Christiaan Monden

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📅June 3rd
🗺️Bologna
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/calendar_1921/climate_demography_population_dynamics_in_a_changing_climate_15101

Risto Emilio Zagheni European Association for Population Studies

This new QJE paper concludes that the macroeconomic costs of climate change are far greater than earlier estimates suggested. It finds that a 1°C rise in global temperatures reduces world GDP by over 20%.

Oxbridge blues: How have Cambridge and Oxford economies performed over the past decade? - Centre for Cities Why Cambridge has pulled ahead of Oxford on jobs, productivity and housing – and what it means for both cities.

It continues: “Cambridge has been able to accommodate development within its boundaries. Delivery within Oxford has been far more limited… the main constraint lies within the city itself. Delivering homes within the urban boundary should be Oxford’s strategy.” www.centreforcities.org/blog/oxbridg...

Article - Nuffield Politics Research Centre

@martamiori.bsky.social and I have been writing, since 2024, about why Labour's 'Reform' challenge and emphasis was based on a misunderstanding of Labour's vote. Here for anyone interested: politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology The Swedish Institute for Social research (SOFI) is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Stockholm University. The institute is an internationally leading research institute in the field of socia

My colleagues at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Social Policy unit, are seeking a postdoc for 2-3 years. Great opportunity! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Another example of AI slop as the aesthetic of modern fascism: lazy, ugly, moronic

How tech turned against women [FREE TO READ] As AI-generated sexualised images proliferate and app-facilitated abuse spreads, we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality. It is time to regulate properly

This felt urgent and it is as powerful and galvanising as maddening and incredible. How did we get here? Why has big tech turned against women by author and campaigner Laura Bates as.ft.com/r/9a009af2-d...

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.

Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

Silicon Valley is building a shadow power grid for data centers across the U.S. Tech companies are building data centers with their own private power plants, a risky bet that will increase carbon emissions and other pollution.

@evanhalper.bsky.social on one of the most important developments in the US power sector: the tech industry's push to power data centers without a grid connection. The effect of this fossil gas buildout is massive damage to the climate & local air and water w minimal regulatory or public input.

I’m looking for three PhD students for my new ERC project, starting 1 September. The goal is to understand how firms shape inequality in workers’ careers—using population registers.

Please spread the word! Deadline is March 8, more info here (see projects 4-6):

ics-graduateschool.nl/vacancies/

I think it's wrong to describe the World Service as "soft power". It's actually "info power". And these days that's a very hard form of power indeed.

Postdoctoral researcher on applications of AI in sociological research Are you able to lead sociological research into the AI age?

📢WORK! At the Sociology department of @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social we are hiring a postdoc who will work on applications of AI in sociological research. Join our vibrant-yet-cohesive research community doing cutting-edge research. Please share or apply! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.

This was to be expected - after cutting support to pro-democracy civil society last year, the US state is now looking to actively support far-right affiliated think tanks and charities in Europe.

Huge thanks to Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social, Evelyn Ersanilli, and Alexi Gugushvili @a-gugushvili.bsky.social for their outstanding service to European #sociology.

What a difference their leadership at European Societies has made!
doi.org/10.1162/EUSO...

With universities making a loss on teaching domestic graduates, and almost half of universities in England facing deficits this year, student loans need to be reviewed as part of a much broader, and urgent, rethink of how UK universities are funded.

The university funding crisis finally starting to make it into newspaper editorials
www.ft.com/content/82f5...

Morbid Our morbid fascination with death and dying has created an opening for all manner of skullduggery in the science of aging—an area of study that Morbid ...

So looking forward to reading this: Morbid - Debunking Modern Longevity Science, by Saul Justin Newman. Pre-ordered this morning, out in June. mitpress.mit.edu/978026205271...

Self-driving taxis are coming to London – should we be worried? | Jack Stilgoe Waymo’s cars were first rolled out in San Francisco, but the English capital’s old roads, pelican crossings and jaywalkers may pose issues for AI, says science and technology professor Jack Stilgoe

“Jaywalking is permitted in London. In 1966, the police tried to crack down on it, but gave up after three months.”

People walk and cycle on roads by right, people drive under licence.

Jaywalking is not a thing in English law and Waymo must not change that.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Instead of conferring titles, gongs and baubles and then demanding those titles, gongs and baubles be removed…

…perhaps as a modern, mature polity we should have far fewer titles, gongs and baubles in the first place.

Come join our workshop on excess mortality methodology! It will be two great days of expert talks, discussion groups, and me revealing the results of our many analyst project! 40+ teams have signed up to estimate 1918 pandemic deaths with the method of their choice -- results should be fascinating!

Wikipedia is needed now more than ever, 25 years on The online encyclopedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem. Researchers should help to nourish it.

www.nature.com/articles/d41... #wikipedia @wikipedia.org #openscience #citizenscience

This is a great piece by @phillipspobrien.bsky.social on why it is the President and not his evil counsellors that is to blame for ICE and its excesses - and why the media are pretending otherwise.

We're recruiting! Post-doctoral Researcher in Inequality, Social Policy and Social Mobility. Deadline: 6 Feb 2026

We're hiring for a Post-Doctoral Researcher! Are you...
Close to the completion of / have completed a doctorate in a social science discipline?
A specialist in inequality, social policy, or social mobility?
Experienced in data management and analysis?
If so, apply:
https://ow.ly/Uzse50Y15Gz

Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity

Intergenerational mobility, measuring the ability to achieve economic success regardless of family background, is a critical reflection of a society’s commitment to equality of opportunity. Rising income inequality has raised concerns about the potential erosion of upward mobility. While education has traditionally been viewed as the path to mobility, its transformative power is facing challenges in a rapidly evolving job market. This project reorients the focus of intergenerational mobility research by highlighting the labor market as an arena for the reproduction of advantage. It employs a comparative approach, using administrative data from four countries: Sweden, Austria, England, and the United States. It also incorporates evidence from a broader set of nations through cross-national surveys, longitudinal household surveys, labor force surveys, secondary data, and digital trace data. The project employs cutting-edge empirical methods, including quasi- experimental designs, event studies, within-family comparisons, decomposition analyses, counterfactual simulations, and diagnostic checks to rigorously assess the extent of inequalities in the labor market. The research investigates how family background influences the sorting of individuals to employers and workplaces, accounting for education and occupation, and explores variations in career progression within and between employers. It comprehensively catalogues and assesses mechanisms shaping workplace inequality, contributing to the development of social closure theory. Additionally, the project evaluates intervention strategies, encompassing both employer practices and government actions, to promote fair opportunity in the labor market.

JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project.

Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months.

Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.

Gabriel Zucman on the shocking concentration of extreme wealth in the United States….
gzucman.substack.com?r=nle0&utm_c...

Trump Wants to Halt Almost All Coal Plant Shutdowns. It Could Get Messy.

As a journalist, I've spent lots of time climbing around in old coal plants. They're all rotted-out, cob-webbed piles of metal, industrial haunted houses on the verge of collapse. Keeping them going is yet another sign American energy poverty and political decline.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/c...

Royal Society president reignites Elon Musk row by defending lack of action Society should only eject fellows for fraud or other defects in their research, says Paul Nurse

So depressing when the discourse of science as pure, separable from, and not related to, real world actions is being perpetuate by those with the power to change this...

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet

What a wonderful book! If you read just one book in 2026, please consider this briliant one by @drkatemarvel.bsky.social. Rich, wise, challenging, moving, funny - all at the same time. Whatever you think, feel or know about climate change & science, it won't disappoint. bookshop.org/p/books/huma...

two people sitting touching a big screen Display screen manufacturer Tesla, hopes to add driving capabilities to latest model.

"Display screen manufacturer Tesla, hopes to add driving capabilities to latest model."