I‘m very happy to share that my thesis “Couples‘ Careers and Women’s Financial Security in Later Life” has been awarded the Dissertation Prize of the Section Social Policy of @dgsoziologie.bsky.social ♾️-thanks to @katjamoe.bsky.social and Bernhard Ebbinghaus for their invaluable support! #dgs2025

Riesen Glückwunsch an @mfphilipp.bsky.social & @apweiland.bsky.social zum Promotionspreis der @dgsoziologie.bsky.social DGS-Sektion #Sozialpolitik 🏆🏆 #dgs2025 Und herzlichen Dank an die Jury: Ursula Dallinger, Karin Gottschall & @kzimmermann.bsky.social 👏

1/ So you’re thinking about applying for an academic job in the UK but don’t know how? This thread will walk you through the essentials.

Diesen Mittwoch auf dem DGS-Kongress: Unsere Herausgeber*innen veranstalten eine Ad-Hoc Gruppe zum Thema: "Wie funktionieren soziologische Fachzeitschriften?" Sie findet am Mittwoch von 14:15 – 17:00 Uhr in Raum AdH56 auf dem Duisburger Campus statt. Alle Interessierten sind herzlich willkommen.

Martina Brandt et al. (2025): Größter Pflegedienst in Deutschland: Millionen Menschen pflegen Angehörige inner- und außerhalb ihres Haushalts: www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c....

@sriucl.bsky.social is HIRING 2 permanent Lecturers 🚀 in #QuantitativeSocialScience! It comes with smart and lovely colleagues🌟, a central London office, and many big ideas and questions 🧐 Apply now! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

New paper out in @jmfncfr.bsky.social with @minekuhn.bsky.social and @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social. We use (weighted) sequence complexity indices to estimate mental + physical health in mid-adulthood. Results (again) highlight the vulnerability of single mothers. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢 Trinity College Dublin is hiring an Assistant Professor in Sociology. Full-time, fixed-term role (maternity cover). Early career researchers, including those who’ve just submitted, completed, or are about to complete their PhD are welcome. 🗓️ Deadline: Oct 6, 2025 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a...

When do people become parents—and in what unions? @aledinal.bsky.social studies the risks of first parenthood (15–50) by union status and parental class across cohorts. Read more: www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol... #FamilyFormation #ReproducibleResearch

Congrats congrats congrats for all winners🎉🎉🥳🥳 I just wish they were not 3 men as the committee + 4 men as the winners 🫠🤷‍♀️

European welfare states are inter-age piggy banks, much more than they are rich-to-poor Robin Hoods. Understanding the cross-sectional operation of the piggy bank leads to a new focus on intercohort #sustainability & #fairness: the political economy of #generations journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Five blindspots in reform studies of early childhood education and care (ECEC) policy New paper in @actasociologica.bsky.social with Mara Yerkes, Lovisa Backman and @jstrigen.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Had a great time at #ECSR2025 presenting joint work w/ @claraoverweg.bsky.social and @katjamoe.bsky.social on motherhood penalties in public pension wealth and net wealth. A lot of great research and people! Looking forward to ISI Wealth hosted by @isi-munich.bsky.social next month.

This article also featured prominently in one of Germany's largest newspapers @szde.bsky.social (published yesterday). Pretty irritating that they are amplifying this. Thanks @philipncohen.com for doing the work to debunk it (see here familyinequality.wordpress.com/tag/national...)

Researching inequalities among older adults? Interested in uncovering gender biases in quantitative research? Join us for a FemQuant seminar where @crowold.bsky.social will discuss Invisible Biases & Unequal Outcomes. 🗓️ 18 Sept 📍Online Check time in your time zone & register 👇

It’s about the mothers of 2 kids. @claraoverweg.bsky.social & @apweiland.bsky.social will present our research on the motherhood wealth gap in the last session today in room S21 at 13:39 #ECSR2025 See you there 😊

We are about a month away from releasing a complete refresh of the OSF user interface. The team has been working on this for a very long time, and we are very excited to be able to share it soon. A preview picture:

W3 Professur für Allgemeine Soziologie an der @tu-dortmund.bsky.social. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 01.10.2025. #Stellenausschreibung #Professur tudberufung.hr4you.org/job/view/731/universitaetsprofessur-w3-allgemeine-soziologie?page_lang=de

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Neuer Beitrag 🚨 Lukas Zielinski, @claraoverweg.bsky.social und ich fragen uns für die Bundesstiftung Gleichstellung „Wie können wir Gleichstellung messen?“. Im Steckbriefformat beleuchten wir verschiedene Gender Gaps und ihre Messung durch Gleichstellungsindikatoren tinyurl.com/4kzyf6sz

Frisch veröffentlicht 🎉: @apweiland.bsky.social, Lukas Zielinski und ich haben einen Beitrag für die Bundesstiftung Gleichstellung geschrieben! Darin geht’s um die Frage, wie wir Gleichstellung messbar machen – und warum es mehr als nur eine Zahl braucht.

Local election 💌🗳️

📢📢 Job Alert In dem Projekt "Embracing Capital" im Rahmen des #Sfb294-tpl ist eine Stelle als Post-Doc ausgeschrieben. Untersucht werden soll die Ausbreitung und die veränderten Strukturen von Kapitalgesellschaften von 1948 bis heute anhand von Registerdaten. www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/stellenaussc...

Neuer Beitrag 🚨 Lukas Zielinski, @claraoverweg.bsky.social und ich fragen uns für die Bundesstiftung Gleichstellung „Wie können wir Gleichstellung messen?“. Im Steckbriefformat beleuchten wir verschiedene Gender Gaps und ihre Messung durch Gleichstellungsindikatoren tinyurl.com/4kzyf6sz

5️🧮👩‍🏫In the Handbook on Welfare State Reform edited by B.Ebbinghaus&M.Nelson @apweiland.bsky.social‬ and I give an overview of longitudinal and life course analyses with individual panel data for social policy research. Get a book discount #ESPANET2025 tinyurl.com/ez5az72n 🧵⬇️ bsky.app/profile/apwe...

2️👩‍👧‍👦💰How does wealth accumulation over the life course differ for non-mothers/mothers of 1/2 kids in East&West Germany? Paper by @apweiland.bsky.social @claraoverweg.bsky.social & me @jeconstat.bsky.social Results will be presented at #ECSR2025✨ bsky.app/profile/jeco... 🧵⬇️ bsky.app/profile/apwe...

1️😷🔀 @apweiland.bsky.social @mreifenscheid.bsky.social M.Dreier, P.Steins & I use Mannheim Corona Study & SQA to examine employment trajectories during the pandemic and how they are associated with subjective outcomes. @socialindicators.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s112... 🧵⬇️ bsky.app/profile/apwe...

Very proud that 5 of my papers have recently been published 🤩! 🫶 to my co-authors!!! 1️Employment trajectories during Corona😷🔀 2️Motherhood penalty in wealth👩‍👧‍👦💰 3️Support for a right to work from home🏠✅ 4️Wage development of family caregivers🫂📈 5️Handbook article on longitudinal analyses🧮👩‍🏫 Time to read📚🤓⬇️

Celebrate #ESPANET2025 #ESPANET with 50% off select print books! Handbook on Welfare State Reform: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97... #publishing #sociology #finance

There's a lawsuit about AI stealing your work. It's the same lawyers taking on Elsevier et al in a separate case. Academics: 1. Check if your work is in LibGen at www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... 2. If so, let the lawyers know at www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

We’re hiring! Join @utu.fi & INVEST Research Flagship Centre as a #SeniorResearcher ( #postdoc ) or #DoctoralResearcher in the #SHARELEAVE project on parental leave and social inequality. 🌍👶 🗓 Apply by Sept 22 at 4 pm (Finnish time) 👉 ats.talentadore.com/apply/erikoi... #hiring #openvacancies

New publication by @katjamoe.bsky.social & me 📖 We look at methods, data and examples for "Longitudinal and life course analyses with individual panel data" in the extremely comprehensive and interesting "Handbook on Welfare State Reform" by B. Ebbinghaus & M. Nelson (Eds.). tinyurl.com/ez5az72n

New publication by @katjamoe.bsky.social & me 📖 We look at methods, data and examples for "Longitudinal and life course analyses with individual panel data" in the extremely comprehensive and interesting "Handbook on Welfare State Reform" by B. Ebbinghaus & M. Nelson (Eds.). tinyurl.com/ez5az72n

Previous research shows that retirement is often associated with changes in perceived quality of life. But does it matter WHEN you retire? And what drives those changes in the quality of life? In our new article with @lmpalomaki.bsky.social, Jyri Liukko & @sannatenhunen.bsky.social we find out 1/3

Publication alert 🚨 @katjamoe.bsky.social‬ @claraoverweg.bsky.social‬ and I investigate the motherhood penalty on personal net wealth and public pension wealth for East and West German women born between 1937 and 1989.

Our article with @terhia.bsky.social and Joonas Uotinen "(Un)happy Together—The Interrelated Life Satisfaction of Older Couples" published online in Social Indicators Research: rdcu.be/eBZin A fine outcome of a discussion on a bus trip back from the first @sustageable.fi consortium meeting 😀

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

I am looking for a postdoc to join my ERC StG project DIVREP to work on global, quantitative analyses of fertility and reproductive behaviour. The post is based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Let me know if you have any questions. More details below👇

Publication alert 🚨 @katjamoe.bsky.social‬ @claraoverweg.bsky.social‬ and I investigate the motherhood penalty on personal net wealth and public pension wealth for East and West German women born between 1937 and 1989.

Another job alert! Join us @sociologyoxford.bsky.social as a postdoc on @ewabatyra.bsky.social's ERC project. A great three-year position to work in the area of fertility and reproductive behaviour. www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...

Soon to open offer for a *funded* PhD to study child poverty dynamics at @demosocupf.bsky.social @upf.edu If you have an interest in quantitative methods, social policy and child poverty this may be for you! Feel free to reach out for enquiries

✨ My dissertation on educational inequalities between second-generation immigrant & ethnic majority students across countries – and how tracking shapes them – is now accessible online! 📄 doi.org/10.15488/19360 Wondering if the thesis might be relevant to your research? Here are some key insights👇

By far the best alternative I have come across is Matilda: matilda.science?l=en

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

10.9% couples include at least one sexually diverse partner—twice+ rate seen when only one partner’s identity is counted. Most bi & multi-identity individuals have het partners; g/l & straight adults often partner within their identity. #SOGIData @chrisajulian.bsky.social @wendymanning.bsky.social

Experiencing financial problems during the early and mid-life course does not necessarily bear negative consequences for one’s pension income in old age, writes researcher @ajriekhoff.bsky.social on the blog. Read the full post: www.sustageable.fi/tulokset/add... #pensions #financialhardship

One for #Sociology of Health and Digital Sociology students: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Just a regular reminder, the wealthy, in every country use WAY more energy than is required for a decent living standard (blue bar)

If you want to read the review paper by @jenniebrand.bsky.social , Hyunjoon Park, and Michelle Jackson about recent trends in social stratification and mobility. Please check out the paper 👇 #ASA #ISA #RSSM drive.google.com/file/d/1bgkT...

New article out in the Journal of Personality! With soep data, we show that the within-person association of job satisfaction and life satisfaction weakens once people approach retirement. We see it as a sign of psychological work disengagement. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...