📢 Webinar taking place tomorrow! Science in Action: Turning Demographic Data into Policy Insight at the Joint Research Centre Alba Bernini, Scientific Project Officer, Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission 26.02.26 9-10am (GMT) Via Zoom Register www.slls.org.uk/events/slls-...

🎉 Super happy to share that I'm starting as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Public Health (ESP) of the @ulbruxelles.bsky.social! I'll be joining Prof. Bram Vanhoutte's team (@bvhoutte.bsky.social) to delve into #LifeCourseResearch on #Ageing and #HealthInequalities.

Great opportunity for anyone working with longitudinal data and life course perspectives. Very much looking forward to #SLLS2026 in Brussels (hosted at the Free University of Brussels, ULB). Please consider submitting and sharing widely! More information: www.slls.org.uk/events/slls-...

📢 New publication alert! Ashira Menashe-Oren, @damianouccheddu.bsky.social & Ester Rizzi published their work on social ties in old age and the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. They compared 13 European countries using SHARE data. Read more: doi.org/10.1007/s104...

Who are some science communicators who discuss the social determinants of health? I want to follow more of them, and feel free to nominate yourself! #science #health

Happy to share the CPF Open Harmonization 2.0 - including LISS panel Netherlands!

👋 We are happy to welcome Tabitha Scott and Damiano Uccheddu as research fellows at Assoc. Prof. Valeria Bordone's team @ageingsocvienna.bsky.social ! Read more about them ➡️ www.soz.univie.ac.at/en/detail-ne... @valeriabordone.bsky.social @damianouccheddu.bsky.social #sociology @univie.ac.at

The dream team <3 1.5 yrs after our first @UHH 🇩🇪 edition, another great networking workshop on @cognitiveaging—this time for junior researchers, hosted by @damianouccheddu.bsky.social @uclouvain.bsky.social! Next stop: Konstanz, hosted by @arianebertogg. Stay tuned!

Following an exchange with @marcoalbertini.bsky.social on the @isa-rc28.bsky.social letter to the @isa-sociology.org exec committee, I’m reposting my position on requests to review for the Israel Science Foundation.

Just wrapped up our 2nd #CognitiveAging workshop at @demographielln.bsky.social (@uclouvain.bsky.social)! Inspiring discussions on #CognitiveHealth & #Inequalities🧠 Grateful to co-organizers [email protected] & Dr. Ariane Bertogg, to Prof. Megan Zuelsdorff (keynote) & all participants!

““salad bar extremism” is a mix-and-match worldview where misogyny is blended with white nationalism, anti-government sentiment and conspiratorial thinking to justify violence” theconversation.com/i-analyzed-m...

@isa-sociology.org executive committee decision on the Israeli Sociological Society --> www.isa-sociology.org/en/about-isa... #StopGenocide

Why is Scandinavia the Most Gender Equal Place in the World? My two part series weaves economic history, sociology, and my own qualitative research 1) www.ggd.world/p/why-is-sca... 2) www.ggd.world/p/why-is-sca...

Lettera aperta al Presidente dell’Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT @mm-istat-news-bot.bsky.social) – Italian Association for Population Studies (@aisp-sis.bsky.social) be FAIR, ISTAT! #beFAIR_ISTAT #openScience 🇮🇹 aisp-sis.com/lettera-aper...

New paper with @fabriberna.bsky.social - part of my PhD thesis! Why are the negative educational consequences of parental separation stronger among high-SES children? → When high-SES parents separate, they lose their ability to compensate for their child’s low genetic propensity for education 🧬👪

Schneider Shorts 6.06.2025 – Researchers with High Citation and Publication Counts forbetterscience.com/2025/06/06/s...

Saluti da Cagliari in Sardegna! This looks like a very happy group of social scientists! @mpidr.bsky.social is having a blast at #PopDays2025 in Cagliari at the University of Cagliari. @aisp-sis.bsky.social Also, anyone left back in Rostock is not jealous at all ... maybe only a tiny bit ... 😊

Excited to present at #PopDays2025 soon! Being in my hometown - the city of sun - makes it particularly special!

Everything is ready for the 2025 edition of Population Days - the conference of the Italian Association for Population Studies. We are looking forward to seeing you all in Cagliari! 👉 Use #PopDays2025 to post about the conference!

Troppu togu... #PopDays2025 a Casteddu!

Friends, I have news. It is very good news. You'll just have to read it, I'm afraid. jamesclaims.substack.com/p/introducin...

Amen - coefficients from different (often non-linear) models don't mean the same thing, but they get compared all the time. The "effect" of interest is a marginal effect for an explicit target population, not a parameter. Software guided workflow could help, plug into tools like marginaleffects.com

Great news not only for the excellent scholars in Konstanz but also for inequality research in general, big congratulations!

New paper with @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social just out in Demography! 🔗 read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a... Here’s a short thread on what we found—and why it might be worth a look.

#dementia #disclosure #SocialNetworks #sociology #demography academic.oup.com/gerontologis...

🚨 New WP! 📄 "Publish or Procreate: The Effect of Motherhood on Research Performance" (w/ @valentinatartari.bsky.social 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 We investigate how parenthood affects scientific productivity and impact — and find that the impact is far from equal for mothers and fathers.

Writing some paragraphs about odds ratio and, more generally, different scales in nonlinear models. Any favorite articles on odds ratio?>

Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

New study from my PhD thesis—supervised by @pablogracia.bsky.social—out in Journal of Marriage and Family! 📝 It examines how changes in paid work and housework following birth shape first-time mothers’ and fathers’ mental health trajectories. Read here (Open access): doi.org/10.1111/jomf.13121

Wrapping up an inspiring month at IRSEI (@uni.lu). I'm deeply grateful for the stimulating discussions and the progress made on our research on #socialinequalities, #intergenerationalRelationships, and #cognitiveAgeing. ...such a stimulating and #interdisciplinary environment to work!

🗞️ Hot off the (last month’s) press: Happy to finally share that the paper with @nicolekapelle.bsky.social on family life course predictors of wealth has been published in @demresjournal.bsky.social ! See the whole article (open access 🫶) here: www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol... Little 🧵

Is it normal for a paper to remain under review for 7 months? 🤨 This is my first time experiencing this, and I do not feel at ease. #academicSky

Amazed how some scholars still think and argue that a multilevel (or random effects) model 'control for' higher-level characteristics. I often wonder whether multilevel models did more harm than good 👀 #sociology

On my way to Luxembourg for a month of research, ideas, and collaboration with Prof. @anjaleist.bsky.social (Institute for Research on Socio-Economic Inequality – IRSEI @uni.lu) on how #socialinequalities shape #cognitiveHealth in later life. Can’t wait to get started! #AcademicSky

Anomalies & data problems are found in the Hungarian EU SILC income data from around year 2017. It is very likely that the data was manipulated to decrease the poverty rate. Annamaria Tatrai and Andras Gabos conducted a very thorough investigation of the issue: www.valaszonline.hu/2025/04/01/e...

Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics https://go.nature.com/4jGqiUc

Slashing English-taught bachelor programs is a short-sighted attack on scientific progress and academia. Check this out.

Deadline approaching! Join me in #Barcelona to study the #demography of #singlehood and develop your own independent research. Deadline: April 24 (15h00 CEST). #postdoc

Four large Dutch universities, including Leiden University where I work, have decided to throw international psychology bachelor programs under the bus in an effort to appease the rightwing government. Here's my blog why this is a terrible idea. eiko-fried.com/cutting-inte...

8 PhD scholarships in Sociology and Social Research - University of Trento - deadline 15th May www.unitn.it/en/phd/socio...

Here's an update on sociology (and some demography) journal editorial polices with regard to sharing preprints before submission and after acceptance. A big improvement from the last edition of this table. With one exception.

If you are finishing up a PhD and are interested in the prospect of moving to Europe, a good route is via the MCSA call: marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p... ....not mentioning any nationalities specifically. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

🌸@spattersearch.bsky.social will report her findings regarding The Enduring Gender Gap in Care Expectations for Daughters and Sons at #PAA2025. Saturday, 4/12, 11:00AM-12:15PM, L'Enfant Plaza. Read more about this timely research: myumi.ch/pV7mj

Hello DC! #paa2025

Interesting paper by my @gesis.org colleagues on how to construct design weights for panel surveys with multiple refreshment samples mda.gesis.org/index.php/md...

If you're around #PAA2025 @popassocamerica.bsky.social next week, swing by this exciting session where my beyond outstanding co-author @zhenghaowen.bsky.social will present all new and exciting evidence on the college as equalizer debate. #sociology

📢 Spread the word! The call for papers for #BSPS2025 is now open. I’m co-organising the Fertility and Sexual & Reproductive Health strand with @joestrong.bsky.social and we can't wait to read your fascinating work. 📝 Submit your abstracts by May 9, 5 PM (BST).