We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure). You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented! #sociology More 👇 jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

a new working paper: osf.io/vsr5b I propose a three-stage model of cohortization where dynamics of cohort learning and political sorting serve as complementary engines of aggregate political change. I apply this to the case of the killing of George Floyd & the BLM. it's also my job market paper!

Come work on my new research project! We are studying whether and how #parentalLeave is shared in different types of families, how the use of parental leave has changed in different families since the 2000s, and how parents’ social environments influence their leave uptake. #research #hiring

✨ 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

📢 IAS is looking for new PhD students! There are still 3 more weeks to apply! deadline: August 31st. Read more: liu.se/en/work-at-l... #Sociology #AcademicSky

I'm happy to be a part of netreg.se . . A project to use register data to study the entire social network of Sweden. Check out our poster at IC2S2 today.

🤔 Curious how religion & gender shape teens’ free time? In @sociusjournal.bsky.social, David Kretschmer and I show: Muslim girls do more housework 🏠, but are least active in sports 🏃‍♀️ and going out 🎉 than Muslim boys and non-Muslims. Gaps shrink as they enter adulthood. 🔄 👉 doi.org/10.1177/2378...

@selcanmutgan.bsky.social et al. find that ethnic school segregation in Sweden is largely a downstream consequence of “the ethnic segregation of the housing market and the geographic distribution of schools.” @europeansocreview.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

a new article in Political Psychology: osf.io/rhf4q we argue that studies of belief change have an identifiability problem much like the APC problem: the composition of change (who changed or how much they changed) is observationally confounded. with @pablobellode.bsky.social & @stephenvaisey.com:

🚨🎓 We’re looking for new PhD students! The area of specialization is open, but successful applicants should demonstrate a clear interest in themes that align with ongoing research at @iasliu.bsky.social 📅 Deadline: 31.08.2025 💼 Fully funded positions How to apply 👉 liu.se/en/work-at-l...

🧵1/8 In our new #OA article, we studied the drivers of ethnic school segregation. Research on segregation often points to parental preferences, but what if it's not just about what parents want, but also what options they actually have? 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf027

🧵1/8 In our new #OA article, we studied the drivers of ethnic school segregation. Research on segregation often points to parental preferences, but what if it's not just about what parents want, but also what options they actually have? 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf027

The Women’s Forum for analytical Sociology will begin at 2:30 pm at the Interchurch center at Columbia University. Looking forward!

Attn: the special issue of SMR on Generative AI in Sociology is now online. The whole issue is fire, but the introduction by @thomasdavidson.bsky.social and Danny Karell is a must read, covering prompting, measurement, and simulations. It's a road map for soc sci research in the genAI era. +

Warm congratulations to Anastasia Menshikova who has successfully defended her doctoral thesis ‘Cultural change: Studying social interdependencies in public discourse with computational text analysis’! We are so proud of you, Dr Menshikova!🥂🎓

I'm presenting tomorrow (early morning for me in Colorado; afternoon for Sweden). This is a Zoom talk, so anyone is welcome!

This year’s INAS will be hybrid – and so will the Women’s Forum! We will offer online and offline activities so you can join in even if you are not travelling to NYC. Sign up for the Women’s Forum for updates and join our Slack channel for more information.

Hi everyone! We are also on Bluesky! With the Women's Forum, we aim to enhance recognition of the work, perspectives, and expertise of women within the analytical sociology community. Find out more on our webpage and join our mailing list: analyticalsociology.com/womens-forum

How do our school friendships shape where we choose to live as adults? In a new ESR @europeansocreview.bsky.social publication @laurafursich.bsky.social and @benjarvis.bsky.social examines how educational networks influence residential choices later in life. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

Are you interested in learning computational social science methods? If so, you now have the opportunity to apply for the second round of the Swedish Interdisciplinary Research School in Computational Social Science (SIRCSS) at @iasliu.bsky.social ⌛Apply by 31st of March! liu.se/en/research/...

People usually overestimate the share of immigrants in their country. However, in this new #openaccess paper, I show that survey respondents who do not use round numbers like 10% or 20% in their guesses collectively estimate the share with astounding precision. #crowdwisdom doi.org/10.1177/0001...

Excited to be part of this lineup and share work later this spring.

Excited to announce the agenda for the IAS Seminar Series this spring 2025! Don’t miss our stellar lineup of speakers—everyone’s welcome to join! 🌟 #AcademicSky #Sociology #CSS

A baker's dozen. 12 books published in 2023-2024 that I have found especially valuable in understanding positive and normative dimensions of inequality plus the book that had the largest implicit effect on my thinking published in the last decade.

📢 Job: Sabino Kornrich and I are hiring a 3-year Postdoc to join us at #NYUAD to work on parenting, childhood inequalities, and parenting norms in international and comparative perspective using experimental methods. Deadline to apply: February 14, 2025. To apply: apply.interfolio.com/160976

My new blog on substack. Avoiding the causality trap. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Based on our recent IZA working paper (▶️ docs.iza.org/dp17411.pdf ◀️), @rlandersoe.bsky.social and I have written an opinion piece for IZA summarizing our main findings in short form ✒️ #EconSky #SocSky

😳 WithdrarXiv 🙏 - Dataset of 14K+ withdrawn arXiv papers - associated retraction comments - entire history through 09/24 - taxonomy of retraction reasons, from critical errors to policy violations - WithdrarXiv-SciFy, enriched version w/ scripts for parsed full-text PDFs arxiv.org/abs/2412.03775

Last week, we organized the Symposium and the 2nd Workshop on Empirically Calibrated Agent-Based Models for Mechanism-Based Research. The Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) was an excellent host! @mrnkzr.bsky.social

IAS celebrates its first 10 years as an institute. Read more about what made founder Peter Hedström start up the institute, and thoughts from current director Maria Brandén on the future for IAS. liu.se/en/news-item...

Next week I am presenting at the IAS webinar on "Data infrastructure for the study of societal dynamics" @iasliu.bsky.social Subscribe to their webinar, its a fantastic series

Two more week to apply:

Visualize and download school segregation data for every state, county, metro area, commuting zone, geo school district, and local educational agency in the US since 1991. edopportunity.org/segregation

Prof Felix Elwert gave a keynote at the #ecsr meeting in Barcelona yesterday on a paper with Ang Yu that probably will turn out as the most important #sociology methods paper in the 2020s. Go check it out. arxiv.org/abs/2306.16591

We are excited to share the agenda for the IAS Seminar Series in the fall of 2024 and welcome everyone to join!

SweCSS, the Swedish Centre for Computational Social Science, has just introduced its Visiting Fellows Program, designed to foster collaboration between social and computational sciences. More information here: tinyurl.com/visitingfell...

Wrapping up my time at WICSS @ NYU Abu Dhabi on a high note with an incredible group project! #SICSS #NYU #CSS 🌟🌟🔆

We are excited to share the agenda for the IAS Seminar Series in the spring of 2024 and welcome everyone to join!

Critical Metascience Roundup 2023 I’ve been compiling a list of articles that provide a critical perspective on some of the fundamental issues associated with metascience, open science, science reform, and/or the replication crisis. Here's 2023’s offerings...🧵

At the EUI we have a #vacancy for a #postdoc, for 2.5 years, to study inequality in school careers in the Netherlands using register data. Maybe you know a researcher who would be interested in this position. #socsky Deadline: 31/12/2023. See for more: www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

Over the last 3 days, @martinarvidsson.bsky.social and I hosted a workshop in Athens, Greece, bringing together 12 external researchers from Europe and the USA. 🌍 Summary: Outstanding presentations, engaging discussions, delicious food, sunny weather, and a splendid view of the Acropolis. 🤩🎉

IAS will host the 31st Nordic Sociological Association Conference next year! NSA 2024 | Sociology in a Digital World 🗓️ 14-16 Aug 2024 🔗 nsa2024.se 📍 Norrköping, Sweden

+++ CALL FOR SESSION PROPOSALS +++ The 2024 Nordic Sociological Association Conference (14-16 Aug) is now accepting session proposals (deadline: 1st Dec). Check www.nsa2024.se for more info. The conference will be hosted by the Institute for Analytical Sociology in beautiful Norrköping, Sweden.

The conference will feature a women’s event on May 29 to establish a Women’s Forum for Analytical Sociology----organized by the fantastic @amaliaab.bsky.social, @selcanmutgan.bsky.social, and @evavriens.bsky.social

The 2024 Conference of the International Network of Analytical Sociologists will take place May 30–31 2024 in Leipzig, Germany. Please visit our conference website www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/en/inas-conf... The call for submissions is now open (until Feb. 16). Happy to hear from you!

Why is Macklemore often criticized for cultural appropriation, but Eminem mostly gets a pass? In a new paper, forthcoming at ASR, we argue, and demonstrate, that people are allowed to borrow from other cultures if they incurred a cost. We call that “cultural tariffing.” osf.io/preprints/so...

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Here is the first post on this site as we're all here and we're not all there! Tomorrow, Gabriel Abend will be giving a presentation at IAS: "Words and Distinctions for the Common Good". You can listen the talk on Zoom or join us in person if you are near Norrköping: liu.se/en/article/s...