A Dutch study explores a key barrier to social integration: strong in-group preferences. One hopeful exception: young people don’t have strong preferences for people of their own ethnicity when it comes to sports activities. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

New Open Access paper published in PNAS Nexus! “Ingroup preferences, segregation, and intergroup contact in neighborhoods and civic organizations” with my co-authors Rob Franken, @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social, and Jochem Tolsma. doi.org/10.1093/pnas... Thread below.

Honored that my thesis was selected for the second place of this year's ECSR best thesis award. I feel very grateful for everyone who supported me during this journey! 😊

Excited and grateful to launch my ERC project #SOCIO-CLIMP 🌍🌤️ The project explores how #ClimateChange and #EnvironmentalHazards unequally affect different socio-demographic groups 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 across Europe — combining spatial climate data with demographic detail to uncover patterns of #ClimateInjustice.

@kasimirdederichs.bsky.social just presented our paper on #ResidentialSegregation 🏘️ across Europe at #ECSR in Cologne. Very impressed by a packed Residential Segregation session at the end of the conference🧐 - cool #ECSR crowed😎

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

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

Ab in den Druck!🎉 Mein Buch „Wo wir wie wählen: Politische Muster in Deutschlands Nachbarschaften“ ab 18.06. bei Campus Eine politische Landkarte🇩🇪 basierend auf Wahldaten, Sozialstruktur & Eindrücken vor Ort Jetzt vorbestellen—in eurer Lieblingsbuchhandlung oder hier www.campus.de/buecher-camp...

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🎉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

Do sports clubs, music associations, and community groups help bridge ethnic divides? New #OpenAccess paper with @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social: “Brittle Bridges: ethnic segregation across and within civic organizations”. academic.oup.com/esr/advance-... A thread about the main insights:

🆕 2 JOBS at the ERC-funded DIGINEQ project! * Join my team at CED/UAB in Barcelona! * 1 PhD & 1 Postdoc * Topics: Adolescent Wellbeing; Social Inequalities; Digital Media; Computational Social Sciences * Deadline: December 3, 2024 Link: pablogracia-sociology.com/jobs It follows [1/4]

Ever thought about how gender segregation unfolds in voluntary associations? - Here's a short blog post about our recent article in Gender & Society: gendersociety.wordpress.com/2023/10/25/g...