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🚀✨The Editorial Board of ESR is growing! We’re happy to welcome PeterFallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social ( ROCKWOOL Foundation, Denmark) as a new Associate Editor!! We are thrilled to welcome Peter to the Editorial Board and look forward to working together! academic.oup.com/esr/pages/Ed...

🚀We are extremely grateful for the high quality support we receive each year from our reviewers, and have created a Best Reviewer Award to acknowledge this even more! It is with great pleasure that we congratulate 2025 winners: @saidhassan.bsky.social, @katyaoivanova.bsky.social & #Nicole_Schwitter

The deadline for submissions to the special issue honoring Richard Breen has been postponed to August 31st

📣New #OpenAccess! Do police discriminate by gender and ethnicity in pedestrian stops of young people? @a_schwarzenbach finds little evidence of gender or ethnic bias in German cities, but shows gendered ethnic discrimination in French cities! Read at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf006 image.png

First issue of 2025 is out! New research findings -most #openaccess- at academic.oup.com/esr/issue/41/1 With contributions by @frankvantubergen.bsky.social @aliciagsierra.bsky.social @martinkolk.bsky.social @nellageurts.bsky.social @jochemvannoord.eu & many more (not found in BS, sorry if they are)

What role do media-related party cues play in shaping selective news exposure? Analysing political communication on Twitter and panel data @sebstier.bsky.social @pascalsiegers1 @MattEagle09 investigate the nexus between radical right populist parties and the media! doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcae051

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All good wishes to our editors, authors, reviewers and readers for a 2025 full of peace, love and good sociological research!

Reminder: From 1st Jan. 2025, the deposit of replication packages will be condition for publication in ESR! Find out more at: academic.oup.com/esr/pages/General_Instructions

We are delighted to announce a call for papers for a forthcoming special issue on ESR @europeansocreview.bsky.social Education and Social Mobility: Celebrating Richard Breen’s Contribution to Sociology Deadline for submission: 15 of June 2025 More details on the call 👇