Still a couple of days before the deadline to slot in an application👇🏼

The Women’s Forum will meet on July 1st in the afternoon and will host flash talks for junior scholars as well as a panel on women in academia. We hope to see you there!

🎄 Still looking for a gift for your favourite social scientist? How about a #preprint with 717 urban areas, 30 countries, and 16,164 models of #Immigrant #Segregation across Europe? Just published with @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social & David Kretschmer 🎅 🎁 Wrapped up here: arxiv.org/abs/2512.17037

Sad to see my Alma mater turning inward as on institution after another have been doing.

📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Criminology & Criminal Justice 📢 Please do share widely 1/3

Since the first International Workshop on Analytical Sociology in 2008, INAS is returning to Oxford. The 18th Annual INAS Conference will take place from 1 to 3 July 2026 at the University of Oxford, hosted by Nuffield College and the Department of Sociology. Submission deadline: 1 Feb 2026

@sriucl.bsky.social was my academic home for 9 years during its first decade. I am looking forward to its 10th anniversary as now an honorary member.

Don’t forget! ⏰ The first deadline for 2025–26 MSc, MPhil & DPhil applications is 9 January. It’s also the latest deadline for most Oxford scholarships - apply by then to be considered 🎓

New year, new job? Join us at the Department of Sociology & Nuffield College. The post is open to candidates from different areas of empirical specialisation and at different levels of experience. Please consider applying! closes Jan 5th. www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/associ...

📢 Analytical sociology is coming home! Call 4 INAS26 is open 🌍 1-3Jul26 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social and @sociologyoxford.bsky.social (☔) ☢️ Deadline: 1Feb26 🦹 Organisers: @aksoyundan.bsky.social , @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social, D Kretschmer, @awaldendorf.bsky.social Info: tinyurl.com/yc2tusjx

📢 Analytical sociology is coming home! Call 4 INAS26 is open 🌍 1-3Jul26 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social and @sociologyoxford.bsky.social (☔) ☢️ Deadline: 1Feb26 🦹 Organisers: @aksoyundan.bsky.social , @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social, D Kretschmer, @awaldendorf.bsky.social Info: tinyurl.com/yc2tusjx

📢🎓 Join us tomorrow for an online information session on applying to the DPhil in Sociology! We’ll walk you through: 📋 Admissions requirements 💰 Funding opportunities 🎯 Programme & key milestones 🤝 Supervision & research support Sign up now: forms.office.com/e/zhQ9TUiYWf

Very happy informing y'all that I won the 2025 Distinguished Publication Prize of the European Academy of Sociology, for my ASR paper of last year. #EAS. My paper is here, open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... . The link to EAS: www.european-academy-sociology.eu/publication-...

✨🥳 We’re delighted to announce the new Anthony Heath Scholarship, supporting UK students on the MSc in Sociology! 🧑‍🎓 Covering fees + a living stipend, it honours our first Head of Department, Professor Anthony Heath. Find out more ➡️ www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/oxfo...

📢 Join us TOMORROW for an online info session about applying to the MPhil in Sociology & Demography! 👨‍🎓 We’ll cover 📋 admissions, 💰 funding, 🎯 course milestones, and 🤝 supervision. Sign up now ➡️ forms.office.com/e/DTt26zSjwL

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...

Looking forward to the talk below on beards, religion, signals, and other things including evidence-based grooming ;) Do come along if you are around at UCL.

📢 We're looking for a full-time Research Assistant to work with Prof @aksoyundan.bsky.social on a project evaluating the DfE's Fundamental British Values initiative. 🌟 Perfect for those who've done an undergrad in sociology, politics or economics! 🔗➡️ my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Delighted to announce we are advertising our first academic post in the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). The position is Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science and is joint with Politics, the Oxford Internet Institute, and Reuben College 1/n

🚨We’re hiring! The Max Weber Institute in beautiful Heidelberg seeks a W3 Professor of Sociology (focus: sociological theory) who connects well with the department’s focus on comparative sociology adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD... Happy to answer any questions! #Sociology #socsky

👩‍🎓 Are you planning to apply for the MSc in Sociology at Oxford? Don’t miss our online info session for prospective students - sign up today! ✨ ✍️ forms.office.com/e/mmMRmqz7vF

📢 We’re also holding an online info session for those considering applying for the MPhil in Sociology & Demography! 👨‍🎓 Sign up now to learn more ✨➡️ forms.office.com/e/DTt26zSjwL

Can education shape how we see ourselves as British? Join @aksoyundan.bsky.social & @buraksonmez.bsky.social on 30 Oct, 12-1pm, as they explore how the FBV policy has shaped national identity & democratic values. tinyurl.com/3ynfw3hw #SRI #Education #belonging @sriucl.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social

For us, this journey toward explaining *surprising macro outcomes* took many years. Grateful to my amazing co-authors, @martinarvidsson.bsky.social and Peter Hedström, and to all the reviewers who supported us along the way 🚀Out now: sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

Anti-abortion politics & changes in abortion, miscarriage & stillbirth across time and social strata in Turkey doi.org/10.55016/ojs... Paper in @cphjournal.bsky.social by @selinkoksal.bsky.social @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow Francesco Billari & Fellow @aksoyundan.bsky.social

What happens when abortion access becomes restricted even without a law officially passing? With Francesco Billari and @aksoyundan.bsky.social, we investigated how incidence of abortion, miscarriage and stillbirth changed under the anti-abortion campaign in Turkey.

📢 Calling all Oxford academics doing sociological research! If you’re faculty, a researcher or DPhil student at @ox.ac.uk or Oxford Brookes, join our community for collaboration & knowledge exchange across sociology & related fields 🎓 Sign up ✍️➡️ forms.office.com/e/TViD46Kdxz

🚨 Job alert: Postdoc at NYU Abu Dhabi. You’ll uncover how group boundaries form online using virtual experiments + digital trace data and work with a fantastic trio: Mario Molina, Minsu Park & Blaine Robbins. Apply by 1 Nov 2025. 👇🏼 apply.interfolio.com/173544

Thank you @sociologyoxford.bsky.social !

🎉Big news! My ERCStG proposal SOCDEBT has been selected for funding @erc.europa.eu! 📚I’ll study how household debt is stratified across countries & over time; how people strategize, evaluate, and morally judge debt(ors). 🙏I'm truly indebted to all my friends, colleagues & mentors for your support!

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...

Bocconi University in Milan is hiring in sociology at any level (open rank). Ideal candidate might focus on inequality, social policy, computational, labor markets, or similar. Happy to answer questions about my time there for anyone considering applying. More details: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu

Ready to make plans for the academic year 2026/27? Why not visit us: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research...

⭐🎓The Department of Sociology in Vienna @univie.ac.at‬ invites applications for a Tenure Track Professor in Sociology with focus on Quantitative Social Science Research Methods | #Sociology | quant methods Apply here (17 Sept 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

Goodbye to a real one. @aksoyundan.bsky.social mentored, collaborated, and somehow made difference-in-difference estimators funny. We’ll miss all three.

It was hell of 9 years at now a world-leading place for (quant) social sciences and sociology. Forever grateful to my colleagues at @sriucl.bsky.social and we will remain in touch. 😓😓

Why do people resort to the brutal measure of killing their own daughters, sisters, or cousins when they feel their family honour is tarnished? @aksoyundan.bsky.social and @aronszekely.bsky.social offer novel insights based on game theory and data on honour killings & honour norms.

New job vacancy at TCRU! For a Lecturer (Teaching) in Social Psychology - 2.5 year post (www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...). Please share widely! @sriucl.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social @bps-social-psych.bsky.social

Have written up some of my thoughts about the increasingly sinister use of 'non-UK born' and 'white British' in the British press. The obsession with 'white British' citizens over other British citizens harms all of us and needs to be called out. benansell.substack.com/p/who-counts

Thrilled to share the following video of the master's level honours degree: the Social and Political Sciences track of the Allievi Program. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X047...

1-year opportunity for a Departmental Lecturer in Sociology at @sociologyoxford.bsky.social for the academic year 25/26. This position has a focus on life course research and quant methods. Apply by 27/6. tinyurl.com/2tydswwj

🧵1/8 In our new #OA article, we studied the drivers of ethnic school segregation. Research on segregation often points to parental preferences, but what if it's not just about what parents want, but also what options they actually have? 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf027

Thought this recent paper by @aksoyundan.bsky.social and Szekely was particularly good social science theorising. Takes the qualitative evidence seriously and builds on existing formal theory. Plus, a case of clear writing about game theory without formalism. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

A 2-year lectureship for someone with qualitative methodological expertise and experience of studying of political and civil conflict. 👇

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Inviting everyone to this term's Nuffield #Sociology Seminar starting next week. Looking forward to a series of great speakers! @jwied.bsky.social @cdiehl.bsky.social Eva Jaspers @marioluissmall.bsky.social Christina Eller @mivich.bsky.social and Malte Döhne. @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social

📢 My paper w Aron Szekely on honour-based violence is published online (Open Access): journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... We explain this puzzling phenomenon applying game-theory and testing it using large-scale data on norms and actual femicides. @sriucl.bsky.social @uclsociology.bsky.social

📢 Call for Abstracts für das Jahrestreffen des Netzwerks für empirisch-analytische Sozialforschung zu Muslim:innen (NAFS) am 15. & 16. September in Frankfurt @goetheuni.bsky.social. Call hier: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170436179/Cf...? Danke fürs Weiterverbreiten! 👍

Geography shapes social processes – voting, migration & protests are often spatially dependent in ways standard regression models can’t capture. Learn with @ruettenauer.bsky.social to detect, visualize & model spatial ties via advanced spatial regression techniques! ➡️ tinyurl.com/07-25-geodat...