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Rob Gruijters

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Sociologist, associate professor @School of Education, University of Bristol www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Rob…

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Fabrizio Bernardi @fabriberna.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
New paper out in Annual Review of Sociology with @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social #W.Foley and @l-sage.bsky.social "Luck and Predictability in the Life Course" We take stock of what we know about luck and its role in shaping life-courses and inequality www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Luck and Predictability in the Life Course
There is an emerging recognition among sociological theorists that luck may play a substantial role in life course achievement. There is also a nascent empirical literature that finds life outcomes to...
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Jani Erola @janierola.net · 26/02/2026
I have a bunch of positions open with @mjantti.bsky.social and @anttikouvo.bsky.social in four different projects! You need a PhD (or you should be about to defend your thesis), quant methods skills are necessary, but otherwise we are pretty flexible. #sociology #demography #economics #statistics
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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · 02/01/2026
🚨New year, new paper with the fab Anette Fasang, Ignacio Cabib, Adam Cooper & @robgruijters.bsky.social! We introduce our SI on 'Young Adult Life Courses in the Global South' & develop a new framework and concepts to advance the field. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @sriucl.bsky.social
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Young adult life courses in the Global South: A comparative framework and research agenda
As of 2025, 85% of the world population lives in countries typically associated with the Global South. Fifty percent of the world’s population is unde…
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 22/11/2025
If this means the decades of sociology using twins to estimate heritability is wrong, has someone written that up for non-genetics people to understand? Seems important
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Fabrizio Bernardi @fabriberna.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
New article in @sfjournal.bsky.social with @mvaldes1989.bsky.social and I. Lievore on the effect of edu expansion among parents on children's achievement Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands among parents? Short answer: yes 1/2 academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
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Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands? The withering performance and advantage of their children
Abstract. Extensive research has examined the effect of educational expansion in one cohort on educational inequality and occupational returns in that same
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
The ENSAE-CREST is hiring a computational sociologist -- Assistant or Associate Professor. Date of appointment: September 2026. Details here : www.css.cnrs.fr/assistant-or...
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Rob Gruijters @robgruijters.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Just can across this brutal book review from 1995…
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 17/09/2025
I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
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Katya Ivanova 🟥 @katyaoivanova.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Our #Sociology department is looking for an #AssistantProfessor in the field of Social Inequality (with the possibility for a permanent contract). www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3546... @sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs
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Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociale Ongelijkheid
Tilburg University | Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences is op zoek naar een Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociale Ongelijkheid, Departement Sociologie, locatie Tilburg.
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Rob Gruijters @robgruijters.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Helpful piece by Benjamin Elbers explaining the difference between the D and the H index in studying segregation: elbersb.de/public/posts... #Sociology
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
#BookSky
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Heike Klüver @heikekluever.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
📣 Call for Applications 📣 3-year Postdoc position in Berlin 🚀 Join our Comparative Political Behavior Group at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & the @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social Great people, great projects, great city – come work with us! 🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025
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Richard Nennstiel @nennstielr.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
🚨 Are young women becoming more left-wing & young men more right-wing? We analyzed 32 European countries (1990–2023). 📊 Some show growing gaps—others don’t. 📊 Gaps tend to be bigger where gender equality is higher. w/ @hudde.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
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Malcolm Fairbrother @mfair.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
One or two lectureships in the sociology department at Uppsala. Excellent applicants wanted!
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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
🚨🎓 We’re looking for new PhD students! The area of specialization is open, but successful applicants should demonstrate a clear interest in themes that align with ongoing research at @iasliu.bsky.social 📅 Deadline: 31.08.2025 💼 Fully funded positions How to apply 👉 liu.se/en/work-at-l...
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PhD student in Analytical Sociology
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RC28 Social Stratification @isa-rc28.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
We are pleased to announce that the ISA RC28 Spring Meeting 2026 will be held at the campus of Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO) in Seville. Conference dates: May 20–22, 2026. Theme: Addressing Social Inequalities in the Global North and South Stay tuned! Submissions will begin soon.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 06/06/2025
Now officially out with nice formatting and all 🥳 "Thinking clearly about age, period, and cohort effects" -- a gentle introduction to the age-period-cohort problem and how to "solve" it through various types of assumptions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
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Rob Gruijters @robgruijters.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
"Professors and teaching assistants increasingly found themselves staring at essays filled with clunky, robotic phrasing that, though grammatically flawless, didn’t sound quite like a college student — or even a human." Yup, sounds familiar! nymag.com/intelligence...
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Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
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Rob Gruijters @robgruijters.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Fascinating findings from the Global Flourishing Study (www.nature.com/collections/...): no correlation whatsoever between GDP and human flourishing. Indonesia ranks highest, Japan lowest. Full table: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 15/04/2025
In its letter, the White House demanded that Harvard accept a group of political commissars who would monitor all hiring and student admissions to ensure they were ideologically acceptable to Trump. www.harvard.edu/research-fun...
Viewpoint Diversity in Admissions and Hiring. By August 2025, the University shall
commission an external party, which shall satisfy the federal government as to its
competence and good faith, to audit the student body, faculty, staff, and leadership for
viewpoint diversity, such that each department, field, or teaching unit must be individually
viewpoint diverse. This audit shall begin no later than the summer of 2025 and shall proceed
on a department-by-department, field-by-field, or teaching-unit-by-teaching-unit basis as
appropriate. The report of the external party shall be submitted to University leadership and
the federal government no later than the end of 2025. Harvard must abolish all criteria,
preferences, and practices, whether mandatory or optional, throughout its admissions and
hiring practices, that function as ideological litmus tests. Every department or field found to
lack viewpoint diversity must be reformed by hiring a critical mass of new faculty within
that department or field who will provide viewpoint diversity; every teaching unit found to
lack viewpoint diversity must be reformed by admitting a critical mass of students who will
provide viewpoint diversity. If the review finds that the existing faculty in the relevant
department or field are not capable of hiring for viewpoint diversity, or that the relevant
teaching unit is not capable of admitting a critical mass of students with diverse viewpoints,
hiring or admissions within that department, field, or teaching unit shall be transferred to the
closest cognate department, field, or teaching unit that is capable of achieving viewpoint
diversity. This audit shall be performed and the same steps taken to establish viewpoint
diversity every year during the period in which reforms are being implemented, which shall
be at least until the end of 2028
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Rob Gruijters @robgruijters.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
New publication! We assessed stakeholder perspectives on Ghana's Free Senior High School policy. Findings show that the policy increased access & reduced the financial burden on parents, but also had several unintended adverse impacts. Full study (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 12/03/2025
I just heard this as well. The entire staff of the National Center for Education Statistics, created in 1867, has been fired.
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Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
More supreme public service from Ben Jann @unibern.bsky.social: the Stata crosswalk package, which replaces iscogen 🫡 Rapidly recode ISCO codes to an even wider range of occupational scales and class schemes, including the Occupational Earning Potential scale github.com/benjann/cros...
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GitHub - benjann/crosswalk: Stata module to recode variable based on crosswalk table (bulk recoding)
Stata module to recode variable based on crosswalk table (bulk recoding) - benjann/crosswalk
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INED (in english) @ined-english.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The call for applications for the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) 2025-2026 is open! This international doctoral program aims to provide students with a high-level education in demography. Deadline to apply: March 25th, 2025 at 12 PM (noon). More information: eaps.nl/edsd/how-to-...
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Here's just some of the things IES contracts pay for: -National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) -What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) -Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) -U.S. participation in TIMSS/PISA -Large-scale evaluations of ed interventions (NCEE) -Regional Ed Laboratories
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Emanuela Struffolino @emstruffolino.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
@raabm.bsky.social and I will teach an online introduction to #SequenceAnalysis in #R at @icpsrsummer.bsky.social in June 23-25, 2025. Info: web.cvent.com/event/ab4981...
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2025 ICPSR Summer Program Registration.
The Summer Program offers excellent opportunities for training in research design, analytic strategies, statistical methods, and data management.
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
To my Canadian and Mexican friends hit by the absurd Trump tariffs, I say: do this! You can fight back by hitting the US oligarchy 👇👇👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump threatens a global trade war. Europe must unleash a radical alternative | Gabriel Zucman
Unlike tariffs, a new form of protectionism could target climate-wrecking, untaxed corporations and their billionaire owners
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Fabian Pfeffer @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Sociologists working on inequality: Still time to apply for this 3yr+ postdoc position in beautiful Munich (no German required) EN: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5... DE: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f... Applications are 01/15, but let me know if you need another 1-2 days to put in your materials
Picture of the main campus of the LMU Munich with students sitting on the grass and talking
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Frans Soeterbroek @ruimtemaker.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Dit kabinet is een feest voor de grondspeculanten en brengt betaalbaar wonen verder weg van huis dan ooit. Aldus het CPB.
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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Call me sour, but EVERY mention of this "victory" should acknowledge that it's funded entirely by the profits of ongoing fossil-fuel production. Since the IEA said "no more new oil and gas fields if we are to hit net zero by 2050" in 2021, Norway has issued >150 new production licenses.
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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself." Earlier that day:
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Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
#Evilsevere the “sustained actions of Elsevier are fundamentally incompatible with the ethos of the journal and preclude maintaining the quality and integrity fundamental to JHE’s success.” retractionwatch.com/2024/12/27/e...
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Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes
All but one member of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution (JHE), an Elsevier title, have resigned, saying the “sustained actions of Elsevier are fundamentally incompatible with th…
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Great images showing the 40% pollution reduction in Paris thanks to bike lanes & traffic changes. It works and people in Paris are loving it! #ShareGoodNewsToo
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European Sociological Review @europeansocreview.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Reminder: From 1st Jan. 2025, the deposit of replication packages will be condition for publication in ESR! Find out more at: academic.oup.com/esr/pages/General_Instructions
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General Instructions
Submission of Papers The European Sociological Review publishes original research articles in all fields of Sociology. Submissions should usually be around 8,0
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Jennie Brand @jenniebrand.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Announcing the ISA RC28 2025 Summer Meeting at UCLA! Conference theme: “Social Inequality and Labor Market Restructuring;” Keynotes by Michael Hout and Xi Song Conference dates: August 4-7, 2025 Abstracts due: February 17, 2025 See you in L.A.!
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Luca Maria Pesando @lucampesando.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
📢 Job: Sabino Kornrich and I are hiring a 3-year Postdoc to join us at #NYUAD to work on parenting, childhood inequalities, and parenting norms in international and comparative perspective using experimental methods. Deadline to apply: February 14, 2025. To apply: apply.interfolio.com/160976
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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Wage gaps, test score differences, mortality rates—what's driving them? 🤔 Learn to decompose these riddles in our #GESISworkshop! Master key decomposition methods, get hands-on with Stata, and apply techniques to your research with expert guidance. ➡️ tinyurl.com/01-25-decomp...
GESIS Workshop in Mannheim
Decomposition Methods in the Social Sciences 
Johannes Giesecke (Humboldt University Berlin) & Ben Jann (University of Bern) 
27 to 30 January 2024
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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
A plea on behalf of journal editors everywhere.. When you receive a request to review, answer it. Declining is (from everyone's perspective) far preferable to not answering at all, which just leaves everyone - not least the author - in limbo. You wouldn't your paper delayed. Don't delay others'.
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Noam Angrist @noamangrist.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
📣 Hiring alert! Multiple postdoc and RA opportunities with us at Oxford @oxfordcsae.bsky.social @blavatnikschool.bsky.social @oxfordecondept.bsky.social #econsky
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Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality @stone-lis.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
At what point do inheritances increase wealth inequality? What are the possible implications for the design of inheritance taxes? A new WP on data from 6 rich countries by @morellisal.bsky.social, Brian Nolan, @juancpal.bsky.social & Philippe Van Kerm. #EconSky bit.ly/3OHw0Yw
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Pablo Gracia @pablogracia.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Only 7 days left to apply! Apply & share! 👇 Link: pablogracia-sociology.com/jobs
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Aleksi Karhula @aleksikarhula.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Our new AJS article shows that high earning family and work life courses are remarkably similar in different countries, but differ much for low earners. This is related to country specific policies structuring especially the low-earning life courses. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
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Lives in Welfare States: Life Courses, Earnings Accumulation, and Relative Living Standards in Five European Countries1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 130, No 2
How do work and family life courses differ in welfare states with varying emphasis on the state, market, and family for welfare provision? The authors compare life courses until midlife in Denmark, Fi...
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Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
Some very wealthy people are arguing it’s unfair to close inheritance tax loopholes because they bought farmland specifically to avoid inheritance tax. What’s odd is that they’re making that case *out-loud*. And seem to think it’s an argument that will provoke sympathy.
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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 03/11/2024
This. If you invite 40 people to a 2 hour meeting, or get them to complete 2 hrs of paperwork, you’re effectively ‘spending’ 2 weeks’ worth of productive institutional time…
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 01/11/2024
Does money buy happiness? Some may recall findings from an adversarial collaboration that concluded that happiness keeps increasing with log(income) even at high incomes, but not among the unhappiest. I found that "resolution" extremely confusing at the time.> www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Moris Triventi @mtriventi.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
📢 Calling all scholars in #SocialStratification & #SocialMobility! Join us for the 2025 RC28 Spring Conference " at @unimi on March 25-27. 📝 Submit abstracts from Oct 4 to Nov 7 here: rc28milan2025.com #RC28 #Sociology #Inequality #Education
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RC28 - Conference
We invite all scholars working in the field of social stratification and social mobility to contribute to the 2025 RC28 Spring Conference on March 25-27,
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Juho Härkönen @juhoharkonen.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
Now the day came that I had to reject a paper because we couldn’t find a single reviewer for it (after 20+ tries). And yes, it was on an LMIC country. And that’s a pattern. How’s that for social scientists’ open-mindedness?
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