Jonathan Mijs

We're hiring 📣 Assistant Professor in the sociology of Health & Aging as part of @bostonu.bsky.social cluster hire on 'The Future of Healthy Aging' Pref for someone with expertise in quantitative or computational approaches More info & apply: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32925

We're hiring 📣 Assistant Professor in Urban Sociology as part of @bostonu.bsky.social cluster hire on 'livable and resilient cities' Pref for someone with expertise in AI or computational methods, spatial analysis or mixed methods More info & apply: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32945

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The media and academia have an obligation to not remain neutral in the face of authoritarianism. These institutions need liberal institutions to exist in any meaningful way. Authoritarianism is an existential threat. Our devotion to "neutrality" will keep us from fighting for our own survival.

Next up here at #ASA2026: a session on elites. Five papers exploring wealth contestation, inequality perceptions, housing wealth, tax havens, and international elites. I'll summarize each below.

Assistant professorship in political science at the @eui-sps.bsky.social! Come and work with us. www.eui.eu/About/JobOpp...

📣Job opportunity (d/l Aug 13): @willemdekoster.bsky.social is hiring a 3-yr postdoc to study the different meanings people ascribe to climate change, drawing on survey (experiment) and discrete choice experiment. Open to Sociology and Social Science PhDs! Apply here: www.eur.nl/en/working-a...

Job opportunity for a Teaching Associate @bostonu.bsky.social: jobs.silkroad.com/BU/External/...

Wrote something about a super exciting project with @jrf-uk.bsky.social @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social where we supported storytellers to creatively tackle the problem of wealth inequality

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You know who you are. Now we do too

“With Raid Immortality Spray, bugs will no longer be granted the sweet release of death, and will instead be burdened with forever walking the Earth watching friends, family, and loved ones slowly wither and expire around them,” said brand representative Sawyer Weidman

A fifth of Leave voters have died.

Exclusive: The National Science Foundation is trimming this year’s budgets for hundreds of its traditional basic science programs by roughly 20% to 30%, even though its overall budget is down just 3%. https://scim.ag/4xY2KCm

💡What to make of "neither agree nor disagree" responses to Qs about racial attitudes? Our original survey in US & Netherlands suggests the racism/non-racism binary overlooks a crucial category: "ambivalent racism" 📄 @isa-sociology.org paper w/ @jonathanmijs.com: doi.org/10.1177/0268... (1/6)

Elon Musk Becomes World’s First Trillionaire https://theonion.com/elon-musk-becomes-worlds-first-trillionaire/

“I want to understand: Where are the taboos? Where are the things that we find difficult to talk about?” – Elif Shafak spoke to @afsee-lse.bsky.social about inequalities – and how literature can expand our worldview #LSEInequalitiesBlog blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

Regular reminder that re-armament in Germany means enriching the already very rich, sprawling clans who are the quiet shareholders of century-old tank manufacturers whose websites have nothing to say about their Hitler-decorated grandfather's use of forced labor during WWII, or anything else.

Running an experiment to study racial discrimination? Going to use names to signal race? Here's a new tool! This helps you to choose the names you want to use based on: 1.) the strength of the racial signal you want to send 2.) whether you want to hold other factors (e.g., class) constant

Our book Trigger Points is now out in open access. Huge thanks to Mike Savage for a terrific foreword and to Michèle Lamont, Silja Häusermann and Daniel Ziblatt for their kind words. Link below: @mikesavagelse.bsky.social @mlamont.bsky.social @siljahausermann.bsky.social @dziblatt.bsky.social

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

Watch out, this might just be the tallest short you'll see all week youtube.com/shorts/H5sZo...

In case anyone is dying to hear a poor but privileged sociologist give financial advice, this one's for you 😘 www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa2F...

What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12 Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...

I’ll be honest: I’m not loving how this hantavirus situation is looking, and I’m also not loving all the public health scientists out here downplaying it and prematurely telling people not to worry. Even if this turns out to be nothing, it’s not good for building trust.

How has public belief in the importance of merit🥇 and privilege💰 changed over time? 🆕Data viz shows a widening gap b/w the perceived importance of family wealth (privilege) and hard work (merit) in a majority of countries in the West Paper: doi.org/10.1177/2378... Code: github.com/cybe2001/mer...

I'm deeply grateful to the American Educational Studies Association for recognizing my book with a Critics' Choice Book Award. @princetonupress.bsky.social @aesatalk.bsky.social Check out "Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education" here: www.amazon.com/Raised-Obey-...

“In the case of the US, CEOs of publicly listed companies earn 269 times more than the average full-time worker. People thought CEOs only earned 18 times as much, and they would prefer it to be just 5 times” – Christopher Hoy in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog

Why is it so hard to do anything about wealth inequality? In the final episode of this series of Antisocial Economics, Sarah Kerr (@wealtherty.bsky.social) talks to Will Snell, @michaelvaughan.bsky.social, and @jonathanmijs.com about what makes change hard to achieve. buff.ly/pEad8xT

Better parks 🌳, tighter communities🧑‍🤝‍🧑!

Mooie kans om te leren van een toponderzoeker in een hele fijne afdeling.

Great piece by Yukiko Asada et al. @socialindicators.bsky.social on taking seriously 'luck' as a driver of life outcomes and inequality, creatively illustrated with reference to the life course of a certain French painter in this figure. Full article: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Onze reactie in De Volkskrant op het vorige week verschenen SCP rapport Verdeeld over het land. @jonathanmijs.com‬ @agatatroost.bsky.social @rug-gmw.bsky.social‬ @volkskrant.nl‬

Scherpe kritiek op het SCP rapport over geografie en klasse: "in de uitwerking van het onderzoek wordt geografie grof gemeten en sociale klasse dermate verdund dat de verschillen verdampen" @jaapnieuwenhuis.bsky.social @jonathanmijs.com @agatatroost.bsky.social www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...

Really interesting paper by @hwaight.bsky.social & Adam Goldstein describing the looong trend of public perceptions that "the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer."

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

We zijn geïnterviewd door Dylan van Rijsbergen over ons project over klasse en klassenbewustzijn voor Jacobin. Heel toepasselijk is het gepubliceerd op 1 mei. Het artikel: jacobin.nl/waarom-klass... @jonathanmijs.com Agata Troost @dylanvr.bsky.social @rug-gmw.bsky.social @jacobinnl.bsky.social

My sabbatical leave allowed me to reflect on my professional life. As I’ve stepped into more senior roles in academia (plus gotten a bit older), I often get asked: 
“How do you keep writing academic articles, policy work, opinion pieces, while juggling everything else?” My answer: skillpower 🧵