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...

Did you miss our 2nd webinar on how to apply for ERC research funding in 2026? Catch up here 👉 bit.ly/4n7d98T Let us know if (or how) you found it helpful! Either submit a comment via SLIDO (session code can be found in the recording) or comment below this post. www.youtube.com/live/oCUGl7F...

My department, University of Calgary Sociology, is hiring four assistant professors. Part of our Faculty of Arts renewal plan. Please read all details here: careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...

🚨 We’re HIRING! 🚨 The Department of Sociology at Stony Brook University (SUNY) is seeking two tenure-track Assistant Professors in Global Inequality & Justice (start Fall 2026). Come join a vibrant, growing department at New York’s top public university! 📍 Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/172669

Job Announcement Title: Asst Prof in Quantitative Institution: Univ of Texas at El Paso Dept: Sociology & Anthropology Specialty Area(s): Sociology or Spatial Statistics Deadline: Oct 24 (reviews begin) Link: protect.checkpoint.com/v2/r01/___ht...

inherently heteroskedastic

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

If you have the opportunity to go to Denmark, take it!

Commit a social science! In Denmark!

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

#sociology jobs

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...

New paper out with @boryslaw.bsky.social 🥳 In which we sketch out how to rethink measurement invariance causally for applied researchers. And provide a causal definition of measurement invariance! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Book Antiqua 👀

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Criminology (in our Sociology department)! Tenure track. 2/2 teaching load. Great colleagues. Fantastic location. jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

An assistant professor position in Tilburg, in the sociology of social inequalities.

📊The Sociology Department at Stony Brook University invites applications for *two* tenure-track Assistant Professor positions to begin in Fall 2026. [They] seek scholars who specialize in issues of global inequality and justice, broadly construed. apply.interfolio.com/172669

Aarhus University, invites applications for two assistant or associate professor positions in educational sociology with a focus on the application of quantitative methods international.au.dk/about/profil...

Aarhus University is hiring: Two assistant/associate professors in educational sociology with a quantitative methods focus based either in Copenhagen or Aarhus

Our #Sociology department is looking for an #AssistantProfessor in the field of Social Inequality (with the possibility for a permanent contract). www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3546... @sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs

Feelin' like a student on this one 🤔 #sociology

In case you missed it @saidhassan.bsky.social just pulled off an ESR/ECSR grand slam, winning best article, dissertation, *and* reviewer. @europeansocreview.bsky.social #ECSR2025

@hermwerf.bsky.social presenting about a sorting and learning model of educational inequality. Although starting at 9am, packed room What did we learn? Negative effects of the gymnasium for low-SES students (for many outcomes) #ECSR2025

Congratulations to Chen-Hao Hsu @uni-bamberg.de for winning the 2nd place #ECSR PhD prize #ECSR2025 🥳🥳🥳

Reviewing, and doing it well, is one of the best services one can do to our profession. Massive thanks to the winners of the #ecsr2025 Best Reviewer Award: @saidhassan.bsky.social, @katyaoivanova.bsky.social, Nicole Schwitter

Our EUI postdoc @brueggemann-o.bsky.social presents his work on beliefs on the gender pay gap, #ecsr2025

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out! Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025! ➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh #FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

Excited to share my new piece in Sociology of Education, The Logics of Teaching: How Institutionalized Ideas about Teaching Shape Teachers’ Professional Identities. Available (open access!) here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

When the answer is selection on gains, the question is... #sociology #EconTwitter

Early reviews of INHERITED INEQUALITY are in I couldn’t be happier with its reception. I’ll be posting one each day this week. First up, award-winning author & sociologist, Anthony Jack. THANK YOU!

Breen, Holm, and I are working on what we could call KHB 2.0, lol. Promised myself never to revisit, but this has been so exciting. We nest KHB in a general and excact decomposition of coefficient differences in not just logit but any GLM 🤯 Still work to be done, so no promises 😁 #sociology

NEW ARTICLE by CREST's @scoavoux.bsky.social forthcoming in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social: "Streaming Platforms, Filter Bubbles, and Cultural Inequalities. How Online Services Increase Consumption Diversity" Already available at @socarxiv.bsky.social: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Hey #dkmedier en nem måde for jer at hjælpe med at stoppe kvindedrab er at lade være med altid at skrive gerningsmanden ud af handlingen. I dette tilfælde er “FAR stikker mor ned for øjnene af deres børn” for eksempel en mere præcis og dækkende overskrift.

A careful study of every populist episode since 1900 finds catastrophic consequences, which play out slowly. On average, incomes fall behind by nearly 15% over 15 years. For the U.S., this is a cost of about $13k per person per year. Over a lifetime, that's million bucks.

Job Opportunity: tenure-track Assistant Professor in Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Learn more at erecruit.umsystem.ed... [Job ID 56857]

✨ My dissertation on educational inequalities between second-generation immigrant & ethnic majority students across countries – and how tracking shapes them – is now accessible online! 📄 doi.org/10.15488/19360 Wondering if the thesis might be relevant to your research? Here are some key insights👇

Interesting social mobility paper from economics with a proper engagement with the sociological literature (and following its methods). Different from the last (?) paper of the late G. Becker, who, despite his cross-appt in the sociology dept @ Chicago forgot to cite sociology in his soc mob review.

New paper reveals widespread decline in intergenerational economic mobility in 🇩🇪 for those born in the 70s and 80s. Similarly, educational inequality by parent income has also been increasing. 1/2 econpapers.repec.org/paper/cesces...

The authors' solution is to propose that as a natural experiment gets reused to up the t-statistic that would constitute statistical significance. It's basically a multiple hypothesis correction. It's an interesting and intuitive idea. I kind of like it from an empirical perspective. However...

"After a natural experiment is first used, other researchers often reuse the setting, examining different outcome[s]..." "...we use simulations based on real data to illustrate the multiple hypothesis testing problem that arises when researchers reuse natural experiments."

Some key takeaways: 🏠 Household mental load is a hidden factor in political inequality. 📊 It shapes who pays attention to in politics—and thus who participates. We can’t talk about political equality without addressing it. Full article here: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf019

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

when Reviewer F rejects your paper

taste-based paper rejections

We're delighted to announce that British Journal of Sociology's impact factor has increased to 3.3 for 2024 and that our submission to first decision time is 57 days ⬆️ Find out more about the #BJS, read recent open access papers, and submit an article here ➡️ buff.ly/veBvSeI