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

Scholars of law: Come work with a smart, diverse, globally oriented faculty group on law at New York University Abu Dhabi, where I am Dean of Social Science. Faculty position is open rank. Apply here:https://apply.interfolio.com/174761

Off to awesome Aarhus 🇩🇰 tomorrow to give a keynote at the Transitions in Youth conference! Gonna talk about how education opportunity changed over the 20th century in Denmark! #sociology

The research video for our book Born to Rule (made by the brilliant Maayan Arad) is a Finalist for a Lovie Award. It’s now down to a public vote so please have a watch and, if you like it, vote for us! vote.lovieawards.com/PublicVoting... @lsesociology.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social

Yale Sociology is hiring an associate or full professor in quantitative sociology. Come work with me! Applications open tomorrow. Details available here: apply.interfolio.com/174709

Equalization through Deterioration: The Shrinking Gender Gap in Swedish School Grades Carina Mood Sociological Science September 30, 2025 10.15195/v12.a27 This article documents a surprising reversal in the long-standing gender gap in academic achievement: between 2021 and 2 #sociology link

✨New (open access) article in ESR with Gerbert Kraaykamp! We demonstrate that cultural capital is positively associated with a higher occupational position due to access to more resourceful networks. Read here: doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are? @simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions Thread 🧵1/10

Pew Research Center has done many surveys about libraries. A consistent surprise to me is about 1 in 5 US adults have NEVER visited a public library. Here's a 2016 look at the never library crowd https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2016/09/09/a-portrait-of-those-who-have-never-been-to-libraries/

The nordic paradox has puzzled sociologists when looking at gender equality. Well, it was a methodological artefact due to low data quality and bad modelling. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Looks like this #sociology journal is my top scorer when it comes to submitted reviews – 32 and counting 🤯

ASA is now accepting nominations for its 2026 Annual Awards. Find out about all the award categories, including our new recognition for early career sociologists, the “Early Career Award for Community-Engaged Scholarship Award.” Deadline 1/1/26. https://asanet.org/awards

🎙️ON AIR: We're talking to sociologist @christinajcross.bsky.social about how the two-parent paradigm became the standard and when that premise becomes harmful. ❓Did you grow up with one or two parents, or with another family structure? How do you think family structure influenced you? 📻Listen:

Exciting Opportunity! There is a new position at our University: lnkd.in/e9eBJx4X. Join a dynamic team as a Lecturer in Sociology and Quantitative Methods! If you’re passionate about teaching and research, this is your chance to make a meaningful impact in your field.

What is the liberalizing potential of higher education? In this @bjsociology.bsky.social research, we show substantial variation in the association between field of study and anti-immigrant sentiment — a pattern most pronounced among those with tertiary degrees doi.org/10.1111/1468...

One more week left to apply for a 3-year postdoc in Demography (deadline: Sept 30, 12:00 midday UK time). Join me at the Sociology Department in Oxford to study global fertility change as part of the DIVREP project!👇

I did research today

1 year left of my @erc.europa.eu grant on siblings and social mobility! It has been a blast. Below some of the reserach conducted by the outstanding postdocs Jung In, JMF, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Jesper Birkelund, BJS, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 1/2 #sociology

@sociologicalsci.bsky.social is an awesome journal. Nothing less. #sociology

"Fundamentally, having a child is making a decision about the future." Great piece by @karenguzzo.bsky.social #demography #birthrates www.newsweek.com/low-birth-ra...