💸 Who supports welfare cuts or tax hikes when money’s tight?
At Bites of Inequality, @kalf.bsky.social shows how self-interest wins when policies hit your own wallet. 🗓 Nov 25, 12:15–1:45
📍 LMU Sociology, Konradstr. 6

There’s a new kid in town! Companies are now selling IVF and embryo selection based on genetic testing for traits related to health and even intelligence. We outline methodological and ethical concerns, and warn against risks for social inequality. With the fantastic @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social

¿Te interesan los temas de desigualdad y movilidad social? ¿Quieres hacer el doctorado? Va a salir una Beca FPI en el proyecto I+D que dirijo: “Does luck matter? The role of luck in individual life courses and views of redistribution”. La convocatoria oficial de la UNED saldrá en breve. 1/2

Congratulations to us, and thank you, @kohli-sociology.bsky.social!

Curious to learn what is behind the European Social Survey? This Podcast with Rory Fitzgerad provides a glimpse behind the scenes of this impressive data set. @ess-survey.bsky.social

This new trick in Economics of pretending almost everything everyone defines as the welfare state is not the welfare state…and then declaring PRE-distribution not redistribution drives inequality is not intellectually serious. www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/10/26/d...

🚨We’re hiring! The Max Weber Institute in beautiful Heidelberg seeks a W3 Professor of Sociology (focus: sociological theory) who connects well with the department’s focus on comparative sociology adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD... Happy to answer any questions! #Sociology #socsky

Great contribution on why even in multiverse analysis thoughtful model specification matters, by @kauspurg.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Looking for a post-doc opportunity? Consider applying for this years's Kohli Fellowship and work at the vibrant WZB in Berlin - Deadline November 16:

We mourn the loss of Claus Offe, an outstanding scholar and esteemed member of our academic community. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

PhD Opportunity (funded) is now live Any help with promotion appreciated :) Project: “Unpacking the Puzzle of Child Poverty: Why Child Poverty Persists Despite Economic Recovery and Declining Inequality" @demosocupf.bsky.social Deadline Oct 22nd Further info: drive.google.com/file/d/12vlp...

We’re off to a great start on our workshop on survey experiments, organized with @bramlancee.bsky.social Great to welcome our participants @aissr.bsky.social on such a sunny Fall day!

Yale Sociology is hiring an associate or full professor in quantitative sociology. Come work with me! Applications open tomorrow. Details available here: apply.interfolio.com/174709

✨ For those who missed it: Our Article on Perceived Track Mismatch among Minority and Majority Students in the German Education System is published in RSSM ❗️🥳❗️ Free copies until Oct 1 under this link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lbJn~uWr6... Small 💈⬇️

Same work, (perceptions of) different pay? C. Diehl, J. Lang, O. Brüggemann, & S. Strauss compare relative #wageinequality and perceptions of wage inequality for #gendered differences in the perception and acceptance of wage inequality. Read in #Socius: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

New papers out on perceived unfairness! A 🧵: In @sociusjournal.bsky.social with @brueggemann-o.bsky.social J. Lang, S. Strauss we show that women are no longer more accepting of lower wages than men by using linked employer-employee data.

Our EUI postdoc @brueggemann-o.bsky.social presents his work on beliefs on the gender pay gap, #ecsr2025

🚀 The first ISI Newsletter just launched! Inside: center insights, job opportunities… and a few surprises we promise are way better than finding an extra fry at the bottom of the bag. 🍟✨ Check your inbox — you don’t want to miss this. isi-munich-news.beehiiv.com/p/issue-1-27... #isimunich

@iasliu.bsky.social is advertising another postdoc position as part of the Swedish Excellence Center in Computational Social Science. For recently graduated or soon-to-graduate PhD students, the setting is really conducive to getting high quality research done. Apply by September 30th!

✨ The IAS Seminar Series returns for the Fall 2025 semester with a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all! #AcademicSky #Sociology #CSS

Almost missed the Pipeline Program announcement? That’s okay — there’s a lot going on. If you’d like a gentle nudge next time, our newsletter is coming soon. Thoughtfully curated, just for people like you. Sign up here: isi-munich-news.beehiiv.com (And don't forget to confirm!)

It can be so frustrating to read STS research. Here are Bartscherer and Reinhart osf.io/rbyt6_v1/ Look at their flawed logic: Replication is *used as a career strategy*. The evidence? People were not known for earlier research. The clear confound? ECR’s drove the replication movement! 1/x

@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

The winner of this year’s significant contribution award goes to The great separation: Top earner segregation at work in advanced capitalist economies O Godechot, et al American Journal of Sociology 130 (2), 439-495, 2024 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Hi @socarxiv.bsky.social, is it just me (if so, what am I missing?) or does the Zotero Connector (for Chrome) not always pick the pdf fulltext of the respective preprint? Here, e.g., the pdf is not picked: osf.io/preprints/so... Here, e.g., it works just fine: osf.io/preprints/so...

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...

We are pleased to announce the last DemoSoc seminar for the academic year “Market Justice and Meritocracy: Concepts, Measurement, and Empirical Associations” led by Juan Carlos Castillo (Universidad de Chile). 🗓 Date: July 15th 🕚 Time: 11:00 h 📍 Venue: Room 24.013 (Mercè Rodoreda Building)

My 40 year old book, Recapitalizing America was reissued. Here is my reflection today. www.wipsociology.org/2025/07/02/r...

New paper in Social Science Research about the emergence of aggression depending on the social status of the provocateur (w/General Aggression Model). Nice collaboration with Lea Becher @leabecher.bsky.social (from @kfnhannover.bsky.social) and Guido Mehlkop (from ipb.bsky.social). shorturl.at/qqhCz

In our latest podcast episode, @durlauf.bsky.social & @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social discuss variation in wealth inequality and why income gaps don’t tell the whole story. They explore how this inequality shapes individuals through education, housing, and risk assessments. Listen: bit.ly/4epPUTU

Third workshop of the Methods in Social Change and Inertia series is coming up on Tuesday June 3! Ismael Puga and Cristobal Moya will discuss methods to examine ideological inversion, a key factor in inertia. For more, see: resistancepsych.blogspot.com/p/methods-in-societal-change-and-inertia.html

Donald Tomaskovic-Devey from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst will hold a lecture from 10:00am to 11:30pm with the title: "Moving from Individual to Relational Models of Inequality, and the Important Role of Linked Employer-Employee Data“. Registration: eveeno.com/iab-speciall....

Second workshop of the Methods in Social Change and Inertia series is Thursday, May 29! Emma Thomas (Flinders) will be showing us new approaches to using person-centred analyses in collective action research. Register here: tinyurl.com/MSCI25No2

📢📢 Promotionsstelle (65%, TU Berlin) Spannende Stelle in der Wirtschaftssoziologie zur Analyse der normative Ausbreitung von Kapitalgesellschaften. Eingebunden in den @sfb294.bsky.social Bewerbungen möglich bis 06. Mai 2025 stellenticket.tu-berlin.de/stellenangeb...

Update: We submitted the comment to the Journal of Population Economics, and today we got a desk reject with this motivation. However, we do not know their conclusion about the main results and why the paper was not retracted. Clearly, they do not hold. 1/4

🚨 We're hiring! Oxford Sociology is looking for a Departmental Lecturer to teach on our MSc - leading on the qualitative methods and political & civil conflict papers, as well as supervising dissertations. Apply by 30 May ✍️ my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Interview with @pmlersch.bsky.social about romantic partners' similarity in wealth. See also our pre-print 👉 osf.io/preprints/so...

👏The 2025 Infrastructure Prize for Sociology goes to @socarxiv.bsky.social, represented by @philipncohen.com , for its accessible and timely contribution to the dissemination of sociological knowledge. kohlifoundation.eu/programs-the...

🧑‍💼 Germany’s #IncomeInequality is greatest across industries, moderate across occupations, and lowest within firms. New #Socius study by Drs. Valet, Böger & Lübker reveals how #LaborMarkets and #Stratification patterns evolved from 2010–2022. Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Tax cuts for the rich lead to higher income inequality. However, they do not have any significant effect on economic growth or unemployment. Empirical evidence for advanced economies over 1965-2015:

I was sent a paper to review that cites a book I did not write. As in, it cites a made up book with my name on it. Quick look in the references, and I quickly found several more non-existent papers. People. People. This is supposed to be science. What are we doing? This made my soul feel tired.

TheUniversity of Bamberg has a vacancy (starting between August and October 2025) for a Research Associate, preferably post-doc or Lecturer for an initial period of three years. Application deadline: 15 May 2025. www.uni-bamberg.de/fileadmin/ab...

The Journal of Robustness Reports is here. Diamond open access. A model for #openscience and #metascience. @balazsaczel.bsky.social scipost.org/JRobustRep.0... 🧪

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.

American Journal of Sociology needs to clarify this: the use of "may" is disqualifying. Does posting a paper on @SocArXiv constitute prior publication in the eyes of AJS overlords? If so, we're done here. If not, please correct. www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/ajs...

We are hiring a Professor (W3, tenured) in Managerial Economics for our Berlin campus @escp.bsky.social. If you're a microeconomist (broadly defined) interested in joining a top European business school in a great city, please apply. Kindly share widely! #Econsky escp.eu/sites/defaul...

Timo Wiesner's new publication challenges the idea that there is a lack of public response to rising inequality, as in an increase in support for redistribution. doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

Already next week: Very much looking forward to host you at our conference Social Policy and Inequality in the Polycrisis @uni-bamberg.de ! Supported by @lifbi.bsky.social @difis.bsky.social #Sozialpolitik #SozialeUngleichheit #socialpolicy #SocialInequality www.uni-bamberg.de/sfa/veransta...