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Billions of 🇪🇺 money flow into regional development. But do citizens trust the EU more in return? 🔬 Find out in this Electoral Studies article with Paul Maneuvrier-Hervieu and Anne-Marie Jeannet. ❗Spoiler: EU 💶 regional funds do build trust in the 🇪🇺 , especially among working-class citizens.

What beautiful graphics 😍

Academic publishers that do not provide embedded metadata for @zotero.org etc, what are you even doing? Today I'm looking at you, Routledge

🚨 New working paper alert 🚨 Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️ In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...

It’s the most mycological time of the year

"French pensioners now have higher incomes than working-age adults" - extraordinary By @jburnmurdoch.ft.com www.ft.com/content/d419...

How do respondents interpret the classic ISSP ladder question that is usually deemed to measure subjective social status? In a whole heap of different ways, according to Lewis Anderson @dspi-oxford.bsky.social

📣 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...

Hej, jag heter Katy 🇸🇪

We're excited to announce CLS will lead the first new nationally representative UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years. Generation New Era will follow the lives of more than 30,000 babies born in 2026, during their early years, and potentially beyond. Read more: bit.ly/4gfttBP

Duomo of the Day: Köln edition (if you know, you know)

"I find it incredibly difficult to assess the applicant’s academic achievements due to the weird [narrative] format their CV had to be presented in. While I agree with DORA, this format cannot be the solution." You and me both, funding reviewer 👊

Thrilled to share my first publication! 🎉 Together with Maria Brandén and Erik Rosenqvist, we show that distance to higher education shapes academic aspirations in Sweden—well before their university education begins. (1/4)

A worthy, somewhat more technical, successor to moose cam ⛪ (Also available on YouTube if the SVT stream is geoblocked) bsky.app/profile/erik...

“statistics is easy, politics is harder”

Musician and data whizz Chris Dalla Riva has painstakingly compiled over 100 datapoints for every US Billboard Hot 100 Number One song since August 4th 1958, and it's now freely available here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Deeply distressing discovery of the day: the number of British 18 year olds posting like corporate loons on LinkedIn and receiving endorsement for it “I am beyond pleased to announce that, having achieved A*AAA in my A-Levels, the University of Cambridge has confirmed my place to study…”

How do institutional incentives and norms affect open science practices? Here's one: At present we have zero US university-employed academics volunteering to moderate at @socarxiv.bsky.social It's all early career Europeans (except me and @pamelaoliver.bsky.social, who is emeritus.)

Back to Sweden to find both the swifts and BBC Sounds are gone 😔

No one tell the Italians bsky.app/profile/lizz...

@bramlancee.bsky.social and I are organising the 3rd AMCIS Workshop on "Survey Experiments in the Social Sciences", 1-2 October 2025 in Amsterdam. We are looking for Papers and/or Research Designs. Please email your submission to me and Bram, submission deadline is 27/08/2025. @aissr.bsky.social

“Welcome to the cheapest night out in London” All night organ rave; let’s gooooooo @ BBC Proms

Cricket! What a bonkers game

Occupational Earning Potential has landed in @europeansocreview.bsky.social Implementable in R (digclass) and Stata (crosswalk), our linear OEP scale measures the median earnings of ISCO occupations and expresses them as percentiles of the earnings distribution academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

More than in gardened Surrey, nature spills A wealth of heather, kidney-vetch and squills Over these long-defended Cornish hills Cornish Cliffs By John Betjeman

Archipelago days 🇸🇪

These summer nights* *Probably singular, but we live in hope

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...

The scale of US cancelled research grants versus the additional money being made available to allow US researchers to move to Europe. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Absolutely mind-blowing to me that that every Swede can switch to English with no forewarning... because subtitles (!)

A very good, and rather sad, Big Read on children and reading from @emmavj.bsky.social on.ft.com/4krOKZA How to get children reading again

Obtain a return ticket to Brandi Carlile; bump into @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social; collectively fall that bit more in awe What an absolute boss 💜

New paper looking at health (mortality), education and earnings stagnation in the US through a cohort perspective. Somehow things really stop improving from the 1947 birth cohort onwards www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...

Ooooh 10 Teams is back for #Euro2025 Morris & pals league is open if anyone fancies playing a light-touch predictions game

Sunshine and severe cottage envy

This is the freight train almost no one has noticed coming down the tracks. Wage stagnation, expensive housing, smaller private pensions are going to be a terrible combination.

Adventures in outsourced university travel booking systems:

~20% to UK-based researchers. Praise be hallelujah for Horizon Europe re-association. bsky.app/profile/erc....

🚨 Are young women becoming more left-wing & young men more right-wing? We analyzed 32 European countries (1990–2023). 📊 Some show growing gaps—others don’t. 📊 Gaps tend to be bigger where gender equality is higher. w/ @hudde.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

Relationships are often built on shared values and beliefs, but what happens when political preferences create a divide? @brunoarpino.bsky.social and I investigated how political (mis)match affects union dissolution in @readdemography.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Delightful

Birthday Boy(s) Theory is still the most compelling and incisive theory

We spent over three years at the Joint Research Centre on DIGCLASS, studying social policy and inequality in the age of digitalisation. We’ve now put all our resources and insights together — check it out! digclass.eu

Can government policies moderate political backlash to structural change? Yes, the effect operates through material benefits and social recognition. 🚨New WP by @retobuergisser.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social, @thmskrr.bsky.social and @susanadptavares.bsky.social 🚨 shorturl.at/zFbZE

Everything you need to know about the British voting public

There’s Dark Academia and then there’s Mad Academia. Strong recommend! “Initially, Brunet agreed to speak with me only if I agreed never to speak with Beauvilain; the articulation of this demand was complicated by his refusal to speak Beauvilain’s name aloud” 😜

Yesterday: glorious sunshine, Swedes in shorts Today: six degrees, biting wind, sleet, Swedes in woolly hats Just need someone to observe summer is short but it rarely snows in my hearing for a full house

🚨 working paper (w. @morganlcj.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social): Protesters are not judged equally - even if tactics of groups are similar. We ran an experiment in 🇩🇪 testing how people react to farmers vs. climate activists blocking roads. What we find is disturbing: osf.io/preprints/os...