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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 11/08/2026

This is a shame: COS phasing out OSF Projects. Responsibly, with plenty of notice and preservation of existing content, and continuation of other OSF services (including preprints!).

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Roxanne Connelly @roxanneconnelly.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

📑 My time as editor of @methodinnovations.bsky.social is coming to an end. Sage are now taking applications for a new editor in chief or a team of joint editors in chief. Details are below, I am happy to answer any questions.

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Joris Frese @fresejoris.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

📄Published Today in Nature: 500 researchers reproduced 100 studies across the social & behavioral sciences to assess their analytical robustness (led by @balazsaczel.bsky.social & @szaszibarnabas.bsky.social). Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Preprint: osf.io/preprints/me... TLDR: 1/11

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C. Kirabo Jackson @kirabojackson.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Delighted to share our revised paper (w/ @juliaturner.bsky.social & @jacobbastian.bsky.social ) showing that Universal Pre-K has broad effects on local labor markets — effects well beyond only mothers. Larger effects for full-day programs. nber.org/papers/w33767 #EconSky #EarlyChildhood #ECE

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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

NEW: Vida Maralani, Camille Portier, Berkay Özcan, "Early Childhood Investments and Women’s Work Outcomes across the Life Course" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

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Roxanne Connelly @roxanneconnelly.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

📣 Social Network Analysis people - there is still time to submit an abstract for our special issue on Social Network Analysis. Deadline 1st of March. journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

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Dirk Witteveen @dirkwitteveen.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

📢 In this Social Forces article, I introduce occupational elitism as a novel measure of social closure: the share of upper-class background workers within an occupation. Its consequences for earnings stratification can be examined using a social closure theory lens. 🔓 doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

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Institute for Social Research (ISR) - University of Michigan @umisr.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

If you haven't been asked yet, here is your sign to be our ISR Valentine ❤️

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Roxanne Connelly @roxanneconnelly.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

📣 The next Scottish UKHLS (@usociety.bsky.social) User Group Meeting will be on the 24th of April 1500-1630 Online @uoe-sps.bsky.social To receive the meeting invite sign up to the mailing list here: edin.ac/48nQsc2

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Köksal Banoğlu @koksal-banoglu.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Call for #SNA papers by @methodinnovations.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec....

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Understanding Society @usociety.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Understanding Society Wave 15 is out today! The latest wave of data can be accessed via the @ukdataservice.bsky.social. New content includes questions on pregnancies, guardians, and environmental identity. www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/news/2025/12...

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Understanding Society Wave 15 - Understanding Society

The latest wave of UKHLS is now available from the UK Data Service The latest wave of the UKHLS main survey is now available from the UK Data Service

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Anna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

In our research on socioeconomic background in academia, we ran a survey. Over 2,000 faculty members responded (thanks if you were one!) Social & cultural capital showed up time and again as key issues. A few findings you might be interested in...🧵

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Michelle Jackson @mivich.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

My new book, The Division of Rationalized Labor, is now shipping! A brief summary of the argument to follow…

Front cover of The Division of Rationalized Labor. The cover includes four pictures: pen and paper, microscope, factory tower, police badge. Modern-looking yellow lines and graphs are superimposed.

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Roxanne Connelly @roxanneconnelly.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

👇Our Generative AI special issue call is open until the 9th of January. We are open to all types of articles which relate to the intersection of Generative AI and Social Science Research Methods. Please get in touch if you wish to discuss your article!

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Manuel Schechtl @schechtlm.eurosky.social · 15/10/2025

Is childhood exposure to local wealth inequality associated with upward income mobility achieved in adulthood? Yes! Check out my new paper, just published in @natureportfolio.nature.com here: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #EconSky #Sociology #Demography

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Roxanne Connelly @roxanneconnelly.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

📣Do you have experience of using Generative AI in your social science research? Or critical thoughts about the use of Generative AI? Consider contributing an article to our special issue!

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Markus Klein @markusklein.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

📢 New in @sfjournal.bsky.social: We study how parental #education shapes children’s #cognitive development. Accounting for selective parenthood & grandparent & early parent characteristics, we find education largely reflects broader #intergenerational advantages. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

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Parental education and children’s cognitive development: a prospective approach

Abstract. This study uses nationally representative data from the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) to estimate the impact of parental education on childre

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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I wrote about @hermwerf.bsky.social 's excellent ASR article last year on education expansion and intergenerational mobility. Hope you find it useful! asocial.substack.com/p/inequality...

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Inequality Readers. On the merits

Education expansion merits optimism, and other puns

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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

📣 The Call for Papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference is open! Following the success of our inaugural conference in 2024, we are delighted to announce its return on 23 and 24 April 2026 at LSE. 📆 Submit your paper by 20 October 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/TdmBcur

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Jonathan Burton @jonburton.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Reviewing our questions on ethnicity and immigration. Let us know your views on this important part of the @usociety.bsky.social survey. www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/news/2025/06...

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Weverthon Machado @weverthon.com · 19/08/2025

New paper in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility! I track long-term trends in educational assortative mating in 🇧🇷. After decades of decline, homogamy rose in the 2000s, due to a balance shift: more fluidity at lower edu levels vs. stronger homogamy at the top. Check it out (open access):

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Trends in educational assortative mating in Brazil: 1960–2015

Using both census and survey data, this study analyzes educational assortative mating trends over half a century in Brazil. Odds of both overall and g…

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UK Data Service Impact @ukdsimpact.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

🎉New on the Data Impact blog🎉 Jay Dominy, Public Affairs Manager at UCL and CLOSER, introduces CLOSER’s new monthly Policy Surgeries and encourages researchers interested in informing policy to sign-up. blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/closer-polic...

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UK Data Service Impact @ukdsimpact.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Professor Debora Price @gerontologyuk.bsky.social recently reflected on recent international threats to data infrastructure, and why we must protect trusted data services as essential public institutions, on the Data Impact blog blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/why-data-pre...

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Guardians of the record: why data preservation matters now more than ever – Data Impact blog @ 10

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Chloé Lavest @chlolv.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

💥Today, 3 years after I graduated from my research master, my (revamped) master thesis got published at @ssreditorial.bsky.social under the name "Who do they think you are? Inconsistencies in self- and proxy-reports of education within families". Check it out here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss... (OA)

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ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.

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The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

💬 "Ultimately, lots of working-class people simply cannot afford to work for no or little pay. It’s a luxury only some can afford." Our alum, Bethany, draws on her experience of working for free to discuss the need for change on the usage of unpaid labour ⬇️ www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion...

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Unpaid work is killing class diversity in the creative industries - The Sutton Trust

Our alum, Bethany, discusses the prominence of unpaid work in the creative professions.

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Roxanne Connelly @roxanneconnelly.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

The next meeting of the Scottish UKHLS User Group will be online on Friday 15th August from 1500-1630 This time there will be talks from Laurence Rowley-Abel @uoe-sps.bsky.social and Mhairi Webster @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scotttish-...

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Scotttish UKHLS User Group Meeting August 2025

Short talks and discussions on UKHLS with other Scotland-based users.

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Education Policy Institute @edupolicyinst.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Our Annual Report reveals a troubling trend: fewer disadvantaged young people are participating post-16 than at any point since 2019. More than 1 in 5 disadvantaged 16-year-olds are now out of education or training. It’s time to identify — and act on — the root causes of this sharp decline.

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Registered report of 35 social class hypotheses (N = 33,536) finds around 50% are supported. New work by @anatoliab.bsky.social, Nicolas Sommet, and @frederiqueautin.bsky.social Open Access: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Theoretical models have been developed to understand how social class influences individual thoughts, feelings and behaviours. However, the validity of these models is threatened by the prevailing use of small, non-diverse samples and flexible measurement practices. We preregistered replications of 35 key hypotheses from 17 correlational and 5 experimental studies, and collected large, quota-based or probability samples from the USA, France, Switzerland and India (Ntotal = 33,536). Our analysis yielded three central findings: (1) ~50% of the effects were successfully replicated; (2) conclusions were consistent across different operationalizations of social class, although objective indicators yielded smaller estimates (for example, income and education); and (3) half of the effects were moderated—mostly strengthened—by social class identification, system-justification beliefs or local income inequality. Overall, hypotheses based on differences between social class contexts in terms of constraints, uncertainty and status were well supported. However, hypotheses based on models positing social class differences in psychological orientations towards ‘the self’ versus ‘others and the environment’ received less support. We conclude that these models need to be reassessed as individuals from higher social classes seem more oriented towards both themselves and others. The Stage 1 protocol for this Registered Report was accepted in principle on 29 October 2021. The protocol, as accepted by the journal, can be found at https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/B6Y8R.

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

New study finds that politically diverse social networks, even casual acquaintances, reduce partisan hostility by exposing people to others with opposing views, correcting stereotypes, and fostering understanding. sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

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Partisanship Meets Social Networks: How Politically Heterogeneous Acquaintances and Close Relationships Buffer Partisan Animosity

Article: Partisanship Meets Social Networks: How Politically Heterogeneous Acquaintances and Close Relationships Buffer Partisan Animosity | Sociological Science | Posted July 7, 2025

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The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

❗ Important work from @edupolicyinst.bsky.social highlighting the attainment gap between disadvantaged children & their peers. Their annual report shows that the gap in attainment between 5 year olds from low income families & their peers has grown since 2019. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Five-year-olds in England with special educational needs 20 months behind peers – report

Children from lower-income families also remain significantly behind their peers as impact of pandemic continues to be felt

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Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org · 15/07/2025

🚂 | NEW REPORT: Britain’s transport system is failing people on low incomes — locking them out of work, health, and opportunity. Our new report sets out how to fix it 👇 www.ippr.org/articles/the...

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Education Policy Institute @edupolicyinst.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Young learners in England are facing a deepening crisis. Our Annual Report shows that disadvantaged five-year-olds are falling further behind their peers — and for children with SEND, the learning gap has widened to over 20 months, the widest gap on record 🧵 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Five-year-olds in England with special educational needs 20 months behind peers – report

Children from lower-income families also remain significantly behind their peers as impact of pandemic continues to be felt

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Jascha Dräger @jaschadraeger.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

🚨 New paper out in the American Educational Research Journal (w/ @markusklein.bsky.social & @esosu.bsky.social) 🚨 We analyzed whether pupil absences in different school-years are equally harmful for achievement at the end of compulsory schooling. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

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Methodological Innovations Journal @methodinnovations.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

⁉️Are you using generative AI in your social science research? We want to hear about it! We are looking for critical accounts for a special issue on the use of #generativeai in #socialscienceresearch More details here 👇 journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

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RC28 Social Stratification @isa-rc28.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

RC28’s first online thematic meeting🎉This online meeting will be free of charge. The meeting will take place on 20-21 January 2026 and will be hosted virtually by the Centre for Research on social InequalitieS (CRIS), a Sciences Po/CNRS unit, in Paris. More info 👇 www.sciencespo.fr/cris/fr/actu...

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RC28 Online Meeting on Educational Inequalities

20th - 21st January, 2026 - Call for Papers

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UCL Sociology Network @uclsociology.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Is there a religious revival in England? @sriucl.bsky.social's David Voas raises questions about a recent report claiming that Gen Z is leading a rise in church attendance after decades of religious decline. It appears the devil is in the data. Read more here: tinyurl.com/2zptnnw3

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Is there really a religious revival in England? Why I’m sceptical of a new report

In Anglican and Catholic churches, average weekly attendance is down about 20% from pre-pandemic levels.

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Mark Williams @mwilliamsqmul.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

📢New paper!📢 "Social Class Origin and Job quality in Higher Managerial and Professional Occupations" out in @sociologyjnl.bsky.social Those from lower social origins suffer lower ❌ top job attainment ❌ pay In this new research, we show they also suffer lower ❌ non-pay job quality

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Hu Chuan-Peng is on paternity leave @hcp4715.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

🎉 After 2 years of work, our #OpenScience guide for researchers in developing countries is LIVE! Check out our new preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... We map the opportunities 🌟 + barriers 🧱 facing Global South researchers. *(1/4)*

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Anna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Looking forward to presenting my Class Gap work at the RNIM Online Seminar on Zoom this Friday! Anyone can register to attend here: sites.google.com/view/rnim-se...

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Methodological Innovations Journal @methodinnovations.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Call for papers: Generative AI and Social Science Research journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 16/06/2025

📚 Ten simple rules for good research practice doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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Roxanne Connelly @roxanneconnelly.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The next meeting of the Scottish UKHLS User Group will be online on Friday 15th August from 1500-1630 This time there will be talks from Laurence Rowley-Abel (University of Edinburgh) and Mhairi Webster (Glasgow Caledonian University). Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scotttish-...

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Scotttish UKHLS User Group Meeting August 2025

Short talks and discussions on UKHLS with other Scotland-based users.

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

A *null* result I'm very proud of! Led by Rustam Romaniuc, 35 coauthors from all over France tested nudge interventions to boost voter turnout. None worked, and we are possibly not surprised -- but a well-powered null result *is* a result! Paper: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

The main figure from the voter turnout paper -- no effect of any nudge intervention on voter turnout.

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