In light of International Overdose Awareness Day #IOAD2025, read about the effects of college education on indicators of deaths of despair including hard drug use: bit.ly/3HEMC3j By Grzegorz Bulczak @a-gugushvili.bsky.social Jonathan Koltai @asamedsoc.bsky.social @overdoseday.bsky.social

🆕 Out in Social Science & Medicine with @gruelig.bsky.social: Do anti-discrimination laws improve the lives of people with disabilities in the Nordics? 🇩🇰-🇫🇮-🇳🇴-🇸🇪 👉 Our study finds little evidence of impact on well-being, trust, jobs, or income. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🇺🇸-🇺🇦-🇪🇺 As Trump meets Zelensky + European leaders today to discuss ending Russia’s war, it’s important to know: European citizens themselves see the war’s end very differently. My new study in ‪@jei-publication.bsky.social‬ explores these divides 👉 shorturl.at/Mw8KE

🧵1/ What do Europeans think: does Putin resemble Stalin? In my new article, I look at how people in 5 countries compare the two leaders, and what shapes these views: history, politics, the media, and the war in Ukraine. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2374...

Is downward class mobility linked to far-right party voting and how? @dafnoukos.bsky.social, @a-gugushvili.bsky.social‬ & Tim Vlandas argue it significantly affects far-right voting but only under specific conditions. Read OPEN ACCESS in @polbehavior.bsky.social‬: buff.ly/Cljvggt 🧵 1/2

With @gruelig.bsky.social

1⃣ Published in Socius: we analyze Norwegian registry data to examine how early-life chronic conditions and disabilities (asthma, diabetes, sensory loss, physical impairments) influence earnings in adulthood. Read more: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

THIS THURSDAY, 12:00 Paris time at the CREST Sociology seminar: @a-gugushvili.bsky.social! Come out to Palaiseau or join us on-line: zoom.us/j/9482848830...

As part of its ongoing war, Moscow has set up another political party in Norway, aiming to divide and conquer the minds of gullible Europeans. The Party for Peace and Justice (FOR), which is supposedly left-wing, is calling for an end to military aid for Ukraine and is financed by dubious donations.

How and why actual class decline leads to far-right party support: our new blog post for @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social with @a-gugushvili.bsky.social and Tim Vlandas, based on our Political Behavior article blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

Does class decline lead to increased support for far-right parties? New research from @a-gugushvili.bsky.social @dafnoukos.bsky.social & Tim Vlandas @polbehavior.bsky.social

🧵1️⃣ In a new Norwegian twin study with @oyvindw.bsky.social we ask: does being partnered really cut your risk of death? 💍📉 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NEW ARTICLE: CREST Sociology's @scoavoux.bsky.social, @eollion.bsky.social, and @ppraeg.bsky.social's Machine Bias in Sociological Methods & Research, on why we can't use LLMs to generate meaningful survey data Link: doi.org/10.1177/0049... Preprint at @socarxiv.bsky.social: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Great work with @dafnoukos.bsky.social and (Blueskyless) Tim Vlandas, will write a thread about this shortly

Great postdoc opportunity! Join the Segregation of Opportunities (SEGOP) project led by Nicolai Borgen, with methods for causal inference using registry, survey, and genotyped data 📊 Located at CREATE (@uio.no), an exciting environment with many working on similar topics! tinyurl.com/segop-postdoc

NEW: As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows and streamers, our analysis found that this expanding media ecosystem is overwhelmingly right-leaning.

📢 Out now! Democracy Report 2025: 25 Years of Autocratization - Democracy Trumped? Read the Report: v-dem.net/publications... Download the V-Dem Dataset v15: v-dem.net/data/the-v-d... #DR25 #DemocracyReport2025 #VDemDatasetV15 #Polisky #PoliSciSky #PoliticalScienceData #PoliticalScience

This is promising

🚨🔍 New research on Russian public opinion! Despite sanctions, political turmoil & economic strain, many Russians remain surprisingly optimistic about the war. Why? My latest study unpacks this paradox & what it reveals about authoritarian resilience. 🧵👇 (1/4) 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1478...

Remarkable clarity in Britain.

1️⃣ New @sfjournal.bsky.social study on disability discrimination in Europe with @gruelig.bsky.social 📢 Despite anti-discrimination laws, perceived disability discrimination remains high. Policy alone isn't enough - structural barriers must be addressed academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Look, obviously my emotional reaction to that press conference is to punch a wall so hard either it or my knuckles break. But let put that on hold for a moment and ask, very dispassionately and calmly: What American national interest objective or foreign policy goal was served by that shit-show?

Absolute disgrace

Great work lead by @rishabhtyagi10.bsky.social on adult children’s unemployment and parental mental health in India @mpidr.bsky.social

Thanks for sharing @klauspforr.bsky.social

3 years after @vtraag.bsky.social suggested it to me, I am finally managing to sneak his paper on Inferring the causal effect of journals on citations (doi.org/10.1162/qss_...) in one of my lectures (on science of science). Cool read!

Striking

Make this @OfficialUoM press release viral “Trump … echoed Kremlin talking points, by falsely claiming …Zelensky’s approval rating stands at a mere 4%…polling…puts his approval rating at 63% - making him the most popular politician in the country.” www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/t...

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Cool new paper in JOLE arguing that there is no 'best' age for measuring parental resources when examining social mobility. It depends on which outcomes and which parental resources. #sociology #econsky

Literally true

The debate between Sandy Jencks and Thomas Piketty at Harvard was one of the best academic events I’ve ever attended.

The more the merrier

Good job @michaelgentile.bsky.social I also wish the title was what's really happening.

I'm looking forward to this, thanks @ppraeg.bsky.social

My depart is hiring 2-4 (!!) Associate Profs, with tenure & promotion track. Open call - but we're particularly looking for a profile in IR, security studies, conflict - and qualitative methods + fieldwork. Great place - happy to answer questions! Deadline soon ⤵️ www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

"Each dollar of government expenditure on [universal pre-kindergarten] yields $10.04 in benefits." www.nber.org/papers/w33038 Evidence from the USA (Connecticut)

Glad to be a part of this

Good to have this as my first post in Bluesky