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Merve Uzunalioglu @merveuzunalioglu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A true champion. 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Very very upset at the University of Cambridge higher ups. I don’t think their remaining in situ given this week - in court and with Arday - is remotely tenable.

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Aaron Reeves @aaronreeves.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Another reason that we cannot forget that - despite the removal of the two child limit - we cannot forget about the Benefit Cap

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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I and @aronszekely.bsky.social were very happy for receiving this 2026 Robet Merton award 👇

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The Tennis Letter @thetennisletter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Karolina Muchova and Linda Noskova will face each other in the Wimbledon final. Karolina leads the head to head 1-0. They’ve never played on grass. The All-Czech Final. Who wins their first Grand Slam title? 🏆 🇨🇿🇨🇿

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Merve Uzunalioglu @merveuzunalioglu.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Always a pleasure to come together with the work-family scholars and under the UCL roof ❤️

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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Everyone can see this is disastrous, but no one is screaming loudly enough. Years of policy drift have hollowed out the funding model, and now direct cuts are accelerating the damage. But hey, there’s still demand for university merch on Oxford Street!

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Merve Uzunalioglu @merveuzunalioglu.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

An open call to be featured in a documentary for those who are living alone (or in a flat-share, without a partner or family) and with an immigration background, e.g. away from family or roots etc. Being London-based is necessary. Details below and reach out to the email for more queries.

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Merve Uzunalioglu @merveuzunalioglu.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Observing life through the lens of care or care-giving and receiving placing itself at the centre of my new essay on Substack (as if it ever left the scene) The Queue and The Element of Care open.substack.com/pub/wellingt...

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The Queue and The Element of Care

care is the core of life and my mind lives in servitude to it

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Merve Uzunalioglu @merveuzunalioglu.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This could have been a proper post but delivered as a note because yours truly seems to enjoy writing on a whim. Take it as an encouragement for you to read Ben Lerner’s Transcription: substack.com/@merveuzunal...

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Mervé (@merveuzunalioglu)

It is a rarity to read a book where our everyday devices, starring an iPhone, and now-mundane habits, referring to FaceTime calls, weave through the relationships, including the characters’ perception...

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Rense Nieuwenhuis @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

"Swedish social policies are predicated on a perceived equal division of parenting, but checks to ensure equal parenting are few." Lovisa Backman (@stockholm-uni.bsky.social) publishes @reusilience.bsky.social research in Social Politics. academic.oup.com/sp/advance-a...

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Implications of an Incomplete Gender Revolution for Low-Resourced Single Mothers in Sweden

Abstract. Gender equality in the labor market and family life has been a long-standing policy aim in Sweden, which has sought to solve this problem by prom

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Oxford Social Policy and Intervention @dspi-oxford.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

'Narrative power in electoral autocracies: The policy narrative behind the success of a pension movement' by @elifcan.bsky.social has been awarded as the @ecpr.bsky.social 2025 Best Paper on Public Policy: f.mtr.cool/plpaqgqdxm 🎉Congratulations @elifcan.bsky.social

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2025 Best Paper on Public Policy winner announced

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Merve Uzunalioglu @merveuzunalioglu.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

What is a dream without a dreamer? My recent attempts at reading Borges: open.substack.com/pub/wellingt...

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On mind, perception and what makes us

Thinking about Borges' response to Berkeley

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Keonhi Son @keonhison.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

📢NEW PUBLICATION: Do you think work-family challenges are limited to advanced economies, where many women work in the formal sector? Our review article disagrees (w @aysegulkayaoglu.bsky.social ). doi.org/10.1016/j.wo...

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Merve Uzunalioglu @merveuzunalioglu.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Post-family visit reflections on some unique repetitions, doing/undoing/redoing starring Hélène Cixous, Nathalie Sarraute, Louise Bourgeois open.substack.com/pub/wellingt...

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On Repeat

On returning, rereading and persisting

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Wouter De Tavernier @wdetavernier.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

On average, women's pensions are 23% lower than men's in the OECD. This gap reflects both past gender inequalities in the labour market - gender gaps in career length, hours worked and hourly wages - and redistributive elements in the pension system that can compensate for those. 4/4

In the OECD on average, the gender pension gap declined by about 5 percentage points between 2007 and 2024.
The gap remains high in Japan, the Benelux countries, the UK, Austria, Switzerland and Mexico.
The smallest gaps are found in some Nordic and Central European countries: Czech, Denmark, Estonia, Iceland, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia.

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Blavatnik School of Government @blavatnikschool.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

"It is time to confront the delusion that the UK can provide Scandinavian-style welfare with American-style taxation." Associate Prof İrem Güçeri and Prof Christopher Adam, ODID, University of Oxford, set out the choices Britain now faces in their Financial Times letter👇 ow.ly/saJp50XvFOB

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Petra Sauer @petrasauer.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Extended deadline, you can submit your abstract to be part of the anniversary special issue of socialpolicy.ch until December 15th. Research on different themes about social policy across the globe is welcome.

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Merve Uzunalioglu @merveuzunalioglu.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Just have been asked to show my bank account to prove I have sufficient funds for travelling 🤷🏻‍♀️ thank you life and the border police

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Stefanie Mollborn @mollborn.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Please apply! PhD position @sofi.su.se. Stockholm University ERC-funded project, Making Time: Organized Labour and the Politics of Care Leave. MA degree (or near completion) and quant training required. 1 Oct deadline, start Jan 2026. See: su.varbi.com/what:job/job....

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Doktorand i sociologi

Sociologiska institutionen är en av Stockholms universitets största samhällsvetenskapliga institutioner och rankas kontinuerligt bland de 50 bästa sociologiska institutionerna i världen. Mer info

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Merve Uzunalioglu @merveuzunalioglu.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

That winning feeling when your favourite bookshop picks up a series on your recommendation 🫰🏼🫰🏼🫰🏼🫰🏼

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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

🚨We are hiring 2 Lecturers/Assistant profs in Quant Social Science at UCL🚨 What we look for: 🐍 R/Python proficiency 🤖 Teaching and/or doing ML and/or social networks 🌍 Research on inequality, climate, education, social norms & more Circulate this or apply by 10-Oct 👉 tinyurl.com/5djcc35z

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Lauren Elkin @laurenelkin.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

ok tell me does this exist: a progressive, inclusive school, child-led, where parents (with DBS check) are allowed to come for part of the day, where the staff are throughly, profoundly trained in how to work with neurodivergent children? and if it doesn't shall we start one?

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Merve Uzunalioglu @merveuzunalioglu.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Another year of great success and company at the ESPAnet Annual Conference 👏🏼 already looking forward to the next one 🫰🏼 @keonhison.bsky.social Andrew Zola & @janhelmdag.bsky.social in the pics from their final session

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Arif Cem Gundogan @cemgundogan.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Today we commemorate the 103rd anniversary of the Battle of Dumlupınar (30 August 1922), a defining moment in Turkish War of Independence. I honour with respect those who gave their lives and health for our homeland, & heroes who fought for freedom, led by Commander-in-Chief Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

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Merve Uzunalioglu @merveuzunalioglu.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

So pleased with the feedback & recommendations. In this new work, I am exploring whether the childcare gap matters for maternal employment from a macro perspective using country-year panel data. Early findings suggest it matters for the intensity of employment rather than the overall choice of it.

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Merve Uzunalioglu @merveuzunalioglu.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Unsure if it’s due to my prior ignorance or if London’s trees are in exceptional bloom this summer. Full of fruits causally weighing down every corner, quite amazing, really

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Merve Uzunalioglu @merveuzunalioglu.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Feels like phone snatching is a legit full time job in London. Someone took my phone from my hand this morning and threw it away after realising it’s an old one 🤷🏻‍♀️ quick loss and gain in seconds. very very disturbing

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Merve Uzunalioglu @merveuzunalioglu.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Big love for this bestest of the brains and hearts 💕 So proud of our work and the final conference ✊🏼

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CA21150: Sustainability@Leave @leave-policies.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

🎤 Join Us for a Keynote on 'Parental Leave and Social Sustainability: Reflection and Challenges' with Prof. Marian Baird from the University of Sydney. The Keynote Speech will be live-streamed for all to attend on 10 June 2025 from 10:20 to 11:30 EEST. LINK: www.youtube.com/live/cDO-KM3...

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Prof. Marian Baird | Parental Leave and Social Sustainability: reflections and challenges

YouTube video by VU Filosofijos fakultetas

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Alba Lanau @albalanau.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

España es el país de la EU donde las transferencias tienen menor impacto en la pobreza infantil. Las transferencias en España reducen la pobreza infantil en 25% en comparación con 45.6% para la EU-27. Datos de Eurostat (ilc_li02, ilc_li09)

Tasas de pobreza infantil antes y después de tranferencias en diferentes paises Europeos. Tablas originales ilc_li02 y ilc_li09

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Merve Uzunalioglu @merveuzunalioglu.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Inspired by this, I have recently listened to this episode of Arts&Ideas www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... shared in the hope that it might spark the same curiosity in others. 🪄

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Arts & Ideas - Revisit: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring - BBC Sounds

Tony Juniper, Emily Shuckburgh, Dieter Helm and Kapka Kassabova join Rana Mitter at Hay

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Lauren Elkin @laurenelkin.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

One of the only events I’m doing for the Scaffolding paperback - Burley Fisher, 17 June, venez nombreux !

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