📢 Open positions! I’m recruiting 2 postdocs + 3 PhD positions at C³S, @goetheuni.bsky.social in #ClimateJustice, environmental inequality, #Demography & #ComputationalSocialScience 🌍📊💻 3–4 years + strong support for training🎒 Deadline: 23 June 2026 More: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen...

This is a disturbing but important project. Black Churches were a major organizing hub of the Civil Rights movement so of course white supremacists targeted them.

Shifting returns to education, not educational inequality, is the main force driving intergenerational income persistence today. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... Proud supervisor moment to see this out in @sfjournal.bsky.social

Our Open Lectures Series 2026 opens tomorrow with John Levi Martin (University of Chicago): "Taking a Position in the Political Field: Voting, Speeches and Interactions in the Weimar Reichstag, 1920–1932". Hosted by our ICT Dept @steffenmau.bsky.social & Institute of Sociology @uni-goettingen.de

📢 Call for Papers 3rd Workshop on Wealth Inequality, Economic Mobility & Labor Markets 📍 𝐖𝑼 Vienna | 🗓 19–20 Nov 2026 🗓 Submission deadline: June 30 🔗 Details & submission: wu.ac.at/ineq/ws26 #INEQ #CfP

Amazing initiative here by my colleague @buraksonmez.bsky.social with @aksoyundan.bsky.social and @sergioloiacono.bsky.social. Submit your experiment and watch it come to life

Toward a Theory of STEM Academic Departments as Racialized Organizations Critical and STEM higher education scholars document how the fallacy of White supremacy has produced racialized macro-level (e.g., state) and micro-level (e.g., individual) structures hindering the self-actu #sociology link

Social Closure in U.S. High Schools? Patterns and Determinants of Socioeconomic Segregation in Adolescent Friendship Networks Adolescent friendship networks exhibit limited interaction across socioeconomic and racial lines. Using Add Health data and a novel exponential random gra #sociology link

Bad news for capricorns: they earn less than other zodiac signs Good news for capricorns: it's not due to their zodiac sign

Tomorrow at @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social, @awaldendorf.bsky.social will present joint work (also with Susanne Veit) on the content of spontaneosuly generated stereotypes, and how this differs for people at the intersection of identities. Join online or in person if you can!

My co-workers, my pay, our inequality regime: a relational inequality model We conceptualize within job group income distributions as the outcome of claims-making over organizational resources. We examine same job group co-workers by race/gender in all U.S. state and local govern #sociology link

🌱 Our new issue has blossomed, showcasing brand new inspiring evidence on education as one of the most powerful forces shaping inequality and life chances in contemporary societies! Read it at: academic.oup.com/esr/issue with many articles #OpenAccess!

Black in blue networks: social network integration and racial disparities in police use of force Explanations for police behavior argue that “us versus them” group dynamics shape officer interactions with the public. Yet, studies on racial disparities in policing overlook the int #sociology link

Hiring the ideal remote worker: the gendered implications of the rise of remote work The COVID-19 pandemic precipitated the widespread adoption of remote and hybrid work arrangements. How will this change affect parental status gaps in hiring? We experimentally test hiring decisi #sociology link

Rethinking migrant reception in the age of color-blind racism: an experimental approach A large and robust literature has emerged in recent years that looks at the acceptance of migrants into Western countries. Surprisingly, these studies have consistently found that residents in #sociology link

Does Mandatory Military Service Shape Men's Occupational Choices? Evidence from the Suspension of Conscription Across Europe Recent geopolitical tensions have renewed debates on conscription and mandatory military service. While a substantial literature examines its consequences #sociology link

The Last Plantation: Racism and Resistance in the Halls of Congress by James R. Jones American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 4, Page 994-997, January 2026. #sociology link

Interesting new paper by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci and @vincentab.bsky.social about the estimands problem/solution journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Stratification of Post-Birth Labour Supply in a High- and Low- Maternal Employment Regime This paper compares the magnitude and stratification of motherhood employment penalties in France and Germany, two countries with contrasting institutional orientations towards maternal empl #sociology link

In the simple model of the prisoner's dilemma, when facing a serial defector, you have to defect for a few rounds in hopes of moving them back to mutual cooperation.

DGS-Stellenmarkt: Wiss. Mitarbeit (m/w/d) im Sonderforschungszentrum des Deutschen Instituts für Interdisziplinäre Sozialpolitikforschung: Universität Bremen

Beware of names: Validating name-based status and gender cues in Italy, Germany, and the United States First and last names are frequently used in experimental research to signal group memberships such as gender, ethnicity, or social status. In other cases, names are included t #sociology link

Paper on how personality explains (oh, yes, you heard me) qualitative vs quantitative preferences. Haters, rejoice link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I’m on a plane for a panel on structural racism tomorrow at the University of Michigan. One of the questions is how do we communicate with people who might be hostile to social science on race? My answer is some folks are hopeless, and we write them off while convincing those we can.

Racial Discrimination in Context: The Role of Organizational Policies and Practices in Hiring Discrimination American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 4, Page 918-971, January 2026. #sociology link

Handcrafted Careers: Working the Artisan Economy of Craft Beers by Eli Revelle Yano Wilson American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 4, Page 1005-1007, January 2026. #sociology link

Difference-in-Differences Estimates under Selective Migration Difference-in-differences designs often study place-based treatments that can trigger migration in and out of treated areas. When treatment changes who is observed, aggregate and within-individual DiD no longer retriev #sociology link

The Last Plantation: Racism and Resistance in the Halls of Congress by James R. Jones American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 4, Page 994-997, January 2026. #sociology link

Aalborg University is hiring: Assistant Professor of Data Science #assistantprofessor

Racial Discrimination in Context: The Role of Organizational Policies and Practices in Hiring Discrimination American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 4, Page 918-971, January 2026. #sociology link

#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy Arbeiten Sie bei GESIS und profitieren Sie von vielen Vorteilen. youtu.be/t1KcoQxuvmQ... Wir suchen für #Köln eine*n Referent*in für #Personalgewinnung (Entgeltgruppe 10 TV-L, 60% Arbeitszeit, Elternzeitvertretung bis 31.05.2027): gesis.jobs.personio....

The Department is hiring a PhD researcher to work on a project titled: ‘Meritocracy as Political Culture: A Comparative Analysis of Structures, Attitudes, and Meanings'. Application deadline is 1 May 2026 🚨 Details here: www.tcd.ie/sociology/ne... @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social

Someone went to the trouble of creating 5 fake OSF accounts today, linking to 5 fake ORCID accounts, and generating 5 fake papers to submit to SocArXiv, with fake author and emails. Dude, if you are reading this, I hope you get the help you need (or a better job).

Microeconomic foundations for the biased interaction game The theory of microeconomics is revisited to gain insight into the underlying mechanics of sub-optimal systems in general. It challenges the prevailing view that efficient markets naturally arise from free competition and #sociology link

This is wild: Over a third of genetics papers published in top journals in 2014-20 (including Nature, Cell, and PNAS) have errors whereby genes with names like SEPT8, DEC1, or MARCH3, were turned into dates by Excel automatically! The issue was first noted in 2004.

Our researchers propose a new, more sustainable approach for welfare states to update their policies. The approach is presented in a newly published open-access book, now available. invest.utu.fi/news/new-res... @janierola.net @pasimoisio.bsky.social

"From 2022 to 2024, Texas transported more than 100,000 migrants from the U.S.–Mexico border...increased Trump’s vote share by more than three percentage points." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

❗ Lecture by @marcratkovic.bsky.social TONIGHT ⌚ 7 pm 📍 SN 169, U of Mannheim Topics include the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), social unrest, and the policies of the Trump administration. Organized by the General Student Committee (AStA) 👉 www.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/news/talk-at...

Work with EU-SILC, Finnish full-population registers, SOEP & PSID. We’re looking for strong quantitative skills (multilevel, FE, sibling/twin models; R/Stata). 📍 Turku, Finland (partial remote possible) 💰 €5,000–5,500/month 🗓 Apply by 25 March 2026 #registerbasedresearch #openpositions #researcher

I have a 5-year Senior Research Fellow position open! This is linked to my Academy Professorhip that launched in January. I am looking for a person with strong methods skills, cv sufficient for an adjunct professor (”dosentti”, a bit similar to habilitation), and supervision experience.

How did the minimum wage implementation impact mothers’ and childless women’s employment? Evidence for West Germany. Women, and especially mothers, are overrepresented in part-time and low-wage jobs in Germany. Yet, little is known about how minimum wage floors affect the employm #sociology link

What Makes Policy Fair? Evidence from U.S. Immigrant Integration Policy and Public Opinion Immigration attitudes research is often centered on cultural and economic threat debates. However, this focus has missed an important mechanism that guides our everyday judgments: fairness. #sociology link

📢 New publication! Together with @dariatisch.bsky.social, I’m happy to share our new article bringing gender into a key methodological debate on how to answer causal questions. 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Towards a New Ethos of Science or a Reform of the Institution of Science? This paper proposes a science governance framework based on the research values of openness and mutual responsiveness. It reviews the efforts made since Merton and addresses the current shortcomings and mis #sociology link

💸🚨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/ 🚨💸

#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy Pursue your scientific career at GESIS! youtu.be/zMY2zqYFIMg We offer a job as a Research Associates for the #FReDA Children and Youth Survey (#PostDoc), specializing in Questionnaire Development. (Salary group 13 TV-L, 100 %) gesis.jobs.personio....

You could live here too! A new Senior Lecturer/Reader position to teach in our new Master of Public Policy Programme. Come build something great with me in a beautiful place! Please repost. www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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