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ICYMI: Do parents' SES moderate the link between genetic propensity for (non)cognitive skills and education? @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social @fabriberna.bsky.social @perlinedemange.bsky.social @ntrbiopsy.bsky.social No evidence of the Scarr-Rowe hypothesis for educational outcomes doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

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🇭🇺🇩🇪🇵🇱⚖️ New guy on the team alert: our @democracyreporting.bsky.social rule of law research team expands with @gszd.bsky.social (right, pictured here with yours truly, centre and out intrepid exec director @meyer-resende.bsky.social, left) joining us full time as Research Officer!

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I can't believe that I can finally share my book. I've worked so, so hard to make statistics accessible and entertaining for our students. Find your Norton rep here: wwnorton.com/find-your-rep. If you want to request a copy, go here: wwnorton.com/books/978132...

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The Center for Computational Social Science, hosted by the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Univesity of Bologna, Italy has now joined Bluesky. Happy to be here!

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"Fiscal Centralization and Inequality in Children's Economic Mobility" New research with @schechtlm.bsky.social @zparolin.bsky.social just out in ASR doi.org/10.1177/0003... #sociology #demography #econsky

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This is a big effect from President Zelenskyy-Fridman conversation: People who were sceptical of Zelenskyy and Ukraine, started feeling empathy towards our fight for Freedom. This must be studied sociologically.

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🚨NEW PAPER in Political Studies with @monikaturyna.bsky.social and @jkantorowicz.bsky.social! Are more women elected in proportional elections than in majoritarian ones? This has been long believed to be true. We test it for 🇵🇱 using the regression discontinuity design. doi.org/10.1177/0032... 1/4

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Awesome retro anti-European slogan on the back of a van in Florence. I assume he’s a plumber 😉

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I know it’s all the thing to criticise Google, and I’ve joined in myself. But the tools they’ve given academia - Google Books, and Google Scholar in particular - have transformed how many of us track down sources.

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Also jarring to me that we've never had any real collective mourning in the USA. More than a million Americans have died of Covid and, barring some very isolated moments, there's been no sense of coming together to mark the incalculable loss. No events. No monuments. Etc.

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"Left–right political orientation fails to explain environmental attitudes of Europeans outside Western Europe..." by @baranowski-m.bsky.social @robert-a-huber.bsky.social ert-a-huber.bsky.social Piotr Jabkowski & Julia Szulecka @environmentalpol.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Really enjoyed doing this Q&A on complex traits, heritability, twins, and GWAS. Psychiatry At The Margins is a gem!

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I am happy to share my latest paper in European Politics & Society! It explores the creation of the Task Force for Greece, a European Commission service during the Greek crisis. How do EU staff navigate emergency politics from within? ... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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For France’s moderate left, it looks like now or never. The Socialist party — less extreme than the rest of the fragile left-wing alliance that was cobbled together for this summer’s election — is signaling a willingness to compromise that has been in short supply of late.

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Happy to share my article, "Socialist Modernist Worldmaking: Yugoslav Interventions in the International Humanitarian Debates in the 1970s", published in Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development. If you want a copy, just PM me muse.jhu.edu/article/941434

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A very good article from @cohenjon.bsky.social with lots of hard-hitting quotes, including: “Everyone is acting as though this pandemic didn’t really happen.” … from Van Kerkhove. Spot on. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Just published by our @zemki.bsky.social colleagues @schwarz3n3gg3r.bsky.social, @erikkoenen74.bsky.social, @radde-antweiler.bsky.social and @kadewe.bsky.social and highly recommended: an in-depth reflection on the transformative power of digital #gaming: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

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Slow thinking, not necessarily indoors. #SlowScience

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This year, @zemki.bsky.social will be 20 - and we are planning a conference on the topic of ‘20 Years into the Future: What is our vision of media, data, and society?’. Would you like to take part? Further information and the call for papers are available here: zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/event/20-...

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Interesting from @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social. But note he says nothing about wealth inequality (this is all about income). The long-term story is of the proletarianization of the middle class (at a time when "working-class" as a media signifier excludes them and the chatter lumps them with "elites").

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1 stycznia 2025 r. Polska rozpoczęła prezydencję w UE. Warszawa symbolicznie stała się na ten czas stolicą Zjednoczonej Europy. Dlatego Pałac Kultury podświetlamy w barwach flag Polski i Unii Europejskiej 🇵🇱🇪🇺

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Excited to share that our BBS target article — "Children as agents of cultural adaptation" — is online & open for commentary! In it, @sheinalew.bsky.social & I argue that children's peer cultures might play an important & understudied role in cultural adaptation. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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This article is 109 years old. And we still aren't doing enough to act on climate change.

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is one of your 2025 goals to deal with your 1,485 browser tabs & 4,583 PDFs scattered on your desktop? & where are the notes on that project? interested in joining an informal workshop something this winter on effective research workflows? lmk: bit.ly/4a6fmLZ

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AIDS denialism killed 300K in South Africa. These are the same people

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Anyone nodding to a "but the USSR achieved so much!" take should keep in mind that those achievements were accomplished with full disregard for human life/the environment, let alone freedom. But full literacy! Yes, used to read propaganda. No Soviet citizen was free or pursued self-actualization.

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Still nursing a headache from NYE? This is a wonderfully soothing longread about the senior assistant keeper of the oldest surviving texts in human history, even if steps around the question how all this treasure ended up in the British Museum

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Great to see Emily's PhD research with us at OBU History getting such recognition - out in book form soon! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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The European University Institute, one of Europe’s leading academic institutions has landed here. Our X now frozen. Please help us rebuild our community @simonhix.bsky.social @filipkostelka.bsky.social @maartenpvink.bsky.social @tomaashby.bsky.social @valentimvicente.bsky.social #Academicsky #Polsky

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Hummel et al. concluded that state funding of political parties reduces corruption by diminishing reliance on private financing. @sergiulipcean.bsky.social & Fernando C. Bértoa’s replication study challenges this based on data accuracy & operationalization issues. doi.org/10.1177/2053...

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The Democratic strategist used a word not often heard in politics these days.

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I really enjoyed this report by @lwestheuser.bsky.social & Thomas Lux, which should be required reading for ALL Social Democratic politicians. However, I was surprised that there was no explicit references to the theories of "class struggle" (Marx) and "social status loss anxiety" (Lipset).

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Nothing during the Trump years has brought me more joy than people who went to boarding school then Harvard explaining the “working class” (by which they mean “white people who never went to college,” of whom they know approximately zero)

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Romantic love is an under-rated driver of gender equality! youtube.com/clip/Ugkxjd7...

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What made many science courses viable was cross-subsidy from overseas students paying high fees for cheap-to-provide classroom subjects. All the rhetoric about STEM, "Mickey Mouse courses" etc obscures the reality of how universities pay the bills

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Bonne Année!

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Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself." Earlier that day:

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"There are as many as around 80 million vacant [housing] units in China, according to the latest estimates at the end of November, equivalent to half the total housing stock of the entire U.S." www.wsj.com/world/china/...

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A really useful post on scalability of policies. Relevant for our work with @markfabian.bsky.social and @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social on how far wellbeing public policy can be participatory as we argue it should be here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/2

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Le Monde is doing an historical series on Cold War-era KGB recruitment and source development in France. In this installment it rounds up — carefully but also frankly — the evidence, rumors and loose ends on Soviet advances towards its own staff and contributors. www.lemonde.fr/histoire/art...

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Give him a follow. Best Donbas war historian around here

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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗞𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗸𝗮 𝗔𝗺𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗵: 𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗯𝗮𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 & 𝗥𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 This article explores the origins of the pro-Ukrainian resistance in the Donbas, and the true face of the Russian "People's Militia" that they faced.⬇️ donbasposting.substack.com/p/the-karliv...

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Tiger was a student of mine as a sociology major in a spring 2020 class - when we met for half a semester before going online during Covid. He was a truly nice guy who handled the complexities of that semester with maturity and grace. Tragic that his life was cut short.

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Describing someone as so horny that he’d “fuck a pile of rocks if there was a snake under it” remains one of the funniest phrases in history to me (I got that one from Florence King)

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New position at our department: Senior Lecturer in Sociology with specialization in Personnel, Work and Organization Department of Sociology, Stockholm University su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

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Schengen now stretches from Crete to the Arctic Circle, and from the Atlantic to the Black Sea.

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