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Maarten Hermans
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Sociologist, researcher, member @denktankminerva.be & @brispo-vub.bsky.social: labour relations, quality of work & open source data analysis.
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oneworld.nl
Uit angst voor uitzetting durven veel ongedocumenteerde werknemers misstanden niet te melden. Terecht, blijkt uit onderzoek van OneWorld en @groene.nl. De Arbeidsinspectie werkt namelijk samen met de Vreemdelingenpolitie. Daarom worden ook de schoonmakers van Saints & Stars waarschijnlijk uitgezet.
Arbeidsinspectie werkt mee aan uitzetting ongedocumenteerde werknemers
In plaats van ongedocumenteerde werknemers tegen uitbuiting te beschermen, werkt de arbeidsinspectie mee aan hun uitzetting. De dienst werkt daarvoor intensief samen met de Vreemdelingenpolitie. Uit…
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November 22, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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nber.org
Studying the labor market effects of recent state-level policies that require employers to disclose salary information in job postings, from David Arnold, Simon Quach, and Bledi Taska www.nber.org/papers/w34480
November 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
mhermans.net
🎉Celebrating 50 years of @eurofound.europa.eu: 5 decades of tripartite-backed rigorous policy research supporting trade unions, employers and governments in improving living and working conditions in the EU: www.eurofound.europa.eu/en/news-and-...
November 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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socpaperbot.bsky.social
Professors in the media: dynamics of cumulative advantage, reputation, and gender Translation of science to a general public is increasingly important in modern academia. Yet, there is little knowledge on whether and why scientists do so. Here, we provide an account of a populati
#sociology link
November 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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t-vieira.bsky.social
Curious how #algorithmicmanagement changes the role of managers and workplace power dynamics beyond the gig economy?

Me and Sander have something for you!

Hope you enjoy it - all feedback is welcome!
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November 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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philipjcowley.bsky.social
Latest piece for the @thehousemag.bsky.social, on the island of strangers speech and similar. Also ft Bob Hawke.

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The Professor Will See You Now: Island of strangers
Lessons in political science. This week: island of strangers
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November 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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theifs.bsky.social
NEW: Depressive symptoms have risen among women in their late 50s and early 60s, particularly among the least wealthy women.

📗 @beeboileau.bsky.social and Jonathan Cribb's new report examines health, wealth and employment in the run-up to the state pension age: [THREAD]
Chart shows percentage of 55- to 64-year-old women experiencing depressive symptoms, by third of the wealth distribution, 2002–03 to 2023–24. Title states: "39% of the poorest third of 55- to 64-year-old women reported depressive symptoms in 2023–24, compared to 10% of the wealthiest third."
November 19, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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hermwerf.bsky.social
If you think that major companies mostly utilize their power across borders, think again. Here a paper on Denmark showing strong connection to government of the top 50 companies.
sociologicalsci.bsky.social Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 7d
NEW: Lasse Folke Henriksen, Jacob Aagard Lunding, Christoph Houman Ellersgaard, Anton Grau Larsen, "The Hardcore Brokers: Core-Periphery Structure and Political Representation in Denmark’s Corporate Elite Network" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
sociologicalscience.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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fabriberna.bsky.social
New article in @sfjournal.bsky.social with @mvaldes1989.bsky.social and I. Lievore on the effect of edu expansion among parents on children's achievement

Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands among parents?

Short answer: yes

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Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands? The withering performance and advantage of their children
Abstract. Extensive research has examined the effect of educational expansion in one cohort on educational inequality and occupational returns in that same
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November 17, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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adrien-fabre.bsky.social
🎴NEW PAPER!🎴

Majorities in 11 HICs support:
✅Foreign aid
✅Debt relief for low-income countries (LICs)
✅An international carbon price financing a worldwide basic income
✅An international 2% tax on wealth above $1 million with 30% funding LICs
and much more.

bsky.app/profile/wid....
A 🧵⬇️
https://prod.wid.world/www-site/uploads/2025/11/WorldInequalityLab_WP2025_26_-Public-International-Redistribution-in-High-Income-Countries_Final.pdf
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social
Public support for pro-environment and environment-critical movements
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
Paper in @bjpols.bsky.social by @dirckdekleer.bsky.social @catherinedevries.bsky.social and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social student @simonvanteutem.bsky.social
Public Support for Pro-environment and Environment-Critical Movements | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Public Support for Pro-environment and Environment-Critical Movements - Volume 55
doi.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
mhermans.net
Proof-of-concept to try out the new #HuskyLens 2 vision sensor: object recognition using build-in self-learning classifier + LMS #ESP32 module + #micropython + servo = basic Lego brick detection ;-).
November 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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sampolmaandblad.bsky.social
Onder werknemers blootgesteld aan controletechnologie had 43% het afgelopen jaar psychische problemen.
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AI: de nieuwe controleur op de werkvloer
AI op het werk breekt niet met het verleden, maar versterkt bestaande trends van controle en monitoring. Tijd voor een nieuwe strijd om de humanisering van arbeid.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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paolocrosetto.bsky.social
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.

It's *scientific publishing*.

We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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stone-lis.bsky.social
Welfare agencies increasingly rely on targeting to ensure that limited resources reach those deemed most in need. A new WP by @pietrovaletto.bsky.social and @ivemarx.bsky.social shows how asset testing in the EU and US often undermines their stated goal of poverty reduction.
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Abstract of working paper
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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sampolmaandblad.bsky.social
💥 Vandaag verschijnt ons nieuwste nummer:

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞

👉journalistiek
👉gezondheid
👉overheid
👉privacy
👉fiscaliteit
👉milieu
👉onderwijs
👉muziek
👉oorlog
👉werk

Ontdek 'em via sampol.be/latest
November 6, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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riazsascha.bsky.social
New paper with @mhamjediers.bsky.social

German judges have discretion to apply rehabilitative juvenile criminal law (Jugendstrafrecht) or punitive adult criminal law to 18–20-year-old offenders. We show that immigrant youths are ~10 percentage points less likely to be sentenced under juvenile law
bjpols.bsky.social British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 21d
NEW -

Anti-Immigrant Bias in the Choice Between Punitive and Rehabilitative Justice - https://cup.org/49vUfVa

- @riazsascha.bsky.social & @mhamjediers.bsky.social

#OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract of a study on bias in judicial decisions affecting juvenile criminal offenders, emphasizing the impact on immigrant offenders and suggesting reforms for a more equitable justice system.
November 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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fedetrastulli.bsky.social
🆕 Latest article out @electoralstudies.bsky.social! Left parties' higher salience on cultural issues associated w/ higher support from working-class voters. Social democrats much more sensitive to different strategies, should pursue more left/salient economics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Left parties’ strategies and working-class vote in contemporary Western Europe (2002–2020)
What should the left do strategically to retain workers' vote? This paper provides extensive empirical evidence on the relationship between left parti…
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October 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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chrisgiles.ft.com
There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.

Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts

Spending is controlled, not spiralling

Worklessness is near record lows

My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
October 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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ddelesp.bsky.social
Third dissertation paper is out now in @govandopp.bsky.social!

OA: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It studies the ideological structure of European electorates – finding broad similarities between countries, despite that party electorates and social groups remain structured nationally
October 14, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social
mKBO: Multigroup Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition

Always wanted to do a KBO decomposition with more than 2 groups? @thaning.bsky.social and I present a multi-group generalization that overcomes this limitation, while providing a number of methodological advantages:

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October 10, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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benediktbender.bsky.social
🚨New publication out in @reggovjournal.bsky.social

@danielk24.bsky.social & I show that the support for green subsidies by unions & business interest groups in the 🇺🇸 & in 🇩🇪 goes hand in hand with the support for eco-social policies.

Open access here: doi.org/10.1111/rego...

A summary below 👇
October 7, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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thomasp85.com
🎨 Theming got a huge overhaul with the latest #ggplot2 release. In honour of that @teunbrand.bsky.social has written a comprehensive deep-dive into styling your plots, covering both old and new functionality. Grab a coffee and dive in!

#rstats
ggplot2 styling
This post discusses one function in ggplot2: `theme()`. Find out about the glamour of graphics in this deep-dive article.
www.tidyverse.org
October 1, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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jochemvanagt.bsky.social
🚨 New publication out @jeppjournal.bsky.social w/ Katrin Praprotnik @luanarusso.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social

We show that coalition signals from the mainstream right to the radical right shift, rather than reduce, existing political divisions.

Open-access article: doi.org/10.1080/1350...
October 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM