🚨We’re hiring! The Max Weber Institute in beautiful Heidelberg seeks a W3 Professor of Sociology (focus: sociological theory) who connects well with the department’s focus on comparative sociology adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD... Happy to answer any questions! #Sociology #socsky

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/...

Meet Lane Kenworthy! Sociologist, political scientist, and one of the leading thinkers on equality and the welfare state. 
We’re delighted to welcome him as one of the keynote speakers at the ISI Wealth Conference 2025 in Munich. #isimunich #ISIWealthConference2025

Next RC28 Spring Meeting will be 20-22 May in Seville. Submissions until 10 Dec here: eventos.upo.es/137585/detai... If you're wondering if this is your conference, have a look at what we publish in our journal Research in Social Stratification and Mobility: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/rese...

I‘m very happy to share that my thesis “Couples‘ Careers and Women’s Financial Security in Later Life” has been awarded the Dissertation Prize of the Section Social Policy of @dgsoziologie.bsky.social ♾️-thanks to @katjamoe.bsky.social and Bernhard Ebbinghaus for their invaluable support! #dgs2025

The next ECSR conference is brought to you by @tcdsociology.bsky.social and @esri.ie! Trinity College Dublin, 15-16 June 2026 www.ecsr2026.net #ECSR2026 Abstract submission deadline: 11 January 2026

Very proud that 5 of my papers have recently been published 🤩! 🫶 to my co-authors!!! 1️Employment trajectories during Corona😷🔀 2️Motherhood penalty in wealth👩‍👧‍👦💰 3️Support for a right to work from home🏠✅ 4️Wage development of family caregivers🫂📈 5️Handbook article on longitudinal analyses🧮👩‍🏫 Time to read📚🤓⬇️

🚨 New paper out! 🚨 Take a look at Ruth Abramowski's and my recent study on economic deprivation and intimate partner violence in Germany. Published open access at @plosone.org 🔗👇 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Eine häufig gehörte Unterstellung ist, dass sich #Arbeit für Bezieher*innen von #Bürgergeld nicht mehr lohne. Eine neue Studie unseres @wsiinstitut.bsky.social beweist das Gegenteil und liefert Zahlen zu allen 400 deutschen Landkreisen und kreisfreien Städten: www.boeckler.de/de/pressemit...

⭐🎓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...

for all our Italian Friends (or Italy-Lovers): Great Position (post-doc) offered by Cristiano Vezzoni at Milan! Topic: on Loneliness, Social Isolation and Political Behaviour www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Today, the German Federal Election Officer released data on voting by age and gender for the 2025 election. Contrary to popular belief, AfD support is still not strongest among the youngest voters, but rather among the middle-aged (males). Support is also still much lower in older cohorts. (1/3) 🧵

Welche Konzepte gibt es, #Transformation gerecht zu gestalten und die sozialen Aspekte der ökologisch notwendigen Transformation ernsthaft in den Mittelpunkt zu stellen? Dieser und vielen weiteren Fragen wollen wir auf dem @wsiinstitut.bsky.social Herbstforum 2025 nachgehen. Mehr Informationen: 1/👇

⏩Herbstforum 12.11. -13.11.2025 in Berlin⏪ Es kommen Andrea Nahles @miriamrehm.bsky.social, @bettikohlrausch.bsky.social, @andreashoev.bsky.social, @simschaupp.bsky.social, @lwestheuser.bsky.social Was sind sozial-ökologische Transformationskonflikte und wie können sie progressive Kräfte nutzen?⏬

Art.9 Grundgesetz beinhaltet die Idee, dass Menschen über die "Arbeits- und Wirtschaftsbedingungen" selbst verhandeln. Unter welchen Bedingungen das heute (nicht) gelingt und warum, das kommt - obwohl es das Leben Millionen abhängig Beschäftigten direkt betrifft - in dt. Medien fast garnicht vor.

📢 New data released! The complete third #FReDA wave is now freely available via @GESIS – perfect for longitudinal studies. 👉 Get access: search.gesis.org/res...#FReDA#SocialScience #PanelData #LongitudinalData

#PanelData #FredaAutumnSchool 📢 Join the 3-day #FReDA Autumn School at JGUMainz from September 10–12, 2025! Enhance your #research skills by learning how to work with the FReDA dataset - a key resource for #family #demography studies.

Ich bin in Finnland, aber an alle anderen: Geht morgen auf die Demos gegen den Hochschulpakt in Hessen. Es geht um die Existenz der Wissenschaft. Schaut nur die deutlichen Appelle der Uni Präsident:innen aus Kassel, Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Offenbach an - das ist ziemlich beispiellos. 🪧🪧🪧🏫

📢 Thrilled to share our new paper with MerlePohlmeyer& KarinSchulzeBuschoff, just published in @socialindicators.bsky.social “Diverging Paths? The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Subjective Well-Being of the Solo Self-Employed and Employees in Germany (2019–2023)” 🔗 rdcu.be/ers11 🧵 Key insights 👇

We are hiring a 3-year postdoc for the ERC-funded WEALTHTRAJECT project at DIW Berlin. More details here: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...

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How much of the "long arm of childhood" works thru intergenerational stratification? Almost all for some health outcomes like psychological distress and self-rated health, but a lot less for others like severe chronic conditions. Heart attacks and stroke are in between.

Dear FReDA, pairfam, and GGS Users! 7 days left to send your Abstract for the FReDA User Conference 2025.

Dear FReDA, pairfam, and GGS Users! 7 days left to send your Abstract for the FReDA User Conference 2025.

Gerne Weiterleiten: Promotionsstelle ab Herbst 2025 in meinem DFG-Projekt zu In-Work Benefits und Aufstockern im SGB II. Im schönen Wiesbaden am Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung: www.bib.bund.de/DE/Institut/...

Gerne Weiterleiten: Promotionsstelle ab Herbst 2025 in meinem DFG-Projekt zu In-Work Benefits und Aufstockern im SGB II. Im schönen Wiesbaden am Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung: www.bib.bund.de/DE/Institut/...

How effective are policies of predistribution or redistribution for reducing in-work poverty? How do their effects differ by household type? Some answers in my paper using EU-SILC data out in @europeansocieties.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1162/euso...

Deadline extended❗You can submit abstracts for the FReDA User Conference until June 10. 📅 Conference Date: 20-21 October 2025 🔗 More information: www.freda-panel.de/FReDA/EN/New...

Deadline extended❗You can submit abstracts for the FReDA User Conference until June 10. 📅 Conference Date: 20-21 October 2025 🔗 More information: www.freda-panel.de/FReDA/EN/New...

Recently published in @jpube.bsky.social: "Declining earnings inequality, rising income inequality: What explains discordant inequality trends in the United States?" By @zparolin.bsky.social, @lukaslehner.bsky.social, & @natewilmers.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky

1 more week to apply to one of 2 postdoc positions, 5-years each, in my @erc.europa.eu project!

2 more weeks to apply to our Master in Comparative Democracy at @goetheuni.bsky.social! Here's an overview of the program: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/136355588.pdf And check out our new image video with some impressions from our beautiful campus! video01.uni-frankfurt.de/Mediasite/Pl... Apply!

#Wohneigentum #Erbschaft #Chancengleichheit #SozialeUngleichheit #Soziologie #Wohnungspolitik 🏠 Wer kann sich ein Eigenheim leisten – und warum? Eine neue Studie von @jaschadraeger.bsky.social @nrmllr.bsky.social und klauspforr.bsky.social zeigt:

Still 2 weeks left to send your abstract for the FReDA User Conference 2025 in Wiesbaden. Feel free to get in touch If you have questions about the conference.

Einige Überlegungen zur politischen Lage im Frühjahr 2025. tldr: es gibt kein Zurück. www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-...

Still 2 weeks left to send your abstract for the FReDA User Conference 2025 in Wiesbaden. Feel free to get in touch If you have questions about the conference.

I have a new paper out! "Should Social Insurance Programs Count as Wealth? Augmented Wealth in Research and Policy." Published yesterday in Socio-Economic Review @sasemeeting.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

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...

Come and work with us in beautiful Bamberg! @uni-bamberg.de Feel free to contact me if you have any questions! www.uni-bamberg.de/fileadmin/ab...

Here's an update on sociology (and some demography) journal editorial polices with regard to sharing preprints before submission and after acceptance. A big improvement from the last edition of this table. With one exception.

👉 Deadline 14.04 - just a few more days to submit to our workshop on "Moral Economies of the Polycrisis" on June 16-17 in Hamburg! We're excited about keynote inputs by Michael Vester & Patrick Sachweh, supported by @dgswisoz.bsky.social #soziologie

Postdoc job alert: 🇨🇭 If you are a quantitative stratification / inequality / life course sociologist (or close) who could plausibly teach in French then you should apply for this super job at LIVES / @dessociales.bsky.social / @unil.bsky.social with Daniel Oesch @populationeu.bsky.social

Amen; esp. to the last sentence of the abstract. The failure to turn demand into policy deserves more attention by scholars.

liebe leute, ich möchte euch gerne auf diese veranstaltung der heinrich-böll-stiftung hessen am 02.05. im frankfurter mousonturm aufmerksam machen. ich würde mich sehr freuen, mit euch über einsamkeit ins gespräch zu kommen:

New in European Sociological Review: “Does inequality undermine life satisfaction? Effective identification of country-level controls for a longitudinal investigation”. Economic inequality lowers LS among lower earners – but it *raises* LS among higher earners. academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

New Course Alert! 🚀 Generative AI for Social Science Research This course explores how to apply AI in social science research, from basic interactions to fine-tuning models for large-scale data analysis. Find out more & apply: bit.ly/4l3nnGI #ESS2025 #GenerativeAI

For those interested the current situation on labour shortages: why they rose so much, what to do about it, and how quality jobs can help. As a bonus, it's all in my soothing voice.

Already next week: Very much looking forward to host you at our conference Social Policy and Inequality in the Polycrisis @uni-bamberg.de ! Supported by @lifbi.bsky.social @difis.bsky.social #Sozialpolitik #SozialeUngleichheit #socialpolicy #SocialInequality www.uni-bamberg.de/sfa/veransta...

Hiring again! Lecturer in Sociology. We're looking for someone strongly anchored in sociology through high-profile contributions, and with the ability to appeal to students and colleagues of various methodological orientations. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...