The Problem with Rapport in Interview-Based Studies - Qualitative Sociology Rapport is an orienting principle in qualitative research. It is a capacious concept which, in practice, is deployed by researchers in a wide variety of ways. Despite its definitional ambiguity, in in...

"Being a stranger who wanders into (and often quickly out of) people’s lives may have some methodological advantages vis-à-vis allowing for intimacy and distance to commingle." Aliya Rao with a super useful article for thinking about rapport in qualitative research.

Agree. This increases the lottery effect of the results and, in essence, adds more Matthew effect to it.

Esp. for the StG, this decision combined with recent extension of the eligibility window (from 7 to 10 years) will inevitably skew successful applicants further into their careers - it was already very lopsided. It might not make sense to talk about it as a “starting” or “early career” grant anymore

Man, I hate this decision. I get the drive to reduce submissions given soaring (AI) applications. But given the inherent variability of evaluations, this goes too far in cutting unsuccessful applicants out of the system for years.

New York City’s super-rich complain about Mamdani’s tax on second homes Billionaire hedge fund managers say mayor’s proposed levy is ‘demonising philanthropists’

Appreciate that this FT piece styles every comment by an opponent of the proposed New York 'pied-à-terre' tax as made by "John Rich, who spent X million dollars opposing Mamdani’s candidacy"

Today, Danish political leaders took a full-day break from coalition negotiations to hear lectures from (amongst others) @abenewman.bsky.social and @adler-nissen.bsky.social on AI, tech, and geopolitics. Pretty cool.

Per today's OECD Secretary-General report to the G20 leaders, we are *firmly* back in the doomloop "delay" territory.

‘Bifs’ replace ‘Piigs’ as Europe’s bond market whipping boys Britain, Italy and France have borne the brunt of a sovereign debt sell-off sparked by the Iran war

Where’s the Troika when you need ‘em?

"The Pope is weak on crime and wrong on theology", I'm sorry but there's simply no way anything is going to top that for the remainder of the year, no way.

Contemporary Accounting Research | CAAA Journal | Wiley Online Library We investigate what happens when accounting professionals come under external pressure to change established practices. We focus on corporate tax transparency, which has become an important battlegro....

Another likely upside, however, is ease of scanning work, another crucial pillar of Big Four reputation management:

PwC plans overhaul of global consulting business Shake-up spurred on by rise of AI and threat of major upheaval across the industry

Integration is a logical response to market trends + recurring scandals but will also make it harder for the global network to ringfence national units, a hitherto favoured response when faced with reputational crises.

The first paper of my dissertation is published now in @sociologyjnl.bsky.social!

Press coverage of the richest Germans is rare but focused on a minority of highly visible individuals and varies along the historical origins of fortunes.

doi.org/10.1177/00380385261428292

Switzerland’s Zug becomes bolt-hole for Gulf-based wealth Small Swiss town is welcoming individuals and companies seeking refuge from war in the Middle East

Tilly: War made the state

Silly:

Very excited about updating my Cuban missile crisis teaching to the more contemporary Trump Hormuz crisis teaching.

The Hormuz business has got to have some entrepreneurial Danish politicians thinking, "hmm, maybe we can revive the sound dues (Øresundstolden) of 1429, I mean, 5% of world oil supplies pass through Danish waters for god's sake"

"For every additional dollar of windfall profit, approximately $0.20 is booked in tax havens. This diversion intensifies during commodity booms."

Noteworthy in light of <gestures broadly at the world>

taxobservatory.world/publication/...

ECB to European governments: Please please invest in renewables, it’ll make our job so much easier. Plain as day.

Finished up C. Thi Nguyen’s The Score (it’s good), and the quote that’ll stick with me is, “Cheese is glorious in the mouth, but hard to express in the language of bureaucracy” (it’s not a book about cheese)

From all of us to all of you:

Trump war windfall taxes are coming

Danes are getting dubious AI answers instead of advice and guidance Google has shifted from a search engine to an answer engine, but its AI health answers can be misleading and even outright harmful. The tech giant rejects the criticism.

English translation version of the story here:

Chart for the ages. In Danish but what you see here is a significant decline in visits to official public health platforms after the launch of Google's AI summaries (which, systematically, provide non-evidenced health advice).

Rachel Reeves urged to raise taxes on companies profiting from war on Iran Charities say energy companies, banks and defence companies stand to benefit from the economic fallout

Trump war windfall taxes are... coming?

Research grant processes are brutal.

That is all.

Does that mean it's simply on the official parliamentary agenda, or?

Democratic duty done ✅ Happy election day 🇩🇰

Well when you put it like that..

Doomloop update time, folks. We're slowly re-entering "delay" territory.