Now out in the American Sociological Review We present the first large-scale assessment of the structure and evolution of temporalities expressed in U.S. climate change news coverage (2000 to 2021). For this, we analyzed more than 23,000 statements about climate change effects and actions. 🧵 1/

Fascinating paper by @elena-amaya.bsky.social on Kinderschreck folklore and far-right voting in the Weimar Republic. It fits neatly with theories of “black pedagogy” and how fear-based upbringing can foster authoritarian dispositions.

Only 3 days left to apply 👩‍💻

When liberal values hit their limits 🕌⚖️ Lise Lund Bjånesøy, Peter Esaiasson, Elisabeth Ivarsflaten & Paul M. Sniderman find support for Muslims’ civil liberties across Europe drops sharply when religious freedom is used to preach conservative values

Der aktuelle Berlin-Monitor zeigt besorgniserregende Befunde zu antisemitischen und antiziganistischen Einstellungen in der Berliner Bevölkerung. Besonders alarmierend: Bei antisemitischen Einstellungen, die teils seit 2019 erhoben werden, ist ein deutlicher Anstieg zu verzeichnen.

Unbefristete Stelle im #FDM! stellenangebote.b-tu.de/jobposting/4...

Here's a little working paper with Marshall Taylor and Sanuj Kumar: Selecting Language Models for Social Science arxiv.org/abs/2601.10926 Thoughts welcome!

💸🚨I am hiring 2 Postdocs for my ERC-funded project SOCDEBT on #debt dynamics across countries. One position: #SocialStratification + strong quantitative skills. The other: qualitative research and #EconomicSociology. waitkus.github.io/SOCDEBT/ 🚨💸

❗️Early Career Women* Scholars 🏫 join us for the summer school in political methodology 📈 all payed 👩‍💻 See you in July (19-25) in Mannheim

🎉 I am excited and grateful to share that the second chapter of my dissertation is now forthcoming in the @thejop.bsky.social. it has been a long journey. Hours, thoughts, and re-assessments at each stage of the study, but it is finally here🥲 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 1/9

Now officially published in jpeaceresearch.bsky.social. Link to full-text: academic.oup.com/jpr/advance-... #PoliticalScience #PoliticalPsychology

🚨Assistant Professor in International Migration at @lse-ei.bsky.social I am not in the search committee but very happy to answer questions. Please share widely! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Interested in an academic career in political science? Do you want to work in a vibrant department with friendly colleagues? Interested in climate governance or EU studies? Do to live close to nature, but also enjoy a vibrant cultural scene? Appreciate a good work-life balance?

My article has now found an issue! I should also mention that a replication package is available, with data hosted at the Research Data Center Ruhr (@rwi.bsky.social). Replication package (also via GitHub/OSF): osf.io/k35yw/overview

www.soziopolis.de/matthias-koe... Von Monika Wohlrab-Sahr, ein schöner soziologischer Nachruf

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! Cultural #Roots of #Prejudice: #Cultural Scripts & the #Reactivation of #Antisemitism in #Germany By @kanol.bsky.social & @maxschaub.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Cologne sociologist Clemens Kroneberg invites to the Sociological Ash Wednesday on 18 February at the University of Cologne. This year’s high-calibre panel discussion focuses on how to deal with academic freedom and diversity of perspectives in universities and academic world. bit.ly/soziologisch...

Join us in Florence on 14-15 May for this year's Annual Conference of the @mpc-eui.bsky.social and @globalcit.bsky.social ! CfP: www.eui.eu/events?id=57... Deadline: 3 February

Call for Papers: My department @wzb.bsky.social is organizing a conference on the application of Cultural Evolution Theory to migration/diversity topics. I find this very exciting. Consider applying and share widely! wzb.eu/en/node/89129

#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - Does universal conscription impose a civic penalty? Individual-level evidence from a randomized conscription lottery - https://cup.org/49wUGhP - @morten-jakobsen.bsky.social & @sorenserritzlew.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

X is the megaphone of 21st century fascism and authoritariansim. It has poisoned public debate. It is a tool for bullying, abuse, and assault. X needs to disappear from our discourse. When people and institutions post there, it gives X credibility. It keeps it relevant. It's time to stop.

From November 2025 - Regional Labor Markets, Residential Mobility, and Anti-Immigration Sentiment - https://cup.org/3XiB6yD - @denis-cohen.bsky.social & @sergipardos.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Interessante Ausschreibung: Leitung des Forschungsbereichs „Migration und Mobilität“ am Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung (mit W2-Option an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M.). Bewerbungsfrist: 18.02.26. @dgsoziologie.bsky.social

CRIS @sciencespo.bsky.social @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social is hiring! Recruiting postdoc to join the research team led by Prof. Mirna Safi @msafi.bsky.social on the ERC project “The Discrimination-Inequality Cycle (DISEQUAL)." Deadline 8 February 2026. Apply, share! www.sciencespo.fr/cris/files/J...

Best experimental sociology paper you've read in the last five years?

Postdoc position in CSS/Sociology at @unidue.bsky.social: www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste... EG 13 TV-L for three years Please apply before Feb 5th 2026 Research cluster Anja Weiß, Institute for Sociology, University of Duisburg-Essen #computationalsocialscience

The datasets from our @protestinstitut.bsky.social project ‘20 years of protest survey data’ are finally online for scientific re-use. We processed 30+ datasets, covering protests on peace, climate, trade, migration, equality & more. Now available @gesis.org 👇 search.gesis.org?source=%7B%2...

My first working paper is now live! Can minority role models help diversify the bureaucracy of the future?

🥳 New year, new publication 📑"Contested memories: the political effects of de-commemoration proposals" @jeppjournal.bsky.social With Francesco Colombo, we study a street renaming proposal in Berlin and find -contrary to conventional wisdom- no political backlash, but a positive feedback effect.

New research in International Migration Review: US visitor visa rejection rates are more than double for applicants from Africa compared to Europe. And this disparity isn't explained by economics, demographics, or even visa overstay rates. 🧵

👩‍💻 Catch up on our last #CPCCGWebinar of 2025 @jpheisig.bsky.social from @wzb.bsky.social joined us last week to discuss evidence from a large nationwide field experiment to assess #discrimination in accessing #healthcare in #Germany. Grab a coffee and take a look ⤵️ @populationeu.bsky.social

Call for Proposals: Schwerpunktthema „#Immigration und Einstellungen gegenüber ethnischen und religiösen #Minderheiten“ im #ALLBUS 2027 Der ALLBUS 2027 ist als selbstadministrierte Mixed-Mode-Erhebung (schriftlich-postalisch/online) geplant. Die Befragungsdauer beträgt insgesamt ca. 45 Minuten.

Giving what we can has implemented a fun game where you spin a globe to see how your starting point in life would compare if you were reborn today, randomly somewhere on earth. www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery

🎄 Still looking for a gift for your favourite social scientist? How about a #preprint with 717 urban areas, 30 countries, and 16,164 models of #Immigrant #Segregation across Europe? Just published with @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social & David Kretschmer 🎅 🎁 Wrapped up here: arxiv.org/abs/2512.17037

“Who Partners With Whom in Diverse Societies?”: @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social & @frankvantubergen.bsky.social use NL register data & find “Muslim groups maintain boundaries for union formation to other national origin groups." @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social @rug.nl read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

⁉️What do people read into names? ⁉️ ✨New publication in Nature’s Scientific Data ✨ When people see an ethnic minority-sounding name, do they infer race, religion, gender, or social background? 🤓First @equalstrength.bsky.social publication 😅 Check it out here: 🧵

Interessantes Messinstrument zur Erfassung von #Triggerpunkten jenseits klassischer Surveyitems: "This paper aims to transcend the classical methods used in surveys to measure salience (...) with physiological measures." (OA 🔓) @steffenmau.bsky.social @thomaslux.bsky.social @lwestheuser.bsky.social

Interesting new study by Demmrich, @detlef.bsky.social, Müller and Rosta using an unexpected event during survey design (UESD) to study antisemitic attitudes pre-/post Oct 7. It would be interesting to see an RDD/UESD-style implementation around the cutoff date, but in any case, well worth a read.

🏘️ Does local exposure to refugee housing increase far right voting? ➡️ Using granular Berlin data, J Ferwerda & @riazsascha.bsky.social show refugee housing increased support for the far-right, but the backlash was geographically narrow in scope www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Die AfD scheint ihre Potentiale unter den Wählenden aktuell ausgeschöpft zu haben. Ob dies auch so bleibt hängt, insbesondere von den Regierungsparteien und ihren Signalen nach Rechtsaußen ab. @zeit.de mit einem spannenden Beitrag zum Thema, zu dem ich auch einige Einschätzungen beisteuern durfte.

Please share this paper if you're interested in criminal justice research, disparities research, &/or causal inference methods! We hope it will help to settle many methodological arguments and maybe - one day - lead to a fairer criminal justice system. 🧵 10/10 publicera.kb.se/ejels/articl...

📣 Job alert! 📣 For my Emmy Noether group on local digital public spheres, I'm hiring 3 predoc research associates who are interested in doing qualitative/mixed-methods research on local communication environments. Apply until 02 Jan 2026! www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/news/deta...

💫 I need your input! What’s your favorite piece of data journalism? Share it with me in the replies or via DM! Doesn't have to be English, just freely accessible.

🚨📆🤓 One more week to apply for our Data4Good Festival @hertieschool.bsky.social! Now in its third year, we’re bringing a fresh set of datasets for this round’s hackathon challenge. If you teach undergrads who might want to join us in Berlin in January, please help us spread the word.

NEW PREPRINT by CREST Sociology's Julia Nicolas: "Language Barriers and Healthcare Uptake. Causal Evidence From Immigrants in France" AVAILABLE at @socarxiv.bsky.social: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Noch eine Woche bis zum Bewerbungsschluss 🕚 Spannende Stelle im wiss. Stab des @svrmigration.bsky.social in einem Pilotprojekt zu einer sozialwissenschaftlichen Panelbefragung von Kommunen. 📅 Frist: 8. Dezember 2025

This is amazing!

#rstats It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week. He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly. www.john-fox.ca