Exciting!! After reviewing many many excellent applications and making recommendations...the first batch of our @ucl.ac.uk @sriucl.bsky.social MSc Sociology offers for 2026/27 entry just went out to our applicants TODAY! Do you have our (first) offer? 🤩 Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...

It's easy for some of you to just never use LLMs and just criticize people who do. I would like to be in that situation. But here I am, with my moderator volunteers, assessing hundreds of papers submitted to @socarxiv.bsky.social, trying to decide how to fairly judge whether to accept them. /1

We are happy to announce an Open Call for papers on the topic of ‘De/Re-institutionalization of Asian Families.‘ Submissions will be open from November 1, 2026 until February 28, 2026. Please find out more about this planned collection www.demographic-research.org/files/202510...

💥 Apps open for 2026/27 entry @sriucl.bsky.social! 📌Sociology MSc www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-... 📌Sociology & Data Science MSc www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-... 📌Sociology & Social Inequalities MSc www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-... 📌Sociology of Childhood & Children’s Rights MA www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...

Demography is science, but it's not rocket science. Journalists and related professionals could understand crude birth rate, general fertility rate, and total fertility rate - and use the terms consistently. So I made this annotated table: familyinequality.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/l...

📢WE'RE HIRING!📢 We're looking for a centre administrator to join our fantastic team! Role is for 3 days a week, with flexible hybrid working options. Interest in @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social's mission a bonus. 🕕Apply by 23.59 on 24th October 2025 Full details: tinyurl.com/5t586vuj Please share widely!

Who'd thought my op-ed (and research) on the "eldest daughter syndrome" two years ago just made its way into Taylor Swift's new album (track #5 "Eldest Daughter") 🤩 theconversation.com/what-is-elde...

Scholarship opportunities for studying MSc/MA Sociology (shorturl.at/RiL2P) @sriucl.bsky.social: 📌Master's Bursary: shorturl.at/gKkvx 📌Global Master's Scholarship: shorturl.at/sift7 📌Humanitarian Scholarship: shorturl.at/y9qsL 📌Chevening: www.chevening.org Applications open from October 13!

Carolina Sociology is hiring! • Tenure-track in computational sociology or advanced quantitative methods • Open rank in population health. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307... unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

What a blast today! Wonderful to welcome the first-ever cohort of Sociology MSc/MA students @sriucl.bsky.social. Our students' passion for (their words) "novel", "world-changing", "rigorous", and "ethical" research is truly inspiring. It's times like these that we do see great hope for the future! 💕

🔥 Two-week countdown! Early-career work and family researchers - we look forward to your application! @wfrn.bsky.social

🚨 Our new paper (w/ Kausiki Sarma) on housework & marital violence in India is just out! We provide a "radical" rethinking of housework beyond labour division and gender performance. @sriucl.bsky.social @wfrn.bsky.social @asa-family.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In terms of city or department, doesn't get much better than this

📢NEW Vacancy📢 Assistant Professor in Sociology at @tcddublin.bsky.social Specialising in quantitative sociology ⏰Deadline: 6 October Maternity cover MORE INFO: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a... APPLY HERE: www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/

A very significant day for us as our new birth cohort study is announced, the first for quarter of a century. Big congratulations to colleagues in our @clscohorts.bsky.social for all their hard work in getting this off the ground!

And both based in SRI! Also home to UCL's BSc Sociology and MSc Sociology.

Look forward to serving as a member of #REF2029 sub-panel for Sociology & working with the other panel members. A great privilege and a significant responsibility to read the wonderful works across the diverse spectrum of British Sociology! 2029.ref.ac.uk/panels/main-... @sriucl.bsky.social

Thrilled to have started a new chapter in my career at @sriucl.bsky.social & Quantitative Social Science (QSS) centre @ucl.ac.uk this week. Absolutely love my supportive colleagues & the inspiring environment ❤️ We're hiring 2 new lecturers in QSS – come and join us ➡ www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

We have 2 posts available in our Quantitative Social Science centre at @sriucl.bsky.social. It is a wonderful place to work, with great colleagues, exciting degrees, and good promotion prospects. The posts are open to anyone working in the broad space covered by our centre. Deadline + link 👇

Wonderful opportunity to join a supportive work environment and collegial colleagues! Come and join us!

🚨Last month to apply for the 2026–2027 Work and Family Researchers Network Early Career Fellowship (WFRN ECF). wfrn.org/early-career... ✅ Dedicated ECF preconference ✅ ECF travel support fund ✅ ECF peer and professional network ✅ Career development support ✅ Bespoke mentoring And so much more...

If you are an early career scholar, consider applying to the Early Career Work and Family Fellowship Program led by the brilliant Nicole Denier and @yanghu.co.uk. 🔗 wfrn.org/early-career...

Join us at the next Work and Family Researchers Network conference. 📅 When: June 17-20, 2026 📍Where:  Concordia University, Montreal ➡️Theme: Centering Care Across the Life Course ❗️Submission deadline: October 1, 2025 @wfrn.bsky.social wfrn.org/2026-work-an...

What makes a desirable spouse in China? Our @jmfncfr.bsky.social paper (w/ Jia Yu, @yueqiansoc.bsky.social, Yang Zhou & Yu Xie) draws on a national survey experiment to net out and examine mate preferences among unmarried Chinese & their roles in shaping assortative mating doi.org/10.1111/jomf...

Work and families research network conference abstract submission are now open to October! Don't forget to submit your abstract! wfrn.org/2026-work-an

Our Demography paper is out! We find that husband's parents matter for the intergenerational transmission of earnings arrangements. Efforts to reinvigorate the stalled gen­der rev­olution and pro­mote women’s rel­ative earn­ings require a recognition that men’s fam­ilies play a cru­cial role

The Journal of Family Issues (JFI) is seeking a new Editor. This is a great chance to revitalize JFI and help it expand its reach. Please share widely! #familysociology #sociology #familydemography journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PD...

💘 Do apps make dating more efficient? New in @josoperrel.bsky.social August issue, Manlin Cai, @yueqiansoc.bsky.social & I draw on a temporal lens and in-depth interviews to explore the "efficiency paradox" in how immigrants experience time & efficiency in online dating. doi.org/10.1177/0265...

How does child marriage alter women's work-family life courses? How do key interventions fare? Mariam Abouelenin & I look into these Qs – we highlight accelerated transition into adulthood as a key feature of life course transitions in the Global South: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Heartened my paper w/ Rory Coulter on living apart together and older adults' mental health is still buzzing in the media after...8 months 🤣: Research: academic.oup.com/psychsocgero... @telegraphnews.bsky.social: www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/... @yahoonews.com: www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ar...

Look what came in the post! What a joy it was to work on this with an amazing set of colleagues. Will be available open access from Thursday 24th July. policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/caring-fathe...

The call for @wfrn.bsky.social papers is open! Join us in lovely Montreal June 17-20. The 2026 theme is Centering Care across the Life Course. Preconferences for Early Career Fellows and Predocs, plus plenty of social activities. Submit by Oct 1. All the info here: wfrn.org/2026-work-an...

Call for WFRN.bsky.social Early Career Fellowship Applications: Goal of the program is to help promising young scholars establish career successes and integrate them within the WFRN research community wfrn.org/news/call-fo...

CALL FOR UK ACADEMICS Do you write academic references for undergrads applying to Master’s programmes? I'm researching the invisible labour behind reference writing Looking to interview UK-based staff – online/in person, 45-60 mins. 📩 [email protected] More info ⬇️

New job vacancy at TCRU! For a Lecturer (Teaching) in Social Psychology - 2.5 year post (www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...). Please share widely! @sriucl.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social @bps-social-psych.bsky.social

As Ottoline Leyser ends her five years as chief executive of UKRI, she warns that forcing all institutions and researchers to pursue a single definition of research excellence is impoverishing the research base on which the government’s ambitions depend. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports

Fixed-term Lecturership in Research Methods at Uni of Southampton. Experience of stats, survey methods, data collection and/or interest in AI required jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Three grant review invitations from three different countries in one morning... is it that time of the year now? 😂

We are hiring a 3-year postdoc for the ERC-funded WEALTHTRAJECT project at DIW Berlin. More details here: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...

What do fathers really want for Father's Day? How about a national policy that provides paid leave to all fathers! Check out my newly released Big Ideas Talk courtesy of @wfrn.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iloV...

🚨 Apps open for the 2026-27 @wfrn.bsky.social Early Career Fellowships (ECFs)! Join the stellar line-up of current and past WFRN ECFs, and super-charge your career with amazing support from the wonderful WFRN community! @ndenier.bsky.social & I look fwd to your apps and are happy to answer any Qs!

“Low-income households in Britain are now 27 per cent poorer than their equivalents in France and a staggering 60 per cent poorer than those in Ireland.” 🔥 www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

The DHS press release announcing the Harvard thing is truly batshit

REF2029 Sub-panel leads have been announced. Whatever your views on REF, it's a huge labour for the disciplines and the sector they are undertaking on our behalves over the next several years.

We are seeing multiple instances of reviewers doing manuscript reviews via use of AI/LLM. If you don't want to do a review the old-fashioned way, better to decline the request. Giving someone else's manuscript to AI is a violation of intellectual property rights/laws; the manuscript isn't yours...

We are still looking for more mentors for the ASA family section mentoring program, and still accepting sign ups to be a mentee, sign up here by May 2nd: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Do you want to be included in our family starter pack or know other family sociologists who should be included? Leave a comment here, and follow our starter pack to hear the latest research on families! go.bsky.app/E3PGiEm

Deadline approaching! Join me in #Barcelona to study the #demography of #singlehood and develop your own independent research. Deadline: April 24 (15h00 CEST). #postdoc

Dark times.

Not making it to #PAA2025, but excited/thankful that my fabulous collaborator @yueqiansoc.bsky.social is presenting our paper on what family and welfare changes mean for fertility desires in China. If you'll be at #PAA2025, we look forward to hearing your comments/thoughts on our research ⬇️