📑 My time as editor of @methodinnovations.bsky.social is coming to an end. Sage are now taking applications for a new editor in chief or a team of joint editors in chief. Details are below, I am happy to answer any questions.

A massive seven-year project exploring 3,900 social-science papers has ended with a disturbing finding go.nature.com/4bZ9k0W

📄Published Today in Nature: 500 researchers reproduced 100 studies across the social & behavioral sciences to assess their analytical robustness (led by @balazsaczel.bsky.social & @szaszibarnabas.bsky.social). Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Preprint: osf.io/preprints/me... TLDR: 1/11

Delighted to share our revised paper (w/ @juliaturner.bsky.social & @jacobbastian.bsky.social ) showing that Universal Pre-K has broad effects on local labor markets — effects well beyond only mothers. Larger effects for full-day programs. nber.org/papers/w33767 #EconSky #EarlyChildhood #ECE

NEW: Vida Maralani, Camille Portier, Berkay Özcan, "Early Childhood Investments and Women’s Work Outcomes across the Life Course" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

📣 Social Network Analysis people - there is still time to submit an abstract for our special issue on Social Network Analysis. Deadline 1st of March. journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

📢 In this Social Forces article, I introduce occupational elitism as a novel measure of social closure: the share of upper-class background workers within an occupation. Its consequences for earnings stratification can be examined using a social closure theory lens. 🔓 doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

If you haven't been asked yet, here is your sign to be our ISR Valentine ❤️

📣 The next Scottish UKHLS (@usociety.bsky.social) User Group Meeting will be on the 24th of April 1500-1630 Online @uoe-sps.bsky.social To receive the meeting invite sign up to the mailing list here: edin.ac/48nQsc2

Call for #SNA papers by @methodinnovations.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec....

Understanding Society Wave 15 is out today! The latest wave of data can be accessed via the @ukdataservice.bsky.social. New content includes questions on pregnancies, guardians, and environmental identity. www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/news/2025/12...

In our research on socioeconomic background in academia, we ran a survey. Over 2,000 faculty members responded (thanks if you were one!) Social & cultural capital showed up time and again as key issues. A few findings you might be interested in...🧵

My new book, The Division of Rationalized Labor, is now shipping! A brief summary of the argument to follow…

👇Our Generative AI special issue call is open until the 9th of January. We are open to all types of articles which relate to the intersection of Generative AI and Social Science Research Methods. Please get in touch if you wish to discuss your article!

Is childhood exposure to local wealth inequality associated with upward income mobility achieved in adulthood? Yes! Check out my new paper, just published in @natureportfolio.nature.com here: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #EconSky #Sociology #Demography

📣Do you have experience of using Generative AI in your social science research? Or critical thoughts about the use of Generative AI? Consider contributing an article to our special issue!

📢 New in @sfjournal.bsky.social: We study how parental #education shapes children’s #cognitive development. Accounting for selective parenthood & grandparent & early parent characteristics, we find education largely reflects broader #intergenerational advantages. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

I wrote about @hermwerf.bsky.social 's excellent ASR article last year on education expansion and intergenerational mobility. Hope you find it useful! asocial.substack.com/p/inequality...

📣 The Call for Papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference is open! Following the success of our inaugural conference in 2024, we are delighted to announce its return on 23 and 24 April 2026 at LSE. 📆 Submit your paper by 20 October 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/TdmBcur

Reviewing our questions on ethnicity and immigration. Let us know your views on this important part of the @usociety.bsky.social survey. www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/news/2025/06...

New paper in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility! I track long-term trends in educational assortative mating in 🇧🇷. After decades of decline, homogamy rose in the 2000s, due to a balance shift: more fluidity at lower edu levels vs. stronger homogamy at the top. Check it out (open access):

🎉New on the Data Impact blog🎉 Jay Dominy, Public Affairs Manager at UCL and CLOSER, introduces CLOSER’s new monthly Policy Surgeries and encourages researchers interested in informing policy to sign-up. blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/closer-polic...

Professor Debora Price @gerontologyuk.bsky.social recently reflected on recent international threats to data infrastructure, and why we must protect trusted data services as essential public institutions, on the Data Impact blog blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/why-data-pre...

💥Today, 3 years after I graduated from my research master, my (revamped) master thesis got published at @ssreditorial.bsky.social under the name "Who do they think you are? Inconsistencies in self- and proxy-reports of education within families". Check it out here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss... (OA)

💬 "Ultimately, lots of working-class people simply cannot afford to work for no or little pay. It’s a luxury only some can afford." Our alum, Bethany, draws on her experience of working for free to discuss the need for change on the usage of unpaid labour ⬇️ www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion...

The next meeting of the Scottish UKHLS User Group will be online on Friday 15th August from 1500-1630 This time there will be talks from Laurence Rowley-Abel @uoe-sps.bsky.social and Mhairi Webster @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scotttish-...

Our Annual Report reveals a troubling trend: fewer disadvantaged young people are participating post-16 than at any point since 2019. More than 1 in 5 disadvantaged 16-year-olds are now out of education or training. It’s time to identify — and act on — the root causes of this sharp decline.

Registered report of 35 social class hypotheses (N = 33,536) finds around 50% are supported. New work by @anatoliab.bsky.social, Nicolas Sommet, and @frederiqueautin.bsky.social Open Access: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

New study finds that politically diverse social networks, even casual acquaintances, reduce partisan hostility by exposing people to others with opposing views, correcting stereotypes, and fostering understanding. sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

❗ Important work from @edupolicyinst.bsky.social highlighting the attainment gap between disadvantaged children & their peers. Their annual report shows that the gap in attainment between 5 year olds from low income families & their peers has grown since 2019. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

🚂 | NEW REPORT: Britain’s transport system is failing people on low incomes — locking them out of work, health, and opportunity. Our new report sets out how to fix it 👇 www.ippr.org/articles/the...

We're hiring an assistant researcher for the Retraction Watch Database. Find out more here:

Young learners in England are facing a deepening crisis. Our Annual Report shows that disadvantaged five-year-olds are falling further behind their peers — and for children with SEND, the learning gap has widened to over 20 months, the widest gap on record 🧵 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

🚨 New paper out in the American Educational Research Journal (w/ @markusklein.bsky.social & @esosu.bsky.social) 🚨 We analyzed whether pupil absences in different school-years are equally harmful for achievement at the end of compulsory schooling. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

⁉️Are you using generative AI in your social science research? We want to hear about it! We are looking for critical accounts for a special issue on the use of #generativeai in #socialscienceresearch More details here 👇 journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

RC28’s first online thematic meeting🎉This online meeting will be free of charge. The meeting will take place on 20-21 January 2026 and will be hosted virtually by the Centre for Research on social InequalitieS (CRIS), a Sciences Po/CNRS unit, in Paris. More info 👇 www.sciencespo.fr/cris/fr/actu...

ChatGPT has had an “unprecedented” impact on scientific writing, leading to a marked increase in “flowery” language, a new paper has found. @patrickjack.bsky.social reports #AcademicSky

Is there a religious revival in England? @sriucl.bsky.social's David Voas raises questions about a recent report claiming that Gen Z is leading a rise in church attendance after decades of religious decline. It appears the devil is in the data. Read more here: tinyurl.com/2zptnnw3

📢New paper!📢 "Social Class Origin and Job quality in Higher Managerial and Professional Occupations" out in @sociologyjnl.bsky.social Those from lower social origins suffer lower ❌ top job attainment ❌ pay In this new research, we show they also suffer lower ❌ non-pay job quality

🎉 After 2 years of work, our #OpenScience guide for researchers in developing countries is LIVE! Check out our new preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... We map the opportunities 🌟 + barriers 🧱 facing Global South researchers. *(1/4)*

Looking forward to presenting my Class Gap work at the RNIM Online Seminar on Zoom this Friday! Anyone can register to attend here: sites.google.com/view/rnim-se...

The Latest Issue of Methodological Innovation is out and can be viewed here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/MIO/curr...

Call for papers: Generative AI and Social Science Research journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

Looking forward to giving the keynote at @sgsss.bsky.social tomorrow: "From Algorithms to AI: Why Worker Inquiry Matters" www.sgsss.ac.uk/training/sum...

📚 Ten simple rules for good research practice doi.org/10.1371/jour...

With @gruelig.bsky.social

The next meeting of the Scottish UKHLS User Group will be online on Friday 15th August from 1500-1630 This time there will be talks from Laurence Rowley-Abel (University of Edinburgh) and Mhairi Webster (Glasgow Caledonian University). Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scotttish-...

A *null* result I'm very proud of! Led by Rustam Romaniuc, 35 coauthors from all over France tested nudge interventions to boost voter turnout. None worked, and we are possibly not surprised -- but a well-powered null result *is* a result! Paper: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

💥New: From Victorian poverty maps to pandemic dashboards, data viz turns complexity into clarity. James Abdey, Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at LSE, unpacks how visual storytelling is reshaping #research in the age of information overload 📊 #LSEFestival #Visualisation