📣 SSR is currently soliciting submissions for an upcoming special issue on AI and Inequality 🔥 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... 📆 deadline: Nov 17th 👇👇👇

As Adam Przeworski and Juan Linz wrote, in a healthy democracy, the current government is always the government pro tempore. You are temporary. A situation that gives the governing party the right incentives. You will be in the minority. www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...

Based on feedback from applicants, reviewers and broader research community, the ERC Scientific Council decided to make changes in the 2026–27 calls for proposal for research funding. More details from the ERC President 👉 europa.eu/!hP3WWF What’s your take on this? Tell us! 👇

I recently read a BA thesis on the prevalence of "anti-gender" ideology in #farright party manifestos. It was quite good overall, but when it came to choosing a graph style and colour palette, the student did the funniest thing👇

Poland has shot down a number of Russian military drones that entered its airspace last night in what the government has called an "unprecedented act of aggression". This is the first time Russian drones have been shot down over a NATO country," says Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

Very pleased to announce the (nearly complete) list of our monthly events coming up this term! Sept: Invisible biases, unequal outcomes Oct: What is a feminist method Nov: Panel discussion - Feminist research & data in political turmoil. Details & sign up: femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...

A recent BSPS initiative is a critical demography strand, which thinks about how demography could be even better. This panel organised by Laura Sochas & Ben Wilson w/ Wendy Sigle, @signesvallfors.bsky.social & @honoratabogusz.bsky.social had great ideas about applying critical thinking in demography

📣 Job alert! 📣 2 fully funded PhD positions in sociology/demography in the ERC Starting Grant SeRO, which studies the impact of local violent crime on sexual and reproductive health in Mexico. Please share and apply! PhD post 1: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... PhD post 2: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Heading to #BSPS2025 ✨ My schedule: - Tue 16:45 (011) talk about long term LM changes and second birth in DE - Wed 14:45 (043) panel on critical demography - Wed 17:45 (037) talk about Europe’s non-binary population Happy to be back & see everyone!

A Korean-born researcher and longtime U.S. legal permanent resident has spent the past week detained by immigration officials at the San Francisco International Airport without explanation and has been denied access to an attorney, according to his lawyer.

How the holidays find me

Completed a new academic rite of passage - written my first chapter for an edited volume. I couldn’t be happier about the volume it’s in! 🦹‍♀️ Thanks to @carnes.bsky.social & @gorenlj.bsky.social for having me and all the heavy lifting on the book. kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640546/

In case you missed this piece on Friday (or want to be reminded that humanity is not facing imminent demise), here's your chance to learn why demographers aren't panicking about low birth rates.

I visited the Aussie parliament over the weekend and learned that voting is mandatory in Australia. I’d be keen on reading a systematic comparison of mandatory and non-mandatory voting in democratic systems. Does anyone have a reading to recommend?

Three doctors have been given prison sentences for negligence in treating a pregnant woman who died in hospital. Izabela's death in 2021 prompted mass protests against Poland’s near-total abortion ban, which had been introduced earlier that year.

New preprint from @tobyhandfield.bsky.social and me! We analyze authorship order norms from two perspectives: (1) why do disciplines have different norms and (2) do those different norms affect what kinds of collaborations take place. arxiv.org/abs/2507.07364

If you liked the @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social NYT episode last week, I really can't recommend enough the latest episode of A Bit Fruity by @mattxiv.bsky.social as a follow up watch/listen to that. youtu.be/vTyR3oIn6is?...

🧵 @chflachsland.bsky.social and I posted the first draft of our Climate Politics Framework (CPF) paper—our attempt to provide a structured synthesis of the insights of modern social science into why ambitious climate mitigation is politically such a wicked problem, and under osf.io/preprints/so...

Happy to share this paper. Full thread coming soon!

New preprint w/ @grahn.bsky.social & @joenoonan.se What happens when the world's most powerful democracy rolls back core liberal values? 🇺🇸 In this paper, we show how US liberal retrenchment, especially on women’s rights & LGBTQ+ equality, damages US global standing. 📄 doi.org/10.31219/osf...

My partner Radost has created fantastic visualizations of yesterday's Polish presidential election results — mapped by both population (~half of Poles live in cities) and territory. Explore all the maps here: radostw.github.io/election_202...

Brutal attack at our university this week www.bbc.com/news/article... Such things almost never happen in Poland. The attacker is a 22 years old Polish law student, known to follow far right parties and organisations on social media.

Social science gives us the tools to understand the very forces that fear it. Kudos to @marahalkire.bsky.social for leading this piece, in which she, @clarawilkins.bsky.social, and I share how, to many people, recent pushes to root out “anti-Christian bias” serve to signal pro-White allegiance.

“every border implies the violence of its maintenance” includes gender

My sabbatical leave allowed me to reflect on my professional life. As I’ve stepped into more senior roles in academia (plus gotten a bit older), I often get asked: 
“How do you keep writing academic articles, policy work, opinion pieces, while juggling everything else?” My answer: skillpower 🧵

When I say the pronatalist movement is dangerous, this is what I mean.

Our poster at #PAA2025 on Climate Change Narratives and Fertility in the UK with Daniele Vignoli, @amatysiak.bsky.social & @florenceups.bsky.social We found people who care about the climate are less likely to have a first child when exposed to more climate news #ClimateChange #Fertility

*JOB OPENING* Come join me and the Digital Gender Gaps team @sociologyoxford.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social. We study digital gender inequalities and their consequences w/ social media, geospatial, and population data. tinyurl.com/postdoc-oxf Apply by 9 May, noon (UK)

Have you checked out our latest issue? It's a unique ✨Themed Issue✨ that's packed with outstanding research on "LGBTQ+ Politics in Contentious Times" 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊ bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Happy to share the results of our experiment on #PAA2025 with Anna Kurowska and @amatysiak.bsky.social . For childless females, reproductive rights outweigh even job and housing stability in shaping fertility intentions ❗️ @labfam.bsky.social #FertilityIntentions #ReproductiveRights

In a new paper with experimental methods on Poland @magdalenagrabowska.bsky.social shows that young women (both childless & mothers) would be more likely to have another child if abortion access was liberalised. Partnered men are similar to women in that regard. #PAA2025

I presented two papers at #PAA2025 🌸 🔹 deroutinization of labor and second birth in West Germany (with @amatysiak.bsky.social & Michaela Kreyenfeld) 🔹 robots and workers’ well-being in Europe (with Daniela Bellani)

@labfam.bsky.social at #PAA2025 + we celebrated my thesis submission over tacos ☺️ 🌮

Examining the Gender Equality–Fertility Paradox in 3 Nordic Countries: "While realizing a satisfying division of household labor with their partner enhances fertility intentions among egalitarians more than in other groups, they do not necessarily prioritize parenthood as their main life objective"

For the @economist.com, I wrote about the Le Pen verdict. In liberal democracies, the law needs to be applied even if that strengthens the far right. But here, we should not just assume that this will help the RN. On the contrary. It's a good moment for democracy. www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

Which occupations carry the highest risk of sexual harassment—and who is doing the harassing? Our new study finds two distinct patterns depending on whether harassment comes from inside or outside the workplace. CEPR WP: cepr.org/publications... Ungated: drive.google.com/file/d/1jPOV... 🧵 1/

“Declining Fertility, Human Capital & Economic Sustainability”: M Myrskyla @angelorenti.bsky.social @htikkanen.bsky.social et al show how fertility & investment in education affect pension burden. @flux-consortium.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @pophel.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

50th anniversary issue of PDR just out: Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Celebrating 50 Years of Population and Development Review onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17284457...

Open Postdoctoral position! - ERC Advanced Grant project HOMME www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/276000/postdoctoral-fellow About the HOMME project www.sv.uio.no/psi/english/research/projects/homme

They're talking about us on @thetimes.com! Here's a very nice article by @rhysblakely.bsky.social about our paper recently published on the Journal of Marriage and Family @florenceups.bsky.social 👇👇👇

🚨 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

🚨Why do masses support democratic backsliding?🚨 A new @AJPS_Editor paper with Yotam Margalit, @liorsheffer.bsky.social and Itamar Yakir explores this question in the Israeli context. Our findings emphasize the role of leader attachment and affective polarization. doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

NEW #IFSWorkingPaper: The menopause "penalty" 📗 @gabriconti.bsky.social‬, @rginja.bsky.social, Petra Persson and @bartonwillage.com's paper finds that a menopause diagnosis leads to lasting drops in earnings and employment, alongside greater reliance on social transfers.

“Research integrity studies have grown significantly since the 1980s…analyses reveal a shift from early discussions on scientific misconduct to concerns such as open science, AI ethics, and research governance” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“To avoid reproductive justice becoming a buzzword and losing its political and critical edge, it is important to fully grasp what the RJ framework means and brings to research. This Dialogue presents four views about what it means to adopt and commit to the RJ framework in feminist research”

Happy to find out that my paper Still proud at the polls belongs to #EJPR 's best cited papers of 2023. For those who missed out on the paper, I show that high levels of LGB voter mobilization do not disappear after the enactment of major LGBT+ rights. doi.org/10.1111/1475...

The Population and Development turns 50 this year! To mark the occasion, w/ @aasli.bsky.social, we conduct a computational analysis of research themes and author characteristics in PDR and compare with @readdemography.bsky.social and Population Studies. doi.org/10.1111/padr...

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

Norway shows that rehabilitation-oriented sentencing can actually improve defendants' mental health, say researchers at the University of Oslo, @univdauphine.bsky.social, and Norwegian School of Economics. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...