‪ℹ🎓Offene Stellen: wiss. Mitarbeiter 1x (100%) + 1x (75%) #Soziologie, digitale und verwandte Sozialwissenschaften am in Nachwuchsforschungsgruppe "Grenzzonen der #Akademisierung" am ZSB/ Institut f. Soziologie an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg ℹ️: www.zsb.uni-halle.de/forschungspr...

👩‍🎓👨‍🎓Academization: How #Universities Transform Occupations and Work in the 21th Century For the @ecpr.bsky.social blog "Knowledge of Europe", David Baker, Manfred Stock and me have summed up our recent work on the effects of HE expansion era.ideasoneurope.eu/2025/05/16/a... #HigherEducation

Joint work with Daniel Oesch @unil.bsky.social now beautifully formatted in first open access issue of @europeansocieties.bsky.social We ask: have European regions followed similar or divergent trajectories in terms of occupational change over time?

🆕🔥 "Multidimensional Skills on LinkedIn Profiles: Measuring Human Capital and the Gender Skill Gap" w/ @profdaviddorn.bsky.social, Florian Schoner, Moritz Seebacher & Lisa Simon 🔗 www.ifo.de/sites/defaul... 🚀Skills from 9M LinkedIn profiles explain important labor-market patterns! 1/🧵

Full thing on pure occupational upgrading in Inner London and occupational polarisation in Outer London between 1991 and 2021 here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

www.zeit.de/zeit-wissen/... „Es gibt auch einen soziologischen Blick auf die Baustelle …“ Jawohl, der „erste Anstieg“ ist genommen, weiteres folgt im DFG Projekt „Soziologie der Baustelle“

Pleased to share that I will be joining @mpifg.bsky.social as Lise-Meitner-Research-Group Leader. Truly excited to be leading a group on Technology and Sovereignty in this exceptional environment and to engage with its remarkable academic community. PhD call out—pls share! shorturl.at/0K7PW

Lots of great positions at @mpifg.bsky.social, pls share! - 2yr postdoc in wealth research - 2yr postdoc in technology & sovereignty - 3+3yr senior researcher in political economy - 3+3yr senior researcher in economic sociology - tenure/director-track group leader digitalization & society

" for many programs, there is no historical chance of securing a TT job at all." Merit vs. social closure. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

„Jenseits geltenden Rechts“ Warum der gestern mit Stimmen der AfD verabschiedete Entschließungsantrag nicht nur auf Kosten einer historisch gewichtigen Grundhaltung zustande kam, sondern sich auch über geltendes Recht erhebt, zeigt WINFRIED KLUTH: verfassungsblog.de/funf-punkte-...

Students in Serbia are at the forefront of nationwide protests and institutional occupations, which have brought higher education—and the whole country—to a halt. I wrote a text explaining what it is all about, please read & share, thank you! 🤝 #students #highered #Serbia

Over the past two months, students in #Serbia have been at the forefront of nationwide protests and institutional occupations, bringing higher education in the country to a standstill. Now, they're bringing the entire country to a standstill.

"Contemporary conspiratorial, millennialist discourse on money, banking and wealth does not embody a delirious misrepresentation of the logic of finance: rather, it exacerbates the paranoid potentials inherent in mainstream financial imagination." www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Class consciousness still shapes voting, but in a different way than in the past. That's the key finding of a study with @thomaslux.bsky.social now out in English. We chart how class identity, interests and status link with voting for the left and right in Germany. A🧵 library.fes.de/pdf-files/a-...

++BITTE TEILEN++ SPD und CDU arbeiten unter Hochdruck daran, das Tempelhofer Feld zu bebauen. Willst du helfen, es zu retten? Dann komm zu unserem Teamtag mit Onboarding diesen Samstag, 11.01., 10-14:00 in der Potse, Zollgarage im Flughafengebäude Tempelhof! Das Tempelhofer Feld braucht dich!

"how do universities die?" There are still paper presentation slots for our panel on #resilience, adaptability, death and afterlife of #universities at the #ECPR in Thessaloniki (26-29. Aug.) available. Deadline for brief abstracts: 05.01.25. DM for further details. ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

Das Tempelhofer Feld steht in akuter Gefahr durch den aktuellen Berliner Senat, bebaut zu werden. Das darf nicht geschehen. Zeichnet wie ich diese Petition!

Join us for the 2025 Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference, 8-10 September 2025 at New College Oxford. Message/email me any questions! Once again we will link with the Ethnography and Education journal for publication. Updates via ethnographyandeducation.org #AcademicSky #EducationResearch

We need to talk much more about Michel Callon's work - also beyond market agencements.

Great comparative work on the merits of the schooled society!

Our SI "How do universities compete?" in Studies in Higher Education has been published. It critically reflects on the central role of competition for higher education and provides context-sensitive analytical frames that reach beyond the common market-narrative. www.tandfonline.com/toc/cshe20/4...

Die zweite Auflage ist da – genauso kompakt wie die erste.

Are Studies of Valuation and Evaluation 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜̈𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑔? In our contribution to the Routledge International Handbook of Valuation and Society - hot off the press! -, Stefan Beljean and I discuss whether social inequality is a neglected topic in Studies of Valuation and Evaluation.

Roland and I wrote a conceptual paper comparing market and field competition in higher education. It is part of a special issue edited together with Tim Seidenschnur and really thought-provoking contributions. Will discuss in detail once the whole Volume is out. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

That's me and my friends!

I had a wonderful time at the #multiplecompetions conference at INCHER Kassel; not least because I had the chance to discuss holistic university embodiment from Martin Luther's Leipzig disputatio to the contemporary Financial Times Ranking.

endlich ist dieses hervorragende buch von Lena Dreier zur (biographisch gestützten) institutionalisierung der islamischen theologie in deutschland erschienen 🤩

Our new book on #academization & "how universities transform work" edited with David P. Baker (PennState) & Manfred Stock (Halle) is out now. Applying case studies, scholars from GER & US analyze how distinct fields of study co-construct jobs and #occupations books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/...

I love everything about this...

Das "Darknet" des deutschen #Privathochschulwesen. Es gibt einige solcher Einrichtungen, die über Kooperationen oder europ. Drittländer fragwürdige Studienangebote anbieten. Gut das hier recherchiert wird. #Hochschulen www.vice.com/de/article/7...

Oh, and a bonus chart that I think will fry a lot of people’s brains and break a lot of narratives: For all the talk of six figure costs of college in the States, here’s how much debt graduates leave university with in the UK and US vs other countries