🗓️ Save the date: on October 10th, the final event of the project KinHealth will take place in Padova @unipd.bsky.social 🧑‍🧑‍🧒 We will discuss kinship structure, ties, and obligations and their health implications with a wonderful team of scholars. ⚡️Spots are limited, get in touch!

#ECSR2025 is a wrap! Three days of inspiring research, great talks, reconnecting with old friends & meeting new ones, plus a memorable conference dinner. Huge thanks to everyone who made it possible – we’re happy & exhausted!

Thrilled to share I successfully defended my dissertation yesterday! 🎓 This milestone wouldn’t have been possible without the exceptional guidance of my supervisors, K. Hank and L. Ellwardt, and the support of family, friends, colleagues, and co‑authors. I’m excited for what’s next!

🆕 3-Year PhD in Quantitative Social Sciences on "Adolescent Social Media, Mental Health & Inequalities"! 🎯 Deadline: March 31 Supervisors: @pablogracia.bsky.social [@uab.cat @cedemografia.bsky.social] & @alinacosma.bsky.social [@tcddublin.bsky.social] Apply & Share!👇 webs.uab.cat/touch/jobs/s...

Having children doesn't guarantee happiness for older adults. Learn how parent-child disconnectedness undermines mental health, esp. for married women. @geronmedia.bsky.social @buciss.bsky.social @bostonu.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social @nacda-icpsr.bsky.social @lisajessee.bsky.social

Excited to share my paper w/ Debby Carr has been published in The Journals of Gerontology: Series B! We find disconnectedness is highest among never-married/divorced men and linked to depressive symptoms, especially for women in first marriages. 🔗 Find out more here: academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...

I’m excited to share that I was awarded the Junior Teaching Award by the Wiso-faculty for my seminar on Challenges and Opportunities in Aging Populations. Being recognized for the very first seminar I taught means so much to me and motivates me to keep delivering engaging and meaningful teaching!

Are you going to #PAA2025 and work with sequence analysis? Then submit your paper to our pre-PAA sequence analysis workshop, happening right before #PAA2025, same venue, on April 9 - free of charge! You only need a 200-word abstract 🚀 and can also just register for attendance. See y'all there! 🤗

📢 Stellenausschreibung: Senior Lecturer (wiss. Lehre) @univie.ac.at. Inhaltlicher Fokus: Methoden quantitativer Sozialforschung (z.B. Einführung in Sozialforschung, Statistik, Datenerhebung, Datenauswertung). ⏰ Bewerbungsfrist: 26.01.2025 👉 alle Infos (job description in EN): tinyurl.com/3ejr4c25

1️⃣7️⃣ days left to hand in your extended abstracts!

📢Calling all #postgraduate students - the call for papers for #PopFest25 is now open! Join us for the annual postgraduate #population studies conference, this year taking place @unisouthampton.bsky.social, 6-8 July. 📨Find out more and submit: www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/p...

🎉ECSR Conference 2025 is coming to Cologne!🎉 📅 3-5 September 2025 📅 Abstract deadline: Jan 31st ℹ️ Details: ecsr2025.eu I'm happy to be on the organizing team. Theme: "Demography & Social Inequality" – but submissions from *all* sociology fields, methodical approaches etc. are welcome. #ECSR2025

Excited to be in Boston for 5 months! Ready to collaborate with @DeborahCarr on my final dissertation project on gray divorce, parent-child relationships, and mental health at @BU_CISS. If you're in the area, let's meet up for coffee and share insights! 📚☕ #Boston

Really enjoyed attending this year’s Herbsttagung of the section family sociology of the @DGS 👩‍👧‍👧👨‍👨‍👦 🔬 Thanks Karsten Hank & Anja Steinbach for organising!

Do you love planning ahead? Then this is for you: The call for papers for the IUSSP's International Population Conference (13-18 July 2025, Brisbane, Australia) is out now! I'll chair the session "Family Networks Beyond the Household: An International Perspective" ipc2025.iussp.org/ipc-2025-con...

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...