Very happy to have received another ERC PoC! In CLEAR STATS, together with Santiago Gómez-Echeverry, Roberta Varriale (Sapienza), Paulina Pankowska (UU), Danila Filipponi, Silvia Loriga and Davide di Laurea (Istat) we are making a major step in detecting data quality. vu.nl/en/news/2026...

The department meeting of the sociology department of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam decided unanimously to support the decision of the @isa-sociology.org to suspend ties with the Israeli Sociological Society.

Do you work at a #Sociology department or are you studying Sociology? Consider supporting the petition shorturl.at/qmkZf of supporting the @isa-sociology.org decision to suspend the Israeli Sociological Society on its failure to take a clear position on the genocide in Gaza.

The identity of my university... #VUAmsterdam defined by students on their own initiative

My #ERC project has finally it's own website: dynanseproject.eu See there how we study employment trajectories of young and older workers, how we study the role of non-standard employment contracts and how we develop new methods for it using latent variable models!

Commentaar van NRC redactie: "De situatie in Gaza is in één woord ondraaglijk. In n week dat Nederland oorlogsdoden herdenkt met de woorden ‘nooit weer’, worden in een gebied ter grootte van Rotterdam oorlogsmisdaden gepleegd die het voorstellingsvermogen te boven gaan." www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

A vessel with civilians (including colleague Takis Politis from University of Thessaly) carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza was attacked by drones outside Malta. It seems that Israel's immunity to national and international law has no limits... www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...

With this letter, we (208 employees of #VUamsterdam) call the Executive board to stop calling the police to campus to repress student protests shorturl.at/xCcWF

New publication of the ERC DYNANSE research team and the PhD thesis of Anika Chowdhury! Addressing the complexity of pre- and post-retirement pathways in the Netherlands by combining (self-)employment status, working hours and income with the use of a novel method (mixture hidden Markov models)

An education-related publication is always a particular moment! This is joint work with several colleagues from VU, UvA, UU, EUR on the development of an open-source statistics database. It is useful for anyone teaching statistics especially for social sciences. doi.org/10.1111/test...

Excellent course on mixture models at VU Amsterdam in May/June! Starting from logistic regression and reaching Latent Class Analysis vu.nl/en/education...

Call for panels, Conference, Day of Sociology (19th of June), at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Submit your proposal by January 27th! Call for papers will follow!

PM and minister of Defence of Israel officially wanted by the International Court of Justice for crimes against humanity. www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...

Defend public higher education in Greece. Sign the petition against the privatisation bill! forms.gle/oEmNiMRfXEMw...

Temporary agency and on-call work are associated with unstable career paths and limited wage growth. doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...  New publication of @lauraeberlein.bsky.social, Mauricio Garnier-Villarreal and me using wonderful register data from CBS!

Why do Dutch companies use flexible employment contracts? New publication deriving register data from actual company practices doi-org.vu-nl.idm.oclc.org/10.1111/irj....

My new colleague Prof Reinoud Stoel from Statistics Netherlands. Welcome to the VU www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/corpor...