Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · 1hPaper Picnic by @moritz-marbach.com is such a great public service. Every Friday morning bam, new papers in your inbox paper-picnic.com 052
Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Let's also start the campaign for the UK to rejoin the EUI @eui-eu.bsky.social 021
Reposted by Katy MorrisPer Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Max Weber postdoc program at @eui-eu.bsky.social has its deadline 16 October, for a September 2027 start: www.eui.eu/en/academic-...eui.euMax Weber Programme for Postdoctoral StudiesMaking a Difference in Global Academia 01621
Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's been more than a decade but every year I still feel actual joy that British party conference season is no longer in the job description 000
Reposted by Katy MorrisHilma Lindskog @hilmal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026 📌 The main finding is that working alongside more university-educated colleagues has a liberalizing effect on political attitudes, independent of an individual's own level of education. Panel data suggests that not only selection effects drive the association. 111
Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Come join our gang! Especially if you're polisci or law: disciplines that submit a lot but are not represented on the active moderation team 186
Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Grateful that the Swedish Research Council (VR) will fund my 🇸🇪 occupational change detective project with Roujman Shahbazian and Erik Bihagen @sofi.su.se Has the national occupational structure upgraded or polarised in recent decades, and how have these national trends played out locally? 🕵️ 2212
Reposted by Katy MorrisKerstin Ostermann @kostermann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026New publication in Work, Employment & Society with @selang.bsky.social 📄✨ Why do some #unemployed feel more stigmatized than others? We find a U-shaped association with #neighborhood unemployment: stigma decreases at first, but rises again in highly unemployed neighborhoods tinyurl.com/5nuekh2r 0122
Reposted by Katy MorrisJames David Griffiths @jamesdgriffiths.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Great to see this out! @jaclarner.bsky.social @danielwincott.bsky.social and I found that national identity responds to referendums. The effect was temporary after the Scottish referendum, but post-Brexit the identity gap between Remain and Leave voters has grown considerably over time. 🧵 1146
Reposted by Katy MorrisOwen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Sweden's cities swung left while rural areas moved to the right. Change in left bloc vote share: Stockholm +2 Göteborg +3 Malmö +6 Uppsala +3 Linköping +1 Örebro +4 Västerås +2 33213
Reposted by Katy MorrisAlex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Quite funny to look at this and realise this is a lament for a student graduating into the best job market for graduates in the past 21 years 2364
Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Super Atkinson Conference and randomly allocated dinner @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social. Will @zparolin.bsky.social and colleagues be tracking new inequality collaborations over the next decade? 👀 151
Reposted by Katy MorrisJohn Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 08/09/2026Two extraordinary charts from today’s PISA test results: 1) School test scores continue to collapse internationally, underscoring how this is no longer a Covid effect but sustained decline. Those falls in reading and maths are equivalent to about two years of lost schooling. 41856344
Reposted by Katy MorrisDaniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport. 164115643180
Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · 03/09/2026What could possibly go wrong: "Please rate the priority for publishing this article (1 is the highest priority, 10 is the lowest priority)" 010
Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · 02/09/2026New office has an overwhelming amount of shelf space for a girl with essentially no books. Kew Gardens of the north potential? 020
Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Officially a resident of God's Own County. Expect a lot of Yorkshire Dales stanning 💚 160
Reposted by Katy MorrisFabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The Austrian socio economic panel takes shape! now with two waves available as easy to access scientific use files. 12411
Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Contra everyone else I think it’s a good use of the system, but odd not to mention 🚬 and the grammar could use some work 020
Reposted by Katy MorrisThe Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social · 13/08/2026🚨 NEW: London continues to pull ahead of other regions in top grades. Our analysis of today’s Level 3 results shows that 32.7% of pupils in the capital received grades at A or above, up from 31.9% last year. This is the largest increase of any region, with the London gap continuing to widen 🧵 135
Reposted by Katy MorrisSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Good to see this argument being made more now after two decades of me repeating "but it's a labour market problem" while feeling like I'm banging my head against a wall. 518933
Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Via a survey experiment in the United States, we find: 1) Perceptions of position in the local (county) income distribution are just an inaccurate 2) Local income corrections have a more consistently robust effect on meritocracy beliefs & redistribution preferences than national corrections 083
Reposted by Katy MorrisDanbischof @danbischof.bsky.social · 05/08/2026📄 New working paper out: osf.io/preprints/so... We (@thiloalbers.bsky.social @felixkersting.bsky.social and Fabian Kosse) try to understand why some citizens who are objectively well off still feel left behind, and why this matters for populist attitudes. 24818
Reposted by Katy MorrisClaire G. Griffin @polargriffin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Good round up of AC use in Europe, puts the latest heatwave into context. The mind-blowing stat is that the number of deaths caused by heat in Europe is roughly equivalent to the number of gun deaths in the US! www.carbonbrief.org/eight-facts-... 113
Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Abolition of 🇬🇧 -🇨🇭 roaming charges especially interesting, given Switzerland remains outside 🇪🇺 Roam Like at Home. Have we finally identified a Brexit benefit??? 010
Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Right hand side points to some degree of collective discussion and coordination IMO. Difficult to hold out if you know everyone else is plugging the assessment into AI... 020
Reposted by Katy MorrisHerman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Assistant professorship in political science at the @eui-sps.bsky.social! Come and work with us. www.eui.eu/About/JobOpp...eui.euOpen competitions for academic posts 01015
Reposted by Katy MorrisLukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026#Walmart #Supercenter openings are associated with a 2.2 percentage point (18%) rise in #poverty, and the increase persists for at least a decade. Our article is now published in #LabourEconomics, with @zparolin.bsky.social, Clemente Pignatti & Rafael Pintro-Schmitt. 13214
Reposted by Katy MorrisJake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 04/07/2026New article: Experimental education research: rethinking why, how, and when to use random assignment Out today (even though it’s Saturday): doi.org/10.1080/1380... With @drsamsims.bsky.social @mjinglis.bsky.social @benweidmann.bsky.social @benstyles.bsky.social & Hugues Lortie-Forguesdoi.orgExperimental education research: rethinking why, how, and when to use random assignmentOver the last twenty years, education researchers have increasingly conducted randomized experiments. Such experiments are usually designed in the hope of supporting comparisons of cost effectivene... 11611
Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Not sure exactly what it says about our respective political economies that 🇸🇪 LinkedIn ads were almost exclusively for state-owned Vattenfall energy, while 🇬🇧 ones are 95% individuals promoting AI-related nonsense 010
Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Me charging towards the front of the Bayeux Tapestry queue @britishmuseum.bsky.social 020
Reposted by Katy MorrisAlexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Are preferences for authoritarian rule individual predispositions—or can they spread socially? Using field + survey experiments in the Norwegian Armed Forces, we show that openness to strongman rule can spread socially. American Journal of Political Science: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comAmerican Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online LibraryThe increasing popularity of strongman rule in democratic societies underscores the need to explore how authoritarian regime preferences might spread socially. We assess the role of social influence ... 613070
Reposted by Katy MorrisJulius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 24/06/2026I am always struck by how much of the spatial inequality within East Germany is obscured when Germany is considered as a whole. The disparities between Mecklenburg and the Pomeranian parts of the same federal state are particularly revealing. 3348
Reposted by Katy MorrisPat Hastings @ophastings.bsky.social · 15/06/2026What’s happened to income-group gaps in parental spending on children in the U.S.? For the last 45 years, they just. keep. getting. wider. In a new @socarxiv.bsky.social working paper, I present updated evidence on trends in spending on childcare, education, and extracurricular activities. 36338
Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Sadly my always ambitious ECSR Dublin ➕ EPSS Belfast plan proved incompatible with relocation realities, but good island conferencing all 010
Reposted by Katy MorrisKerstin Ostermann @kostermann.bsky.social · 09/06/2026New preprint out with @mfphilipp.bsky.social & @eileenpeters.bsky.social ✨️ From #neighborhood exposure to #genderbeliefs? We find that local female employment patterns are linked to beliefs about when mothers should return to full-time work. Read more here: osf.io/preprints/so... 0127
Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · 03/06/2026From tiny threads, a whole univers(e)ity @universityofleeds.bsky.social 150
Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Bidding a fond farewell to @sofi.su.se and @stockholm-uni.bsky.social Will miss the 11.30 lunches and the wonderfully vibrant and supportive research environment very much, but SOFI is like Hotel California: you can check out, but you never really leave Vi ses 💙💛 1100
Reposted by Katy MorrisLukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Out now at American Sociological Review: "Countervailing Powers: Labor Unions Against the Buyer Power of Walmart Supercenters" with @joshuachoper.bsky.social & @zparolin.bsky.social We find that unions deter Walmart but where Walmart opens, it harms union members journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 0296
Reposted by Katy MorrisMaik Hamjediers @mhamjediers.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Do waitresses receive the same occupational prestige as waiters? Using German gendered occupational titles, we find that feminine job titles receive slightly lower prestige than masculine ones, especially among male-domindated occupations. Out now in Social Forces. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... 38822
Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Nothing quite like babysitting bilingual 🇸🇪 children to shatter any illusions of competence you might have “You need to translate into English for Katy”, says 6-year old admonishing 4-year old Crushing; also very sweet 140
Reposted by Katy MorrisReto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Today in four weeks, Switzerland will vote on a far-right SVP initiative that demands a cap on the Swiss population of 10 million. What is often misunderstood is that the initiative does not necessarily demand an end to immigration, but — even worse — the complete disenfranchisement of immigrants. 3158