Join us in December for our last event in 2025, an informal online Meet & Mingle. There's a loose structure, but in brief: we hang out for about an hour and chat about feminist quantsy stuff we're working on/ thinking about. More info + link to sign up: femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...

Do you want to present your work-in-progress sequence analysis paper at our webinar series? The call is out for presenting from Jan. 2026! Please apply and share! sequenceanalysis.org/saa-webinar-...

LIVE NOW! the sequence analysis webinar! Two great talks from Satu Helske on hidden markov models and Stefan Andrade on robust clustering Zoom link on sequenceanalysis.org

📢 Call for Abstracts Join us at the Family Diversity & Health Workshop June 29-30 2026 in Berlin! We welcome submissions on intersections of health & family research, especially using register data. 🌏 🫶 No participation fees & hotel costs are covered. 📨 Send us your abstracts by Jan 31 2026

How is separation after childbirth linked to the labour earnings trajectories of mothers in Sweden and West Germany? Are there differences by mothers’ socioeconomic position? 👉 New paper by @sschmauk.bsky.social & A.-K. Nylin! 🔗 genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....

The next sequence analysis webinar will take place on Thursday Nov 13 at 4pm CET Two great talks from Satu Helske on hidden markov models and Stefan Andrade on robust clustering Zoom link on sequenceanalysis.org

Join us at INET Oxford (@inetoxford.bsky.social)! I'm hiring one post-doctoral researcher and three research assistants in the field of inequality, social policy, and social mobility to join our research team. Deadline: October 24. Read more and apply: www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

🚨Job alert!🚨 Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health is recruiting 2 postdocs. Join our team and investigate social inequalities in health! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... #postdoc #demography #socialsciences #socialdata

❓How do mothers’ and fathers’ paid work lives unfold together after the birth of their first child in DE? ✨ This new preprint takes a longitudinal, dynamic, couple-level perspective. ✨ Big differences by East & West German background, periods and couple-level education 🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf...

I’m excited to share our new publication in @readdemography.bsky.social 🥳 written w/ @angelacar.bsky.social, J. Caputo, L. Ahrenfeldt, @annaoksuzyan.bsky.social 👉 Read the full paper here lnkd.in/enf3Duvg @sociologytiu.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social www.tilburguniversity.edu/current/pres...

Thank you to everyone who attended last week’s FemQuant seminar! If you missed it, you can watch the recording of the presentation by @crowold.bsky.social here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=L8WK...

New paper out in @jmfncfr.bsky.social with @minekuhn.bsky.social and @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social. We use (weighted) sequence complexity indices to estimate mental + physical health in mid-adulthood. Results (again) highlight the vulnerability of single mothers. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢 Trinity College Dublin is hiring an Assistant Professor in Sociology. Full-time, fixed-term role (maternity cover). Early career researchers, including those who’ve just submitted, completed, or are about to complete their PhD are welcome. 🗓️ Deadline: Oct 6, 2025 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a...

Such a great paper and important finding: 🔎 Do mothers’ occupation-specific skills shape children’s development? ✅ Yes! When mothers move into jobs with higher skill demands, their kids show stronger skills. Great to see it out, huge congrats, Ali! 💫

💫Very happy to share that my first single-authored paper has been published in @sfjournal.bsky.social. I suggest to combine Life Course Feature Selection with Ñopo decomposition to disentangle which life-course events drive gender inequalities such as Gender Pension Gaps doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... 🧵👇

Researching inequalities among older adults? Interested in uncovering gender biases in quantitative research? Join us for a FemQuant seminar where @crowold.bsky.social will discuss Invisible Biases & Unequal Outcomes. 🗓️ 18 Sept 📍Online Check time in your time zone & register 👇

Come work on my new research project! We are studying whether and how #parentalLeave is shared in different types of families, how the use of parental leave has changed in different families since the 2000s, and how parents’ social environments influence their leave uptake. #research #hiring

Publication alert 🚨 @katjamoe.bsky.social‬ @claraoverweg.bsky.social‬ and I investigate the motherhood penalty on personal net wealth and public pension wealth for East and West German women born between 1937 and 1989.

Remember to send in your abstracts for our working group on "New social policies for changing labour markets" at the Finnish Social Policy Conference (October 23-24 in Helsinki). Deadline for submissions: September 1.

📝New @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social working paper Why are students from elite high schools much more likely to go to high ranked university courses than equally qualified students from the state sector? 🤔 w @opmc1.bsky.social @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social & Jo Blanden econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...

⚠️ New timely WP ⚠️ Rising wealth inequality and democratic backsliding at the US state-level #EconSky #Sociology #PolicySky @stone-lis.bsky.social WP here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

The weather is hot in Germany today... but not as hot as my new paper, out now in Journal of Family Research @familyresearch.bsky.social !

I had a really great time this week at the Netspar International Pension Workshop in Leiden presenting joint work with @crowold.bsky.social and Anette Fasang, a study on female later-life financial security in West Germany and the Netherlands. Thanks for all the valuable feedback!

Call for presentation! Do you want to present and discuss your work in progress SA paper? Contribute to our Winter 2025 Webinar Series and present your work in Dic Info on our website sequenceanalysis.org/saa-webinar-...

Relationships are often built on shared values and beliefs, but what happens when political preferences create a divide? @brunoarpino.bsky.social and I investigated how political (mis)match affects union dissolution in @readdemography.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

📄 Happy to announce that my second PhD paper on how routine tasks affect education-based inequalities on the labor market was just published in Social Science Research—joint work with @labussieremarie.bsky.social and @thijsbol.bsky.social. Full article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Don't miss the next sequence analysis work-in-progress session this Thursday on learning strategies & labour market entry dynamics + mental health with Yaroslav Opanasenko & @sophiafauser.bsky.social 💫

🗞️ Hot off the (last month’s) press: Happy to finally share that the paper with @nicolekapelle.bsky.social on family life course predictors of wealth has been published in @demresjournal.bsky.social ! See the whole article (open access 🫶) here: www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol... Little 🧵

Open call for Associate Editors at our journal!! To find out more about requirements and application procedures 👀 here www.demographic-research.org/files/Call_f...

‼️JOB ALERT‼️ Come join the team 😊 Open Postdoc position at the Chair of Sociology, Family & Work 100%, 3 years, extension possible. Research interest in life course, gender inequality, pension, income/wealth, attitudes etc. Apply by 31 May DM me for questions👨‍💻👩‍🏫🦸 tinyurl.com/y6as7nxy

New paper out with @marespadafor.bsky.social: we study the intergenerational effects of Spain’s 1970 school reform and find that, despite major educational expansion, inequality persisted 📚📉 academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

Here's an update on sociology (and some demography) journal editorial polices with regard to sharing preprints before submission and after acceptance. A big improvement from the last edition of this table. With one exception.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Do you want to be included in our family starter pack or know other family sociologists who should be included? Leave a comment here, and follow our starter pack to hear the latest research on families! go.bsky.app/E3PGiEm

Deadline approaching! Join me in #Barcelona to study the #demography of #singlehood and develop your own independent research. Deadline: April 24 (15h00 CEST). #postdoc

Congrats on a great first PAA presentation, @martingaedecke.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉, presenting our paper with @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social on conceptualizing & testing new sequence-analysis-based measures for children's family life's and their consequences on their educational outcomes in FE designs! #PAA2025

We are online! Today is the day of our 1 day workshop @popassocamerica.bsky.social in Washington DC! Join us online here sequenceanalysis.org/conference/

Opening talk from former sequence analysis association president @timliao.bsky.social giving a nice overview of the history of SA and of the association

🚨 New in Demographic Research with @crowold.bsky.social! We explore how family life courses shape later wealth using a data-driven approach. Top wealth predictors? Time spent never-married—with or without kids, but complex matters! #Demography #Sociology www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

‼️ #JobOpening ‼️ #Postdoc Position(s) at the Max Planck | University of Helsinki Centre for Social Inequalities in Population Health in #Rostock 📅Deadline: May 4, 2025 www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61... #Postdoc #SocialInequalities #Population #Demography #Epidemiology #Health @pophel.bsky.social

Ich freue mich am nächsten Dienstag ganz frische Ergebnisse zu verschiedenen Konzepten von Familienkomplexitäten und deren Auswirkungen auf Kinder in Bamberg vorzustellen aus dem gemeinsamen Projekt mit @martingaedecke.bsky.social & @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social 💫

🚨New paper in SER🚨 Cohabitation boosts wealth in 🇫🇷 & 🇩🇪—but legal recognition matters. Findings highlight the role of policy in shaping fin. outcomes for cohab. couples. academic.oup.com/ser/advance-... @pmlersch.bsky.social @marionleturcq.bsky.social & N. Fremeaux #Sociology #Demography #Inequality

Some days left to apply to your dream PhD job in Barcelona at @uab.cat and @cedemografia.bsky.social!! 🔥🔝 Deadline: March 31, 2025. Informal queries are encouraged and can be sent by email to [email protected] Please, share the call with strong candidates! 🤓 📣 All details on the call 👇👇

Some great job opportunities at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute: vacatures.knaw.nl/job/The-Hagu...

• CALL FOR PAPERS –  2026 CPoS Special Issue “Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course” Comparative Population Studies welcomes submissions to the 2026 special issue Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course, guest edited by Sergi Vidal (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Aude Bernard…

🚨I'm advertising for a PhD position (4 yrs) in quant. Sociology/Social Demography (life course, social ineq.) @tcdsociology.bsky.social! 📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025 📄 More info: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va... 🔄 Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity #TrinityCollegeDublin

CALL FOR PRESENTATION Still few ways left to register your interest in presenting your sequence analysis paper/working in progress paper in our free of charge 1 day event in Washington DC on April 09 just before PAA annual meeting Tinyurl.com/seqanalysis2...

@raabm.bsky.social and I will teach an online introduction to #SequenceAnalysis in #R at @icpsrsummer.bsky.social in June 23-25, 2025. Info: web.cvent.com/event/ab4981...

Good time to finally leave X. #BoycottX #DeleteX #StopMusk #NeverAgain

Sciences Po is hiring an Assistant Professor on Digital Inequalities. Candidates should have strong theoretical/methodological skills, and an ambitious research agenda on social stratification and inequality. www.sciencespo.fr/osc/sites/sc...