‘Het staakt-het-vuren is een politiek instrument om Gaza te doen vergeten’, schrijft Rita Baroud, een Palestijnse journalist uit Gaza. Ze leeft in ballingschap in Amsterdam en schrijft essays voor TRF. https://rightsforum.org/bedrog-van-bestand/

This—on my former university, department, and advisor—is harrowing but required reading for all social psychologists. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

WORK! The Sociology Department at Utrecht University is hiring a new assistant prof, with expertise on migration/integration/polarization/stratification. Come join us! www.uu.nl/organisatie/...

🧵1/ 🚨 New article out! How robust is the psychology of social class? Together with Nicolas Sommet and ‪@frederiqueautin.bsky.social‬, we conducted large-scale replications of 35 hypotheses across four countries. Published in Nature Human Behaviour: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In the meantime, my other PhD student Keke Zhu got his first paper published. A strong start to this line of research on economic inequality among economically disadvantaged individuals. Co-supervised with @tkupp.bsky.social Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Only 10 days left to apply for this phd position on education-based identities, status, and political attitudes! Open to those interested in sociology, social psychology, political science, communication science or indeed a combination of all. jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-P...

I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social! German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf Please share

📢 Thèse en psychologie sociale Le LAPSCO (Université Clermont Auvergne / CNRS) recrute un·e doctorant·e à partir du 1er octobre 2025, dans le cadre du projet ANR IDEOPOL portant sur la polarisation idéologique. 📄 Détail de l’offre et candidature : tinyurl.com/nzw896bf Merci de partager !

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

📢 We're hiring a 4-year postdoc (0.8 FTE) at Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam for project on climate change meanings Focus: Italian case (focus groups, survey, experiments) PhD in Sociology (or related), fluent in Italian 🗓️ Deadline: June 11 #postdoc #sociology #academicjobs #Italy #climatechange

New paper 🏫! We present the Schooled Society Index: a multidimensional indicator that maps cross-national differences in the centrality of schooling on a global scale. Written with @bramspruyt.bsky.social and @tkupp.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2378... Data is publicly available: osf.io/49xy5/

🏫 How central is schooling in your country? In their new #Socius study, Drs. Kavadias, @bramspruyt.bsky.social & @tkupp.bsky.social introduce the Schooled Society Index—a global measure of how #education acts as a force of #institutionalization and #stratification. Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

𝐈𝐬 𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐞? 🤔 Hoogopgeleiden die neerkijken op laagopgeleiden: een helaas veel voorkomend fenomeen dat educationisme heet. Volgens @tkupp.bsky.social “is het schadelijk voor de betrokkenen en voor de samenleving als geheel” Lees hier het artikel 👉🏻 bit.ly/3GxLL3t

Mijn eigen universiteit gaat met de slogan ‘Outsmart the ordinary’ masterstudenten werven. Dat is jammer. Het lijkt me toch een voorbeeld van het superioriteitsgevoel bij hoogopgeleiden

Erg goede reactie op de claim (van oa @schimmelpenninck.bsky.social ) dat er geen biases/vooroordelen zouden zijn op basis van oploeidingsniveau… die zijn er wel degelijk

Hoezo is er geen bewijs voor onderwijsgebonden vooroordelen? In @volkskrant.nl met @tkupp.bsky.social en @bramspruyt.bsky.social

Gutted that my suggested title “if you’re reading this you are probably a hypocrite“ was voted down by my co-authors. Despite this disappointment I am happy with yet another nice paper by @jochemvannoord.eu

🏁New paper! Social status moderates the effect of belief in meritocracy on economic conflict attitudes. Meritocracy doesn't always legitimize inequality and sometimes it does more :) Published with @bramspruyt.bsky.social Filip Van Droogenbroeck and @tkupp.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1468...