Katy Morris

Sunshine and shadows at in the Grand Gallery atrium at the National Museum of Scotland

A Grand Gallery indeed at the National Museum of Scotland:

Where’s a girl supposed to go for a late night butterbean kebab now 😭

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NEW: Mood, "Equalization through Deterioration: The Shrinking Gender Gap in Swedish School Grades" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

St Paul’s and the National Theatre from Waterloo Bridge

Not bad London, not bad

Teacher bias or unobserved ability? @ssreditorial.bsky.social paper w/ @marespadafor.bsky.social Test score error & omitted behavior = 🐘 in the (class)room to identify SES discrimination. Still, beyond "true ability", well-off (low-performing) kids get higher teacher ratings: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity - Nature By analysing the smartphone data of 2,112,288 participants, in particular observing and comparing the activity of the same individual in two different environments, we find that increases in the walkability of environments result in increases in daily physical activity, providing evidence of the importance of the built environment on physical health.

There's a really nice new study using phone data from Americans who relocated from one city to another to look at the effect of walkable environments on physical activity. E.g., people move TO New York and walk more, they move FROM New York and walk less www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Message from BankID: Your phone needs an update. If your device cannot be updated, you need to change it

On digital ID: I’d have liked it if Sweden (BankID) had also congratulated me for keeping an iPhone going for this long

We are excited for the start of this term's Inequalities Seminar Series!

In our first seminar, @katymorris.bsky.social explores the effects of income misperceptions on inequality beliefs and preferences.

🎟️ Attend in-person: buff.ly/VGrS38l
💻 Attend online: buff.ly/U7CxSmD

The educational wealth divide in Europe: Post-secondary enrollment gaps across parental wealth components and countries Parental wealth is a crucial dimension of socioeconomic status (SES) and plays a significant role in the intergenerational transmission of educational…

The educational #wealth divide in #Europe
New study by Andrea Pietrolucci, Jascha Dräger, Nora Müller, and Marco Albertini,: Beyond income, parental wealth shapes young people’s chances of entering higher education.
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This Londoner is happy to be dropping by @lseinequalities.bsky.social next week to present findings from a survey experiment project with Kattalina Berriochoa and Andrew McNeil

Sign up is below; zap if you fancy an overpriced flat white (in London most of the week)

Congratulations sir!

Fantastic - congratulations Theresa!

Even Södra huset looks beautiful in the sunshine

Blues and greens @stockholm-uni.bsky.social

Cultivating trust? The role of European Union investments in bridging rural-urban divides Over the last decades, agricultural policies and structural investment funds for regional development have been central to European integration. Howev…

Billions of 🇪🇺 money flow into regional development.
But do citizens trust the EU more in return?

🔬 Find out in this Electoral Studies article with Paul Maneuvrier-Hervieu and Anne-Marie Jeannet.

❗Spoiler: EU 💶 regional funds do build trust in the 🇪🇺 , especially among working-class citizens.

What beautiful graphics 😍

Routledge being useless and forcing me to go to Amazon

Academic publishers that do not provide embedded metadata for @zotero.org etc, what are you even doing?

Today I'm looking at you, Routledge

Congrats, Mikko!

🚨 New working paper alert 🚨
Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️
In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...

Alas my förskola education did not cover mushrooms...

Giant mushrooms on Runmarö, in the Stockholm Archipelago

Such a friendly looking 🍄

Water bottle for scale

It’s the most mycological time of the year

"French pensioners now have higher incomes than working-age adults" - extraordinary

By @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

www.ft.com/content/d419...

An Unreliable Ladder: Top–Bottom Self-Placement, Subjective Social Status, and Political Preferences Article: An Unreliable Ladder: Top–Bottom Self-Placement, Subjective Social Status, and Political Preferences | Sociological Science | Posted September 11, 2025

Hmmm dodgy link, go here instead sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

How do respondents interpret the classic ISSP ladder question that is usually deemed to measure subjective social status?

In a whole heap of different ways, according to Lewis Anderson @dspi-oxford.bsky.social

Fully agree! But some of the NEET rise is not so mysterious...

The Guardian has a good series on transport and opportunity problems in coastal towns
bsky.app/profile/lisa...

Do mothers’ occupation-specific skills impact children’s developmental processes? This study examines whether mothers’ occupation-specific skills influence children’s development. I argue that while education is a valuable proxy for…

📣 New publication in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility!

🔎 Do mothers’ occupation-specific skills shape children’s development?

✅ Yes! When mothers move into jobs with higher skill demands, their kids show stronger skills.

Open access here 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Swedish class for inept beginners

Hej, jag heter Katy 🇸🇪

Photo of three babies lying on the carpet

Graphic describing some of the key features of the study: 30,000 babies will take part, it is the first new UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years, babies will be age 9-11 months at the first survey, and 3-4 years at the second survey.

Graphic showing sample sizes in the four UK countries: 16,300 babies in England, 5,000 babies in Scotland, 4,500 babies in Wales, and 4,200 babies in Northern Ireland.

Graphic describing some of the elements of the study. This includes boosts for ethnic minority and low income families, interviews with fathers as well as mothers, consent to linkage to administrative data.

We're excited to announce CLS will lead the first new nationally representative UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years. Generation New Era will follow the lives of more than 30,000 babies born in 2026, during their early years, and potentially beyond. Read more: bit.ly/4gfttBP

Congratulations (and thank you!)

Booooooooring bsky.app/profile/jame...