@fabianpfeffer.bsky.social proved that he is not only an expert on inequality but also on precision craftsmanship by successfully tapping a keg at the Hofbräuhaus. The crowd cheered as the first golden drops flowed, sealing what can only be described as his official Bavarian citizenship ceremony.

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79. people.com/diane-keaton...

No. 7 Indiana hands No. 3 Oregon its first loss of the season and the Ducks' first home loss since 2022 👀

Survey on the effectiveness of the rent brake in Munich This study explores the effectiveness of Germany’s rent control regulation in the context of Munich's housing crisis. The rent brake, aimed at preventing excessive rents in tense housing markets, was implemented in 2015 in G #sociology link

Congregations and Communities: The Evolving Social Role of Congregations and Their Involvement in Social Service Provision This review article examines interdisciplinary research on local religious congregations and their role as social service providers in American communities. #sociology link

Racial Gaps in Career Mobility during the Great Migration Socius, Volume 11, January-December 2025. The author investigates whether the Great Migration closed or mitigated racial disparities in career advancement. Using linked historical census data, tracking individuals from the #sociology link

Interesting paper by Hainmueller, @moritz-marbach.com, Hangartner, @niklas-harder.bsky.social, and Vallizadeh on the huge positive effect of the Germany’s Fast-Track Employment Program "Jobturbo" on Ukrainians integration in the labor market osf.io/preprints/so...

VACANCY: Lecturer in Sociology (13 months, starting Jan 2026) Closing date: 20 Oct 2025 Teaching PG modules on ‘Social Theory: Structure, Relations & Interaction’ & ‘Research Design’. @britsoci.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

📣 Diversity Week 🏳️‍🌈 📆 13-16 October 2025 📍 University of Mannheim With contributions from MZES researchers Rainer Freudenthaler, @wurthmann.bsky.social (14 October), Andrea Chagas López, Oliver Rittmann (15 October) and many others. Programme and details: 👉 www.uni-mannheim.de/en/gleichste...

Reminder: 📣 MZES Public Lecture with Catherine E. de Vries 📆 Wed, Oct 15 2025, 2:30 pm CET Please share and join us in person or online 👇🙂

Is parents’ employment uncertainty linked to children’s development? Analyzing patterns and mechanisms in France. Early childhood is a critical period for the reproduction of social inequality. While extant literature focuses on socioeconomic background, less is known about the r #sociology link

We’re off to a great start on our workshop on survey experiments, organized with @bramlancee.bsky.social Great to welcome our participants @aissr.bsky.social on such a sunny Fall day!

Sociological Theory (the journal) invites contributions to a special issue on "Sociological Theorizing in the Global South". Find out more: www.asanet.org/wp-content/u...

Was haben @steffenmau.bsky.social und @soziopolis.bsky.social gemeinsam? Beide haben auf eine herausragende Weise die Soziologie in der Öffentlichkeit vertreten und werden dafür heute von der DGS mit dem Preis für herausragende Leistungen

A Research Note on the Identification and Interpretation of Parenthood Age Effects In this research note, I contend that identifying and interpreting parenthood age effects is challenging. The challenge lies in separating the effects due to children being born to a later calendar #sociology link

❗️ Tue, Sep 30, 13:45-15:15 CET 📍 A 231 and ZOOM MZES Speaker Series with @msafi.bsky.social "Assessing the Relationship Between Experimental and Self-Reported Measures of Discrimination in France" 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even... 1/2

Home Price Change and Ethno-racial Residential Segregation: Temporal Relationships at the Metro Level Although rates of residential racial segregation and home prices are undoubtedly related, the temporal nature of the relationship has rarely been studied. Using fixed effects mod #sociology link

The first keynotes of the In_equality Conference 2026 are confirmed: @siljahausermann.bsky.social, @mschaeffer.bsky.social & @emmaspiro.bsky.social Register now and submit your paper until October 5: inequality-conference.de @uni-konstanz.de

Looking forward to presenting our #meta-analysis on #parenthood #discrimination (joined work with @isabelmhabicht.bsky.social and @jessdaik.bsky.social) at the CEPDISC 2025 conference in Denmark today. Working Paper available at osf.io/preprints/so...

From Job Titles to ISCO Codes: Enhancing Occupational Classification With RAG-based LLMs Accurate occupational classification from open-ended survey responses is vital for research in sociology, economics, and political science, yet manual coding remains resource-intensive and di #sociology link

From Wasteland to Reflexivity: Theorising Migrant Labour through Critical Realism in Postcolonial Capitalism: https://osf.io/v86tw

New paper out in ESR @europeansocreview.bsky.social led by my brilliant Ph.D student at Utrecht University @chlolv.bsky.social - very proud of this new work on the integration paradox 💪

1/ So you’re thinking about applying for an academic job in the UK but don’t know how? This thread will walk you through the essentials.

My hottest take of the day for the survey methods & immigration crowd: Conjoint experiments on immigrant profile choice are not a good way to know whether refugees are more popular than economic immigrants (or any other descriptive Q about immigration policy preferences).

🚨 Job alert: Postdoc at NYU Abu Dhabi. You’ll uncover how group boundaries form online using virtual experiments + digital trace data and work with a fantastic trio: Mario Molina, Minsu Park & Blaine Robbins. Apply by 1 Nov 2025. 👇🏼 apply.interfolio.com/173544

1 year left of my @erc.europa.eu grant on siblings and social mobility! It has been a blast. Below some of the reserach conducted by the outstanding postdocs Jung In, JMF, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Jesper Birkelund, BJS, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 1/2 #sociology

My department, Sociology at the University of Calgary, is hiring FOUR (4) tenure track professors this fall in the areas of systemic justice and structural harm. Please help us to circulate this widely within your scholarly networks!

Very informative preprint written by several leading causal inference authors that addresses 12 current issues in the field. arxiv.org/abs/2508.17099

New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357 Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!

📊The Sociology Department at Stony Brook University invites applications for *two* tenure-track Assistant Professor positions to begin in Fall 2026. [They] seek scholars who specialize in issues of global inequality and justice, broadly construed. apply.interfolio.com/172669

UC-Davis is hiring for a tenure-track assistant professor in the sociology of gender. See more details here: careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311028/...

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Criminology (in our Sociology department)! Tenure track. 2/2 teaching load. Great colleagues. Fantastic location. jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

JOB ALERT FOR #SOCIOLOGIST: Come work with me. We have FOUR Assistant Professor positions in the Sociology Department at the University of Calgary. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...

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...

❗️ Tue, Sep 16, 13:45-15:15 CET 📍 A 231 and ZOOM MZES Speaker Series with Jennifer Hill (NYU Steinhardt) "Democratizing Methods" The lecture is organised in cooperation with the Academy of Sociology as part of the Analytical Sociology Speaker Series. 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even... 1/2

Next ECSR conference will take place 15-17 June 2026 at Trinity College Dublin. Abstract deadline 11 January 2026. If you're wondering if this conference is for you, have a look at the kind of work we publish in @europeansocreview.bsky.social Submissions: col.eventsair.com/ecsr-2026/su...

📢NEW Vacancy📢 Assistant Professor in Sociology at @tcddublin.bsky.social Specialising in quantitative sociology ⏰Deadline: 6 October Maternity cover MORE INFO: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a... APPLY HERE: www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/

Our #Sociology department is looking for an #AssistantProfessor in the field of Social Inequality (with the possibility for a permanent contract). www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3546... @sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs

Aarhus University, invites applications for two assistant or associate professor positions in educational sociology with a focus on the application of quantitative methods international.au.dk/about/profil...

Looking forward to this, please come, it's hybrid 👍

💫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... 🧵👇

DGS-Stellenmarkt:

In @europeansocreview.bsky.social with S.Trittler: New migrants who are visible and highly educated report most discrimination: high discrim. coincides with high awareness of unfair treatment and high aspirations for fair treatment. academic.oup.com/esr/article/...

New papers out on perceived unfairness! A 🧵: In @sociusjournal.bsky.social with @brueggemann-o.bsky.social J. Lang, S. Strauss we show that women are no longer more accepting of lower wages than men by using linked employer-employee data.

There is no predetermined theme for the conference. We invite scholars to submit abstracts of up to 400 words on topics relating to any aspect of sociology www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...

The EquaStrength project team is ver well represented at the #ECSR2025 in Cologne. Stay tuned! @jeremykuhnle.bsky.social @distasioval.bsky.social @danielcapistrano.com @heypaolo.bsky.social @mfreino.bsky.social

This happened 💥🎭🫶🏼 #ECSR2025 @danielcapistrano.com @jeremykuhnle.bsky.social @evazschirnt.bsky.social @distasioval.bsky.social @bramlancee.bsky.social @hcebolla.bsky.social @alvaroszv.bsky.social @heypaolo.bsky.social @mfreino.bsky.social

We are hiring! Two new Lecturer (AP) positions at the University of Edinburgh School of Economics: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #EconSky

Like experimental research? Want to understand how voters evaluate women prime ministers and what the consequences are? This ✨OPEN ACCESS✨ paper use a 6-country experiment to assess if voter evaluations explain the lower number of woman prime ministers 👀 doi.org/10.1332/2515...

Preparing for the #ecsr2025 conference later this week. @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social and I present about A Sorting and Learning Model of Educational Inequality. The empirical case we study is the causal effect of the classical gymnasium on student achievement....