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Arnout van de Rijt

@arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social
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Professor of Sociology. Head of the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (EUI). President of the International Network of Analytical Sociology (INAS). Editor-in-Chief of Sociological Science.

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Jean Beaman @jean23bean.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thank God for satire at least
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Although young women still lag behind young men, particularly mothers, our findings show steady convergence and challenge the narrative of stalled progress." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"It has become more difficult for developing countries to offset migratory losses with the spillovers from circulation." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Why do natural resources fuel ethnic conflict in some ethnic homelands but not others?" Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 10/09/2026
Well, from Organization Science I thought this was pretty remarkable: pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/...
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jonnekamphorst.bsky.social @jonnekamphorst.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
1/6) Back after an absence from social media, with a few new papers to share. Out now in PSRM with @alexanderdavenport.bsky.social, @marcushagley.bsky.social, @eliasdinas.bsky.social, & @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social: is winning the first primaries of primary importance? 🧵 doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
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Is winning the first primaries of primary importance? A regression-discontinuity approach | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core
Is winning the first primaries of primary importance? A regression-discontinuity approach
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"In the US, overwork migrated up the class structure, and its hourly wage association turned from penalty to premium...Neither is supported as a broad durable pattern [in China]." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"[D]eterioration in men’s labor-market conditions raises the spousal earnings correlation within local labor markets, with the increase concentrated among couples with children." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"College-educated individuals seem to reject effort-based meritocracy while strongly supporting skill- and education-based meritocracy." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"We find that [wealth] stratification declined along several dimensions, with education being the main exception." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"Through simulations, stylized examples, and an empirical application, the article shows that explicitly defining the quantity of interest and selecting appropriate models is essential for valid interaction analysis." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"We extend the canonical mathematical framework to derive skill-specific return trajectories, incorporating two key parameters governing declines in (a) human capacity to learn and (b) skill relevance over the life course." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Scott Doney @scottdoney.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I think you may have meant Lucas Sage @l-sage.bsky.social
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Annual Reviews @annualreviews.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The 2026 volume of the Annual Review of Sociology is now online. The most read article is "Luck and Predictability in the Life Course" by @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social @fabriberna.bsky.social, William Foley, and @scottdoney.bsky.social Read it here arevie.ws/4wyNIBJ
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Fascinating experiment: current AI systems lack creativity to reliably pursue research arxiv.org/abs/2607.27191 - poor judgment about the bar for publishable research - uncreative responses in research design - ineffective backtracking from dead ends - poor resource awareness - instruction drift
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Can AI agents conduct open-ended AI research? Early evidence from two case studies
Forecasts of explosive AI progress hinge on AI agents automating AI research. But evidence on whether agents can carry out open-ended AI research is thin. Current evaluations either test agents on nar...
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Gabor Scheiring @gscheiring.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Iván Szelényi (1938-2026), a towering figure in sociology, one of the finest global intellectuals Hungary and Eastern Europe has ever produced, has died. Rest in peace and solidarity. 1/6
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NordiskPost @nordiskpost.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Princess Isabella will begin 11 months of military service in August under Denmark’s expanded conscription model #denmark
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Princess Isabella will begin military service in August
Princess Isabella military service will begin in August, when Denmark’s 18-year-old princess is due to start an 11-month conscription term at the Gardehusarregimentet in Slagelse after completing upper secondary school. The announcement, published by the Danish Royal House on Tuesday, places the second-in-line to the throne among the first cohort affected by Denmark’s expanded military service model. Why Princess Isabella’s military service matters in Denmark The Danish Royal House said Princess Isabella will begin her service after graduating from Øregård Gymnasium in Hellerup. She is expected to serve at the…
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"[T]ypicality strongly predicts selection when goals and categories misalign but becomes irrelevant when they align well." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"[W]e found that the ideology-engagement association is significantly larger than the ideology-attention association." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Thank you, Torkild! @stephenvaisey.com @jespersorensen.bsky.social
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
On the positive side, Dutch wine is getting better with the day.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 30/07/2026
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference reut.rs/4x9eTCW
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US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at ‌a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screenshots and posted them online.
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"Strikingly, we find the survey’s screener race variable, ubiquitous in prior research, is never empirically preferred based on model fit." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"[T]hose with precarious work schedules are less likely to benefit from the buffering effect of social support that attenuates the negative consequences of unstable and unpredictable schedules on well-being." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"Our findings highlight the existence of substantial attractiveness penalties related to having higher levels of Sub-Saharan African (as opposed to European) genetic similarity." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
NEW: Emma Williams-Baron, Aliya Saperstein, "A Roadmap for Inequality Research: Transparency, Intersectionality, and Multiple Measures of Race" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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The Double Bind of Precarious Work: Creating Need and Undermining Support
Article: The Double Bind of Precarious Work: Creating Need and Undermining Support | Sociological Science | Posted July 1, 2026
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 07/07/2026
Concepts are never politically innocent. We must call things what they are. It's not polarization; it's the radicalization of the political right. Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/S153... @poppublicsphere.bsky.social
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It’s Not Polarization; It’s the Radicalization of the Political Right | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
It’s Not Polarization; It’s the Radicalization of the Political Right
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Updating my intro to STS slides to make VAR my chosen example for why technology is never "just a tool"
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
VAR = MEAN In Poisson dists and soccer
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Source: Nurk
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"teacher-induced learning inequalities are mainly driven by unequal exposure to highly qualified teachers, rather than unequal returns to qualifications." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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Teacher Sorting and Inequalities in Student Achievement: Unequal Exposures and Differential Returns to Teacher Qualifications
Article: Teacher Sorting and Inequalities in Student Achievement: Unequal Exposures and Differential Returns to Teacher Qualifications | Sociological Science | Posted June 30, 2026
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
"Women who attended high school in metropolitan areas hold a clear BA advantage, but not women who attended nonmetropolitan high schools, where girls earn higher grades than boys yet attain bachelor’s degrees at similar rates." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
In parallel, IAS will offer an online doctoral course, Foundations and Frontiers of Analytical Sociology (5 ECTS), for a limited number of PhD students. The lecture program will be announced during the summer. Registration and further information about the course are available here:
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7FIEI26 Foundations and Frontiers of Analytical Sociology - Forskarstudieinfo, Linköpings universitet
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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
*Upcoming lecture series and PhD course at IAS* 📚 In Fall 2026, IAS will host an online lecture series featuring many of the scholars whose work has been instrumental in the development of analytical sociology.
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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The confirmed programme of the lecture series on Foundations and Frontiers of Analytical Sociology is now available online. The lectures will take place between September 2 and December 11, 2026. Please find the full programme, and short bios of the lecturers here: liu.se/en/news-item...
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World-leading researchers to headline new lecture series in analytical sociology
Some of the world's most influential researchers in analytical sociology, network science, and computational social science will visit Linköping University this autumn as part of a new international l...
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"Using AI-generated photorealistic images, we systematically vary the tidiness of domestic spaces, room type, source of mess, socioeconomic status, and the gender and race/ethnicity of occupants" Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"First-difference models reveal a consistent negative association between rising local wealth inequality and declining upward income mobility for children from low-income families, but no comparable association for their high-income peers." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"These findings demonstrate a novel configuration of labor market inequality, in which pay rose in low-wage jobs, but underlying inequality structures in the economy persisted." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"We find that considering how the child’s great-grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins shape care availability, and modeling their influence using more flexible models, provides small yet significant improvements in predictive ability" Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Congrats @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social ! You make us @eui-sps.bsky.social proud! Much deserved
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_T._... RIP Wim T. Schippers The world needs art and humor more than ever.
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Susanna Garside @susannagarside.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
🚨I have a new paper out in PNAS with my co-authors, @maxbradley.bsky.social @renschazottes.bsky.social and @ninalopezuroz.bsky.social: "Educational policies can strengthen climate coalitions." A thread on what we found (and a great story about doing ambitious research without funding!) [1/9]
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
"Family Networks and Childcare Choices: A Predictive Machine Learning Approach" Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 01/06/2026
Remember that recent paper claiming to show that "ideological bias" determined the results obtained by immigration policy research teams? A careful, open-code reanalysis by @kauspurg.bsky.social & Josef Brüderl finds that the result arises from a coding error. —> doi.org/10.31222/osf...
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
It’s almost as if they were ideologically predisposed toward finding ideological bias
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
@simonhix.bsky.social, thanks for everything! You've done so much for us at @eui-sps.bsky.social and we will miss you dearly.
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
"Applying our approach to a major Dutch cultural controversy, we show that the inclusion of negative interactions provides a new empirical picture of the dynamics of online polarization." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
"[A]n individual whose taste profile in general includes more legitimate tastes is perceived more favorably in terms of status and qualities but less favorably in terms of sociability" Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
"I show that the seemingly innocuous decision to restrict analyses to data where different income groups’ policy support differs (i.e., a preference gap exists) introduced Simpson’s paradox" Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Great shot and great to have @acastroaraujo.bsky.social at @eui-sps.bsky.social here in Florence the next 2 years!
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