Consider joining our EPC pre-conference workshop "New Data and Tools to Study the Demography of Social Mobility" in Bologna on June 3. All welcome! More details here: www.deciphe.eu/news/new-dat...

Maybe the real peer review was the friends we judged along the way

Has anyone submitted to Journal of Family Issues recently? What experiences did you have? (Just curious.)

This may be the stupidest thing I have ever posted but I believe that if enshittification had been proposed by Max Weber instead of Cory Doctorow we would be teaching it in every sociological theory class as if it had been inspired by God.

3-year contract for a Phd position in Sociology on the discourse of/about AI, at l'Institut polytechnique de Paris.

New in @europeansocreview.bsky.social with brilliant @kostermann.bsky.social & @patzinaalex.bsky.social 🌟 Apprenticeship dropout is known to be associated with €€€ penalties, but less clear whether dropout causes later income losses. Matters for policy: what should interventions target?

This PhD is absolutely thrilled that her latest publication is out in New Media & Society🔥 Ever came across dating platforms like Ashley Madison? My paper analyzes how such platforms discursively legitimize infidelity in contexts where such practices are widely stigmatized: doi.org/10.1177/1461...

"We find substantial grading bias in Danish reading against boys, ethnically minoritized students, and students of non-university-educated parents and in written mathematics against boys and students of non-university educated parents..." 😱 academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

Join us at @crestsociology.bsky.social : call for a PhD grant in computational sociology/CSS on the media framing of AI www.css.cnrs.fr/framing-ai-r... w/ @eollion.bsky.social. Deadline for application is May 15th

Looking for journal recommendations: Anyone recomends a #qualitative methods #journal they have had a good experience publishing with? We have just had a horrible experience and would like to submit elsewhere. #Academia #AcademicBsky

📢Please share widely! 📢 Do you do research with Eurobarometer data? Then submit your abstract for the Eurobarometer Symposium at GESIS Cologne on March 11 and 12, 2027: www.gesis.org/en/eurobarom...

How costly is apprenticeship dropout—and for whom? Using an IV approach, our new @europeansocreview.bsky.social article finds strong income penalties, but only for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. My great coauthors patzinaalex.bsky.social & @katymorris.bsky.social 💖 tinyurl.com/tk4nkdb3

This, from demographer Francesco Billari, is very good: “The real choice for political leaders is not whether to accept demographic change. It is whether to continue to fight it symbolically or to start governing it strategically” www.businessday.co.za/opinion/2026...

Soziologie: Nachrichten in umständlicher Sprache

Interesting paper on effect of Tinder on dating www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

When schools close, due to COVID-19 lockdown or holidays, the gender gap in reading increases. This is a challenge as boys already struggle more with reading skills than girls. New paper in @pnas.org with Emil Smith, @davidreimer.bsky.social & @madsjaeger.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Happy to announce that Claude Code can now write my papers for me and I can focus on my core competence: spending hours fiddling with latex until tables fit on a page

Man sieht auch absolut keinen Rechtsruck unter Arbeiter:innen, wenn man Rechts-Links-Positionierungen anschaut. Der Teil der Arbeiterklasse, der vorher schon rechts war, hat in der AfD eine Partei gefunden. Linke Arbeiter wurden dagegen vergessen und demobilisiert.

The German public is more approving of police violence when victims are immigrants, and this bias is highly resistant to new information. This shows our new study published in Science Advances. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (1/3)

we have a new paper in the April issue of Political Psychology. in this (admittedly quite lovely) new paper, @stephenvaisey.com, @pablobellode.bsky.social and I make a simple point: using panel data to understand belief change is very hard. we highlight an empirical intractability in the process:

📣 Join our ERC LEARN Research Team at CRIS, Sciences Po, Paris, to investigate how major disruptive events affect children's educational development. Apply by 12 April: ⭐️Doctoral Researcher / PhD candidate www.google.com/url?q=https:... ⭐️Postdoctoral Researcher www.google.com/url?q=https:...

A heat map of left vs right Parisian voters put next to a heat map of number of cats in Paris for no particular reason

Ja es ist wahr Claude Desktop heißt auf Deutsch Klaus Schreibtisch und er macht jetzt die Arbeit hier bitte gehen Sie heim und fluten sie Ihren Steingarten mit heißem Bitumen bis der Carport glüht das ist jetzt ihr Life

Machen Sie mit bei der Befragung zu Lebenshaltungskosten. Zum ersten Mal können teilnehmende Haushalte per App ihren Kassenbon einscannen und so einfacher an der Befragung teilnehmen. Weitere Infos zur Befragung: www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pr...

New article by CREST Sociology's Hesu Yoon in the American Journal of Sociology: "Exceptions in the Algorithmic Age: Evidence from the Case of Tenant Screening" Link: doi.org/10.1086/739108

Polarization is not just a political problem. It is a health problem. If you agree, check out this Social Science & Medicines pecial issue, edited by @josephharrisbu.bsky.social and Nora Kenworthy on "Polarization and Health Policy in a Global Context." www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Ever wondered who use reviews to direct behavior? I did. So I collected data on literary reviews and awards and studied who loan these books from libraries following favorable quality signals. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

QUESTION: Is there a magical European dataset including 1. Gender 2. Sexuality 3. Religion 4. Ethnicity / country of birth (+ for parents) 5. Occupation ESS is missing 2, EU-LFS is missing 3, EU LGBTIQ Survey is missing 5. Sharing is caring! #sociologysky #surveydata

I also love how this rails against postmodernism and its associated inscrutable jargon and also proposes a "quest for consilience via the evolutionary lens" Ah yes, the old quest for consilience, you say. That's what we should all be working on. A central quest. A quest as old as time.

Also finding it hard to keep up with new research? I built something to fix this. SciLove — swipe through recent papers in your field. The feed learns from your saves. Also matches you with researchers saving your work back (opt-out if you prefer). www.scilove.app 3,000+ journals, updated daily

Happy global birthday to OVERINVESTED! 🎂 Celebrate with me & join a discussion organized by Dr. @audreyharroche.bsky.social in conversation with Prof. Tina Miller at Oxford Brookes University 📅 30 April, 16:00–17:00 (UK time) Online event open to all; register here: brookes.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

SLLS Webinar Series 2026 - Register now! From Postdoc to PI: Navigating Major Research Funding in International Contexts Marta Facchini (Uni. of Turku), Jess Bone (Uni. College London), and Stefanie Plage (Uni. of Queensland) 19.03.26 8-9am (UK, GMT) REGISTER: www.slls.org.uk/events/slls-...

Register now for SOEPcampus: Learn to use the SOEP over lunch! Our online workshop series at @diw.de starts tomorrow, March 18, and registration is still open. Join us for a practical introduction to working with SOEP data across three lunchtime sessions. Info: www.diw.de/en/diw_01.c....

We have a new paper out in Sociology of Education @soceducation.bsky.social on Intergenerational educational mobility in Scandinavia and the United States. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

there is a fantastic visualization strategy coming from cultural evolution circles. I thought it'd be a perfect way to describe public opinion data, so I adapted it for aggregate survey data, created an R package, and wrote a post introducing it here: tkeskinturk.github.io/blog/publicopin

📢🚨Neues @gesis.org Paper 2026/02: „Mikrozensus – Die Schätzung von Armutsrisikoquoten mit Konfidenzintervallen“ von H. Wirth & B. Schimpl-Neimanns 👉 Open-Access-Paper (CC BY): doi.org/10.21241/sso...

How concerned should I be about being replaced by AI/fired by the next right wing government? By which I mean: should I pay 50+ GBP to keep my lorry and bus driving license 1️⃣ You're safe in the ivory tower 2️⃣ $$$$ better safe than sorry 📊 Show results

This IS the droid you're looking for. webRoid v1.0.0: R on Android. Console, editor, plots, packages, 9 themes. No server required. Tested extensively on emulators. Your actual device? The Force is strong, but no promises. play.google.com/store/apps/d... #rstats #webR #Android #WebAssembly

Grateful for a bit of art history education that allowed me to follow the discussion in this article: archive.is/tcolm (Also really looking forward to WaPo publishing some articles in Latin so all my high school Latin wasn't also in vain)

"LLM-Assisted Replication as Scientific Infrastructure", V2 of our preprint about how to use LLM to make better rather than more papers and assess the extent of the replication crisis in sociology osf.io/preprints/so...

THE SWITHEROO Hey, I have a new WP out now on @socarxiv.bsky.social ! In the paper, I study the full network of partnerships in Norway since 1967 up to today. I examine the general structure of the partnerships network, and the existence of a specific type of network: the partner switcheroo. 1/x

I build a feed for european grant funding that's updated daily and (IMO) far more transparent then the official EU fundign website: michelnivard.github.io/eu-grants-fe... (inspired by the NIH equivalent @sashagusevposts.bsky.social build yesterday)

Good to see @oxfordshirecc.bsky.social and @greenpartyemma.bsky.social and Cllr Susanna Pressel calling for better public transport and options for active travel from developers of Warneford hospital in Oxford. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2592815...

Geography shapes social processes – voting, migration & protests are often spatially dependent in ways standard regression models can’t capture. Learn with @ruettenauer.bsky.social to detect, visualize & model spatial ties via advanced spatial regression techniques! ➡️ t1p.de/geodata-spat...

It gives me tremendous pleasure to announce that I managed to defend my Ph.D. thesis at ENSAE, IP Paris, last week. I forgot to take the customary pictures with my committee, so please enjoy the acknowledgments. You can find a summary of the thesis in French and English as well.

Excited to share that my new book (w/ Xiang Zhou), Causal Mediation Analysis, is now out from CUP. Order at tinyurl.com/3hspt6em with discount code CMA2025. Includes software for Stata and R, available here: causalmedanalysis.github.io. Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen.

Jacob Hibel and I have organized an upcoming conference on AI and Social Inequality, which will be held on 3/17 at the UC Student and Policy Center in Sacramento. This event is open to social scientists, computer scientists, and the policy community. poverty.ucdavis.edu/event/artifi...

We have posted our AI policy An introduction: socopen.org/2026/03/09/s... And the policy: socopen.org/ai-policy/

Interested in using polygenic scores (PGS) in social science or health research? We are running a 2-day intensive short course @stats_UCL with @timtmorris.bsky.social (20–21 April 2026): tinyurl.com/5n6hwyxy. Ideal for all quantitative researcher across Social and Health Sciences! Get started!