New paper out! We (Florencia Antia, Cecilia Rossel, Herwig Immervoll, and I) compare how cash benefit programs in the OECD and Latin America use conditionality, from job‑search rules in unemployment benefits to the requirements built into Latin American CCTs. doi.org/10.1177/1468...

www.nature.com/articles/d41... #AcademicChatter 🧪⚛️💡

* New Publication*: Across Western democracies, higher education is under pressure, from budget cuts to restrictions on immigrant students. Our new study dives into a critical but overlooked question: When do people think immigrant students deserve financial aid?

Job! Two assistant/associate professors in educational sociology with a quantitative methods focus based either in Copenhagen or Aarhus dpu.au.dk/om-dpu/ledig...

This. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... #academia #academiasky

Amen to that… www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

oops the Anxious Gen Z Workplace Trend Tone button on my keyboard got stuck and now I need to go take a microvacation www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

**New working paper** AI is reshaping how we work. This makes some people more productive - but exposes others to job and income loss. I explore how this affects people's political attitudes and preferences using data from the @ess-survey.bsky.social and indicators of AI exposure & complementarity.

“In all my discussions with scientists across every sector, exactly zero think the journal system works well.” Some will disagree with aspects of Seemay’s analysis but this point is undoubtedly true open.substack.com/pub/asterain...?

Does the movie end when she abseils off the end of her rope and dies? I guess no one taught her that stopper knots save lives... 😅 #abseiling #rappelling #rockclimbing #jurassicworld

165 #ClimbingMemes #RockClimbing #Bouldering #Optoutside #SportClimbing #TradClimbing #Canyoneering #dirtbaglife #TradDad #Daily

Cuts to #Dutch education and research, limitation for international students, universities butchering departments but also “hey, here some money to attract top researchers from US, universities should also add some” because “we don’t care about your passport”. #FacePalm #AcademicSky

🚨 Call for papers! 🚨 Excited to co-chair the ESPAnet Milan 2025 stream “New Social Risks 2.0? Social vulnerability in the age of AI, populism, and the cost-of-living crisis” 🌍🤖📉. 📅 Deadline: April 14 @carloknotz.bsky.social

My department is *hiring a PhD* student (3 years, fully funded) for a research project on the social and political effects of AI-related technological change. *Deadline: May 4, '25*. See here for more information & to apply: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... #PoliSky #Sociology #AcademicSky

IN NEW ISSUE: What drives opposition to social rights for immigrants? @carloknotz.bsky.social, Alyssa Taylor, Mia Gandenberger & @julianachueri.bsky.social examine the role of psychological predispositions. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/xMCkbbY @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social

IMO, #academics treat out value and role in society as self-evident. Clearly, it ain't. Let's get better about discussing the value of education, enlightenment, discovery, etc #AcademicSky

📢 CfA: Doing research on social vulnerability and risks? Submit to our stream on New Social Risks in the age of AI, populism, and the cost-of-living crisis at this year’s ESPAnet conference in Milan! Details: www.espanetmilano2025.it/en-US/stream...

Ukraine is not alone. Germany together with our European allies stands united alongside #Ukraine - and against the Russian aggression. Ukraine can build on unwavering support from Germany, Europe and beyond. Their defence of democracy & their quest for peace & security is ours.

IN NEW ISSUE: What drives opposition to social rights for immigrants? @carloknotz.bsky.social, A Taylor, M Gandenberger & @julianachueri.bsky.social examine the role of psychological predispositions. Read OPEN ACCESS: https://buff.ly/40QAbqv @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social

The falsehood came from the right. How (radical/ extreme) right shares mis/ disinformation more online. Good to see @uva.nl colleagues @pettertornberg.bsky.social and @julianachueri.bsky.social’s research featured in @theguardian.com #polisky www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

#EconSky #PoliSky #ClimateSky

Quite many higher-educated workers now feel at risk of losing their jobs to technology. My new article on how this affects their party preference, based on OECD Risks that Matter data, is now out in the European Political Science Review (doi.org/10.1017/S175...). @valeriefrey.bsky.social #PoliSky

#polisky Increasingly thinking that this is exactly the type of “hard financial” argument we in political science need to make more forcefully in light of all the funding cuts (real or looming): www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Did you see this experiment my colleague Kristina conducted not just at my university but *in my department*? She and the male instructor assumed eachothers’ names for an online course: and the difference in feedback they received was horrifying.

This sums it up, yes.

Access to childcare is a problem in many places. In a new article in JEPP, Giuliano Bonoli, Mia Gandenberger, and I study how the public would allocate limited childcare slots (tl;dr: poorer families are higher up in the list, immigrants are further down): doi.org/10.1080/1350... #polisky