🚨New Paper in PNAS: "Refugee Labor Market Integration at Scale: Evidence from Germany’s Fast-Track Employment Program" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Ungated preprint osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/px9ew_v3 w/ J Hainmueller, D Hangartner, @niklas-harder.bsky.social & E Vallizadeh #econtwitter #econsky

Bodenständige gegen Weltoffene? In unserer neuen Studie prüfen wir, wie stark die Lebensführung mit politischen Einstellungen zusammenhängt. Befund: systematische Zusammenhänge, aber wenig Hinweise auf tiefe Spaltung. Unterschiede vor allem bei Klima und Migration.🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I am looking for a postdoc to join my team at the University of Bremen. 5-year-contract, top-up to 100% possible for most of the contract period. Apply by 04 May 2026. If you have questions about the position, send me an email! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

Diese Stelle kann nach Erbringung exzellenter Leistungen in Service und Forschung übrigens #entfristet* werden! * Warum @gesis.org das nicht expressis verbis und offensiv bewirbt, ist mir nach wie vor ein Rätsel. #Tenure #TenureTrack #Stellenangebot #Postdoc #IchBinHanna

🚨 Just shipped a major update to GERDA, the German Election Database. - State elections update: new years + mail-in - 3 new election types: Mayoral, County, European - Municipal elections: 1984-2025 - Meinungsbild public opinion - New website & features german-elections.com

Interesting new preprint on how political preferences of Turkish emigrants in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland evolve, and the extent to which they resemble those of non-immigrant Turkish peers, by @jwied.bsky.social , Mareike Heller, and Serhat Karakayali.

#Chancen | Postdoctoral Fellow in the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht... #Fellowship Deadline for applications: April 20, 2026

Interesting preprint on pre-migration integration using Facebook data — suggests migrants may already “integrate” digitally before moving.

-- New Open Research Game -- I reached the rank of Asst. Prof in #TenureRun! 🎓 I published 98 papers and paid $115.000 in APCs to publishers. My grant money is gone and I am exhausted. 💸 How far can you make it? Play now at forrt.org/TenureRun/

Referent:in (all genders) für das Forschungsmanagement am CAIS gesucht! Gestalte Forschungsstrategie, Vernetzung & Karriereförderung mit. ℹ️ Unbefristet, TV-L E13, flexibel & inklusiv. Bewerbungsfrist: 12. April 2026 📨 stellenangebote.cais-research.de/de?id=b1206b #TeamCAIS #Forschung #Bochum

📢Please share widely! 📢 Do you do research with Eurobarometer data? Then submit your abstract for the Eurobarometer Symposium at GESIS Cologne on March 11 and 12, 2027: www.gesis.org/en/eurobarom...

Great opportunity for PhD researchers interested in geospatial data 🗺️📍. Data Science Summer School at the University of Bremen (13–17 July 2026). Apply by 4 May 2026. #GeoSpatial #GIS #Rstats

We are hiring! The Department of Inequality, Transformation and Conflict under @steffenmau.bsky.social is looking for Postdoctoral & Doctoral Researchers (m/f/d). Find out more & apply via www.ips.mpg.de #MaxPlanck #Postdoc #PhD #Sociology #SocialScience #PoliticalScience #Inequality #Conflict

Polarisierungsunternehmer erhalten mehr Medienaufmerksamkeit @steffenmau.bsky.social

🌀 🚨 Terrorist attacks rarely increase trust in political leaders 🧠 Christof Nägel, @nivette.bsky.social & @christian.czymara.com show that, contrary to common assumptions, terrorist attacks don’t generally boost public trust in political leaders.

Gestern erschien mein ZAR-Editorial zu den Folgen des erschwerten Zugangs zu Integrationskursen. Es war ungewohnt, für eine juristische Zeitschrift zu schreiben. Die Forschungslage ist aber eindeutig: das BAMF bremst Eigeninitiative und Integration aus und für den deutschen Staat wird es teuer.

Lesenswert: @niklas-harder.bsky.social zum Zulassungsstopp bei Integrationskursen – evidenzbasiert und mit Blick auf die Folgen. In der aktuellen ZAR (🔓):

#ALLBUS #Kumulation 1980-2023 veröffentlicht Mit allen #Zeitreihen aus dem ALLBUS-Frageprogramm, d.h. Daten für alle Fragen, die in wenigstens zwei der bisher 23 ALLBUS-Umfragen erhoben wurden. Damit lässt sich bspw. der Abwärtstrend beim #Vertrauen in die #Kirchen ablesen: search.gesis.org/res...

Interesting OA article (🔓) by @ferraraale.bsky.social, @yaso.bsky.social, and Alicia Vignali on immigrants' attitudes toward abortion across generations, published in @sfjournal.bsky.social.

interesting paper on social integration of Syrian refugee in Germany, with much relevance for research that uses local migrant density as network proxy and local migrant relevant institutions www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

🔥 POSTDOC POSITIONS ON CHILDREN'S POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION 🔥 Wanna understand young people's beliefs about political leadership, politics, and power? Then this is your chance! I'm looking for two 2-year postdocs to join my ERC-funded research project @au.dk international.au.dk/about/profil...

📣 Call for Papers | DeZIM-Konferenz „Die umkämpfte Normalität der Migration“ Wie prägen globale Krisen, transnationale Verflechtungen, nationale Diskurse & lokale Erfahrungen langfristige Verschiebungen von Solidarität, Exklusion und Demokratie? Alle Infos ➡️ www.dezim-institut.de/veranstaltun...

📢 Promotionsstelle zum 01.07.2026 bei GESIS - Standort: Mannheim - Team: GESIS Panel - Aufgabenprofil: survey-methodisch, facettenreich, innovativ & team-orientiert - Vertragslänge: 4 Jahre - Gehaltseingruppierung: TVL 13, 75% - Bewerbungsfrist: 12.04.2026 - gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2553179?...

Der Soziologische Aschermittwoch 2026 zum Thema „Akademische Freiheit" zum Nachsehen: youtu.be/AOZd4tmwrvU?... Mit @cdiehl.bsky.social @naikaforoutan.bsky.social, Markus Ogorek, Uwe Schimank, Richard Traunmüller und @jmwiarda.bsky.social @wisocologne.bsky.social #AdenauerSchoolofGovernment

The Social Networks website now (finally) also features our call for a special issue on: Social Network Theory. In case you always wanted say something theoretical about networks, and to smuggle it into our flagship journal, don't hesitate to send us an extended abstract until April 1!

Very happy to share that our paper "Political socialization and immigrants' support for progressive politics: the case of green parties" with @antvalentim.bsky.social is now published in @psrm.bsky.social! Link to paper: doi.org/10.1017/psrm... Short summary in 🧵below: (1/5)

🚨 Job alert! 🚨 We’re #hiring a #PhD candidate at NIDI (The Hague). Together with @frankvantubergen.bsky.social and @glorenz.bsky.social, I will supervise a project on the connection of different dimensions of social cohesion in ethnically diverse schools. Deadline 1 April 2026. More information:

Large Gaps in Migration Research: Study reveals imbalanced coverage of global areas in migration research. Jose Ignacio Carrasco, Aliakbar Akbaritabar, Marie Godin & Carlos Vargas-Silva identified and analyzed about 125,000 migration-related publications. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/GapsMigrationResearch

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