New paper out with @kchihaya.bsky.social and @eduardotapia.bsky.social. We show how a tendency to move near kin can preserve patterns of segregation, using a combination of discrete choice models and micro-simulations applied to the case of immigrants and their descendants living in Stockholm.

It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

Interesting and inspiring initiative: A large campaign launched in Denmark for people to take control of their digital life - ‘change focus, habits, and platforms’ Campaign runs from January to March 20 which is “Change Day” Details ⬇️ danmarkskifter.dk

The story of Europe’s economic decline while US is 'soaring' is everywhere. But it is wrong. It is a myth. Europe delivers more leisure, longer life expectancy, less inequality than the US. Gabriel Zucman dismantles the myths.

People are right to roll their eyes at this—another stupid and malicious effort to undermine universities. But don’t rest your opposition on the idea that scores “don’t predict outcomes”. Insofar as any measure is used to select a population, you have conditioned on it so it won’t predict outcomes.

Scientists are significantly human.

Belgians make the best beer.

U.S. CAISI hiring intern for an AI agent security standards project. Opportunity to do cutting-edge AI standards work in the federal government. Apply by Jan 15. nitter.net/i/status/200...

We're looking for a colleague (postdoc) 📢 @politikuhh.bsky.social 3+3 years Doing your own research while teaching 2.5 courses per semester Research agenda with links to our team (democracy, digital politics, political competition/behaviour) DL 🗓️ 05/01 stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/6...

🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨 We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social Any questions, please reach out to me 📣 Please share! 📣 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

🎉 Große Anerkennung für die #HumboldtUni: Anette Eva Fasang wurde zum Mitglied der Leopoldina gewählt. Die Auszeichnung würdigt ihre exzellente Forschung zu Demografie, Sozialstruktur sowie zur Soziologie von Familien und Lebensverläufen. Mehr dazu 👉 www.hu-berlin.de/nachrichten/...

A vacancy for a professorship in economic sociology at the @eui-eu.bsky.social’s School of Transnational Governance. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

🇪🇺🇩🇪 Published Today in @bjpols.bsky.social 🇮🇹🇫🇷 How a voting advice application affected voting behavior in three large-scale field experiments: shorturl.at/2ekBj TLDR of our study (with @simonhix.bsky.social & @rlachat.bsky.social) below 👇 1/14

This is a very interesting paper for me in so may ways: 1) using Dutch admin data without any Dutch affiliations on the paper is a sign of good accessibility 2) linking details in CAOs with individual level admin data is really powerful docs.iza.org/dp17957.pdf

PNAS: Perception of own centrality in social networks https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2420334122?af=R

📢 Analytical sociology is coming home! Call 4 INAS26 is open 🌍 1-3Jul26 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social and @sociologyoxford.bsky.social (☔) ☢️ Deadline: 1Feb26 🦹 Organisers: @aksoyundan.bsky.social , @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social, D Kretschmer, @awaldendorf.bsky.social Info: tinyurl.com/yc2tusjx

It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.

The core thesis of our Brextinction paper, beautifully (or morbidly?) summarized in one flowchart (also based on YouGov data). @simonhix.bsky.social @juhoharkonen.bsky.social ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"[T]his article shows how to study segregation as a cause" This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

"[S]ome countries often characterized as low-mobility emerge as matching or surpassing the egalitarian Nordic countries, reinforcing the view that wider mobility differences cannot be attributed solely to the education system." This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

NEW: Josef Brüderl, Ansgar Hudde, Marita Jacob, "What You Need to Know When Estimating Monthly Impact Functions: Comment on Hudde and Jacob, “There’s More in the Data!” "https://sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12-34-862

"In this adversarial collaboration, we address two issues regarding H&J’s work. First, H&J did not provide sufficient guidance on how to estimate monthly impact functions...Second...confidence intervals (CIs) that are likely too narrow." This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

We hate rankings except when they are favorable...so today I am extremely happy that EUI Political Science ranks 6th in the world!

Political Scientists: I am the chair of the committee that is picking the next editor of @polbehavior.bsky.social. If you are interested, I'd be happy to chat about it (and I know the current editors would be too). You can find the call for proposals here:

💰 Does money change how we define "fair"? New research by @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social, @irenepaneda.bsky.social , J. Kamphorst & B. Battu, shows that as income rises, people rely more on meritocratic beliefs to oppose redistribution Published on Social Science Research 🔓: hdl.handle.net/1814/94113

How many EUI Heads of Department does it take to prepare a Thanksgiving Turkey?

A big welcome, Herman!

Is meritocratic ideology an "opium of the masses" of sorts that tames redistributive demands? Not for lower income strata. The myriad mechanisms through which the rich exert disproportionate influence are probably better explanations of why we do not observe higher redistribution. Check it out!😊👇

📢New publication: The poor want redistribution regardless of whether they think society is meritocratic. 🎉 Big congrats to my former supervisees — now co-authors, @irenepaneda.bsky.social, @jonnekamphorst.bsky.social, and Bala Battu! 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Why did I visit the Facebook pages of 5500 German grocery stores on a grey lockdown day ca. 2021? You can now find out in AJS. Our work on ethnoreligious infrastructures is finally online in the ominous Volume 0: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Now available online and open access! The results of our adversarial collaboration on: Students’ motives for restricting academic freedom: Viewpoint discrimination and prosocial concerns | PNAS @pnas.org @nilsweidmann.bsky.social @kunkakom.bsky.social @drfell.bsky.social

🔎 What happens when a natural disaster suddenly constrains your future? Or when technology like egg-freezing extends it? In the latest #MyEUIResearch video, PhD researcher Alba Bosch explores how our perception of time shapes life decisions. Watch now 👉 https://loom.ly/YiRG4wc

Among many nice things at the EUI, you can make music with great people. In the background of Alba Bosch explaining her fascinating research, we perform "Maig" by Eduard Toldrà. You can find the full recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTiT... (Apply for the PhD until January 15th!)

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

I talked to @cnn.com about a great achievement for Brazilian democracy, as Jair Bolsonaro starts serving his sentence for trying to overturn an election. www.cnn.com/2025/11/25/a...

"Using data from the PSID’s Transition to Adulthood Study (2005–2021), we identify trajectories of financial and co-residential support between ages 18 and 28 and relate them to economic and partnership trajectories and events." This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

🚨 Applications Now Open for the EUI PhD Programmes 2026-2027! 📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort! Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd #EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity

Come and do a PhD at the #EUI! We are five professors in sociology, within the department of Political and Social Sciences. Social stratification, education, family demography, analytical sociology, experimental sociology, it’s all here!

"The political ascent of Donald Trump between mid-2015 and the presidential election of November 2016 was not associated with a decline in support for the legalization of undocumented immigrants but the opposite." This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

"We find a highly connected network core of ∼275 directors...We find a large political premium for directors in very large companies." This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

New article in @sfjournal.bsky.social with @mvaldes1989.bsky.social and I. Lievore on the effect of edu expansion among parents on children's achievement Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands among parents? Short answer: yes 1/2 academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

"Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences are associated with the emotional support and cognitive stimulation of children." This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

Many thanks to @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social for her excellent review of our short book Read Open Access 🔗 bit.ly/4hD90rh

Today, we took part in a symposium at Palazzo Vecchio in Florence on the challenges & opportunities experienced by descendants of immigrants in Italy. We presented recent and ongoing PhD projects from SPS researchers @eui-sps.bsky.social of the EUI @eui-eu.bsky.social, and my work on discrimination.

Reading this article on specializion in scientific fields across countries, in input (left, personnel) and output (right, citation impact). This is NL: highest spec. fields are almost all in the social sciences. Scores are relative to the international distribution. direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

"Across 110th street" -- Bobby Womack (First line "I was the third brother of five. Doing whatever I had to do to survive." is Marco Santacroce's recent EUI thesis title: www.eui.eu/events?id=57...)

Forthcoming in the AER: "“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap" by Alan Benson, Danielle Li, and Kelly Shue. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage