Mathias Wullum Nielsen
@mathiaswullum.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, UCPH. https://mathiaswullumnielsen.weebly.com/
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It begins. Clearly incriminating evidence against president of the United States.
Epstein to Maxwell, April 2, 2011:
"i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc."
Epstein to Maxwell, April 2, 2011:
"i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc."
November 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It begins. Clearly incriminating evidence against president of the United States.
Epstein to Maxwell, April 2, 2011:
"i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc."
Epstein to Maxwell, April 2, 2011:
"i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc."
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Four (!) three-year postdoc positions available at @au.dk: international.au.dk/about/profil...
Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy.
Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs
Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy.
Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs
Four three-year postdoctoral positions in the project Slow-Motion Democracy - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
international.au.dk
November 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Four (!) three-year postdoc positions available at @au.dk: international.au.dk/about/profil...
Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy.
Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs
Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy.
Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs
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Out now in @actasociologica.bsky.social: “Momentary symbols: Tracing the visual expressions of collectives”
with @nicolemilmandoerr.bsky.social & @mathiaswullum.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A🧵 on our approach and findings:
with @nicolemilmandoerr.bsky.social & @mathiaswullum.bsky.social
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A🧵 on our approach and findings:
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September 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Out now in @actasociologica.bsky.social: “Momentary symbols: Tracing the visual expressions of collectives”
with @nicolemilmandoerr.bsky.social & @mathiaswullum.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A🧵 on our approach and findings:
with @nicolemilmandoerr.bsky.social & @mathiaswullum.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A🧵 on our approach and findings:
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Even in Denmark, cultural tastes are socially stratified. With some quite cool library data we find strong gradients by education and wealth - important as wealth is rarely studied in cultural stratification research
doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
OA: osf.io/ar2xc_v2/dow...
@europeansocreview.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
OA: osf.io/ar2xc_v2/dow...
@europeansocreview.bsky.social
How are cultural tastes stratified? Evidence from library borrowing for the entire population of Denmark
Abstract. Research shows that cultural tastes are socially stratified. Yet, most of this research relies on small-sample surveys and includes only a few di
doi.org
September 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Even in Denmark, cultural tastes are socially stratified. With some quite cool library data we find strong gradients by education and wealth - important as wealth is rarely studied in cultural stratification research
doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
OA: osf.io/ar2xc_v2/dow...
@europeansocreview.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
OA: osf.io/ar2xc_v2/dow...
@europeansocreview.bsky.social
Dept. of Soc. at the Uni of Copenhagen invites applications for two or more open-rank professorships!
We cover a wide range of topics and and methods, and welcome candidates with new research agendas or profiles that complement our existing strenghts.
Details here: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
We cover a wide range of topics and and methods, and welcome candidates with new research agendas or profiles that complement our existing strenghts.
Details here: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology
jobportal.ku.dk
September 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Dept. of Soc. at the Uni of Copenhagen invites applications for two or more open-rank professorships!
We cover a wide range of topics and and methods, and welcome candidates with new research agendas or profiles that complement our existing strenghts.
Details here: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
We cover a wide range of topics and and methods, and welcome candidates with new research agendas or profiles that complement our existing strenghts.
Details here: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
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Now imagine all your best scientists leaving your country because they’re paid far more across the pond.
August 21, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Now imagine all your best scientists leaving your country because they’re paid far more across the pond.
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Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/?
August 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/?
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Du poids du racismes dans les inégalités de revenus en France
July 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Du poids du racismes dans les inégalités de revenus en France
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The Supreme Court is out of control. To allow the president, without any explanation, to unilaterally dismantle agencies created by an Act of Congress is to endow the president with sovereignty. There is no justification, because they haven’t given one. Our country is in big trouble.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
From Sotomayor's dissent:
From Sotomayor's dissent:
July 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The Supreme Court is out of control. To allow the president, without any explanation, to unilaterally dismantle agencies created by an Act of Congress is to endow the president with sovereignty. There is no justification, because they haven’t given one. Our country is in big trouble.
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When I got tenure, I decided to use it start a new research agenda, studying US science in the 20th century, how it became dominant, what held it back, and what we can do better. Here's the first pub (with Scott Kim).
Analyzing scientists' biographies during the baby boom, we find that mothers have a unique life cycle pattern of productivity. Children reduce the productivity of mothers but not fathers, with important implications for promotions and participation. buff.ly/39WbYRH
July 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
When I got tenure, I decided to use it start a new research agenda, studying US science in the 20th century, how it became dominant, what held it back, and what we can do better. Here's the first pub (with Scott Kim).
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A 30% tariff on EU exports would hurt businesses, consumers and patients on both sides of the Atlantic.
We will continue working towards an agreement by August 1.
At the same time, we are ready to safeguard EU interests on the basis of proportionate countermeasures.
→ europa.eu/!tPvKn8
We will continue working towards an agreement by August 1.
At the same time, we are ready to safeguard EU interests on the basis of proportionate countermeasures.
→ europa.eu/!tPvKn8
July 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
A 30% tariff on EU exports would hurt businesses, consumers and patients on both sides of the Atlantic.
We will continue working towards an agreement by August 1.
At the same time, we are ready to safeguard EU interests on the basis of proportionate countermeasures.
→ europa.eu/!tPvKn8
We will continue working towards an agreement by August 1.
At the same time, we are ready to safeguard EU interests on the basis of proportionate countermeasures.
→ europa.eu/!tPvKn8
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"...male-dominated STEM programs actually rate female applicants’ written application materials and interviews higher. Female applicants are still less likely admitted to such programs than males..."
This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
NEW: Wei-hsin Yu, Kuo-Hsien Su, "Evaluation Criteria and Women's Attainment of Elite STEM Education: Evidence from College Admission Records." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
July 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
"...male-dominated STEM programs actually rate female applicants’ written application materials and interviews higher. Female applicants are still less likely admitted to such programs than males..."
This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Every cut that the government makes to social services is effectively a tax on women. Because they're the ones who will be expected to fill in the gaps.
BREAKING: 1 in 4 nursing homes say they will be forced to close if Republicans pass Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.
No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.
No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.
June 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Every cut that the government makes to social services is effectively a tax on women. Because they're the ones who will be expected to fill in the gaps.
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It is true that sometimes New York City is frightening. For example today these men were loitering in the hallway of the 12th floor of the federal building.
June 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
It is true that sometimes New York City is frightening. For example today these men were loitering in the hallway of the 12th floor of the federal building.
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This is shocking. Pure totalitarianism from DHS, and also blatantly unconstitutional.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation
As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.
www.newyorker.com
June 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This is shocking. Pure totalitarianism from DHS, and also blatantly unconstitutional.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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Interesting discussions at our Funders Panel #ICSSI2025
June 16, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Interesting discussions at our Funders Panel #ICSSI2025
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Our first invited speaker Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social just kicked off the conference with a great talk on: Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions? A field experiment
#ICSSI2025
#ICSSI2025
June 16, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Our first invited speaker Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social just kicked off the conference with a great talk on: Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions? A field experiment
#ICSSI2025
#ICSSI2025
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Fariba Karimi continues at #ICSSI2025 with gender-related themes in her phenomenal keynote "Inequalities in science and the impact of networks"
June 16, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Fariba Karimi continues at #ICSSI2025 with gender-related themes in her phenomenal keynote "Inequalities in science and the impact of networks"
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The conference was just opened by @hckongsted.bsky.social. Welcome everyone in Copenhagen, and enjoy the next 3 days at #ICSSI2025!
June 16, 2025 at 7:33 AM
The conference was just opened by @hckongsted.bsky.social. Welcome everyone in Copenhagen, and enjoy the next 3 days at #ICSSI2025!
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If we are all willing to dig in and sacrifice, by growing our red bars we can do our part in making the green bar even bigger.
June 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
If we are all willing to dig in and sacrifice, by growing our red bars we can do our part in making the green bar even bigger.
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📄 Whose expert knowledge informs policymaking around the world?
@rsenninger.bsky.social and I analyze data from 1.2 million government policy documents from 185 countries—and find a prominent pattern:
🌍 Policy evidence is overwhelmingly sourced from the Global North.
Preprint: osf.io/w8q3y
🧪🧵👇
@rsenninger.bsky.social and I analyze data from 1.2 million government policy documents from 185 countries—and find a prominent pattern:
🌍 Policy evidence is overwhelmingly sourced from the Global North.
Preprint: osf.io/w8q3y
🧪🧵👇
June 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
📄 Whose expert knowledge informs policymaking around the world?
@rsenninger.bsky.social and I analyze data from 1.2 million government policy documents from 185 countries—and find a prominent pattern:
🌍 Policy evidence is overwhelmingly sourced from the Global North.
Preprint: osf.io/w8q3y
🧪🧵👇
@rsenninger.bsky.social and I analyze data from 1.2 million government policy documents from 185 countries—and find a prominent pattern:
🌍 Policy evidence is overwhelmingly sourced from the Global North.
Preprint: osf.io/w8q3y
🧪🧵👇
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Economists looking at an idea from sociology literature that they will be the first to write a paper on.
May 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Economists looking at an idea from sociology literature that they will be the first to write a paper on.
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Bernie Sanders' office has put out a report this morning on Trump's NIH cuts: "Trump officials effectively cut $2.7 billion in [NIH] funding in the first three months of 2025 – including a 31 percent cut to cancer research through March, compared to the same timeframe last year."
May 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Bernie Sanders' office has put out a report this morning on Trump's NIH cuts: "Trump officials effectively cut $2.7 billion in [NIH] funding in the first three months of 2025 – including a 31 percent cut to cancer research through March, compared to the same timeframe last year."
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Is anyone here on the Editorial Board of the Brill journal Comparative Sociology? Raised a concern last year about 2 papers published in the journal which used "national IQ" data. The editor & ethics team dismissed my concern without an investigation. The journal has just published another NIQ paper
April 30, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Is anyone here on the Editorial Board of the Brill journal Comparative Sociology? Raised a concern last year about 2 papers published in the journal which used "national IQ" data. The editor & ethics team dismissed my concern without an investigation. The journal has just published another NIQ paper