In 2010/11, I was invited to do a PhD in Cultural Sociology about Eurovision after I gave a passionate speech over a workshop dinner about why it is a sociological tool for understanding perceived & real identities. I declined. And ever since, a week a year, I regret my life choices.

GenZ Eurovision influencer wannabe on TikTok: I've been watching Eurovision since 2014!!! Me, watching since 1991 before televoting, semi-finals, and, well..... since before the internet:

I respectfully decline another pandemic.

Family demographers, need recommendations for #PAA2026 sessions? 1/3 📅 Thursday, May 7 | 9:30–10:45 AM Experimental Methods in Studying Union Formation and Dissolution (@yiangli.bsky.social & I curated four excellent papers using #experimental methods to address key questions in #family #demography)

🚨CfA🚨 We're looking for a postdoc joining us in summer in Berlin. 3-year position @hertieschool.bsky.social @hertiedatascience.bsky.social. Pursue your own research agenda in data science for public policy - ML/AI, causal inference, computational methods. Questions? Don't hesitate to reach out!

We’re hiring a CORE and Stone Centre Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Economics Education and Inequality. More details and how to apply: tinyco.re/3618199

Dear Stata fellow users (R people go away) - has anyone made a successful Stata transition to GitHub and lived to share some tips or insights about it?

Dream job alert!

Sussex is hiring an Assistant Professor in Sociology (fixed-term position). Good opportunity for early career scholars looking to build experience at a strong UK institution. Application deadline: May 17, 2026. #AcademicJobs #sociology jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/55aa1fa2-a60c-446d-97a9-7...

Seeking poster discussants: the goal is to foster engagement and deliver feedback to the research presented at #PAA2026 poster sessions. Volunteers offer constructive feedback by asking questions or offering comments/suggestions. Interested in helping? Sign up here: buff.ly/MLnFNPs

This is true in so many ways.

I am looking for a postdoc to join my team at the University of Bremen. 5-year-contract, top-up to 100% possible for most of the contract period. Apply by 04 May 2026. If you have questions about the position, send me an email! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

NASA women save stars. 🫶🏻💫

Utrecht University is hiring an Assistant Professor in Statistics and Social Data Science - great opportunity for scholars working at the intersection of advanced statistical methods and computational social science research. #AcademicJobs #ComputationalSocialScience uu.nl/en/organisation/worki...

Ryan Gosling being a "failed" PhD wearing a t-shirt that says "I had potential" while floating in space talking to a rock is a scenario written by, about, and for academics.

📣One more #tenuretrack Assistant Professor job going at TCD Sociology! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQY837/a... Closing date: April 20 @tcdsociology.bsky.social @isa-rc28.bsky.social @eaps.bsky.social

Peer review venting - a Reviewer vent. I'm seriously done with being able to identify that a paper has a famous/senior author is/are just by the level of dismissive & rude memos they allow themselves to write. The peer review process is not beneath you, people.

📢Join this pre- #EPC2026 workshop on 3 June 2026 in Bologna for researchers interested in comparative research using #population register #data! Register by 20 Apr 2026➡️ t.ly/9Uuhx @nadiasteiber.bsky.social @metzgers.bsky.social @lilivargha.bsky.social @baranowska-rataj.bsky.social @eaps.bsky.social

As part of the Infra4NextGen project, funded by @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu 🇪🇺, harmonised datasets are now available. These include #data from social surveys that has been harmonised to make them as comparable as possible, even if the question text and response scales differed.

PSA to the senior/tenured folks in academia sitting at the back. If an early-career scholar presents an idea in a conference that you like: You SHOULD reach out, offer collaboration or support. You should NOT use your resources & reputation to do it & publish it faster as your own.

Come be my colleague! Postdoc position at the University of Amsterdam: Open-source AI for Social Sciences & Humanities. Work on open LLM infrastructure, reproducible research tools, and ethical AI for SSH. 🗓 Tight deadline: Apply by April 3 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

A French admin official complimented my French today and given the state of the world, I feel zero shame in indulging in this compliment for the rest of the week. Maybe even month.

The first set of postdocs for our ERC project on popular government have just been advertised. These 3 postdocs will be based at UC Louvain with my co-PI Pierre-Etienne Vandamme and focus on contemporary democratic theory. Apply! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...

Finally got around to watching Bridgerton, and my main takeaways are that this show is way overrated, but also that every academic discipline needs a Lady Whistledown account to keep some famous & senior scholars in check.

💸🚨I am hiring 2 Postdocs for my ERC-funded project SOCDEBT on #debt dynamics across countries. One position: #SocialStratification + strong quantitative skills. The other: qualitative research and #EconomicSociology. waitkus.github.io/SOCDEBT/ 🚨💸

🔥 POSTDOC POSITIONS ON CHILDREN'S POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION 🔥 Wanna understand young people's beliefs about political leadership, politics, and power? Then this is your chance! I'm looking for two 2-year postdocs to join my ERC-funded research project @au.dk international.au.dk/about/profil...

📢 Hiring: Postdoc in Criminology / Sociology at UPF Join @demosocupf.bsky.social as a Postdoc: 📊 Focus: Evaluating penal interventions in Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). 📍 Location: Barcelona, Spain. 🗓️ Deadline: March 15th, 2026. www.upf.edu/web/politiqu...

Funders & govs impose compliance rules. Academic institutions impose organizational culture. One is mandatory. The other is a choice.

Great 2-3 year postdoc opportunity in the Social Policy unit here at @sofi.su.se, Stockholm University SOFI is an incredible research and work environment, could not recommend it more Deadline for applications (including your own research plan): 13th April 2026

VACANCY: 2 x Lecturer in Sociology with a focus on... 1. 'race' & anti-racism 2. political sociology of class and economy or cultural interpretations of class) £42-58k, apply by 3 March. www.linkedin.com/posts/the-un...

I'll be teaching again for Barcelona Summer School of Demography, "Demography with R" 6-10 July: ced.cat/en/bcn4seaso... You can do this program in person or online. Sign up, it's fun to do demography! @cedemografia.bsky.social

Another way to use Kitagawa decomposition in demography:-) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📣 Join our ERC LEARN Research Team at CRIS, Sciences Po, Paris, to investigate how major disruptive events affect children's educational development. Apply by 12 April: ⭐️Doctoral Researcher / PhD candidate www.google.com/url?q=https:... ⭐️Postdoctoral Researcher www.google.com/url?q=https:...

⏳ Only 6 days left until registration #GESISsummerschool opens on 2 March! Check out the course overview on our website www.gesis.org/summerschool, pick your favorites, and start planning your summer. 🌞 @gesis.org

For students and professionals, the Population Studies Group at @lshtm.bsky.social offers a self-study course: "Introduction to Demographic Methods and Population Analysis". See if any of the 28 interactive lectures are for you! No prior training required. www.population-europe.eu/resources/te...

Colleagues in sociology: Wilfrid Laurier University is seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Sociology of Work and Professions with theory teaching ability. Application deadline March 19. Worth considering if you're in this area! #AcademicJobs #sociology careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo...

Postdoc opportunity in Sociology at the Max-Weber-Institute, University of Heidelberg. Great chance for early-career researchers looking to advance their work in a well-established European sociology program. #AcademicJobs #sociology adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FDB$.startu...

#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy Pursue your scientific career at GESIS! youtu.be/zMY2zqYFIMg Apply now for a job as a Research Associate (#PostDoc) for the #FReDA Children and Youth Survey, specializing in Data Preparation! (Salary group 13 TV-L, 100 %) gesis.jobs.personio....

#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy Pursue your scientific career at GESIS! youtu.be/zMY2zqYFIMg We offer a job as a Research Associates for the #FReDA Children and Youth Survey (#PostDoc), specializing in Questionnaire Development. (Salary group 13 TV-L, 100 %) gesis.jobs.personio....

📢Job Offer‼️New Max Planck Research Group on Medical Demography Marcus Ebeling will lead the team starting on 1 July 2026. The research group will be based at the MPIDR in Rostock. Read an interview with Marcus on his future research here: www.demogr.mpg.de/go/rgmd (including link to job) #postdoc

☀️Happy to be back with a new article in @jmfncfr.bsky.social! W/ Saverio Minardi we explore how parental loss during childhood was linked to family formation in adulthood. This was my last contribution to the ERC funded project GENPOP. Check it out Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/jomf...

📢 Call for survey questions! 💡 GGP is inviting proposals for innovative, inspiring, and ready-to-field survey questions or modules to include in the GGS-II Wave 3 questionnaire 🗓️ Submission deadline: March 22, 2026 More details are available here: www.ggp-i.org/engage/get-i...

Thinking of a career in think tanks? We're hosting a webinar for undergraduates or those with similar experience interested in working in the sector. We'll have speakers from numerous organisations sharing their insight and experience. Register here 👉 buff.ly/DYHqI26

'The Diaries of a Principle Investigator' will be my bestselling novel series that merges professional development and dark academia horror-mystery. Yes. This is PlanB to my academic career. Stay tuned as I manifest.

My opinion on the Beckhams is that if you have a Spice Girl at your wedding, she gets to dance however and on whom ever she wants! Be grateful for her orbit because your Old Money just can't buy certain things. Also, if you teach Weber or Bourdieu soon, this epic public fallout is a teaching gift

This semester I'm teaching demographic methods to sociology grad students and having a whale of a time. Here are the materials if people are interested (will be updated throughout the semester): github.com/MJAlexander/...

CRIS at the Sciences Po, Paris is seeking a post-doctoral researcher to join the Research Team led by Prof. Mirna Safi working on “The Discrimination-Inequality Cycle: Bridging Unequal Treatment and Unequal Outcomes across Countries, Regions and Workplaces” Apply: www.sciencespo.fr/cris/files/J...

There's a trend of throwback photos from 2016. I encourage you to resist the urge to scroll that far. Especially if you're in your 40s. It hurts.

📢 1 week left to apply for the 3yr postdoc in the ERC project SINGLE (Barcelona). I'm looking for a postdoc w/survey experience who'd be interested in singlehood & social inequality in EU. Postdoc can pursue their own social research interest. Deadline: 12-Jan (noon, CET). Correct link👇🏻