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Roxanne Connelly @roxanneconnelly.bsky.social · 10d

📣Do you have experience of using Generative AI in your social science research? Or critical thoughts about the use of Generative AI? Consider contributing an article to our special issue!

Methodological Innovations Journal @methodinnovations.bsky.social · 10d

Special Issue: Generative AI and Social Science Research. Deadline for full papers extended to 9th of January 2026
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Markus Klein @markusklein.bsky.social · 24d

📢 New in @sfjournal.bsky.social: We study how parental #education shapes children’s #cognitive development. Accounting for selective parenthood & grandparent & early parent characteristics, we find education largely reflects broader #intergenerational advantages. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Parental education and children’s cognitive development: a prospective approach

Abstract. This study uses nationally representative data from the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) to estimate the impact of parental education on childre

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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 27d

We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰

Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure).

You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented!

#sociology

More 👇

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Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology

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Kat Chzhen @katchzhen.bsky.social · 29d

📢NEW Vacancy📢

Assistant Professor in Sociology at @tcddublin.bsky.social

Specialising in quantitative sociology

⏰Deadline: 6 October

Maternity cover

MORE INFO:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a...

APPLY HERE: www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/

Assistant Professor in Sociology at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin

An opportunity for an academic position as a Assistant Professor in Sociology is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · Sep 9

A very significant day for us as our new birth cohort study is announced, the first for quarter of a century. Big congratulations to colleagues in our @clscohorts.bsky.social for all their hard work in getting this off the ground!

News from UK Research and Innovation @news.ukri.org · Sep 9

UKRI announces first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years #ESRC #AcademicSky

UKRI announces first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years

A ground-breaking UK-wide scientific study will help improve the lives of future generations by studying 30,000 children born in 2026.

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · Sep 5

Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

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Elien Dalman @eliendalman.bsky.social · Sep 5

"Put simply, regardless of whether they played by the rules by raising their hands or broke the rules by calling out or interrupting others in class, working-class children were less likely to be engaged with by their teachers."

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Preschool teachers provide fewer participation opportunities to working-class students than those from more privileged backgrounds | PNAS

Social class disparities exist from the earliest stages of education. Research has suggested that class-based differences in factors such as social...

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DIW Berlin @diw.de · Aug 22

DIW-Bildungsforscher @jaschadraeger.bsky.social hat anhand englischer Schuldaten erforscht, wie Fehlzeiten und Bildungserfolg zusammenhängen. Die Studie zeigt: Insbesondere Fehltage zwischen 6. und 10. Klasse wirken sich negativ auf die Abschlussnote aus. Zum Podcast: t.co/CrH1HsDStz

Podcast-Zitat von DIW-Bildungsforscher Jascha Dräger: “Personen, die mehr Fehlzeiten in der Schule hatten, haben als Erwachsene im Durchschnitt geringere Bildungsabschlüsse und ein geringeres Einkommen.”

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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · Aug 21

A new article in AERJ observed the relationship between school choice policy and school segregation, finding that White and Asian families disproportionately used the choice system to avoid schools with large concentrations of Black students. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

Structuring Choice Policy, School Segregation and the Two-Staged School Choice Process - Deven Carlson, Thurston Domina, James Carter, Rachel M. Perera, Vitaly Radsky, Andrew McEachin, 2025

School choice is both an important tool for school desegregation policy and an enabler of racial segregation. In this paper, we used a two-stage model of comple...

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Markus Klein @markusklein.bsky.social · Aug 20

New DIW report based on our recent study "Does the impact of pupil absences on achievement depend on their timing?" published in the American Educational Research Journal.
Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
#Education #Research #StudentAbsences #Learning

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Alba Lanau @albalanau.bsky.social · Aug 18

Soon to open offer for a *funded* PhD to study child poverty dynamics at @demosocupf.bsky.social @upf.edu If you have an interest in quantitative methods, social policy and child poverty this may be for you! Feel free to reach out for enquiries

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Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 12

Missing school in the transitional years is much more damaging to academic achievement than absence in the middle years of primary, @unistrathclyde.bsky.social research shows

School absence 'most damaging' in transition period

Pupil absence because of illness is just as detrimental to academic achievement as unauthorised absence, according to new research

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Kristina Lindemann @kristinalindemann.bsky.social · Jul 16

🚨 Job alert!
Join our DFG-funded project on educational inequality & instability for families at @morayhouse.bsky.social, University of Edinburgh
📍 Research Associate/Postdoc | Fixed-term to June 2027
📊 Longitudinal data | Stata/R
🗓️ Apply by 4 Aug 2025
jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX731/research-associate

Research Associate at The University of Edinburgh

Apply now for the Research Associate role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

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Markus Klein @markusklein.bsky.social · Jul 14

Latest article from our @nuffieldfoundation.org project: pupil absences particularly harmful during school transition years; unauthorized and authorized absences equally harmful in any year ⬇️

Jascha Dräger @jaschadraeger.bsky.social · Jul 14

🚨 New paper out in the American Educational Research Journal (w/ @markusklein.bsky.social & @esosu.bsky.social) 🚨
We analyzed whether pupil absences in different school-years are equally harmful for achievement at the end of compulsory schooling. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

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Mark Chin @mememedianmode.bsky.social · Jun 16

New WP from @tomdee.bsky.social on the impacts of local immigration raids on students --> increased absenteeism

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Ang Yu @ang-yu.bsky.social · Jun 16

The cdgd package now accommodates sampling weights! As always, let me know if you run into any issues using the package.
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cdgd: Causal Decomposition of Group Disparities

The framework of causal decomposition of group disparities developed by Yu and Elwert (2025) <<a href="https://doi.org/10.1214%2F24-AOAS1990" target="_top">doi:10.1214/24-AOAS1990</a>>. This pac...

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Philipp Lersch @pmlersch.bsky.social · Jun 13

We are hiring a 3-year postdoc for the ERC-funded WEALTHTRAJECT project at DIW Berlin. More details here: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...

DIW Berlin: Researcher (f/m/x)

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · Jun 11

The widely repeated and entirely false claim that teacher experience “doesn’t matter much” after two years did lasting damage to the profession.

New report summing up teacher experience, working conditions & retention lit.

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Markus Klein @markusklein.bsky.social · Jun 7

New preprint w/ Fabian Kratz: How do different education equalization strategies affect socioeconomic disparities in labor market outcomes in 🇬🇧?

👩‍🎓 Equalizing higher education attainment? ⬇️
💰 Equalizing returns? ⬇️ for women; ⬆️ for men
🎲 Random assignment? No change

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Fabrizio Bernardi @fabriberna.bsky.social · May 30

New paper with @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social just out in Demography!
🔗 read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Here’s a short thread on what we found—and why it might be worth a look.

Socioeconomic Status, Genotype, and the Differential Effects of Parental Separation on Educational Attainment | Demography | Duke University Press

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · May 19

This depressing new NBER working paper finds that while the returns to a college education are still clearly positive for everyone, the benefits for students from lower-income families have declined over time due to fewer resources going to regional institutions.

Changes in the College Mobility Pipeline Since 1900

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · May 12

christ, what a day to be an immigrant cursed with the ability to read

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The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social · May 8

🚨 We're looking for a Head of Research & Policy!

This is a key role in our integrated Communications, Research and Policy team, and it's a great opportunity to play a meaningful part in effecting change for disadvantaged young people.

Apply by 21st May ⤵️
recruitment.suttontrust.com/jobs/5909323...

Head of Research & Policy - The Sutton Trust

Do you have a deep interest in issues of educational equity, social mobility and increasing opportunity? Apply to be our Head of Research & Policy!

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Markus Klein @markusklein.bsky.social · May 1

Have you ever wondered how parenting activities are influenced by work-related tasks? I'm looking into this question in a new preprint with Katherin Barg (University Bristol): osf.io/preprints/so...

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Department of Education, University of Oxford @education.ox.ac.uk · Apr 25

📢 Join Professor @kathyhirshpasek.bsky.social for a public seminar on 'Active Playful Learning: Where the science of learning meets education' on 19 May.

Register to attend in-person ➡️ forms.office.com/e/wzS0F1UJiL
Or join us online ➡️ bit.ly/4lSItbo

#Edusky #Seminar

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