Sander Wagner

yes, i prepared that

Fantastic new dataset on parental leave policies across european countries and time.

It will be a valuable research for social science and policy scholars from now on.

Proud to have been part of the multi-national team gathering information to put this together.

"It was just an accident" joining "I am still here" as another very good movie depicting authoritarian rule by focussing on the derailing of the everyday of normal people.

The Beige Book says employment is contracting, ADP says employment is contracting, the BLS says unemployment is going up, continuing jobless claims are rising, and WARN notices are up. It's very clear what's going on in the labor market, but stocks are up so people brush it off.

Thank god that stale bread passage got revisited...

#madeleinebsky

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/a...

So disappointed none of the three eze goals was from a setpiece. Honestly doesn't even feel like my club anymore.

Meanwhile in Oxfordshire

size of cars is an underdiscussed factor in the US mortality exceptionalism imo (number of road accident deaths much higher than other countries w similar gdps)

Is there a more nerdy conference title than "Register Based Fertility Research Meeting". These are my people.

In other news look at councils projected cumulative deficit just on special needs costs over the next few years. Yikes.

Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands? The withering performance and advantage of their children Abstract. Extensive research has examined the effect of educational expansion in one cohort on educational inequality and occupational returns in that same

New article in @sfjournal.bsky.social with @mvaldes1989.bsky.social and I. Lievore on the effect of edu expansion among parents on children's achievement

Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands among parents?

Short answer: yes

1/2

academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

If the current newscycle goes on in this intensity for 2 more days i expect some rockets over venezuela.

anyways, i have entered deep rabbithole territory with that album now. Please excuse senseless rambling about it from here on.

there is a thesis (not in my field, but still...) to be written about how to interpret that kieslowski reference in rosalia's berghain video.

US politics will enter into and polarize every aspect of life and culture: premier league edition

As a general rule, making films that are also good art about the current moment in history is pretty hard.

But seeing "one battle after another" and "bugonia" back to back convinced me that the moment we are living through is absurd enough that it has suddenly become much more possible.

tagging @dirkwitteveen.bsky.social who I know to be interested in this stuff.

Are football's family dynasties the future of elite player development? Hello and welcome back to PITCHSIDE MONITOR, your ultimate source for exclusive club management insights! Football Family Legacies: A Data-Driven Analysis Several weeks ago in Huddersfield, on a pitch...

With a little extra effort this analysis of dynasties in football (or "intergenerational occupational persistence in elite sports" if you prefer academiaspeak) could probably be turned into a sociology paper.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/footba...

Early and late diagnosed autism are quite different, also genetically www.nature.com/articles/s41...

lol

that movie was like many of his movies trying way too hard to be a smart movie. Its like the "causal identification strategy is brilliant but no one cares about the problem" paper turned into a movie... Did not stick in my memory ...

actually liked it... (but maybe because of the barbie pairing my judgment was influenced)

I am very excited about an oddyssey movie (and about the cast of it) to be fair, so just making sure he has what it takes....

Has Christopher Nolan ever done a good movie before Oppenheimer?

Come and be our colleague!!!

As Food Stamps for 40 million Americans are now stopping, here is a classic results of the positive effects that the availability of food stamps has for the birthweights of newborns and for neonatal infant mortality.

www.irp.wisc.edu/publications...

and yes, this is a comment on the causal inference literature.

Big mother whales have more daughters than sons Archival whaling data reveal a sex bias in the offspring of long female whales.

That thing you thought was random, it's actually not!
Edition 35,867:

"The offspring of longer whale mothers are more likely to be female than those of shorter mums"

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast) Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

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you will never guess which team i support...