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Tibor Zingora @tzingora.bsky.social · 5d

1/4 📢 New paper in PSPB with Andreas Flache!

How do attitudes & behaviors spread?
#SocialInfluence among #adolescents isn’t just passed from friend to friend — it also flows through group norms. Both channels shaped academic drive, #prejudice, #religiosity.

👉DOI: 10.1177/01461672251366388

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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · 12d

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DFG fördert vier neue Forschungsgruppen

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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · 12d

The week ends with excellent news: the @dfg.de grants the renewal of our research group #RISS "Reconfiguration and Internalization of Social Structure" for a second funding phase!

Thus, more fascinating research ongoing & more jobs opening up at @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social!

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MZES Uni Mannheim @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social · 16d

📣 Attention, postdoctoral researchers!

❗ Apply now for our MZES Visiting Fellowships 😊

💡 Spend 2-4 weeks at the MZES to share ideas
💰 Funding for accommodation, travel, daily allowance
📆 Deadline: 28 November

Full information:
👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/deta...

Screenshot of the call for applications for MZES Visiting Fellowships, 22 September 2025. For the full text, please follow the link.

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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 21d

Stable or dynamic? Explaining the development of Muslim and non-Muslim boys’ and girls’ friendship-making across adolescence
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
Paper in Social Networks by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow David Kretschmer and @leszczensky.bsky.social

Stable or dynamic? Explaining the development of Muslim and non-Muslim boys’ and girls’ friendship-making across adolescence

Friendship segregation between Muslim and non-Muslim youth in Europe is well documented. However, previous network studies provide only snapshots, thu…

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Lars Leszczensky @leszczensky.bsky.social · 23d

📢 In a new study in #SocialNetworks, David Kretschmer and I examine how religious #segregation in #adolescent #friendship networks develops from 11 to 17 📈, focusing on #gender 🚹🚺. We find an increase in in‑group friends only among highly religious #Muslim girls 💡.

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Lars Leszczensky @leszczensky.bsky.social · 23d

📢 In a new study in #SocialNetworks, David Kretschmer and I examine how religious #segregation in #adolescent #friendship networks develops from 11 to 17 📈, focusing on #gender 🚹🚺. We find an increase in in‑group friends only among highly religious #Muslim girls 💡.

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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 27d

We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰

Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure).

You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented!

#sociology

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jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology

jobportal.ku.dk

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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · Sep 1

🚨We are hiring 2 Lecturers/Assistant profs in Quant Social Science at UCL🚨

What we look for:
🐍 R/Python proficiency
🤖 Teaching and/or doing ML and/or social networks
🌍 Research on inequality, climate, education, social norms & more

Circulate this or apply by 10-Oct 👉 tinyurl.com/5djcc35z

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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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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Jan-Philip Steinmann @jpsteinmann.bsky.social · Aug 20

📢 For my DFG project “The Role of Religiosity in Delinquency among Christian and Muslim Youths,” (ReliDeli) I am looking for a research associate:

🔗 en.kfn.de/wp-content/u...

#Sociology #Psychology #PoliticalScience #Criminology

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Kriminologisches Forschungsinstitut Niedersachsen @kfnhannover.bsky.social · Aug 20

🔍 Researcher (Pre-Doc) (f/m/d), 75%, Sociology, Psychology, Political Science, Criminology or related disciplines

📅 Start: 01.10.2025 (or later), limited to 3 years.
📩 Applications must be submitted by 17 September 2025 to: [email protected]

Further information: en.kfn.de/research-pro...

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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · Jul 25

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage!
I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

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Lars Leszczensky @leszczensky.bsky.social · Aug 14

Congrats, Lucas!

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Lars Leszczensky @leszczensky.bsky.social · Aug 12

Glückwunsch zu diesem spannenden und wichtigen Projekt!

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Jan-Philip Steinmann @jpsteinmann.bsky.social · Aug 12

🎉 Ich freue mich auf das DFG-Projekt (@dfg.de‬) zu einer klassischen kriminologischen Frage:

🧐 Wie hängen Religiosität und delinquentes Verhalten zusammen?

📢 Ausschreibung einer Projektstelle (E 13 TV-L, 75%, 3 Jahre) folgt in Kürze.

#Soziologie #Psychologie #Politikwissenschaft #Kriminologie

Kriminologisches Forschungsinstitut Niedersachsen @kfnhannover.bsky.social · Aug 12

🚀 DFG-Projekt bewilligt!

Das Projekt „Die Rolle von Religiosität für Delinquenz unter christlichen und muslimischen Jugendlichen“, geleitet von Dr. Jan-Philip Steinmann (@jpsteinmann.bsky.social), wird von der DFG (@dfg.de) für eine Laufzeit von 36 Monaten gefördert.

♾️ kfn.de/forschungspr...

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Aug 5

BREAKING: new study just dropped that shows compelling evidence that cell phone bans cause student grades to modestly increase.

Grade increases are largest among low performing students.

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Journal of Family Research @familyresearch.bsky.social · Jul 28

#Published: "Attitudes towards interethnic partnerships with refugees: Evidence from a factorial survey experiment in Germany" by Jana Kuhlemann, @stefanieheyne.bsky.social & Irena Kogan (doi.org/10.20377/jfr...). @parform.bsky.social #JFR #JFamRes #openaccess #openscience #sociology #demography

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Torkild Hovde Lyngstad @torkildl.bsky.social · Jul 27

Saddened by news of Tom Lehrer's passing. We remind ourselves of history's most effective criticism of quantitative sociology.

youtu.be/mB97Qe2D4V0?...

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · Jul 25

🎥 All keynote talks from IC²S² ‘25 are now available on our YouTube channel!
#ic2s2 #css

International Conference on Computational Social Science @ic2s2.bsky.social · Jul 25

All the keynote recordings are available now, enjoy! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

IC2S2'25 Norrköping - YouTube

This playlist contains all keynotes from IC2S2'25 in Norrköping, Sweden.

www.youtube.com

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Edward Elgar Publishing @elgarpublishing.bsky.social · Jul 25

📱 NEW: Handbook of Social Network Analysis and Education edited by @ninakolleck.bsky.social

Read chapter 1 for FREE at: doi.org/10.4337/9781...

For more information, visit: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...

#SocialNetworkAnalysis #Education #SocialMedia #BigData

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Nicole Schwitter @nschwitter.bsky.social · Jul 24

Finally got this banger of a title out: 𝑆𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠, 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑔𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑎 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠.
If your descriptive figures and your model tell different stories, trust the figure. (And maybe rethink the model.)
👉 📄 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sometimes, a descriptive figure is worth more than a thousand model coefficients: the importance of data description in social research

Many social research questions aim at understanding relationships between different phenomena, and increasingly complex multivariate statistical models are often employed to address these questions...

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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.bsky.social · Jul 23

Statement of @isa-rc28.bsky.social on the decision of @isa-sociology.org to suspend the Israeli Sociological Association

Decision by the International Sociological Association (ISA) to suspend the Israeli Sociological Society (ISS) as a collective member

Dear RC28-community,

As members of the ISA-RC28, we are deeply committed to the values of international scholarly collaboration, academic freedom, and critical engagement. It is precisely because of this commitment that we feel compelled to express our concerns about the decision to suspend the Israeli Sociological Society (ISS) as a collective member.

While we share the ISA’s commitment to human rights and solidarity with people affected by violence, we believe that professional scholarly organizations should not be treated as representatives of their governments. We are aware that boycott is a means of applying pressure on governments and societies; however, in the field of academia, it can endanger the space needed for rigorous and principled academic dialogue. Academic boycotts shut down debate and silence diverse voices—precisely the opposite of what academia should represent.

Moreover, the ISS is deeply committed to democratic values, human rights, and academic freedom. Over the past four years, many of its members – including those affiliated with ISA-RC28 – have actively worked to document, critique, and stand against their government’s actions and policies. The ISA’s decision not only weakens these progressive efforts on a broader scale, but also has real, personal, and professional consequences for members of our community.

RC28 has a proud tradition of supporting sociologists who were repressed for their progressive views and actions – for example, in Czechoslovakia and Hungary under Soviet rule. In that spirit, we should support, not boycott, the progressive forces within Israel and elsewhere.

Questioning the ISA’s decision does not imply support for the actions of the Israeli government, nor does it diminish the destruction, death, and human suffering in Gaza. Rather, it reflects a principled belief that academic boycotts undermine the values of academic freedom, open dialogue, and international scholarly collaboration, and should not be used as a response to governmental actions.

We respectfully urge the ISA Executive Committee to reconsider this decision.

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Nadia Steiber 〽️ @nadiasteiber.bsky.social · Jul 18

⭐🎓The Department of Sociology in Vienna @univie.ac.at‬ invites applications for a Tenure Track Professor in Sociology with focus on Quantitative Social Science Research Methods | #Sociology | quant methods

Apply here (17 Sept 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

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Lars Leszczensky @leszczensky.bsky.social · Jul 22

I am happy to have contributed a chapter on ethno-religious inequalities and school-based friendship networks to this excellent handbook.

Nina Kolleck @ninakolleck.bsky.social · Jul 22

🎷 Out now: Handbook of Social Network Analysis and Education
Sometimes the connections we can’t see are the ones that shape everything – who learns, who teaches, who gets left out. This book is about those invisible strings.
www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...

Handbook of Social Network Analysis and Education

‘This is the first comprehensive Handbook on social network analysis in education with a global outlook. It is a must-read for those interested in understanding how relations–both between individuals ...

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Nina Kolleck @ninakolleck.bsky.social · Jul 22

🎷 Out now: Handbook of Social Network Analysis and Education
Sometimes the connections we can’t see are the ones that shape everything – who learns, who teaches, who gets left out. This book is about those invisible strings.
www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...

Handbook of Social Network Analysis and Education

‘This is the first comprehensive Handbook on social network analysis in education with a global outlook. It is a must-read for those interested in understanding how relations–both between individuals ...

www.e-elgar.com

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