Machines Do See Color: Using LLMs to Classify Overt and Covert Racism in Text Sociological Methods & Research, Ahead of Print. Extant work has identified two discursive forms of racism: overt and covert. While both forms have received attention in scholarly work, research on cove #sociology link

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Motherhood costs Danish women an average of $120,000 in earnings over two decades, according to a sociologist who researches family and economics. Generous government benefits like paid leave, childcare and child allowances recovered about $100,000 of that loss. buff.ly/pAtuCS0

This is the most econ paper ever

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.

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NEW: Omar Lizardo, "The Forward March of Categorical Tolerance in the United States" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

Aalborg University is hiring an Associate Professor in Sociology with quant methods specialization - also an option for advanced PostDocs! Come benefit from the great data infrastructure and local expertise in medical and urban sociology, segregation, and GIS. Application deadline: February 13, 2026

Our Department at Aalborg University is hiring an Associate Professor in Sociology with a focus on quantitative methods: www.stillinger.aau.dk/videnskabeli...

random at the margin 👀 #sociology

Superpower: Sociology.

Please forward to economic sociologists who’d be interested in a professorship at the @eui-eu.bsky.social. #economicsociology

I just submitted all new work on the "KHB" method (with Breen and Holm) to the ECSR meeting in Dublin in June! You can also still make it - abstract submission deadline 11 Jan!! #sociology @ecsr.bsky.social www.ecsr2026.net

10 years with tenure—and it’s been pretty awesome. Wouldn’t trade it for a thing 😁 #sociology

New open access research to share (though awkward timing in light of Denmark's vax sched. in US news of late). Using Danish health registry data, we examine trends in child receipt of their 1st MMR shot by parent educ. over a period that coincides w/ 3 key antivaccine events. 1/ 🛟😷sociology policy

I've been thinking a lot about cultural sociology, and what will happen to it now that our standards changed with the credibility revolution. here is a take I have: Cultural Sociology After the Credibility Revolution tkeskinturk.github.io/blog/culturalsoc

So, what do you do as a professor? I write a lot of grant applications that all get rejected.

I've never been to Finland. Soon will though.

“I have to tell you that the career prospects for sociologists are not good. It would be highly misleading to gloss over this fact. And far from improving, as might have been expected, these prospects have actually got worse.” – Theodor Adorno, 'Introduction to Sociology' (1968 Lectures)

So, what do you do as a professor? You evaluate other people's research 👀 #sociology

I recently got a truly outstanding comment from an anonymous reviewer as part of the revision process on a methods paper. It's so great that I think the reviewer should be offered co-authorship! What is your take? Is that too much or just fine, and I should get in touch with the editor? #sociology

The ASA Distinguished Scholarly Book Award deadline is approaching (Jan 1)! As computational methods reshape our field, I'm particularly interested in seeing nominations that bridge traditional sociology with data science a... https://www.asanet.org/about/awards/distinguished-scholarly-book-award/.

Happy to see that my paper with Ben Jann on marginal odds ratios, published in 2023 in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social, is increasingly being used. It has garnered 20 citations on GS and has been downloaded 4600 times from the website. Check it out 👇 sociologicalscience.com/articles-v10...

The peer-review Möbius strip: invite reviewer, decline-with-suggestions, re-invite, decline-with-suggestions… until the original reviewer comes back as the suggested expert. #sociology

1 Assistant Professor in Sociology position at TCD, Ireland: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPW155/a...

New paper in the American Journal of Sociology (with Michael Grätz), and a very good way to close an important chapter! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Fastly approaching 10 years with tenure 👀 Started as tenured associate prof 1 Jan 2016! 🎆

Check out this super cool and all new paper by @elystromberg.bsky.social and @pengzell.bsky.social in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social on how sensitive cross-country comparisons in intergenerational mobility can be to seemingly inconsequential data and measurement decisions. #sociology

NEW: Ely Strömberg, Per Engzell, "How Robust Are Country Rankings in Educational Mobility?" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

"[S]ome countries often characterized as low-mobility emerge as matching or surpassing the egalitarian Nordic countries, reinforcing the view that wider mobility differences cannot be attributed solely to the education system." This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

Xiang Zhou (Harvard Sociology) and I are recruiting two postdoctoral fellows through the An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard’s Fairbank Center. The theme for 2026–27 is the Social Foundations of State Power in China. Deadline: January 15, 2026. fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/affiliation-...

Three Ways of Looking at Black–White Mortality Differences in the United States Everyone agrees that US Black deaths happen earlier than white deaths on average, but it is surprisingly challenging to find the best ways to summarize, quantify, and compare this gap. This review arg #sociology link

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! @rlandersoe.bsky.social & @kbkarlson.bsky.social examine intergenerational educational mobility among immigrants and their descendants in Denmark. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

Today, @lintuslotta.bsky.social defended her doctoral thesis on educational inequalities at the @eui-eu.bsky.social Great defense, thanks to Lotta and the commiittee with @kbkarlson.bsky.social Bess Bukodi and @hermwerf.bsky.social

Another great piece appearing in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social! Sociology

The rise of stratification research in sociology, economics, and political science. My new blog. With a conclusion that European universities should rather sponsor inequality centers than to dismantle them. @eui-eu.bsky.social @eui-sps.bsky.social hermwerf.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...

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Honoured to have been elected as a Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology! Looking forward to contributing to the academy’s work and to the annual meeting in Paris in November 2026. More about the academy: www.european-academy-sociology.eu

What rhymes with conditionally accepted? #sociology #yay

LAST CALL! #Sociology Professorships in Copenhagen, Denmark! We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area. Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15! Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost! jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

🎓 New paper accepted today, on the intergenerational educational mobility among immigrants in Denmark! At first glance, immigrants seem more mobile than natives – but this is largely a data illusion. Poor register data quality drives the pattern. w/ @rlandersoe.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/so...

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Hot take: More sociologists and economists need to work together.

The application deadline to join the Sociology journal Editorial Board is extended to 11 November 2025 17:00 BST! This includes spaces for Early Career Researchers. Find out how to submit an application or nominate a colleague below. www.mi-nomination.com/britsoc

Holy shit. Zero sociology slots.

Sociologists! Consider applying for the Kohli Fellowship for Sociology, which provides financial support for a two-year postdoctoral stay at the WZB in Berlin. Deadline is Nov. 16. bit.ly/4opl1ms

Sociology professor jobs in Copenhagen 🇩🇰! Repost: We're hiring! Open rank. At least 2 profs. More details 👇

The exodus has begun

Modelfit, back to the 80s #sociology