🙌🎉🎭 with the @equalstrength.bsky.social team at the @ecsr.bsky.social conference in Cologne #ECSR2025

🚨 New preprint out with @evazschirnt.bsky.social & @jessdaik.bsky.social We tackle a simple but major question: Are parents discriminated against in hiring? Check out our meta-analysis results ⬇️ 👉 Preprint: osf.io/preprints/so... Or join the discussion tomorrow at the #ECSR2025 poster session!

WORK! The Sociology Department at Utrecht University is hiring a new assistant prof, with expertise on migration/integration/polarization/stratification. Come join us! www.uu.nl/organisatie/...

Reminder: you can still submit your abstract for the workshop on Survey Experiments that @bramlancee.bsky.social and I are organising @aissr.bsky.social early October. Submission deadline is 27/08/2025 ⬇️

@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

@evazschirnt.bsky.social presenting results of a factorial survey experiment on perceptions of wage penalties of workers wearing the hijab

@elystromberg.bsky.social presenting a study on intersectional stereotyping, co-authored with @evazschirnt.bsky.social #IMISCOE2025

Our @europeansocieties.bsky.social paper on "Reference group effects & parental educational expectations" looking at a big-fish-little-pond effect and immigrant parents' expectations with Nora Huth-Stöckle & Reinhard Schunck is now available with page numbers etc. direct.mit.edu/euso/article...

Looking forward to this afternoon's AMCIS seminar on "Housing as a driver of inequality". You can still join us at 16:00. @sjs1869.bsky.social @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social @aissr.bsky.social

Next week, AMCIS hosts profs. Susan Smith and Rebecca Bentley at the University of Amsterdam. They will talk about housing as a driver of inequality, focusing on economic and health inequalities respectively. Join us, more info and registration here: amcis.uva.nl/content/even...

Looking forward to the next event in the pipeline of the Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies: "Housing as a driver of inequality", with Rebecca Bentley & Susan Smith on June 4 @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social @aissr.bsky.social

Happening tomorrow: If you want to learn about British elites, join us for the book presentation "Born to rule" with @aaronreeves.bsky.social and @samfriedman.bsky.social @aissr.bsky.social @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social

Join us on 30 April for the 2nd AMCIS event this month for the book presentation by @aaronreeves.bsky.social and @samfriedman.bsky.social ⬇️

Who runs Britain? April 30, @aaronreeves.bsky.social and @samfriedman.bsky.social will present their book "Born to Rule" on elite formation and reproduction at UvA. Organized by AMCIS and the Cultural Sociology group. Join us! More information and registration here: amcis.uva.nl/shared/subsi...

Thanks to everyone who attended the AMCIS relaunch yesterday and made it a great event. Especially @norawaitkus.bsky.social who gave a great presentation on wealth inequality and class analysis, and Rowan Arundel & Wouter Schakel as discussants! @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social @aissr.bsky.social

📢 Call for Abstracts for the Annual Meeting of the Network for Empirical-Analytical Social Research on Muslims (NAFS) on September 15 & 16 @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt, Germany. Call is here: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170436331/Cf...? Thanks for sharing! 👍

🚨 Change of location: if you're planning to attend the AMCIS kick-off on Thursday, please note that the room has been changed from the JK building to De Brug (still REC campus)!!!

⚖️ AMCIS relaunch next week! Join our Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies kick-off with @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social, @evazschirnt.bsky.social, @norawaitkus.bsky.social & @mikesavagelse.bsky.social on 𝗪𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆. 🗓 10 April | 🕒 15:00 |📍De Brug 🔗 amcis.uva.nl/content/even...

Belangrijke blog van @distasioval.bsky.social, Borja Martinovic, @verenaseibel.bsky.social en @stefaniesprong.bsky.social: Hoeveel meer bewijs heeft de TK nodig om te erkennen dat moslimdiscriminatie een hardnekkig probleem is dat de NLse maatschappij onder druk zet? stukroodvlees.nl/hoeveel-bewi...

Looking forward to our AMCIS Kick-Off event on 10 April - join us in Amsterdam for a discussion on wealth and class inequality with @norawaitkus.bsky.social and @mikesavagelse.bsky.social @aissr.bsky.social

Today we are striking against the planned budget cuts in higher education at the University of Amsterdam! This is part of a larger relay strike. 🟥 For more info see: www.uva.nl/en/current/b... And woinactie.blogspot.com/2025/02/aank... #doehetniet @woinactie.bsky.social

🚨 Open postdoctoral researcher position 🚨: ▪️ PhD in sociology, econ, organiz. psychology, etc. ▪️ 80%, 2-year position @unibern. ▪️ Main tasks: set up + manage Swiss employer-employee panel & doing research on careers in companies ▪️ More infos: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

WORK! Come join us as an assistant professor at the Department of Sociology at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. Note: ability to teach in Dutch is required. www.uu.nl/organisatie/...

It was really great to see so many people from our @equalstrength.bsky.social team in person at VUB Brussels this week 😀

🏫Why are Dutch schools segregated by socio-economic background, and what role does school choice play in this? 👩‍🎓Tomorrow at 13:00, @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social defends the thesis 'Rhythms of Class: Socio-Economic Disparities and Peer Dynamics in Secondary School Choice'. 🎥 www.uva.nl/en/content/e...

I'm very much looking forward to being co-director of the Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies (AMCIS) with @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social, taking over this role from former director @thijsbol.bsky.social. Keep an eye on our accounts and @aissr.bsky.social for news about events, grants, etc.

I am pleased to announce that with Eva Zschirnt, I have been appointed co-director of the Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies (AMCIS) of the University of Amsterdam We are currently organizing various events, small (workshop & data) grants, PhD activities etc @aissr.bsky.social amcis.uva.nl

Just a reminder for Germans abroad that you need to re-register to vote in the Federal Election, even if you didn't move houses since 2021 (yes, I'm a political scientist and had to google this). Here are the docs you need: www.bundeswahlleiterin.de/bundestagswa.... (1)

Protest against budget cuts in Dutch higher education at the Malieveld, big turnout!

Are you working in a #Dutch #university? Could you please fill in this short #questionnaire to help me understand potential #concerns around attending the #nation-wide #demonstration in #TheHague on Nov 25th? #Academia #precarity #nationaity #visa #non-EU forms.gle/57ujMBusE93Y...

Reminder: You can still apply for this postdoc position on a project on Structural Discrimination in the Dutch Labour market with @stefaniesprong.bsky.social @bramlancee.bsky.social, and me. Deadline for applications is this Sunday.

📢📢JOB OPENING: Together with @stefaniesprong.bsky.social and @bramlancee.bsky.social we are looking for a Postdoc for a new project on Structural Discrimination in the Dutch Labour Market 🇳🇱. Based at Utrecht University, Deadline 10 November. Please share widely! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

This week EqualStrength researchers are presenting some of our work at the CEPDISC Conference. Today Vasilena Lachkovska presented work on using signals (e.g. names and wording in messages) in field experiments.

Vacancy for full professor of political sociology, at the University of Amsterdam. https://www.academictransfer.com/en/343927/full-professor-political-sociology/

Great PhD opportunity with two very nice supervisors in our department:

‼️ Assistant Professor Job‼️ Department of Sociology, Utrecht University Interest in candidate with strong track record on diversity, migration and integration, discrimination, polarization or policy research. www.uu.nl/organisatie/... Deadline: 30 April

‼️JOB‼️ Assistant Professor at ERCOMER, @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, interdisciplinary social science department. Profile with expertise on discrimination, radicalization, polarization esp. welcome. Position permanent after 1year. Deadline: April 14. www.academictransfer.com/en/339028/as...

JOB CALL Postdoc at the @equalstrength.bsky.social Horizon EU project based at COMPAS, University of Oxford, with the great @sbvanoosten.bsky.social & I. Duration: 15 months. About you: interested in discrimination, ethnic inequalities and experimental research designs. Flexible working conditions

Assistant Professor of Survey Methodology at Utrecht University. Deadline: 3 dec Tenured if successful evaluation after 1year www.academictransfer.com/en/334218/as...

Yesterday’s workshop ended with a keynote by @kauspurg.bsky.social on robust design of factorial survey experiments, with proposals for how to incorporate causal inference. We’ve been very fortunate to have Katrin visiting UvA during the last week, giving valuable input to multiple projects.

Luckily, with @elystromberg.bsky.social we have a PhD students who takes care of our project PR on social media - Very happy with this workshop yesterday which ended with a great keynote by @kauspurg.bsky.social! Thanks for visiting us in Amsterdam this week!