📣📣📣 GREAT, time-sensitive opportunity for senior/mid-career scholars to join us in Madrid at UC3M´s social sciences department (UC3M-ATRAE Program 2026) on an attractive pay+research funds package 📣📣📣 This does NOT happen everyday. THREAD below if this is of interest 1/n

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Compartimos (con Iñaki Úcar y Jesús Alvaro Prieto Alonso) un breve resumen de nuestro último artículo: “The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019”. theconversation.com/mas-paridad-...

Enhorabuena a @funcas.bsky.social por este nuevo formato. A los análisis en profundidad se suman notas de investigación sobre temas de interés general. Muy contenta de haber participado y más aún de leer las contribuciones de compañer@s a quienes admiro mucho. Divulgar es de guap@s.

PUBLICACIÓN | Panorama Social 42 - 'Perspectivas sobre las desigualdades sociales'. Los impuestos y las prestaciones públicas reducen la desigualdad en España en un 33%, aunque menos que en Europa Occidental (40%). Descarga y lee: buff.ly/VdYLuiN

Join my team in beautiful Berne! ☀️🏔️

‼️On Friday, Alberto López on "How Group Affinities Explain the Rise of Conservative Gays"‼️ Join us at 12.30 -- is open to everyone!! 🧐🤗

‼️Tomorrow, Nikoleta Yordanova on "Just to be clear? Strategic Vagueness of the European Parliament in EU Policy Negotiations"‼️ Join us at 18.00 -- is open to everyone!! 🧐🤗

📢 Exciting news! The Madrid Empirical Social Sciences Annual Conference (MESS 2025) takes place next week @ieuniversity.bsky.social (October 24-25) A joint effort by several Madrilean research institutions, MESS brings together top work in empirical social sciences. #MESS2025 #SocialScience

Wonderful news! 🎉

2025/2026 here we go... 🚀 Check out our Permanent Seminar Series line-up for the fall! 🍂✨ This year is going to be full of exciting news—stay tuned!

The 4th edition of our Master in Computational Social Sciences (UC3M) kicks off! We had the pleasure of starting with Prof. Ana Tajadura (@anatajadura.bsky.social) and her inspiring ERC Project BODYinTRANSIT. Big thanks to Ana and a warm welcome to our new students. Excited for a great year ahead!

💼 Oferta de trabajo! Buscamos un Técnico de Investigación para el proyecto GENDERSEG: - 20h/semana | 1.400€/mes - Deadline: 18/09 (inclusive) 👉 Más info sobre requisitos y tareas a desarrollar: aplicaciones.uc3m.es/atenea/fiche... ¡Se agradece difusión!

@bramlancee.bsky.social and I are organising the 3rd AMCIS Workshop on "Survey Experiments in the Social Sciences", 1-2 October 2025 in Amsterdam. We are looking for Papers and/or Research Designs. Please email your submission to me and Bram, submission deadline is 27/08/2025. @aissr.bsky.social

New article from Marga Torre and colleagues shows that gender homophily is most pronounced in fields at the intersection of male-dominated and gender-neutral areas and lowest in female-dominated fields. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I’m delighted to share that the August 2025 special issue of Sociological Methods & Research on Generative AI is out now. Along with my co-editor, Daniel Karell, we put together this issue to build on the conference we organized last year. Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:

Recently presented at the CREST Sociology seminar, now published in @ssreditorial.bsky.social: @mtorre.bsky.social's "The uneven effects of gender parity" Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

*JOB* join us at @gesis.org to work on new approaches for making data from online platforms usable for (computational) social science. Feel free to reach out to @sebstier.bsky.social or me for details about this position.

We're hiring! Please share with your networks! The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026 jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

So happy to see this surprising work out. Terrific job by Amar D'Adamo and his supervisor @anatajadura.bsky.social, with the help of Lize de Coster and myself. We show that social support networks shape body perception: larger networks weaken the illusion and link to higher body image satisfaction!

Thrilled to share our paper with Iñaki Úcar (@enchufa2.es) and Jesús Prieto, just out in Social Science Research! 📝 The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019 Free to download for the next 50 days: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Melting over 80.6% of the area of the Greenland Ice Sheet. This is the highest value in our data set, which starts in 1981. @polarportal.bsky.social

Good. B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights will pay a heavy price for this, which is light as a feather

Faculty publication rates peak before tenure. Post-tenure, output stays high in lab-based fields but drops in others (i.e. sociology) and faculty produce more novel work but fewer highly cited papers www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

📢 *Call for Applications* / 📢 *Convocatoria abierta* Join our project on Prejudice & Discrimination at the Spanish National Research Council (Madrid 🇪🇸) Open to junior scholars at different stages (postdocs, predocs, or MSc grads considering a PhD) 🔗 ⬇️ www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zrur0...

Third graduating class of the Master’s in Computational Social Sciences at UC3M. Let’s celebrate!

“Muchas personas que se oponen a las cuotas no lo hacen porque tengan claro sus efectos, sino porque imaginan que tienen un impacto mucho mayor del real”

Join us at the #EPSA Pre-Conference on Political Connections! 📅 June 25, 2025 📍 UC3M (Puerta de Toledo Campus) — Rooms 0.A.05 and 0.A.06 🕘 9 AM — 6 PM 10 panels, 2 parallel tracks — a full day of sharp insights and debate on bureaucracy, revolving doors, money in politics, and more! #EPSA2025

🚨🚨🚨🚨 EOI / talent attraction program in Madrid! The Dept. of Social Sciences @ UC3M is looking to sponsor candidates for the César Nombela Program. Successful candidates get a job with us & great work conditions for 5 y (more below). To express interest, complete form (by 06/24) 👉 n9.cl/qdjvz 1/n

Last few days to apply!

📢 Last chance to apply for tuition waiver scholarships for our interdisciplinary Master’s in Social Sciences! 🎓 3 tuition waivers still available 🗓 Deadline: this week – May 31, 2025 🔗 Apply now: www.uc3m.es/master/socia...

🎓 Thinking of studying a Master’s in Social Sciences at IC3JM-UC3M? Good news: All admitted students can apply for the €1,000 Santander Economic Support Grant 2025! 📅 Apply to the programme now & don’t miss out: 👉 www.uc3m.es/postgrado/ay... #UC3M #Masters #Grants

🚨 Postdoc position! 🚨 Join MultiMasc — a project on social stratification & masculinities. 📍 Based at UNED (Madrid) / remote possible 🧑‍💻 1-year / €2,250 net monthly / €4,000 travel fund 👉 Apply by June 7 ℹ️More info 👉 files.persona.co/60187/Call-P... 🙏 Share widely 📣📣 #Sociology #Postdoc

El Departamento de Ciencias Sociales de la UC3M convoca dos plazas de Profesor/a Ayudante Doctor/a en Sociología y Ciencia Política. Toda la info en este enlace: www.uc3m.es/ss/Satellite... Para consultas podéis escribir a: [email protected] Agradecemos difusión!

‼️On Friday, Vicky Fouka on "Structural Transformation and Value Change: The British Abolitionist Movement"‼️ Join us at 12.30 -- is open to everyone!! 🧐🤗

Wow! Three scholars at Columbia, Michigan, & Maryland just introduced a measure of the partisan leanings of employers in the U.S. The data is constructed by linking voter registrations to online worker profiles. VRscores capture the political affiliations of 21.8M workers across 2.6M employers.

⏰⏳ Final days to apply! 📢 Don’t miss the chance to apply for one of the 4 full scholarships for the Master in Social Sciences (IC3JM - UC3M)! 🗓 Deadline: March 31, 2025 🔗 Apply now: www.uc3m.es/master/socia... Please share with anyone who might be interested!

"We show that women have higher commuting costs and, as a result, their labor markets are smaller and their job opportunities are more limited." This month in our journal @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

‼️On Friday, @andyguess.com on "The Effects of Political Recommendations on Social Media‼️ Join us at 12.30 -- is open to everyone!! 🧐🤗

🔹 Catherine E. De Vries (Bocconi University), member of the IC3JM Scientific Committee, shares her perspective on what makes our master's program in social sciences unique. 📢 Scholarship opportunities! ✅ 4 full scholarships ✅ 3 tuition waiver scholarships 💥 Apply now! www.uc3m.es/master/socia...

Not one step back 💜

📢 Book Alert! "Global Trends in Job Polarisation and Upgrading: A Comparison of Developed and Developing Economies" is out! Published by Palgrave Macmillan/ Springer, this volume examines global patterns of job creation at a global scale | 🔗 link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #EconSky #sociology

📢 Scholarship opportunities for our prestigious two-year interdisciplinary Master's program in Social Sciences! 💡 Available scholarships: ✅ 4 full scholarships 🗓 Deadline: March 31, 2025. ✅ 3 tuition waiver scholarships 🗓 Deadline: May 31, 2025. 🎓 Apply now! 🔗 www.uc3m.es/master/socia...

‼️ New publication in Child Indicators Research In our article with @albalanau.bsky.social, @pmklose.bsky.social & Jacobo Muñoz-Comet we decompose migrant origin child poverty penalties in Spain 👇🏼 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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🦋 A starter pack of academic journals in Sociology 👥 #sociology #sociologie #sociologia #demography #SocSky #PolSky #PoliSky #AcademicSky #Academia #AcademicChatter #Academics #PeerReview #BlueSky #OpenScience #PhDSky #PhD #PhDChat #EduSky #research #science

¡Atención! Ampliado hasta el 10 de febrero el plazo para enviar comunicaciones al X Congreso de la REPS (Red Española de Política Social). Si tenéis alguna investigación interesante que contar sobre política social y Estado de bienestar, este es el lugar: reps2025.unirioja.es/es/pages/com...