Good round up of AC use in Europe, puts the latest heatwave into context. The mind-blowing stat is that the number of deaths caused by heat in Europe is roughly equivalent to the number of gun deaths in the US! www.carbonbrief.org/eight-facts-...

Abolition of 🇬🇧 -🇨🇭 roaming charges especially interesting, given Switzerland remains outside 🇪🇺 Roam Like at Home. Have we finally identified a Brexit benefit???

London (at a much more reasonable temperature) 🩵

Right hand side points to some degree of collective discussion and coordination IMO. Difficult to hold out if you know everyone else is plugging the assessment into AI...

Assistant professorship in political science at the @eui-sps.bsky.social! Come and work with us. www.eui.eu/About/JobOpp...

#Walmart #Supercenter openings are associated with a 2.2 percentage point (18%) rise in #poverty, and the increase persists for at least a decade. Our article is now published in #LabourEconomics, with @zparolin.bsky.social, Clemente Pignatti & Rafael Pintro-Schmitt.

New article: Experimental education research: rethinking why, how, and when to use random assignment Out today (even though it’s Saturday): doi.org/10.1080/1380... With @drsamsims.bsky.social @mjinglis.bsky.social @benweidmann.bsky.social @benstyles.bsky.social & Hugues Lortie-Forgues

Not sure exactly what it says about our respective political economies that 🇸🇪 LinkedIn ads were almost exclusively for state-owned Vattenfall energy, while 🇬🇧 ones are 95% individuals promoting AI-related nonsense

Me charging towards the front of the Bayeux Tapestry queue @britishmuseum.bsky.social

Are preferences for authoritarian rule individual predispositions—or can they spread socially? Using field + survey experiments in the Norwegian Armed Forces, we show that openness to strongman rule can spread socially. American Journal of Political Science: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I am always struck by how much of the spatial inequality within East Germany is obscured when Germany is considered as a whole. The disparities between Mecklenburg and the Pomeranian parts of the same federal state are particularly revealing.

ONE WEEK LEFT TO SUBMIT. See you in Vienna!

The other World Cup, at sunny Headingley

Glad midsommar 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪

Well! Who knew watching England could be fun? ⚽

📢 I’m hiring 2 three-year postdocs at Dept of Political Science, @au.dk! Come work with me on The Politics of Shaming and Shamelessness — a new project on elite rhetoric, emotions, norms, hostility and political violence. Deadline: 31 August 2026 Start: Dec 2026–Feb 2027 Please share widely! 🙏

What’s happened to income-group gaps in parental spending on children in the U.S.? For the last 45 years, they just. keep. getting. wider. In a new @socarxiv.bsky.social working paper, I present updated evidence on trends in spending on childcare, education, and extracurricular activities.

Sadly my always ambitious ECSR Dublin ➕ EPSS Belfast plan proved incompatible with relocation realities, but good island conferencing all

New preprint out with @mfphilipp.bsky.social & @eileenpeters.bsky.social ✨️ From #neighborhood exposure to #genderbeliefs? We find that local female employment patterns are linked to beliefs about when mothers should return to full-time work. Read more here: osf.io/preprints/so...

From tiny threads, a whole univers(e)ity @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Group Differences in Income Distributions, Poverty Gaps, and Poverty Buffers: Inequalities between the Children of Swedish-Born and Migrant Parents New Data visualisation, published with @siddarthaaradhya.bsky.social and @rafgrotti.bsky.social in @sociusjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2378...

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/...