When (if ever) is it right to appeal a rejection? This advice offered by AJS seems good more generally

It sucks that guys get so caught up in fighting for status among men that they can’t even admit a woman is hot because she isn’t the “male-culture approved” kind of hot. Letting other men decide for you which women you think are hot might sound kinda gay, but it’s actually extremely straight.

#VET students drop out more often when the local economy is good, but what happens with dropouts' wages if such a good local economy turns bad in the following years? If you want to know more, come to my talk in the "Returns to education" session (today 3:30pm, S12) at #ECSR2025!

New article out! With Laurenz Bärtsch, I examine the effects of a German parental leave reform. The reform increased maternal part-time work during the first 12 months after birth — but interestingly, we find no long-term impact on employment or wages.👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

All projects go through three stages: enthusiasm, despair, and strategic reframing.

Die Berufs- und Studienwahl gehört zu den wichtigsten Entscheidungen junger Menschen, denn sie stellt langfristig die Weichen für ihr künftiges Erwerbsleben. Auf einer Sonderseite hat das IAB Publikationen zum Thema „Jugendliche auf dem Weg ins Berufsleben“ zusammengestellt 👉 iab.de/themen/sonde...

Interesting paper by Fabian Kratz on education effects across cohort and age on anti-immigrant sentiments sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

One-year visiting position for advanced female postdocs in Dresden. I am happy to host anyone broadly interested in applied micro. Salary within the German public sector's pay scale (TV-L, E13-E15). Deadline: Sept 15, 2025. Please share widely! 👇

This is a great paper on causality in the social sciences. While much of the conditionality of causal claims are known and usually well-taken, their weakest link argument goes further than that.

New work Wednesday! A factorial survey experiment finds: study program features like content, a flexible curriculum, and institutionalized support affect enrollment intentions—but don’t reduce social inequalities in these intentions. #CollegeEnrollment journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Happy to see our paper out that examines the role of study program characteristics for college enrollment intentions! This ist joint work with Carina Toussaint (lead author), Hans Dietrich and @tobiaswolbring.bsky.social @uni-bamberg.de @fauwiso.bsky.social @iabnews.bsky.social 1/6

For a change, here is some advertising on my own behalf, as I believe this paper together wiht Tobias Roth, Sandra Mingham and Meike Selbach deserves a little more attention. academic.oup.com/esr/article/...

Reviving my swedish stoner rock passion. Does anyone know bands from the Skåne region?

Sad but true #AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter #ErrantScience

Occupational Earning Potential has landed in @europeansocreview.bsky.social Implementable in R (digclass) and Stata (crosswalk), our linear OEP scale measures the median earnings of ISCO occupations and expresses them as percentiles of the earnings distribution academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

That feeling when your paper is desk-rejected for offering only better methods to answer an important question — but no new theory. Silly me for thinking better answers mattered in #sociology 🤔

Want to read about tracking and civic engagement? It’s summer after all.

#ThrowBackPaper Why do voters support the #RadicalRight 🗳️ ? A survey of what we know & what we don't know, and what we could learn in the future (ungated)

Notable post-tenure publishing differences across fields. One thing that distinguishes these are authorship norms, e.g. in some lab fields, co-authorship reflects status more than work

Statement of @isa-rc28.bsky.social on the decision of @isa-sociology.org to suspend the Israeli Sociological Association

📢 Excited to share my first academic opinion piece—now out #OpenAccess in the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics! 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 👇Thread: Why replication code is essential for the future of credible science 🧵

⭐🎓The Department of Sociology in Vienna @univie.ac.at‬ invites applications for a Tenure Track Professor in Sociology with focus on Quantitative Social Science Research Methods | #Sociology | quant methods Apply here (17 Sept 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

⌛️ IAB study: Fixed-term contracts are not necessarily associated with wage losses. Neither the transition from fixed-term to permanent #employment nor vice versa leads to wage reductions. Access the #IABShortPolicyReport here: doku.iab.de/kurzber/2025... #EconSky

A very interesting paper! 👇

😟📉 Der Bezug von Grundsicherungsleistungen ist dauerhaft mit einer niedrigeren Lebenszufriedenheit verbunden. Trotz wirtschaftlicher Absicherung schwindet die soziale #Teilhabe. Männer leiden dabei stärker unter den Folgen von #Arbeitslosigkeit und #Armut als Frauen. 🔗 iab-forum.de/der-bezug-vo...

🚨 Job alert! Join our DFG-funded project on educational inequality & instability for families at @morayhouse.bsky.social, University of Edinburgh 📍 Research Associate/Postdoc | Fixed-term to June 2027 📊 Longitudinal data | Stata/R 🗓️ Apply by 4 Aug 2025 jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX731/research-associate

💪 Mathe Note oder Motivation? Welche Eigenschaften von Bewerbenden für Betriebe besonders wichtig sind, verriet Philipp Murmann von der Vereinigung der Unternehmensverbände in Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein bei den #KielerGesprächen: www.youtube.com/shorts/c0gyP...

unbedingt lesen "Der Wissenschaftsrat präsentiert ein Personalmodell, das Dauerstellen in der Wissenschaft zum Regelfall erklärt" www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/07...

🚨 New paper out in the American Educational Research Journal (w/ @markusklein.bsky.social & @esosu.bsky.social) 🚨 We analyzed whether pupil absences in different school-years are equally harmful for achievement at the end of compulsory schooling. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

Over at the blog, I write about a few interesting articles. Top tax cuts make inequality Top tax cuts grow the financial sector Cognitive skills - use them or lose them Surprisingly frequent housing instability asocial.substack.com/p/inequality...

- Contact the editor(s) - Publicly name and shame the author(s) - Publicly name and shame the editor(s) if they refuse to support you What else? #openscience #reproducibility #replication #opendata #data

💐 Lukas Olbrich gewann den Young Researcher Award für ein gemeinsames Papier mit Joe Sakshaug und Eric Lewandowski (NYU), das in Kürze im Journal Sociological Methods & Research erscheinen wird. Wir gratulieren ganz herzlich! 1/3

Man kann's ja mal versuchen

You may have heard of the back-door criterion and the front-door criterion for causal identification. Introducing: The door-in-the-face criterion (start with outrageous causal claim and hedge) and the foot-in-the-door criterion (start with trivial causal claim and escalate).

If you want to know more about the work of my new colleague @philippbach.bsky.social, do not forget to register for this great skill camp organised by @berlinlabor.bsky.social!

🎨📊I'm teaching a course on "Data Visualization with Stata"📊🎨 Good data visualization generates & communicates insight. The workshop balances general principles of visualization with hands-on Stata implementation. Hope to see you there! Registration is open: training.gesis.org?site=pDetail...

In addition to wellbeing our (@mcollischon.bsky.social) research also shows that the pandemic affected social trust. doi.org/10.1177/2378... In ongoing work, we also show how wage inequality and refugee migration in the context of multiple crises affect trust.

Trump on DeSantis's new detention camp for migrants: "We'd like to see them in many states. And at some point they might morph into a system."

wow 😅 youtube.com/shorts/DYXfy...

We are pleased to announce that the ISA RC28 Spring Meeting 2026 will be held at the campus of Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO) in Seville. Conference dates: May 20–22, 2026. Theme: Addressing Social Inequalities in the Global North and South Stay tuned! Submissions will begin soon.

🚨 Are young women becoming more left-wing & young men more right-wing? We analyzed 32 European countries (1990–2023). 📊 Some show growing gaps—others don’t. 📊 Gaps tend to be bigger where gender equality is higher. w/ @hudde.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

This about sums it up.....

New study alert, just out in SER! 🚨 What really drives gendered occupational choices among adolescents? ➡️It might not be workplace characteristics (e.g., salary), but skill requirements. academic.oup.com/ser/advance-... @sasemeeting.bsky.social, @snsf.ch,‬ @unibe.ch ern.bsky.social, @unisg.ch

Gerne Weiterleiten: Promotionsstelle ab Herbst 2025 in meinem DFG-Projekt zu In-Work Benefits und Aufstockern im SGB II. Im schönen Wiesbaden am Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung: www.bib.bund.de/DE/Institut/...

We secretly placed small flags on a university campus and monitored what happened over the course of two semsters. The Israeli flag had the highest removal rate; politically motivated removals disproportionately targeted Israeli flags; removal rates were highest in hallways of the humanities, ...

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Another good story from the Texas Tribune about the West Texas measles outbreak, putting a human face to those affected: in this case, newborns (too young to be vaccinated) and their parents. Shows how one's "health/medical freedom" is many others' disease risk tyranny. 🛟😷🧭medsky sociology

It was a great pleasure to present ongoing work from our HBS funded project (@mcollischon.bsky.social @boeckler-stiftung.bsky.social). Thanks @csisunitn.bsky.social for the valuable feedback, which will help us to further develop our research!

How effective are policies of predistribution or redistribution for reducing in-work poverty? How do their effects differ by household type? Some answers in my paper using EU-SILC data out in @europeansocieties.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1162/euso...

Ab heute gilt die AfD als „gesichert rechtsextremistische Bestrebung“. Der Verfassungsschutz hat das entsprechende Gutachten fertig, drei Jahre wurden Belege gesammelt. Das Gutachten soll rund 1100 Seiten umfassen: www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...