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How do elites navigate a world with meritocratic expectations and calls for diversity? I had the absolute privilege to talk to both Kristina Kolbe and @aaronreeves.bsky.social about their new books that address these very questions! Listen to the podcast here: open.spotify.com/episode/1t5V...

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This conversation with @bryanboyle.bsky.social from the Culture and Inequality podcast was lots of fun. Really appreciated the chance to chat about 'Born to Rule' but the best bits are Kristina Kolbe discussing her fantastic new book 'The sound of difference'. open.spotify.com/episode/1t5V...

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Why is environmentalism class divided? My new paper in The British Journal of Sociology maps attitudes to green issues in the social space of economic and cultural capital. Spoiler: it’s not just about being rich. 🧵https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-4446.13231

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🎉Very happy I'm awarded a 3-year Postdoctoral Fellowship @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social. My project uncovers the cultural roots of climate polarization by studying how an 'oatmilk elite' of well-meaning climate advocates in 🇧🇪🇮🇹🇸🇪 fashion like eco-influencers may exclude & moralise people unlike them...🌿

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📢JOB: Research Associate @ethnicityuk.bsky.social New project w. @nhs-rho.bsky.social: racial inequality in mental health/healthcare. Closing date 22 May- pls share 🙏🏿 @britsoci.bsky.social @inequalccsr.bsky.social @healthierfutures.bsky.social www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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The book proofs have arrived—along with all the excitement and trepidation of sharing this deeply personal work with the world. Girlhood at War: Interpreting War and Liberation in Kosovo — coming soon from Rowman & Littlefield.

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🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times less accurate than humans. Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.

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We're looking forward to welcoming Prof Patricia Owens for a book launch of 'Erased: A History of International Thought without Men' on May 21, 5pm ARB SG2. Co-hosted with the @campolis.bsky.social IR/Hist group. All welcome, reception to follow! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Reminder: The deadline to submit for our workshop on the education and training of the entrepreneurial elite is coming up soon (30.05.)! We look forward to reading your submissions and meeting you at the Swiss Elite Observatory @obelitessuisses.bsky.social, University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social

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Very cool: @miroborn.bsky.social made a comic narrating findings from his research on class, social mobility and stigmatized neighborhoods. You can find it here in English and German: www.anthonymiroborn.com/comic

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Come join @tanjabueltmann.net and I at Strathclyde for a funded PhD on built heritage and Glasgow’s slaving links, centred around Tobacco Merchant’s House. Excellent ops to engage with heritage industry via co-supervision by Scottish Civic Trust! Details below! Any questions - get in touch!

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We're back! The Culture & Inequality Podcast returns with a brand-new season with new hosts. From digital economies, to gender politics, elite cultures, cosmetics, the climate crisis, and sustainable consumption — we’re covering it all in the coming episodes! First episode online now! >>>

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67% of the emissions driving climate change is attributable to the top 10% of the global income distribution - 20% is due to the top 1%. New paper in Nature Climate Change

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Vance's Easter visit to Rome clogged its streets with a 40-vehicle entourage. He also demanded the Coliseum be closed so he and his family could tour it alone. Tourists who properly booked slots in advance got screwed. He's apparently the first to make that demand. Then he didn't bother to show up.

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"The most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating." Powerful essay from @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social on End Times Fascism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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This article by Rikke Tokle and Willy Pedersen draws on theoretical frameworks of class, gender, peer-status dynamics, and interview data to investigate how cocaine use is situated and organised in Norwegian high school cultures. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/2t8rNIa

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‘Completely out of touch’: golf and dinners for ‘king’ Trump as economy melts down

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My article about the political activity of the inner circle and wealthy owners is out in @sfjournal.bsky.social! You can read it here: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a... Some highlights in the thread.

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Looks like a fascinating piece of research 👀 👀 👀; how Thiel and Musk see themselves as “god and victim”

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Thanks a lot to @simonkuper.bsky.social & the @financialtimes.com for this close reading of our research article on the economic elites of 16 countries, and for jump-starting the public discussion about it! The paper @bjsociology.bsky.social is available here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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The Journal of Gender-Based Violence is looking for Co-Editors to lead the journal over the next 3 years Applications close 25 April 2025 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... #GBV #IPV EndVAW #VAW #GenderBasedViolence #DomesticAbuse

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Delighted to reveal the hard-hitting paperback cover for my book, THE LIE OF THE LAND - an exposé of what the 'custodians of the countryside' have done to nature in Britain. The paperback's out 8th May - order yours here: lnkfi.re/JhxHno More upcoming talks here & details below: lnkfi.re/PkfOhd 🧵

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The very first paper from our large comparative project - the World Elite Database - is out. Lots of coordination and important discussion on comparing elites allow us to - for the first time really - compare elites across very different national contexts. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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📣 Upcoming seminar Join us on Tuesday 1 April 2025, 12.30 - 1.45pm, for a seminar with Dr Leili Sreberny-Mohammadi exploring the implications and limitations of conducting ethnographic research amongst the VIPs of the art world. Register here: buff.ly/DUDxTLt

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BREAKING: We are suing the Trump admin on behalf of our members for unlawfully cutting off $400 million in federal funding for crucial public health research to force Columbia University to surrender its academic independence. Stay Tuned.

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Mad king watch www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/a...

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For a new piece on the exclusive spaces that billionaires ski, Grayson Schaffer spoke with Billionaire Wilderness author @j-farrell.bsky.social for @gqmagazine.bsky.social: www.gq.com/story/inside...

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🚨 New Paper Out! 🚨 🔍 Forms of Capital, Social Change and the Weight of the Past: The Effective Agents of the Swiss Field of Power 1910–2015 w/ Jacob Aagaard Lunding in open access in Sociology 📄 Read here: doi.org/10.1177/0038... A thread (1/10)

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BRISPO’s Lobke Van Ryckeghem interviewed @bryanboyle.bsky.social about his and Dieter Vandebroeck's recent paper on butlers and the labour of distinction. Check it out below to see what wine management and invisible work have to do with elite symbolic power 👇 brispo.research.vub.be/en/what-does...

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Corporate Power, Elites, and Networks, talk by Professor Diliara Valeeva, University of Amsterdam. Tuesday 11 March, 12h15 - 13h30, Géopolis 5799. Join us if you are in Lausanne! www.unil.ch/events/17380...

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Trump's budget will starve the poor to feed the rich. The Republican Party are creating a true oligarchy. To fight it and build wealth and power for working-class communities, we need economic democracy. Read the op-ed I wrote with Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib for The Guardian.

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“Private View? The Organisational Performance of ‘Privateness’ and ‘Publicness’ at an Art Gallery” by Laura Harris 👀 👀 👀 el.sagepub.com/ls/click?upn...

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No kings, no Nazis, no Russians

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#OtD 3 Mar 1913 thousands of women marched in Washington DC demanding the right to vote were attacked by a mob while police stood by. African-American women joined the parade despite the racism of organisers who tried to exclude them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1...

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📢 Postdoc job alert 'Politcal Masculinities and Young Voters. The position is part of my NWO-VICI-project Political Masculinities in Europe . Please, share with potentially interested candidates with survey skills and expertise in quantitative methods. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

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If "60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity," that's only because the tech workers who can put in all those hours at the office have offloaded all their caregiving responsibilities onto others more vulnerable than them. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/t...

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Look at Donald Trump and his gang of broligarchs – and tell me we don’t need a wealth tax | Brian Cox

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Wondering about the scare stories of wealthy tax flight based on non-dom tax changes or private school VAT? Our new research explains why the vast majority won’t migrate, and are snobbish about tax havens w/@andy-summers.bsky.social Emma Taylor,Victoria Gronwald academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

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Wealth inequality in the USA has risen sharply in recent times and has reached a new historic record. Sources: Forbes 400 Rich list; total wealth denominator: US Financial Accounts via @gabrielzucman.bsky.social

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Read our new paper on how the economic empowerment of one generation of women drives greater political officeholding for the next 💪✨

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