Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

📢 New dataset for researchers! The new European Parenting Leave Policies (EPLP) Dataset tracks parenting leave regulations over five decades! It provides harmonised data on maternity, co-parent, paid parental, and job-protected leave across 21 countries from 1970 to 2024. 🔗 eplp-dataset.org

German academia: great place to work? You should think twice before giving it a try: Permanent positions are very rare, most scholars have to drop out after some precarious years. @dianakwon.bsky.social has written a great piece about this for @nature.com and also talked to yours truly. #IchBinHanna

Thrilled to announce the 2026 cohort of @wfrn.bsky.social early-career fellows! It's been such a privilege to review the 200+ excellent applications + huge congratulations to our elected fellows! The whole WFRN family looks forward to supporting your career development! wfrn.org/news/announc...

Awww @wfrn.bsky.social - it's been so amazing and inspiring working with our talented ECFs.

My time as a Work and Family Researchers Network Early-Career Fellow is soon coming to an end, and I’m very grateful for the academic care. A huge thank you to @Nicole Denier and @yanghu.co.uk for creating such a thoughtful program! It was great to meet so many other fellows and hear their stories.

It was very nice indeed to visit Vienna for a little while, and I am happy it was productive as well. Thank you very much for hosting! Now it's time to write.

It was really nice having you @mischewu.bsky.social as a visiting research fellow! Also the best timing ever: We still have some days to finish our abstract for #EPC2026 Bologna 🍝

Demographers & sociologists assemble! I'm looking for papers that use both Generation & Gender Survey and SHARE in the same paper. Don't care about topic, sub-sample, or design - just that it's empirical. Self-promotion is encouraged. #sociology #demography

New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social. It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼💰👩‍💼 are by studying many local labour markets. Thread 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

❓How do mothers’ and fathers’ paid work lives unfold together after the birth of their first child in DE? ✨ This new preprint takes a longitudinal, dynamic, couple-level perspective. ✨ Big differences by East & West German background, periods and couple-level education 🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Are you a social scientist that wants to learn R? Then, you may find my course "R for Social Scientists" very useful! I designed this course to give social scientists all that is necessary to start using R in their everyday work. github.com/SofiaG1l/R_C...

🚨 Our new paper (w/ Kausiki Sarma) on housework & marital violence in India is just out! We provide a "radical" rethinking of housework beyond labour division and gender performance. @sriucl.bsky.social @wfrn.bsky.social @asa-family.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure). You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented! #sociology More 👇 jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

The private cost of children in the U.S. is at least twice as high as conventional estimates suggest. #feministeconomics www.dollarsandsense.org/the-underest...

📊 Key findings II — Decomposition: - Prior studies overestimated compositional share of GPGs - My results: → GPG driven by gender-exclusive life-course experiences → Main reason = lack of male counterparts for low rewarded unpaid care work → Earlier & longer care spells = highest pension penalty

Congrats congrats congrats for all winners🎉🎉🥳🥳 I just wish they were not 3 men as the committee + 4 men as the winners 🫠🤷‍♀️

💫Very happy to share that my first single-authored paper has been published in @sfjournal.bsky.social. I suggest to combine Life Course Feature Selection with Ñopo decomposition to disentangle which life-course events drive gender inequalities such as Gender Pension Gaps doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... 🧵👇

Last week I had the pleasure presenting at #ECSR2025 and meeting many old and new friends 🥳 Stay tuned, preprints are soon coming from longitudinal linked lives approaches using group-based multi-trajectory modeling 🚀

📅 Our @nadiasteiber.bsky.social and team is represented at the ECSR Conference 3–5 September in Cologne! Presenting research on education & infant health, poverty after first birth, mating market inequalities, and parents’ long-term earnings. #ECSR2025 #Demography #Inequality t.ly/g1X03

Come work on my new research project! We are studying whether and how #parentalLeave is shared in different types of families, how the use of parental leave has changed in different families since the 2000s, and how parents’ social environments influence their leave uptake. #research #hiring

We're hiring! Please share with your networks! The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026 jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

ich habe eine gute (PostDoc-)Stelle zu vergeben 100 % E13, zunächst 1 Jahr, ziemlich sicher aber sehr viel länger ab 1.12.2025 Soziologie & Gender Studies deadline: 15.09.2025 job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...

A Perspective on Making “Invisible” Care Visible Through Time Use Data www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

⭐🎓The Department of Sociology in Vienna @univie.ac.at‬ invites applications for a Tenure Track Professor in Sociology with focus on Quantitative Social Science Research Methods | #Sociology | quant methods Apply here (17 Sept 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

The call for @wfrn.bsky.social papers is open! Join us in lovely Montreal June 17-20. The 2026 theme is Centering Care across the Life Course. Preconferences for Early Career Fellows and Predocs, plus plenty of social activities. Submit by Oct 1. All the info here: wfrn.org/2026-work-an...

My first PhD article has been published! 🔎 It examines how the relationship between flexible working time arrangements and self-reported work-to-life and life-to-work conflict is moderated by an (un)equal domestic labor distribution within heterosexual couples.

New study from my PhD thesis—supervised by @pablogracia.bsky.social—out in Journal of Marriage and Family! 📝 It examines how changes in paid work and housework following birth shape first-time mothers’ and fathers’ mental health trajectories. Read here (Open access): doi.org/10.1111/jomf.13121

10/ So this demographer’s take: don’t panic about birth rates. Instead, let’s invest in the education, health, and happiness of the 8 billion precious humans alive now and the billions more still on the way in our lifetimes. #demography #pronatalism #fertility

🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵

🚨 New publication out! Together with M.C. Compans and Eva Beaujouan @fertdem.bsky.social, we explore how late transitions to adulthood relate to the use and outcomes of assisted reproduction. Curious? Have a look! 📄✨ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

‼️JOB ALERT‼️ Come join the team 😊 Open Postdoc position at the Chair of Sociology, Family & Work 100%, 3 years, extension possible. Research interest in life course, gender inequality, pension, income/wealth, attitudes etc. Apply by 31 May DM me for questions👨‍💻👩‍🏫🦸 tinyurl.com/y6as7nxy

Data problems with the Hungarian EU-SILC, a tale for all researchers to look at histograms (of raw variables or composite indicators) before doing any analysis: www.valaszonline.hu/2025/04/11/r...

Anomalies & data problems are found in the Hungarian EU SILC income data from around year 2017. It is very likely that the data was manipulated to decrease the poverty rate. Annamaria Tatrai and Andras Gabos conducted a very thorough investigation of the issue: www.valaszonline.hu/2025/04/01/e...

Super important: Policies focusing on human capital investment are likely a viable strategy to maintain economic sustainability.

Good take on the integration of causal identification into broader goals of social science research. I also really like this recent paper that touches on similar issues: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

🚨 Come research singlehood with me! I’m hiring a 3-year Postdoc w/interest in Family Demography to start this Fall. Please share! 📍 Barcelona (@cedemografia.bsky.social) 🔎 ERC-funded project 'SINGLE' 📅 Deadline – April 24, 2025 🔗 More info: shorturl.at/400eo #Postdoc #Demography

Great discussions on family dynamics, gender inequalities and open science #GIF2025

🆕Conference"Gender Inequalities, Fertility & the Future of Family Demography:Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity” kicked off @mpidr.bsky.social!Researchers from around the🌏are engaging into discussions on how gender inequalities shape fertility, families, & demographic change. #GIF2025

A huge shoutout to @christian.czymara.com 🙌 who created a customised #rstats chatgpt called Code Nerd that replies only with bare code. It's absolutely magnificent 😍 chatgpt.com/g/g-J5futwiV...

🚨I'm advertising for a PhD position (4 yrs) in quant. Sociology/Social Demography (life course, social ineq.) @tcdsociology.bsky.social! 📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025 📄 More info: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va... 🔄 Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity #TrinityCollegeDublin

🔎 Why are female-dominated jobs less likely to offer flexible working-time arrangements, despite policies designed to support work-life balance? In our latest #EUIResearch interview @mhamjediers.bsky.social explains how gendered views on caregiving & work commitment shape this gap 📌 buff.ly/zCw9Hj8

Can mothers leverage the structural resources of their occupation like autonomy to balance motherhood and work, especially in the absence paid leave? My latest article in the Journal of Marriage and Family suggests so.

New article by me! It's a common mistake to think the TFR is a prediction of the average number of children women will have over their lifetimes. But it's not. The TFR can decline even when the eventual number of children per woman stays constant or even increases; the opposite can happen too. 🧵

I want to see every scientific society going into emergency mode. This is a good example of how an organization can flex its specific power in a time of great need. What else is possible?

"These kinds of shocks are going to lead to a mass exodus … for minorities in particular.” For my latest @science.org story, I spoke with early career researchers who have been affected by the federal upheaval and are concerned about what it means for their future. www.science.org/content/arti...

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

It is always a pleasure to read and listen to Anna Rotkirch. Make sure you read her policy proposal.

While the right has dominated the discourse, pronatalist policies are being enacted by left, liberal governments in countries like France and Finland. Insights on Finland's cross-party approach come from Anna Rotkirch, a demographer who leads Finland’s population taskforce.