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New paper in the American Journal of Sociology (with Michael Grätz), and a very good way to close an important chapter! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Luciakonsert yesterday; Nine Lessons and Carols today Both stunningly lovely, but only the Anglicans have nailed congregational participation. Communal carolling for the wonder

Most excellent moose 😍

quite fun that everyone was stunned by figures showing a massive decline in trips to america, then everyone realised it was a statistical artefact of a different date for easter, and then… there was a massive decline in trips to america www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Sigtuna time! I'm presenting work with @kostermann.bsky.social and @patzinaalex.bsky.social on the causal effect of apprenticeship dropout on earnings in Germany Preprint is on @socarxiv.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/so...

One of the reasons that emergence of ‘cold spots’ of subject provision matters: 52% of 18 year olds from the most disadvantaged backgrounds (the most deprived quintile in the Indices of Multiple Deprivation) plan to live at home when they go the university www.thetimes.com/article/22cc...

Nobel Week lights

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He traffics in memes and mince pies. Tack så mycket for the contraband @pengzell.bsky.social 💫

Worth reading just for: "just because it’s stupid doesn’t mean it won’t inherit the Earth".

Someone alert the Italian ambassador 🇸🇪

Centre LIVES @unil.bsky.social is running the Good Life Data Challenge: Using existing Swiss Household Panel data, can you predict the feeling of having lived a happy, meaningful, and interesting (psychologically rich) life in 🇨🇭? These new items will be included in the next wave of SHP

Just published my first article! 🎉 We study inequalities in early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Sweden by immigrant background. Immigrant-background children enroll less often - but the pattern is different from the usual story about disadvantage and access. 1/3

It's rising despair among young workers that's changing the age profile of poor mental health in the United States. Check out our new paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @sriucl.bsky.social @undp.org @dannyblanchy.bsky.social

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Some educational decisions are structurally embedded: "These patterns suggest many students view community college and employment as substitute options, enrolling in college when [local] job opportunities are scarce and entering the workforce when labor markets are strong"

The only surprise is that less than 80% of voting Swiss rejected a 50% inheritance tax on the estates of the super rich (CHF 50 million+) www.rts.ch/info/suisse/...

Many enjoyably strong and correct opinions on British Christmas food, including on roast potatoes as a birthright and Christmas pudding as a symbolic vehicle on.ft.com/4rxHAb4

Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a… on.ft.com/4ahkNKa

In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps: /1

👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse. 👩🏻‍💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...

The British mind cannot comprehend… the Swedish commitment to perfect register data

Attention is on NEETs today, but the problem is much worse. NEETs include stay-at-home parents & jobseekers. Strip those out to focus on people not working, not seeking work, not in education & not parenting: this group of economically & socially dislocated young adults has *doubled* in a decade.

🌡️🌫️ ➡️ ❄️☀️ ➡️ 😃😎 Sometimes causality is very easy to establish @stockholm-uni.bsky.social

From the always interesting AI Shift newsletter by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com and @sarahoconnorft.ft.com: AI is maximising job applications and word counts, in vicious circle of doom kind of ways

Mind-boggling that we've ended up here

*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings *Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap *Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues

Just published in @bjpols.bsky.social: @sergipardos.bsky.social and I show that inter-regional moves in pursuit of employment security reduce individual worries about immigration—a mobility pattern that, in the aggregate, reinforces spatial polarization in anti-immigration sentiment. cup.org/3XiB6yD

Billed (by friends, not by the café) as the best bun in all of Sweden: it did not disappoint 😋

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. 👉