Jonathan Mijs

Sociologist 👶🕊️ @BU_Tweets • researching #inequality #meritocracy • funded by @VolkswagenSt @MSCActions • Formerly @LSEInequalities @ErasmusUni • PhD @Harvard

[Jonathan Mijs @JonathanMijs]

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

🗞️https://t.co/lxJU6ikwbM
💻https://t.co/VUobd9HmIr

[Jonathan Mijs @JonathanMijs]

I am a sociologist and I approve this message. https://t.co/OsYv0lV6Af

[Jonathan Mijs @JonathanMijs]

Desperate for financial advice from a poor but privileged sociologist? This one's for you 😘 https://t.co/wXWY2BfFGi

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Superb political ad. One of the best you’ll see.

This is better, and resonates more, than anything coming from Labour or the Tories.

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

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

[Jonathan Mijs @JonathanMijs]

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

[Jonathan Mijs @JonathanMijs]

Come join @stanveuger @muverte Colin Brown and me @EuropeAtHarvard today at 2.30 pm to make sense of the 2025 Dutch parliamentary elections! Details: https://t.co/R7bFCY4Vci

[Jonathan Mijs @JonathanMijs]

Teaser (2/3): latest polls and most likely coalitions (source: https://t.co/abZ7gLVXic and https://t.co/2ZCGHN0vbU)

[Stan Veuger @stanveuger]

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.

[arturo bertero @arturobertero]

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:
👉 https://t.co/I6sE5ihVYy

[Jaap Nieuwenhuis @jaapnieuwen]

Onze reactie in De Volkskrant op het vorige week verschenen SCP rapport Verdeeld over het land.

@JonathanMijs @AgataTroost @volkskrant @univgroningen

[Jaap Nieuwenhuis @jaapnieuwen]

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: https://t.co/7odyJbkvvM

@JonathanMijs @AgataTroost @DylanvR @JacobinNL @univgroningen @LISS_panel

[Jaap Nieuwenhuis @jaapnieuwen]

Our project "Social class: an exploitation-based class scheme" represented by Agata Troost at the ODISSEI conference today.

https://t.co/KUfFboGl1Q

@ODISSEI_nl, @JonathanMijs, @AgataTroost, @univgroningen, @LISS_panel

[Joseph Harris @JosephHarrisBU]

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 https://t.co/YPrz8A7ydc

[Jan Voelkel @jgvoelkel]

🚨 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 (🆕https://t.co/F9yarhq7nx🆕), @PNASNews (2x), @NatureHumBehav (2x).

[Jonathan Mijs @JonathanMijs]

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

[Jonathan Mijs @JonathanMijs]

@LorettaCLees Thanks for sharing, looks great!

[Mike Savage @MikeSav47032563]

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!

[Jonathan Mijs @JonathanMijs]

@sociologylauren @alinzar Awesome!! Looking forward to reading