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STITCH is officially on live! uchass.ugr.es/stitch cc @uchass.ugr.es

It's easy to see these men as individual bad apples. But I'd argue--they were enabled by "elite" universities' look-the-other-way approach to dealing with big-name bad actors, and by the fact that, societially, we treat people associated with "elite" schools as automatically deserving of deference.

Desde @uchass.ugr.es buscamos candidat@s para 2 contratos de 2 años de duración para graduados en Comunicación, Biblioteconomía, Traducción e Interpretación o similares ¡Please difundid! El plazo es del 2 al 20 de febrero aquí ➡️ investigacion.ugr.es/recursos-hum...

New paper alert! 🤩 if you have also wondered "how multilingual is scholarly communication?", check out our work where we try to find an answer by mapping the global distribution of languages in publications and citations. Gros merci @caropradier.bsky.social and @lariviev.bsky.social 💚 #AcademicSky

¡Nueva publicación! Esta vez de parte de uno de nuestros investigadores noveles. Sergio Castro-Cortacero y Nicolas Robinson-Garcia publican para la revista Revista Infonomy como utilizar la herramienta #Quanteda para realizar análisis de textos. DOI: doi.org/10.3145/info...

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Come visit MPIDR in ☀️Summer 2026☀️ 📣Call for Application for the "Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program" 📅☀️June 8th – August 21st, 2026☀️ 🗺️MPIDR in Rostock, Germany Application Deadline: Jan 14, 2026 Apply here and learn more: incubator.demogr.mpg.de

The call for applications for the Summer Incubator 2026 at the @mpidr.bsky.social is open! Deadline: Jan 14, 2026. Topics/Teams: 1) Spatial Mobility and Scientific Production 2) Digitalization, AI and Inequalities Check out the brand new website for information: www.incubator.demogr.mpg.de

📢Job Offer‼️New Max Planck Research Group on Reproductive Ageing Interview with D. Susie Lee 이수지 Leader of the Group: https://www.demogr.mpg.de/go/RGRA Job: https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122/jobs_fellowships_1910/postdoc_research_scientist_in_the_reproductive_ageing_research_group_14844/

🚨 #Hiring! 3yr #postdoc w/survey methodology experience to join the ERC-project SINGLE for its next stage of designing & launching a comparative multidisciplinary singlehood #survey in EU. Research area is open! Application deadline: 12-Jan-2026 (12PM CET). Barcelona-based. 👉🏻 shorturl.at/CmY0F

🧵 1/ 🚨 New paper out in PLOS ONE! w/ @caropradier.bsky.social @benzpierre.bsky.social @natsush.bsky.social @ipoga.bsky.social @lariviev.bsky.social We studied 43k authors and 264k citation links in U.S. economics to ask: 👉 Why do some papers cite others? 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Our periodic review of the coverage of the major bibliographic databases (October 2025) GS no longer the largest due to the huge increase of OpenAlex. New data for Xueshu

A structural feature of social stratification in contemporary societies is the confluence of advantages and disadvantages. It seems an obvious fact, and yet it is not fully recognized. The highly educated have greater income, privileged access to housing, prestigious occupations.... (1/5)

The Graduate Group in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania is now accepting applications for its PhD program in Demography. We look forward to recruiting a strong and diverse cohort for Fall 2026! ➡️ Applications are due December 15, 2025 ⬅️ Learn More:

I am looking for a postdoc to join my ERC StG project DIVREP to work on global, quantitative analyses of fertility and reproductive behaviour. The post is based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Let me know if you have any questions. More details below👇

🚨 New Job Alert! 🚨 Join Dr @ewabatyra.bsky.social as a Postdoc Researcher in Demography! Contribute to a global study on disparities in reproductive behaviour, focusing on childbearing age & fertility levels 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Apply now 👉 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...

A Swedish summer and a conference! Our colleagues enjoyed the IC2S2 in Norrköping, and also seized the opportunity to catch up with former colleagues and guests of the MPIDR: @afcastr0t.bsky.social, Carolina Coimbra Vieira, Xinyi Zhao, @akbaritabar.bsky.social, Egor Kotov, Ole Hexel & Johannes Mast.

👋 A huge welcome to @ewabatyra.bsky.social, who has just joined us as Associate Professor in Social Demography! Ewa's research lies at the intersection of demography, sociology, international development and social policy 🌏 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/people/ewa-b...

I am delighted to see this paper by myself and @akbaritabar published. "The hegemonic use of linear models in quantitative social sciences." I will present it on Tuesday at #IC2S2 in a session on Theory and Methodology. doi.org/10.1177/0759...

🌈 New Publication !!! I'm excited to share our latest article, “A Marriage Premium for Whom? Sexual Identity, Relationship Status and Earnings”, co-authored with Diederik Boertien: 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/jomf... You can find some of the main results in the thread.

🏅BSC researcher @afcastr0t.bsky.social, winner of the ‘Best lightning talk, oral presentation, and poster’ prize in the #ICSSI2025 📊 Castro presented ‘A global and Cross-Disciplinary Description of the use of #AI in scientific research - 1995 to 2023’ 🙌 Congratulations, Andrés!

“Estimating Kinship Size of Older Adults”: @maikevd.bsky.social, @demography.bsky.social & @afcastr0t.bsky.social use survey data & demog models to calculate sizes of kinship types--"downward, lateral, upward & total." @cedemografia.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

👓Recommended Reading📚Estimating Kinship Size of Older Adults in Europe With Models and Surveys In a paper recently published in @readdemography.bsky.social, @demography.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social and his colleagues, @maikevd.bsky.social and @afcastr0t.bsky.social (CED), compared ... 🧵1/5

La Red Latinoamericana de Estudios de Familia de ALAP invitan al Seminario virtual Encuestas longitudinales para el estudio de trayectorias familiares, conyugales y reproductivas en América Latina 📉📊 ✏️ forms.gle/C7ujv8eiDXRD... 📆 Jueves, 15 de mayo 🕑 1pm(ARG/URY), 12pm(CHL), 10am(MEX) #Demography

📢 #BSCSeminar: Computational research in the Humanities: current state and future potential 🗣 Hector Orengo Romeu, BSC ICREA 📅 30 April ➡ www.bsc.es/ZFs @sommalliance.bsky.social

Come join us in Barcelona for our course in Autumn! If you can't make it in person you can participate online. I recommend it to all that are interested in studying LGBTQ population with a demographic perspective.

Taula rodona STS in Action, amb la participació de Blanca Callén @uab.cat ,Israel Rodríguez @uocuniversitat.bsky.social Ismael Ràfols (Ingenio CSIC-UPV & Univ Leiden) i Vincenzo Pavone (IPP-CSIC) moderada per la vicepresidenta dels STS-CAT Núria Vallès @iiiacsic.bsky.social cloenda M. Domènech (UAB)

A Message from 2025 @popassocamerica.bsky.social President Irma Elo on how PAA is responding to the uncertainty in our government www.youtube.com/watch?v=vclk...

Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

WATCH our 5 December online event celebrating the joint winners of our Journal Article of the Year 2023. Cosmin Popan and Andrés Felipe Castro Torres were joined by Sweta Rajan-Rankin, Marie-Andrée Jacob and Rosie Read of the jury to discuss their research.

“You may bring me down, Mr. President, but the Americas and humanity will answer you.”

"the threadbare rule of plutocrats that pretended to be poverty-fighters."

We are hiring!! (2 positions) TT Assistant Professor position in #Demography and Population Health. DEADLINE 02/02/25 Please share www.upf.edu/web/politiqu... #sociology

🔴El BSC contará con dos nuevos investigadores Ramón y Cajal #RyC 🌟Son @gonzaparra.bsky.social y @afcastr0t.bsky.social Las ayudas Ramon y Cajal reconocen trayectorias científicas destacadas y promueven la estabilización de personal científico excelente 💫Enhorabuena!

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Gaps is naming practices between articles about the global North and South have persisted since 1960 with some increasing trends in more recent years. I am very happy to share this replication of a PNAS article powered by the OpenAlex collection. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

I am very honored and happy to receive this award. Thanks to @sociologicalreview.bsky.social and my great colleague Edith Gutierrez.

Congratulations to the joint winners of the Journal Article of the Year 2023: Cosmin Popan, David Perez & Jamie Woodcock; & Andrés Felipe Castro Torres and Edith Yolanda Gutierrez-Vazquez. Read about the winners & 5 Highly Commended papers & register to attend a 5 Dec online event buff.ly/3ATZuit

¡Nuevo artículo! 📖 En Ecuador, la relación entre educación y disolución voluntaria está mediada por el acceso a recursos que posibilitan a las mujeres finalizar uniones conyugales no satisfactorias. www.cepal.org/es/publicaci... #Demography #Ecuador

It is wonderful to see this paper published in Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications "A global perspective on social stratification in science" It was a great joy to collaborate with @afcastr0t.bsky.social and Vincent Larivière Open access www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🆕 3-year Postdoc in Quantitative Sociology & Population!! - Topics: Social Stratification, Adolescent Wellbeing, Digitalisation, Life Course. - Place: Centre for Demographic Studies & Department of Sociology at UAB, Barcelona. -Deadline: June 17th. Share & apply!! 😃👇 Link: ced.cat/recursos/DIG...

#PhDposition to work on "Social inequalities in health" at Helsinki University #Finland through Max Planck – University of Helsinki Center joint project 건강의 사회적 불평등을 핀란드의 광범위한 등록자료를 이용해 연구할 수 있는 박사 연구 기회 #유학 jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Out in Quantitative Science Studies, led by @afcastr0t.bsky.social we ask "How often do scholars rely on linear models, i.e., on ceteris paribus analytical frameworks?" Open Access here: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... The answer is:

A shameless self-promotion: Flaminio Squazzoni and I study gendered authorship in top Sociology journals to show the field might do a great job studying inequalities in different contexts, but a self-reflection on inequalities among sociologists might be long overdue. doi.org/10.1177/0162...

A social class analysis of fertility gaps (fg) and delayed transitions to adulthood (dta) in Spain reveals that (1) Not all classes experience fg or dta and (2) dta associate with both, privilege and disadvantages. For now in CAT, ENG subtitles next month.

I will teach two courses this Spring: - Workflows for Open Science and Reprod. (w/ @Acosta_Kike_ ) - Geometric Data Analysis Limited in-person and online places, and 400€ scholarships for traveling and accomm. @CEDemografia Info and registration ced.cat/en/bcn4seaso...

Forthcoming presentation on inequality and demographic variation and change. Register below to receive the link. See you on Dec. 20th. videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/meeting/regi...