❤️Academia is not always rewarding, unless you make it rewarding by writing an article with the love of your life! 📣Our joint side project with my beautiful and smart wife, Bilge Gencoglu, is now out in Social Psychology of Education. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

❓What drives people to work in retirement? 👉My latest PhD paper attempts to answer this question from a life course and cross-national perspective. The paper can be read open access at Work, Aging and Retirement. doi.org/10.1093/work...

Social Psychology II by me!

📢 Call for Papers 📢 💡 @genoni.bsky.social @nellageurts.bsky.social and I are organizing a Workshop on the Integration Paradox 📃 We aim to discuss critical, innovative work on the IP ⏰ When: 18 June 2025 ✒️ How: See tinyurl.com/yj8d9233 📍 Where: @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social Apply now!

My wife defended her PhD ❤️ 👏🏻 Watching her dedication and brilliance in this journey has been an absolute privilege. 💐 Besides seeing her grow, I also learnt much from her while for my own PhD. I’ve always seen her as a model and followed her footsteps. 🙏 I’m grateful for everything she taught me.

📣 I'm thrilled to share that I've embarked on a new journey as a visiting researcher at @wzb.bsky.social! 💡 Over the coming months, I'll work on understanding the migrant-native gap in retirement income from a life course perspective, using SHARE data. Stay tuned for more!

Good news: The deadline for papers for the JCASP contact generalization special issue has been extended to June 1st! Please redistribute/share onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Good news! Our article received enough citations to be a #TopCitedArticle in the Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology 🥳 The paper can be accessed from here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🚨In a new paper, we look at how job resources over the course of career predict retirement timing among older workers in Europe 👇Access the paper for free for the findings 🙏This paper is part of a project funded by Instituut Gak and uses SHARE data doi.org/10.1093/work...

I want to know everyone's experiences publishing in: * MDPI journals * Hindawi journals * Frontiers journals Not stories about what you heard, please, but your literal experience. what happened to you. Editors of said journals particularly welcome. RT this. A lot.

Presentations by: - @mustafafirat.bsky.social , Work-family trajectories across Europe: differences between social groups and welfare regimes. - Peter Sun, Life course patterns of productive engagement among rural and urban older adults.

Come join us next Thursday 👇

🚨JOB ALERT 🚨 We're hiring 3 postdocs for the new Einstein Center Population Diversity. Work with a fantastic team of social scientists and biomedical researchers in the city of Berlin! Details: bit.ly/3RX0GpZ Apply by Feb 7 & dm or email for questions.

Call-for-contribution for the next round of our webinar series "work-in-progress edition" targeting research projects using sequence analysis at their developmental stages! Deadline for submission (for presenting Feb.-May) Jan.8th, 2024. More info and form at sequenceanalysis.org/saa-webinar-...

Launching Pensions at a Glance 2023 tomorrow! You can follow the launch and access the report from 11 am Paris time here: www.oecd.org/els/public-p...

At the EUI we have a #vacancy for a #postdoc, for 2.5 years, to study inequality in school careers in the Netherlands using register data. Maybe you know a researcher who would be interested in this position. #socsky Deadline: 31/12/2023. See for more: www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

Personality and Social Psychology Review is seeking proposals for a special issue 📝 ow.ly/W83o50Qg0is

Interesting paper by Mustafa Firat, @visser.bsky.social, and Gerbert Kraaykamp about work-family trajectories across Europe with SHARE data www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

First post here, and for a good reason 🙏 📣1st paper from my PhD is out! 💡Using data from ~80,000 older adults (50+) from 28 EU countries, we looked at what happened in people’s lives at each age from 15 to 49. ❓What we found? Read the article for free doi.org/10.3389/fsoc... #PhDSky #AcademicSky

Two 3-year PhD fellowships are available within the remit of my ERC project on the risks and vulnerability of widowhood across ageing societies!!! Deadline for applications - December 10 Start date - September 1 www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...