Bidding a fond farewell to @sofi.su.se and @stockholm-uni.bsky.social Will miss the 11.30 lunches and the wonderfully vibrant and supportive research environment very much, but SOFI is like Hotel California: you can check out, but you never really leave Vi ses 💙💛

Out now at American Sociological Review: "Countervailing Powers: Labor Unions Against the Buyer Power of Walmart Supercenters" with @joshuachoper.bsky.social & @zparolin.bsky.social We find that unions deter Walmart but where Walmart opens, it harms union members journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Shifting returns to education, not educational inequality, is the main force driving intergenerational income persistence today. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... Proud supervisor moment to see this out in @sfjournal.bsky.social

Do waitresses receive the same occupational prestige as waiters? Using German gendered occupational titles, we find that feminine job titles receive slightly lower prestige than masculine ones, especially among male-domindated occupations. Out now in Social Forces. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

Nothing quite like babysitting bilingual 🇸🇪 children to shatter any illusions of competence you might have “You need to translate into English for Katy”, says 6-year old admonishing 4-year old Crushing; also very sweet

Today in four weeks, Switzerland will vote on a far-right SVP initiative that demands a cap on the Swiss population of 10 million. What is often misunderstood is that the initiative does not necessarily demand an end to immigration, but — even worse — the complete disenfranchisement of immigrants.

RC28 Sevilla: bring your hat, your sunnies and your personal spritzing device 🌡️

Fifty years of social science research in this, the most beautiful setting of them all Happy birthday @eui-eu.bsky.social! Here to the next big number

Inventing a fake academic medal to award yourself and then realising you have to keep it going next year, so giving it (successfully) to Chomsky is actually wonderful, I respect it

The day has finally arrived. You can now *officially* watch puffins live from the Farne Islands, 24 hours a day: bit.ly/4tRz72T Please enjoy these puffins kissing in celebration of this momentous event.

Why do some minority groups organize around their ethnicity, while others do not? In a new study just out in AJS @amjsoc.bsky.social (w/@mschaeffer.bsky.social, S. Carol and S. Böller), we crunched data on over 25000 immigrant organizations for an answer. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Post your warning sign

Saint Walpurga (Valborg) really hitting it out the park this year

Out now in #Socio-EconomicReview ( @sasemeeting.bsky.social) "Individual ideology and biased perceptions of relative income position" Jointly with @mbusemeyer.bsky.social (@excinequality.bsky.social) & @nathaliegiger.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

London ➡️ Florence ➡️ Lausanne ➡️ Stockholm ➡️ LEEDS 🔚 Very much looking forward to joining @sspatleeds.bsky.social as Lecturer in Quantitative Social Research this summer

New paper out in Annual Review of Sociology with @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social #W.Foley and @l-sage.bsky.social "Luck and Predictability in the Life Course" We take stock of what we know about luck and its role in shaping life-courses and inequality www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Probably the most significant gender gap on a political issue not tied to gender I have ever come across. And not some mere fluke, consistent on our trackers going back years, a genuine point of difference between men and women.

🚨 The UK became less unequal because doctors became less well-paid (among lots and lots of other reasons) www.ft.com/content/8f27...

This is great! Municipal population change 1961 - 2024 in 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮, courtesy of @correctiv.org @fridathurm.bsky.social @adahomolova.bsky.social

Wait the Great Moose Migration is back, 5 days earlier than advertised?! Firing up the second screen 🇸🇪

Thing I wish I'd realised a while ago: you can just unfollow all the LinkedIn Brain people you've accumulated across the years Turns out that names you don't recognise and obnoxious posting and responding correlate at ~0.9

New paper with Alexander Patzina (@patzinaalex.bsky.social) out now in @actasociologica.bsky.social! We investigate the connection between wages and institutional trust in Germany between 2019 and 2023 1/n

Knife crime! Pronouns! Meat bans! Some political issues lead to "hotter", more emotional and polarizing debates than others. We show how these "trigger points" reveal a contested structure of moral expectations and how they get weaponized by polarization entrepreneurs. OA @bjsociology.bsky.social 🧵

Petition to start a @stockholm-uni.bsky.social cherry blossom timeseries? 16th April 2026: we are at exactly zero 🌸🌸🌸

🥁New paper! People talk a lot about skills in relation to technological change, but how do we measure skills? We show occupational classifications miss their complexity. Using millions of job ads, we model skill profiles and better explain wage inequality ⬇️ sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

New #OA at ESR 🌟 What is the income penalty of dropping out of #VET in Germany? With an IV strategy, @kostermann.bsky.social, @patzinaalex.bsky.social & @katymorris.bsky.social show that the causal effect is substantial and especially pronounced for lower SES individuals doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

My favourite Swiss tax fact is that you can claim a tax deduction for not being able to go home for lunch every workday bsky.app/profile/mjru...

Peter Magyar has offered a template which can be used, without too much alteration, in defeating populists worldwide open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Will everyone please accordingly update their class takes, which will take effect from 5pm today

NEW - The Missing Link: Technological Change, Dual VET, and Social Policy Preferences - https://cup.org/4sUzglE - @mhaslberger.bsky.social, Patrick Emmenegger & @ndurazzi.bsky.social #OpenAccess

A truly terrible social policy, finally consigned to history. Proof of the power of social security to lift huge numbers of people out of poverty. A wonderful day for our whole society!

Well this is an absolutely rollicking read, featuring multiple tapestry-cheats-death-and-destruction moments, by @georgewparker.bsky.social & Leila Abboud (gift link x 3)

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

For the #spatial folks among you: we exploited random distances between residential locations and large firms within German local labor markets to identify the causal effect of #dropout due to attractive alternatives 🚙💸⬆️

🧺 Paper Picnic 2.0 is here! More journals. New features. An easier way to keep up with the latest research in political science and adjacent fields. 🧵👇

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

That’s a v nice service to the discipline. Unsurprisingly, the numbers are brutal. Too many things have gone wrong in the past decade. If only we had the institutions with the willingness to change them.

New in @europeansocreview.bsky.social with brilliant @kostermann.bsky.social & @patzinaalex.bsky.social 🌟 Apprenticeship dropout is known to be associated with €€€ penalties, but less clear whether dropout causes later income losses. Matters for policy: what should interventions target?

The returns to a US college education are still high, with an average wage premium of 55% over high-school-only. But they have fallen for the last three years, and they're 13% smaller (8.3 percentage points) compared to the all-time peak in 2016. Data from @epi.org —> data.epi.org/wage_gaps/ho...

Shedding possessions ahead of moving and once more i) amazed by the efficacy and ii) fascinated by the sociology of local Facebook giveaway groups Yes pleases within seconds, to everything. Do people genuinely want these random cookware items or is there a dopamine thing at work?

Snowdrops, crocuses, tiny irises, bumblebees, butterflies and this evening the first blackbird song. All systems go on Swedish spring this week 🌱

This looks like Jevons paradox in action BUT that doesn't preclude a big shift in WHO is in demand. We're seeing job ads (and salaries) for senior engineers going up; not so much for juniors. Seniority-biased technological change?

🚨 New findings published today! 🚨 Graduates who grew up in deep poverty still earn £2,800 less than their peers 10 years on, even if they earn the same degree, and do the same job in the same firm. Read 'The long shadow' here 👉 buff.ly/5VfX2Fi

Despite extensive research on spatial inequality, the geography of wealth remains understudied. This new working paper explains why the spatial distribution of wealth differs from income, and how local advantages create self-reinforcing dynamics. 🔗 buff.ly/1rfdomW

London 🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼

We have a new paper out in Sociology of Education @soceducation.bsky.social on Intergenerational educational mobility in Scandinavia and the United States. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Folks, this is why your friendly neighbourhood @socarxiv.bsky.social moderators insist you link your OSF and ORCID accounts If you have one then please also verify your institutional email address on your @orcid.org account, as this saves us time

Yet to see a single flower but the true heralds of Swedish spring are finally here: the grit harvesters What is thrown down in winter must be cleaned up in spring, with giant hoovering devices 🌱