The electoral outcome most strongly linked to deprivation is not any party’s vote share, but turnout. Across almost all indicators, turnout is markedly lower in more deprived areas, with only barriers to housing & services and quality in the living environment showing weaker correlations.

NEW - Seeking Opportunity in the Knowledge Economy: Moving Places, Moving Politics? - https://cup.org/3LgxVos "moving to opportunity results in... more left-leaning self-identification, and lower support for far-right parties" - @valentinaconsiglio.bsky.social & @thmskrr.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Back to Florence and @eui-eu.bsky.social to mark 10 years since me and a bunch of budding social scientists made our way to @eui-sps.bsky.social thinking: I wonder what this will be like? Reader, it was wonderful And not because of the scenery, although the scenery was obviously ridiculous

Status reproduction in action! Priced at just £180,000 + payroll taxes per year per child "The child, who is just 1, is in an important stage of early development. Having started at age 5 with his older brother, they felt that even this was too late to achieve their goal" The poor kiddos

Why do rustbelts vote radical right? Studying the German Ruhr area, @nilsblossey.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social and I show: it’s not just about deindustrialization, but also about the original industrialization. Where coal is buried deeper and mining started later, the AfD is stronger today 1/12

Looking forward to joining the TCD Sociology gang later this afternoon to talk about the local labour market underpinnings of Brexit support @tcdsociology.bsky.social

Neat paper on status ladders (or ladder-type things), wobbly childhood recall and the underlying sources of wobble bsky.app/profile/opha...

"if anything employment outcomes are worsening more rapidly for those with fewer skills looking for blue-collar jobs than the highly skilled seeking knowledge work" on.ft.com/43eYeRZ @jburnmurdoch.ft.com as ever doing the essential work. It's not just AI. And education still matters

All things bright and beautiful @stockholm-uni.bsky.social 🍁

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

A Grand Gallery indeed at the National Museum of Scotland:

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NEW: Mood, "Equalization through Deterioration: The Shrinking Gender Gap in Swedish School Grades" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

Not bad London, not bad

Teacher bias or unobserved ability? @ssreditorial.bsky.social paper w/ @marespadafor.bsky.social Test score error & omitted behavior = 🐘 in the (class)room to identify SES discrimination. Still, beyond "true ability", well-off (low-performing) kids get higher teacher ratings: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

There's a really nice new study using phone data from Americans who relocated from one city to another to look at the effect of walkable environments on physical activity. E.g., people move TO New York and walk more, they move FROM New York and walk less www.nature.com/articles/s41...

On digital ID: I’d have liked it if Sweden (BankID) had also congratulated me for keeping an iPhone going for this long

We are excited for the start of this term's Inequalities Seminar Series! In our first seminar, @katymorris.bsky.social explores the effects of income misperceptions on inequality beliefs and preferences. 🎟️ Attend in-person: buff.ly/VGrS38l 💻 Attend online: buff.ly/U7CxSmD

The educational #wealth divide in #Europe New study by Andrea Pietrolucci, Jascha Dräger, Nora Müller, and Marco Albertini,: Beyond income, parental wealth shapes young people’s chances of entering higher education. 👉

This Londoner is happy to be dropping by @lseinequalities.bsky.social next week to present findings from a survey experiment project with Kattalina Berriochoa and Andrew McNeil Sign up is below; zap if you fancy an overpriced flat white (in London most of the week)

Blues and greens @stockholm-uni.bsky.social

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...