Don’t miss your chance to explore spatial regression techniques with @ruettenauer.bsky.social!
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Screenshot of the articles title "Stratified Scars: social inequality in the labour market consequences of apprenticeship dropout" and the abstract: While the association between apprenticeship dropout and negative labour market consequences is well documented, the causal link and social stratification in this effect are less clear. Using georeferenced German administrative data and a conditional instrumental variable approach that exploits distance between place of residence and large firms, we find negative financial consequences but show that the dropout penalty is entirely concentrated among individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. We further show that these stratified scars partly reflect unequal educational reenrolment rates and unequal employment outcomes among dropouts who do not reenrol. Our results highlight the potential of policies targeting higher graduation rates to reduce social inequality and suggest social advantage buffers the negative financial consequences of apprenticeship dropout, even in institutional settings with strong links between credentials and labour market outcomes.

How costly is apprenticeship dropout—and for whom?

Using an IV approach, our new @europeansocreview.bsky.social article finds strong income penalties, but only for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

My great coauthors patzinaalex.bsky.social & @katymorris.bsky.social 💖

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Wir erheben grade dutzende Interviews und es ist wirklich irre, wie komplett weg vom Radar der Klimawandel ist. Selbst bei grünen Akademikern taucht er nicht mal auf, wenn nach den Herausforderungen unserer Gesellschaft gefragt wird. Don't Look Up, aber weil alle einfach vergessen, dass da was war.

Challenges in measuring the importance of justice concerns for climate policy support This presentation invites reflection on the theoretical concepts that underpin research into social acceptance and climate policy support.

UCL Social Research Institute #CLEAN Seminar Series. Book now for our next talk with Professor Ulf Liebe.

#SocialScience seminar series with leading researchers, topics ranging from #ClimatePolicy and #ClimateJustice to #Energy transitions

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PROLOGUE The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate, although many lives could be saved through dramatic programs to "stretch" the carrying capacity of the earth by increasing food production and providing for more equitable distribution of whatever food is available. But these programs will

Paul Ehrlich, famous for being wrong, dies at 93.

Do researchers share their code upon request? Does running their orginal code on the original data produce the original results? We provide evidence in a new Royal Society Open Science publication. Studying more than 1,000 articles which use data from the European Social Survey, we find that... 🧵

Paul R. Ehrlich, Who Alarmed the World With 'The Population Bomb, Dies at 93 His best-selling 1968 book, which forecast global famines, made him a leader of the environmental movement. But he faced criticism when his predictions proved premature. Image of Paul ehrlich, an older white man with blue eyes

This obituary makes it sound like he was criticized by polluters and jealous peers, not those who pointed out the links between the movement he sparked (ZPG) and eugenics, the very politics that have delivered us “mass deportations now” and untold border violence

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GESIS Workshop Geodata and Spatial Regression Analysis 30 June to 02 July 2026 in Mannheim Tobias Rüttenauer (University College London)

Geography shapes social processes – voting, migration & protests are often spatially dependent in ways standard regression models can’t capture.
Learn with @ruettenauer.bsky.social to detect, visualize & model spatial ties via advanced spatial regression techniques!

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⭐️ @ruettenauer.bsky.social will share his latest insights into migrant dynamics across 30 countries.

⭐️ Meena Khatwa will showcase her impactful project on online eating disorder content, co-produced with diverse stakeholders.

⭐️ Hear from our students what exciting projects they are working on!

🚨 A defining moment for global health data.

The termination of the #USAID-supported Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Program has wide-ranging consequences. We reflect on the collapse and argue what should come next in a new PNAS: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

📊 9,000+ studies

Oxford Street pedestrianisation plan gets final official approval City Hall hopes to stop traffic from using the street by September.

Delighted to announce that following the consultation, I'm giving the green light to make Oxford Street traffic-free.

Today in our quantitative social science seminar, Benjamin Arold (Cambridge) will tell us what we can learn about worker rights from analysing 30,000 collective bargaining agreements.

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📣 Join our ERC LEARN Research Team at CRIS, Sciences Po, Paris, to investigate how major disruptive events affect children's educational development. Apply by 12 April:

⭐️Doctoral Researcher / PhD candidate
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Example for the two staged unsupervised machine learning algorithm using point data as input. Backlayer maps depict Hamburg. The map shows neighborhoods in different sizes and forms, sometimes following administrative borders (black lines) sometimes not. Three differently colored neighborhood types are displayed, each representing a different social group of residents.

xample for the two staged unsupervised machine learning algorithm using 500x500m grid cells as input. Backlayer maps depict Hamburg. The map shows large neighborhoods in different sizes and forms, sometimes following administrative borders (black lines) sometimes not. Three differently colored neighborhood types are displayed, each representing a different social group of residents.

Looking for a measure of #neighborhoods, micro or macro #segregation?

I've got something for you!

My newly published paper in Sociological Methods & Research presents a machine-learning-based algorithm to delineate neighborhoods with grid-cell or point data:
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💸🚨I am hiring 2 Postdocs for my ERC-funded project SOCDEBT on #debt dynamics across countries. One position: #SocialStratification + strong quantitative skills. The other: qualitative research and #EconomicSociology. waitkus.github.io/SOCDEBT/ 🚨💸

Empowerment and individualization: online banking and household financial organization Abstract. Bringing economic and family sociology into the digital era, this study examines and highlights the transformative potential of online banking in

🚨 Thrilled to share my new paper with @yueqiansoc.bsky.social just out in @europeansocreview.bsky.social

Bringing economic & family sociology into the digital era, we examine how online banking shapes who holds the purse strings among UK couples: doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

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Our first talk is happening tomorrow 👇

Join us to uncover how extreme heat is deepening global inequalities in antenatal care, drawing on data from 860,000 births in 52 LMICs. #ClimateHealth #GlobalHealth #CLEAN

CRIS at the Sciences Po, Paris is seeking a post-doctoral researcher to join the Research Team led by Prof. Mirna Safi working on “The Discrimination-Inequality Cycle: Bridging Unequal Treatment and Unequal Outcomes across Countries, Regions and Workplaces” Apply:
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In this preprint, we (@ruettenauer.bsky.social, David Kretschmer and I) ask and address two questions: (i) How does immigrant-native #segregation vary across urban areas in Europe? (ii) Which urban area- and country-level characteristics are consistently linked to segregation? Check it out ⬇️⬇️⬇️

🌍🌱 New #CLEAN 2026 Seminar Series ♻️🔥💡

#SocialScience seminar series with leading researchers to discuss topics ranging from #ClimateJustice and #Adaptation policies to #Energy transitions and #Health impacts of extreme heat 🏜️

📆 #hybrid Get in touch for zoom link

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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…

🚨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...

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🎄 Still looking for a gift for your favourite social scientist?

How about a #preprint with 717 urban areas, 30 countries, and 16,164 models of #Immigrant #Segregation across Europe? Just published with @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social & David Kretschmer 🎅

🎁 Wrapped up here: arxiv.org/abs/2512.17037

NEW: How did the introduction of the Ultra-Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) change London’s geography of work?

In a new @theifs.bsky.social paper, @joelkariel.bsky.social, Fizza Jabbar and I have taken a look – and it turns out people adapt in surprising ways. A thread.

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Today we’re celebrating 10 years of SRI! This afternoon we’ll come together to share reflections on the past 10 years, showcase our strengths in research and education, and look to the future for our Institute 🎉🎈🥳

INAS Conference 2026 - Nuffield College Oxford University

📢 Analytical sociology is coming home!

Call 4 INAS26 is open

🌍 1-3Jul26 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social and @sociologyoxford.bsky.social (☔)

☢️ Deadline: 1Feb26

🦹 Organisers: @aksoyundan.bsky.social , @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social, D Kretschmer, @awaldendorf.bsky.social

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EA to spend millions clearing Oxfordshire illegal waste mountain in break with policy Announcement draws anger from Labour MP over refusal to remove tonnes of rubbish dumped near school in Wigan

Turns out the fastest way to get rid of anything in the UK is to call it a fire hazard 🔥

Anyone tried this on political parties yet? #FireHazardPolitics

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This workshop is tomorrow, don't miss your chance to register!
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Thanks a lot for sharing! And nice to see this published:)