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Dingeman Wiertz @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social · 6d

A reminder that there is about 1 week left to apply for these 2 positions in Quantitative Social Science @sriucl.bsky.social!

Application deadline: 10 October.

Further details in the link below.

Dingeman Wiertz @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social · Sep 2

We have 2 posts available in our Quantitative Social Science centre at @sriucl.bsky.social.

It is a wonderful place to work, with great colleagues, exciting degrees, and good promotion prospects. The posts are open to anyone working in the broad space covered by our centre.

Deadline + link 👇

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Sep 1

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you.

Apply by: 10 Oct

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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UCL Sociology Network @uclsociology.bsky.social · 16d

Are you a UCL Sociologist? Apply to join UCL Sociology Network's Coordinating Group. Contribute to the Network’s wide-ranging programme of activities and share news of important sociological developments tinyurl.com/2ut5dttz

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Sociology at Oxford @sociologyoxford.bsky.social · 19d

Welcome to @aksoyundan.bsky.social, who has joined us as Associate Professor in Sociology! 🎉

His research covers religious behaviour, cooperation and trust 🤝

Game theory, statistical and computational methods are amongst his research tools 💻🎲

www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/people/ozan-...

Ozan Aksoy

www.sociology.ox.ac.uk

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PNAS Nexus @pnasnexus.org · 20d

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...

Street soccer championship in The Hague, Netherlands, 2010.

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Dingeman Wiertz @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social · 20d

New paper, using conjoint experiments to study ingroup preferences across multiple settings (neighborhoods, civic orgs, sports clubs) and social dimensions (age, ethnicity, education). We also link people's choices in the experiments to the real-world contexts they are embedded in.

More info 👇

Kasimir Dederichs @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social · 23d

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.

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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 27d

🚨 New pre-print with @sergioloiacono.bsky.social

We ran 3 large-scale experiments in 🇬🇧to investigate how perceived asylum-seeking legality, public preferences for refugee relocation, and inclusionary attitudes are shaped by symbolic and strategic boundaries

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · Sep 4

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.

European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Sep 4

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!

Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!

➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh

#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · Sep 1

Do people have less #Kids because of the #ClimateCrisis? 🌍👶

In our preprint, @katyaoivanova.bsky.social and I find that environmentalists are less likely to have kids in their 20s and 30s... But by their early 40s, the gap closes.

Maybe it's rather about #Postponement? 🕰️

🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · Sep 3

Thrilled to have started a new chapter in my career at @sriucl.bsky.social & Quantitative Social Science (QSS) centre @ucl.ac.uk this week.

Absolutely love my supportive colleagues & the inspiring environment ❤️

We're hiring 2 new lecturers in QSS – come and join us ➡ www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · Aug 22

Brittle bridges: ethnic segregation across and within civic organizations
doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
Paper in @europeansocreview.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social and Associate Member @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social

Brittle bridges: ethnic segregation across and within civic organizations

Abstract. Civic organizations are often depicted as vehicles for social integration: Since they gather people around common interests and have relatively l

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Dingeman Wiertz @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social · Sep 2

We have 2 posts available in our Quantitative Social Science centre at @sriucl.bsky.social.

It is a wonderful place to work, with great colleagues, exciting degrees, and good promotion prospects. The posts are open to anyone working in the broad space covered by our centre.

Deadline + link 👇

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Sep 1

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you.

Apply by: 10 Oct

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Dingeman Wiertz @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social · Sep 1

Fortunately, what we do have is a very reasonable promotion framework, so there are good mobility prospects across levels.

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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · Aug 6

Who remains single? Educational gradients in long-term singlehood across ethnic groups
doi.org/10.1111/jomf...
Paper in @jmfncfr.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social postdoc @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social Associate Member Evelina Akimova and Fellow Nan Dirk de Graaf

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Jul 25

Shout out to my @sriucl.bsky.social colleague @ruettenauer.bsky.social who's doing an amazing job at bringing methods to the people

His recent output includes two handbook chapters (spatial + panel data), a DiD paper, and a treasure trove of teaching materials online: ruettenauer.github.io

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Dingeman Wiertz @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social · Jul 18

Real academic talent doesn’t express itself in grants or publications but UCL admin rights. Btw, any chance I can have yours now? 🙏

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UCL Sociology Network @uclsociology.bsky.social · Jun 25

Is there a religious revival in England?

@sriucl.bsky.social's David Voas raises questions about a recent report claiming that Gen Z is leading a rise in church attendance after decades of religious decline. It appears the devil is in the data.

Read more here: tinyurl.com/2zptnnw3

Is there really a religious revival in England? Why I’m sceptical of a new report

In Anglican and Catholic churches, average weekly attendance is down about 20% from pre-pandemic levels.

theconversation.com

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Selcan Mutgan @selcanmutgan.bsky.social · Jun 9

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In our new #OA article, we studied the drivers of ethnic school segregation.
Research on segregation often points to parental preferences, but what if it's not just about what parents want, but also what options they actually have?

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf027

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Dingeman Wiertz @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social · Jun 14

Thank you Per! 🥸

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Hurray!

UCL Sociology Network @uclsociology.bsky.social · Jun 13

USN member @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social received the 2025 Outstanding Article Award of the Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity section of @asanews.bsky.social for “Civic Lessons That Last?” (with Chaeyoon Lim). Well done! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · Apr 24

Very exited to share the amazing 🚀line-up for our QSS and CLS Seminar series @sriucl.bsky.social🎓

Weekly talks on #SocialScience topics like #Inequality, #Protests, #Migration, #EducationalMobility, #Ethnicity, and #Eugenics 📊

Wednesdays, 1–2pm (hybrid). Register: forms.microsoft.com/e/fHEP73Jdmz

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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · Apr 12

📢 My paper w Aron Szekely on honour-based violence is published online (Open Access): journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

We explain this puzzling phenomenon applying game-theory and testing it using large-scale data on norms and actual femicides.

@sriucl.bsky.social @uclsociology.bsky.social

Details of the publication with abstract which reads: Honor killings, which occur when women are perceived to have broken purity norms and bring “dishonor” to their family, pose profound moral and societal problems and underrecognized sociological puzzles. Given the immense cost, why do families murder their own daughter,
niece, or cousin? Conversely, given the tragic consequences, why are norms broken in the first place? Drawing on accounts of honor killings, we characterize the key actors, actions, and incentives, and develop two interlinked theoretical models, one on norm-enforcement
and another on norm-breaking. The former specifies the conditions under which honor norms should hold, the latter, counterintuitively, predicts that honor killings occur most frequently when honor norms are contested; not when they are strictest. Analyzing data from 24 countries and ~26,000 individuals and building a unique dataset of honor killings from Turkey, we find support for the hypotheses. Honor norms are stronger when laws offer leniency for honor killings, families’ loss of reputation is more consequential, and community cohesion is higher. Actual killings have an inverse-U-shaped link with the prevalence of honor norms. Our work advances the theoretical understanding of honor norms and killings and offers one of the most
comprehensive empirical analyses of the factors influencing honor killings.

Figure 1 from the paper. Within-Family Interaction and Probabilities of Interaction Outcomes
Note: Panel A shows an interaction within a family. Panel B shows the probability of breaking a norm (p2) in the game tree in panel A; the probability of the existence of an honor norm in the repeated norm-enforcement game (p1, i.e., conditions given in Hypotheses 1, 2, and 3 obtain); and the probability of honor killing (p3), which is the product of the former two probabilities, as a function of repeated norm-enforcement game parameters.

Figure 3 from the paper. Support for Honor Killings; Coefficients from Multilevel Regressions with Random Intercepts for Countries
Data source: PEW (2013) World Muslims Survey.
Note: N (response) = 26,458. N (country) = 24. Countries that adopted laws that allow leniency for honor-based violence: Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Niger, Palestinian Territories. Countries that have adultery laws: Afghanistan, Pakistan.

Figure 5 from the paper. Results of Poisson Models Predicting the Monthly Number of Honor Killings
Note: Predictive margins for the association between support for honor norms and honor killings (top panel) and the average marginal effect of passing law 6284 according to support for honor norms (bottom panel).

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Tim Müller @timmueller.bsky.social · Apr 9

Happy to share that this article is now published (after a long time)! It’s often claimed that welfare generosity attracts immigration. But looking at flows between 160 countries, I found little support. Other factors like GDP or democracy matter more. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Evidence for the welfare magnet hypothesis? A global examination using exponential random graph models

Abstract. The welfare magnet hypothesis states that welfare generosity in destination countries is a migration pull factor. However, supporting evidence is

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Toni Rodon @tonirodon.bsky.social · Mar 25

🚨New article🔥

🗳️ What helped close the turnout gender gap after female enfranchisement?

▶️ We study a 1933 lottery that assigned newly enfranchised women as poll officers and its impact on their voting in 1936.

One of my favourite projects! 🎉 @upf.edu @politiquesupf.bsky.social

Pau Vall-Prat @pauvallprat.bsky.social · Mar 24

🚨🚨New Publication🚨🚨🥳
🗳 How does serving as a poll officer influence future turnout, particularly among women? In a recent article at @bjpols.bsky.social with @tonirodon.bsky.social, we explore this question. 🧵

Working For Democracy: Poll Officers and the Turnout Gender Gap | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core

Working For Democracy: Poll Officers and the Turnout Gender Gap - Volume 55

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UCL Sociology Network @uclsociology.bsky.social · Mar 21

The UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social is looking for a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Sociology, to support the institute's strong research profile in sociology as well as the delivery of its new MSc in Sociology. Application deadline: 17 April. Further details in the link below.

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Mar 21

Hiring again! Lecturer in Sociology. We're looking for someone strongly anchored in sociology through high-profile contributions, and with the ability to appeal to students and colleagues of various methodological orientations.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Dingeman Wiertz @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social · Mar 20

Can participation in volunteer activities reduce older people’s reliance on antidepressants? In a new study with HP Qvist & @jeevitha-q.bsky.social, we explore this, merging longitudinal survey data with register data on antidepressant prescriptions.

Link: tinyurl.com/3brw3fy3 @sriucl.bsky.social

Does volunteering reduce antidepressant use among older adults? Longitudinal register-based evidence from Denmark

Antidepressant use among older adults has surged in recent years. This is concerning since antidepressants have serious side effects and limited effic…

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