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#Yellowstone really didn't have consultants with any academia experience... 😬

The increase in science funding applications from 2023 to 2025 across programs is huge. And most likely the competition will increase unless investments are made in science and research (which have repeatedly shown to pay off later for society at large). www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What happens when abortion access becomes restricted even without a law officially passing? With Francesco Billari and @aksoyundan.bsky.social, we investigated how incidence of abortion, miscarriage and stillbirth changed under the anti-abortion campaign in Turkey.

Als een imam zoiets zegt, is hij een haatbaard. Als Henri uit Rotterdam het zegt, is het fatsoen. nos.nl/nieuwsuur/co...

Alarmerend: Fvd (33), PVV (30), JA21 (14), SGP (13) en BBB (13) hebben de meeste plannen die in strijd zijn met de beginselen van rechtsstatelijkheid. 3 partijen doen geen enkel voorstel dat strijdig is met de rechtsstaat GroenLinks/PvdA, Volt en PartijvdDieren www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/par...

Research using Administrative Data is rarely replicated. So we are going to do it at scale and increase the rigour and transparency. Want to learn more about the data and the research it supports whilst also advancing Open Science? Why not sign up?

Before Dutch elections, most parties let the financial and economic consequences of their plans by @cpbnl.bsky.social. Here the spending on education, relative to the basic trajectory (which, I assume, already includes last year’s budget cuts). There is only one party that wants to cut even more.

On 'The Politicization’ of Fertility to Achieve Non-Demographic Objectives', written in 1997: "The use of fertility (& population growth) related arguments to justify policies on matters which cannot be proved to be related to fertility without intervening assumptions is at least as old as Malthus"

👉Systematic review finds same-sex & different-sex parents show similar mental health, parenting stress & relationship quality. Same-sex parents face more stress related to discrimination and less family help. @yuxuanjin.bsky.social @denimazrekaj.bsky.social 🔗 genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....

At the Department of Political Science (University of Amsterdam, @uva-fmg.bsky.social), we are looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team. Interested? You can find all details and apply here: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies....

Laten we het extreem-rechtse geweld van gisteren niet politiseren.

Not fluent in Dutch but I think they spelled "fascists" wrong...

VVD en NSC, die voor de grootste HO bezuiniging sinds tijden tekenden, en CDA en CU, die deze onderwijsbegroting aan een meerderheid in de 1e kamer hielpen, scoren volledig ‘groen’. Dus je kunt de innovatieMOTOR straffeloos afbreken en toch maximaal scoren op de innovatiemonitor. 🧐

📢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/

🎉 This week, Marcel Das marks 25 years as the director of Centerdata! To celebrate, we invited him to the ODISSEI Podcast to discuss the LISS Panel: how it operates, the studies it supports, and why it matters for research. 🎧 Listen here: odissei.transistor.fm/episodes/ope...

An assistant professor position in Tilburg, in the sociology of social inequalities.

The plenaries this year were excellent. Stuart Gietel-Basten argued passionately that demographers must reclaim the narrative around low fertility and drive the debate in a more productive, less dysfunctional, direction. We have the skills, and this issue *matters* for multiple reasons

This Wednesday, our colleague Billie de Haas will be at the #Forum in #Groningen to discuss her research on conversations around couples' desires of having children & her card game (hetkinderspel.nl) that helps couples in their decision process👶🧩 🕑20:00 - 21:30 (in Dutch) forum.nl/nl/agenda/ta...

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

This article also featured prominently in one of Germany's largest newspapers @szde.bsky.social (published yesterday). Pretty irritating that they are amplifying this. Thanks @philipncohen.com for doing the work to debunk it (see here familyinequality.wordpress.com/tag/national...)

Just in case you hear any of the podcast bro's waxing poetic about the @theatlantic.com article on the marriage effect: 👇

Didn't read it but I don't have to. Everything Brad Wilcox (who's behind this) writes about marriage is the same, and I've debunked it 100 times. This time it's marriage and happiness. In another case he said marriage makes women safer, and I wrote this, which addresses his common bullshit problems:

Whoa. How did I know this was about to appear in the Atlantic? Uncanny!

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.

🎉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!

The new ERC Starting Grant - funded projects include: ✴️ redefining false memories ✴️ making artificial touch feel more natural and realistic ✴️ how aging reshapes human tissues ✴️ ADHD in adults vs childhood ✴️ how plants shield from excessive sun exposure Discover more 👉 buff.ly/APfNmCK

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...

WORK! The Sociology Department at Utrecht University is hiring a new assistant prof, with expertise on migration/integration/polarization/stratification. Come join us! www.uu.nl/organisatie/...

(1/2) Vandaag begint het nieuwe academische jaar. Wat normaal een feestelijke dag is, wordt nu overschaduwd door de onderwijsbezuinigingen van dit kabinet. Universiteiten zijn bezig met ontslagrondes, opleidingen worden beëindigd en onderzoek stilgezet.

Hé hé pas op, er waren succesvolle miljardenbezuinigingen op het onderwijs!

We’re hiring! Join @utu.fi & INVEST Research Flagship Centre as a #SeniorResearcher ( #postdoc ) or #DoctoralResearcher in the #SHARELEAVE project on parental leave and social inequality. 🌍👶 🗓 Apply by Sept 22 at 4 pm (Finnish time) 👉 ats.talentadore.com/apply/erikoi... #hiring #openvacancies

Fun times: I have seen this aesthetic before! Almost felt the urge to go look for my blue handkerchief (never made it to "pionerche")...

CCF member @karenguzzo.bsky.social and coauthors examine the prevailing narrative surrounding population decline in the US and why it may not be as calamitous as is often assumed. 🔗 theconversation.com/fears-that-f...

WRITE FOR US: we’re inviting early career scholars to submit pitches for The Sociological Review magazine's Research Insights series. The editors are currently seeking proposals for our December issue, with a pitch deadline of 5 September. 🔎 Read more about contributing: buff.ly/Q5KZlcJ

It's going to be amazing, and it's free! 8/20 workshop on APC analysis with Dr. Yang Claire Yang from UNC. Or watch and get the materials later - from @um-psc.bsky.social

Great read: "[...] if there were greater solidarity and security in our culture, would the risks of reproduction seem more tolerable, such that some attempts at genetic selection no longer seemed necessary? What, ultimately, makes a person feel safe enough to take the risk of having a child?"

Statistics do ruin everything...

Ahhhhh... can't wait for AlpPop 2026! 🤞🤞🤞

Nothing says “final week before summer vacation” like wildly overcommitting for the fall. Rest is temporary, but panic is forever.

Good news! Trust in science is going up slightly in the Netherlands. Also in recent years 👏 Now let's invest in science too!! New report from Rathenau with numbers from 2012-2025. www.rathenau.nl/nl/werking-v...

Nederland moet dringend meer investeren in onderwijs, onderzoek om de afnemende productiviteitsgroei te keren. Dat concludeert de Studiegroep Begrotingsruimte voor een nieuw kabinet. Ook benadrukt de groep dat opleidingen beter moeten aansluiten op maatschappelijk relevante beroepen.

En het is een gotspe dat onze demissionair minister @eppobruins.bsky.social zich als een hoeder van het hoger onderwijs ziet, zoals hij onlangs uitte. Me hoedje.

The blog post asks, "So what’s the real, underlying reason for the Trump regime’s attack on education?" Sadly, not a Trump-specific question, given the relentless attack on education & academic research in countries, like the Netherlands.

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...

The "funniest" bit is that he signs his tweets...

Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw