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When Political Pivots Shift Behaviors but Not Beliefs: Evidence from Trump’s Position Reversal over Facemasks during the COVID-19 Crisis - Bartholomew A. Konechni, 2026 Political leaders play a potentially important role shaping behaviors and beliefs during crises. In the pandemic, a number of high-status politicians, notably l...

What happens when politicians pivot during a crisis?

I examine Trump’s July 2020 mask pivot. It increased Republican mask use, closing 40% of the partisan gap.

But paradoxically, beliefs about masks' efficacy didn’t change.

doi.org/10.1177/0003... @asanews.bsky.social #Trump #PublicHealth

PhD and Postdoc positions for LEARN Project (ERC) 1 Doctoral and 1 Postdoctoral positions - Deadline April 12th

Take the opportunity to do your PhD or Postdoc in social sciences as part of the LEARN project, led by @betthaeuser.bsky.social at Sciences Po Paris. Understanding the Consequences of Major Health Crises for Education: Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemic. Apply -> www.sciencespo.fr/cris/en/news...

Our paper with Ginevra Floridi out in Sociological Science now!

We use sequence analysis, LCA & survival models to map how parental financial and co-residential support unfolds across young adulthood. We find 3 distinct pathways & a gendered relationship between marriage and independence.

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Studying inequality in the city with María José Álvarez-Rivadulla - Nature Cities In this interview, sociologist María José Álvarez-Rivadulla talks about her experience with urban research in Latin America and the USA. She also reflects on the Global South’s contributions to urban ...

See full interview in Nature Cities: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#Bogotá #UrbanChange #Storytell

"Bogotá (and Colombia in general) has been a laboratory of experimental policies, disruptions, and attempts at changing that could be useful examples for other places," says a sociologist and Change Stories collaborator, María José Álvarez-Rivadulla.

Welcome, @labussieremarie.bsky.social Marie !

✨ I’ve just started as an Assistant Professor at Sciences Po!

After 9 years living abroad, I’m returning to my home country. I’ll miss many things—especially my fantastic colleagues at @uva.nl and @maastrichtu.bsky.social —but I’m excited to begin this new position at @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social!

Scientific excellence: four Sciences Po researchers awarded ERC grants Researchers Diane Bolet (political scientist, CEE), Julia Cagé (economist, Department of Economics), Axelle Ferrière (economist, Department of Economics), and Mirna Safi (sociologist, CRIS) have been ...

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Mirna Safi's @msafi.bsky.social project @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social focuses on the links between unequal treatment and unequal outcomes across countries, regions, and workplace.

CRIS is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for the DISEQUAL project The Discrimination-Inequality Cycle: Bridging Unequal Treatment and Unequal Outcomes across Countries, Regions and Workplaces

This is a great postdoc opportunity on a very interesting project on the association between discrimination and social inequality
@cris-sciencespo.bsky.social

www.sciencespo.fr/cris/en/news...

RC28 Online Meeting on Educational Inequalities ISA-Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility Meeting, January 20 th - 21 st.

Gearing up for the RC28 @isa-rc28.bsky.social Online Conference on Educational Inequalities on 20-21 January 2026! We have a great lineup of speakers from different regions who will address current topics in the field of educational stratification and inequalities. www.sciencespo.fr/cris/en/even...

The Discrimination-Inequality Cycle: Bridging Unequal Treatment and Unequal Outcomes across Countries, Regions and Workplaces New project led by Mirna Safi, funded by the European Research Council

Congratulations to @msafi.bsky.social Mirna Safi for her @erc.europa.eu ERC "DISEQUAL" project to investigate the links between discrimination and inequalities, combining experimental and observational data. @sciencespo.bsky.social @scpo-research.bsky.social Bravo!

www.sciencespo.fr/cris/en/news...

@scpo-research.bsky.social

CRIS @sciencespo.bsky.social @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social is hiring! Recruiting postdoc to join the research team led by Prof. Mirna Safi @msafi.bsky.social on the ERC project “The Discrimination-Inequality Cycle (DISEQUAL)." Deadline 8 February 2026. Apply, share!

www.sciencespo.fr/cris/files/J...

Linda Haapajärvi and Bartholomew A. Konechni Countering anti-Asian violence in a Parisian banlieue: Defensive familism https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380261251397343 The Sociological Review #OnlineFirst

How do French-Asians use kinship ties to protect themselves against racialised violence?

Linda Haapajärvi and @bkonechni.bsky.social @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social on “defensive familism”, state neglect and the erosion of egalitarian ideals.

#OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/RKiooNU

A time penalty for the Global South? Inequalities in visa appointment wait times at German embassies and consulates worldwide Visas are a key tool for states to regulate incoming mobility from abroad, which can have ramifications for the establishment and perpetuation of glob…

New article by @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social Ettore Recchi et al. shows that the poorer the country, the longer the wait time and the lower the chances of finding a visa appointment - very topical in light of current debates! @politicalgeography.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We document how much differnt types of Twitter/X users (from far-left to far-right) post different types of news sources on immigration. Far-right users are much more likely to share hyperpartisan sources, but they also share legacy and public broadcasting sources in similar or even greater proportions to left and center users.

Katharina Tittel, @piotram.bsky.social and I identified patterns of sources in French-language X immigration posts and the likely ideological leanings of posters. Far-right users uniquely flood feeds with hyper-partisan sources, but also post mainstream and public media like left/center users.

Flooding the Feed: The Politics of Social Media Sharing Among Defensive Publics What political significance do widely-shared sources on social media carry? Efforts at documenting media content have produced useful insights about political phenomena, including right-wing populi...

Interesting new paper out by Katharina Tittel and @williamlallen.bsky.social. Sharing practices on social media are used by members of defensive publics to assert dominance in a contested media environment. @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social @scpo-research.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sciences Po is hiring an Associate Professor in Environmental Inequalities Poste à pourvoir au plus tard le 1er septembre 2026

CRIS @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social is hiring!
Sciences Po is recruiting an Associate Professor in Environmental Inequalities and Public Policies who will teach undergraduate and graduate courses at the Climate School of Sciences Po. @sciencespo.bsky.social
www.sciencespo.fr/cris/en/news...

ANNONCES DES LAURÉATS DU PRIX DE LA RECHERCHE MIDI 2025 Le collectif interdisciplinaire Migration et Diversité (MiDi) de Sciences Po a le plaisir d'annoncer les lauréat·es de son Prix de la recherche MiDi 2025.

👏 ANNONCES DES LAURÉATS DU PRIX DE LA RECHERCHE MIDI 2025 @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social @ceri-sciencespo.bsky.social @sciencespolawphd.bsky.social

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Great work! In Scandinavian data that lets us look at a longer career span up to age 40 we find much higher referral rates. Direct = working at father’s workplace. Indirect = working with a former colleague of father. Forthcoming with @natewilmers.bsky.social at @amjsoc.bsky.social

I’m hiring a postdoc! Flexible in terms of details, but I’m looking for someone to collaborate with on research about labor market inequality. I’ll review applications as they come in and the posting just went up here:
apply.interfolio.com/178873

World Inequality Report 2026 The World Inequality Report 2026 offers the most up-to-date synthesis of international research efforts to track global inequalities.

⚠️The top 0.001% - less than 60,000 multi-millionaires -
owns three times more wealth than the entire bottom half of humanity combined.

Explore more findings in this third edition of the World Inequality report 👇 wir2026.wid.world

You can read the World Inequality Report 2026 in 10 different languages: English, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Portugese, Spanish, Russian, and Thai
wir2026.wid.world/download/

World Inequality Conference 2026 - World Inequality Lab The World Inequality Lab is organizing the third edition of the World Inequality Conference, to be held at the Paris School of Economics on June 4-5, 2026.

One week left to submit to the Call for Papers for the World Inequality Conference 2026, which will take place at the Paris School of Economics on June 4–5, 2026.

inequalitylab.world/en/event/wor...

Racial Inequality and Redistribution in Post-Apartheid South Africa - WID - World Inequality Database Racial Inequality and Redistribution in Post-Apartheid South Africa The source for global inequality data. Open access, high quality wealth and income inequality data developed by an international aca...

South Africa remains the most unequal country in the world, with the top 10% earning 70% of all pretax income.

New study by A. Gethin & L. Czajka shows that inequality in 2019 was as high as in 1993.

Racial inequality reduced only because top 10% Black incomes surged.

▶️ wid.world/news-article...

📰 En Une du @lemonde.fr aujourd'hui :

"L'extrême concentration des richesses mondiales"

3 article à lire pour découvrir en avant-première Le Rapport sur les inégalités mondiales 2026

www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...

YouTube video by World Inequality Lab World Inequality Report 2026

Today, we are publishing our World Inequality Report, which reviews the most recent #inequalitydata and exposes the magnitude of #inequality across time, space and all its dimensions.

👇Share this thread, share the report!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67u...

The Microlevel Foundations of Social Stratification Processes: Perfect Rationality, Bounded Rationality, and Behavioral Approaches AbstractThis chapter discusses the strengths and limitations of three theoretical approaches to decision-making that are widely used in social stratificati

New chapter by Carlo Barone, director of @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social at @sciencespo.bsky.social The Microlevel Foundations of Social Stratification Processes: Perfect Rationality, Bounded Rationality, and Behavioral Approaches, and look out for the book publication! academic.oup.com/edited-volum...