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Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market | PNAS

There is a widespread belief, in both the scholarly literature and the popular press, that polygyny prevents large numbers of men from marrying by ...

www.pnas.org

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Sarah W. Lenhoff @sarahlenhoff.bsky.social · 29d

📢 Job Posting! 📢 We are hiring TWO postdocs at Detroit PEER at Wayne State (detroitpeer.org)! We are looking for one quant/mixed methods expert and one qual/mixed expert to work with me & @jeremylsinger.bsky.social on attendance research. Apply by Oct. 10, but flexible on start date! Please share!

Detroit PEER Postdoc Job Description 2025.pdf

drive.google.com

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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · Sep 8

This new study shows: in Germany, it has become much harder for children to earn more than their parents, now about as hard as in the US: "parental income has become much more important for educational outcomes of children"

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 14d

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 16d

1/ So you’re thinking about applying for an academic job in the UK but don’t know how? This thread will walk you through the essentials.

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Manuel T. Valdés @mvaldes1989.bsky.social · 16d

PAPER ALERT🚨

With greats @cristinasuero.bsky.social and @fabriberna.bsky.social, we explore how the ed. gradient in the occurrence and timing of first motherhood varies across Spanish provinces (NUTS3).

#OA publication at Population, Space and Place: doi.org/10.1002/psp.70106

Want to know more?👇

Spatial Variation in the Educational Gradient of First Motherhood in Spain: Occurrence and Timing

Several studies have analyzed the relationship between educational attainment and fertility across countries, identifying significant differences. However, these works often overlook intra-country va....

doi.org

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Ana-Maria Dimand @anadimand.bsky.social · 18d

The Department of Political Science and Public Administration (PSPA) seeks applications for a tenure-track faculty position in public administration and policy.

www.publicservicecareers.org/jobs/view/as...

#PAJobMarket

www.publicservicecareers.org

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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 20d

@sriucl.bsky.social is HIRING 2 permanent Lecturers 🚀 in #QuantitativeSocialScience!

It comes with smart and lovely colleagues🌟, a central London office, and many big ideas and questions 🧐

Apply now! 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).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants

The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provi...

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · Sep 5

Unionized careers boost up wealth. Very interesting article by Purdue's Alec Rhodes:

academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a....

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Elien Dalman @eliendalman.bsky.social · Sep 5

"Put simply, regardless of whether they played by the rules by raising their hands or broke the rules by calling out or interrupting others in class, working-class children were less likely to be engaged with by their teachers."

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Preschool teachers provide fewer participation opportunities to working-class students than those from more privileged backgrounds | PNAS

Social class disparities exist from the earliest stages of education. Research has suggested that class-based differences in factors such as social...

www.pnas.org

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Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · Sep 1

🚨It's that exciting time of year!🚨

Our team has got TWO open DPhil (PhD) positions in #datascience + #health here at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social for 2026🎉! See for details:

1️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/HDS_2026.html
2️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/pophealth_2026.html

Please share and help us to find our future teammates ❤️!

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · Aug 29

On Prolific, "we estimate that about 34% of online study participants use LLMs to answer open-ended questions atleast some of the time..."

Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ;

We really need more papers on this issue

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · Aug 29

The National Living Wage in UK aimed to get rid of low pay.

It succeeded.

Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · Aug 29

Minimum wage increases since 2015 have all but ended ‘low’ pay.

In 2011, 21% of workers were low paid – defined as hourly pay below two-thirds of the overall median. By April 2024 3.4% of employees were low paid on this measure.

Read more: buff.ly/0OSArrI

Chart showing proportion of employees with hourly pay below two-thirds of the median: UK

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Satu Helske @satuhelske.bsky.social · Aug 27

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

INVEST Research Flagship Centre @invest-flagship.bsky.social · Aug 25

We’re hiring!

Join @utu.fi & INVEST Research Flagship Centre as a #SeniorResearcher ( #postdoc ) or #DoctoralResearcher in the #SHARELEAVE project on parental leave and social inequality. 🌍👶

🗓 Apply by Sept 22 at 4 pm (Finnish time) 👉 ats.talentadore.com/apply/erikoi...

#hiring #openvacancies

Senior researcher or doctoral researcher

The Faculty of Social Sciences, INVEST Flagship Research Centre at the University of Turku invites applications for contract-based, fixed term senior researcher or doctoral researcher position from 1....

ats.talentadore.com

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Ewa Batyra @ewabatyra.bsky.social · Aug 25

I am looking for a postdoc to join my ERC StG project DIVREP to work on global, quantitative analyses of fertility and reproductive behaviour. The post is based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Let me know if you have any questions. More details below👇

Sociology at Oxford @sociologyoxford.bsky.social · Aug 20

🚨 New Job Alert! 🚨

Join Dr @ewabatyra.bsky.social as a Postdoc Researcher in Demography!

Contribute to a global study on disparities in reproductive behaviour, focusing on childbearing age & fertility levels 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦

Apply now 👉 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...

We're hiring: Postdoctoral Researcher in Demography, deadline: 30 September 2025

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · Aug 10

holy crap.

"In Ireland, there are more than 80 data centres, gobbling up 50 per cent of the electricity in the Dublin region, and hoovering up more than 20 per cent nationally, as they work to process and distribute huge quantities of digital information."

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · Aug 9

Karen Hao on AI tech bosses: ‘Many choose not to have children because they don’t think the world is going to be around much longer’

The author of Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination discusses the cost of Big Tech’s huge investment in technologies that may do more harm than good

www.irishtimes.com

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · Aug 10

Now- as ever- is a good time to pay attention to authoritarian regimes:

"There are too few who question why Kagame wins elections by 99% of the vote while arrests, disappearances and even killings of his critics occur both within and outside Rwanda’s borders." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The west ignores Rwanda’s dark side – and political prisoners like my mother pay the price | Rémy Amahirwa

She was arrested after planning to run against Paul Kagame. It’s time democracies woke up to the true nature of his regime, says Rémy Amahirwa

www.theguardian.com

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Ryan L. Brown @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social · Jul 31

My dept (HDFS) at Texas Tech is hiring an Assistant Professor who studies family science and health, broadly defined to include physical health, mental health, community health, and relational health, including romantic and intergenerational relationships. Plz share widely! #healthpsych

Job Search Welcome | Texas Tech University System

Search for Internet job openings.

sjobs.brassring.com

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Isma Muñoz @ishmamunoz.bsky.social · Aug 4

📣 Associate Professorship of Climate Change and Child Health, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford

📆 Apply by 28th August

More: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Job Details

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Louisa Holmes @docholmes.bsky.social · Jul 29

Soliciting paper submissions for a special issue in Spatial Demography (Springer Nature) on #climate and #health! More info here: link.springer.com/collections/....
🛟📈📉🧪 #geosky #AcademicSky #gis #spatial #population #popsky #demography #healthequity #climatechange #sustainability #weather #medsky

Access research journals, articles, books and more | SpringerLink

Providing access to millions of research articles and chapters from Science, Technology and Medicine, and Humanities and Social Sciences

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Mariña Fernández Reino @mfreino.bsky.social · Jul 24

📢 *Call for Applications* / 📢 *Convocatoria abierta*
Join our project on Prejudice & Discrimination at the Spanish National Research Council (Madrid 🇪🇸)
Open to junior scholars at different stages (postdocs, predocs, or MSc grads considering a PhD)
🔗 ⬇️ www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zrur0...

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Jascha Dräger @jaschadraeger.bsky.social · Jul 14

🚨 New paper out in the American Educational Research Journal (w/ @markusklein.bsky.social & @esosu.bsky.social) 🚨
We analyzed whether pupil absences in different school-years are equally harmful for achievement at the end of compulsory schooling. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · Jul 12

🚨 DON’T LOOK AWAY 🚨

U.S. Professor KIDNAPPED and DISAPPEARED by ICE!

He still remains detained.

Yesterday a California Faculty Association union leader, Professor Jonathan Caravello, was dragged away by four masked ICE agents while lawfully observing a raid.

This is NOT normal.

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Michael Borchgrevink Lund @borchgrevink.bsky.social · Jun 24

The first paper of my PhD—co-authored with @ishmamunoz.bsky.social and Alberto Palloni—is now out as a preprint!
👵👶 Grandparents’ investments matter for grandchildren’s human capital formation independently of parental investments —especially in Ethiopia and India.
📄 osf.io/preprints/os...

OSF

osf.io

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