"Using SHARE data, covering 27 countries in Europe, we show that (a) support provided to individuals outside the household is associated with increased grandparental child care, whereas (b) family care provided within the household is not" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨 Job Alert We are loooking for a 3year Postdoc @excinequality.bsky.social Work with @mbusemeyer.bsky.social, Sebastian Koos, and me Focus: computational social science, analysis of political texts, future-oriented policies and parties 📅Apply by June 5th stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/c...

DGS-Stellenmarkt: Wiss. Mitarbeit (m/w/d) im Sonderforschungszentrum des Deutschen Instituts für Interdisziplinäre Sozialpolitikforschung: Universität Bremen

DGS-Stellenmarkt: Leitung (m/w/d) des Bereichs Transfer und Kommunikation und des Berliner Büros: SOCIUM Forschungszentrum Ungleichheit und Sozialpolitik, Universität Bremen

The majority of monthly average air temperatures (2m) in Germany since 2016 have been higher than the long-term average (1961-1990). Each dot in this chart represents the monthly average for a year. #30DayChartChallenge | Day 08 - Circular #dataviz 📊 #ClimateChange

A postdoc position is now available in my project Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity. Start date flexible within the next 12 months, apply by 9 May. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

You can now find the final report on our project on historical differences in retirement adjustment and late work life experiences here: www.dza.de/fileadmin/dz...

New decomposition method to quantify how specific subpopulations drive demographic gaps. E.g., estimating how foreign-born populations by race and ethnicity contribute to the gap between total and native-born life expectancy. @eugeniopaglino.bsky.social 👉 www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Study on gender disparities in cognitive performance, co-authored with Martina Brandt, @melwagner.bsky.social, Michal Levinsky and Ella Cohn-Schwartz. Using @share-eric.bsky.social data, we examine how social participation and welfare state contexts shape gendered patterns of cognitive aging.

Two more days to apply!

New work w/ @kbroussard.bsky.social in @prpr-journal.bsky.social! We find that women with reproductive health conditions (like fibroids or endometriosis) are *more* likely to want a child but, conditional on wanting a child, *less* likely to intend to have one. 1/2 rdcu.be/e5BE6

💸🚨I am hiring 2 Postdocs for my ERC-funded project SOCDEBT on #debt dynamics across countries. One position: #SocialStratification + strong quantitative skills. The other: qualitative research and #EconomicSociology. waitkus.github.io/SOCDEBT/ 🚨💸

📢NEW PUBLICATION: Do you think work-family challenges are limited to advanced economies, where many women work in the formal sector? Our review article disagrees (w @aysegulkayaoglu.bsky.social ). doi.org/10.1016/j.wo...

𝗡𝗜𝗖𝗛𝗧 𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗚𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗘𝗡: 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 | 𝗙𝗗𝗭-𝗝𝗮𝗵𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 📣 Reichen Sie bitte bis zum 01. März 2026 ein Abstract ein an: [email protected]. Weitere Informationen zu unserer Jahrestagung finden Sie auf unserer Website: 👉🏻https://rebrand.ly/kdd65jh

Excited to share a new #OA study with @dariatisch.bsky.social and @schechtlm.bsky.social🎉We show that while most people prefer equal inheritance, wealthy individuals are more willing to support unequal transfers when they help preserve wealth across generations ➡️ academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Nordic ESPAnet Early Career Seminar! Opportunity for Doctoral students and Postdocs to discuss their work, in an environment tailored to quality feedback. Organised at @sofi.su.se and keynotes by @cassandraengeman.bsky.social and @janhelmdag.bsky.social More info: espanet.org/nordic-semin...

AfD-nahe Organisation Zentrum will in deutsche Firmen vordringen via @szde.bsky.social sz.de/li.3381445

"Behind Closed Doors: Intra-Couple Pension and Wealth Gaps in Germany and Beyond" 🚪👩‍🦳👴 @lisdata.bsky.social / @liser.lu policy brief by @nicolekapelle.bsky.social and me out now! Read more here 👉 www.lisdatacenter.org/newsletter/n...

Come work with us! Wir haben eine neue Promotionsstelle in der Bevölkerungs-, Familien- und/oder Bildungsökonomie www.bib.bund.de/DE/Institut/...

Die Zehnte Altersberichtskommission schreibt zehn Plätze für einen Workshop “Empirische Analysen zu Bildung und Lernen im Alter” aus. Der vollständige Call for Applications ist hier zu finden: www.zehnter-altersbericht.de/fileadmin/Re...

Submit your abstracts now for the 3rd Joint ESS, SHARE & GGP User Meeting, which will take place on May 8th, 2026, in Vienna! Submissions based on ESS and/or SHARE, and/or GGP data – are welcome. 📅 Abstract submission deadline: 15 March 2026 More details: share-austria.at/wp-content/u...

Cologne sociologist Clemens Kroneberg invites to the Sociological Ash Wednesday on 18 February at the University of Cologne. This year’s high-calibre panel discussion focuses on how to deal with academic freedom and diversity of perspectives in universities and academic world. bit.ly/soziologisch...

Was hat die #Corona-Pandemie mit unserem sozialen Leben gemacht? #Einsamkeit #Exklusion Dazu haben wir am @dza-berlin.bsky.social im Projekt #CoESI drei Jahre lang geforscht. 👉 Überblick über zentrale Erkenntnisse hier: www.geistes-und-sozialwissenschaften-bmftr.de/de/News-Wie-... #GSWRahmenprogramm

🤰Mütter mit Kleinkindern finden für eine Berufsrückkehr weiterhin nur wenig Akzeptanz. Eine repräsentative Befragung hat hierzu zwölf Jahre lang die Einstellungen von 18- bis 60-Jährigen zur #Erwerbstätigkeit von Müttern und zur externen #Kinderbetreuung untersucht. 👉 doku.iab.de/kurzber/2026....

JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project. Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months. Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.

New in ESR Does educational hypogamy promote gender equality—or does it reflect who selects into these unions? 🌟New #OpenAccess study by @nadiasteiber.bsky.social and #CSiegert constrasts optimistic, pessimistic, and selection-based narratives of hypogamy within couples! 👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

This is my main feed on Bluesky. Check it out if you haven’t tried @paper-feed.bsky.social

📣 Call for Papers | European Journal of Ageing Topical Collection “Ageing Well for All: Multidimensional Pathways to Sustainable Ageing” Guest Editors: Bruno Arpino & Valeria Bordone (@valeriabordone.bsky.social) Submissions open now (deadline: 31 Aug 2026) 🔗 link.springer.com/collections/...

📖 New publication: "Why do women live longer than men, but spend more time in poor health? A decomposition analysis of the gender gap in unhealthy life years across Europe". @mmuszynskas.bsky.social et al. test the “longevity hypothesis". 🔗 Read now: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #demography

ECSR Thematic Conference on the Life Course and Social Stratification, 23-24 April, University of Trento. Smaller thematic conferences like these are usually the best place to present and network, imo. Submit by 22 February. sites.google.com/unitn.it/ecs...

📣Calls of Abstracts‼️Second International Workshop on Life Course Analysis Theory, methods, & applications 📅August 18-19, 2026 🗺️Hertie School, Berlin https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/calendar_1921/second_international_workshop_on_life_course_analysis_14953 Christian Dudel Carla Rowold

I can't emphasize how strongly I recommend this!

Link zur Folge: www.her-career.com/podcast-rede...

Die Daten der Berliner Altersstudie (BASE) sind ab sofort über das Forschungsdatenzentrum des ZPID @zpid.bsky.social weltweit für Forschende verfügbar. Ein einzigartiger Langzeitdatensatz mit großem Potenzial – auch für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs. 👉 www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/datenschatz-...

What started out at the Minerva-funded workshop on „Social Networks and Health Inequalities in Ageing Societies“, has now resulted in a published paper: „When Parents Grieve: Adult Child Support and Depressive Symptoms Among Men and Women After Widowhood“ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

TIL discarded X-ray sheets were the preferred medium to press and distribute banned Western records in 1950s Soviet.

📢Apply now for one of our GradAB PhD scholarships beginning 1st Oct 2026. GradAB is a joint program of IAB and @fau.de in cooperation with TU Dortmund. (1/4)

Since Jan 1 2025, which feels like four trillion years ago, research has been shared on here 5 million whole-ass times. Bluesky recently passed 2 billion posts IN TOTAL. So 0.25% of the entire site's traffic was citations to research. That is actually massively high. Is it? Yes. Here's why.

❄️ Freezing cold outside? Perfect timing to submit your work for our Family Diversity & Health summer workshop in Berlin ☀️ 📅 June 29–30, 2026 📍 Hertie School, Berlin 🫶 No participation fees 🏨 1 hotel night covered 📨 1-page abstracts due: Jan 31, 2026

How are the life course research framework, its tools, and research questions affected by population aging? We discuss this (with D. Vignoli) in this recently published article academic.oup.com/psychsocgero... #aging #lifecourse #demography #sociology

For personal reasons, I do not support Elsevier (thecostofknowledge.com). It can be difficult to explain / say 'no' to colleagues seeking our support. Therefore, I created a template to respectfully decline: crowdid.hypotheses.org/1990. #openscience #smashthepaywalls

we have 5 positions open at @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt - a 4,5 year postdoc in my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage - 2 postdoc & 2 PhD positions, 4 years, in a research group on Reconfiguration & Internalization of Social Structure www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...

🚨Job alert: We are looking for a PhD Researcher at Bielefeld University ✨Research on policy learning, and work-family policies in Mexico & Germany, within the @sfb1342.bsky.social on global dynamics of social policy Applications until 12.1.26, details at: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/473...

While we've been quite good at predicting life-expectancy gains, we've systematically been too optimistic about future fertility trends. That means there's a significant risk we're underestimating population ageing today too. We better prepare pension systems for a low-fertility future. 2/4

On average, women's pensions are 23% lower than men's in the OECD. This gap reflects both past gender inequalities in the labour market - gender gaps in career length, hours worked and hourly wages - and redistributive elements in the pension system that can compensate for those. 4/4

#Pensions at a Glance 2025 launched today. 🧵 with some key insights from this edition. Full report now available here: www.oecd.org/en/publicati... 1/4

In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps: /1

About to kick off a peer review workshop with our brilliant @sriucl.bsky.social PhD students right now. Thanks to my colleague Alina Pelikh for hosting and I wish something like this was available when I started out.