bloc-parties

DPIR's @tabouchadi.bsky.social has co-authored a new paper in @thejop.bsky.social on 'The electoral effects of state-sponsored anti LGBTQ measures': www.journals.uchicag...

Comparative risk attitude and the aggregation of single-crossing doi.org/10.48550/arX... @arxiv-econ-th.bsky.social preprint by Gregorio Curello, @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow Ludvig Sinander and Mark Whitmeyer

📢 Analytical sociology is coming home! Call 4 INAS26 is open 🌍 1-3Jul26 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social and @sociologyoxford.bsky.social (☔) ☢️ Deadline: 1Feb26 🦹 Organisers: @aksoyundan.bsky.social , @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social, D Kretschmer, @awaldendorf.bsky.social Info: tinyurl.com/yc2tusjx

This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks

Sexual orientation on Zoe: A global analysis of a lesbian dating app doi.org/10.4054/DemR... New paper in @demresjournal.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Associate Member @francescorampazzo.com, Canton Winer, and Milan Kovačič

Here's the analysis with @martamiori.bsky.social on which this @economist.com @matthewholehouse.bsky.social article is based: politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/opinion/cons...

Colonial tug-of-war: Shifting narratives and desirability of Indian minorities in Burma and Indochina doi.org/10.1080/0308... Paper in @jich.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social student Marly Tiburcio-Carneiro

✍️ A new article by Prof Heather Hamill explores how one organised crime network exploited legal frameworks and commercial infrastructures to traffic £7 million of fake pharmaceuticals into the UK supply chain 💊 Read more ➡️ www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/crim...

Looking good nuffieldcollege.bsky.social!

🚀 Launching today: a new project in partnership with the University of Cologne will explore the impact of the 1990s on global governance.

In this short piece (also in PSA Insights this issue), @martamiori.bsky.social and I explain the bloc structure in what’s happening in GB electoral politics and why this matters. Nice and simple summary here: politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/opinion/brit...

The winning streak for the shingles vaccine continues...I'm starting to get optimistic on this one 🤞🙏: jenndowd.substack.com/p/more-good-... #episky #medsky #idsky #econsky #publichealth #dementia

Party bloc equilibrium: Britain’s quiet electoral earthquake doi.org/10.1177/2041... Paper in Political Insight by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow @profjanegreen.bsky.social and Research Officer @martamiori.bsky.social

Very much looking forward to presenting these slides later today at the @ariadneprojekt.bsky.social workshop on "EU Climate and Energy Policy in a Polarising World"! www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7zsx1...

Polls predicting the next British election are not to be trusted www.economist.com/britain/2025... @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow @profjanegreen.bsky.social is quoted in this @economist.com article

My @apsrjournal.bsky.social paper got its issue number📕📖🩵

Nächste Woche diskutiere ich bei der Schwarzkopf-Stiftung Junges Europa wie die radikale Rechte in Europa die Demokratie bedroht. Man kann sich noch weiterhin zur Veranstaltung anmelden.

“It was like climbing a mountain and not reaching the top”: Experiences of South African youth living with HIV who became parents during COVID-19 lockdowns doi.org/10.1080/2641... Paper in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters co-authored by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow Lucie Cluver

This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks

A range of necessarily uncomfortable answers @carnegieeurope.bsky.social to the question „Should Europe negotiate with Russia?“ - my thoughts included.⬇️

Will the next World War be a cyberwar? 🎧Listen now to Nuffield Fellow @laurensukin.bsky.social talking to @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social's podcast about why there is a lack of regulation in the cyberwar space, and whether depictions of cyberwar in the media are realistic

The making of a sociologist: between being and knowing by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Emeritus Fellow John H. Goldthorpe was selected by Margaret Drabble as one of the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social books of the year www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

In a new Political Science Quarterly paper, @politicsoxford.bsky.social's Desmond King argues that Trump’s presidencies turbo-charged unilateral power—weakening Congress, leaning on executive orders, and normalizing governance by decree: ow.ly/VbcN50XB9xT