Billions of regressions ≠ robustness. My new PNAS Letter shows how unjustified models can drown out justified ones — and why thoughtful model selection matters👇 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We conducted a systematic review of the effect of in-utero exposure to ambient air pollution on the sex ratio at birth. Evidence is scarce and we need more studies employing rigorous causal inference designs. Work led by Ursula Gazeley @oxforddemsci.bsky.social, preprint available below.

🚨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

✍️ Just out: Annette Baudisch & I delve into the formal demography of fertility, birth, & reproduction timing. 👶 We use methods from mortality research to summarize when in the parental life course children are born. 📆 1/n doi.org/10.1080/0032... @sdu.dk @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social

PODCAST: Does pollution affect immigrant populations disproportionately? www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/podcasts/bre... Chris Coates looks at air pollution and in particular how common is it for immigrant populations to live in more polluted areas. With @ruettenauer.bsky.social and L’myah Sherae

Does #AirPollution 🏭 affect immigrant populations more than others? 🎙️I joined @usociety.bsky.social with L’myah Sherae to discuss #EnvironmentalJustice and the unequal exposure of immigrant minorities to air pollution in England and Germany. Listen to the podcast below 👇

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/...

Sorry did you just not see this? It is an amazing interview. If you can't like and share this, please don't follow me as we have nothing in common.

Auf dem Weg ins schöne Duisburg! Freue mich u.a. auf die Diskussion mit @katharinahppe.bsky.social und @lwestheuser.bsky.social zur #Exponentialgesellschaft von @deutschmann.bsky.social. Morgen, 17h #DGS2025

@sriucl.bsky.social is HIRING 2 permanent Lecturers 🚀 in #QuantitativeSocialScience! It comes with smart and lovely colleagues🌟, a central London office, and many big ideas and questions 🧐 Apply now! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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...

🚨 New pre-print with @sergioloiacono.bsky.social We ran 3 large-scale experiments in 🇬🇧to investigate how perceived asylum-seeking legality, public preferences for refugee relocation, and inclusionary attitudes are shaped by symbolic and strategic boundaries doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Honored that my thesis was selected for the second place of this year's ECSR best thesis award. I feel very grateful for everyone who supported me during this journey! 😊

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

@kasimirdederichs.bsky.social just presented our paper on #ResidentialSegregation 🏘️ across Europe at #ECSR in Cologne. Very impressed by a packed Residential Segregation session at the end of the conference🧐 - cool #ECSR crowed😎

🎉Big news! My ERCStG proposal SOCDEBT has been selected for funding @erc.europa.eu! 📚I’ll study how household debt is stratified across countries & over time; how people strategize, evaluate, and morally judge debt(ors). 🙏I'm truly indebted to all my friends, colleagues & mentors for your support!

Excited and grateful to launch my ERC project #SOCIO-CLIMP 🌍🌤️ The project explores how #ClimateChange and #EnvironmentalHazards unequally affect different socio-demographic groups 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 across Europe — combining spatial climate data with demographic detail to uncover patterns of #ClimateInjustice.

Do people have less #Kids because of the #ClimateCrisis? 🌍👶 In our preprint, @katyaoivanova.bsky.social and I find that environmentalists are less likely to have kids in their 20s and 30s... But by their early 40s, the gap closes. Maybe it's rather about #Postponement? 🕰️ 🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf...

*Our new LTN paper out today* Do 'boundary road' junctions with minor roads get safer when minor roads are filtered (i.e. closed to through-traffic)? We tested this using police-reported casualty data (2012–24) from 113 London Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) introduced between 2015–24. 1/

A fantastic opportunity in our amazing department! Come and join us as Director of our Centre for Longitudinal Studies www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Everything (and everyone) looks better in #viridis 😂 Happy to teach #Geodata and #SpatialRegression 🌍📊 in colourful R, this week at @goetheuni.bsky.social If you're interested in Geodata Analysis, the materials are all online (comments welcome): ruettenauer.github.io/Geodata_Spat...

New preprint out with @aleksandermadsen.bsky.social, where we show that later-arriving childhood immigrants have lower earnings, are more likely to enter manual occupations, and are less likely to enter analytical and language-intensive jobs and be employed in high-wage firms as adults.

One or two lectureships in the sociology department at Uppsala. Excellent applicants wanted!

Haha, möglicherweise geht’s jetzt doch ganz schnell mit dem Klimaschutz in Deutschland

Ever wondered about #Geodata and #SpatialRegression? There is still space at the #Geodata and #SpatialRegressionAnalysis 🌍📉 course @gesistraining.bsky.social 09-11 July in Mannheim: training.gesis.org?site=pDetail... For materials from previous years see: ruettenauer.github.io/Geodata_Spat...

Eine Straße in Berlin Mitte. Keine Bäume, nur Gehweg, Asphalt und Autos. Am Abend des 26-Grad-Tages klingt die Hitze nach. Ist das die Stadt, in der wir leben wollen? #Hitzehölle

Really intriguing read on 'wikipedia for cartographers'!

Ein 🧵 zu den Hauptthesen meines Buches »Die Exponentialgesellschaft« (shrk.vg/Exponential-B ): 1. In mehreren Gesellschaftsbereichen (Wirtschaft, Ökologie, pandemische Krise, Mobilität, Technologie, Demografie, Ungleichheit) haben sich in den letzten Jahr(zehnte)n exponentielle Trends zugespitzt.

🧬 Do you think Eugenics is a problems of the past? Join us today as @rebeccasear.bsky.social exposes the ongoing influence of #Eugenics and #ScientificRacism in 21st-century academia — and how we can push back. 📆Today 1pm in-person @sriucl.bsky.social and online. www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

More than 9,000 studies, reports, & book chapters published based on 400+ DHS surveys that were conducted in 91 countries, according to our bibliometric analysis (by @aasli.bsky.social). The termination could set the global research community back for years or even decades. osf.io/preprints/so...

📚 Ever wondered how unfinished degrees 🧑‍🎓 impact early careers? Join us tomorrow as Christina Ciocca Eller explores how #AmbiguousCredentials shape #LabourMarket outcomes and early career #Inequality. 🗓 Tomorrow 15:30–16:30 www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

Still welcoming your applications 🤗

🤔 Ever wondered why people change their self-reported ethnicity 🧑‍🦰🧑🏻‍🦰🧑🏽‍🦰 over time? Join our seminar series tomorrow as @haleymcavay.bsky.social unpacks the social drivers behind shifting #EthnicIdentity. 🕐 Tomorrow 13:00–14:00 www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2... #Sociology #EthnicIdentity #SocialStatus

Ever wondered whether #modernisation 🏭💸 truly drives #EducationalMobility🎓? Join us tomorrow for a talk with @mobarakhossain.net, who uses data from 91 countries to show how mobility trends from the 1930s–1990s developed 👇 What if countries had done similarly without modernisation?🧐

Thanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

There is still (nearly) a day left to submit your #demography 🦄work to #BSPS! Just do it 🏁🏃🏃‍♀️🎓

Why do some #ImmigrantCommunities establish dense #ethno-religious infrastructures⛪, while others do not come together as organized groups? Join our seminar on #CulturalDistance and #ethno-religious infrastructures by @jwied.bsky.social🎓 🗓️ Tomorrow 🕐 13:00–14:00 BST www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

‼️Still time to submit your abstract (250 words) to #BSPS in Swansea on 2-4 September by Friday 9 May! 🌱📪

FEMA refused to test residents’ soil in the Eaton and Palisades burn areas for potentially hazardous fire contaminants. So, we did it ourselves. Read our full investigation for @latimes.com here: www.latimes.com/environment/...

Given the local election results in the UK, a short #thread - based on much of our own research - on the vicious cycle of radical right support that we have seen in many countries. 1) When radical right parties (such as Reform) are electorally successful established parties move right on immigration

📣 Join us today for a talk by Mathis Ebbinghaus exploring the origins, dynamics, and impacts of #protest #movements — from early uprisings to modern #BLM protests. 🔗 Register here: forms.microsoft.com/e/fHEP73Jdmz #SocialMovements #ProtestHistory

*The BREATHE project is hiring* BREATHE is a new ANR project on air pollution, inequalities & child development in France. We are a hiring a data manager at @ined.bsky.social (18 months contract) to link geocoded data to child-level admin & survey data. Deadline 8 May www.ined.fr/fichier/rte/...

Draft “A Practical Guide to Estimating Conditional Marginal Effects: Modern Approaches” is on arXiv: arxiv.org/pdf/2504.01355 w/ two amazing grad students, Jiehan_Liu & Ziyi Liu 🧵

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Very exited to share the amazing 🚀line-up for our QSS and CLS Seminar series @sriucl.bsky.social🎓 Weekly talks on #SocialScience topics like #Inequality, #Protests, #Migration, #EducationalMobility, #Ethnicity, and #Eugenics 📊 Wednesdays, 1–2pm (hybrid). Register: forms.microsoft.com/e/fHEP73Jdmz

The @nytopinion.nytimes.com today features a #dataviz of our new global migration flow estimates. nytimes.com/interactive/... Using privacy protected records from three billion Facebook users, we estimated country-to-country #migration flows at monthly granularity for 181 countries.

🚨New paper with @swallaschek.bsky.social on media self-presentations of the super-rich 💸🗞️📺🎤💰. We analyse media interviews and find that they equate business with family success and tie past, present, and future into one seamless narrative. See more below 👇👇👇

🚨London PhDs — We’re hiring PGTAs in Quantitative Methods at @sriucl.bsky.social 🧮📊 💼 Teach on core quant methods modules — I'm on POLS0007, happy to chat if you're interested! 🗓️ Deadline: 25 April (3 days left!) Apply here 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/pg-teaching-... #PGTA #QuantMethods #PhD #LondonJobs #UCL

Forthcoming in European Societies and already at OSF Preprints: @beckerbastian.bsky.social and @norawaitkus.bsky.social's "Undeserving Heirs: How the Origins of Wealth Shape Attitudes Towards Redistribution" Link: osf.io/preprints/os...