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A new version of the FRI Message (roadmap for federal research investment) has been published
The good news: the 'Promotion of young talent in academia' is a priority for the period 2025–2028 🤩🤩🤩
The bad news: the terminology of 'young talent' 😱😱😱

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A signer 👇🏻
Diversité et égalité dans les Hautes Écoles

'Nous, [...], sommes en effet très préoccupé·es par le manque de diversité et d’égalité dans les postes académiques, à tous les niveaux, dans nos disciplines en Suisse'
act.campax.org/petitions/lett…

Super interesting stuff! On where groups with different socio-economic backgrounds meet and where their worlds segregate. Based on mobile location data.

New WP w/Maxim Massenkoff on class segregation in activities.

Where do we encounter someone different?

Not churches, museums, libraries. It’s actually chains, esp. affordable sit-down restaurants like Olive Garden, that reduce class segregation.
maximmassenkoff.com/papers/Rubbing…

There's a beautiful documentary about the Glass Ceiling on ARTE right now: arte.tv/en/videos/0880…

Open PhD position with Milan Babic, certainly one of nicest people to work with out there in the great academic universe. 👇👇👇

We are hiring a PhD student in the (kind of timely) SNFS project “Transformation of Swiss Finance” Faculté des sciences sociales et politiques - UNIL Université de Lausanne. 4 years, 100%, nice working conditions and a dynamic team with Lena Rosa Befristet Ajdacic and #FelixBühlmann OBELIS. Advertisement is here: career5.successfactors.eu/career?career_…

Austausch, Bier, Rant und Träume am Mittwoch im Neuen Kino in Basel. #IchbinHanna

Interview with Urs Birchler, previously at SNB. 'The issue of current bonus culture is not of financial nature. The issue is that it attracts the wrong people' republik.ch/2023/03/22/sta…

Yesterday I was wondering how many banks were absorbed in this concentration process since the 1800s. Each of these banks were critically central in Swiss elite network coordination. Now there is only one giant that doesn't need network embeddedness anymore. thx Thibaud Giddey

Is women’s entry into authority positions sufficient for achieving gender equality? My new article in Gender & Society shows that women with authority jobs in NL are the most likely of all groups at work to experience workplace harassment and job burnout. 1/3
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08…

New paper out with Anton Grau Larsen in Social Forces on the changes and stability of the Danish power elite.

We show that while more than half of the around 400 people in the core of elite networks change from 2012 to 2017, the organisations remain the same
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academic.oup.com/sf/advance-art…

Quick exploration of women's share in US elite universities over time.

Sidenote: I love US stats offices.

How do a small set of firms - career hubs - shape the global corporate elite?

In a new paper out with the amazing Felix Bühlmann, Anton Grau Larsen Jacob Aa. Lunding we - as the first - map career networks of executives in the worlds 1,366 largest firms

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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gl…

8. We can also rank these firms globally and nationally and look how these map onto one another. Below is the US, which - given the US dominance in the world economy, is is quite closely linked to the global network.

Was für ein billiger Mensch. Multimillionären wie Vasella ist sogar der Tiefsteuerkanton Zug zu teuer. Und dann nicht mal einen ordentlichen Espresso trinken..

💰💰WHY IS IT SO HARD TO TAX WEALTH? 💰💰
Wealth taxes are back in the news. Wealth inequality is sky high. But actually existing wealth taxes? Politicians struggle to introduce them. My new Substack explains why. Read on 1/n
benansell.substack.com/p/a-puzzling-i…

Vermögenssteuer in der Schweiz trägt wenig zum Steuervolumen bei. Im Kanton Bern zahlt eine Person mit 1 Million Vermögen gleich viel Steuern wie eine Person mit 25000 chf Einkommen (4000 chf). Olivier Hümbelin am Caritas Schweiz Forum

How about clouds over a population density map of Switzerland? Oh, and it's spinning too. 😎

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Die Schweiz, eine Kropf-Nation. Wenn ein Artikel mein CH Selbstbild in diesem Jahr auf den Kopf gestellt hat, dann dieser. Wilde Einblicke in Forschungsgeschichte, Intrigen unter Eliten und Jodsalz.

tagesanzeiger.ch/wie-drei-helde…