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...

📣 New publication in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility! 🔎 Do mothers’ occupation-specific skills shape children’s development? ✅ Yes! When mothers move into jobs with higher skill demands, their kids show stronger skills. Open access here 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣 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

Our new @nuffieldfoundation.org funded report on free school meals (FSM) and free early years meals (FEYM) reveals significant variation in whether nurseries across England provide free early years meals to children living in poverty. www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

We are hiring a 3-year postdoc for the ERC-funded WEALTHTRAJECT project at DIW Berlin. More details here: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...

Thanks for the shoutout! Our review of 69 experimental studies on disability discrimination in hiring shows: ✳️ Big gaps in callback rates ✳️ Some conditions get all the attention ✳️ We need more theory + intersectionality

Strategies to Improve Open Science Monitoring: Lessons from France’s OSM initiative, via @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/05/27/s... #openscience #ciènciaoberta #bibliometrics

Important research by @johannarickne.bsky.social @ollefolke.bsky.social and great to see it published in our own @europeansocreview.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

Hi Bluesky! Methodological Innovations is an international, open access journal and the principal venue for publishing peer-reviewed, social-research methods articles. journals.sagepub.com/home/MIO

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #openscience #qualitative #FAIR

🧵 There's a common misperception about SocArXiv, unfortunately promoted by the much larger, richer, profit-generating SSRN service (Elsevier). It sounds harsh to say this, but at SocArXiv we serve the scholarly community, and the scholarly record - not individual authors. I can explain. /1

We did another episode for the Icelandic Sociology podcast! "Inequality in education: Occupational aspirations and immigrant disadvantages" heimildin.is/spila/1072/ In this new episode of the podcast David Reimer interviews Thomas Zimmermann from Goethe University in Frankfurt.

NEW: Cristobal Young, Benjamin Cornwell, Barum Park, Nan Feng, "Inequality and Social Ties: Evidence from 15 U.S. Data Sets" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

Thanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

The Impact Competition 2025 is live for public vote!   This competition aims to champion a culture of meaningful impact across the SGSSS student community and the wider public. Discover how our finalists are generating impact through their research and vote here: www.sgsss.ac.uk/impact-compe...

‘People living in the 20% most deprived areas in England are almost twice as likely to be admitted to hospital due to infectious diseases than the least deprived.’ Health inequalities are structural and interlinked with social factors such as poverty, housing and employment on.ft.com/42GYjhH

New piece for @wonkhe.bsky.social on ‘paradoxical parenting practices’ drawing on research with @juliacook.bsky.social & @drdanwoodman.bsky.social @education.ox.ac.uk #parenting #HE