Sequel to that "man falls in love with octopus" movie comes with a real twist: this time the "octopus" wrote the screenplay

me: Nutrition research is often quite lacking in its methods but at the same time the world leader in meme virality, by regularly uncovering things we want to be true to feel better about the food identity we have developed. also me: this study must be true. www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

It isn't just the amount of "It isn't just X. It's Y." It's also the amount of em-dashes that has gone up so much in writing you read these days.

From where I see cultural consumption and perceptions of coolness shifting, I intuitively agree with this "America Is Losing the Fight for the Teenagers of the World" take, but would love to see a data driven analysis of cultural consumption platforms to back it up. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/o...

Among the many things that are problematic about the ongoing expansion of what we define as falling under mental health and neuroconditions is the use of it as a shield by silicon valley types by having problematic behaviour fall under the definition of a disorder

Is the desire of researchers and research writers to find a pun on the research they are writing on: a) too low b) optimal c) too high ?

A (very deserved) love letter to Melvyn Bragg's "In Our Time" radio show. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/m...

Very cool poster. Anyone seen this movie? Should I check it out?

Everything is getting gamblified.

Fantastic new dataset on parental leave policies across european countries and time. It will be a valuable research for social science and policy scholars from now on. Proud to have been part of the multi-national team gathering information to put this together.

"It was just an accident" joining "I am still here" as another very good movie depicting authoritarian rule by focussing on the derailing of the everyday of normal people.

The Beige Book says employment is contracting, ADP says employment is contracting, the BLS says unemployment is going up, continuing jobless claims are rising, and WARN notices are up. It's very clear what's going on in the labor market, but stocks are up so people brush it off.

Thank god that stale bread passage got revisited... #madeleinebsky www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/a...

So disappointed none of the three eze goals was from a setpiece. Honestly doesn't even feel like my club anymore.

Meanwhile in Oxfordshire

Is there a more nerdy conference title than "Register Based Fertility Research Meeting". These are my people.

In other news look at councils projected cumulative deficit just on special needs costs over the next few years. Yikes.

New article in @sfjournal.bsky.social with @mvaldes1989.bsky.social and I. Lievore on the effect of edu expansion among parents on children's achievement Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands among parents? Short answer: yes 1/2 academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

If the current newscycle goes on in this intensity for 2 more days i expect some rockets over venezuela.

there is a thesis (not in my field, but still...) to be written about how to interpret that kieslowski reference in rosalia's berghain video.

US politics will enter into and polarize every aspect of life and culture: premier league edition

As a general rule, making films that are also good art about the current moment in history is pretty hard. But seeing "one battle after another" and "bugonia" back to back convinced me that the moment we are living through is absurd enough that it has suddenly become much more possible.

With a little extra effort this analysis of dynasties in football (or "intergenerational occupational persistence in elite sports" if you prefer academiaspeak) could probably be turned into a sociology paper. www.linkedin.com/pulse/footba...

Early and late diagnosed autism are quite different, also genetically www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Has Christopher Nolan ever done a good movie before Oppenheimer?

Come and be our colleague!!!

As Food Stamps for 40 million Americans are now stopping, here is a classic results of the positive effects that the availability of food stamps has for the birthweights of newborns and for neonatal infant mortality. www.irp.wisc.edu/publications...

That thing you thought was random, it's actually not! Edition 35,867: "The offspring of longer whale mothers are more likely to be female than those of shorter mums" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

I have now changed my football opinion to "only setpiece goals feel like real goals." Maybe goals out of play should only count 1/2 or 3/4 points.

Teorema (Pasolini, 1968) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Thames Water doing its magic in the Champions League now, I see onefootball.com/en/news/atle...

NEW DID paper coming in 1..2...3... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/b...

📖📉 jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...

As Marie Antoinut said: "Let them eat peanuts" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/w...

There was another China shock and it exported people into the USs higher ed system (and mostly had positive consequences) www.nber.org/papers/w3439...

A whole mixed bag of consequences being described here, but overall this reads like a W for cell-phone bans in school www.nber.org/papers/w3438...

Universities are (so far) actually faring better than many other institutions in how much they succumb to power. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...

If you search hard there is still good news to be found (like, really good in this case) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/h...

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only

Still not 100% sure how relevant the effects are and most studies we have are correlational, but the medical literature is slowly "micro-plastic-pilling" me (as in I think its much more of an issue than i did two years ago). jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

a thing we don't fully understand creating a thing we don't fully understand. cool. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

May he who never parked a furniture van in front of the louvre, throw the first stone.

The past 10 years have been good for the relative earnings of poor-income US households. That seems to be coming to an end. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

“Measuring itself is a political act with political consequences” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/c...

New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social. It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼💰👩‍💼 are by studying many local labour markets. Thread 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Imagine being an economic historian and not having won a nobel yet...

Not gonna get into the population size - environmental degradation arguments, but what really caught me off-guard in this nature correspondence was the call for reduced urbanization, when evidence clearly shows urban populations being less stressful to the environment. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

😳

Submit your paper to the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference! The conference will showcase cutting-edge research across Sociology, providing a platform to discuss the most exciting developments in the field. Submit your abstract by Monday 20 October 2025 ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...