Joel Cantó Roche
@cantjoel.bsky.social
Català(n) 1st generation, working-class Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto (he/him/his) 🏳️🌈 | before at Pompeu Fabra, Universitat de Barcelona, UC Berkeley | LGBTIQ+ Comparative Politics, European Union, Representation. https://jcantoroc.github.io/
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"At least $5.9 trillion will be inherited by billionaire children over the next 15 years, the bank calculates."
Billionaires are inheriting record levels of wealth, UBS report finds reut.rs/3MFJWnW
Billionaires are inheriting record levels of wealth, UBS report finds
The spouses and children of billionaires inherited more wealth in 2025 than in any previous year since reporting began in 2015, according to UBS's Billionaire Ambitions Report published on Thursday.
reut.rs
December 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
"At least $5.9 trillion will be inherited by billionaire children over the next 15 years, the bank calculates."
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New paper! @william-dinneen.bsky.social @guygrossman.bsky.social Yiqing Xu and I use GPT to code 91k articles from 174 polisci journals (2003–2023)and track research designs, transparency practices, and citations. How has the credibility revolution reshaped the discipline? doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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December 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
New paper! @william-dinneen.bsky.social @guygrossman.bsky.social Yiqing Xu and I use GPT to code 91k articles from 174 polisci journals (2003–2023)and track research designs, transparency practices, and citations. How has the credibility revolution reshaped the discipline? doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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Insisto: esto ya no parece tanto una cuestión de si la transición energética va a ocurrir o no. Es una cuestión de cómo de rápida va a ser, cómo de justa va a ser, y quien se va a quedar atrás en el proceso (pagando unos costes muy altos).
Good morning with good news: Global battery system deployment skyrocketed 38% to 156 GWh in first 10 months of 2025, compared to 2024!
Global: +38%
• China: +27%
• Europe: +21%
• North America: +21%
• ROW: +242%
Global BESS pipeline up 23% to 732 GWh!
rhomotion.com/news/global-... #energysky
Global: +38%
• China: +27%
• Europe: +21%
• North America: +21%
• ROW: +242%
Global BESS pipeline up 23% to 732 GWh!
rhomotion.com/news/global-... #energysky
December 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Insisto: esto ya no parece tanto una cuestión de si la transición energética va a ocurrir o no. Es una cuestión de cómo de rápida va a ser, cómo de justa va a ser, y quien se va a quedar atrás en el proceso (pagando unos costes muy altos).
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🌈 Hi everyone!
😯 We want to star this new academic year by announcing our lineup for the coming months.
👉 On October 2, we will start our programme with @alsogwendolyn.bsky.social!
👉 On November 6, we will have @frammaturo.bsky.social!
👉 And on December 4 with @payoub.bsky.social and Samuel Whitt!
😯 We want to star this new academic year by announcing our lineup for the coming months.
👉 On October 2, we will start our programme with @alsogwendolyn.bsky.social!
👉 On November 6, we will have @frammaturo.bsky.social!
👉 And on December 4 with @payoub.bsky.social and Samuel Whitt!
September 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
🌈 Hi everyone!
😯 We want to star this new academic year by announcing our lineup for the coming months.
👉 On October 2, we will start our programme with @alsogwendolyn.bsky.social!
👉 On November 6, we will have @frammaturo.bsky.social!
👉 And on December 4 with @payoub.bsky.social and Samuel Whitt!
😯 We want to star this new academic year by announcing our lineup for the coming months.
👉 On October 2, we will start our programme with @alsogwendolyn.bsky.social!
👉 On November 6, we will have @frammaturo.bsky.social!
👉 And on December 4 with @payoub.bsky.social and Samuel Whitt!
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Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation
Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation
Study finds that a week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken three years
Small changes to the tone of posts fed to users of X can increase feelings of political polarisation as much in a week as would have historically taken at least three years, research has found.
A groundbreaking experiment to gauge the potency of Elon Musk’s social platform to increase political division found that when posts expressing anti-democratic attitudes and partisan animosity were boosted, even barely perceptibly, in the feeds of Democrat and Republican supporters there was a large change in their unfavourable feelings towards the other side. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation
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With the Progressive Politics Research Network, we have published 8 new research briefs on the politics of housing. What does a progressive agenda on housing look like? Which elements are important? What the hurdles are and how can they be overcome?
politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...
politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
With the Progressive Politics Research Network, we have published 8 new research briefs on the politics of housing. What does a progressive agenda on housing look like? Which elements are important? What the hurdles are and how can they be overcome?
politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...
politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...
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This, in Rome’s Termini Station, is an undeniable New York City cultural victory but also feels weird
November 28, 2025 at 7:34 AM
This, in Rome’s Termini Station, is an undeniable New York City cultural victory but also feels weird
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💻 Laptops are great, but not during class. 💻
Laptops are the standard in classrooms. This needs to change.
New meta-analysis of 24 experiments shows that handwriting will lead to higher grades for students.
So this 2017 NYTimes op-ed by @dynarski.bsky.social is even truer today.
Laptops are the standard in classrooms. This needs to change.
New meta-analysis of 24 experiments shows that handwriting will lead to higher grades for students.
So this 2017 NYTimes op-ed by @dynarski.bsky.social is even truer today.
November 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
💻 Laptops are great, but not during class. 💻
Laptops are the standard in classrooms. This needs to change.
New meta-analysis of 24 experiments shows that handwriting will lead to higher grades for students.
So this 2017 NYTimes op-ed by @dynarski.bsky.social is even truer today.
Laptops are the standard in classrooms. This needs to change.
New meta-analysis of 24 experiments shows that handwriting will lead to higher grades for students.
So this 2017 NYTimes op-ed by @dynarski.bsky.social is even truer today.
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
November 27, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
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🚨🚨 "Brussels is a bureaucracy. It is good at process and law. But it is incapable of acting quickly and ruthlessly like the European great powers of the past, or like the US and China today." Excellent piece by @gideonrachman.bsky.social on the "Scramble for Europe".
November 19, 2025 at 7:42 AM
🚨🚨 "Brussels is a bureaucracy. It is good at process and law. But it is incapable of acting quickly and ruthlessly like the European great powers of the past, or like the US and China today." Excellent piece by @gideonrachman.bsky.social on the "Scramble for Europe".
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I doubt that I will ever be able to include a better footnote.
November 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I doubt that I will ever be able to include a better footnote.
In Pulpits and Pews, Catholic Churches Urge Compassion for Immigrants
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Not hard to make profit margins over 30% if you don't pay people who produce the content you sell, and their employers pay you for access
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
November 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Not hard to make profit margins over 30% if you don't pay people who produce the content you sell, and their employers pay you for access
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Families' wealth in 1427 predicts their wealth in 2011.
May 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Families' wealth in 1427 predicts their wealth in 2011.
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Moody’s le quita la triple A a Estados Unidos. Cositas que pasan. www.ft.com/content/e456...
Moody’s strips US of top-notch triple-A credit rating
Agency warns of strains caused by rising government debt and a widening budget deficit
www.ft.com
May 16, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Moody’s le quita la triple A a Estados Unidos. Cositas que pasan. www.ft.com/content/e456...
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I wrote a thing about why 'cultural' class analysis is badly equipped for challenging the cosplaying of working class culture by the far right & why working class formations are best conceptualised as multi-status.
Part of a great SI on Beverley Skeggs' work: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Part of a great SI on Beverley Skeggs' work: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Against culture? Class analysis, strategic essentialism and methodological nationalism after Beverley Skeggs’ Formations of Class and Gender - Simone Varriale, 2025
Beverley Skeggs’ first book (Formations of Class and Gender [FoC&G]) has been central to the study of class and culture, pushing it towards a more sustained con...
journals.sagepub.com
March 4, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I wrote a thing about why 'cultural' class analysis is badly equipped for challenging the cosplaying of working class culture by the far right & why working class formations are best conceptualised as multi-status.
Part of a great SI on Beverley Skeggs' work: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Part of a great SI on Beverley Skeggs' work: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Me ha gustado mucho la charla que ha dado @javiercarbonell.bsky.social sobre hombres jóvenes, declive económico y antifeminismo para @masmadrid.org.
Varias cosas que me han llamado la atención:
Os dejo antes el hilo que hizo en su día:
bsky.app/profile/javi...
Varias cosas que me han llamado la atención:
Os dejo antes el hilo que hizo en su día:
bsky.app/profile/javi...
🚨THE GENDER GAP AMONG THE YOUNG HAS REVERSED in several European countries. Now under-25 women earn more than young men per hour.
Why is this happening and how does this impact the vote for the far-right?
Thread with 📈
Why is this happening and how does this impact the vote for the far-right?
Thread with 📈
May 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Me ha gustado mucho la charla que ha dado @javiercarbonell.bsky.social sobre hombres jóvenes, declive económico y antifeminismo para @masmadrid.org.
Varias cosas que me han llamado la atención:
Os dejo antes el hilo que hizo en su día:
bsky.app/profile/javi...
Varias cosas que me han llamado la atención:
Os dejo antes el hilo que hizo en su día:
bsky.app/profile/javi...
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“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
nymag.com
May 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
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In a second paper with @turnbulldugarte.com, we ask: Does working-class descriptive representation enhance perceptions of system legitimacy?
Using two survey experiments, we argue that (1) it does, quite a lot (2) this is for candidates and institutions (3) it is conditioned by class identity.
Using two survey experiments, we argue that (1) it does, quite a lot (2) this is for candidates and institutions (3) it is conditioned by class identity.
May 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
In a second paper with @turnbulldugarte.com, we ask: Does working-class descriptive representation enhance perceptions of system legitimacy?
Using two survey experiments, we argue that (1) it does, quite a lot (2) this is for candidates and institutions (3) it is conditioned by class identity.
Using two survey experiments, we argue that (1) it does, quite a lot (2) this is for candidates and institutions (3) it is conditioned by class identity.
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"The reader is unsure if this is really a world of madmen or the world of smart people who pretend to be madmen to extract money"
@brankomilan.bsky.social reviews @quinnslobodian.com's most recent book on neoliberalism and the far right.
@brankomilan.bsky.social reviews @quinnslobodian.com's most recent book on neoliberalism and the far right.
Review: Hayek's Bastards. The Neo-Liberal of the Populist Right, by Quinn Slobodan
Branko Milanovic reviews Quinn Slobodan's most recent book.
politicalquarterly.org.uk
May 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
"The reader is unsure if this is really a world of madmen or the world of smart people who pretend to be madmen to extract money"
@brankomilan.bsky.social reviews @quinnslobodian.com's most recent book on neoliberalism and the far right.
@brankomilan.bsky.social reviews @quinnslobodian.com's most recent book on neoliberalism and the far right.
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Wait! The (alleged) “feminization” of society is a bad thing? 😳
May 2, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Wait! The (alleged) “feminization” of society is a bad thing? 😳
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The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory.
www.ft.com/content/8459...
www.ft.com/content/8459...
April 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory.
www.ft.com/content/8459...
www.ft.com/content/8459...
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63% of U.S. adults say tax rates on large businesses and corporations should be raised. A majority (58%) also support raising taxes on household income over $400,000. www.pewresearch.org/...
April 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
63% of U.S. adults say tax rates on large businesses and corporations should be raised. A majority (58%) also support raising taxes on household income over $400,000. www.pewresearch.org/...
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ELECTION RESULT: A team of city council members in Rolla, Missouri, have been pushing anti-LGTB policies, including a ban on drag shows and book censorship.
Voters just ousted all three of these city councilors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by a local LGBT group.
Voters just ousted all three of these city councilors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by a local LGBT group.
April 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
ELECTION RESULT: A team of city council members in Rolla, Missouri, have been pushing anti-LGTB policies, including a ban on drag shows and book censorship.
Voters just ousted all three of these city councilors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by a local LGBT group.
Voters just ousted all three of these city councilors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by a local LGBT group.