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Incurable sociologist @lsesociology.bsky.social - Work, migration, social inequality and a bit of conflict. Co-founder MSc International Migration and Public Policy @LSE. ⚽️

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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Integration maybe? No small thing in any case.
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"Pointing to estimates of about 30,000 job losses in the past three years..." www.ft.com/content/ded7...
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UK universities cut jobs, research and teaching amid squeeze in overseas students
‘Very sharp downturn’ in enrolments risks hitting economic innovation and academic pipeline, lobby group says
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Social Stratification (fifth edition) @socialstrat5.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
SOCIAL STRATIFICATION, 5th ed. is edited by Michelle Jackson, Nima Dahir, Claire Daviss & David B. Grusky. Out now from Routledge: www.routledge.com/Social-Strat... #AcademicSky @mivich.bsky.social @cdaviss.bsky.social
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Social Stratification
Is it possible to understand what causes inequality, why it is increasing, and how to reduce it... all in a single volume? It is! In this all-new fifth edition of Social Stratification, the…
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
In time, he will become much more well known😜
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 12/10/2026
Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford won the Nobel memorial prize in economics for their work on the microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilization.
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Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford win Nobel memorial prize in economics
American-born economists Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford have won the Nobel memorial prize in economics for their work on models that help manage economic shocks.
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I see I got blocked in a cowardly move. Happy to libel others but then runs away when challenged.
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Thx for the repost Giorgos.
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Thx Tony
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Horrible stuff, but good reporting
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🧵 Matt Goodwin demanded to be fact-checked live on air when he claimed the UK spent "£100 million PER YEAR on family planning and condoms in Pakistan". He then 'corrected' himself to £74.3 million, saying it was based on a "major news story from October 2025" He was, of course, still wrong... 1/30
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How much has the UK actually spent on condoms in Pakistan? 

Henry Riley is sceptical about Matt Goodwin's numbers so the reform politician calls himself to be fact-checked live on air.
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I have a new paper on the workplace case study tradition in #industrialrelations Briefly, it has reinvented itself as the study of organisational restructuring with attempts to assess the distributional impact of such changes. Even so, the flow of such articles is in decline.
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🎤 My next book talk "Green Political Economy" will be at LSE @lseideas.bsky.social - on Tuesday 13 October, 6pm-7pm. The talk will introduce key themes of my new book, and specifically how geoeconomics plays into the global green transition. Registration needed at: www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/events...
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Green Political Economy
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Happened to start chatting with a woman on the train this morning. A highly qualified psychologist and #immigrant who works with victims of domestic abuse. The worst days of the week: Friday, Saturday and Sunday - more cases and more extreme violence.
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Iranian singer’s 74 lashes for performing without a hijab ‘a form of torture’, say rights groups" www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Iranian singer’s 74 lashes for performing without a hijab ‘a form of torture’, say rights groups
Iranian court upholds sentence against 29-year-old star Parastoo Ahmadi and other musicians in crackdown on women flouting hijab law
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Burnham's speech marks perhaps the best opportunity to replace First Past the Post since 1918. I joined @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social & @lucyfisher.ft.com recently on "The Long View" to explore the history of electoral reform in Britain - & the lessons we might learn. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - The Long View, Electoral reform
Jonathan Freedland takes the long view of electoral reform.
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lawrence of Arabia The Third Man Odd Man Out Trainspotting A Matter of Life and Death
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Doesn’t explain their failure to co-operate.
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Professor Alice Sullivan @profalices.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am over the moon with the endorsements for my forthcoming book "Sex, Lies and Statistics: Why we need evidence-based policy on sex and gender". Available for pre-order!
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There's a guy over in the other place gaining traction for bashing #Sociology. Having worked in three different business schools and refereed for too many journals I could say the same about swathes of Management research. But that would probably not attract as many substack subscribers.
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Not a fan of these measures but we in #Sociology have put in a lot of hard work over several years so maybe it is being recognised.
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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Will keep boringly saying this (no disrespect to OP): it's not a health surcharge. It's not hypothecated to the NHS; you can't choose not to pay it and thereby eschew healthcare. You could equally call it an education or roads surcharge. It's using the NHS's sanctified status to rip off immigrants.
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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
⭕Join us on tomorrow, Wednesday, 23 September, at 15:00 CET for the inaugural lecture of the LECAS seminar series "Foundations and Frontiers of Analytical Sociology", with Peter Hedström. 💠 Social Mechanisms and the Construction of Explanatory Theories 💠 Zoom link and more: liu.se/en/event/fou...
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Foundations and Frontiers of Analytical Sociology: Peter Hedström
Welcome to the seminar series Foundations and Frontiers of Analytical Sociology with Peter Hedström, who will speak on Social Mechanisms and the Construction of Explanatory Theories. The seminar is or...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
All these platforms were originally sold to us as being liberating tools of free speech and expression. Now they're being actively used by their owners to suppress it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
😲🥲
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
They are not terrorists; they are internationally aclaimed documentary makers #freespeech novaramedia.com/2026/09/14/i...
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Israeli Minister Threatens Documentary Makers With Citizenship Revocation
An Israeli minister has threatened to have the directors of NAZA – a documentary about the Israeli military’s AI-assisted genocide in Gaza – deprived of their citizenships.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Control without credibility: immigration to the UK since the Brexit referendum. My article in Contemporary Social Science, summarising a decade(!) of research and analysis on this topic by me and others. Free to read/open access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Control without credibility: immigration to the UK since the Brexit referendum
Immigration was central both to the 2016 Brexit referendum campaign and to the political narratives that followed it. Yet the trajectory of migration to the UK since the referendum bears little res...
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 30/11/2024
Ok: 1 like = 1 demographic fact* * may include estimates, generalizations, dataviz, or unsubstantiated claims
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’m also anti-communist.
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Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Trickle up has became a torrent.
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Reform-linked thinktank ‘to call for big tax cuts for the rich’
Centre for a Better Britain will urge abolishing inheritance tax and phasing out capital gains tax, report says
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Jason Arday tragedy underscores the perils of tokenism www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/jaso...
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The Jason Arday tragedy underscores the perils of tokenism
There is a particular kind of frustration I feel when a white colleague, even with the best of intentions, adjusts the dial on the radio to hip hop the moment I, a British academic of African ancestry...
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
😂
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
OMG First as failed social science experiment and now as entertainment. Wtf
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
They're banning sociology now. 🤦‍♀️
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ah yes Lucid - are they still combining telephone and online without telling us how they do it? Anyway, even your favourite poll is saying No. But then they all do.
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Trump, as ever, knows how to dominate the news headlines. But the best opinion polling in Northern Ireland keeps saying No to a #UnitedIreland including as recently as May (Institute of Irish Studies / Sunday Times). Was Trump not using it as click bait? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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What's next after Donald Trump's united Ireland comments?
At a press conference on Saturday, the US president said he would "love to see" a united Ireland.
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I thought it mostly a set of organisational polices and practices 🤔
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A lesson for us all
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
What is real EDI/DEI in your view? Does it include positive discrimination?
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Fabien Accominotti @faccominotti.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Critiques of meritocracy are having a moment. In this review article, Mike Sauder and I look beyond the "we think it promotes equity, but it doesn't" argument.
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This smearing of Professor Martyn Hammersley is completely out of order. He is a first class qualitative methodologist and sociologist and this attempt to condemn by association in a racist plot is utterly disgraceful.
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Naomi Waltham-Smith @auralflaneur.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com’s latest on the declining graduate premium needs to be read alongside this. But it’s also existential for the HE sector when one of the most nuanced and reflective commentators on the issues avers that “the link between academic credentials and career prospects is weakening.” 1/
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nah, one is a political opportunist; the other is an opportunist.
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Dr James Orr, Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge University has a google scholar page worth visiting. Apparently, he was publishing heavily around the turn of the twentieth century. Didn't know Christians practised reincarnation...
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Back to the future.
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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026
Remember when people said Brexit would pacify the migration debate because the government would be able to control the flows
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I'm with Michael Owen. If you have to tell them then you have watched too much American TV. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Now that’s a Freudian slip and a half. We assimilate in spite of ourselves.
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Such sensitive types for ‘hard men’ politics.
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Ny! New for @josimarfootball.bsky.social! A deep dive into Curaçao's murky waters, where lurk the whales of illegal betting, including a bookmaker that produces content for PornHub and claims Francesco Totti as an ambassador.
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In Curaçao We Trust - josimarfootball.com
A Curaçao-licensed  bookmaker that produced sponsored content for PornHub claims Francesco Totti as an ambassador - and the  honorary consul for Denmark is the managing director of the trust behind it...
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