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Bram Spruyt

@bramspruyt.bsky.social
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Sociologist working at VUB. Main research interests EPYC (Education, Politics, Youth and Culture).

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Bram Spruyt @bramspruyt.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Oh irony...
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Christophe Vanroelen @cvroelen.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Werkbaar werk was precies niet echt top of mind bij de onderhandelingen over het zomerakkoord... deze hervormingen zijn een recept voor meer precair werk en ongelijkheid voor wie met een zwakke onderhandelingspositie op de arbeidsmarkt komt... vrtnws.be/p.VLayP9NQE
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Soepeler nachtwerk, overuren die beter lonen en kortere opzegtermijn bij ontslag: dit zegt het zomerakkoord over de arbeidsmarkt | VRT NWS: nieuws
De federale regering heeft in het zomerakkoord een reeks maatregelen uitgewerkt om de arbeidsmarkt te hervormen. Ze hoopt zo meer mensen aan de slag te krijgen, wat uiteindelijk ook zal opbrengen voor...
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Matthijs Rooduijn @mrooduijn.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
De democratie wankelt. In de VS, maar ook dichter bij huis. Wat helpt tegen polarisatie? Wat versterkt steun voor de democratie? ‪@bnbakker.bsky.social, @gijsschumacher.bsky.social‬ en ik testen allerlei interventies. Heb jij een goed idee? Laat het ons weten! stukroodvlees.nl/input-gezoch...
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Input gezocht: welke interventies versterken de democratie in Nederland? - StukRoodVlees
De zorgen over onze democratie nemen toe. Veel Nederlanders ervaren een groeiende polarisatie en ergeren zich aan de toon van het politieke debat. Tegelijkertijd zien we elke dag hoe kwetsbaar de demo...
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Willem de Koster @willemdekoster.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
📢 We're hiring a 4-year postdoc (0.8 FTE) at Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam for project on climate change meanings Focus: Italian case (focus groups, survey, experiments) PhD in Sociology (or related), fluent in Italian 🗓️ Deadline: June 11 #postdoc #sociology #academicjobs #Italy #climatechange
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Postdoctoral researcher Sociology; Understanding climate change attitudes
What does climate change mean to people—and why? And how do these meanings shape public responses to policy and information campaigns?
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Leandros Kavadias @lkavadia.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
New paper 🏫! We present the Schooled Society Index: a multidimensional indicator that maps cross-national differences in the centrality of schooling on a global scale. Written with @bramspruyt.bsky.social and @tkupp.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2378... Data is publicly available: osf.io/49xy5/
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Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World @sociusjournal.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
🏫 How central is schooling in your country? In their new #Socius study, Drs. Kavadias, @bramspruyt.bsky.social & @tkupp.bsky.social introduce the Schooled Society Index—a global measure of how #education acts as a force of #institutionalization and #stratification. Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...
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Bram Spruyt @bramspruyt.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
🎓 New Publication!🚀 What does autonomy really mean in a PhD journey? Is it the freedom to explore or the burden of navigating uncertainty? Our latest study dives into the complexities of autonomy in doctoral education, 📖 Read our paper here: www.informingscience.org/Publications... #PhDLife
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IJDS - Both a Blessing and a Curse: A Qualitative Study of the Experiences and Challenges of Autonomy During the Doctoral Trajectory in Belgium
An international association advancing the multidisciplinary study of informing systems. Founded in 1998, the Informing Science Institute (ISI) is a global community of academics shaping the future of...
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Jochem van Noord @jochemvannoord.eu · 11/03/2025
Hoezo is er geen bewijs voor onderwijsgebonden vooroordelen? In @volkskrant.nl met @tkupp.bsky.social en @bramspruyt.bsky.social
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Opinie: Hoezo is er geen bewijs voor onderwijsgebonden vooroordelen?
In een column voor de Volkskrant beweerde Sander Schimmelpenninck dat het niet te bewijzen is dat hoogopgeleiden neerkijken op lager opgeleiden. Die stelling negeert helaas vijftien jaar onderzoek naa...
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Emilie van Haute @emilievh.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Very happy that our project on Democratic governance: challenges and innovations, developed with Silvia Erzeel, has been selected for the next BrIAS programme.
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Jochem van Noord @jochemvannoord.eu · 07/02/2025
🏁New paper! Social status moderates the effect of belief in meritocracy on economic conflict attitudes. Meritocracy doesn't always legitimize inequality and sometimes it does more :) Published with @bramspruyt.bsky.social Filip Van Droogenbroeck and @tkupp.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1468...
Title page of "Caught Between Ideology and Self‐Interest: Subjective
Social Status and Meritocratic Beliefs Shape Whether
People Perceive, Feel Anger About, and Want to Change
Economic Conflict"
Abstract: "Belief in meritocracy and social status are central to understanding how people think and behave in relation to economic conflict. In this paper, we investigate how belief in meritocracy is moderated by (subjective) social status for three different aspects of citizens' attitudes towards economic inequality and conflict, namely (1) perceived conflict, (2) anger about economic inequality and (3) intentions to change economic conflict (egalitarianism). Data from the International Social Survey Programme on 29 countries reveal that the effect of meritocracy depends on social status and differs meaningfully across the three attitudes. For people high in social status, belief in meritocracy relates to lower perceptions of conflict, anger, and egalitarianism. For people with a low subjective social status there is no or a weak relation of belief in meritocracy with the outcomes. In addition, when belief in meritocracy was low, those with a high subjective social status appeared to be concerned about inequality as they perceived more economic conflict and felt more anger than those with a low subjective social status. However, this was not the case for intentions to reduce inequality. Hence, these effects of meritocracy and social status should be understood in light of self-interest concerns of social groups, rather than solely ideological domination."Figure 1: Predicted values of conflict perception across belief in meritocracy and subjective social status.Figure 3: Predicted values of egalitarianism across belief meritocracy and subjective social status.
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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
And here's the share without higher education!
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Bram Spruyt @bramspruyt.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
PhD candidates: students or employees? 🤔 New study reveals role perceptions impact self-efficacy & supervisor expectations. Key findings: teaching assistants & final-phase students lean toward 'employee,' while 'students' feel more self-efficacious. See doi.org/10.1080/0013... #PhDLife #HigherEd
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Experienced student or rookie employee? A quantitative study on PhD candidates’ role perceptions and its influence on their expectations and self-efficacy
This article studies PhD candidates’ role identity, that is, where candidates position themselves on the spectrum between being a student and an employee, and how this relates to certain background...
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Bram Spruyt @bramspruyt.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Op zondag aan een rapport werken over work life balance. Ik kan dat.
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Bram Spruyt @bramspruyt.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
De evolutie van het lerarenberoep: - sneller ontslag bij vaste benoeming - een continu stroom van regelg. die te laat klaar is of gebrekkig in elkaar zit - Vl. toetsen als motie van wantrouwen. - de hakbijl in het pensioen. Ze kunnen nu wel een fiets leasen om mee door de regen te rijden.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Florida is coming after sociology, as GOP across the country tries to control (higher) education within constraints of First Ammendment. Some (non-)expert thoughts on this piece 🧵
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Florida Tries a Subtler Way to Curb Progressive Ideology: Cut Sociology
Conservatives in Florida have moved from explosive politics to subtler tactics to uproot liberal “indoctrination” in higher education by removing subjects like sociology from core requirements.
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Bram Spruyt @bramspruyt.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
"a crude yet endlessly empirically corroborated proxy" Pure gold! @peter8rberg.bsky.social (quote from 'why there is less supportive evidence for contact theory than they say there is) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Bram Spruyt @bramspruyt.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Weeral een heel mooi nummer geworden van Sociologie Magazine!
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Dimo Kavadias @dkavadia.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Op vrijdagnamiddag 13 december 2024 presenteert @briobrussel.bsky.social de resultaten van de 3de Taalbarometer van de Vlaamse Rand. Meer info: www.briobrussel.be/node/19193 Deelname is gratis, graag inschrijving vooraf via docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/...
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Voorstelling 3de Taalbarometer Vlaamse Rand
De studiedag gaat door op vrijdagmiddag 13 december 2024, van 14u tot 18u, in gemeenschapscentrum De Moelie (Sint-Sebastiaanstraat 14, 1630 Linkebeek)
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Bram Spruyt @bramspruyt.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hoe komt het toch dat beleidsmakers zo vaak grijpen naar maatregelen tegen spijbelen die niet werken en waarvan we ook weten waarom ze niet werken. Het is niet dat er geen literatuur over is. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Alles samen in het NL: torvub.be/torwebdat/pu...
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The impact of interventions to prevent truancy: A review of the research literature
It is well established that truancy has a negative impact on pupils’ educational careers. Much more discussion is needed concerning the strategies and…
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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 15/02/2024
As part of a large collaboration of social psychologists and sociologists, we tried to understand belief system structure across Europe osf.io/9r84f
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Jochem van Noord @jochemvannoord.eu · 22/01/2024
🏁New paper! We find that affective bias towards 'the higher educated' is associated with more political trust, satisfaction w/ democracy and less populism In @actapolitica.bsky.social with Toon Kuppens, @bramspruyt.bsky.social Leandros Kavadias, Celine Darnon & Medhi Marot doi.org/10.1057/s412...
Title & abstract of paper in Acta Politica: Education-based affective attitudes: higher educated-bias is related to more political trust and less populism
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Bram Spruyt @bramspruyt.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
!! Nieuw nummer van Sociologie Magazine: Klimaat !! sociologiemagazine.nl/magazine/soc...
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Roy Kemmers @roykemmers.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
WORK! My great colleague Samira van Bohemen is looking for a new colleague: A 3-year postdoc position @ Erasmus Uni in her exciting new research project "Unravelling Pornographic Stereotypes" www.academictransfer.com/nl/334120/3-...
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3 year Postdoc in Vidi Project “Unravelling pornographic stereotypes”
Do you want to be at the forefront of cutting edge social science research using machine learning and large-scale survey experiments? And have you always wanted to study what drives people’s most in...
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Bram Spruyt @bramspruyt.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
They must have thought "you can't be too specific in calculating you IF".
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
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Bram Spruyt @bramspruyt.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
Very interesting thread!
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Bram Spruyt @bramspruyt.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
New paper. We compare the life satisfaction of children in the COVID-19 pandemic with that before the pandemic and assess how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the importance of social support regarding children’s life satisfaction. Special attention to gender diff. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Locked Down: The Gendered Impact of Social Support on Children’s Well-Being Before and During the ...
This study contributes to the emerging research on children’s well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. The objectives are threefold. Firstly, we compare the life satisfaction of children in the COVI...
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Bram Spruyt @bramspruyt.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
New book!! By time use researchers, for time use researchers. Pdf Open access www.aspeditions.be/en/book/time...
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Niels G. Mede @nielsmede.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
How do populist views on science relate to people’s communication behavior? Our global survey project TISP provides comparative evidence on this – which I presented today in @profsanderlinden.bsky.social’s Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab 💬 Thanks a lot for the great discussion! 🙏🏻
Image shows some of the slides of my talk in the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab meeting today. They feature some results from our global Many Labs project TISP, which I co-lead with Viktoria Cologna.
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Bram Spruyt @bramspruyt.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
Hi everyone! New here! I'll use this account for professional purposes only.
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