Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥
@hermwerf.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology at the #EUI, Florence. Works on education & social stratification. Posts r personal.
@eui-sps.bsky.social
Substack/blogs: https://hermwerf.substack.com/
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=amYIKXQAAAAJ&hl=nl
@eui-sps.bsky.social
Substack/blogs: https://hermwerf.substack.com/
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=amYIKXQAAAAJ&hl=nl
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Very happy informing y'all that I won the 2025 Distinguished Publication Prize of the European Academy of Sociology, for my ASR paper of last year. #EAS. My paper is here, open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... . The link to EAS: www.european-academy-sociology.eu/publication-...
The poster of our school band, I played the drums. We’re talking 1985…
January 3, 2026 at 11:54 AM
The poster of our school band, I played the drums. We’re talking 1985…
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🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨
We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social
Any questions, please reach out to me
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We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social
Any questions, please reach out to me
📣 Please share! 📣
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
November 25, 2025 at 8:38 AM
🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨
We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social
Any questions, please reach out to me
📣 Please share! 📣
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social
Any questions, please reach out to me
📣 Please share! 📣
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Mocht iemand denken dat de opleidingskloof imaginair is, hier de Pisa scores voor vmbo’ers en havo/vwo’ers.
December 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Mocht iemand denken dat de opleidingskloof imaginair is, hier de Pisa scores voor vmbo’ers en havo/vwo’ers.
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Siegfried Woldhek is spot on as always.
December 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Siegfried Woldhek is spot on as always.
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Since the first International Workshop on Analytical Sociology in 2008, INAS is returning to Oxford.
The 18th Annual INAS Conference will take place from 1 to 3 July 2026 at the University of Oxford, hosted by Nuffield College and the Department of Sociology.
Submission deadline: 1 Feb 2026
The 18th Annual INAS Conference will take place from 1 to 3 July 2026 at the University of Oxford, hosted by Nuffield College and the Department of Sociology.
Submission deadline: 1 Feb 2026
INAS Conference 2026 - Nuffield College Oxford University
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk
December 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Since the first International Workshop on Analytical Sociology in 2008, INAS is returning to Oxford.
The 18th Annual INAS Conference will take place from 1 to 3 July 2026 at the University of Oxford, hosted by Nuffield College and the Department of Sociology.
Submission deadline: 1 Feb 2026
The 18th Annual INAS Conference will take place from 1 to 3 July 2026 at the University of Oxford, hosted by Nuffield College and the Department of Sociology.
Submission deadline: 1 Feb 2026
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"the best practices of the future might involve publishing experimental or quasi-experimental results in tandem with qualitative or survey-based studies on the same intervention."
It'd be helpful to have more thorough documentation of resources required, too.
www.brookings.edu/articles/a-m...
It'd be helpful to have more thorough documentation of resources required, too.
www.brookings.edu/articles/a-m...
A more expansive approach to studying what works in education | Brookings
James Soland urges a broader approach to education research, combining causal and qualitative studies to show what works.
www.brookings.edu
December 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
"the best practices of the future might involve publishing experimental or quasi-experimental results in tandem with qualitative or survey-based studies on the same intervention."
It'd be helpful to have more thorough documentation of resources required, too.
www.brookings.edu/articles/a-m...
It'd be helpful to have more thorough documentation of resources required, too.
www.brookings.edu/articles/a-m...
Help Oekraïne de winter door. whydonate.com/nl/fundraisi...
December 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Help Oekraïne de winter door. whydonate.com/nl/fundraisi...
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Heeft u het ook zo lekker warm? In Ukraine niet! Zelfs de ziekenhuizen en militaire veldhospitalen zitten nu soms zonder stroom. Doneer hier en Vrienden van Ukraine rijden er generatoren naar toe. Juist nu, belastingaftrekbaar nog ook (ANBI). vvodiel.nl/winteractie-...
December 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Heeft u het ook zo lekker warm? In Ukraine niet! Zelfs de ziekenhuizen en militaire veldhospitalen zitten nu soms zonder stroom. Doneer hier en Vrienden van Ukraine rijden er generatoren naar toe. Juist nu, belastingaftrekbaar nog ook (ANBI). vvodiel.nl/winteractie-...
New paper by John Goldthorpe, in the Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, restating and developing his position on causality. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Description, Causal Explanation, and Policy Intervention in Sociology - KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
I seek to restate and to develop a position I have previously taken up on the relation between description and causal explanation in sociology, in part by reference to an ongoing controversy on this m...
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December 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
New paper by John Goldthorpe, in the Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, restating and developing his position on causality. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Oh all that food we’re making for tomorrow’s ’second Christmas day’ with my family, in NL.
December 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Oh all that food we’re making for tomorrow’s ’second Christmas day’ with my family, in NL.
Ik dacht ik schrijf maar even een blog over dit collider probleem. open.substack.com/pub/hermwerf...
December 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Ik dacht ik schrijf maar even een blog over dit collider probleem. open.substack.com/pub/hermwerf...
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My new post: class bias in professors' aspirations? Or conditioning on colliders...? About Nobel Prize winning physics professors around 1900. hermwerf.substack.com/p/social-cla...
Social class background and aspirations of professors
Or: Is there a class bias in empiricism? Or: What motivated old Nobel prize winners in physics? Or: conditioning on a collider once again...
hermwerf.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
My new post: class bias in professors' aspirations? Or conditioning on colliders...? About Nobel Prize winning physics professors around 1900. hermwerf.substack.com/p/social-cla...
Reading a biography of a physics professor who worked around 1900, I see a lot of reference to parties celebrating 25 years of doctorates. This makes me think if I need to take action in March 2026…
December 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Reading a biography of a physics professor who worked around 1900, I see a lot of reference to parties celebrating 25 years of doctorates. This makes me think if I need to take action in March 2026…
My new post: class bias in professors' aspirations? Or conditioning on colliders...? About Nobel Prize winning physics professors around 1900. hermwerf.substack.com/p/social-cla...
Social class background and aspirations of professors
Or: Is there a class bias in empiricism? Or: What motivated old Nobel prize winners in physics? Or: conditioning on a collider once again...
hermwerf.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
My new post: class bias in professors' aspirations? Or conditioning on colliders...? About Nobel Prize winning physics professors around 1900. hermwerf.substack.com/p/social-cla...
De biografie lezend van Pieter Zeeman, is het opvallend dat veel grote natuurkundigen de HBS hebben gedaan, niet het gymnasium. K. Onnes, Zeeman, Lorentz, Van der Waals. Maar om te concluderen dat de HBS een waardevolle opleiding was, moeten we eerst realiseren dat we conditioneren op een collider
December 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
De biografie lezend van Pieter Zeeman, is het opvallend dat veel grote natuurkundigen de HBS hebben gedaan, niet het gymnasium. K. Onnes, Zeeman, Lorentz, Van der Waals. Maar om te concluderen dat de HBS een waardevolle opleiding was, moeten we eerst realiseren dat we conditioneren op een collider
Petitie: DigiD niet in Amerikaanse handen - doe je ook mee? actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/st...
Stop de Amerikaanse overname DigiD!
Onze privé-gegevens zijn bij overname door een Amerikaans bedrijf niet veilig!
Dit lijkt ons niet de veilige manier nu president Trump in Amerika aan het roer staat. Dit kan misgaan!
Als de Nederland...
actie.degoedezaak.org
December 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Petitie: DigiD niet in Amerikaanse handen - doe je ook mee? actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/st...
This is a great paper on residential segregation in Europe. See how Western Europe is rather much segregated.
December 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This is a great paper on residential segregation in Europe. See how Western Europe is rather much segregated.
Zegt u het maar: Politicoloog Arend Lijphart @lijphart.bsky.social: ‘De VS waren nooit echt democratisch’, of Arie Elshout in de @volkskrant.nl: ‘Want ook al kent Amerika zijn ups en downs, zijn excessen, het blijft een tot in al zijn vezels gedemocratiseerde samenleving’.
December 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Zegt u het maar: Politicoloog Arend Lijphart @lijphart.bsky.social: ‘De VS waren nooit echt democratisch’, of Arie Elshout in de @volkskrant.nl: ‘Want ook al kent Amerika zijn ups en downs, zijn excessen, het blijft een tot in al zijn vezels gedemocratiseerde samenleving’.
Amsterdam ❤️ Light Festival
December 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Amsterdam ❤️ Light Festival
This was minutes of fun: “Washing your hair in a long, relaxing shower at CERN? You better believe that’s conditioning on a collider.”
Obligatory blog post:
www.the100.ci/2017/03/14/t...
Elwert & Winship (2014) if you crave something more serious: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
www.the100.ci/2017/03/14/t...
Elwert & Winship (2014) if you crave something more serious: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
That one weird third variable problem nobody ever mentions: Conditioning on a collider
Scroll to the very end of this post for an addendum.<fn>If you only see footnotes, you have scrolled too far.</fn>
Reading skills of children correlate with their shoe size. Number of storks in an ar...
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December 21, 2025 at 9:14 AM
This was minutes of fun: “Washing your hair in a long, relaxing shower at CERN? You better believe that’s conditioning on a collider.”
Mooi stuk. De politieke kloof is tussen opleidingsniveaus is overigens groter in landen waar vroeger geselecteerd wordt. De redenatie van Kruk volgend, zou in dergelijke landen de voedingsbodem vruchtbaarder zijn voor politiek populisme?
December 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Mooi stuk. De politieke kloof is tussen opleidingsniveaus is overigens groter in landen waar vroeger geselecteerd wordt. De redenatie van Kruk volgend, zou in dergelijke landen de voedingsbodem vruchtbaarder zijn voor politiek populisme?
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Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin
Call for applications for the position of Assistant Professor in Sociology, commencing on 3 August 2026.
Application deadline: 26 January 2026
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPW155/a...
Call for applications for the position of Assistant Professor in Sociology, commencing on 3 August 2026.
Application deadline: 26 January 2026
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPW155/a...
Assistant Professor in Sociology at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
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December 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin
Call for applications for the position of Assistant Professor in Sociology, commencing on 3 August 2026.
Application deadline: 26 January 2026
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPW155/a...
Call for applications for the position of Assistant Professor in Sociology, commencing on 3 August 2026.
Application deadline: 26 January 2026
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPW155/a...
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CRIS - SCIENCES PO IS HIRING AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR - The deadline to apply is January 19
Full job description available here (pdf, 69 KB). Applications are due by 19 January 2026.
www.sciencespo.fr/cris/en/news...
Full job description available here (pdf, 69 KB). Applications are due by 19 January 2026.
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Sciences Po is hiring an Associate Professor in Environmental Inequalities
Poste à pourvoir au plus tard le 1er septembre 2026
www.sciencespo.fr
December 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
CRIS - SCIENCES PO IS HIRING AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR - The deadline to apply is January 19
Full job description available here (pdf, 69 KB). Applications are due by 19 January 2026.
www.sciencespo.fr/cris/en/news...
Full job description available here (pdf, 69 KB). Applications are due by 19 January 2026.
www.sciencespo.fr/cris/en/news...
A vacancy for a professorship in economic sociology at the @eui-eu.bsky.social’s School of Transnational Governance. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
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December 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
A vacancy for a professorship in economic sociology at the @eui-eu.bsky.social’s School of Transnational Governance. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...