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Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! The Library will be unstaffed (but open to College members) until 5th January. See you all in 2026!
December 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Freue mich sehr auf die Diskussion mit Luisa Doerr und @juliusk.bsky.social -- herzlichen Dank an @econlessmann.bsky.social fuer die Einladung!
tu-dresden.de/bu/wirtschaf...
December 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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EVENT: Blavatnik Book Launch: Billionaire Backlash

Join Vice Dean Prof Pepper Culpepper for a conversation on the surprising story of how corporate scandals can change the way the world works for the better.

📆 29 Jan, 5:30pm

Register ⬇️
https://ow.ly/XPfm50XN2Uc
December 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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backlash potential of structural change. See below for our first attempt to get at this. osf.io/9usd2/files/...
December 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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🎄 Still looking for a gift for your favourite social scientist?

How about a #preprint with 717 urban areas, 30 countries, and 16,164 models of #Immigrant #Segregation across Europe? Just published with @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social & David Kretschmer 🎅

🎁 Wrapped up here: arxiv.org/abs/2512.17037
December 22, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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DPIR alumni 🌍 Join 25,000+ peers across 26 countries as we celebrate 25 years of impact. Help shape the next chapter—share your reflections in our 5–10 min survey and stay connected to Oxford’s research excellence. 👉 ow.ly/Zugq50XKWqi
December 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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The most-read PQ article of 2025 was....

.... Drumroll....

'The Most Disproportionate UK Election: How the Labour Party Doubled its Seat Share with a 1.6Point Increase in Vote Share in 2024'

Congrats, @martamiori.bsky.social @profjanegreen.bsky.social!
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December 22, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks
December 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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📣📣 New paper with #JoergFriedrichs, @florianschaffner.bsky.social, @niklasstoehr.bsky.social , “Populism and governmentalism as thin-centered ideologies: Emotions and frames on social media” is out at @ejprjournal.bsky.social

Read more: doi.org/10.1017/S147...
December 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Primary factors in intergenerational social class mobility: persistence or change?
doi.org/10.1162/EUSO...
Paper in @europeansocieties.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social student Martina Beretta
Primary factors in intergenerational social class mobility: persistence or change?
Abstract. Past research has extensively examined trends in relative rates of intergenerational social class mobility in 20th-century Western Europe. However, less attention has been given to how…
doi.org
December 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Freue mich sehr über den FNA-Forschungspreis für meine Dissertation zu Gender Pension Gaps – besonders in Zeiten aktueller Rentenreformdebatten. 🙏🎄

Very grateful to receive the FNA Research Prize from the Research Network on Old-Age Security for my dissertation.

#GenderPensionGap
𝗗𝗲𝗿 𝗙𝗡𝗔-𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗻𝗴𝘀𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗶𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗴𝗲𝗵𝘁 𝗮𝗻 𝗗𝗿. 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗮 𝗥𝗼𝘄𝗼𝗹𝗱 – 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝘇𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗚𝗹𝘂̈𝗰𝗸𝘄𝘂𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗵!

Auf der Bundesvertreterversammlung am 10. Dezember würdigte der Vorsitzende des Bundesvorstands der DRV Bund, Alexander Gunkel, Carla Rowolds Dissertation.

Mehr zum FNA-Forschungspreis hier:
👉 tinyurl.com/ppxdsjtd
December 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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If you've recently completed your PhD, or are close to completion, applications for mentees in the RES Women’s Committee Mentoring Programme are closing soon!

Applications close at the end of the year.

Find out more and apply: https://bit.ly/43jQYEz
December 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Coming to the Library soon! This book includes the chapter "How Credible Nuclear Security Guarantees Backfire: Evidence from the United Kingdom" by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow @laurensukin.bsky.social
1/7

It's book publication day! "Atomic Backfires: When Nuclear Policies Fail" is out now from @mitpress.bsky.social in @belfercenter.bsky.social's Studies in International Security book series.

Contents and discount codes below. @managingtheatom.bsky.social

mitpress.mit.edu/978026205185...
December 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
New book co-edited by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow Stephen Broadberry, coming to the Library soon!
December 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Great read and similar in story to my, er rather briefer, take in this @prospectmagazine.co.uk piece.

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...
December 16, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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📢 The Royal Economic Society is delighted to announce the appointment of our newest cohort of #Fellows. We warmly congratulate our new Fellows and thank all those who submitted applications!

Read more here: bit.ly/45bEH5S

#EconSky #Economics
December 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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British politics in 2025 is now bloc politics. @profjanegreen.bsky.social new co-authored article shows how Leave–Remain divides shape vote switching, whether Reform has hit a ceiling, and how viability and voter intensity—using BES data—will shape what comes next: ow.ly/1ygG50XJwag
December 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Did you know that you can select up to 5 of your most important papers as featured works on your @orcid.org record?
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The Featured works section helps you highlight your most important or impactful publications and research outputs. By featuring selected works, you can make it easier for others to find your most r...
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December 17, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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New paper in the American Journal of Sociology (with Michael Grätz), and a very good way to close an important chapter!

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Does Expanding Free Secondary Education Moderate the Relationship Between Genes and Socioeconomic Outcomes? Evidence from the Education Act of 1944 in England | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, N...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
December 16, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Excited to have just finished this pre-analysis plan with @larahankeln.bsky.social, @johannesbrehm.bsky.social, and Henri. It will be interesting to see which, if any, of our predictions will be borne out by the data. More on that in the new year. In the meanwhile, let me tell you about our theory.
December 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Don’t forget! ⏰ The first deadline for 2025–26 MSc, MPhil & DPhil applications is 9 January.

It’s also the latest deadline for most Oxford scholarships - apply by then to be considered 🎓
December 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Introducing our 2025 Job Market Candidates – meet Tanisha Mohapatra.

Tanisha studies how material inequality and social identity interact to shape democratic representation and redistribution.

Find out more about our candidates: www.politics.ox.ac.u...
December 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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DPIR's @laurensukin.bsky.social has co-authored a new article in the @ejisbisa.bsky.social exploring who really shapes nuclear decision-making: www.politics.ox.ac.u...
December 16, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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New year, new job? Join us at the Department of Sociology & Nuffield College. The post is open to candidates from different areas of empirical specialisation and at different levels of experience. Please consider applying! closes Jan 5th. www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/associ...
December 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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10 nuggets from the new "British General Election of 2024" book, courtesy of @timbale.bsky.social

theconversation.com/the-ten-most...
The ten most surprising facts from the 2024 election revealed
Voters cared a lot less about tax than you might think.
theconversation.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM