Invitation! Interested in in beauty, bodies, decoloniality and inequality? Please join us for an online seminar series on "decolonizing bodies". With our very special guest Walter Mignolo; and @tommytse.bsky.social, Patricio Simonetto, Ashley Mears, Ladan Rahbari & @carorabasarucki.bsky.social >>

Important myth-debunking by evolutionary psychologists Linda Lidborg and @drboothroyd.bsky.social. The authors also contributed an outstanding chapter to the forthcoming Handbook on Beauty and Inequality edited by @outisarpila.bsky.social and me.

Join INVEST as a Visiting Fellow! Our fellowship call is open 3.11.-28.11. Fellowships are designed for postdoctoral researchers and beyond who wish to spend time at the flagship, exchange ideas, and build new research collaborations. Read more and apply invest.utu.fi/fellowships/

Come work on my new research project! We are studying whether and how #parentalLeave is shared in different types of families, how the use of parental leave has changed in different families since the 2000s, and how parents’ social environments influence their leave uptake. #research #hiring

@bramlancee.bsky.social and I are organising the 3rd AMCIS Workshop on "Survey Experiments in the Social Sciences", 1-2 October 2025 in Amsterdam. We are looking for Papers and/or Research Designs. Please email your submission to me and Bram, submission deadline is 27/08/2025. @aissr.bsky.social

The windmill gave us feudalism, the steam mill gave us industrial capitalism, but what does the content mill bring us? Riffing on Marx, Kobe De Keere discuss this question with Rachel O'Dwyer and Ashley Mears in this new episode of the Culture and inequality Podcast: pod.link/1533967764/e... >>

Suomen Akatemia tuomitsee jyrkästi tutkijaan kohdistuvan häirinnän ja vihapuheen. ”In Finland, academic freedom is a core value. Researchers must be able to explore, question and share knowledge openly.” ”Let’s protect the freedom to do science, and the people who make it possible.”

Kirjoitimme Anna Grahnin kanssa Tilastokeskuksen tänään julkaisemaan ”Ajan jäljet” -teokseen ulkonäkötyöstä. Ulkonäkötyö on merkittävä osa sukupuolittunutta palkatonta työtä. Syystä tai toisesta se kuitenkin tavallisesti jätetään vastaavissa määrällisissä tarkasteluissa huomioimatta.

Are you a professor or assistant professor level researcher in the US or elsewhere outside of Finland? Looking for new opportunities in an inspiring and well-connected research environment? Finland might be just the place for you. Reach out to Finnish universities to explore what’s possible.

Ajatuksiani tieteen autonomian uhista ja puolustamisen tärkeydestä (valitettavasti maksumuurin takana) www.hs.fi/feature/art-...

Itse ajattelen, että eri silottajavoiteiden hämmästelevän kehumisen sijaan voisi olla paikallaan kyseenalaistaa, miksi meidän kulttuuri on sellainen, että ikääntymisen merkkejä pitää peitellä. (Eri asia, jos on jokin lääketieteellinen syy käyttää vastaavia tuotteita) www.hs.fi/elama/art-20...

Olemme Turun yliopiston sosiologian oppiaineessa tuottaneet viisijaksoisen podcast-sarjan ”Sosiologian ääni”. Sarjassa tutustutaan yksikössä tehtävään tutkimukseen yleistajuisella otteella. Minun & Minttu Rantasen jakso kuunneltavissa täältä👇 open.spotify.com/episode/23MX...

🔍 Interested in #inequality, #interventions, or the future of the #WelfareState? The Spring 2025 call our #Fellowship Programme is open! Check out our five research themes — is there a good match with your own work. ✈️ Travel covered, grant provided, housing arranged 👉 invest.utu.fi/fellowships/

My US-based colleagues, FYI: Finnish Research Council is about to announce a special call to fund researchers abroad to relocate to Finland. By all means this is not intended to lure you into moving to Finland, it just happens to be planned right now by pure chance.

"What happens to the self when surgery is embraced for the purpose of political conformity, consciously or otherwise?" Insightful article on the "brutal" beauty standards of the MAGA right>> www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I made a comic about beauty as a capital in my first year of studying social sciences. It's 11 pages (+sources) this this will be a thread. Nowadays my view on my looks isn't as negative but I'm still insecure about it. 🧵1/3

Vielä tämä viikko aikaa hakea 2-vuotista tutkijatohtorin paikkaa populaarifeminismiä käsittelevässä tutkimushankkeessa Tampereen yliopistossa: blogit.utu.fi/femtie/uutis...

Hei mitä iältään noin 7-9-vuotiaiden olisi hyvä tietää (suomalaisesta) yhteiskunnasta tai mikä heitä oman kokemuksesi mukaan yhteiskunnallisissa teemoissa kiinnostaa? Itseni ja @ericaaberg.bsky.social puolesta kyselen.

Haku auki vielä ma 30.9. asti: Vakituinen yliopisto-opettajan pesti Turussa! Tehtävään kuuluu myös kanditason määrällisten menetelmien opetus. ats.talentadore.com/apply/sosiaa...

This is an interesting result at a time when obtaining ethical approval for field experiments is not a straightforward matter (at least in Finnish universities). Causing an incentive to move towards the implementation of factorial survey experiments.

Maybe not entirely common sense in the field (yet), but it should be: Men tend to benefit more from good looks than women. Don't believe me? Read this: doi.org/10.1080/1461...

How do attractiveness and expectations of appearance in different occupations relate to each other? We examine this connection with Aki Koivula and Iida Kukkonen in this paper journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I’m very excited to announce the CFP for a new special issue on ’Families and Wealth’ for the British Journal of Sociology that we are co-editing with Katie Higgins and Céline Bessière. Please check the call: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Spring is coming (eventually), and so is our CALL FOR PAPERS 2024! Submit your social sciences manuscript with (some) relevance to Finland until 5 April. Accepted articles are published online and open-access after double-blind peer review. For details see: fjsr.journal.fi/announcement...

Main thoughts after two-day online workshop: 1) this is awesome 2) how did we ever manage to do this daily back then, when the only tangible sign of the passage of time was the changing sizes of our children's clothes.

We are looking for a Senior Researcher interested in interested in e.g., #causalinference, #bayes #stats, #lifecourse studies, #sociology, #econ, #rstats, #longitudinal register data etc: ats.talentadore.com/apply/erikoi... #metasci #econsky #AcademicSky #PhDSky #tutkimus

New paper out -- studying geographical and socioeconomic constraints on gendered educational transitions at the upper secondary level (with Outi Sirniö and Juhani Saari): doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

Hello Bluesky! I you're in for something hopeful and constructive you might like the new episode of our Culture and Inequality Podcast, in which I talk with Harvard sociologist Michele Lamont about her new book Seeing Others. pod.link/1533967764

My paper w/ @hbahamonde.bsky.social in Political Psychology is out. Finns tend to vote for upper-class-looking candidates. Female candidates with a working-class appearance face electoral penalties. No such association is observed among men. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....