Are you a social scientist that wants to learn R? Then, you may find my course "R for Social Scientists" very useful! I designed this course to give social scientists all that is necessary to start using R in their everyday work. github.com/SofiaG1l/R_C...

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

📢 First thesis paper is out! In November 2022 I started my Ph.D. at the University of Utrecht. 📃 Today, my first paper is available on the website of the European Sociological Review (url.td/Q7kIJ). I love this paper and hope you will too. I guess I like to take 3 years to publish things. 👩‍🎓😅

Dear friends from other countries: please join the Brazilians as we celebrate this groundbreaking decision.

Today is a beautiful day 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

Wonderful opportunity to join a supportive work environment and collegial colleagues! Come and join us!

If you are an early career scholar, consider applying to the Early Career Work and Family Fellowship Program led by the brilliant Nicole Denier and @yanghu.co.uk. 🔗 wfrn.org/early-career...

🚨 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...

New paper in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility! I track long-term trends in educational assortative mating in 🇧🇷. After decades of decline, homogamy rose in the 2000s, due to a balance shift: more fluidity at lower edu levels vs. stronger homogamy at the top. Check it out (open access):

⭐🎓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...

The call for @wfrn.bsky.social papers is open! Join us in lovely Montreal June 17-20. The 2026 theme is Centering Care across the Life Course. Preconferences for Early Career Fellows and Predocs, plus plenty of social activities. Submit by Oct 1. All the info here: wfrn.org/2026-work-an...

My first PhD article has been published! 🔎 It examines how the relationship between flexible working time arrangements and self-reported work-to-life and life-to-work conflict is moderated by an (un)equal domestic labor distribution within heterosexual couples.

🌈 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.

🆕 Paper with @metzgers.bsky.social (lead) at Journal of Marriage and Family! We study how #Parenthood impacts #Gendered #Time.Use & #Mental.Health and how #Paid & #Unpaid #Work shape gendered mental health during parenthood transitions. Open access link 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Another piece of my PhD thesis is now published in International Migration Review! How many immigrants get transnationally separated from their children in the migration process, and how does this affect their mental health in the short- and medium- term? Check it out 👇 doi.org/10.1177/0197...

Why are So Many Latin American Women Beaten & Murdered? Why is the region such an outlier? My latest essay provides insights from my globally comparative as well as qualitative research in Mexico, Costa Rica, and Brazil www.ggd.world/p/why-are-so...

In the latest issue of @cpsjournal.bsky.social, my article with Jonne Kamphorst in which we propose that educationally homogeneous social networks contribute to the stabilization of political conflict on the cultural dimension. A short thread on the main findings: Link: doi.org/10.1177/0010...

Frequent income changes can sometimes disrupt parenting. Parents with higher but unstable incomes report more strained relationships. Parents with low and unstable incomes might shield children at the expense of own mental health. A thread @usociety.bsky.social @readdemography.bsky.social 1/

Good take on the integration of causal identification into broader goals of social science research. I also really like this recent paper that touches on similar issues: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

🚨 Come research singlehood with me! I’m hiring a 3-year Postdoc w/interest in Family Demography to start this Fall. Please share! 📍 Barcelona (@cedemografia.bsky.social) 🔎 ERC-funded project 'SINGLE' 📅 Deadline – April 24, 2025 🔗 More info: shorturl.at/400eo #Postdoc #Demography

Can mothers leverage the structural resources of their occupation like autonomy to balance motherhood and work, especially in the absence paid leave? My latest article in the Journal of Marriage and Family suggests so.

I'm Still Here just won Best International Feature Film at the Oscars. It has a powerful, unexpected message about life under authoritarianism.

This was Brazil celebrating the Oscar for Best International Feature Film for I’m Still Here 🎉 #Oscars 📍 Pelourinho, Salvador (via @neyrocha.bsky.social)

This is Brazil celebrating the Oscar for Best International Feature Film for I’m Still Here 🎉 #Oscars

“Her name is Eunice Paiva” O nome dela é Eunice Paiva🇧🇷💛💚 memoriasdaditadura.org.br/personagens/...

Say you’ve got very good causal IDENTIFICATION. Can you say you have causality, can make a causal general claim, and can say what “THE causal effect” is? NO We explain why in new article at Journal of Causal Inference. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Women’s sick leave rates increase sharply after having children – unlike men’s. A new research project led by @ylvamoberg.bsky.social explores why. #GenderEquality #Parenthood #Health #SickLeave #Research

Rdatasets is a collection of 2300 free and documented datasets in CSV format. It's a great resource for teaching and exploration! The new `get_dataset()` function from the {marginaleffects} 📦 allows you to search and load them directly in #Rstats. vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets/ar...

Are you tired of analyzing your nominal and ordinal variables like its the 1950s? Then read @sociologicalsci.bsky.social today and see if ME inequality and total ME are right for you. We develop new methods for summarizing effects for nominal/ordinal independent and dependent variables.

1/ 🚸 *Does grandparental involvement boost school grades?* Our new study (with @valeriabordone.bsky.social) explores whether grandchild care, financial support or contact impact grandchildren's school performance. Let's unpack the findings🧵👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

good news for the day: amazon deforestation down for the second year in a row

Let's talk about blue. A piece of received wisdom is that people in the past didn't know the color blue (e.g., Homer says the sea is wine-dark and did not see it as blue). While many cultures lack the word for "blue" or distinguish it from green, many others did have it and made blue e.g., Egypt

@yanghu.co.uk and I have a new article out @sociologicalsci.bsky.social!! We bridge two bodies of scholarship, one on demographic approaches to relationship quality & stability and the other on multidimensional sexuality. sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

Research coordinated by SOFI’s Marie Evertsson and the #GENPARENT team shows that gender norms and disparities, rather than financial factors, shape how parents divide work and care responsibilities. cordis.europa.eu/article/id/4... #Parenthood #Gender #Research #Sociology #ERC #StockholmUniversity

Sociologists working on inequality: Still time to apply for this 3yr+ postdoc position in beautiful Munich (no German required) EN: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5... DE: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f... Applications are 01/15, but let me know if you need another 1-2 days to put in your materials

Please join us for the next WFRN.bsky.social event "Going Back? Gender, Work, and Family in 2025." Can't wait to hear from our four amazing panelists pgonalon.bsky.social gaylekaufman.bsky.social philipncohen.com and jessicacalarco.bsky.social! Moderated by WFRN Early Career Fellow LaToya Council

New working paper with P Achard, C Frodermann, D Müller & @sanderwagner.bsky.social:using harmonized admin data for #France & #Germany, we study the stratification of maternal employment in 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇪 based on higher pre-birth income, education, and firm-level median earnings. #sociology #demography

*sighs* Percentage change should *always* be expressed on a log scale, because it’s multiplicative. A doubling and a halving should be given equal space. I did a whole thread on this at the time x.com/jburnmurdoch...

🎉ECSR Conference 2025 is coming to Cologne!🎉 📅 3-5 September 2025 📅 Abstract deadline: Jan 31st ℹ️ Details: ecsr2025.eu I'm happy to be on the organizing team. Theme: "Demography & Social Inequality" – but submissions from *all* sociology fields, methodical approaches etc. are welcome. #ECSR2025

This is really crucial for admin data usage. Too often we work in isolation and reinvent the wheel every day. Now we can build diverse scientific use files to support high quality, collaborative research. And it’s all FAIR!!

Are you using registry data to study inequalities in the labor market and in organizations? Check out the user-written Netherlands Integrated Data Infrastructure of Inequality in Organizations (NIDIO) by @cjanietz.bsky.social and me. @odissei.bsky.social @cbsstatistiek.bsky.social www.osf.io/9b2xh

The tell of the gender affirming care concern trolling is the response. If you really think too many people are transitioning without adequate consideration and review, and you really love the children, what we need is *more/better* healthcare and support, not bans and "regulation"

The flatter distribution of national leaders is b/c most elites still get educated in their own countries. The U.S. is 2nd place for nationals of every non-U.S. country, with some notable outliers — 34% of elite Brazilians went to U.S. colleges, 36% of elite Indians. 8/N

Fascinating paper on where 6000 global elites went to college. Billionaires, CEOs, heads of state, central bankers, etc. In a word: Harvard. Fully 10% of global elites went to Harvard. Elite US schools are over-represented (23% IvyPlus), but nobody comes close to Harvard. 🧵

Watch @yanghu.co.uk powerful Big Ideas Talk on the WFRN.bsky.social YouTube Channel, What Can We Learn About Care From AI? --find out what we can learn about care from AI and what we might do about it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jykO...

Sociologie in de #NRC. Onderzoek van Eva Jaspers, Deni Mazrekaj and Weverthon Machado (@weverthon.com#NRC in de #ASR naar samenleven met een man of een vrouw. Als men samenwoont met een vrouw gaan de arbeidsuren omhoog.

@nrc.nl article about the paper by Eva Jaspers, Deni Mazrekaj and me — in which we show, using Dutch register data, that people work more hours in paid employment when partnered with a woman than when partnered with a man. Paper here (open access): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...