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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 4d

On 'The Politicization’ of Fertility to Achieve Non-Demographic Objectives', written in 1997: "The use of fertility (& population growth) related arguments to justify policies on matters which cannot be proved to be related to fertility without intervening assumptions is at least as old as Malthus"

The ‘Politicization’ of Fertility to Achieve Non-Demographic Objectives

Published in Population Studies: A Journal of Demography (Vol. 51, No. 1, 1997)

www.tandfonline.com

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Katya Ivanova 🟥 @katyaoivanova.bsky.social · 4d

Dat komt me bekend voor... 🤔 #WetInternationaliseringInBalans

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GENUS @genus.bsky.social · 7d

👉Systematic review finds same-sex & different-sex parents show similar mental health, parenting stress & relationship quality. Same-sex parents face more stress related to discrimination and less family help.
@yuxuanjin.bsky.social @denimazrekaj.bsky.social

🔗 genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....

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Matthijs Rooduijn @mrooduijn.bsky.social · 13d

At the Department of Political Science (University of Amsterdam, @uva-fmg.bsky.social), we are looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team. Interested? You can find all details and apply here: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies....

Vacancy — Assistant Professor in Political Science

The Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam invites applications for one and possibly two tenure-track Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent) positions in Political Science w...

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Armen Hakhverdian @hakhverdian.bsky.social · 17d

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Kim van Keken @kimvankeken.bsky.social · 17d

Laten we het extreem-rechtse geweld van gisteren niet politiseren.

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Katya Ivanova 🟥 @katyaoivanova.bsky.social · 18d

Not fluent in Dutch but I think they spelled "fascists" wrong...

NOS @nieuws.nos.nl · 18d

Hooligans zaten achter rellen in Den Haag, politiek keurt geweld massaal af

Er werden vernielingen aangericht bij het partijkantoor van D66. Partijleider Jetten is woedend en strijdbaar.

nos.nl

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Dirk-Jan Scheffers 🟥 @dirkscheffers.bsky.social · 22d

VVD en NSC, die voor de grootste HO bezuiniging sinds tijden tekenden, en CDA en CU, die deze onderwijsbegroting aan een meerderheid in de 1e kamer hielpen, scoren volledig ‘groen’.
Dus je kunt de innovatieMOTOR straffeloos afbreken en toch maximaal scoren op de innovatiemonitor. 🧐

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Kat Chzhen @katchzhen.bsky.social · 28d

📢NEW Vacancy📢

Assistant Professor in Sociology at @tcddublin.bsky.social

Specialising in quantitative sociology

⏰Deadline: 6 October

Maternity cover

MORE INFO:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a...

APPLY HERE: www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/

Assistant Professor in Sociology at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin

An opportunity for an academic position as a Assistant Professor in Sociology is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · 29d

🎉 This week, Marcel Das marks 25 years as the director of Centerdata!

To celebrate, we invited him to the ODISSEI Podcast to discuss the LISS Panel: how it operates, the studies it supports, and why it matters for research.

🎧 Listen here: odissei.transistor.fm/episodes/ope...

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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · Sep 8

An assistant professor position in Tilburg, in the sociology of social inequalities.

Katya Ivanova 🟥 @katyaoivanova.bsky.social · Sep 8

Our #Sociology department is looking for an #AssistantProfessor in the field of Social Inequality (with the possibility for a permanent contract).

www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3546...

@sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs

Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociale Ongelijkheid

Tilburg University | Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences is op zoek naar een Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociale Ongelijkheid, Departement Sociologie, locatie Tilburg.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Sep 6

The plenaries this year were excellent. Stuart Gietel-Basten argued passionately that demographers must reclaim the narrative around low fertility and drive the debate in a more productive, less dysfunctional, direction. We have the skills, and this issue *matters* for multiple reasons

Pic of Stuart and his last slide:

We are the ones who can must do this
→ Genuine micro- and macro- challenges which need addressing
→ Confidently drive the conversation on fertility in a constructive, productive way.
→ If we leave them, fringe views may become even more mainstream
→ Demography as mixed-method locus of sociology, social policy, economics, social theory, health, geography, politics etc.
→ Should be the ones to lead on population issues (!)
→ If we don't, who will?

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Population Research Centre Groningen @popresgroningen.bsky.social · Sep 8

This Wednesday, our colleague Billie de Haas will be at the #Forum in #Groningen to discuss her research on conversations around couples' desires of having children & her card game (hetkinderspel.nl) that helps couples in their decision process👶🧩

🕑20:00 - 21:30 (in Dutch)

forum.nl/nl/agenda/ta...

Wil ik een kind?

forum.nl

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Katya Ivanova 🟥 @katyaoivanova.bsky.social · Sep 8

Our #Sociology department is looking for an #AssistantProfessor in the field of Social Inequality (with the possibility for a permanent contract).

www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3546...

@sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs

Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociale Ongelijkheid

Tilburg University | Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences is op zoek naar een Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociale Ongelijkheid, Departement Sociologie, locatie Tilburg.

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Nora Waitkus @norawaitkus.bsky.social · Sep 5

This article also featured prominently in one of Germany's largest newspapers @szde.bsky.social (published yesterday). Pretty irritating that they are amplifying this. Thanks @philipncohen.com for doing the work to debunk it (see here familyinequality.wordpress.com/tag/national...)

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Katya Ivanova 🟥 @katyaoivanova.bsky.social · Sep 5

Just in case you hear any of the podcast bro's waxing poetic about the @theatlantic.com article on the marriage effect: 👇

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · Sep 5

Didn't read it but I don't have to. Everything Brad Wilcox (who's behind this) writes about marriage is the same, and I've debunked it 100 times. This time it's marriage and happiness. In another case he said marriage makes women safer, and I wrote this, which addresses his common bullshit problems:

Deciphering a well-told data story, cars are good for kids edition

Some tips for critical reading in light of the marriage-reduces-rape controversy.

familyinequality.wordpress.com

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · Sep 5

Didn't read it but I don't have to. Everything Brad Wilcox (who's behind this) writes about marriage is the same, and I've debunked it 100 times. This time it's marriage and happiness. In another case he said marriage makes women safer, and I wrote this, which addresses his common bullshit problems:

Deciphering a well-told data story, cars are good for kids edition

Some tips for critical reading in light of the marriage-reduces-rape controversy.

familyinequality.wordpress.com

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · Sep 3

Whoa. How did I know this was about to appear in the Atlantic? Uncanny!

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Katya Ivanova 🟥 @katyaoivanova.bsky.social · Sep 5

A friend attracted my attention to this Atlantic article & immediately logged in to see if you've written a reaction. I haven't dug through the studies that they cite as supporting their claim but on a quick scan, it seems like some of those earlier findings are misrepresented?

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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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Nora Waitkus @norawaitkus.bsky.social · Sep 4

🎉Big news! My ERCStG proposal SOCDEBT has been selected for funding @erc.europa.eu!
📚I’ll study how household debt is stratified across countries & over time; how people strategize, evaluate, and morally judge debt(ors).
🙏I'm truly indebted to all my friends, colleagues & mentors for your support!

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

The new ERC Starting Grant - funded projects include:

✴️ redefining false memories

✴️ making artificial touch feel more natural and realistic

✴️ how aging reshapes human tissues

✴️ ADHD in adults vs childhood

✴️ how plants shield from excessive sun exposure

Discover more 👉 buff.ly/APfNmCK

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

The new ERC Starting Grant - funded projects include:

✴️ redefining false memories

✴️ making artificial touch feel more natural and realistic

✴️ how aging reshapes human tissues

✴️ ADHD in adults vs childhood

✴️ how plants shield from excessive sun exposure

Discover more 👉 buff.ly/APfNmCK

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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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Katya Ivanova 🟥 @katyaoivanova.bsky.social · Sep 1

Personally, I am rather stoked about some of the more predictable ways in which it is being used to advance medical treatments. This was a great listen: podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/r...

The Medical Matchmaking Machine

Podcast Episode · Radiolab · 22/08/2025 · 1h 2m

podcasts.apple.com

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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · Sep 1

WORK! The Sociology Department at Utrecht University is hiring a new assistant prof, with expertise on migration/integration/polarization/stratification. Come join us! www.uu.nl/organisatie/...

Universitair docent sociologie

Wil jij studenten inspireren en vernieuwend onderwijs geven? Versterk ons team als universitair docent met expertise in migratie en/of sociale stratificatie.

www.uu.nl

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