Jonathan Mijs

How has public belief in the importance of merit🥇 and privilege💸 changed over time? Data viz shows widening gap b/w perceived importance of family wealth (privilege) and hard work (merit) in majority of countries in the West 🗞️journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23… 💻github.com/cybe2001/merit…

Superb political ad. One of the best you’ll see. This is better, and resonates more, than anything coming from Labour or the Tories.

My favourite academia joke of all time. "The moral of this story is: The topic of your dissertation isn't really important; what's important is who your advisor is." —Harvey Cox, When Jesus Came to Harvard

Teaser (3/3): some predictions from people who know a lot more about politics than I do (@SimonOtjes @PGKroeger @hakhverdian @TomWGvdMeer and Tom Louwerse)

Teaser (2/3): latest polls and most likely coalitions (source: peilwijzer.nl and coalitiechecker.nl)

Come join @stanveuger @muverte Colin Brown and me @EuropeAtHarvard today at 2.30 pm to make sense of the 2025 Dutch parliamentary elections! Details: ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/10…

Dutch voters are headed to the polls again next Wednesday—join @JonathanMijs, @muverte, Colin Brown, and me as we analyze the early results at @EuropeAtHarvard.

1/7 🚨 New OA paper in Network Science! “Consolidation and change: The impact of anger and network dynamics on inequality belief systems”. By @g_franetovic & me: 👉 shorturl.at/fjY5c

Onze reactie in De Volkskrant op het vorige week verschenen SCP rapport Verdeeld over het land. @JonathanMijs @AgataTroost @volkskrant @univgroningen

We zijn geïnterviewd door Dylan van Rijsbergen over ons project over klasse en klassenbewustzijn voor Jacobin. Heel toepasselijk is het gepubliceerd op 1 mei. Het artikel: jacobin.nl/waarom-klassen… @JonathanMijs @AgataTroost @DylanvR @JacobinNL @univgroningen @LISS_panel

Our project "Social class: an exploitation-based class scheme" represented by Agata Troost at the ODISSEI conference today. odissei-data.nl/project/social… @ODISSEI_nl, @JonathanMijs, @AgataTroost, @univgroningen, @LISS_panel

Very excited about the timely new book out by my friend & @BU_Tweets colleague @david_dswartz ! The Academic Trumpists by @routledgebooks @ASAnews @ASApoliticalsoc @ASACulture @alixabeth @BU_CISS @BUexperts @BU_CAS routledge.com/The-Academic-T…

🚨 Strengthening Americans’ Democratic Attitudes🚨 For the last 4 years, we crowdsourced and tested ideas for ⬇️ antidemocratic attitudes & partisan animosity. A 🧵 on all papers, published/IP @ScienceMagazine (🆕tinyurl.com/sdcsci🆕), @PNASNews (2x), @NatureHumBehav (2x).

@electricfelix @superchargefeed Nice, finally a place to lightning charge my iPhone!

@superchargefeed do you see this @JonathanMijs ⚡️⚡️

#tesla #supercharger in Somerville, MA, USA EXPANDING with 16 stalls (250 kW) ift.tt/NDasy12

@LorettaCLees Thanks for sharing, looks great!

@JonathanMijs fyi

Am so super excited to be co-organising this conference with Annette in Boston next March. Please submit an abstract if this appeals. @LSEInequalities @LSEsociology. Hope to see you there!

@sociologylauren @alinzar Awesome!! Looking forward to reading

In this new paper in @SSReditorial, Rachel Bacon and I contribute a life course perspective to understanding the bidirectional relationship between higher education and religiosity, and reveal the heterogeneity of the relationship by religious affiliations kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2…

@arturobertero @unito @morenomancosu Awesome; what a great project to be a part of. Congrats!

Excited to share that I've started working as a Postdoc on the SUSPECTS project —Studying Supply, Demand, and Endorsement of #conspiracytheories in six European countries— based at @unito and led by @morenomancosu as PI. Looking forward to exploring this fascinating research!