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I rarely celebrate my successes, especially in Twi(s)tter, sorry X, but our paper in JECH was the Editor's choice back in June 23. Better late than never 🥳. jech.bmj.com/pages/collecti… and this is the paper jech.bmj.com/content/77/9/5….

Departmental Seminar - From Street Smarts To Org Charts: Professional Expertise And The Organizational Production Of Urban Integration Date: 10 April, 2024 Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm Venue: CJT-9.29 Speaker: Professor Christof Brandtner Registration: hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdet…

New article with Senhu Wang Shuanglong LI is out in Soc Sci & Medicine. We compare the self-rated health of workers in various non-standard employment types against those unemployed or standard employment in urban China, and discuss how these patterns evolved over time.

Remembering the work of Nancy E Adler, some personal reflections social-epi.org/communications

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲’𝐬 ‘𝐛𝐢𝐠 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬’ 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐲? sociology.hku.hk/events/9fe6670…

𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 - 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 Website: sociology.hku.hk/events/4d6c6a1…

Professor Araki's new paper "Assessing educational inequality in high participation systems: The role of educational expansion and skills diffusion in comparative perspective" has been published in Higher Education ( doi.org/10.1007/s10734… ).

#COVID-19 pandemic had an enormous effect on our #MentalHealth. Dr Patrick Rouxel and Prof Tarani Chandola showed that on-line social interaction did not compensate for lack of in-person interactions during the social restrictions and lockdowns in the UK. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

I think the more urgent question is where in Europe can you get a good kadhi, dhokla and khichdi? Apart from all my gujjubhai homes.

New Assoc Prof Sociology position at Oxford in association with Nuffield College. NB the appointment can be with title of full Prof & the renumeration package is considerably higher than the headline figure when the College allowance is included. Plus my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

Welcome everyone to the new academic year! sociology.hku.hk/news/33

🚨🔔Our paper shows that social disadvantage predicts chronic stress, but prior studies underestimated this link by ignoring missing biomarker data. Individuals facing greater disadvantage were less likely to provide cortisol samples, skewing results.sciencedirect.com/journal/psycho…

Christmas and New Year holiday lunch and gift exchange Website: sociology.hku.hk/news/43

𝐇𝐊𝐔 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐛𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐜𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢 𝐒𝐲𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐬 (𝐐𝐒) 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭, 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝟏𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲! Website: sociology.hku.hk/news/48

𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐧𝐚, 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟. 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐊𝐡𝐨𝐫, 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐢 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 Website: sociology.hku.hk/news/50

Less than a week to apply for the International Social Epidemiology Society's awards for recognizing outstanding doctoral students, postdocs and ECRs. Go to social-epi.org/ises-awards

My first press release in Chinese! bit.ly/3T0gd9v Cortisol and the Anxious Mondays effect from bit.ly/4kWlxXN I'm sure there's a song like this somewhere...