Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥

There was a 300k demo against pension plans in 2004 vakbondshistorie.nl/dossiers/het...

Oh wat zuur. Gelukkig houdt jullie faculteit nu wel meer geld over voor promotieplaatsen of andere academische bestedingen. Not.

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A sociology job in Ireland:

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOX816/a...

Heel goed dat dit nu in beeld is gebracht: de oververtegenwoordiging van rechts op tv. M.n. VVD, BBB en JA21 krijgen veel meer zendtijd in verhouding tot zetelaantal. Vergelijk ook CU, SGP, FVD en PvdD: allen 3 zetels, alleen PvdD heeft 0 zendtijd gehad. www.zendtijdincampagnetijd.nl/kamer-vs-tv-...

De belastingen kunnen eerlijker verdeeld Totale belastingdruk in Nederland is het laagst voor de rijken

Het debat over #belastingen en #bezuinigingen zal hopelijk stevig worden in de komende #verkiezingen, met die enorme nieuwe defensieuitgaven voor de deur. Hier een stukje van mij over belastingen, die kunnen in Nederland een stuk eerlijker verdeeld.
open.substack.com/pub/hermwerf...

The reduction of papers/outputs is sizeable: 34%. nice work by @bashofstra.bsky.social et al.

Knowledge lost, parity gained? COVID-19 and gender gaps in Dutch academia - Scientometrics We investigated the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic impacted long-standing gender inequalities in Dutch academia. Dutch academia is an ideal case to gain insight on exacerbated gender differentials due to COVID-19 on employees, because men and women face comparable institutional contexts and any COVID-19 impact becomes visible and measurable fast through potentially decreased yearly publications. We reconstructed the complete publishing careers up till 2022 of more than 8000 Dutch scientists who received a PhD from 1990 onwards and still had an active publication career before the pandemic started. We compared the publication dip between men and women during COVID-19. Our data allowed us to investigate whether the gendered impact of COVID-19 varied across research domains, different PhD cohorts and type of research output. We consistently find that COVID-19 did not have more severe consequences on research output for women than for men.

COVID has reduced the number of papers published by NL-based scholars, but it has not increased the gender gap. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Maar ze zijn wel linkser. En mogelijkerwijs niet overal even sterk - de ESS zou hier uitsluitsel over kunnen geven net als in mijn “left bastion” paper.

Dank u, inderdaad! Nu de volgende stap: is men kritischer in landen waar de professors ook idd linkser zijn? Ik moet het nog lezen hoor!

Congratulations! Great move.

Fair enough. But the tax base must, overall, be much lower than in Europe. Good measures though, no doubt.

Well… the level of inequality in these countries is extreme… to see them as frontrunners is a bit much imo.

De meest effectieve maatregelen van dit kabinet komen in demissionaire-demissionaire status. Met het zicht op verkiezingen…

And we were even more! 😉 @distasioval.bsky.social

A charity run for breast cancer research and care

Ready for Corri la Vita #corrilavita2025

Hoe ChristenUnie en SGP een heilige strijd tegen de Palestijnen voeren - The Rights Forum

Onze nieuwe documentaire onthult: Israël gebruikt christelijke overtuigingen over het einde der tijden om de steun te verwerven van protestants-christelijke politici overal ter wereld, en hiermee parlementen naar hun hand te zetten.

rightsforum.org/hoe-christen...

Hard werken als sleutel tot succes Hard werken als sleutel tot rijkdom en status. We kunnen het geloof in de maakbaarheid van succes moeilijk loslaten. Maar het is een illusie, zeggen sociologen.

Het onvolprezen science museum NEMO interviewde mij voor een “NEMO Kennislink” over kansengelijkheid. Al een paar maanden oud maar had het nog niet gedeeld. @eui-eu.bsky.social @eui-sps.bsky.social

www.nemokennislink.nl/publicaties/...

Any data science program without DAGs and causal inference is a failure. We don’t need more grads chasing spurious correlations in big data with zero business sense. Prove me wrong.

Vacancy — Assistant Professor in Political Science The Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam invites applications for one and possibly two tenure-track Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent) positions in Political Science w...

At the Department of Political Science (University of Amsterdam, @uva-fmg.bsky.social), we are looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team. Interested? You can find all details and apply here: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies....

We should have a discussion at @eui-eu.bsky.social on this report.

New OECD report on inequality of opportunity is out www.oecd.org/content/dam/...
Happy to see that OECD consider our approach to inequality of opportunity estimation to be useful.

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Alexander Monge-Naranjo on the College Affordability Crisis Podcastaflevering · The Inequality Podcast · 22-09-2025 · 32 min.

podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/t.... For me working with a macro econ taught me a lot. It’s quite a different approach from labor economics that comes closer to our work in stratification sociology.

Ha! Interview with Alex Monge at the Inequality Podcast of the @ucstonecenter.bsky.social, with @durlauf.bsky.social. Alex was my co-coordinator of the Inequality Cluster at the @eui-eu.bsky.social in the past three years. He moved on to the Fed. Macro-economics on social mobility and inequality.>

Interesting statistics in the @financialtimes.com about field of study choices of foreign students in the UK, by country of origin. A large fraction of US students enter the SSH fields, while this is only a small part among students from Africa and South Asia.

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Minister Heinen zei vanochtend namens het kabinet dat de rellen van gisteren niet politiek moeten worden gemaakt.

Ik heb nieuws voor het kabinet: je kan niet iets politiek máken dat allang politiek ís.

Viel me wel op dat Wilders expliciet het blokkeren van de snelweg noemde - vast een andere groep indachtig.