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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 New paper: Who climbs the Ivory Tower? 🏛️ Together with Nicolai Borgen and Astrid Sandsør (@astridsandsor.bsky.social), we find that the chances of becoming a professor differ enormously by family background. Here’s what we find 👇

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 13d

Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD.

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ISI: Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research @isi-munich.bsky.social · Aug 26

🚀 The first ISI Newsletter just launched!
Inside: center insights, job opportunities… and a few surprises we promise are way better than finding an extra fry at the bottom of the bag. 🍟✨

Check your inbox — you don’t want to miss this.
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#isimunich

ISSUE #1

ISI has a newsletter now, isn't it exciting?

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RC28 Social Stratification @isa-rc28.bsky.social · Aug 1

RC28 invites all scholars working in the field of educational inequalities to contribute to RC28’s first online thematic meeting. The meeting will take place on 20-21 January 2026. For further info,
www.sciencespo.fr/cris/fr/actu...

RC28 Online Meeting on Educational Inequalities

20th - 21st January, 2026 - Call for Papers

www.sciencespo.fr

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ISI: Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research @isi-munich.bsky.social · Jul 22

ISI has a new website.
Yes, one that works.
Yes, also on your phone.
No, we didn’t do it ourselves. We called Max from Goodaim (en.goodaim.de). He speaks both design and durkheim.

Visit www.isi-munich.de/en
Come for the inequality, stay because you accidentally closed all your other tabs.

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · May 8

🆕🔥
"Multidimensional Skills on LinkedIn Profiles:
Measuring Human Capital and the Gender Skill Gap"

w/ @profdaviddorn.bsky.social, Florian Schoner, Moritz Seebacher & Lisa Simon

🔗 www.ifo.de/sites/defaul...

🚀Skills from 9M LinkedIn profiles explain important labor-market patterns!

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Apr 7

Contrary to popular belief, what is important in science is as much its spirit as its product: it is as much the openmindedness, the primacy of criticism, the submission to the unforeseen, however upsetting, as the result, however new that may be. – Francois Jacob
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · Mar 20

I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :(

So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/

Screenshot of the linked Quarto website, with input checkboxes to change different conditions for a regression model that predicts economic performance based on US political party, with a reported p-value

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Feb 7

Hello, Bluesky! ☀️

We fund frontier research in Europe—bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late.

Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.

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Niels G. Mede @nielsmede.bsky.social · Jan 20

Out now in Nature Human Behaviour: Our 68-country #survey on public attitudes to #science 📣
It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social
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Hans Henrik Sievertsen @hhsievertsen.bsky.social · Jan 10

Hi alll,

Jakob and I digitized parish-vote data from the 1920 referendum on the Danish-German border.

We have made the data available for everyone to use here: hhsievertsen.github.io/Data-on-the-...

#data #econsky

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Zach Parolin @zparolin.bsky.social · Jan 8

Child poverty in the U.S. is four times as likely to lead to adult poverty than in Denmark and Germany, and twice as likely than in the UK and Australia. Why? I write about our findings on "the intergenerational persistence of poverty" today in The Atlantic:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Why Poor American Kids Are So Likely to Become Poor Adults

Most scholarship on the subject focuses on conditions during childhood. But government support during adulthood plays the biggest role.

www.theatlantic.com

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Jan 8

I’ve shown here that systems with later tracking do better at exposing students from disadvantaged backgrounds to high achieving peers journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Within-School Achievement Sorting in Comprehensive and Tracked Systems - Per Engzell, Isabel J. Raabe, 2023

Why do inequalities in schooling persist, even in relatively egalitarian school systems? This article examines within school sorting as an explanation. We use c...

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Bastian Betthaeuser @betthaeuser.bsky.social · Jan 5

📣 The Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) at the Sciences Po, Paris, is hiring an Assistant Professor focussing on digital inequalities (application by 15 March).

Feel free to get in touch if you have questions.

www.sciencespo.fr/osc/en/conte...

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Bastian Betthaeuser @betthaeuser.bsky.social · Oct 9

📣 Join our research team at @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social to work on the ERC-funded LEARN project on major health crises and children's educational development. We're hiring:

⭐️Postdoc
⭐️Doctoral researcher
⭐️Predoc / Research Assistant

👉Apply by 30 Nov: www.sciencespo.fr/osc/en/conte...

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Bastian Betthaeuser @betthaeuser.bsky.social · Nov 17

Great list! I'd love to join if there's space.

Bastian Betthaeuser @betthaeuser.bsky.social · Nov 14

Great list — would love to join if there's space.

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Bastian Betthaeuser @betthaeuser.bsky.social · Nov 13

Great list! I'd love to join, if there's space left.

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Bastian Betthaeuser @betthaeuser.bsky.social · Oct 9

📣 Join our research team at @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social to work on the ERC-funded LEARN project on major health crises and children's educational development. We're hiring:

⭐️Postdoc
⭐️Doctoral researcher
⭐️Predoc / Research Assistant

👉Apply by 30 Nov: www.sciencespo.fr/osc/en/conte...

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Bastian Betthaeuser @betthaeuser.bsky.social · Oct 9

How do teenagers spend their time? 🤔

We use social sequence analysis and high-frequency time-use diaries to identify and visualise typical time-use patterns of teenagers in Germany.

Now out in the Journal of Time Use Research w/ @miriamsglrtmr.bsky.social & Anette Fasang
👉 doi.org/10.32797/jtu...

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Bastian Betthaeuser @betthaeuser.bsky.social · Jul 2

📣 The Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) at the Sciences Po, Paris, is hiring an Assistant Professor focussing on environmental inequalities (application by 30 September).

Feel free to get in touch if you have questions.

www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...

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Markus Klein @markusklein.bsky.social · Sep 2

🚨 New report for the Nuffield Foundation
We dive into the growing issue of pupil absences in the UK, exploring its impact on educational and labour market outcomes, including the role of timing of absences, trajectories, and mechanisms.
Main report: shorturl.at/QWZqy
Exec summary: shorturl.at/zTUge

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Bastian Betthaeuser @betthaeuser.bsky.social · Sep 5

Please get in touch if you or someone you know would be keen to join our research team as a
⭐️Postdoc,
⭐️Doctoral Researcher,
⭐️Predoc, or
⭐️Research Assistant
The project will be based at @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social in Paris. Start date and conditions are flexible.

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Bastian Betthaeuser @betthaeuser.bsky.social · Sep 5

✨Grateful and excited that my research project
‘Understanding the Consequences of Major Health Crises for Education: Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemic’
will be funded by an ERC Starting Grant #ERCStG 🇪🇺

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Fabian Pfeffer @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social · Jul 31

2025 Spring School: Perceptions of wealth inequality

Check out this research incubator where small teams will work with a great set of scholars on this topic. Apply by Aug 31: dariatisch.github.io/SPINE/

@dariatisch.bsky.social @natrinh.bsky.social @lailaschmitt.bsky.social @janlo.bsky.social

Spring School on perceptions of wealth (inequality)

SCHOOL ON PERCEPTIONS OF WEALTH INEQUALITY

dariatisch.github.io

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